No It actually makes sense.Things that are too risky with the high value market of bitcoin could be implemented in tesnet first If It doesnt work out bitcoin is not affected. If it does testnet could become it's own alt or the features couls simply be added to the bitcoin protocol. There are a few members supporting it. Including Crazy_Rabbit who spoke at the bitcoin conference. Along side the devs from Freicoin, Litcoin and Opencoin's CEO He was there representing Terracoin of couse
He never mentioned testnet. All I am saying with this is it really does make sense. It's not a bunch of newbies racking in testnet coins. It's established members of the community that know some things are just too risky but could benefit bitcoin tremendously. Do you need a new alt for this no Go with the established security of the bitcoin code
Each developer can create his own testnet nowadays. If the Bitcoin developers release a new testnet we could stay on tesnet. 4 is it now? and update it based on the new code to do further experimentation.
I havent mined it but heard a few recpectable pepole buzzing about it. Hence the biggest risk of roi