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Re: Alt-Coins
by
masterbean
on 09/01/2014, 09:30:33 UTC
"it occurred to me that there always needs to be a vice president
so say if bitcoin got seized or controlled somehow, then litecoin would become the pres
so #3 is still has potential and so on
The more I meditate on this I recognize that it really has the potential to transform the global economy
They are not about to let that happen
WW1 and WWII weren't pretend
This is the most interesting time in history.
Satoshi is either a modern messiah or a covert operative
I wonder why the NSA just wouldn't put those datacenters to use and mine all the altcoins left"

The NSA mining dogecoin, there's a thought. Perhaps it wouldn't be smart to waste resources on it, the more they tried the more other coins would pop up. Look at the marketcap of top 20 alts below from coinmarketcap. The top 20 alts add up to 3,894,217 at the moment versus Bitcoin 12,236,125 BTC. To dominate the markets they would they not have to fight a rising tide of popularity that they might have helped to create? (edit, this list below isn't quite relevant as it includes coins you can't directly mine).

 Ripples 2,667,199.00000000
 Litecoin 721,626.00000000
 Peercoin 151,811.00000000
 MasterCoin 83,855.00000000
 Namecoin 60,380.00000000
 Nxt 51,082.00000000
 Quark 24,712.00000000
 ProtoShares 23,731.00000000
 Megacoin 20,564.00000000
 WorldCoin 18,093.00000000
 Primecoin 16,099.00000000
 Feathercoin 12,550.00000000
 Novacoin 10,168.00000000
 Infinitecoin 8,193.00000000
 DogeCoin 6,257.00000000
 Digitalcoin 5,487.00000000
 Zetacoin   4,608.00000000
 Devcoin   3,936.00000000
 Anoncoin 3,866.00000000