🧱 Block 17 — “Altcoins: the birth of competition for the crypto throne”
After the rise and fall of Mt. Gox, the crypto ecosystem realized something important: Bitcoin had paved the way, but it was not the only possible revolution.
Thus, altcoins were born — alternative currencies to Bitcoin — that sought to improve its technology or propose new functions.
In 2011, Litecoin appeared, created by Charlie Lee, with faster blocks and a system designed to be the “silver” to the gold that was Bitcoin.
Then came Ripple (XRP), which focused on international payments, and later Dogecoin, which started as a joke… but ended up building an immense community.
Each altcoin represented a different vision of the future:
🔹 some sought speed,
🔹 others, privacy,
🔹 and others, real utility in smart contracts and applications.
The crypto world began to diversify. For the first time, there was talk of an ecosystem and not just Bitcoin.
It was the beginning of a silent but fierce competition: who would take the digital throne?
👉 In the next block, we will explore the emergence of an even greater revolution: Ethereum, the network that forever changed the way we understand blockchain.
