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No. The point of some of the alt currencies is to address perceived weaknesses in bitcoin, like deflation, or wasted energy in mining for example. Bitcoin created a market but that market will outlive bitcoin if it fails. Now litecoin is basically a clone so it'll fall with bitcoin, there's nothing interesting about it, but others like peercoin or primecoin are substantially different in ways that may matter greatly.


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