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Questions tagged [altcoin]

Alternative cryptocurrencies are OFF-TOPIC unless the question is applicable to Bitcoin.

Alternative cryptocurrencies are cryptocurrencies that are not Bitcoin. Altcoins typically use a blockchain similar to that of Bitcoin. Many use a similar Proof of Work scheme but with different algorithms. Others use Proof of Stake or some hybrid between PoW and PoS.

This tag should be used for questions that pertain to many cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin. These can be generic questions about how things like PoW or PoS work. Questions about a specific altcoin should not be under this tag.

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What is Steem and Steemit?

I recently came across Steemit, a Reddit-esque platform which seems to be running on the Steem blockchain. It looks like it is paying its users to post and curate content. However, it looks rather leery that essentially a lengthy blog post could…
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What is 42Coin? Why it is highly priced?

In cryptsy, I see that one 42coin is trading at >900 BTC. Just wondering what is 42coin and why it is highly priced?
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What percentage of altcoins are based on Bitcoin?

What percentage of altcoins share the same codebase as Bitcoin?
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Have the security vulnerabilities found in Bitcoin been fixed in other altcoins?

This page maintains a list of vulnerabilities found in Bitcoin, and when they were fixed: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Common_Vulnerabilities_and_Exposures Are major altcoins, being based off of the same code, vulnerable to the same attacks? If so,…
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How do altcoins tell each other apart?

So there are hundreds of live and even thriving altcoins today. They are all basically a clone of Bitcoin and operate basically the same. But when you run the mining client for any given coin, how does it know which coin to work on? How does the…
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How do you determine 'magic byte' or version for alt coins?

I'm looking at creating a deterministic wallet for some of the less popular altcoins. Bitcoin has a magic byte of '0488b21e' and litecoin '019da462'. How are these determined or calculated? Also how would I generate these values for other altcoins?
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Why does Steem fail to peg Steam Dollar to the U.S dollar?

According to their whitepaper, Steem Dollars were designed as an attempt to bring stability to the world of cryptocurrency and to the individuals who use the Steem network. Unlike its purpose, however, I can see that it has severely fluctuated…
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Requirements of own cryptocurrency?

What are the requirements and technologies I need for creating my own cryptocurrency? How to assign value for my own coin? For example: 1 bitcoin = 279627.91 INR, 1 Litecoin = 2863.13 INR
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Why can't altcoins erode Bitcoin's foundation?

There already are hundreds of altcoins and even more are being created. However, Bitcoin still dwarfs all altcoins in value. From a technical point of view, Bitcoin was invented 7 years ago and its technology is far from perfect (e.g. forking,…
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In which ways is Earthcoin different from Bitcoin?

Also, the name Earthcoin suggests to me that it may be somehow more sustainable with regards to the computing resources required to support it; is there any basis in that? The official site appears to be http://getearthcoin.com/ which has some…
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Where can one find the listing of the 3-call letters for all of the altcoins?

There's BTC, and everything else. But how are the call letters registered and is there a comprehensive list of them all?
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BCH to paxful pls help

If can anyone tell me how I can recover my BCH I mistakenly sent to paxful wallet address though I'm still seeing unspent on my BCH wallet I'm so confused pls help
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blockexplorer is not fully synced

I am working with a cryptocurrency which is a fork of bitcoin. In my blockexplorer it shows 91% synced and I cant see any latest blocks.
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Changed Merkle Root and Genesis Hash - Not Compiling

I am kindly asking the expert programmers of this wonderful forum to enlighten me on why the updated QT I have created, does not properly open when running ./stonecoin-qt , but rather dumps core and shows the incorrect genesis block for the -testnet…
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In altcoins, why is it that sometimes the volume increases when the price stays relatively stable or even goes gown?

Naturally, if the volume of a market increases, then I would interpret that as increasing demand of that market and expect the price to go up. But it seems that this is not always the case. I've noticed that sometimes, the volume of an altcoin goes…
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