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). How Long To Mine A Bitcoin Gold BTG here.

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.

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It's been around a long time, but most of the volume was tied up with BTC-e (now Wex.nz). How Many Monero XMR Can I Mine more. 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.