Another event that would expand the state of cryptocurrencies in 2011 was the creation of Devcoin (DVC). Based on Bitcoin code, DVC was created to fund open-source development projects. It had the unique quality of merge mining, meaning it could be mined with bitcoin. Ninety percent of mined coins went toward funding development projects.
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