I have been an avid onlooker, heating my hands at the fire of the symposium of hozer, Mav, etblvu1, and zerodrama in IRC. They have the kind of minds that feed on the abstractions of this ecosystem we compete in, and they are all deeply embedded in the problem of solving the last few barriers for coins - the ones that prevent widespread adoption of cryptocurrencies outside the confines of a few smoky channels online. Their passion is to improve upon the original, to address the weaknesses inherent to Bitcoin and its grandchildren. We have all seen the ravages of exploitative strip mining. We have seen cherished currencies, with branding Too Epic To Fail, raped and left by the side of the road by faceless coin-hopping multipools. And most of us have done it too, at one time or another - it is insane to imagine resisting profit, here in this world we are all glued to. In order for currencies to go mainstream, they will have to have resistance to these rapacious predators built into their very DNA. That is sorry news for the bottom line of quite a lot of people, but we all knew the party had to end one day. The glut of altcoins has gotten quite out of hand. We need techniques for thwarting the hedonistic riot that sweeps over so many scrypt-based altcoins as they are released to wider and wider audiences, and we need them to be intrinsic to the currencies themselves. Many of these ideas are yet a mere glimmer in some code-vulcans eye. Many of them are known to a few small pocket communities, where currency generation algorithms are still under heavy scrutiny, the changes not yet proven or ready to be shared. In the Catcoin development channel, I have watched, from up close, the meeting of questing, courageous minds, striving to iterate Catcoin out of its nosedive. I have seen brilliant ideas colliding, and philosophical disagreements that would tear lesser men apart, that could easily have sunk the development effort faster than Yoko Ono. But rationality is the most powerful force in the channel, and it is all pointed at rescuing Catcoin and maybe bringing the rest of Altcoindom along for the ride. Away from the vampires bite, away from the hopping godzilla leeches, towards a mathematical helix that is strong enough and resilient enough to make decentralized currencies viable. I can see them getting distracted by all the shouting here, and its why I came to post. We need them to stay oriented. The work they do is valuable. It is compelling and cutting-edge. Stop shouting at them, and start volunteering time or coins.