Your not the only one who thinks it's ridiculous. Especially all the coins that are Bitcoin clones with bad names. Only the parameters are tweaked a little sometimes, but that's it. But don't let that put you off. There are some alt coins that are really different under the hood. Those are really exciting and maybe better than Bitcoin. Those should be compared with Bitcoin's performance and let the market decide which one is the best.
The rest of the alt coins is just a way for the first adopters to make money from the people that buy in later.
Interesting point. How do you define an innovative/creative coin? For me a coin is a coin, only the name changes. Whatever its name is Baconbits, Megacoin, Haircoin (the coin that will help those suffering of baldness lol ) or whatever.
But I am a newbie and willing to learn
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Thanks for your input!