Well i hope youre not insinuating that i said BC came up with POS because I said nothing of the sort. I said it sparked the POS flood gates.

Blackhalo ripped off NXT features, so what, they have a unique implementation(it's innovation and can be continually improved upon possibly surpassing the NXT inspiration it was derived from). The best often steal/borrow/copy from the best.

I don't follow BC so its interesting to hear about the BC community affairs allbeit second source. I like the platform from the outside looking in. I just dont have the confidence to lay down cold hard cash yet, and thats my fundamental problem with BC.

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(is blackhalo even opensource?)(im starting to talk myself out of liking BC) - I really dont know enough about them.
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no idea if it's open source or not. and i agree they were the first to get it into regular C as opposed to NXT (using java).  I prefer NXT because it actually has functionality that BTC and altcoins don't have (and a whole lot more of that functionality under development and planned) - most of these BTC clone altcoins could just vanish and nobody would even miss them. None of them have any kind of features or anything that would be mised or could be conisdered to be unique or important to anyone. imo, having a shorter block time than BTC hardly means a coin should exist (especially when a coin has a hefty pre/flash/insta-mine).  maybe in a few more years of BTC adoption, until then people should be spending their efforts on either encouraging BTC adoption or working on coins that actually are moving crypto technology forward (such as cryptonote coins, or NXT / blockchain 2.0 coins)