Bolded is where you lost all credibility. 

Bitcoin is the only genuinely usable coin at this moment.  Multiple exchanges with million dollar worth, broad worldwide distribution, tens of thousands of merchants and the worlds largest computational network are all things that make it stand out, besides being the original.

Litecoin is the only other serious coin right now.  With a 57 million dollar market cap and real differences vs bitcoin it is filling a (small) void.  Litecoin was the first popular scrypt coin and adds a faster but balanced confirmation time.  There will be pump and dump copies but they will all generally fail within six months. 

Namecoin started with a great idea, but lost most of its base when it went merged mining as a response to attacks.  Namecoin could come back if a browser plugin was created for firefox and others that allowed .bit domain names to be read directly by end users with little setup.  Namecoin could benefit from scrypt as well, but I am not sure how that transition could be safely done.  Someone could create a clone with the needed features to make it work or invest in namecoin first and pay devs to implement the browser plugin and possibly profit. 

The rest?  Nothing much to speak of.  Lots of obvious pump and dump scams, pre-mines, and now with bitbar, INSTAMINES. 

Bad ESN on a 4S means that it cannot be connected to the Sprint or Verizon network in the USA.  It can still be used with wifi (not as a cellular phone) and may be connectable to networks outside of the USA.  Since it is NOT a GSM phone it can not be connected to AT&T/Tmobile. 

Bad ESN is usually for an unpaid bill though it can also be lost/stolen. 

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Now almost to 10 days for the re-target.  Price down even further. 

And it works. 

I don't think so.  Price has to go up first.  If price does not go up first, after the re-target there will be more coins being generated (the normal amount).  The price could drop even faster then. 

Feathercoin (while I do not consider it a joke coin) does not bring much to the table that Litecoin has not already brought.  In the alt-coin space most flop.  People still buy them 'on the way down' but in the end they usually get forgotten.  Feathercoin does not have a good re-target system and it is showing.  It is slower then bitcoin right now even though it is supposed to be faster, and will not re-target for at least eight days.

Exactly.  This new master block would not have the appropriate difficulty greater then the real chain anyhow. 

Just because you don't like it, and I don't like it, does not make it socialist.  If anything this video is statist and FUD.  The only point that they say is true is that you can't pay taxes with it. 

That statement is just as wrong as calling bitcoin a Ponzi scheme.  SS could fail tomorrow and that would still not make it a Ponzi, it is a TAX.   We had a true Ponzi demonstrated in our community, Pirateat40. 

I would not call this an exchange either.  This is a spreadsheet.  It is not automated.

He never said that.  On a PPS pool they can do that and still collect the PPS.  On a non PPS pool they also can do it, but they do not collect.  It still is an attack, it is just costly. 

Name one other then gambling?  I am not really for this change, but I don't think this is going to shut anyone down.  Someone may need to change though.

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I don't see it at bter.com:

"Bter.com - Bitcoin Exchange Platform, supporting BTC, LTC, PPC, TRC, FRC, FTC "   

Virexa.com is a test exchange only. 

"THIS IS A TEST SYSTEM
This is a test system, all values here are ficticious, you are not able to deposit or withdraw any amounts. The purpose is solely for testing. We reset the database on a daily basis, i.e. your users will be deleted. "

Not really.  Litecoin is FASTER. Litecoin handles micro transactions quite poorly though because the fee is actually higher on a dollar basis than bitcoin.  Until litecoin is patched it costs .1 LTC or about 40 cents for a transaction.  If I were to take litecoin for my $2 orders might actually cost the customer more then Paypal would charge me (in microtrans mode)! 

Bitcoin IS suitable for microtransactions.  I do transcations shipping items that have actually been smaller then 20 mBTC.  The issue here is that microtransactions are not what is being blocked, what is being blocked is what bitcoiners call dust.  What is being blocked could be called  pico-transactions, and bitcoin is the only system that could potentially handle these but it is problematic.   

So where are BBQ coins traded? 

Actually I really didn't really make an 'argument'.  And the joke is on you if you think that BBQ is a real coin.  I am more wondering WHY people want them.  If it is for fun, great!

Justabitoftime helped actually answer my question with his comments. 

I have lost track there are now so many alt-coins.  Now there is a new catagory, joke coins.  We have BBQ, Junk and YAC at least.  Not to say that many of the others are not jokes either as some are clearly just get rich scams for the creator.   If you have been around here for a while you will notice that ALMOST all alt-coins go to a minimal market cap after three months.  The only exceptions are litecoin and Namecoin (just barely). 

 So why is there all of this interest?  Who is buying them?  Do people start buying them to set a price, then attempt to get out?  I was able to mine a bunch of feathercoins and sell them for more BTC then I would have had if I just mined BTC otherwise.  Someone is taking a loss.  At the end of six months (or less now that there are so many) most of these will be worthless.