I called this and I knew it would happen people making tons and tons of altcoins so stupid exchanges can't keep up miners cant keep up to many alt coins makes not enough miners to mine = difficulty never going up = anyone can mine and get a lot = worthless I look to Betacoin why? because developers are working behind scenes to create new services I don't think alt coin is dead but I do think it is in a dead zone its still hanging in there what things make bitcoin worth so much? Stores accepting them, Atms, people paying big amounts for them news reporting it you take all those things and apply it to any other altcoin and that altcoin worth money as well.