What is "real value?"
January 2nd 2014 bitcoin was "valued" at
$802.00 January 3rd 2009 the first bitcoin was mined ($0 value).
People who
bought bitcoin 5 years ago today had a
400% INCREASE in value.
If people just want to simply offset inflation over a 5 year period from holding the Dollar, Rand, Rupee, Pound, Euro, Yuan, Ruble, Lira or any other printed National Currency, Bitcoin has a use case now that
could suggest it's more valuable than Gold.
That doesn't address what you said.
Using your example: People who bought Litecoin at $1 in January 2015 are up 3400%. You said "Bitcoin is the only crypto with real value" so I still don't understand, what does "real value" mean? Why does Bitcoin have real value, but altcoins cannot?
Bitcoin has helped fund EVERY cryptocurrency since it was created.... it is THE ONLY VALUABLE ONE (currently) for a reason.
They have a symbiotic relationship. Altcoin markets suck bitcoins away from the fiat market, diminishing available supply and therefore encouraging higher Bitcoin prices. Altcoins also act as test beds for features that could eventually be ported to Bitcoin. For example, I think altcoins implementing Segwit facilitated implementing it in Bitcoin because they proved how safe it was at a time when Segwit was considered controversial.
Bitcoin can't and won't integrate most features (including private/confidential transactions) for political reasons.
Do research before ignoring wasabi wallet and mixers that have existed for years. The privacy of bitcoin isn't part of the protocol (yet) but that doesn't mean privacy options aren't available and increasing.
These don't compare to mandatory private transactions at the protocol level like Monero. Enforcing privacy at the protocol level would require a hard fork and would deteriorate Bitcoin's public and transparent ledger. That's extremely controversial and will therefore never happen without a network split.
It will never use alternative consensus or scaling mechanisms (like proof-of-___ or sharding). I think it's naive to assume that no use cases or superior technological approaches will ever emerge from altcoins.
It's also securely stored and transferred value without the need for 3rd parties for 9 years, none of the "other" supposedly better solutions have done anything to prove trust and security wouldn't be traded just to try something "new"
That doesn't prove anything about the future at all! Bitcoin is currently the most secure and reliable cryptocurrency. It's also the most scalable relative to its security. That doesn't mean that better technology won't emerge in the future.
I think it's naive to assume that no use cases or superior technological approaches will ever emerge from altcoins.
How many cryptographic protocols, to securely store value and transfer it in a decentralized manner, have you created or maintained? Right. Perhaps you're opinion doesn't hold the weight you want to believe it does, unless you've contributed something to the actual protocol or an alternative/better solution...
Your opinion holds no weight either, by that logic. I was merely trying to engage in discourse. Why are you so butthurt? Stay out of Bitcoin Discussion and go to the mailing lists if you only want to engage with Bitcoin developers specifically.