Hello everyone, I made my first post
here and the words of advice were really touching(maybe it's because I am weak-hearted) and encouraging. Thank you all for making me feel at home.
Now back to my question. My thoughts were that alternative(Alt) coins were created by organizations or developers to serve as a digital currency for their product or service, or improve on the shortcomings of their parent coin. I believed an alt coin with a real purpose was here to stay like Bitcoin.
But reading certain threads made me realize that my thoughts might be flawed and that maybe alt coins are good for making short gains and not long since some analysts believe they are subject to pump and dump. So would like to know
1. What will happen to alt coins when Bitcoin becomes a legal tender? Will they have a massive growth,or would people sell and jump into Bitcoin?
2. What would happen to alt coins when Bitcoin becomes relatively stable( when it is fully mined and will solve its problem of price volatility)? Will alt coins survive the test of time? Will new alt coins be created later? What would become of the various countries'currencies, especially the Dollar (the global reserve currency) after Bitcoin's general acceptance?
3. If alt coins survive in the next century what is the reason it would.
4. Should alt coins be traded rather than HODL?
My answers are based on my personal opinions and speculations.
1. I believe that leading altcoins will increase it's price. Most of the altcoins actually can grow in price when bitcoin grows in price. Though it is still a speculation since anything can change for years now. If majority of the country accept bitcoin as a legal tender, Then we can expect prices to soar up as well as majority of altcoins.
2. If bitcoin somehow becomes stable like having a sideways pattern, I think the prices of altcoins will depend on their utility and popularity I guess? and on how the market will value the coin in it's current standing.
3. Their utility, popularity and a good project team. No project will survive if none of those exist in a project.
4. Traded. Majority of the altcoins are just being replaced every bull market, This is factual and I don't expect less popular altcoins to survive multiple bull run IMO.