Are Altcoins Bitcoin’s Friends or Enemies?

[bitcoin730]

Are Altcoins Bitcoin’s Friends or Enemies?

Altcoins have a long tradition in the Bitcoin community, but they tend to cause a contentious divide among those who think they’re useful and those who think they’re all scams. One side of the argument, articulated by the Satoshi Nakamoto Institute’s Daniel Krawisz, is that altcoins have no chance of success and distract possible users from Bitcoin, while the other side, articulated by many Ethereum supporters, believe platforms such as Bitcoin and Ethereum can work together.

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/are-altcoins-bitcoin-s-friends-or-enemies-1463761410

[benthach]

useless and gambling platform vaporware like etherieum which always want to destroy bitcoin and it invention is not friend
there is no point of even using this kind of crap beside gambling. when we thing about it, crowdfunding for what? crowdfunding for coding scam?
when we think deep for all of these, it's just a pyramid scam.

[freshman777]

Altcoins are competition, you know like athletes compete with the forces of nature each year to be a little faster, stronger. Are athletes enemies to each other? Spiritually healthy athletes are not. Their devotees can get really hostile to each other. In cryptocoins even more so.