But the bigger take away from this conversation, in my opinion, is the fact that bitcoin maximalism is a thing. In fact it just about proves it. There's few who really care what all the little alt experiment chains are doing in the end. Bitcoin is going to devour everything but maybe a few others. I happen to think monero may be one of those, but who knows? Maybe not even Monero...
Thoughts?
I agree bitcoin maximalism is a powerful force, and probably only a few crypto will survive, but LTC probably wont be one of them imo, and while Charlie Lee was one of the early birds who 'got the worm' in crypto, he's not one of the top thinkers in 2018. I did respect him before, but lately he looks dodgy, and his refusal to engage with BarterDEX devs who approached him in good faith shows his true colors. He has a profile, and uses it to pump and dump his LTC bags. He's not interested in advancing tech.
The thing about jl777 is he doesn't care which crypto succeeds long-term, he's going to make BarterDEX compatible with every tech, even cryptonote like XMR. He doesn't care which ones get popular - he's the guy selling shovels and levi jeans to the miners. afaik adding XMR swap capabilities is on the agenda too.
Centralised exchanges are dangerous, decentralised exchanges like BarterDEX are 100% safe, so even if there's only 3 coins in 5 years (BTC, ETH, XMR), BarterDEX will have users.