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This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/how-the-first-altcoins-tried-to-improve-bitcoin-and-what-happened-next.
From early forks to privacy experiments and DAGs, this story follows how altcoins tested Bitcoin’s limits and quietly shaped today’s crypto world.
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“Alt” is short for “alternative,” and that’s what these altcoins came to be, alternatives for Bitcoin. Namecoin, Litecoin and Mastercoin are some of the first altcoins.