Ah, I guess I was more curious about why do people adopt LTC versus BTC. What prevents a 1000 copies of BTC like coins from existing? Is it just adoption?

Any way to get your original deposit out or one time fee for all future dividends?

Also new... been in the trading game for awhile this seems to be a pretty exciting to day trade... best of luck to all

It seems to me that all of the alt-currencies are volatile and in beta stage. I was extremely late to the game and bought into BTC at $78 a few weeks ago after it crashed down from 260... using some basic market knowledge I have traded around and made 63% off my initial investment. LTC may be the way to go but I think if you are patient and place your buy and sell orders inteligently it is easy to trade the volatile nature of all the currencies. My two cents.

I am willing to read up on the technical aspects or if someone would rather lay it out here but how do people create all of the alt-currencies to BTC? Does someone just wake up and say, oh I like BTC but I would rather have 50million coins instead... then what?

Just curious.