I have never seen it written where Satoshi intended for there to be 42m coins.Is there a working link to this "fact" please?

If anything he is pointing out to the ability to move the decimal places a bit to accomodate added or subtracted value and looking at the decimal places shown it would be more like bitcoin having 1000x times units or something effectively making it into 21B instead of 21M units.As far as I know DVC has 21B units or maybe I am mistaken and it has no capped supply so why wouldn't that be the coin to go with to solve this issue.Faketoshi thinks DVC is a scam so it must be doing something wright but I can only ever see any altcoin that is useful complimenting Bitcoin.NOTHING will displace Bitcoin.

Also any proposal to "merge" coins would be a messy affair with people who are waiting for their coins back from cryptopia on the current individual chains or how do you propose this is done so people there don't get their coins back on some forked chain?

BTC is the only coin that is of any signifigance because it dominates market share and all other coins are parasites feeding off of it.Some may become successful parasites and act like cleaner fish or whatever other useful function they provide that adds value to BTC but there is nothing Bitcoin BTC cannot already do apart from throw scraps from the table to all these dogs.There is no other "real" bitcoin floating about out there waiting in the shadows no matter what all these conspiracy theorists state or assume.That is all useless noise and smokescreens.The fact is anyone who bought or speculated in these altcoins have done well by accumulating more Bitcoin or had their Bitcoins taken by others who dumped their shitcoins on them.The sole goal of shitcoins is to accumulate more Bitcoins.

Bitcoin BTC is the reserve currency of shitcoinland.All shitcoins fail if Bitcoin fails because all shitcoins are parasites and dogs with the exception of a very few.