It's anyone guess as to which alt-coin (if any) will eventually be successful, coins that stand a good chance will have good lead developer(s), a committed/active community, in-roads into china, accepted by the majority of exchanges and most likely be
somewhat scarce in quantity. (yea, I'm looking at you ADT/GDC
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The fuss made about what a coin brings to the table in terms of new functionality is focused on far too much IMHO (and has led to some pointless technologies being implemented that just don't add value) - that's
certainly not to say that we should not encourage new innovation, far from it, hell the success of crypto in general depends on it, but in terms finding an investable coin for the future I think it should be less of a
must-have and more of a
world-be-nice.
Also coins that have fallen to extremely low difficulty levels should be treated as potential hazards. It's possible that a miner with a pile of hash has effectively insta-mined hundreds of thousands of coins and should the price ever start to increase stands the risks of being epically dumped on.
Those are my thoughts on this subject, I'm no crypto millionaire (yet
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) but the crypto night is young...
FR