Why We Need All The Altcoins We Can Get

Why We Need All The Altcoins We Can Get

Did you know that more than one altcoin is launched per day, on average? Website Altcoin Calendar keeps a running total: one day this week we'd had linkcoin, onyxcoin (version 2, no less), xryptbit, and limicoin. The day before that, we saw the birth of bizcoin, shopcoin x, filebit, and, predictably given the political situation, palestinecoin. The obvious temptation is to say that there are too many of them. After all, the cryptocurrency markets are littered with crummy coins that add little technical merit to the coins that they cloned, and which have no clear goal or community backing.....


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