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Topic
Board Altcoin Discussion
Re: Why are Phenixcoin, AmericanCoin, Franko, Nibble, Elacoin, etc. not killed?
by
bitdwarf
on 12/06/2013, 14:20:54 UTC
Less miners in the reliable currencies means easier mining for everybody else. There's no real profit in killing them.

Feathercoin is the biggest one after Litecoin. Feathercoin has 1320 MH/s. Next biggest coin is Worldcoin with 700 MH/s.

Hard to make proper comparisons, but in adjusted hashrate YaCoin is possibly bigger than FeatherCoin. This is discussed in the yacointalk forum:

I think more meaningful proof of interest might be taking the very first chart on yacexplorer.tk, and extrapolating the hash rate based on N.  The current mean hashrate is 54 MH/sec.  If that gets multiplied by 2^5 (the difficulty change since inception of the coin), the adjusted hashrate is 1,728 MH/sec today vs. a peak of 1,400 MH/sec during the early days when N=4.  This leads me to believe that there is more CPU power being thrown at this coin than there was on day 1 when all the pump-and-dumpers thought they could capitalize.

That doesn't include Proof of Stake mining, which is active already.

http://yacointalk.com/index.php/topic,270.msg986.html#msg986