I have been seeing Bitcoins' price rising with a stability in its growth, but due to the higher mining fee that is being levied on transactions these days, big businesses are now moving their funds towards alts and taking advantage with their least fees as well as shaping a completely new economy in the trends of altcoin markets. Do you think this may harm Bitcoin's dignity and open up a chance in real for alts to rise?
Of course there are chance that altcoins can beat bitcoin since there are many investors that are currently interested in digital currency which they are looking for such coins which has a potential to go against or compete with bitcoin such as etherum, ltc, and many more. Also, since transaction os bitcoin isn't that fast enough to gets confirmed, it is the opprtunity of an altcoins to focus more on what bitcoin doesn't have in order to go against with it.
I don’t think that the block of issues people mentioning here can beat bitcoin though it need to be solved. But bitcoin has always had an upper hand. If others are good then bitcoin is the gold. In my personal opinion bitcoin will always be the leader. Altcoins may come and go but bitcoin will stay with us for ever.
People do classify bitcoin as a currency and all other altcoins are as applications. We are here for finding a new currency system not just an applications.
Are you kidding me? The blocking issue is really disturbing the bitcoin communities. The blocking issue makes more bitcoin traders feeling convenience for using altcoin to be fast transanction through his chain (off-chain)
Bitcoin and altcoin still always be considered as cryptocurrency.
Lol what do you mean about application? Do you consider it as an application?
As of now the unconfirmed transactions are less than 20k and some times it goes below 5k too. During the stress test in 2015, the unconfirmed tx raised above 80k. It means bitcoin network is not finding any bottleneck yet it is smooth as before and if you want quick confirmation you just need higher fees. I am not ready to say scalbility is disturbing nor blocking the growth as of now.
Bitcoin prices are trading right now at $1420+, still you call there is an issue going on within bitcoin ecosystem as of now ?
Do you think smart contracts are property of a currency system ? or do you value non-traceability than why we are having bitcoins. The purpose of litecoin got burried once ASICs arrived for mining scrypts.
Bitcoin is alone money and all others are just add-ons. I do not need them because I can have those features through some services or bitcoin itself may have them implemented in future if badly needed for a currency system.