Altcoins are basically useless except for demonstrating/testing out new ideas or perhaps as a fork if Bitcoin got too corrupted.
at this moment, the only use any altcoin out there has is just to put money in a few people's pockets. if you see the price change of any altcoin, you can see lots and lots of pumps and dumps which a few people are getting rich by.
Most the use of most altcoins is indeed to make money to a small number of people.
If an altcoin truly had an innovative feature, I am sure it will get adopted in Bitcoin as well.
You would never hear of it anyway, the mods ensure anything that isn't bitcoin (even good stuff like distributed computing) is swept under the rug and the forums sanitized. Add the mood music of "all altcoins are scams" and subliminal ignorance is the order of the day.
Wouldn't go that far, at least we've got an altcoin section here. There were discussions of getting rid of it completely so I think would should at least be grateful for that.
I'm still looking for a decent altcoin forum...
If Bitcoin is developing it, you're allowed to talk about it. If Bitcoin isn't developing it, but might one day, but an altcoin is
Thread will last 2min, even if no altcoin is mentioned.
I posted a thread about ternary logic in distributed computing and it got moved to "Off topic" !!
Not even Technical discussion (I'm sure some would be interested in how Bitcoin could be adapted?) Protocol discussions are moved to altcoin, as though there is nothing that can be learned from other devs.
Innovation isn't considered a useful discussion, but you can have as many about how some guy no one outside this forum has heard of said a nice thing about Bitcoin
A Crypto subforum, where bitcoin and altcoin discussions could intermingle would be a huge benefit to this forum. As long as "all alts are scams", few bitcoiners will go to the altcoin section. And any thread naming an alt is relegated to altcoin so as not offend the eyes of bitcoiners. So there will always be ignorance.
