You can see here what coins i have awarded Spoetnik Certification™
In order of preference.. Whats hot and whats not (TBA)
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Good Coins *
Bitcoin / BTC / SHA256 -
http://bitcoin.org/en/choose-your-wallet- i know a guy who bought 62 btc worth of ixcoin and had he just kept his btc's.. lol
- tip: If you don't mind having Java installed use Multibit instead of the normal BTC wallet client.
- WHY ? because the official Bitcoin wallet's block chain is like 12 gigabytes or something like that last i checked
- and if you use Multibit it works in a new way so you don't have to download anything almost.. turn it on and your synced, always.
- Armory is listed there to but i think it's a hybrid online wallet of sorts and i advise all users to avoid online wallets if they can.
Litecoin / LTC / Scrypt -
https://litecoin.org/- people love trashing on LTC and they have great points but it's entrenched and is actually in use across the globe unlike 98% of other coins.
Franko / FRK / Scrypt -
http://www.frankos.org/- well hey its' franko ..what can i say.. go look it up.
Securecoin / SRC - Dev = baritus -
http://securecoin.org- (ANN Page)
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/annsrc-securecoin-a-fast-and-secure-version-of-bitcoin-2013-270852- This is what Quark should have been.. this coin is Quark modeled after Bitcoin with an extra fair release by an experienced coin dev.
- First to use a combo of new algo's with Quark and so far there is no GPU miner that works on pools publicly.
Quark / QRK - Dev = Max Guevara -
http://www.quarkcoin.com- (ANN Page)
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/ann-qrk-quark-core-010-upgrade-260031- Same algo as Securecoin. Released fairly by a good dev.
- Special miner programs needed to mine QRK and SRC. The only two coins that use a special combo of hashing algorithms.
- Like SRC it's mainly a CPU mining only coin.
- Only publicly released GPU miner is closed source and does not work on pools and has a fee, released here =
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/preview-smelter-gpu-miner-for-whirlpoolx-vanillacoin-310975Primecoin / XPM
- Unique algo coin made by a well known experienced coin dev.. rare..
Off the top of my head these are my top 5 that came to mind with out giving it any thought at all.
I will add some more though..
also i will add some more info on this shortly.. such as what algo they use and some links to source topics, pools etc to get new guys going quick.
i don't care what you all want to post here but try and help the new guys please.