Nice! I've actually forked litecoin 0.8 last night, and am well on my way to creating a useless coin!
Let me know when you've done yours :-)
I always wondered how hard/easy it is to fork an existing coin....
To do it right, its actually a lot harder than it looks.
Once you actually have the coin compiling...
1. Setup, Maintain and Harden Multiple Seed Nodes on VPS
2. Setup, Maintain and Harden 24/7 Block Explorer on VPS
3. Setup, Maintain and Harden 24/7 Official Mining Pool on VPS
4. Fix Bugs
5. Build a TestNet to test your BugFixes
6. Build a Website
7. Fix Bugs
8. Fix Accidental Hard Fork
9. Fix Accidental Soft Fork
10. Implement actual Soft Fork
11. Fix Bugs
12. Check BitCoin Talk
13. AirDrop
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