We first heard of Viacoin via merged mining with LTC. Had a small amount, but never really followed the coin until recently. With the bump in prices for GRS and VTC [another thread]( talked about the how VIA had similar tech so we decided to investigate further. Here's why we decided to purchase a little VIA: Looks like ViaCoin (VIA) is the next coin that could get some attention.

It's merged mined with LTC and a newer coin than the others (announced in March 2017). From a market cap perspective, it's starting from higher base than GRS, but significantly lower than VTC. Most of these coins have the potential to hit $100 million cap in the near future which would be a 4X move higher from here for VIA. The market is hungry for high potential, low market cap coins. Another coin that's similar with the merged mining aspect is NameCoin. It's been around a long time, but most of the volume was tied up with BTC-e (now Wex.nz).

What Are Bytecoin BCN Miners. What Are The Specifics Of ViaCoin? There is no way that the government will be able to get into. Not to forget the safety that is provided for by the mining. Aug 3, 2014 - ViaCoin recently hired Peter Todd, a bitcoin core developer, and creator TreeChains, and Stealth Addresses. Secondly merge-mining suffers from 51% attacks if the chain being merge-mined doesn't have a majority of total hashing power. Which kinda defeats the point if we're worried about miner.

VIA has more potential than NameCoin in the short term since it's traded on a larger exchange (Bittrex). We'd look at entering at prices in the $1 to $1.20 range. Short term exit potential is around $2 to $3 with longer term potential of $5.