OK, so we all love our CPU farms and love cryptonote because it's viable when BTC is at a certain place and the altcoin market is active. However it's worth taking a small community look on what all these fake/shit/clones are actually doing - and if they actually have some cool tech in what they claim.
Or if we just like to hear our delta fans sing the song of the people under cpu utilization - that's fine too.
If we have a finite way to waste electricity, may as well bet on the proper horse or a horse that will at least get to the end of the race without falling over.
Here is what I have gathered so far.
If anyone else has taken a look at the actual value added by all of these coins that more or less forked from the same coin, curious what your thoughts are on which of these is actually doing cool stuff with the tech they have available.
Or if we just like to hear our delta fans sing the song of the people under cpu utilization - that's fine too.
If we have a finite way to waste electricity, may as well bet on the proper horse or a horse that will at least get to the end of the race without falling over.
Here is what I have gathered so far.
- XMR, most mature coin that was also a clone of a project. Huge dev group, and have their own roadmap and big plans. However mining at this point is pointless due to botnets mining on private pools.
- KRB, also another fork - but not a monero fork. Have a mobile wallet, clean desktop gui, figured out the blocksynchronization issue by using remote deamons (secondary use for pools basically, and you get a broker fee by people using your synced daemon), also has protection against pulse mining due to what I believe is a global PPLNS window.
- TRTL, claims a lot of things - but so far I just see them pulling code left and right from other projects. They also plan to implement a remote deamon approach for avoiding block sync times, but their approach is more of a mesh network and using leftover nonce bits to store 'mini' chains that are only relevant to where you are going to insert your transaction. It's a bold claim that they can do this, and with KRB having a working model (not distributed) not sure what the value is.
- ITNS, also plans to use the leftover nonce bits, but for storing VPN traffic / keys. Their idea is to some how use that leftover space to either route traffic through their own version of a mesh nework between deamons, and you gain money by brokering web traffic by your running deamon. It's a cool idea, but again TOR probably does this better already.
- Sumo, seems like another fork but havent actually read what they claim.
- AEON, never really spent time on it, mostly because i'm too lazy to have to manually switch my miners to cryptonote-lite.
- Electroneum, fork but targets the mobile market for a mobile wallet and mining platform - yet nicehash is still mining the heck out of it.
If anyone else has taken a look at the actual value added by all of these coins that more or less forked from the same coin, curious what your thoughts are on which of these is actually doing cool stuff with the tech they have available.