Ok,
Let's say i0coin has a good potential, a great developer, a nice website, a purpose, but it lacks of a 'sparkle' starting the process leading it to adoption. Plus the support by miners is clearly much lower than ixcoin at the moment. I think that, like ixcoin, it suffers of a name difficult to read/remember. We discuss of features, the common person simply examines the meaning or attractiveness of the name. I personally believe a good name is 30% of the job necessary to make a coin successful, 30% is the purpose, and 40% is a mix of all the other components.
ixcoin has three great developers right now. ahmed from digitalcoin, cinnamon from blakecoin, groundrod from anoncoin?(i thought i read this somewhere)
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i0coin
On Feb 1st 2015, we proudly announce new members joining our team.
(looks like I'm counting 15 devs working with them right now) names are here http://iocoin.io/
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ixcoin has windows and linux wallets
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i0coin has windows, linux wallets
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ixcoin has ixcoin.org , ixcoin.co , ixcoin.eu (
http://lukeconnellau.wix.com/ixcoin-v3)
three very different websites to advertise the brand
i0coin has
http://iocoin.io/ ,
https://izerocoin.org/ ,
http://i0coin.snel.it/ ,
http://i0coins.com/ ,
http://www.i0coin.org/4 very different websites to advertise the brand, including a Chinese website
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ixcoin name: we still don't know what ixcoin stands for. shhhh its a secret. Why it was chosen or what it means. Is it just a clever name parking of two of the most popular letters, i & x, or is it something deeper. who knows?! I and others have asked that question repeatedly but obviously this is a game to the original developer who ever he/she is.
i0coin name: it seems that i0coin was originally a slight against ixcoin. back in the day of there being 1-2 altcoins, bitcoin fans were VERY unhappy that someone dared clone the holy bitcoin. so when ixcoin (a copy of bitcoin) came out it made alot of people really salty.
- I0coin (= Ixcoin with 0 pregenerated blocks) https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.448463---------------------------------------------------
Purpose: right now ixcoin is just striving to stay up-to-date with bitcoin. ixcoin helped prove what happens when all coins are generated in bitcoin.
i0coin: it looks like is also nearing its total generation of coins (congrats). H
owever it seems that i0coin is pulling away from the "just a copy" mantra that is ixcoin and developing a new purpose/tech.
Edit (looks like i got confused with i0 and i/o)
http://www.iocoin.io/downloads/ioc_whitepaper_dions.pdf
Observation of cryptocurrencies shows that coins that fail to implement new technologies die quickly
(except coins with real-world adoption, like Bitcoin, Litecoin, Dogecoin), and hence after the release of ethe-
rium we will wait for "Mesozoic extinction," with the appearance of new, ethereum-based currencies
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sparkle:
if and when ixcoin is updated on the largest mining platform cex, it will allow for someone to build a mastercoin omnicoin style or counterparty for the haters system onto ixcoin. other then that, there is nothing planned for ixcoin as the belief of the main ixcoin poster is that a conspiracy is at foot and a secret hand will guide ixcoin to the moon, so no need to do anything.
i0coin however is developing new tech.
we propose a new language of transactions I/Oscript, which is the development of the script,
allowing construction on the basis of our decentralized blockchain for general purpose key-value storage
with an advanced system for delegation of rights, as well as further steps to develop I/Oscript to Turing-complete language, which will grant the same ability as ethereum, to create smart-contracts.
and
IONS
IONS Semi-Centralized I/O Name Server. A fantastic feature that allows sending and receiving payments by using a registered username. Now when sending or receiving a payment, simply enter the IONS name. Where other wallets require the long wallet address. IONS makes sending and receiving I/O Coin payments user friendly, one of the keys to world wide adoption. Create your own unique IONS name today!