Quote from: JimboToronto on Today at 01:16:10 AM

Quote from: cAPSLOCK on December 23, 2020, 11:28:15 PM

It took us just a few posts to end up @ "But muh <fav-alt>".

Disclaimer. I too have a fav-alt, lol.

Not all altcoins are total corporate crap.

How about the original altcoin, Litecoin?

Decentralization, limited supply, peer-to-peer networking, proof of work, and total lack of any company or other organization, no pre-mining?

Yep. No problem. It's still not Bitcoin though.

Ethereum? Halfway there. It may not be totally corporate, but it is premined and unlimited and when it goes from POW to POS it becomes a complete POS.

Yup I hold trivial (as a percentage of my hoard) Litecoin. But it is in a distant spot 3 behind Monero the only coin I hold a significant amount of aside from BTC.

We all have our pets. But Ripple was and is a terrible stain on the entire sector. It is an abomination. And even the Libertarian in me kind of hopes that the scammers behind it go to jail. Hmm... I suppose that is the statist in me rather than the libertarian. Although I think it is possible to make a fairly good argument that what the Ripple people did was a criminal attack on unsavvy people even without getting into whether or not individuals should be able to print money.

People have been prosecuted for much much less than what Garlighouse and McCaleb and the rest of these scammers have done. I hope they get strung up by their toenails. Seriously I would be pleased to see jail time. Billions of it.