I see a much better way for you ALL to ensure that bitcoin isnt marginalised......

Instead of pumping the coin round and round start getting your local merchants to accept it! Start creating the economy. You cant eat an asic, a gpu or a fpga. You can convince the local pizza /coffee / late night store to accept payments. Acceptance always begins at ground level when all the little stores start accepting it, only once the bigger stores have seen a working model will they get involved. In this way demand for BTC will outstrip demand for the alts.

Watching all the debates in this and other forums reminds me sadly of the gold currencies of the last decade, a very good idea destroyed by infighting and profiteering. Crypto currency is in its infancy and each currency created will rise or fail depending on popularity. This thread seeks to destroy all other by waving the biggest stick in the playground..... Isn't this what we need to get past? Isn't it the same philosophy that has led to the creation of trillions of fictional bank notes which become more worthless by the day? At the moment i see a lot of argument about how to make the most "x" coin so that we can sell it for "y" coin and then dump it to a bank account in dollars yen shekels whatever. Isn't that ultimately the biggest threat to crypto currency?

How much is 12 dollars worth today in terms of its worth in 2009? Look at your shopping basket and work it out. Stop wasting time trying to protect our favourite currencies and start spending that time trying to make them into a currency. If mastercard and visa can do it (not officially a currency I know but the same idea) surely the creative people in this realm can do much better