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deLeewit
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Which altcoins are most attractive to people not in crypto before?
March 24, 2016, 03:39:26 PM
#28
Quote from: The Sceptical Chymist on March 22, 2016, 06:14:02 PM
Quote from: BitcoinHodler on March 20, 2016, 08:25:43 AM
i think none of them
because people not in crypto ever before will most probably never hear about any of the altcoins. and if they want to choose they are going to choose the biggest, and oldest technology not just anything with small market that was created new.
I tend to agree with this right here.  Most people have no clue what bitcoin really is, much less that there are hundreds of these other coins trying to gain their share of the market.  And even if they knew about the altcoins, making an informed decision as to which would be worth owning...yeah, no.  Not happening.  For lay people, it's bitcoin or nothing.

I found about Gridcoin first, then had to learn about Bitcoin. Since Bitcoin is the default conversion coin on exchanges. After that I got into Diamondcoin, Peercoin, Unobtanium, Namecoin and Dogecoin. In that order :-)
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Re: Which altcoins are most attractive to people not in crypto before?
March 22, 2016, 06:14:02 PM
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Quote from: BitcoinHodler on March 20, 2016, 08:25:43 AM
i think none of them
because people not in crypto ever before will most probably never hear about any of the altcoins. and if they want to choose they are going to choose the biggest, and oldest technology not just anything with small market that was created new.
I tend to agree with this right here.  Most people have no clue what bitcoin really is, much less that there are hundreds of these other coins trying to gain their share of the market.  And even if they knew about the altcoins, making an informed decision as to which would be worth owning...yeah, no.  Not happening.  For lay people, it's bitcoin or nothing.
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Re: Which altcoins are most attractive to people not in crypto before?
March 21, 2016, 12:36:31 PM
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Definitely BIGUP!

BigUp Life is Worldwide with new people getting involved every day. BiGUp was designed for long-term BIGness as well as being appealing to new users who may be new to crypto altogether!
TPTB_need_war
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Re: Which altcoins are most attractive to people not in crypto before?
March 21, 2016, 12:08:49 PM
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Quote from: spassbold on March 19, 2016, 07:30:36 PM
Re: Which altcoins are most attractive to people not in crypto before?

Mine.
ashkanb
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Re: Which altcoins are most attractive to people not in crypto before?
March 21, 2016, 08:47:33 AM
#24
my guess is Ethereum
even if you're a complete stranger to cryptos you must've heard of it on, technically, any tech news outlet you've been to this past few months!

my 2nd guess would be doge and ltc because once you arrive at cryptos the first things you're going to hear are btc ltc and doge!

i've heard of gridcoin just this past few days (yes i am that uninformed!)
but the idea of allocating computing power to advance science is so appealing to me i might even consider donating some incase the coin fails to deliver!!
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Re: Which altcoins are most attractive to people not in crypto before?
March 21, 2016, 04:12:01 AM
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Re: Which altcoins are most attractive to people not in crypto before?
March 20, 2016, 01:41:16 PM
#22
Quote from: Grctest on March 20, 2016, 06:55:06 AM
Quote from: cryptohunter on March 19, 2016, 11:26:20 PM
Quote from: traderman on March 19, 2016, 11:02:41 PM
Gridcoin launched before curecoin!

Quote from: cryptohunter on March 19, 2016, 10:57:37 PM
Grid coin just copied cure coin really. Cure coin was okay but they were just very slow to improve upon the way it worked. However lately it has started developing again.

Any alt coin that becomes very profitable in a BIG way will attract people not in crypto. If people hear they can make $ they will be attracted.

Some just love the idea like you say.



Is this true ??

I'm certain curecoin came first?

Let me check it out.

I heard about curecoin first maybe they announced first but took time to get it off the ground.

Interesting though since I though cure coin came way before.

Both are good.
Doesn't curecoin use SHA256? That's massively wasteful compared to Proof of Stake. It'd be cool if folding@home was ported to BOINC, then we could reward folding@home computation - not out of the realm of possibilities.
WELLLLLL - As I understand it there was a time, way back in the mists of crunching history when Folding@Home and BOINC nearly merged, but something didnt 'work out' and the two camps went their own directions... its just what I remember reading on a forum many years ago, perhaps enough time has passed.
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Re: Which altcoins are most attractive to people not in crypto before?
March 20, 2016, 10:22:00 AM
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Quote from: HeroCat on March 20, 2016, 09:46:07 AM
May be Doge, because many sites are using it and Doge have fast transaction times too - only some minutes.  Wink

I would go with Doge too. It has a very friendly community - people new to crypto need a lot of hand-holding and that community is great for that.
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Re: Which altcoins are most attractive to people not in crypto before?
March 20, 2016, 09:56:58 AM
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Quote from: spassbold on March 19, 2016, 07:30:36 PM
I think it is Gridcoin, the idea of mining by doing research is easy to understand and it is at once obvious why it makes sense.

See for example this thread on reddit right now: https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/4b4drk/a_currency_minted_by_doing_science/

PIGGY

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Re: Which altcoins are most attractive to people not in crypto before?
March 20, 2016, 09:46:07 AM
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May be Doge, because many sites are using it and Doge have fast transaction times too - only some minutes.  Wink
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Re: Which altcoins are most attractive to people not in crypto before?
March 20, 2016, 08:25:43 AM
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i think none of them
because people not in crypto ever before will most probably never hear about any of the altcoins. and if they want to choose they are going to choose the biggest, and oldest technology not just anything with small market that was created new.
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Re: Which altcoins are most attractive to people not in crypto before?
March 20, 2016, 08:09:01 AM
#17
Quote from: Grctest on March 20, 2016, 06:55:06 AM
Doesn't curecoin use SHA256? That's massively wasteful compared to Proof of Stake. It'd be cool if folding@home was ported to BOINC, then we could reward folding@home computation - not out of the realm of possibilities.

GRC had these evolution steps which CURE still would have to undergo. Remembering the old GRC "classic" and it's immense stock of old coins which basically declassified GRC as beeing POW stock up for sale.

The massively wasteful part that will always remain is double BOINC research for recalculating any experiments by some second researcher, comparing results for validity. Each task has to be done twice at least, and more times if these numbers tend to differ way to much.
Some BOINC tasks are providing sensor data like weather related stuff, so "mining GRC on a remote-distant-reading thermometer" is fact and quite extraordinary in comparison to any other coin in existance.

I'm willing to give it a second go again, been abandoning GRC when it has been above 0.00002000 BTC end of 2015. For some time things have been looking to much GPU mining centric which ain't be my cup of tea. More looking for CPU background tasks, idle cycles beeing reused for a purpose.

Science is indeed good advertising! Crypto somewhat missed the advertisement opportunity of combining the DOGE phenomenon with BOINC research, things would have been gone trought the roof straigtways.
Grctest
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Re: Which altcoins are most attractive to people not in crypto before?
March 20, 2016, 06:55:06 AM
#16
Quote from: cryptohunter on March 19, 2016, 11:26:20 PM
Quote from: traderman on March 19, 2016, 11:02:41 PM
Gridcoin launched before curecoin!

Quote from: cryptohunter on March 19, 2016, 10:57:37 PM
Grid coin just copied cure coin really. Cure coin was okay but they were just very slow to improve upon the way it worked. However lately it has started developing again.

Any alt coin that becomes very profitable in a BIG way will attract people not in crypto. If people hear they can make $ they will be attracted.

Some just love the idea like you say.



Is this true ??

I'm certain curecoin came first?

Let me check it out.

I heard about curecoin first maybe they announced first but took time to get it off the ground.

Interesting though since I though cure coin came way before.

Both are good.
Doesn't curecoin use SHA256? That's massively wasteful compared to Proof of Stake. It'd be cool if folding@home was ported to BOINC, then we could reward folding@home computation - not out of the realm of possibilities.
Grctest
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Re: Which altcoins are most attractive to people not in crypto before?
March 20, 2016, 06:45:42 AM
#15
Quote from: TPTB_need_war on March 19, 2016, 08:40:48 PM
But it relies on centralization of the proof of BOINC and proof-of-stake, which thus guarantees it won't scale to anything significant, as vested interests will strangle it.

Quote from: TPTB_need_war on March 19, 2016, 04:29:46 PM
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Btw, proof-of-stake will never scale out user adoption, because it is a vested interest paradigm, and thus will be destroyed by its stake holders. No stake holder (in any context or business model) allows a competitor to profit. Only permissionless, decentralized systems scale.

