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Topic: How hard is it to make a bitcoin clone (or nearly a clone) (Read 955 times)

hero member
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a clockwork miner
... they call a different hash function in a library someone else made and call it a miracle.

This is the best description of ALT coins I've read so far... Smiley
hero member
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Once you found and understood the critical sections it would be very easy. For instance there is a "network" id that for Bitcoin is 0, simply changing that to something else would do the trick.

I think even changing the hash function would be somewhat simple as a crypto library is likely used - just call another function.

This is why I think there are so many worthless alts, they call a different hash function in a library someone else made and call it a miracle.
sr. member
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Don't we already have enough clones? Tongue
sr. member
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coingen created coins have no future batter you contact a developer personally

if you don't know about how to create then batter you leave this or contact with some dev who can create for you
full member
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go to http://coingen.io/ and you can specify your parameters.
newbie
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I'm just trying to get  an idea about the coding effort, e.g. for a skilled c++ programmer how long would it take him to code a bitcoin clone with minor parameter changes. What about changing a hash function?
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