Bitcoin Civil War Looming: The Who, What, Why, When and How
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Here's a look back at just a few of the many bizzare altcoins that emerged in 2014.
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Willamette Week (blog)
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Here is a list of coins that you should keep eye on this november – they are in a mode whre you can still enter [or havent even started yet] so take your pics and put eggs to few baskets!
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Bitcoin Magazine
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New York’s proposed bitcoin regulations have been the subject of increasing criticism in recent weeks, with a wide variety of industry leaders coming forward to criticize the laws for their lack of clarity and for putting up unnecessary obstacles to the ecosysem’s future growth.
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Altcoins, or alternative cryptocurrencies such as , Primecoin and Dogecoin, have always been a popular and controversial topic in the Bitcoin space. The purpose of most of these currencies is to offer small modifications from Bitcoin proper, including faster confirmation times, attempts at socially useful mining algorithms and different monetary policies such as fast exponential decay, quadratic decay and even infinitely linearly growing supply, and investors and users of the coins believe that these additional features and modifications will make the currencies either overtake Bitcoin or at least survive in some niche. Detractors, on the other hand, argue that Bitcoin’s network effect is too large, and altcoins do not provide nearly sufficient value over Bitcoin to ever take over to any significant extent.
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Learn how to mine litecoin with this beginners guide, including how to use minerd and cgminer with your CPU and GPU. (You may have missed the boat when it comes to mining bitcoin, but how about mining litecoin, feathercoin or dogecoin?
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Just when you thought you were getting the hang of this bitcoin thing, the market has created a few dozen alternatives. The good news is that while you were likely late to the bitcoin phenomenon, both with your investment dollars and your suggestions for how the protocol and ecosystem should function, “altcoins,” or the ecosystem of alternative digital currencies, will give you another shot. And several of these altcoins are now riding high on bitcoin’s rising tide.
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Just when you thought you were getting the hang of this bitcoin thing, the market has created a few dozen alternatives. The good news is that while you were likely late to the bitcoin phenomenon, both with your investment dollars and your suggestions for how the protocol and ecosystem should function, “altcoins,” or the ecosystem of alternative digital currencies, will give you another shot. And several of these altcoins are now riding high on bitcoin’s rising tide.
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Economist, specialized in political economy and peer-to-peer dynamics; core member of the P2P Foundation
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