It will perhaps be good for a P&D, because so many fools believe technological nonsense because they don't understand.
Proof of BOINC is not centralized. Gridcoin used to use netsoft for credit checking, now every node participates in securing the neural network with verified BOINC statistics gathered directly from the BOINC project sites - so there is no centralization in the POB system.

DPOR generates 50k GRC per day, which is far more than interest rewarded for POS, so really it's perfect to scale out user adoption since there is no market cap. If investors hold and never crunch, they'll experience deflation of their holdings (almost demurrage).

Gridcoin is a permissionless & decentralized system.

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POS centralizes control according to stake, which is a finite resource
Gridcoin is not a finite resource - there is no cap on coin supply, and DPOR rewards more than POS. Better to have BOINC users in control rather than having pool owners or ASIC manufacturers in control of the network (POW is extremely centralized & wasteful).
Scalextrix
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Re: Which altcoins are most attractive to people not in crypto before?
March 20, 2016, 04:10:55 AM
#14
Quote from: TPTB_need_war on March 19, 2016, 09:07:06 PM
Quote from: spassbold on March 19, 2016, 08:45:55 PM
I do not see a problem with proof-of-stake really, could you explain further?

...

Quote from: TPTB_need_war on March 19, 2016, 01:40:49 PM
...rely on the centralization of proof-of-stake which destroys the Nash equilibrium security in a power vacuum winner-take-all political economics...
Yeah but Gridcoin isnt Proof of Stake, its Proof of Research.  The PoS is combined with the BOINC work which changes the way it works, staking a block isnt purely based on the coin age.

I get much more reward from my BOINC contribution in each block than from the PoS interest, so there is no barrier to me overtaking a larger coin holder if I exceed their BOINC contribution.  The last block I got 3-1 BOINC versus PoS.
spassbold
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Re: Which altcoins are most attractive to people not in crypto before?
March 20, 2016, 01:34:02 AM
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Almost 3k upvotes and still going strong, many new users in irc and on the forum :0
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Re: Which altcoins are most attractive to people not in crypto before?
March 19, 2016, 11:26:20 PM
#12
Quote from: traderman on March 19, 2016, 11:02:41 PM
Gridcoin launched before curecoin!

Quote from: cryptohunter on March 19, 2016, 10:57:37 PM
Grid coin just copied cure coin really. Cure coin was okay but they were just very slow to improve upon the way it worked. However lately it has started developing again.

Any alt coin that becomes very profitable in a BIG way will attract people not in crypto. If people hear they can make $ they will be attracted.

Some just love the idea like you say.



Is this true ??

I'm certain curecoin came first?

Let me check it out.

I heard about curecoin first maybe they announced first but took time to get it off the ground.

Interesting though since I though cure coin came way before.

Both are good.
traderman
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Re: Which altcoins are most attractive to people not in crypto before?
March 19, 2016, 11:17:19 PM
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Wow, up to 2200 upvotes, that subreddit has like 5 mil subscribers.
kiklo
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Re: Which altcoins are most attractive to people not in crypto before?
March 19, 2016, 11:09:04 PM
#10
People who are new to Crypto would be better served with Proof of Stake to make profit.

One reason, you can hold the Proof of Stake coins in a local wallet and gain interest, althrough I perfer to call it a Harvest instead of interest.
even if the price of the coin stays exactly the same, you can cash out with more than you started and make a profit.

PoW coins, price stays the same and you gained nothing.
Price has to rise, which why should it except on speculation, as a function of ASICS is to always create more, which will always decrease the price per coin.
Simple Supply & Demand economics.  Smiley

Where as Proof of Stake coins have intrinsic Value and are their own mining equipment.

 Cool
traderman
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Re: Which altcoins are most attractive to people not in crypto before?
March 19, 2016, 11:02:41 PM
#9
Gridcoin launched before curecoin!

Quote from: cryptohunter on March 19, 2016, 10:57:37 PM
Grid coin just copied cure coin really. Cure coin was okay but they were just very slow to improve upon the way it worked. However lately it has started developing again.

Any alt coin that becomes very profitable in a BIG way will attract people not in crypto. If people hear they can make $ they will be attracted.

Some just love the idea like you say.


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