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In your opinion, what should we call cryptocurrencies that aren’t Bitcoin? (inb4 shitcoin)

In my own writing, I use “crypto-offspring”. It denotes that BTC was the origin of this phenomenon while remaining neutral on any other protocol or token.

I used to use “altcoin” but even that seems to elevate too many of the scam projects, while leaving objectively interesting and valuable projects like Monero in the same category.

Andreas Antonopoulos uses “open blockchains” which I kind of like too, but it’s fairly broad
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ElectronicsQuestions 1y ago

Copycats? (Not really, since they brag about what's different) Small coins? (Still excludes eth, though it's getting there) Subject coins? (relative King Bitcoin, far-fetched for people who haven't heard that expression)

Hard to come up with a good name, I don't even think shitcoin is a good name as it doesn't differentiate between the outright scams and the well-intentioned projects. IMO, the latter is still unlikely to have a large adoption or value compared to BTC due to first-mover advantage and network effect, but there's a difference between trying to make money better even though not successful and to scam people.

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