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I am interested in creating my own altcoin that will be minable through a phone app. Can I copy a existing coins source code, edit it a bit, create a whitepaper and launch a ICO for my coin to collect essential funds for creating the phone app, wallet, marketing, etc. I really don't want to create something on the Ethereum platform since I don't know Solidity and most Ethereum ICOs look like a scam. What do you think is this the way to go if I want to create my own altcoin? Also any developers who would be interested in teaming up with me feel free to PM me.
I think coins based on Ethereum are easy to build, that is why we have so many.
If you don't want to use that platform, you'd need to hire some good developers. But the main hurdle would be marketing your ICO, how would you convince people to invest? You'd need huge marketing budget and promising development process to get that.
How far are you into the process?
I am only just starting, have started developing a white paper and a website. My team and I are still deciding if we should go with a Ethereum ICO or not. Fortunately for marketing we have developed very good strategies and a moderate following on a few platforms online.
I am interested in creating my own altcoin that will be minable through a phone app.
If the coin will be mined with phone app, there's huge chance it will also be mined by any modern CPU and GPU. The difficulty will rise and phone mining will become worthless and get dropped.
So unless you have some ideas how to make your coin get mined ONLY by phones, your idea doesn't look so great to me. Unless you or somebody you team up with will find a solution for this, your idea doesn't worth the attention for an ICO.
Came to the conclusion that mining is not a good idea. Coins will be pre-mined and users are awarded coins for using the app.
Can I copy a existing coins source code, edit it a bit, create a whitepaper and launch a ICO for my coin to collect essential funds for creating the phone app, wallet, marketing, etc.
I can't say I know a lot about it but since bitcoin is open source you definitely can do this and most of the original altcoins like litecoin, feathercoin, dogecoin and many others were like this. They were basically copies of bitcoin with slight modifications.
Exactly my plan. Only thing I want to change with the coin is the mining interface and mining speed. Have you heard of any coins that can be mined on your phone or something like that?
All coins can theoretically be mined on your phone... As long as the diff is really, really, really, really low.
When you use a hashing algorithm for which an ASIC exists, like sha256d, scrypt, x11,... the diff will skyrocket because of people trying to insta-mine your new coin, so it will be impossible to mine on a phone.
You should try to find an algo that can only be mined using a CPU, you might have a shot at mining with your phone then. Or even better, create your own algo.
That being said: mining on your phone is allmost never a good idear for any of the existing algorithms...
That wouldn't technically be mining on your smartphone, but it would still work tough... There used to be an altcoin "mangocoinz" (IIRC) that used this concept.
Theoretically, it's easy to achieve this by adding a (very) generous block reward to one of the first blocks, then mine those first blocks yourself (as the dev)
Okay, great to hear that I am not the only one coming up with this idea. Would it be smarter to fork from BTC or find Mangocoinz source code and fork from them?
I don't think mangocoinz ever distributed it's code... Here's ther ann thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=902788.0
Thanks, you helped me out a lot.
Can I copy a existing coins source code, edit it a bit, create a whitepaper and launch a ICO for my coin to collect essential funds for creating the phone app, wallet, marketing, etc.
I can't say I know a lot about it but since bitcoin is open source you definitely can do this and most of the original altcoins like litecoin, feathercoin, dogecoin and many others were like this. They were basically copies of bitcoin with slight modifications.
Exactly my plan. Only thing I want to change with the coin is the mining interface and mining speed. Have you heard of any coins that can be mined on your phone or something like that?
All coins can theoretically be mined on your phone... As long as the diff is really, really, really, really low.
When you use a hashing algorithm for which an ASIC exists, like sha256d, scrypt, x11,... the diff will skyrocket because of people trying to insta-mine your new coin, so it will be impossible to mine on a phone.
You should try to find an algo that can only be mined using a CPU, you might have a shot at mining with your phone then. Or even better, create your own algo.
That being said: mining on your phone is allmost never a good idear for any of the existing algorithms...
That wouldn't technically be mining on your smartphone, but it would still work tough... There used to be an altcoin "mangocoinz" (IIRC) that used this concept.
Theoretically, it's easy to achieve this by adding a (very) generous block reward to one of the first blocks, then mine those first blocks yourself (as the dev)
Okay, great to hear that I am not the only one coming up with this idea. Would it be smarter to fork from BTC or find Mangocoinz source code and fork from them?
make it an ethereum ICO, you will get a lot of money.
Would but dont know solidity and cant make anything for the Ethereum platform because of this. Can I copy a existing coins source code, edit it a bit, create a whitepaper and launch a ICO for my coin to collect essential funds for creating the phone app, wallet, marketing, etc.
I can't say I know a lot about it but since bitcoin is open source you definitely can do this and most of the original altcoins like litecoin, feathercoin, dogecoin and many others were like this. They were basically copies of bitcoin with slight modifications.
Exactly my plan. Only thing I want to change with the coin is the mining interface and mining speed. Have you heard of any coins that can be mined on your phone or something like that?
All coins can theoretically be mined on your phone... As long as the diff is really, really, really, really low.
When you use a hashing algorithm for which an ASIC exists, like sha256d, scrypt, x11,... the diff will skyrocket because of people trying to insta-mine your new coin, so it will be impossible to mine on a phone.
You should try to find an algo that can only be mined using a CPU, you might have a shot at mining with your phone then. Or even better, create your own algo.
That being said: mining on your phone is allmost never a good idear for any of the existing algorithms...
Can I copy a existing coins source code, edit it a bit, create a whitepaper and launch a ICO for my coin to collect essential funds for creating the phone app, wallet, marketing, etc.
I can't say I know a lot about it but since bitcoin is open source you definitely can do this and most of the original altcoins like litecoin, feathercoin, dogecoin and many others were like this. They were basically copies of bitcoin with slight modifications.
Exactly my plan. Only thing I want to change with the coin is the mining interface and mining speed. Have you heard of any coins that can be mined on your phone or something like that?
That is not easy dude, but goodluck 
Thanks. Hope it will be worth it in the end though. I am interested in creating my own altcoin that will be minable through a phone app. Can I copy a existing coins source code, edit it a bit, create a whitepaper and launch a ICO for my coin to collect essential funds for creating the phone app, wallet, marketing, etc. I really don't want to create something on the Ethereum platform since I don't know Solidity and most Ethereum ICOs look like a scam. What do you think is this the way to go if I want to create my own altcoin? Also any developers who would be interested in teaming up with me feel free to PM me.