Hello everyone:

I'm a relatively young (16 year old) programmer, trying to push myself to learn new things (somewhat an inefficient programmer tbh).

For the past week, I've been attempting to create a new Altcoin to learn about cryptocurrency, which I thought it was ready, but turns out after I released it, the coin got mined through easily and people started running into issues. I was using SHA256 (since the only stuff I know how to make so far is Scrypt and SHA256). Also, it was the old Bitcoin release ( 0.8.0 ), so it had issues there.

I'm still learning this whole cryptocurrency deal, trying to figure out how to code more efficiently for these, so please excuse my noobish questions:

What would be the best algorithm to use for a new Altcoin?

The list of algorithms I've heard of so far:

• SHA256
• Scrypt
• X11
• X13
• X15
• Lyra2RE