There&#x27;s a customer-base problem here. Bitcoin&#x27;s expansion is based on who is willing to consider something different. A new alt-coin promising to do the kinds of things Bitcoin does but better (not crack new customers) can only exist by taking Bitcoin&#x27;s market-share (which is not big). Being honest with ourselves, this is likely to get lost in the noise until bitcoin is large enough and this weakness of it is exploited enough that a substantial amount of people look for an alternative.