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Re:Overview of top cryptocurrencies by DennisP on Wednesday May 31, 2017 @02:02PM (#14454589)
Nice! A few comments...

I think XRP is down to about 60% founder control, they've been giving it away to strategic partners.

Ethereum Classic doesn't have anything to do with Cryptonote. It's a straight fork of Ethereum.

I don't think Golem or Augur are actually in production yet, they're just tokens on Ethereum that will play a role in the actual systems once those are live.

Re:Overview of top cryptocurrencies by arcaster on Wednesday May 31, 2017 @02:04PM (#14454617)
Yeah, XRP doesn't have much utility for the average user. Also noticed the gaping error citing that Ethereum Classic implements crypto-note.

If you want to look at a token that's about as close to a complete scam as tokenly possible, look no further than Gnosis. The GNO token doesn't actually directly translate to an asset that can be used on their prediction market come launch. Even more, investors only control 4.5% of the GNO tokens in existence, granted this was all done AFTER Gnosys had more than enough existing funding. Cash grab, plain and simple.

Re:Overview of top cryptocurrencies by kilimchoi on Wednesday May 31, 2017 @02:09PM (#14454665)
So did the investors sell their GNO tokens?
Re:Overview of top cryptocurrencies by simonebrunozzi on Wednesday May 31, 2017 @02:12PM (#14454682)
AFAIK, they can't for the first 12 months after the ICO sale (which happened a couple of weeks ago).
Re:Overview of top cryptocurrencies by jankotek on Wednesday May 31, 2017 @02:32PM (#14454822)
> Ethereum Classic doesn't have anything to do with Cryptonote. It's a straight fork of Ethereum.

Other way around. Ethereum is a fork of ETC ;-)

Re:Overview of top cryptocurrencies by kilimchoi on Wednesday May 31, 2017 @02:05PM (#14454622)
Thanks for the correction. I updated it. Feel free to make a pr if you see anything else that should be added or removed.
Re:Overview of top cryptocurrencies by Jenya_ on Wednesday May 31, 2017 @02:17PM (#14454725)
About instant transactions in Dash. They did not implement yet a critical feature which would make instant transactions useful for merchants.

Currently a merchant is not able to declare his receiving Dash address as "Instant transactions only". Without this feature merchant is forced to trust that his customers would always use instant transactions.

https://www.dash.org/forum/threads/we-need-merchants-using-d...