There have been so many scams lately.
I am one of those who believed in a coin then just got burned.
I have decided to make a coin. A long term coin.
I think you're missing a step in the logic chain:
then just got burned ... and as I wasn't able to acquire cheaply a satisfying amount of coins ... I have decided to make a coinOr am I doing you a disservice?
You don't need to go to all the effort of creating a new coin, launching it and providing long-term support for it, just to be able make long term investments with some degree of confidence.
There's a
huge range of existing altcoins (nearly 1400 launched so far, see them all on one page:
http://minkiz.co/coin/).
Those that have survived for longer than a quarter-year are most unlikely to be scams and they've got a much more extensive track record on which you can base your risk assessment.
Cheers
Graham
(Minki's coin metadata is publicly available, published as RDF: https://github.com/DOACC - update due this w/e.)