Well on the one hand you have people wo think bitcoin will be the first and the last successful crypto-currency. On the other hand you have people who are looking for profit.
I think it's a test of character on the meta-level.
Well, technically, X-coins can do something other than just provide "slightly flavored" bitcoin for pump-and-dump ops.
Namecoin, for one, does.
I believe one could come up with an X-coin that will be explicitly useful for something other than quick buck. In fact, I think I might have an idea (it's too premature to share, though)
#1. Don't bombard Freenode IRC
I believe this one deserves... elaboration. At least, as far as noobs like me are concerned
The bitcoin client needs a way to find other peers on the network. So it connects to freenode IRC and uses it as the broadcast network, which essentially looks like a botnet crashing into it when we get a massively anticipated new fork starting up
But a fork has no choice but to start its own channel on the IRC. How else would it work otherwise, indeed
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