Obvious exceptions are things like Litecoin, wich was desgined specifically for CPU's but was "broken" and people are now using GPU's on it.
Its usually a bad idea to stay away from the new cryptocurrencies
Solidcoin,Solidcoinv2,Microcash (All the same thing) was a GIANT RIPOFF of bitcoin, Where the starter began the chain with... What 10k PRE mined coins, And things like "if the wallet is inactive for greater than xyz period of time, the balance of the wallet will slowly be deducted and distributed evenly to other accounts based on thier total wallet amount"
AKA, Your money gets stolen if you dont touch it (like if you were to have a savings wallet in cold storage) and the creator of the cryptocurrency gets your money.
I personally feel that almost all new cyrptocurrencies is nothing more than people trying to create a way to cash in on what WAS the "early adopter" phase of bitcoins
In otherwords, I feel almost all are scams
You are right. I learned my lesson. Good thing I only spent a tenth of my BTC on it Won't be surprised if TRC drops to half the price it is now overnight, so I'm just selling it for BTC and cutting my losses.