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Board Altcoin Discussion
Re: Brand new kind virtual currency - CAPTCHA coin
by
Snail2
on 15/10/2013, 09:09:53 UTC
sorry, a captcha cryptocurrency is not possible unless you figure this out

This is not possible if the coin is open source (reverse engineering will be easy), but it's possible with a closed source code. But if it's closed nobody will use it.

Not even possible with closed source. Everything is open source if you know how to use a disassembler and a debugger.

There are a couple of opensource or free captcha implementations. You can embed it into the client or you can use it on the "pool" servers. The only issue with the second solution is the relative centralized nature as you need the captcha servers to keep the coin working. Writing a distributed solution where everything included in the client would be a lot of work but it could work well.