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Board Announcements (Altcoins)
Re: ANN CureCoin is launched 5/10/2014
by
spiffcow
on 12/05/2014, 22:33:22 UTC
So here's my critique of the coin so far:

+ Coin benefits cancer research - pretty awesome
+ Folding requires less electricity than mining - saves money
+ SHA256 mining - people with GPUs will fold rather than mine

- no merged mining - the coin would be more stable if it was merge-mined so that ASIC miners didn't have to quit mining bitcoin or litecoin in order to mine this
- premine - the right way to distribute the coins is *not* a premine.  Look at the devcoin source, they distribute a percentage of each block to various people.  This prevents issues where someone dumps the premine, or even worse, the premine is stolen.
- folding pool is not responsive - I have mined for days and not seen a payout or even an estimated payout.  This is a huge deterrant.
- late - this would have been *the* coin if it had come out back in December or January.  Now it's just a footnote.