Examples of “altcoin” in a Sentence

noun Any cryptocurrency other than Bitcoin.

• The fund holds mostly Bitcoin and a handful of altcoins.
• Altcoins tend to move sharply when the wider market turns.
• Indeed, after a week of existence, Dogecoin is already the 24th most valuable altcoin, with a total market value of $1,621,559 based on the exchange CoinedUp, though it might be worth even more elsewhere. — John Stevenson, Dogecoin - Bitcoin's poor cousin? (2013)
• Most altcoins follow the bitcoin model of having a finite ultimate supply of coins. — Black Market Cryptocurrencies (2014)
• Sure, like all the other altcoins, Dogecoin offers some variability, like a theoretical max of 100 billion versus 21 million, and a different proof-of-work algorithm, but we’re reaching Furby levels of ridiculousness here. — sdjf, Dogecoin ~ internet meme dog coin (2013)