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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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Post by a3voices »

I knew it was just a matter of time before someone made this. Nice!

Maybe a good feature would be to generate an html homepage for the coin, as well as a forum post for the alt coins section in Bitcointalk. Also a coin icon generator.

Lastly, perhaps charge the fee after the person can see it's all there.

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

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Post by zaroth »

Thanks for building this, and welcome to HN BlueMatt! If you can edit the headline, you might want to prefix with 'Show HN'.

I'm curious what does the altcoin use for peer discovery? Do you get code for a DNS seed too?

There was an interesting discussion on bitcoin-dev mailing list the last couple days about whether it makes sense to enable merge-mining on new altcoins. It's far from settled, but it's another idea for a feature you would want to toggle.... Also the scrypt difficulty parameters! OK, at some point this is just 'cheating', right? :-)

BTW, I think if you know Bitcoin enough to want to create an altcoin, you would trust Matt Corallo / BlueMatt enough to know your 0.01 BTC is safe.

EDIT: Wow, look at them go: http://coingen.io/status.html

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

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Post by pyalot2 »

a3voices wrote: post #2

I knew it was just a matter of time before someone made this. Nice! Maybe a good feature would be to generate an html homepage for the coin, as well as a forum post for the alt coins section in Bitcointalk. Also a coin icon generator. Lastly, perhaps charge the fee after the person can see it's all there.

Also automatically setup the github or bitbucket repo, create a subreddit and you could also throw in an exchange with the new homepage.

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

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Post by ck2 »

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.

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

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Post by haakon »

aristidb wrote: post #6

I'm not sure if this is a parody.

Regardless of intention, I see it as a kind of performance art project: it underlines the absurdity of the massproduction of innovationless altcoins. It speaks to how a successful cryptocurrency requires something more than just tweaking a few parameters and recompiling; it requires a skilled developer able to maintain the system and handle crises, it requires a network effect, it requires a meaningful purpose.
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