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Bitcoin has unfortunately innovated more lowly than Yahoo in the last 10 years. It may end up the reserve e-gold, but the conservatism that has prevented evolution of the tech may ultimately even threaten that status.

One of the worst PR moves #zcash ever made was to publicly discount projects with similar goals, repeatedly, when their technology was too early to practically provide their core value prop (privacy). It gives the impression that they are in this for the wrong reasons.

Everything that Dash provides can be built as an application on top of Bitcoin. Never needed to be baked into the blockchain. IMO it was a premature engineering decision.

There are ways to be so unproductive it's better not to contribute. Privacy is like medicine or building bridges: someone can get hurt if you do it wrong or mislead.

Trust me, Verge is not helping anybody but themselves.

IOTA, made by the same geniuses who rolled their own cryptography without peer review, harassed the cryptographers who found the vulnerability, and tried to cover it all up with increasingly absurd excuses.

I think PIVX is better [than Zcoin] for Zerocoin implementation. It uses the same libraries, but with Proof-of-Stake. But industrial-strength privacy is still Zcash and Monero.

Bitcoin Cash is like the dysfunctional, bizarro version of Bitcoin.
- A known fraud is the figurehead
- The intended form of protocol governance is by miners
- Their primary form of outreach is propaganda / brand confusion
- Their origin story is literally a conspiracy theory

Bitcoin Gold has some of the most irresponsible/incompetent developers in all of crypto. They delegated the security entirely to 3rd party wallets, some of which stole millions and others with a history of selective scamming. They never fixed this and have no plans to.

I'm really curious to see how the "utility tokens" turn out. I suspect they'll be pennies on the dollar. The tokens of CVC, for example, are gift cards for using the service. I don't think there will be enough business generated to justify $223M market cap.

Ravencoin should not exist. Doesn't need to be a coin and probably not great at stopping ASIC development. $150m market cap is absurd.

In regards to privacy, XMR, ZEC and GRIN are the only good options. Zcoin protocol may be ok in narrow circumstances, but some privacy isn't much better than no privacy in general. The common theme is the use of zero knowledge cryptography.

Ethereum would have been better off supporting applications that were banned from web 2.0 rather than trying to be "web 3.0."

0x, one of the most popular dex protocols, has collected only $2000 in lifetime transaction fees despite having a market cap of $160M. The token is also not necessary for the protocol to function and will likely be forked out by major relayers.

Augur, the most popular prediction market, has only $40k staked in predictions yet has a $170M market cap

Steem popularity was explicitly monetized, so every person tried to maximize their measured popularity (by votes) rather than their brand, network, or actual popularity like in other social media.

Bitcoin: Be your own bank.
Monero / ZCash: Be your own Swiss bank.
Ripple: Traditional banking.