Quote from: devphp on July 15, 2014, 06:33:32 AM

Quote from: smooth on July 15, 2014, 06:18:34 AM

6. PoS
7. IPO

Haha, that leaves nothing to discuss then.
You should only invest in Bitcoin and XMR, thread can be closed

Actually this is most likely the case, you say this in jest but it's very close to the truth. You might be confused why many people in this thread are not willing to entertain second movers (BBR and LTC) and IPO's and POS. It's because many people in this thread come from Risto's school of thought and under normal circumstances would never invest into alternative coins in the first place. Almost every alternative coin, second mover clone coin with heavy reliance on silly changes to set themselves apart, and the scam IPO and POS rich get richer models are real turn offs, they are not being built with the next 50 years in mind.

However, many of these forward thinking and smart people have now seen a coin that could actually exist alongside Bitcoin and has real reason for its existence, Monero.

Like I have said many times, BBR is pointless, if BBR overtakes Monero I am back to Bitcoin for good as it sets an easy precedent for the next clone coin with small change to overtake BBR, and thus investing in any CryptoNote coin becomes impossible.

It's the same with Litecoin, if Litecoin overtakes Bitcoin in its current state then it's over, most of the money will leave CryptoCoins for good because the precedent is that a real investment can be destroyed by any clone that can market its small irrelevant changes well enough.

Monero is a first mover because the true first mover (Bytecoin) is a scam coin due to the 80% premine.

Ethereum, Monero, Bitcoin, are all first movers. This is why the Ethereum team are spending a long time getting their IPO right. They have made it so that most of the coins in the first 5 years will be mined coins, not IPO coins. Notice that they are not considering IPO and then POS, if they did a clone of Ethereum would then become the true first mover as Ethereum original would be tagged as a scam coin. The Ethereum team are being very careful not to mess the release up, if the market thinks the release is unfair, a clone will take over as primary candidate, like what happened with Bytecoin.

The coin release is as important as the technicals.

Bitcoin had the technicals and fair release.

Monero had the technicals and fair release.

Ethereum has the technicals and looking for the fairest release, if they screw up then they loss.

Also don't even mention Darkcoin, that is a scam through and through.