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November 24, 2017, 11:24:20 AM

Sometimes I wonder if altcoin proponents ever have this honest conversation with themselves:

"I bought into this great altcoin called [X]. It has these great, neato features that Bitcoin doesn't have. I've held this altcoin for years and years. Of course, I've never really spent them on anything, and likely won't. So I really can't attest that these great, neato features really have any real value to myself, or anyone else for that matter. And now that I really think about it ...it hasn't really changed my life in any significant way to hold/use this altcoin versus just using Bitcoin. But I'm gonna keep holding it anyway because....umm...because .....neato features! Hypothetical use cases [that never apply to me] matter!!"

Lol  Grin

Every alt coin I bought because I liked what it did. But yes, I never did anything with any of them. I bought NMC because I liked the idea of a decentralized DNS and had planned on doing some development around it considering it allows more bytes per transaction than Bitcoin but never got around to it and now I can't access them on btc-e.

I bought LTC because I think POS has some merit. Bought Maidsafe because I would like to be able to have decentralized Internet storage/bandwidth sharing. I just recently bought ZenCash because I met one of the guys in charge and he's pretty smart and doesn't approach it as trying to take over Bitcoin.

I could have bought into ETH early on but went to a crypto conference hoping to hear the latest and greatest Bitcoin advances only to see a bunch of ETH folks pumping their coin before it was released. They were supposed to utilize the Bitcoin network which got them support then they went off and created their own coin and everyone at the conference was talking about how ETH would take over Bitcoin and how much Bitcoin sucked.

I bought Tezos because I hope they replace ETH. I hope Rootstock replaces ETH.