// Hacker Noon · 10 March 2026

How the First Altcoins Tried to Improve Bitcoin —And What Happened Next

“Alt” is short for “alternative,” and that’s what these altcoins came to be, alternatives for Bitcoin. Namecoin, Litecoin and Mastercoin are some of the first altcoins.

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