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24 alternatives to Emulating Bitcoin on Ethereum
Hi guys, It is no secret that I'm pretty tired of the political infighting around Bitcoin. The environment got so toxic that I stopped most of my Bitcoin-centric development to focus on other projects. I'm pretty sure there are many developers who have felt the same way, and the result has been an explosion in alternative coins and technologies as developer resources have gone elsewhere. So, I started a simple experiment. What if we got rid of developers entirely, and just replicated and adapted the deflationary structure of Bitcoin on Ethereum. We could model the entire process as an…
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Emulating Bitcoin on Ethereum launched in 2017; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Creator of Javascript - Making Bitcoin great
2017 · soundcloud.com · its alternatives →
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World's 1st decentralized, anarchistic all-digital currency!
2015 · its alternatives →
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2015 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Bringing decentralization to identity
2015 · its alternatives →
- 7MF
I know everyone is a bit burned out on blockchain and cryptocurrency related stuff around these parts, but I've been working on as a side project for the last few months and thought you guys might be interested: https://cryptoempire.io/ It's still a bit buggy and incomplete (the mobile ux needs a lot of work, the leaderboard isn't functional yet, etc.), but I've reached a point where I'm not totally ashamed of sharing it :) Any feedback would be most welcome!
2018 · its alternatives →
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Send Ethereum to Anyone, Wallet or no Wallet
2017 · youvegoteth.github.io · its alternatives →
- 9TB
2020 · dapp.test.tbtc.network · its alternatives →
- 10NW
Like in the movies when they show a current newspaper, but easier and safer. I use as seed the last mined ethereum block, and I show it in a fancy way.
2023 · timeevidence.com · its alternatives →
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Educational sandbox for prototyping Web3. Learn Ethereum visually with drag-and-drop programming.
2020 · eth.build · its alternatives →
- 12IA
So I made this: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/185221 Feel free to use/adapt/modify as you please.
2013 · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I'm the creator of epress. After a lot of work, I'm excited (and a bit nervous) to finally share it with you. For years, I've been feeling like a digital tenant on the platforms I use every day. My content, my social graph, my online identity—they were all stored on someone else's servers, subject to their rules, algorithms, and business models. I could be de-platformed, my data could be sold, or an API I relied on could suddenly be put behind a paywall. I looked into existing decentralized alternatives. While many are great projects, I found they often shifted the trust from a big…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Experiments are fun. I recently came across Bitclout, and I love the underlying concept. It’s ballsy, will it work? — time will tell. I think Bitclout as a thesis is moving towards the right direction. Decentralised Social Media networks will be the next thing and allowing users to own their own social equity and monetise that is the future. Last year I started an experimental fund, Khoob (www.khoob.group) The idea was to invest in and build interesting Indian companies (a Betaworks / Expa for India). Thus far we have made 4 investments, and are building 4 companies. At Khoob I’m the…
2021 · its alternatives →
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I built this as a Garage Project over the weekend. https://x402.backpac.xyz/ Still working on refining things, but let me know your thoughts. Cheers.
2025 · its alternatives →
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Finding the balance between humans and machines has been the thread through my career. I always had a thing for AI and couldn't wait for it to actually deliver on what was promised. Now it does, and it's more important than ever that humans and machines keep working well together. AI makes creation trivial. Text, code, design, strategy, in seconds. But one thing AI does not create: independently verifiable proof of when something existed. Reproducing is now cheaper and easier than creating. Chronology becomes contestable at the moment it matters most. The universal problem was known. I…
Mar 2026 · umarise.com · its alternatives →
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Deep dive into formal verification of ethereum contacts
2018 · codepodcast.com · its alternatives →
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I am Isaque Franklin and I build products and solve problems in my free time (between college and work) and also for a living. I am a Bitcoin maximalist and I truly believe that Bitcoin is the sanest money that exists today, and I also belive that hard money is essential for the development of civilization and for the future of mankind. However, one cannot uderstand Bitcoin and all it's applications and benefits without falling down the rabbit hole - an experience every bitcoiner has tasted in the beginning of their journey and constantly tastes when learning new things about bitcoin.…
2024 · directoryofsatoshi.com · its alternatives →
- 21SD
At the weekend I clicked on a post on HN linking to Maciej Ceglowski's twitter that turned-out to be a scathingly brutal criticism of Bitcoin. The HN post was climbing the front-page, and after I'd read the twitter thread I came back to upvote it. Right now I don't remember whether my upvote registered - my HN page was still open, and the post was still visible to me - but when I returned to the first page, it was mysteriously gone. Only a couple minutes had passed, and I couldn't understand how a controversial Pinboard post had gone from climbing fast, to off the first page so quickly. It…
2021 · its alternatives →
- 22BU
I made an art project about stablecoins. Enjoy!
2025 · busd.steviep.xyz · its alternatives →
- 23BA
https://github.com/mathisonian/benjamin
2013 · its alternatives →
- 24EP
Hi guys, I am building Ethercup and I wanted to show you how it works: https://ethercup.github.io/ . On the website is a demo bet live right now on the Kovan test network. This bet opens today and will close in a few days. A How-to is provided on the website, but you can check out the code directly on GitHub: https://github.com/ethercup/ethercup.github.io There's no bug-bounty program, but I'm willing to share profits (if it'll yield any) in case you can break it and point me to it. Looking forward to hearing your feedback :) Also, feel free to ask…
2018 · its alternatives →
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