There are probably about 7 running and 2 probably have dropped out this year (geistgeld and liquidcoin?).  Due to the numbers none have them gained any traction, the numbers weaken them.  If there were only 1 or 2 like namecoin and microcash, they would be a lot more powerful.  The secret is out cryptocurrencies work.  People are going to try to get in on the ground floor and start new coins.  It seems you are offering request for help in the main coin, bitcoin.  Maybe you can ask them directly for help.

Papa John's just called me to confirm the order. You are still on track to delicious meat and cheese.

This has a pretty good idea for a bitcoin business. You register an address, say
3325325345234536t3tr3t34t3ter353 and you have it linked to your mailing address.
Then you send like 10 BTC to the BTC address, they send you back the change.  But the thing is you never go to the papa john site.  the vendor does all the work and knows the pizza you like.  Maybe there are like 20 items so you send
10.23  with the .23 being code for a case of energy drinks, then in a 2 days you get a case of energy drinks.
No shopping just staples.

3500 LTC incoming, 9pm is your time. I also tipped the driver $3 on the site so feel free to stiff him  or maybe tip him some LTC.

When you get it my litecoin is LQ3Ee66gmiXbW62ehE84tv8wF9qVpd9tbu

Pm'd

Nice!
Funny how just a few days ago I thought that we needed a similar pizza story for Litecoin and today I saw this thread advertised at weusecoins.com in the news section on the right!
Way to go for Litecoin!

Rereading my original post, I should make clear: the people I really have issues with are the people who think it is more fun to try to destroy something than to help build it.  My comment about "I wish people would find more constructive things to do with their time" was not meant to be aimed not at AlternaCoin creators.

I agree that there are some benefits to the alternate chains existing; I just wonder if the costs of all the duplicate infrastructure (exchanges and pools and faucets and...) is worth the benefits.

RE: privately disclosing exploits to AlternaCoin developers: well, to be frank, I have no idea if most AlternaCoin developers can be trusted with sensitive exploit information or even who is currently supporting which chain. The danger would be somebody emailing me claiming to be the lead developer for FooCoin, I tell them about the vulnerability, and then they turn out to NOT be the lead FooCoin developer but an attacker.  Or I tell FooCoin about the vulnerability and they decide to use it to launch an attack on their arch-enemy, BarCoin.

It is all drama and heartburn that I'd really rather not have (again, costs and benefits....)

When I tell people I work on Bitcoin full-time, a somewhat common reaction is "Really?  I thought Bitcoin was finished, what do you work on?"

I spend half my development time working on new stuff (or testing new stuff that other people have submitted), but the other half I spend trying to anticipate problems or reacting to problems that are reported. That work tends to be unseen, partly because we want to keep problems quiet while we fix them and partly because quietly anticipating/fixing problems minimizes the 'lulz' that attackers might enjoy if every single-node-DoS attack caused us to run around like chickens with our heads cut off.

Anyway, good developers are hard to find, and one of the reasons I'm not thrilled by all of the AlternaCoins is because I'd rather a good developer help make Bitcoin better rather than spend their time with the busy-work of cross-porting the latest Bitcoin fixes to some other codebase. I would guess that some of the developers of the alternative chains underestimated the amount of work it takes to nurture them and keep them healthy. Maybe that will change when Bitcoin is truly mature and has dealt with another year or two or six of attacks and scaling issues...

I truly don't mean this to sound like a threat, but I think some of the blockchains that have been chugging along running on an ancient forked version of the Bitcoin codebase will be attacked; pretty soon we'll be fully disclosing the denial-of-service bugs that prompted the 0.6.2/0.6.3 releases, and it is highly likely somebody will decide to play with exploit code on a vulnerable chain.

I wish people would find more constructive things to do with their time, but I wish I could fly and never get old like Peter Pan, too.

this may be a really stupid question, but what is ASIC mining and why is it important?

How's the fix for the 'time travel exploit' in bitcoin going? That was found and fixed in alt chains a while back. I know you don't like alt chains but some of the stuff that's resulted from them have improved bitcoin - particularly edge case bugs as a result of attacks on the coins (The time travel exploit, the database log file growth bug a while back, etc).

Reality is people are probably mining with FPGA on LTC already but they are not telling the rest of us.

Just like SC crew were GPU mining LTC and not telling. Of course, the first LTC GPU miner was ArtForz loser just like with BTC he reaped all the profits and raped the rest of us stupidotos.

People really are desperate enough for just 1LTC... So far we've added blacklisting (efnet rbl, spamhaus, a few others), with a personal blacklist as-well, a sliding adscaptcha, and since it uses a round system, they also need at least 20 addresses and different IP's in the round before they can even get a pay out.
Oh, and recently the actual wallet system got nuked with over 2000 new wallets, partly due to googlebot, but also some other asshole spamming it to hell, so I've added another captcha there.

SolidCoin 4.0

I like LTC very much but when ASIC comes and all GPU miners go to LTC the depth is simply not there to sustain the price up like with SR and BTC.

So LTC will never be BTC alternative for GPU miners

NMC is quite similar I think ... the money is in BTC right now.

so you gave doublec back some of the coins you double spent causing him losses? how nice of you