How flexible is the Counterparty Protocol in terms of it being run atop other alt-coins instead of just Bitcoin?
Has anyone got any opinions about which alt-coin might be the optimal base for Counterparty?
Most alt-coins are nearly identical to Bitcoin, and Counterparty will run fine on any one that is. It would need a little tweaking for something like Namecoin or Peercoin, but not much, I think.
This is the reason I support Counterparty and will continue to do so.
What the team is doing is a great service to Bitcoin and the crypto currency community. The way they operate in my opinion is akin to the spirit in which Bitcoin is built.
Instead of acting like a commercial enterprise trying to hide away their secret code or release the code late (with bugs no less), the Counterparty team released working source code on launch. It was made available to everyone.