BTC is going to be more and more popular in the world, not only Crypto world. Price is climbing and probably will hit 25000$ to the end of the year like some predictions were. BTC is the best and no one coin can replace it.
The majority of the world populace can't afford segcore's coin.
Transactions fees & transaction delay times have destroyed it's use as a payment service,
it's and I do mean it's ONLY value at the moment is as a very risky speculative investment.
Here is some food for thought, on Dec 18th, the CME BitCore Futures Markets open.
5 Bitcore increments and the ability to short bitcore at a level it has never seen.
Worst of all , CME Future contracts are only operating in Fiat, meaning no actual bitcore coins are going to be delivered at the end of the contracts.
What this will do is directly
siphon US $ that would have went into buying bitcore coin.
So the manipulators
1. could directly inflate the price of bitcore coin more
or
2.
completely devastate its price by using a little wash trading between colluding banking cartels. *by doing this they can buy up the majority of bitcore coins for next to nothing , and later re-inflate the price before the LN launch.*
The main problem for the option 2, is when the banking cartels temporary crash the bitcore coin price,
the Miners will put bitcore coin in a death spiral , and switch all asics to
Bitcoin Cash for the Foreseeable future.
Battle of the Titans is coming and we all have a 1st row seat.
(Miners Verses Banking Cartels)
╥Aztek
Yep this is Wall Street's attempt to take over the current price-rigging mechanisms with sheer mass - they can easily dummy up $1 trillion in futures in 24 hours. We'll see if they can outdo Bitfinex's Tether printing, which has been quite runaway for the past week ($170 million printed from thin air, by my count) . Somebody must've greased the SEC's and CFTC's buttholes quite amply to get this rammed through...
Funny thing is they could end up simply driving big money to alts - the panic sellers might be smart enough not to sell BTC for fiat. That's where it gets interesting.
I say let Wall Street and Blockstream destroy what's left of Segwitcoin while BCH sets sail for the moon... Wall St's little pump and dump economic games are peanuts compared to what what crypto has enabled.