People behind peercoin for sure. But I don't know any names
I guess we need here specialist, not another dev
Topic: Who are the smartest altcoin minds (Read 2549 times)
I hold a diploma in Computer Engineering and what I can say is that most altcoin creators are not real programmers, the code of these altcoins is often bad and redundant, no rigour, no discipline. You can't learn programming by just reading and searching on google. You can't learn C++ without getting a small education in C. I didn't watch everything but the code in bitcoin, ppcoin and ripple looks good and serious.
I would definitely say sunny king, he has created the whole pos system which went on to be used in coins like nxt.
Well one thing is for certain, he will either be at the top of the list, or bottom of the list after checkpoints are removed. I would prefer the conspiracy theory be true of Sunny King, Bcnext, and Satoshi all being the same person, cranking out endless amounts of scam coins, and going down as the greatest pump and dump master of all time.
I havent actually heard that one... Where could I read about it? xD
That would be pretty interesting if it where real, when does the movie get made?
I would definitely say sunny king, he has created the whole pos system which went on to be used in coins like nxt.
Well one thing is for certain, he will either be at the top of the list, or bottom of the list after checkpoints are removed. I would prefer the conspiracy theory be true of Sunny King, Bcnext, and Satoshi all being the same person, cranking out endless amounts of scam coins, and going down as the greatest pump and dump master of all time.
I would definitely say sunny king, he has created the whole pos system which went on to be used in coins like nxt. He also made PrimeCoin which was the first coin to use it's hashpower for something useful.
Quark
If you're claiming the Quark guy is a genius, then that would mean he knowingly created a pump and dump coin with an invalid, PoW distribution method since there's no way someone who is a genius could have designed a system like that on purpose not knowing what would happen. Unless he had delusions of grandeur and dreamed he would surpass Bitcoin market cap and be worth thousands of dollars per Quark and support the network through mining fees within a month.
We might be imploding into a system of PoS only coins as people lose faith in PoW from decisions like this.
BCNext is the guy 
Artos, creater of the now you see me, now you don't coin . . . Stablecoin. He managed to scam everyone with a pump and dump twice, WITH THE SAME COIN. 
On that note, you should interview the creator of stackcoin. One of the most artfully conducted altcoin scams (photoshop
). 69.5 BTC
Artos, creater of the now you see me, now you don't coin . . . Stablecoin. He managed to scam everyone with a pump and dump twice, WITH THE SAME COIN.
Any cat!
Sunny king I guess since he created two sucessful coins
Tranz
Evan Duffield
Sunny King
Evan Duffield
Sunny King
we are only as strong as our network, so it is important to know the top people (and be respected by them)
Evan Duffield dev of DarkCoin:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/eduffield-107946
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/anndash-dash-dashorg-first-self-funding-self-governing-crypto-currency-421615
+10000https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/eduffield-107946
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/anndash-dash-dashorg-first-self-funding-self-governing-crypto-currency-421615
+100000
Evan Duffield dev of DarkCoin:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/eduffield-107946
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/anndash-dash-dashorg-first-self-funding-self-governing-crypto-currency-421615
https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/eduffield-107946
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/anndash-dash-dashorg-first-self-funding-self-governing-crypto-currency-421615
+1 for the creator of Darksend technology and DGW (fixes KGW vulnerabilities).
Apart from the previously mentioned ArtForz, Sunny King, etc. I think Balthazar, the Novacoin developer, deserves a place on that list. Hate or love Novacoin, he knows what he is doing.
Don't forget SolidCoin!
DGW and KGW are nothing special, so i agree there. just little pieces of code that are flawed and need more work. +1 for Balthazar as well. I can only imagine the time he put into fixing the problems with stake calculation(and the blocks to go back patch i think he made as well)
Greg Maxwell, who is levels above and beyond any altcoin developer in terms of ideas. He's too busy doing core implementations to mess around with coding forks extensively, though.
he's a liar too. whoever gave him OP's in OTC is a moron.
dr.kimoto chan - megacoin (kimoto gravity well inventor)
A glorified piece of code that in the end, does very little other than modify the difficulty ever so slightly. not saying it isn't an innovation, but you can't put chan in the same sentence as sunny king. dude's a fucking scientist for crying out loud, when people read peercoin code its almost like reading an alien dialog.
Tranz
Quote from: iopq
BitcoinEXpress - showed a hilarious time travel exploit on geistgeld, forked many coins, ultimately proving that cryptocurrencies with low hashrates have tons of vulnerabilities and are not as trustworthy as bitcoin which is protected by its army of ASICs
Lol oh please
Posted From bitcointalk.org Android App
BitcoinEXpress - showed a hilarious time travel exploit on geistgeld, forked many coins, ultimately proving that cryptocurrencies with low hashrates have tons of vulnerabilities and are not as trustworthy as bitcoin which is protected by its army of ASICs
Jump to: