Topic: if bitcoin dies, what alt would you go for? - page 7. (Read 11417 times)

It depends!
If some serious bug is found in code this will be the end of all coins, because they are all copies. Trust will be lost forever, and i believe this advantage will be taken by big corporations and banks this is simple. Their solutions will save us all!
Else i don't see how Bitcoin can suddenly be dead?
 

NEM = "new economy movement" that sounds nice at least, marketing wise. I have forgotten what NXT stood for and seemingly its a ghost town by now, not a prospering competitor. NEM and NXT stood on my notecard since when I began exploring BTC.
Maybe their Ardor rebranding can revive it? Nobody mentioned it so far as I have seen.

The logical answer is ethereum but i guess better projects are out there. Not dash, but maybe pivx and stratis and nem

SingularDTV could have the huge price increase that everyone in that thread wants, as of now the price of the coin is very expensive so I would have to sit that out unless there's a huge dump.

Ethereum,litecoin and ripple are big contenders but any coin could make a big surprise like dogecoin and burstcoin and who knows a darkhorse coin could emerge like Burstcoin and Mrai all of these has a strong community support

Ripple
Stellar
SingularDTV
IEx.ec
Golem

It would be LTC without a doubt.  China's only option also...  Ripple and XMR would have no chance.

If the idea is to "store value for the long term", or "play greater fool" I don't see the use of crypto.  If it is to use as a currency, it doesn't matter much, does it, from the moment you can acquire it, and spend it.  But "currency usage" is not something that became a success in crypto 'currencies', is it ?

The only reason to use crypto is when you can't do it with fiat, for one or another reason.  I can only think of things like monero, or zcash or so, to be suitable for that.  I wouldn't touch DASH with a stick.  I guess LTC could be used for those things that have some fiat obstacle that isn't a legal obstacle, and where you don't have to hide (but in most cases, then you CAN use fiat).  And if you want to gamble, most probably eth or one of its ICO tokens for gamblers, is suitable.

But it all depends on why you need crypto (why can't you do it with fiat ?) ; different needs may/should induce different coins.

If it is to trade and to play greater-fool games, the coin doesn't really matter, does it ?  It is penny stock then.

Ill go for eth or LTC this two coin is really have great future to be next in bitcoin. Since my first in trading i see that this two coin having great progress and allow me to earn good profit that is why i choose these coins.

i agree with you. at the end incentive for developers are fiat.

In my knowledge if ever Bitcoin dies then 99% all of the crypto currency will die because when Bitcoin like old coins can die then what is the fate of other coins. All of the coins are valued under Bitcoin and do you think that if Bitcoin dies do the crypto currency users will have faith on other altcoins, I dont think so. So Bitcoin death is the death of crypto currency and all of them will go back to the fiat currency way.

XMR is pretty good though I think that it's overpriced for the time being. The Darknet price pump wasn't worth the hype, there should be more people trying to use Monero instead of Bitcoin.

XMR is actually the good choice, fair mining and large adoption in black market, I will go for ETH, XMR, STRAT, GNT.

It might seem funny though I think that Ripple would be the one that survives if Bitcoin fails.

Nothing last forever. Eventually Bitcoin will die. But I agree with you will not be that fast.

About the choice who would took over, you could hear opinion of guy who saved a NASA shuttle mission back  in 1994

https://moneromonitor.com/episodes/2017-04-10-Episode-002.html

Howard: Yeah. I suppose if you dig into Monero as I have done and do the reading and you think about cryptocurrencies work or how they should work, you start to realize that Monero is actually unique. In a field where there are thousands of coins out there, new ones being forked off and presented every day, Monero is actually, as I put it, it’s the only one that actually deserves the title of cryptocurrency, right? If you look at where the word “crypto” comes from, from the Greek “cryptos” which means hidden, okay? And you look at the science of cryptography; most of cryptography is oriented towards obfuscating data, hiding information. Alright, hiding information such that only the person you want to see it is allowed to see it, right?
Mike: Yeah.
Howard: But if you look at every other “cryptocurrency” that exists, none of them actually hides information.
Mike: I guess, you could argue that Bitcoin uses cryptography to hide the keys to your wallet and that everything else while being public, if you can’t hide the keys, then there’s no way that this could work. You could argue that that still fits that definition, couldn’t you?
Howard: That’s like saying, okay, you hide the keys to the front door of your house, right? Everybody still knows that your house is sitting where it is.
Mike: True.
Howard: But the important part… You can consider a key to be an access control mechanism, it says, this is how you get through this doorway, right?
Mike: Sure.
Howard: But with Monero, everything is hidden, even the door is hidden.
Mike: Okay.
Howard: The information that’s being transmitted over the Monero network is hidden and that’s really what cryptography is about, about hiding the messages.
Mike: Yeah, okay, so maybe you’d be happy calling Bitcoin a digital currency, but Monero is a true cryptocurrency, I can buy that.

Mentioned here a few times already, but I would also go with Litecoin. It's similar to Bitcoin and a little bit better imo.
I also really like that fact that there will more coins in circulation than with Bitcoin. I've always found that 21 million cap a bit on the low side.

Ripple of course

None of these pegged coins seem to be able to survive. Tether sounds like it might be screwed for now. And what's the point of holding a pegged coin long term anyway?  Stick with a bank account and you get the same money with insurance and zero risk.

i will go for Cloakcoin,, this project is growing with silent

PPC has gotten my attention as long as the pegged at a dollar NBT NuBits project was healthy. Now I would not know what to do with those PPC besides selling.
And by coincidence Tether currently has legal issues against Wells Fargo, Bitfinex might get affected.

If high volatile crypto coins fall flat, maybe anything "1 Dollar" stabilized construct might jump into the gap. Makes sense that those occasionally have run into issues, maybe there are bigger forces watching this development too.