I always figured because coins are open source protocol they would just copy, paste, and slap their name on it. Why enrich some arbitrary company and give them the power to print.
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What would you be copy+pasting? They'd want something far more restrictive by design than something like Bitcoin.
A lot of alt coins are copies of Bitcoins open source protocol …but when they make the copy it has zero network effects making themselves the consensus to change it as they please