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Dead Coins – A list of dead cryptocurrencies
- wbobeirne 9y agoWas this list automatically generated in some way? I'm trying to prune a large list of inactive coins right now, and manually checking their activity has been tedious.
- redm 9y agoNo doubt there's going to be an ICO soon that tracks dead coins for you.
- Animats 9y agoThe dates mentioned are all from 2014. Has this been updated in recent years?
- red023 9y agoThats a crazy lot of them.
- pamqzl 9y agoBut my dogecoins are still headed for the moon, right?
- Raticide 9y agoDogecoin is doing fine: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/dogecoin/ https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/dogecoin/
- Viper007Bond 9y agoI really should find my wallet and make myself the 50 cents richer as a result of heating my apartment one winter using my video cards...
- armenarmen 9y agoI always though it would be funny to offer people free radiators that were just hot mining rigs.
- jonlorusso 9y agoI wish there was a shouldbedeadcoins.com
- CamelCaseName 9y agoThere is, it's called coinmarketcap.com Jest aside, I think there is huge resentment towards cryptocurrencies. From people who missed it, to those who lost. The whole scene is riddled with scams and thieves, and yet it continues to skyrocket. I don't know how this resentment will be overcome, or even if it will be an obstacle to cryptocurrencies, but the resentment is something I've noticed rising at the speed of Bitcoin.
- djaychela 9y agoI think there is indeed a lot of resentment. I guess only time will tell if it's warranted; most of my friends have no idea what they are (I did a fair bit of mining in 2013-14, but alas got on the bitcoin train way too late and small to make any significant money!), but everyone seems to have an opinion on them which is formed by the media's representation of them through large negative stories of drug money and contract killings. Whether they do actually change the landscape of global finance/money remains to be seen (I'm a fair bit less positive than I was a few years ago, despite the rise in price), but there's definitely a big PR battle for them to overcome with the general populace; most who know anything about them have only heard negative stories.
- nextstep 9y agoI wish the table included a “cause of death” explaining how these cryptocurrencies failed.
- Deestan 9y agoMost or maybe all of them basically had "no reason to live" more than a "cause of death". Anyone can cook up a coin by forking Bitcoin or Litecoin and do a search-and-replace on the name in the code and nothing else.
- mysterypie 9y ago> Anyone can cook up a [new whatever] by forking and do a search-and-replace Reminds me of how people created a plethora of new browsers on Windows systems by calling a Windows library function that creates a browser. If you didn't know better, you might think that they spent a million man-hours writing a new browser from scratch.
- dawnerd 9y agoKinda like all the browsers in the IOS App Store.
- theandrewbailey 9y agoAnd after testing them, discover that they all break in identical ways.
- duskwuff 9y agoAnd around 2014, that's exactly where most new cryptocurrencies were coming from. IIRC, there were even a few web sites which would automatically perform that customization for you.
- broy 9y agoI wish they were sorted by max market cap
- zekevermillion 9y agoDefinition of dead should be "can't connect to a node" not based on market cap. For example, BlakeBitcoin is alive as far as I can tell, bc merge mined with Blakecoin. You can totally fire up a client and transact in BBTC. Now it may not be worth much or have liquidity on an exchange, but that is not "dead" just "cheap".
- AgentME 9y agoArguably you should factor in mining power too: if a cryptocurrency can be 51%-attacked easily (such as by an individual paying less than the cryptocurrency's market cap for servers in the cloud), then people shouldn't bring money near it.
- CamelCaseName 9y agoYou can easily 51% any and every coin for less than their market cap if you calculate just the cost of running/renting the hardware for a day. (Though really you don't even need it for that long) I'm not sure if you would run into the problem of availability of hardware at some point, but if you're spending ~$76 billion to rent servers for a day, I'm sure you can figure out the details later. Someone ran the calculations (From Aug 1st of 2017) here: https://freedomnode.com/blog/86/cost-of-51-attack-and-security-of-bitcoin-monero-litecoin-and-other-cryptocurrencies https://freedomnode.com/blog/86/cost-of-51-attack-and-securi... But logically, 51% of the network cannot exceed the value of the network. You lose by a huge margin if you are spending more on protecting your money, than money you actually have.
- AgentME 9y agoHmm, maybe market cap was the wrong comparison to make. The cryptocurrencies listed in that article are doing pretty well for themselves mining-wise. I suspect that there may be tiny cryptocurrencies traded on some exchanges that could be 51%-attacked by an individual for somewhere between $1,000 and $100,000 to double-spend some high-value transactions. Maybe it's unlikely for the numbers to line up to be profitable and sure enough to pull off, but if it does happen, then that cryptocurrency is toast as soon as someone notices.
- Abishek_Muthian 9y agoIncluding why it went kaput in the summary could be an useful information.
- basicplus2 9y agoNeed a list of all cryptocurrency transaction providers indicating which have been hacked and how much stolen
- steveeq1 9y agoSo sad to see VaderCoin die. . .
- ge96 9y agoClearly another crypto had the high ground
- omarchowdhury 9y agoI sense a disturbance in the Blockchain.
- wyldfire 9y agoWhy would we ever want a blacklist when a whitelist is so much saner? The ether is littered with the walking corpses of coins intended only to deceive/P&D. Relatively short list of "verified" (by a "team of analysts") crypto assets [1] (YMMV). [1] https://cryptonaire.com/crypto-assets/ https://cryptonaire.com/crypto-assets/
- such-crypto 9y agoWow dude, thanks man!
- m_mueller 9y ago"minimal pump/dumps"? hmmm [1] [1] https://imgur.com/a/6Lo7V https://imgur.com/a/6Lo7V
- m_mueller 9y agoHow about including the peak market cap and the ability to sort by it? Post-mortem for the biggest flops would be very interesting.
- knodi 9y agohttp://deadcoins.com/CuntCoin http://deadcoins.com/CuntCoin
- LeoPanthera 9y agoIt's a shame you can't sort this by date of death, or at least date of creation.
- rootsudo 9y agoCopy table into excel, sort as you want.
- LeoPanthera 9y agoThe table doesn't have the dates to sort by.
- thinbeige 9y agoI rather prefer a list of ICOs with a high potential and long-term perspective. That many ICOs are Ponzi or close to scam is nothing new.Such a list feels more like a personal justification for 'I don't need to invest, I won't miss anything and BTC and ETH were the last success stories in crypto'.
- jurgenwerk 9y agoCheck this out: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1js-N4uFteHPAYMAZJRPajDhOkhVCE-iwHdPnxPtuftU/edit#gid=1629945073 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1js-N4uFteHPAYMAZJRPa...
- dmitriid 9y agoThe best thing in that list is the "market caps"
- userbinator 9y agoI wonder where on the Hype Cycle[1] cryptocurrencies (and blockchain technology in general) currently are. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hype_cycle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hype_cycle
- gjhiggins 9y ago“Add data” ... “Add data”, all rather lame. Minkiz has the data ... https://minkiz.co/coin/name/ https://minkiz.co/coin/name/ (basically just a rendering of the metadata in DOACC (https://github.com/DOACC/individuals https://github.com/DOACC/individuals). Admittedly I stopped recording in March last year but nevertheless.