Quote from: bcp19 on July 29, 2013, 04:14:35 PM

Quote from: DeathAndTaxes on July 29, 2013, 04:12:22 PM

Quote from: bcp19 on July 29, 2013, 02:47:34 PM

I know there are a lot of naive people in the world, but ~$40 to make a client and launch a coin? I know the ONLY way I'd ask that little is if all I had to do was take the existing source code and then search and replace the names and maybe do 1 or 2 tweaks.

What do you think 90%+ of the launched coins are. EXACTLY that. Hell most of the time they don't even modify everything that needs to be modified. They use the same alertkey as LTC, they don't change magic numbers so nodes running multiple blockchains end up confused spamming LTC blocks into xCoin network for example. Hell in some coins they don't even change user facing strings so some error messages or confirmations will say "Litecoin".

To date there has been very little innovation in the alt-coin space:
LTC, PPC, Freicoin (I think it is a stupid idea but it is at least innovative), Powercoin. That is about it. Everything else has been copy, replace, tweak, launch.

you forgot primecoin

Fixed I meant primecoin not powercoin. So many stupid names nearly impossible to keep it straight.