Their goal was to overcome all the technical limitations that bitcoin has. At the beginning of December 2017, there are more than a thousand altcoys in the world.
And now... it's more about just running an ICO to
make scam a shitload of cryptocurrency out of people who are desperate for some of that 1000%+ ROI that some of the early crypto-currency adopters got.
AltCoin recipe:1. Copy code of SomeCoin
2. Rename coin via Find/Replace to NewCoin
3. Run ICO - get sent ETH/BTC from loads of suckers (added bonus if you run scam bounty campaigns)
4. Profit (then run away)
