You should read Nathaniel Popper's book "Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money"

http://www.amazon.com/Digital-Gold-Bitcoin-Millionaires-Reinvent/dp/0062362496

It's a great account of how the early bitcoin adopters nursed bitcoin to where it is today. I knew the basic outline of the history, but Popper's account made me realise what all these early adopters had in common - their excitement for bitcoin had nothing to do with the world as it was, but with the world they could imagine, and the price of bitcoin and the number of users didn't deter them.

Can you imagine a world with hundreds of viable digital currencies? I can, and that's what I expect will happen in 3-5 years time, and some of those currencies exist today, and they're basically worth peanuts today, just like bitcoin was in 2010/11.

My big fear is banks and corporations will launch their own coins, so by the time the general public learn what a blockchain is they'll be using 100's of corporate coins that have nothing to do with the original vision for decentralized finance. That's why I think the SuperNET is so cool, as it's basic premise seems to be all alt coins should compete for end users, but they should do it in a co-operative way, like shops in a mall.

Shoppers like going to the mall because everything is there in the one place so its convenient (like the SuperNET client will be), but individual shops are competing none the less. Individual alt coins have no chance against citibank coin, but SuperNET definitely will!!