What Alt-Coins Do You NOT Consider A Pump & Dump? - page 3.

jacquette

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Quote from: Chris180Z on December 04, 2013, 10:15:04 AM

I see so many pump and dump worthless altcoins being created in the past few months, it's crazy and could harm BTC's reputation.

The only altcoins I can see that could serve a genuine purpose, or offer something different to Bitcoin would be Litecoin and Peercoin, and potentially primecoin.

What do you all think? Do you notice any altcoins that offer something more beneficial over BTC?

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Quote from: HCLivess on March 02, 2014, 08:31:45 AM

The ones I am not going to talk about here for obvious reasons

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The ones I am not going to talk about here for obvious reasons

profitofthegods

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NameCoin, Devcoin, Ripples, AnonCoin, Bitshares

VforVictory

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V for Victory or Rather JustV8

Sex sells. Vote for Sexcoin at a porn shop near you. Tongue

Or just buy those items online with SXC and surprise your wife.

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Thought I would mention protoshares and datacoin.

Both these coins have other purposes and weren't for pump and dump. Although with all coins there is always some p & d action going on.

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Reality is stranger than fiction

Clearly NXT,MΣC. Only these

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"What Alt-Coins Do You NOT Consider A Pump & Dump?"

Lets be honest with each other the answer is a very clear Zero, and I'd extend that to include Bitcoin (probably one of the worst proof; just look bitcoins chart, the last month, the last year.....well pretty much any period).

However no complaints here, I love a good tulip as much as the next person Wink

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K-ing®

anoncoin, litecoins, primecoins,

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MY RED TRUST LEFT BY SCUMBAGS - READ MY SIG

gridcoin if they could get it to use gpu

prime and ppc both great coins and lagging to where they should be

digi is not pumped at all and i wonder where the dev went....this guy was always thinking outside of the box.

quark is by design and excellent coin...the cry babies who don't have any will say it is not. It is now distributed via the market as it should be and mining needs to become non essential - hopefully they will code in pos. It has not been pumped, this is its real value.

anon - great idea and great team.

Mega - great dev

cgb have a nice team

tag - money behind it.

tix - another rock solid coin works perfectly never any trouble with it., N factor high now so will be cpu only soon. Similar to yac but fairer because it started off with a gpu miner for everyone.

wdc - i had written this off a while back but coming back strongly with a lot of support

the market naturally pumps and dumps all coins that is the nature of it.
artificial pumps are quite easy to spot if you watch the order books.

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BTC
LTC
NET

..are the ones i currently hold. the first 2 because i trade with them and NET because I like the community and its young with great plans. I like working with them and i hope it succeeds but either way im having fun now compared to watching trollbox in BTC-E all day trying to day-trade. The only trading i do now is buying and selling NET to spread the wealth

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fractally

No mention of ProtoShares? The only 'coin' that is not attempting to be a currency?

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Quote from: Walter Rothbard on December 05, 2013, 04:17:09 PM

Litecoin wasn't trying to avoid ASICs. It was trying to avoid GPUs.

Not technically true, the same guy who designed the first GPU miner for bitcoin designed the scrypt PoW. Make of that what you want.

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Primecoin
Tagcoin
Yacoin
Anoncoin
These are definetly not pump and dump... and are currently undervalued.

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Quote from: Etlase2 on December 05, 2013, 04:15:48 PM

Quote from: digeros on December 04, 2013, 11:54:51 AM

Litecoin was the first attempt at speeding up the transaction speed on the massive blockchain of BTC and avoid the ASIC Arms Race in mining but that may change with the advent of Script ASIC boards ...

Except Litecoin was not the first attempt at either of those.

Litecoin wasn't trying to avoid ASICs. It was trying to avoid GPUs.

And it wasn't the first! It was at least the third!

And faster block speeds don't speed up confirmation times. If you speed up the blocks, you simply need more blocks to confirm. There's nothing magic about "6" blocks.

