There are many bitcoin competitors now and I find it interesting that many of them are the creations of a specific political and economic line of thought. Whil

There are many bitcoin competitors now and I find it interesting that many of them are the creations of a specific political and economic line of thought. While bitcoin supporters tend to hate the idea of inflation, there are others coins that have inflation built in to encourage spending -- a kind of progressive version of bitcoin. Here's a random example of a coin designed around a specific economic philosophy: >Unlike Bitcoin, Freicoin has a demurrage fee that ensures its circulation and bearers of the currency pay this fee automatically. This demurrage fee was proposed by Silvio Gesell to eliminate the privileged position held by money compared with capital goods, which is the underlying cause of the boom/bust business cycle and the entrenchment of the financial elite, and has been tested several times with positive results. http://freico.in/ http://freico.in/ (no idea if that has merit but it was the one that stuck in my head because it was so clearly articulated on their homepage) Whether bitcoin itself last who knows, but probably some descendant will be around at the very least at the protocol level.