Definitely privacy centric tech is becoming an industry. I am very interesting in distopic world avoidance.
How do you plan to monetize or fund the project?
Litecoin is now back because of Segwit. It's Bitcoin's hope to push a final acceptance of Segwit on Bitcoin. But, it doesn't have a real value in my opinion.
About cryptocurrencies in general I can say that I use them to get payments and to pay employees and I find them very useful and the user experience is much better than normal banking (fast international transfers and complete tracking) and no need for KYC.
It just increase the effort the thieves need to invest. If all houses have alarms, it may be not worthy to rob houses which reward isn't good enough, so they would look for houses with more rewards. Of course, some thieves won't be able to learn this new technology. If all airports had good security it would be more difficult to have attacks but it isn't the case now.
In a competition it's possible to wake up your competitor. I mean if you are going to play a tennis or football match the next day, you can bother your competitor to have an advantage.
I thought that the article was worth it but it is completely stupid. The reason of MySpace curb is because Facebook started, they aren't two independent events.
I'm from Argentina and a similar plan was implemented there. The REAL plan was to subscribe free market principles, sell state owned companies and reduce the fiscal deficit.
This fake currency was attached to USD price in Brazil. In Argentina was created from the beginning and it was also attached to USD.
Sorry to bother with the reality, I'd prefer the Big Fish style story that was told in this article, but it was a fake.