It has been mentioned before that the success of an alternate cryptocurrency depends on 5 primary things:

But it was quite unexpected that the name of the coin does play the most important role over the long term, since its the only one thing from the five features, mentioned above, that cannot be changed, or significantly improved.

A Bitcointalk.org member using the moniker alt19 explained:

You can add an infrastructure, you can add innovative features to any coin, theoretically, but you cannot change the past, you cannot change the history that is in price logs and in a peoples memory.

So lets try to build a rating of the cryptocurrency names of real coins, based on various criteria:

This story is based on the ideas of Bitcointalk community members. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you will find the thread here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=655461.0

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