[rocqua]

The value of crypto coins doesn't come from technology. It comes from faith in the technology. Inherently value is a social thing, and hence some of what underlies it is social too. Big part of that is the stated intent of a cryptocurrency. People can't rally around a joke about dogs as the best way to do money. People might rally around the first, most serious, and rather conservatively developed cryptocurrency though. Or perhaps the one that best allows computation on the blockchain, or the one that has the best track record of preserving privacy.