Since my name has been mentioned above I will mention why I am backing FTC.
As also mentioned above FTC has been around for some time.
I don't really care about the origins of how it was originally created.
I like the fact it has always had a strong community.
I remember reading with interest back in March about the creation of Hullcoin which the FTC team helped set up.
A noble cause I thought for the FTC team to help a local government come up and implement a radical new idea to help combat poverty.
Will it work?
No idea, but I applaud Hull city council and the FTC coin team for trying.
What ultimately will make any altcoin succeed?
I don't claim to truly know the answer to that question, but a good starting point is strong community support, to help develop and expand its use, and to that end I'm currently doing my part to develop an Arcade machine payment device based on a Raspberry Pi, which once complete will be released on Github for anyone to freely use.
Smoothie I have no problem with you taking it and using it for Litecoin, as I'm assuming they have a similar API to Feathercoin, and I have no issues with you considering FTC irrelevant, as I do for many other altcoins.
But can I ask you to stop and just contemplate that just because you consider FTC is irrelevant doesn't mean you are correct.
Rather than spending your energy being negative, why don't you spend it doing something positive?
I look forward to you bringing something positive to the debate, be it about Feathercoin, Litecoin, or some other Alt.
Yes it is my opinion, not necessarily "right" or "wrong". But more often than not I have been right in my calls. Please look at my track record before discrediting anything I have to say. Thanks.
Good luck to those who "believe" in FTC.
Sometimes being "negative" isn't about being negative at all. It is about calling things as I see it.
Just because people don't want to hear what I have to say doesn't mean what I have to say is negative.
In your perception what I have to say is negative. But it could be a positive should someone who reads what I write ends up not using FTC and thus not losing money in the future should the market go in the direction they would not have wanted it to.
It depends on how you view it. I believe I am doing a community service by speaking my mind on what I honestly think are good developments, coins, and businesses and outing scams and calling out trolls who have propaganda (not that the last two are in this thread).