i consider all other projects to be either scams and/or cooptable, and i've been in this since 2012 and that's all the alts have ever been.
lightning obsoleted every altocoin project's aspirations to do payments better than bitcoin 5 years ago, and is mature since late 2021.
nostr's size is already proving that we don't need another token to make a working, censorship resistant, troll-proof and scammer resistant social network, either, after barely a bit over a year, it is already attracting interest from users stuck in all the silos, X, reddit, facebook.
we don't need another blockchain. *tina turner singing* all we need is some people with ideas and some people with money... 🎜🎝🎜🎶🎶