I think the real reason the Alt's are losing value is because they are all still in the massive early inflationary period.
Think about this right;
If you have an Alt that mines at 1000 units per day;
Day 1 : 1000 units
Day 2 : 2000 units (100% inflation)
Day 3 : 3000 units (50% inflation)
Day 4 : 4000 units (33% inflation)
Day 5 : 5000 units (20% inflation)
It takes months or even years before the weekly, monthly or annual inflation rate drops to an unnoticeable level, helped along by the halving effect, if that coin even has that feature in it's code.
Most of the Alts on the market are less than a year old, that means they are still massively inflating compared BitCoin which has been running for over 5 years now.
Simple mathematics tells you that the value of any given ALT is going to drop until it ceases to inflate relative to BitCoin. It's not that people don't want the ALTS, or that they are turning away from them, it's just a simple case of supply and demand in a massively inflationary market.
The only way any ALT could possibly beat the early inflation is if it has mass adoption, but that's very unlikely.
If we spool time forward 5 years or so, most if not all of the current ALT's, especially those which are technologically sound, will cease to inflate, have found a group of followers and become a viable platform for being one of many global decentralised autonomous corporations.
TL;DR : Brand new ALTS inflate very fast, wait for them to bottom out before buying them.
P.S ... ZeitCoin seems to have an interesting idea to combat early hyper-inflation, it halves each week for the first 6 weeks before stabilising at a much lower level of production from there on out.
It looks like TOTAL copy of mint with diffret parameters a "bit" diffrent lol.
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Big can be DRK or ANC with anonymity in web but not as BIG thing but as exlusive feature.
You want backup thepiratebay,Wikileaks sent DRK or ANC and you are clean in future...
One more thing someone stole BTC in future and boutgh that BTCs... Police come to your house even you were not involvet in that shit but they take your PC just in case
with some "unoficial" software. You dont have to be pirate you just can forget delete Winrar after 30days trial and you are facked up...
+1 for DRK and ANC guys
About inflation there are some POS coins like BC,NXT,upcoming NEM where... you have 0%-1% annual inflation.
Small inflation is good lost wallets problem eg...