Why didn't altcoins soar? Chronicle of extraordinary cryptocurrencies

 Bitcoin started with an idea formulated in 2008 in the Manifesto of Satoshi Nakamoto: an economic structure for the Internet economy, allowing the implementation of payments on the web directly, content with the mediation of classical economic institutions. As it turns out, many were expecting something similar. During 2013-2017, freshly baked cryptocurrencies and tokens appeared in huge numbers, including the most unusual ones. Some - prepared after the joke, jokes because of the experience for; the rest - with a specific mission: public projects, political coins, various business ideas.


It was at this post that we compiled samples of the most diverse, distant well-wishers from a friend and unobvious in concept tokens and altcoins: from Dogecoin to LGBT coin, from coin to bypass political censorship to porno tokens to pay for something unconditionally.

Perhaps many of them will work for some as a source of freshly baked ideas. But, most importantly, we want to describe their situation and analyze three questions:

What was it?
Why didn't they succeed?
What is it, therefore, for the upcoming blockchain and cryptocurrencies?


Little educational program: coins are called cryptocurrencies for their blockchain (from Bitcoin to Dogecoin). Tokens are derivatives of another crypto. Most of them are tokens on the Ethereum blockchain.

The token combined with the Doge meme was created in 2013 for fun, or simply as an experiment property. If there was intent here, that is to say, a filigree foresight, the developers of the pesotoken do not remember it: “One evening I drank beer after work. I had a well-rounded independent time and I arrested and bought a Dogecoin rank. com, ”recalls Jackson Palmer, product manager at Adobe. Subsequently, IBM programmer Billy Markus helped develop a realistic Dogecoin cryptocurrency. Together they wanted the freshly baked cryptocurrency to be interesting and get a huge audience than Bitcoin, however, without touching on the details, it looked faster than dreams than a plan to conquer the world; Cryptocurrency developers hardly expected that it would become 34th after the value of capitalization in the world rank (according to those provided for Lipets in 2020).

On December 17, 2013, Doge's value was $ 0.000255. After a month, at the beginning of January 2014, the course gained marks of $ 0.002306, in other words, stretched out approximately 10 times. After which he just as sharply moved away and was positioned for the macrocosms in motion for three years. However, Dogecoin immediately appears to be the largest altcoin on the market, it began trading for the legendary trading platform Robinhood, and in June, after the trading volume, it was twice ahead of Bitcoin Cash. Elon Musk and Tik-Tok contributed to his growth.

On April 1, 2019, in the Dogecoin official Twitter account, users were jokingly recommended to take a liking to the newly baked CEO of the project. Elon Musk found himself between the applicants, after which the majority of votes were cast.

At the beginning of July 2020, a TikTok reader released a short video in which he clicked to acquire Dogecoin in order to earn on the growth of its value. The shaft amounted to more than 58 thousand likes and 4 thousand.

Major exchanges have taken advantage of Doge's peak of fame and have presented their buyers with great interactivity with altcoin. For example, on July 10, the Binance Futures platform tossed DOGE / USDT lifetime contracts with up to 50x leverage.

Tron plan chief Justin Sun, following the rise of Dogecoin, announced that from now on, his project will focus on building an audience on TikTok. And he promised to organize, so that the videos of the blockchain startup would freeze viral.

“People adore cats and money, so why not combine? "- someone thought unconditionally and, it seems, it worked out. Cryptocurrencies associated with seals are Monacoin, Catcoin and Nyancoin. Of these, independent enthusiasm is driven by Monacoin, immediately ranking 113th in the rankings.

Monacoin is the conditional greenery of the Japanese project, formed for a swell of sympathy for cats and the popular figurative ASCII character, Monet. The token was planned for December 2013 and was created in 2014 as the ultimate fork of Litecoin. Monacoin froze over as the first opposite cryptocurrency explored in Japan and is still popular today.

The value of MonaCoin (MONA) for now is $ 1.26, and the commercial circuit in 24 hours is $ 1,136,740. Over the past 24 hours, the cost has increased by 2.1%. Immediately in circulation: 72.75 million, total coin supply: 105.1 million. On the day of the article's release, Monacoin is showing solid momentum.



Perhaps it would have been possible to explain the popularity of Monacoin with a cat painted for it, however, other cat cryptocurrencies turned out to be less successful.

the extremum was registered in 2017 ($ 1.25), but is not immediately used now.

extremum in 2019: $ 0.04241324, not immediately used now either.

