
Wouter Vernaillen 𐤊
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Wouter Vernaillen 𐤊
@vernaillen
Freelance Full Stack Developer, Nuxt, Java and 𐤊 #kaspa https://t.co/2y1PJPwAsQ Ecstatic Dance dj Trance Dance facilitator


A woman experienced being captured when she went to photograph a school of sardines.







I asked Claude a simple question about $kas (Kaspa): Has there been anything as good as Kaspa to compete with Bitcoin on the same ethos? Response: "Honestly, no. If you’re filtering for coins that share Bitcoin’s core ethos — proof of work, fair launch, no premine, no VC backing, no founder allocation, community-driven — the list is very short and Kaspa stands alone as a serious modern contender. Here’s the honest scorecard of everything that’s tried: Litecoin (2011) — Fair launch, PoW, no premine. But it’s basically Bitcoin with faster blocks and a different hash. It never offered a fundamentally new technical thesis. It’s the “silver to Bitcoin’s gold” narrative, which has slowly faded into irrelevance. Monero (2014) — Fair launch, PoW, no premine, genuinely innovative with ring signatures and default privacy. Arguably the strongest Bitcoin-ethos competitor before Kaspa. But privacy focus has made it a regulatory target — delisted from major exchanges, which limits its growth ceiling significantly. Grin (2019) — MimbleWimble protocol, fair launch, no premine, no founder reward. Technically interesting but the linear emission schedule (no supply cap) killed the investment thesis, and the project has struggled with funding and developer retention. Dogecoin (2013) — Fair launch technically, but created as a joke with infinite supply. Not a serious competitor on ethos despite the market cap. Kaspa (2021) — This is where it gets interesting. Fair launch, no premine, PoW, but with a genuinely novel consensus mechanism (GHOSTDAG/blockDAG) backed by peer-reviewed academic research from Sompolinsky. It’s the first project that credibly argues “we can do what Bitcoin does, but faster, without sacrificing the things that matter” — decentralization, PoW security, fair distribution. The key differentiator is that Kaspa isn’t just another Bitcoin fork or minor tweak. It’s built on a fundamentally different data structure with real academic pedigree. That’s rare. Most “Bitcoin competitors” either compromise on the ethos (premine, VC) or don’t bring enough technical novelty to justify existing. That said, “as good” depends on your criteria. Nothing matches Bitcoin’s Lindy effect, network hashrate, or regulatory clarity. Kaspa has the best combination of ethos + innovation of anything that’s come along, but it’s still very early and unproven at scale."






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If you want to surge Kaspa TPS to around 3000 TPS. Send a couple KAS to this address. kaspa:qzg49fejq8jlc29jd86746zye3ta2fgvd36hkv8k4k8r3ur6gks5y0fa938dt Then go view an explorer and watch TPS fly because of your 10 cent contribution. I don’t know who is behind kaspadrome.xyz … It definitely uses a modified version of the bot used for the world record. Amazing work. #Kaspa







