Quote from: Peter R on April 09, 2014, 12:40:33 AM

Quote from: Carlton Banks on April 09, 2014, 12:32:07 AM

It's possible you're not properly distinguishing between alt-coins and what could be classified better as bitcoin blockchain forks. Maybe the design differences are mostly not very inspired, but some may have features that make them incompatible with the bitcoin keypair specification. The argument for alt-clones breaks down for a coin like that.

Your bitcoin key-pair is used exactly once to claim your æther. After the æther is claimed, the functionality is identical to Ethereum and you'd use ethereum key pairs from that point onwards. This is the only additional piece of code one would need to write: basically a transmission from bitcoin space to æther space.

I believe my proposal works for any possible alt coin.

You or someone should do this, sounds like a great project.