If you like the idea of Tezos, have a look at Cardano. It has on-chain governance voting, formal verification, and the ability to upgrade the protocol without the need for hard forks. Basically, all the stuff that got me interested in the Tezos project.
I think I saw someone shilling for Cardano in a different thread as well. While I won’t deny you your excitement about cryptocurrency, imagine how boring HN would be if every discussion about this topic devolved into “check out this coin that I am invested in, check out that coin” etc.
I don't think that letting people who are interested in Tezos know about a coin with very similar features is "pumping" the currency. Tezos has some really interesting features, but they have stumbled with the ICO and delayed their release. As someone who was waiting for Tezos to launch I was excited to hear about Cardano and I'm sure there are other Tezos enthusiasts here who are happy to learn about the existence of similar coin. To say that I'm "pumping" the coin implies that I will dump the coin, when I'm really just interested in the Tezos technology, which is also present in Cardano.
I love what IOHK have been doing with Cardano. There are lots of really notable faces[1] and institutions working on this project, and I'm excited to see what they bring to the Haskell and greater mathematics communities.
Here is a good whiteboard summary of Cardano[2], by Charles Hoskinson, who is co-creator of Ethereum as well as Cardano and other associated notable works.
>by Charles Hoskinson, who is co-creator of Ethereum as well as Cardano and other associated notable works.
As it happens, he's also the creator or Ethereum Classic, a hard fork of Ethereum, not unlike what Bcash is to Bitcoin (i.e. an attempt at co-opting the brand and capturing value by confusing newcomers).
Apparently he tried to inflate the ETC coin supply by 20% and give the new coins to his company IOHK, which of course didn't sit well with the ETC community:
https://www.cardanohub.org/en/what-is-cardano/
In the interest of full disclosure, I do own some Cardano.