Quote from: ElectricMucus on August 17, 2011, 03:40:55 PM

Well on the one hand you have people wo think bitcoin will be the first and the last successful crypto-currency. On the other hand you have people who are looking for profit.

I think it's a test of character on the meta-level.

Well, technically, X-coins can do something other than just provide "slightly flavored" bitcoin for pump-and-dump ops.
Namecoin, for one, does.

I believe one could come up with an X-coin that will be explicitly useful for something other than quick buck. In fact, I think I might have an idea (it's too premature to share, though)

Quote from: Xephan on August 17, 2011, 02:47:26 PM

Quote from: Lolcust on August 17, 2011, 02:30:05 PM

Quote from: Tx2000 on August 17, 2011, 02:22:14 PM

#1. Don't bombard Freenode IRC

I believe this one deserves... elaboration. At least, as far as noobs like me are concerned

The bitcoin client needs a way to find other peers on the network. So it connects to freenode IRC and uses it as the broadcast network, which essentially looks like a botnet crashing into it when we get a massively anticipated new fork starting up Cheesy

But a fork has no choice but to start its own channel on the IRC. How else would it work otherwise, indeed

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