NXT has great attributes but screwed distribution.
LTC has a dwindling use case.
BTC nears 51%....wogatami and friends are funding a solution to this.
NEM's head shot its head off
Emunie is takeing quite some time to dev......those that did not understand self ejected
DRK is perhaps the most dubious being closed source and not really....also useless the use case for a DRK that actually works when BTC becomes 100% anon or the choice is there
Ripple shot itself in the XRP, by the ex CEO or something.
PeerCoin.....actually no drama, but will be better when cold locked minting.
On the plus side, the shear amount of energy in the crypto space, is makeing this all evolve so fast its hard to think of any development in any other field that comes close. At this rate both on the chip manufacturing side and software dev, its hard to see anything stopping the whole concept. In fact mining may be what keeps driving moores law longer than expected as a side effect....
LOL. I love this entire post even though I don't agree with all of it. I feel smarter after reading it.
Extra fast development comes when you have a never-ending supply of new money chomping at the bit for it, no pun intended. Just like the A-Bomb, the moon landing, the human genome project or whatever we are currently racing to be the first at developing.
Because cryptocurrency directly links the worlds of computer and finance maybe Moore's law will be held up indefinitely, or even exceeded. Its hard to imagine a financial world where even just a few less milliseconds in processing time weren't considered an advantage in computerized trading.