For some unsolicited design advice...

Naming things after real people has the problem of the real person (who ate, slept, and maybe even made some mistakes along the way) not being our idealised form of the person.  It is a nice tribute to a worthy individual, but it is a very limiting aspect as well.  It is a tribute.
Like putting Ceasar on the face of a coin, some folks want the coin but don't much care for Ceasar.  It would be the same with any person.  Also with an experiment such as this, we can never be sure that it even lives up to being a worthy tribute.  Making it a tribute does help to keep that focus though...

That is why we have Liberty on our New Liberty Dollars.  It is an ideal, not a persona, so the appeal is more broad.  No one can say that Liberty was bad because she was unfaithful to her husband or something weird. 

Perhaps to get the aspects you honor, you could call it something else (inventcoin, curiousitycoin, bravecoin) and put Curie on the logo?

For all that, I love Marie Curie as well, and hope for your success.

Marie Curie was a true hero of science, that's for sure.

I'm no expert in the nitty gritty of these difficulty algos, but I hate it when there is a new coin and big miners jump on it to mine when the difficulty is still very low and then after a few acquired millions they leave to pump-and-dump their coins leaving the real supporters of the coin facing high difficulty! 
I think that difficulty retargeting (or balancing) should be incorporated so when the big hashers leave, the difficulty level will balance itself with the remaining hashes - kind of 'supply-demand' ideology. What I mean is that if there is high hashrate = high difficulty; if small hash rate = lower difficulty. IMO this is a needed component for the longevity of the coin to remain in existence.

Now as for the value of the coin, if we look at the real world examples, there's no fiat currency that has its value based on its scarcity (as far as I know). Yes there are other things like diamonds, gold etc. that their value is based on that, but in this case I'm treating 'the coin' as the main currency. So the value of the coin has to come from 'the need to be used'. This you are already taking care of as you mentioned many service where it can be used. One important service is an exchange, although I personally do not agree with the exchange of crypto-currencies to fiat-currencies as it completely defeats the purpose of cryptography, as once it's translated into a fiat currency it becomes traceable  now that's my opinion and a completely different argument. But it seems that the community wants this and so it be...

One thing I haven't seen in the announcement is the total amount of coins. Do you have an idea how much you're going to make it?
I might be dumb as I cannot understand why devs make hard caps and limits for their coins. Is every coin designed for a few number of years only? Why is this? No one envisage their coin being used 20, 50 years from now? Many might argue that it is so because Bitcoin is like that... right, but was bitcoin designed to be an 'eternal' currency or was it an experimental idea that a genius (or a group) came out with and wanted to see if it is possible or not, so it was coded with a cap for that reason? I don't know of any fiat-currency designed for 5 years only for example and thus, coins should be modeled or successful real world fiat-currencies (without the bureaucracy of banks which is taken care by the network and blockchain) ... And I'd like to see what happens when most coins reach their caps and they might become useless and just history... I might be wrong, but as I said, I just can't understand this point.
Anyway, I'm mentioning this so you might research a bit on these ideas / questions and see if there is any way you can increase the longevity of the coin. Maybe this coin can be unique as I'll be able to pass down to my children and they to theirs 

Ok, just shoot me a PM when you need a pool or when you think Marie is ready to be traded on an exchange

Well, calling other coins "scams" right of the bat may not be the smartest way to make friends or come across as a professional

That being said... I know some people who might start up a pool for you, and I also know people who might put your coin on PhenixEx the moment it launches, or at a time of your choosing.

We do not want MarieCurieCoin I rather have Einstein Coin

Oh, you mean NetCoin ? You might want to read up a little bit on this forum

I think that if you want a coin to be a succes you should focus on consumers, not miners. Miners don't add much value ( put money into it ). If people buy a few hundred dollars of your coin because they have a real life use for it.... isn't that 100x more diserable ?

i dont see anything new, i belive pheonixcoin had bnearly all those featers in fact

Should come with a warning:  Mining this coin can cause radiation damage

man you're an ass sometimes


I happen to like the name. Curie is the shit, she has units of measure named after her, a couple nobel prizes, and x-rays.... 'nuff said.

That is going to be the hard part

Add POS to the coin. Make it a bit rare.
Why would you even go for MarieCurie?

FührerCoin would work better lol. I'd buy as much as I can with all my BTC 

The name is bad.

Good question. Marie Curie was one of the most, if not the most influential female scientists of all time. Likewise, we hope to create a coin that will influence how we think about altcoins. We hope it will inspire the altcoin community to not only invest in this coin, but also inspire to make better altcoins in general, like the inspiration Marie Curie was and is to a lot of scientists. It may sound random, but I think it has more of a thought behind it than some other altcoins. (which I'm not going to bash)