i agree with the general premise that anything outside of the bitcoin network is a "shitcoin", and can see Bitcoin functioning as the global standard for an exchangeable currency ...
... but the real value i see in blockchain is customizability and deployment at almost any scale, which can offer an opportunity for small groups to each develop a simple proprietary network within their own community, providing a whole other layer of privacy. i expect this to become more plausible as times go on, and in this context, a growing diversity of encryption methods and chains could very well benefit everyone in the long run ... so i'm viewing all these other cryptocurrency projects as proof of concept experiments, a way to tease out design flaws and allow pitfalls to present themselves when attempting to reinvent the wheel.
i'm hoping to see projects spring up developing open source frameworks for a sort of blank-canvas approach to building a proprietary blockchain from scratch ... and perhaps i'm being naive (as i'm relatively new to all this) but it seems feasible to develop a network that could essentially be forked indefinitely from a generic template, with each new fork branching into a private network that is then customized and redesigned by that specific community. (perhaps i'm butchering the use of the work "fork" here, along with some other terminology. apologies if so.)
is this realistic? are there any projects like this in development right now?
(gonna try cross posting this to nostr, from SN)