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Board Altcoin Discussion
Re: How do you discover coins with great potential? Nearly 10.000 coins out there...
by
South Park
on 02/05/2021, 16:56:03 UTC
There's less than 60 coded from scratch [1].

If you further ignore all the ones with premines/instamines/devtax, then you're left with only a handful,
that share the good properties of Bitcoin: created to innovate, not to enrich the creators.

[1] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1geg5HHgDO-ht0u6CSTHplJudr9kSGQYAoJvaKnfRhI4/edit#gid=0




Thank you very much for this overview.
I am looking forward to studying and researching the details.

Also, knowing that there are just 60 original coins out there is amazing compared to 10.000 total.

It is not really that surprising, I have held the view for a long time that 99% of the coins in the market are scams so I was expecting a number close to 100 and to see that only 60 are coded from scratch means that even my stance has been too soft on altcoins, truth to be told most coins are either copies, forks or derivatives from other coins and when that is the case your only hope is that hype takes over a particular coin so you can make money, but if you want to invest based on fundamentals then investing in coins that are actually being developed from scratch seems like your best bet.