Confirmations ARE EVERYTHING. You can't accept a transaction without them.
Actually - I'm going to say - yes you can. Seriously.
Bitcoin is light years ahead of that.
Apparently this thread is about promoting altcoins; it does coincide with ETH spam in the speculation section. Accepting zero confirmation transactions for low value trades or between people that trust each other is reasonable. Nobody is going to try to cheat you for 5-10$, thus all smaller Bitcoin transactions can be considered instant (albeit all are near instant; confirmations aren't and people seem to confuse these two).
I read where Dash has more nodes than Bitcoin now. Whether that is true or false I don't know.
Indeed it does, albeit the number of nodes is not really a reliable metric. You can look at the hashrate for security.
Again, you are ignoring everything for the sake of promoting altcoins. There is a guide on the Bitcoin reddit page that shows how to create 3000 nodes easily, ergo it is a unreliable metric.
Anyway your knowledge outside the bitcoin world is extremely limited. I suggest you read up on the other coins out there and what they offer. To me bitcoin is all about first mover advantage and nothing more.
Actually you knowledge in general is very limited; just use your head. Anything that an altcoin produces can and will be (if it is good enough) implemented in Bitcoin, which means that no altcoin will be able to hold that advantage.
But it's not scaling for sh*t anymore and unless that's fixed you can say adios to bitcoin.
Wake me up when an altcoin has solved this problem. Oh wait, it doesn't have to because nobody is using them.
Lauda's like a wrecking ball.
I came in like a wrecking ball, I never hit so hard on coins.