Valid question. I find it interesting that Litecoin gets a pass on this exact question. Litecoin's "innovation" was adding scrypt, however, there were coins before it that used scrypt. If you follow Coblee's original launch post, Litecoin's biggest difference was the number of coins and the fair launch. Somehow a new crop of alt currency enthusiasts missed that transition.

Aside from our 504 block retarget (max of 41.4% difficulty change), we have a strong network of miners/developers available on the official forums. We're completely revamping the client, adding in new protections and are community driven. We have 11 different leads running groups ranging from development to merchant services. We have a development group that's putting together test coins for us to experiment. It's a different feel, we're heading in a different direction than BTC/LTC.

While I'm looking forward to the new client features, I'm more excited about the direction we're taking involving musicians and gamers.

I'm more than willing to have a debate with anyone in this forum on the validity of an alt coin such as Feathercoin. I'm not hiding under anonymous, I'm willing to address any criticisms. Considering the amount of work being put into the Feathercoin community (it's obvious when someone isn't familiar with it), the idea of pump-and-dump is absolutely ridiculous.

We would love for you to visit us at Feathercoin, however, I most likely won't lose sleep if an AC decides not to check it out. I appreciate the response.

You do realize Litecoin wasn't the first scrypt coin right? Could you please explain AC your pump-and-dump theory when Feathercoin has one of the most active alt coin communities?

Idiots
Pump-and-dump
Joke this, joke that

It's no wonder the 'hardcore' crypto community is often seen as kids just hitting puberty. Come spend a few minutes in our forums and form an opinion.

Much respect for PPcoin.

I know right, different flavors of Linux have absolutely no right to exist. Oh wait...

I don't know about 'choice it', but I can tell you Feathercoin has an active community behind the coin. Are you saying that they shouldn't work to support not only Feathercoin but new cypto miners looking for assistance? I want to make sure I understand your thought process.

You fail to understand even the most basic of concepts. How can something be a pump and dump when it has the most active community behind it? Your logic is deeply AC flawed.

Awwww... how cute.

While Bitcoin tends to grab headlines, there's other crypto-currency projects that are focused on merchant adoption:

http://www.feathercoin.com/about/

I felt like my childhood was raped with that steaming pile of bits.

"And how many people failed to attend college because they, or their parents, gambled away the college fund?"

On the stock market, probably quite a bit. Oh wait, we're not supposed to refer to that as gambling.

How many people failed to attend college because:

1. Parent spent all the money on alcohol
2. Parent decided to purchase a house they could not afford
3. Parent spent all they money on luxury items they can no longer afford with the economic downturn

Ok, so let's just ban everything to protect the children! The only thing silly (IMHO) is to allow the government to tell consenting adults how they can and cannot spend their own money. They are simply treating us like the children they claim they want to protect.

"Hangin around...hangin around...kid's got alligator blood"

As you might imagine from my username, I've thought about this issue a fair amount. I think it's simply that we're exposed to the raw, un-spellchecked ramblings of computer programmers at a higher rate than those of non-computer people.

The computer-literate might have more math than language skills; and they're also the ones filling websites, email lists, (and especially Slashdot) with their musings. The English majors and other more literate types are using the Web too, but perhaps with fewer, more considered posts.

Just a theory, though.

This is the most tinfoil-hat wearing anti-MS unfunny joke that I have seen for a while.

If you read the article you would see that MS is experimenting with the market and the concept mostly, to see who would pay for it and how much people are prepared to pay. They don't care if the whole thing is a flop.

Do you think that Joe Six-Pack wants and needs linux on his desktop? Are you saying that if Joe Six-Pack does not want or need something then it shouldn't be done?