people say monero has the best/most active dev team
Would you consider it the best team who created a fork?
Or the team who created the original coin?
Remember that pre-mined coins generally die out. That is why Monero was created in the first place.
A lot of people are working to make Monero great, several people are working on a GUI using the QT framework too.
Monero exists for a reason, a similar situation happened with Tenebrix.
Litecoin wasn't first, but their fork had
reason to exist.
When looking at a fork, try to see why that fork exists. Is it because they just want to pump and dump? Or is it because someone saw that something was wrong and tried to fix it.
Although I will admit that the Monero team do need to prove themselves in regards to handling the CryptoNote codebase. It'll be a while before we can determine if the Monero team are capable of handling this massive project. From my discussions with them I believe they are, hence why I invested in the first place.
(I hardly invest in Alternative coins and it wasn't until I came across CryptoNote that I decided to get involved. However I wasn't happy with buying into a hidden two year chain and found Monero.)
LAUNCHEDDownload the binaries from:
http://litecoin.orgCheck out the source:
https://github.com/litecoin-project/litecoinWiki:
http://litecoin.infoForum:
http://forum.litecoin.net/Proof of WorkWe really liked Tenebrix's Scrypt proof of work. Using Scrypt allows one to mine Litecoin while also mining Bitcoin. We humbly offer a big thanks to ArtForz for the implementation.
PreminesLitecoin will come with 150 premined coins: just the genesis block and the first 2 blocks to confirm the genesis is valid. We believe a coin needs to be released in a fair manner. Having one person (or a group) control a large amount of coins that can be used as they see fit is against the decentralized vision of Bitcoin. Yes, it is true that without a stash of premined coins, we will not be able to afford to pay for bounties, but we believe people will see the virtue of this coin, invest in it as early adopters, and will be willing to spend time creating services to make this coin better.