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I completely agree that Peercoin had the opportunity to become a much more efficient virtual currency, but it seems that ship has sailed. However, Peercoin as it exists now is not a fully decentralized currency and so is and was vulnerable to government intervention (during the SR era, for example).

Primecoin is not calculating anything particularly useful from a scientific or medical point of view (Cunningham chains).



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