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As promised, we move on from last week’s Ripple to the other member of a two-member class of altcoins: altcoins that aren’t REALLY altcoins. What I mean by that is that these coins don’t just follow in Satoshi’s footsteps — they are more than just edited clones of the...

We’ve done the basics: Litecoin, Dogecoin, Namecoin, Peercoin. It’s time to move on into some of the higher market capitalization coins that are demonstrably different from Bitcoin. Ripple (and NXT… which will be our… next… topic) is profoundly different. So...

Peercoin is the last coin left for me to cover of what I’d refer to as the “early” successful altcoins. Litecoin, Namecoin, and Peercoin are the three you consistently would hear referred to when people talked about alts. It probably helped that BTC-e, one of the early altcoin...

Namecoin is the very first of all the altcoins — I know, you heard it was Litecoin. It’s not. The specs are going to be very easy to go over, so I’ll start there: – Identical to Bitcoin for block time, reward, total coins, etc. – Fair, open-source, public...

Yeah, Dogecoin. Funny that the second coin I talk about in this series would be what most consider the least sane of the coins. After all, clearly Dogecoin is never going to amount to anything. At least, that’s what they all say. How could something that began as a joke...

Litecoin is often referred to as the silver to Bitcoin’s gold. That, unfortunately, is a meaningless claim, advertiser’s sophistry. At best, it is a poor and misguided explanation of the complex relationship between cryptocurrencies. That’s not to say, though, that Litecoin...

This is the first article of the series “A Little Altcoin Sanity.” The series will provide brief, substantive, and informative discussion of topics in altcoins (or alternative cryptocurrencies, if you prefer, meaning “non-Bitcoin”). This first article will be a bit...