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[virtual_master]

http://www.researchandmarkets.com/resea ... _future_of
'The Future of Virtual Currencies - 2014' - 60p PDF ebook for 1400 $.
From the content:
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A Comparison of Major Alternative Currency Technologies

- Bitcoin
- Litecoin
- Ripple
- Peercoin
- Dogecoin
- Namecoin
- Darkcoin
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I am asking if there is really something that informative or just what you find anyway for free.

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[drllau]

I've seen these reports before ... usually they are targetted at MNCs who lack the time to do in-depth research of a market ... this is distinct from the technology. The goal is to basically reassure the CxO that they are not doing anything silly by jumping into a segment that they are clueless about ... however these types of reports fail when the technology scene is still emerging. There are 3-4 phases of tech deployement
a) the early tentative when a meme tries to infect the noosphere (eg cryptocurrencies as non centralised global ledger)
b) the rapid combinatorial explosion of ideas and attempts to gain a brand (current status)
c) the boring standards/protocols setting process as people try to grapple with the ABIs, APIs and web interfaces (aka bunfight)
d) the billion dollar markets

Don't underestimate the power of standards setting, whether defacto (MS office), de-jure (IEEE) or otherwise. This is often the sudden death stage where a promising VC-backed entity can suddenly be catapulted at the expense of anyone else so it tends to be death by committee. Fortunately the OpenSource movement has a counter-meme of rough consensus and WORKING code.

Lawrence
http://www.linkedin.com/in/drllau