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Last time, we discussed a little about NXT’s history and distribution, along with what distinguishes it from the many other altcoins available on the market. I also teased a little bit at the end of the piece, promising to discuss NXT’s features and speculate on its valuation. On...

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...

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...

With the dawning of a new invention, imitations start to pop up in order to capitalize on the successes of the originator. This is definitely the case for bitcoin. Since its creation in 2009, bitcoin’s concept has been replicated to form new digital currencies that could be...

The MIT Bitcoin Expo promises to be one of the most exciting bitcoin events of the year. The expo is hosted by HackMIT, the MIT Bitcoin Club, and the College Cryptocurrency Network. MIT Bitcoin Expo The event will be held on May 3rd at the Stata Center, between 11:00 and 6:00....