Food for thought. Use all the tools available to you, but use them wisely. When your store has a buy one get one sale do you abstain until you filly understand the stores fiscal policy? No you don't, but you also don't plan your 401(k) based on it or move in all your retirement funds to buy that stores stock. Would I use an alt coin for a feature or function it has? Yes, but keep exposure to a bare minimum both in dollar and time terms. I'm writing this out to see how my view change over time. I have learned by leaving altcoins out of the bitcoin world overnight and got burned. Lesson learned and will not do that again,but should I ever need to use it as a pipeline to get things from one place to another, I might use that.