LGBT Token

The developers of the LGBT token claim that they developed it not so much because of earnings, but also because of a public mission. The LGBT Token cryptocurrency has been leaked by the LGBT Foundation, a non-trade organization that helps the global gay community to dispose of its national economic reserve for the benefit of equality. These are some really impressive sums: the joint purchasing power of the pink economy is estimated at 4.6 trillion US dollars.

The LGBT Foundation promotes the LGBT token as a payment order in everyday transactions for the sake of businesses, whether digital or physical. To force this, Hornet Networks, the LGBT Foundation philanthropist, is creating a token circuit between its 25 million users, perhaps around 10% of LGBT people in the whole society - and perceives the LGBT token as a property of paying for its services.

LGBT Foundation promotes blockchain-based independent HIV trial. HIV is not only one of the most painful topics for LGBT people. Luckily, the agreement was borrowed by the war with the coronavirus, HIV has not gone anywhere: according to reliable information in 2019, 37 million people are living with HIV, and every year an additional 2 million people get sick, that's why panzootia is growing, and it is expected that if the alteration continues by 2025, 40 million people will be living with HIV. Some of them are young people: one in three freshly baked cases occurs in young people a year after 15 to 24 years.

Constant HIV testing is the best prevention of its spread. With all this, many people after the whole of society do not have easy access to it before. It is believed that only 79% of people living with HIV know their HIV status - and this is what the LGBT Foundation wishes to adjust by promoting the idea of ​​an independent and unsigned trial in the Hornet app. It brings circuits and health care together and organizes the public purpose of the LGBT token.



The LGBT token is not the only one related to LGBT-related cases. There are PrideCoin, RainbowCoin and others, however, they do not hold any public plans and are directed, apparently, at a huge step towards earning.

More cryptocats

CryptoKitties do not appear to be cryptocurrency in the conventional sense of the word, which makes them even more extraordinary using the blockchain scheme. Toast for the trial itself agrees about the game based on ether smart contracts. Sales of cats exceeded after tens of millions of dollars, however, these are only conditional cats, I suppose Pokemon, not tied to the famous toy or movie.



Due to the Ethereum scheme, cats are absolutely unique, eternal and have no way of being stolen. And they are very popular. At the launch of CryptoKitties, a kind of pandemonium joined the game, that the ether bonds were overloaded and the interruptions were noticed by those who had not heard of crypto kitties. CryptoKitties stop likeness to community generated art objects. With the right combination of events, it is possible (probably) to earn a lot of money on them: on December 2, 2017, the ages for one of these creatures will return $ 117 thousand.

Pepe Token

Another meme cryptocurrency is Pepe Cash. Pepe the Frog first appeared in 2005 as a character in Matt Fury's Boy's Club online comics and was immediately turned into a meme on 4chan and other sites. The character has evolved and now, after a decade, is one of the most recognizable on the Internet. Pepe has risen to the pinnacle of fame, and it's no surprise that his fan club is drunk on spending money for authorized works of art. And this is undoubtedly art, at least as the members of the self-proclaimed Pepesphere will tell you. Pepesphere is an online space where it is possible to trade tokenized images of Pepe for the local currency Pepe Cash.

Putin is a coin

In 2016-2017, several tokens arose at the same time, informed by the presidents. It is not known how much the presidents were pleased with this, but they received their number of HYIP tokens, and some are still in use.

As they say on the project's website, Puticncoin “was created in order to dedicate a concession of veneration to the people and the president of one of the largest and greatest powers in the world:

Putincoin was famous in 2017-2018, and now it saves a dwarf and irregular turnover, tending to zero.

This is not the only token intended for V. There was also Putin Classic. The developers called it "the first digital souvenir in the field of cryptocurrencies." His chronicle was short-lived (a few months in 2017), he deserved a little, and since 2017 it has shone with its absence in circulation, and there is no site left for paramnesia.

Impeccably at this time, the token was issued for the North American president - TrumpCoin. It was created on February 20, 2016 in the reputation of Donald J. But the patriotism of its creators is somewhat different than that of the creators of Putincoin. This is what the developers write on the site:

“Patriots are those supporters all over the world who are inclined to help detect corruption, detect fake news, discover justice, and wholeheartedly reward themselves, their time, their figure and their own precious life because of the improvement in the situation. The wealth of information and left-handed categories naturally ridicule them for their stance against these repressive systems and people. We will support them. "

It is believed that the token was issued by Trump's allies, and he himself has nothing to do with him. It is not known whether this is an invoice or not, but Trump naturally pours out negatively about cryptocurrencies without touching on particulars, different from Putin. Against this, immediately TrumpCoin has everything as it should be a bit better than PutinCoin.

