In my opinion, Bitcoin is cryptocurrency of future. Now very few people deal with cash - they prefer doing everything using credit/debit cards. A rare person now remembers when he kept all his money at home.
Meanwhile, doing bank operations, people hate to pay commissions for it and withdrawal in ATM costs too. BTC gives all chances to get rid of many commissions.
Bitcoin economic will flourish.
Well, but what about transaction fees? Right now it is around $4 for a fast transaction. I think Bitcoin is a great tool for transferring huge amounts, but not so good for the small ones. Maybe this problem will be solved in the future and then indeed Bitcoin will be used more than credit/debit cards.
If anything, that's unlikely
Personally, I doubt that the problem with the high fees will be solved. Bitcoin is not used as a tool for transferring daily values. And that has become sort of normal. If you need fast and cheap transactions, use Litecoin or something similar. But this is not what I want to say here. My point is that Bitcoin has basically burned the bridges behind itself, and it has no place where to retreat or run for cover. If it crashes for some reason and turns into yet another coin, it is effectively doomed for extinction, since, technically, it is an utterly outdated coin, and its only advantage is higher profitability over longer terms entirely due to speculation. But will it last forever?
Even if you are right and Litecoin or any other crypto is better than Bitcoin regarding the speed and the price of transactions, for most people it will take huge amount of time to comprehend that. Most people, and I mean educated and wealthy people, don't use Bitcoin still, and when they will start using BTC it will take another 10 years for them to learn about advantages of other cryptos. But I personally think that it is not guaranteed that Litecoin will not face similar problems (or other critical problems) when used on a larger scale.
It is not about me being right or wrong
It is an established fact that the total majority of coins are way faster than Bitcoin, and most of them are cheaper in terms of transaction costs at that. But that's not my point, which you to have missed entirely. You seem to have missed or discarded my assumption that if Bitcoin should crash massively (for whatever reason), there will be no way back for it since it will instantly turn into a completely outdated coin. You basically assume that Bitcoin will never crash but that is not a given by any means
I agree with you, indeed majority of other coins are faster than Bitcoin right now. I'd been using some of them and I was amazed about the speed of transactions even when working with trash coins. But do you think they will be as fast when used on a larger scale? I personally don't know the answer and that's why I assert nothing as certain. I really want to read your answer to that question because I respect you and generally I enjoy reading your posts.
As for Bitcoin's hypothetical crash ... Well, anything can happen, but I think it is very unlikely, given the fact that its popularity and hence support is on the rise.
I want to use an example from agriculture in that regard. Wild grass is much better adjusted to the environment than a cultivated plant. Yet a cultivated plant has more chances to survive when it is cared of, or, in other words, supported. Wild grass stands for altcoins in our case, and a cultivated plant stands for Bitcoin.