Gullible people unfortunately are finite in numbers and the pump and dump scheme related to each new alt coin is generating less and less money to their creators. Probably so far the most successful story has been the feathercoin, which might have brought to the bunch of guys that came up with it something like 50k$ each minimum in one week (my personal estimate, but I'd like to hear yours). Another really profitable was MNC, mined in one million pieces within a couple of hours, which at a selling price of 0.001 minimum gave a total of 1000 btc or over 100k dollars to the 4-5 guys that made it up... truly fantastic!). honestly since MNC I stopped following these stupid new coins, so I am not in a position to say whether someone was capable to do even better, but I opened this thread so you can throw your estimates. Right now in my opinion each new coin doesn't even bring into the authors' pockets more than 5k each, but it's always good money for a one off fantasy fork of a previous coin (LOL I wish I had the skills to do one by myself). Hopefully as the marginal utility to produce new coins fall to zero we will see the end of this necessary experiment of the free market, which I truly find entertaining, interesting, and educational.
Do you provide oxygen tanks for people to use after reading this?
that's funny. 
Seriously 
