What is happening to cryptocurrency as a whole is similar to the beginning of the internet.  All the altcoins are like the dot com companies you can invest in.  I figure 2017 for cryptos is where we were in 1997 for the internet.  There will be market corrections but the overall cryptocurrency hype is just getting started.

If infinitecoin is going to move forward, it will need someone to copy over the litecoin upgrades which is basically what the developers where doing.  Infinitecoin could then potentially get the planned lightning transactions and atomic swaps feature.  With atomic swaps we could swap infinitecoin to and from bitcoin/litecoin without having to rely on an exchange.  Merge mining with litecoin and maybe having masternodes could help also.