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Board Altcoin Discussion
Re: What was the first altcoin created?
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Hairynipples
on 07/12/2021, 21:44:16 UTC
That’s what I’ve found in wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cryptocurrencies#Before_2013 . I’ve looked through coins and found out that the chronology of "borning" of first alts is the next one:
-   Namecoin (decentralized domain name management, 2011)
-   Litecoin (first memory-hard mining, 2011)
-   Peercoin (first proof-of-stake mining, created at the end of 2012)
-   Ripple (first release in 2012)
-   Primecoin (launched on 7 July 2013 by anonymous hacker and Peercoin founder Sunny King
-   Gridcoin (created on October 16, 2013 by Rob Halförd.)
-   Gogecoin ( introduced by Billy Markus and Jackson Palmer as a "joke" at the end of 2013, in December)



That list is not a fully comprehensive one as Tenebrix,Fairbrix,Geistgeld and Solidcoin all came out in 2011

I mined solidcoin back in the day before the DEV said he was re-branding it to Microcash (which never happened)