I feel that the fickle consumer will ultimately determine which altcoins succeed.
Based on Litecoin's recent abandonment of development and its goofy name, I think it will eventually go the way of the web crawler.
Litecoin has not abandoned development, stop spreading FUD microguy and get back to your own centralised vapourware goldcoin.
I was thinking Charlie Lee had said on Twitter that Litecoin development had stopped.
https://twitter.com/litecamel/status/544807537116479488LTC does not need development right now. Adding gimmicks does not help a currency succeed. Liquidity, merchants, and user does.
In regards to Goldcoin, we're in the final stages before releasing the long-awaited client. How is GLD centralized?