Interesting article kaltoro, You’ve added interesting criteria beyond my own. Here are some I use, but note I only aim for a decentralized cryptocurrency that is censorship resistant and deflationary and anonymous- some tokens are very useful for other purposes such as smart contracts : all code should be open source, the coin should have a blockchain and anyone should be able to run a full node at home, there should be a limit on circulation (BTC limit is 21 million) the coin should not be premined (which is why I like Rhett Creighton’s zclassic idea over zcash and of course I look forward to getting bprivate), and I don’t do ICOs. Last of all, it’s an obvious criteria but a couple years ago lots of people were scammed: it should not be an MLM token. Now Reddcoin May be a very good token, based on what you described. For now, I am focused on accumulating more BTC and LTC. Ethereum has no limit but I own some because of smart contracts. I forgive some of its ICO nature so I am a hypocrite that way. I agree on Monero and own some, but like you say, BTC might steal its use case some day, like when atomic swaps are built into phone apps.