Well, after lurking on these forums for several months, I finally signed up today and was going to post a "Where to next, after the ASICs monopolise Litecoin?" query as my traditionally dumb first post.

After reading through this thread, I'm glad I didn't bother. The words "vested" and "interests" spring to mind almost as athletically as the words "unbiased" and "opinion" leap off in the opposite direction.

FWIW, I'm not a stakeholder in any of the new altcoins yet. Just waiting for Mr. Postie to finish bringing me the bits to build my first test mining rig, before I start my collection. So, as yet, I have no dog in this fight. However, from devouring vast swathes of discussion on this forum over the past few months, the coins that pique my interest and which I'll probably start with [difficulty levels permitting] are:

• Myriad
• Namecoin
• Peercoin
• Unobtanium

...until that is, I foist my own copy-pasted effort onto an uncaring world, at which point coin will suddenly become the 'innovative', 'revolutionary' coin to watch and unnamed persons [ie. me] will confidently 'expect' it to reach £25 within the next 6 months.

PS: Hi all!