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Board Alt Coins (India)
Re: Solution for low bitcoin volume in India (FeatherCoin FTC)
by
subvolatil
on 06/05/2013, 05:33:46 UTC

Creating  another  fork of a  alt coin is  easy, but the usability , acceptance, and overall new users  is hard to gain. if  a  desi coins  is  created, the first problem is  the  people  using  in india  would  be low. miners from  outside the country  would have a instant  monopoly on the generation of the coins.  hard for  exchanges to  accept the  coin until a  certain  user numbers  are  reached. New alternative  desi  coin  can  only  work  once  the user base  of   crypto currency  increases. p.s - i'm not a ripple  fan.


I took a look at the Litecoin code yesterday. It is about a months work for someone like me to fork with very minimal exposure to C ++.

Anyone else who can fork LTC to make an Indiacoin in a faster timeline would be awesome.

We can manage a strong marketing campaign to gain adoption of this as it is based on CPU/ GPU mining.

If it fails, would have atleast been a good project to try. Smiley

Lets  discount  the time  taken , if you  guys  are  serious ,  we  can  give it  a  shot.  It  does not harm any one  to try, but  we need to  put in the  characteristic that is  required  for the  indian  market.  may be  some thing like  the number  of  coins  that needs to be  capped . how it  is  gona  hash  the transactions. , but  before  that  how  we are  gona   convince  the miners in india,  to  mine  for  it  in  a larger  pool,  before  foreigner  miners  come into the picture and  limit the  coin volume in India.
Strategy  for  success lies in the initial  number  of  people  involved in the  project and  the participation in the  first phase. If  we  fail  to  get the numbers in india  then  the  alt  coin  will  fall. My only  fear, is that  marketing  pulls in  big time miners  and the one  especially owning  bot nets , they  will destroy the project  before it can  take off.