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Re: Why is there so many coins?
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btguydude
on 17/12/2015, 03:37:41 UTC
Are there too many hot chicks on the Asian thread?  I think not, my friend.  Of good things, there are never enough

Good things also have a tendency of being useful.

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Thank you, an excellent post.

There are many reasons. Including:
  • people want to experiment with blockchains 
  • people want to launch pump and dump coin to make money.
  • people create fake wallet with trojan to steal your coins
  • people want a coin for their community
  • some started as joke (dogecoin)

Ironically Dogecoin is on the list of the 'better' coins I've made back when I thinking which coin to choose for my site.

All coins lead to BTC. Namecoin and Ethereum is different as they actually serve a purpose; namecoin being domain registry and ethereum for creating contracts/applications.

Are there other cryptocoins that serve their own purpose other than a currency? Maybe buttcoin.

Well, I would say coins that focus on privacy and anonymity serve a purpose too, but they are useless as you can't use them anywhere.