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You can now create a Bitcoin clone by filling out a simple webform

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Re: You can now create a Bitcoin clone by filling out a simple webform

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Who runs the nodes for bootstrap? If the server that runs this is US based and they allow trademarks through, you'll get a C&D within a week. Lawyers make their money googling for this stuff. All someone has to do is register "paypal" or "amazon" or "exxon" etc. and the fun will be over shortly. Creator might want to take their name and home address off the domain registration.

Displaying the names of unconfirmed entries is also probably not the best idea: http://coingen.io/status.html

Re: You can now create a Bitcoin clone by filling out a simple webform

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Why there is not a bcrypt option for Proof of Work Algorithm? (Technical question: There are a lot of AltCoins out there. Why no one proposed a AltCoin where the Proof of Work Algorithm is based in bcrypt?)

a lot of them use scrypt, so you can't use asic mining. in my opinion that is the single biggest flaw in bitcoin. I bet a whole bunch of people are laughing their asses off. something we will probably see in the next couple of years

Re: You can now create a Bitcoin clone by filling out a simple webform

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post #13
post #5

Who runs the nodes for bootstrap? If the server that runs this is US based and they allow trademarks through, you'll get a C&D within a week. Lawyers make their money googling for this stuff. All someone has to do is register "paypal" or "amazon" or "exxon" etc. and the fun will be over shortly. Creator might want to take their name and home address off the domain registration.

Displaying the names of unconfirmed entries is also probably not the best idea: http://coingen.io/status.html

Looks like someone followed the "advice" of ck2, ebaycoin, paypal and amazoncoin are in this page.

Re: You can now create a Bitcoin clone by filling out a simple webform

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Why there is not a bcrypt option for Proof of Work Algorithm? (Technical question: There are a lot of AltCoins out there. Why no one proposed a AltCoin where the Proof of Work Algorithm is based in bcrypt?)

Because as far as I know no altcoin has implemented that so OP couldn't easily copy that. (Also why would another altcoin implement it as scrypt has the advantage of being memory hard.)

Re: You can now create a Bitcoin clone by filling out a simple webform

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I was thinking about this the other day, that people will start making their own crypto currencies, trying to cash in on a new currency and have it work out like it did for the early adopters of BTC. These currencies will be very volatile, but all of them will become part of a new Forex landscape. If you think there's a lot of speculators now working with bitcoin, wait until people start trying to play arbitrage with different crypto currencies. The new Wild West...
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