Blockchain technology and Bitcoin as its flagship are here to stay. All the alts are closely tied to Bitcoin success, as these are the only 2 terms known to general public from the world of cryptos - blockchain and Bitcoin. Bitcoin is now on the way up, would not be surprosed to see 50k USD per Bitcoin next year. Even Goldman Sachs now made 180 degree turn and is going to start trading cryptos.
I like a man that shoots from the hip but was IBM not the flagship of PC's and did i recall "American On-line" having the world to themselves once !
Good you mention the general public who will far from trust any digital coins as news leaks out that sending $1 could result in paying
a $40+ transaction fee so just how will they dip there toe in the water to buy say $100 in BTC and then send the money to their Samsung phone
as they give the system a test drive. The answer is they won't unless they have mega bucks which most people don't
Lots and lots of alt-coins are based on ETH who provides the network and as such they depend on ETH for there success but this
cannot be claimed by BTC because it does not host contracts and many (far too many) will soak up the slack because they all offer
more than BTC except one thing and that's mega price rises which we all know cannot be sustained.
Goldman Sachs and it's ilk is what most people who first stated digital currency's were running from and its the same for
people that opt out and buy gold or silver but maybe your less we read than me if you arrived from the slot machine arcade
because you have lots of catching up to do. (No disrespect intended)
I agree with the 50k prediction (3 time from todays price) but not much more but it rivals will far out paste that
and "trading cryptos" will be far cheaper to trade using the other platforms and faster too.
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