Yes. But they're really susceptible to being surrounded by scammers the moment they do so, because of the implied gainz of printing perceived value out of thin air. The only thing that came and failed (for now? is anyone still working on that?) relatively cleanly compared to everything else is Namecoin. Everything else was either an ico/premine making scammers rich, or a failure.

optimism

I could conceive of a "shadow bitcoin" much in the way we have shadow governments, but I'm sure after some thought would conclude it wouldn't work.

Had Luke been earnest, and able to strategize his way out of a paper bag, had the tools to do such a thing...

Scammers looking to dump a shitcoin on dummies, but that means dummies are still implicated as the enabler. 

If anyone has a counter-example to point to we could have fun with that.

justin_shocknet

The question I'm asking though is: would anyone other than a dummy do such a thing?