In addition, there was Fuck Trump Coin for a while. More precisely, it still exists, but in 2020 only a dozen operations were made with it. Trump has many rivals, but the crypto project has not attracted specialized attention.



Pornotokens Sexcoin and F * ck

Since we’re chatting about politics, we’ll talk about the porn industry too. Sexcoin was intended as an alternative payment structure for the porn industry; it was assumed that through this cryptocurrency, men would cover the conditional entertainment and services.

And finally, a token with the name F * ck. It came out of nowhere, it is not so easy to find a site where you can buy it. The White Paper of this plan is scrawled in an endlessly picturesque language, and the following is said about the origin of the provided cryptocurrency:

“In today's community there are capital of people, which decently do not. Our ERC-20 F * CK token is possible to help all these people. Assume 0.001 F * CK or 1 F * CK on your friend's account - no matter how much you put on them, in any case, you will do a good deed. "

Fuck Token

FUCK Tokens stands for "Finally Usable Crypto Karma" (finally used crypto-karma) and allows now to start, if I may say so, give a fuck (untranslatable piece of words) and precisely assign the value of any such gesture. 

Israeli token

In Russia, manufacturer Vyacheslav Semenchuk tossed a Jewish-targeted cryptocurrency, BitCoen. Anyone can invest in and trade in these tokens, however, 10% of the profit is given in the property of interest-free loans to members of the Jewish community. BitCoen is traded on a small number of exchanges, and frankly, Jews are choosing to invest in more interesting projects.

Consume the rest of the godly tokens. For example, by purchasing Jesuscoin, you, according to the developers of this cryptocurrency, are sure to meet in heaven. There is also ConfessionCoin - a cryptocurrency with the support of which it is possible to record your sins in the blockchain and, thus, to confess.



Mooncoin is such a cryptocurrency and blockchain line in which the emission of coins is cut by the mediocre distance between the universe and the moon. In addition, they have to consume the literal dialect of MoonWord programming for the sake of developing distributed applications. The month-old is fiercely plus.

Vegan token

VeganCoin is a token knowledgeable for the vegan community. Its portrayal states that it is "a cruelty-free cryptocurrency." Holders of VeganCoin tokens can pay with them on the VeganPoint mil-sharing platform and in the VeganNation online store. The pre-sale of these tokens started in early February 2018.

Invalid token

UET ICO was either just a drama over the leading enthusiasts for any HYIP, who unintentionally inflicted funds on the creator of the token, or a deliberate attempt to raise banknotes using an unusual approach - in any case, they managed to earn it. UET made more than $ 40,000 in just three days.

The Lord of the vain token spoke with pride about its uselessness, offered traders fresh authority and lack of growth expectations. However, he always flirted here a little and hinted for some chances: “In recognition of any other implementation of tokens for the market, I can guarantee that the value of UET will not (in fact, cannot) decrease during that time after the ICO. Since these tokens are not decently worth at the start, the cost has nowhere to go, turning it off like up! But remember - such an irrespectively conscientious ICO, and what and what I don't want, so that someone hopes that the credibility of tokens will increase. They are called in vain for a reason "

There was no product behind the EUT, it did not study any audits and was not evaluated by experts: “I found out everything about Ethereum smart contracts over the weekend, and there was enough of this so that I could launch this ICO. Most of the smart contract verse is copied from GitHub and Stack Overflow posts, so everything should work well ... right?

To the question “Why are you doing this? "Lord UET replied:" Who knows?

The Lord mutedly attended to logos, site design and visuals in a holistic manner, but UET still had some logo.



And what the creator of the token said due to the fact that it is possible to tinker with UET: “UET is a standard ERC20 token, and you are given the opportunity to hold and transfer it. Turning this off… nothing. Whatever. (Seriously, don't get it. Is that why you're reciting this to this day?

Have fun and that's enough: since July 2018, the ages of UET turns have not been observed.

Garlic token

There is also a token, some are being produced for Reddit: at the beginning of December 2017, a DigitalizedOrange reader in the Garlic subreddit shared his idea of ​​the opposite cryptocurrency, he was supported by the rest of the community, and so the Garlicoin token appeared to the source. This is a good example of a digital currency that applies to people who share corporate interests. The Fellowship is very temperamental for Reddit, and if you adore garlic croutons, you can join it.

