Cryptonight is an algorithm for privacy coins and most familiar is Monero- XMR. In the past month cryptonight has been one of the top most profitable algorithms listed on https://whattomine.com. What interested me at first was not the security, privacy or anonymity of XMR but the fact that there were many other cryptonight coins considered profitable when mined. For example whattomine has Sumokoin and Karbowanec in the top 10 most profitable to mine the past few weeks.
When I looked up those two coins on bitcointalk I discovered there were several other cryptonight coins being introduced within the past six months. It B2Bcoin, Sikka, Charnacoin, and Masari. It is interesting to see more and more cryptonote coins created to me because I only have CPUs to mine. As the difficulty raises ever so quickly with XMR it leads me to believe that up and coming coins that are forks of XMR could have potential gains in the years ahead. I will do more research on all the coins listed and recommend readers to do the same as the newer the coin the easier it is to mine.
