> What no one, the bitcoin community included, anticipates is hundreds and thousands of competing cryptocurrencies around the world. No one anticipates it beca

> What no one, the bitcoin community included, anticipates is hundreds and thousands of competing cryptocurrencies around the world. No one anticipates it because it makes no sense. Nobody _wants_ hundreds of thousands of cryptocurrencies: Metcalfe's law and the inherent costs of currency fluctuation risk tell us that the number of cryptocurrencies will remain small. I can't make sense of the rest of what you wrote.