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References:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/announce-fairbrix-relaunched-46528
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/hey-guys-remember-tenebrix-207047
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/List_of_alternative_cryptocurrencies#TBX_Tenebrix
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/List_of_alternative_cryptocurrencies#FBX_Fairbrix

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Quote from: digeros on December 04, 2013, 11:54:51 AM

Litecoin was the first attempt at speeding up the transaction speed on the massive blockchain of BTC and avoid the ASIC Arms Race in mining but that may change with the advent of Script ASIC boards ...

Except Litecoin was not the first attempt at either of those.

edit: appears this has been covered

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Okay, I went and learned some history.

Tenebrix was launched to be GPU-unfriendly, using Scrypt proof of work instead of SHA256. (The funny thing is that today, we think Scrypt coins are great because you can use your GPUs on them - we think of them as ASIC-unfriendly. How we forget.)

Tenebrix had a premine of about 7.7 million coins!

In response to this, Fairbrix was launched - a fork of the Tenebrix source, with a new ledger that had "only" a hundred blocks premined. LOL! I guess that was considered acceptable in those days.

But the really striking thing I discovered was that the Fairbrix developer was coblee. That's the original developer that released Litecoin. (And I believe his brother runs BTCChina, which you might have heard of. Or maybe I am confused.)

So apparently for some reason, Fairbrix didn't work out, and coblee went on to create Litecoin. I would imagine the 100 block premine had something to do with it, but I'll bet I'm wrong, since it appears that people thought that the 100 block premine was nothing, back then.

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Quote from: Notanon on December 05, 2013, 03:27:53 PM

Quote from: Walter Rothbard on December 05, 2013, 01:16:57 PM

Quote from: FiatKiller on December 05, 2013, 10:23:10 AM

Quote from: Walter Rothbard on December 04, 2013, 03:02:29 PM

Quote from: Chris180Z on December 04, 2013, 10:15:04 AM

The only altcoins I can see that could serve a genuine purpose, or offer something different to Bitcoin would be Litecoin and Peercoin, and potentially primecoin.

Why Litecoin? When introduced, it offered nothing to the cryptocurrency world that had not been done before.

(My point is, look how Litecoin has succeeded, even though it was just a repeat of what had been done before. Think about what that could mean for the current coins out there now.)

It wasn't the first scryptcoin? (I really don't know)

Correct, it was not the first. Unfortunately I've lost my reference to what came before that used Scrypt, but I read it here on this forum. Really our time horizons are extremely short, for most of us in this community: we do not know what came before and very quickly adjust to new status quos and start to think things have always been this way.

The interesting thing is that Litecoin succeeded where others before it did not. It would be a mistake to assume that could not happen again.

I believe Tenebrix is the first Scrypt coin you were thinking of.

Thanks - you're right!

Tenebrix - created to use up all those spare CPU cycles while your GPU cycles are mining for Bitcoins:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/announce-tenebrix-a-cpu-friendly-gpu-hostile-cryptocurrency-45667

Anyone have any speculation as to why Litecoin succeeded and Tenebrix did not?

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Quote from: Walter Rothbard on December 05, 2013, 01:16:57 PM

Quote from: FiatKiller on December 05, 2013, 10:23:10 AM

Quote from: Walter Rothbard on December 04, 2013, 03:02:29 PM

Quote from: Chris180Z on December 04, 2013, 10:15:04 AM

The only altcoins I can see that could serve a genuine purpose, or offer something different to Bitcoin would be Litecoin and Peercoin, and potentially primecoin.

Why Litecoin? When introduced, it offered nothing to the cryptocurrency world that had not been done before.

(My point is, look how Litecoin has succeeded, even though it was just a repeat of what had been done before. Think about what that could mean for the current coins out there now.)

It wasn't the first scryptcoin? (I really don't know)

Correct, it was not the first. Unfortunately I've lost my reference to what came before that used Scrypt, but I read it here on this forum. Really our time horizons are extremely short, for most of us in this community: we do not know what came before and very quickly adjust to new status quos and start to think things have always been this way.

The interesting thing is that Litecoin succeeded where others before it did not. It would be a mistake to assume that could not happen again.

I believe Tenebrix is the first Scrypt coin you were thinking of.

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