Best example is bitcoin, almost every other project out there is better than bitcoin, but they aren't worth shit because they aren't original.
People won't move money from one project to another just because every other day another "coin" appears out of thin air and does something better. Unless it's not a clone and it's something original, like ethereum. Look at the ethereum clones mcap and see the difference.
etheruem isn't that original either, ethereum is similar to maidsafe, there are no original project, everything is based on bitcoin like you said early, everything is a clone of bitcoin, if you can't come up with something that don't use the blockchain you will always making a bitcoin clone, this is how i see it, if you want to stay original make somethign better than the blockchain as a decentralized public ledger
Wrong. ETH isn't similar to maidsafe at all. ETH isn't similar to bitcoin either unless you're talking about the fact that they both use blockchain.