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OhNoYouDont said:
vivster said:

But will those even grow enough if investors are turned off by bitcoin's eventual collapse? And will there be enough currency to go around for the general public? And will countries even allow an international currency that's not bound to gold or any fixed commodity and that's also not regulated by any official governing body?

Don't know why you think bitcoin will collapse. It has its own resolution to its scaling problem with lightning network.

Hopefully FairX can uncouple these altcoins from bitcoin so each can rise and fall independently but time will tell. If you're not aware, FairX is an exchange that has not yet come to market but the plan is to be able to exchange fiat directly for any altcoin and vise versa without the need to go fiat -> bitcoin (or ethereum) -> altcoin.

Good luck to any government trying to stop this.

Lots of exchanges and companies already allow you to go fiat ->altcoin for many of the various altcoins. and the lightning network is not a fix, it is a bandaid on a gaping wound, it addresses scalability by introducing a slew of other problems and weakening security.