Petro is the cryptocurrency of the Venezuelan government

Petro-coin, or Petromoneda, is a cryptocurrency quite solemnly issued by the Venezuelan government. We talked about it in the post "How Diverse Powers Regulate Cryptocurrency: Analysis of Laws in 2020". It was an attempt by the government of a country looking for a desperate national economic situation to try to detect an exit from it with the support of blockchain technologies, using them to attract investment in the inspection of US sanctions. On February 20, 2018, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro spoke for the launch procedure of the state cryptocurrency Petro in Caracas. Petro is guaranteed by the country's natural resource reserves, and the price is pegged to a barrel of oil. Only 100 million Petro were produced, but only 82 million were determined for resale, and the other must exist to save the Venezuelan government. In early December 2019, the ages at Petro were used to transfer Christmas benefits to retirees and civil servants.

In 2020, cryptocurrency payment instructor Cryptobuyer announced a partnership with Megasoft, to the extent of which Venezuelans will be able to pay with cryptocurrencies at 20,000 trading points in the country, and Venezuela's largest national oil and gas fraternity, PDVSA, announced that it will change 4.5 million barrels. oil from their reserves after Petro (subject to the terms of the country's government). And after the establishment of the coronavirus quarantine in Spring 2020, the abundance of cryptocurrency transactions in Venezuela has increased even without a sign from above.

However, traders do not take Petro seriously: the main advantage of cryptocurrencies is decentralization - if Petromoneda does not work, and it is personally located in the hands of the country's favorites, now remembered for the nationalization of barbell companies under Maduro's predecessor, Hugo Chavez.

Something went wrong?

It is much easier to concentrate a rectifier of extraordinary altcoins than successful ones. Ultimately, it is better not to remain in the property of the cryptocurrencies Bitcoin and Ethereum, and the necessary demand for special altcoins with tokens was simply not oriented and no one knows about them outside the crypto world.

How did it happen that the beautiful thoughts of economic freedom, anonymity and confidentiality were wrapped up in such a dead end? An excellent tool was allowed to people, but by and large no one uses it.

The idea of ​​Satoshi Nakamoto was to organize the candidacy of the existing system, in which the attitude of classical economic institutions is unconditional for making payments, with all the outpouring shortcomings, the indication of which in Satoshi's article can be combined with the consideration of the "human factor". To solve this problem itself - the topic of the human moment in financial transactions - was promised by the design of payments in addition to a third party, peer-to-peer, which a third party would not be able to invade or appear. The non-triviality of this problem and established the peculiarity and uniqueness of the technological conclusion of Bitcoin as if it was a distributed dispersed network, in which there is not a single element that could possibly be examined in some hands.

The idea of ​​a cryptocurrency is a payment instrument that allows you to present after understandable and unchangeable rules: consume so many coins of everything, the emission is such and such, anyone can use it. The rules are unchanged, there will be no Pavlov reform, they can only confiscate with a soldering iron, etc.

Perhaps the circuits ran in front of a steam locomotive, exceedingly beyond their time. The community did not approve the crypt as an alternative to money, and people are now rushing to organize withdrawal services. Everyone rushed to solve fictitious problems, threw out tokens and the rest of everything, but as a result, it turned out that the problems that they were designed to solve were not the ones that needed to be solved at the trial itself. Full-fledged difficulties remain unresolved until now. Some of the tokens and coins from this survey were well-intentioned - experimenting, tweaking ideas, industry judgments, and economic instruments. But the exorbitant tightness led to the fact that it was found a particle in the sea of ​​shitcoins, which were organized limitlessly because of the steppe and enrichment.

There is space for cryptocurrencies in a progressive economy and financial order. There has already been a question in today's society about an idea similar to cryptocurrencies - that's why Bitcoin and frozen that way are known to be valid immediately from the factor of its appearance. Some people realized the idea of ​​money emitted by the algorithm intuitively, causality was waiting for something like this. But to this day, cryptocurrencies have not been able to take this place.

The general problem of any crypt is its numerous uses. What is the logo of the cue ball, if it is not accepted anywhere? The more diverse tokens stop, the less the possibility of multiple use of one thing, without talking about everyone now. In order to fulfill the mission formulated by Satoshi, and become a candidate for banking organization in the economy, cryptocurrencies are initially appropriate to become a candidate for fiat as a property of payment. The blockchain will not be able to become a candidate for banks, happily there is no need for it as it is for banks.

Immediately blockchain and cryptocurrencies are wanted in anticipation of a high-quality transition. A purely technological solution, even the most brilliant, is not enough to solve the difficulties of a realistic world. The difficulties of the realistic circle will always have to be solved equally in a realistic society - and the problem of the scheme is here to help. In order for the cryptocurrency to turn out from a bubble of grayish cryptoeconomics and become a partially superior economic system, which blockchain was originally designed, other conditions are needed.