Is because the name "Bitcoin" is the best name for a crypto-currency.
No other name will be as good.
I am sure bitcoin's popularity and price is because of the name only. It is because of the path-breaking innovation of block chain technology. Bitcoin is the pioneer crypto currency and the world first known about the block chain technology through the bitcoin only. Being a pioneer, helped bitcoin to scale new heights and not the name. I'm sure there are other cooler names could have been found. But when quality is present in a technology, people never mind the name.
It might that not only the price have made bitcoin number one, and the new technology that it brought to the market played a part in its success, but you can’t deny the fact that the price have made people get more interested in it, because if there is a thing that attracts people is money.
yes i think the facilities that bitcoin is providing us is making it number one currency, i think in future we can hope that bitcoin will be more and more convenient to us. and that is the reason that bitcoin is becoming more and more popular.
Actually, there are some altcoins that are even better than bitcoin and I could honestly say that bitcoin is a bit backwards regarding of its feature if I compare to the altcoins have ever existed. Altcoins are existed to compete for bitcoin means it's supposed to have more features and meanwhile bitcoin is the first cryptocurrency and the first inventor of its feature, the altcoins just developing the features that have already existed to be even better. And it proves that the feature doesn't make the coin number #1, just the people could make it.
Then if there is altcoin that is existing that is better than bitcoin then why you didn't say its name or share some experience with that altcoin? I believe that the altcoins are just copy cats because they just stole bitcoin's or satoshi nakamoto's idea in bitcoin to be able to create another crypto currency. Just tell us what is the name of the altcoin that you are saying that is better than bitcoin because it will be much appreciated
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I don't want to mention those because it's ain't altcoin discussion. Technology keeps on growing and the older one will always be developed or replaced for better purpose, don't be close minded person, there's so damn much altcoin comparison that's written either in form of discussion or article and yet those altcoins still have its own unique feature that keeps it different from other and indirectly making some sort of border.
And you're definitely wrong generalising that all of the altcoins is copycats of bitcoin whereas there's still some or I could say pretty decent amount of altcoins have been released recently building up its own system from scratch.
Have you seen the difference between ethereum and bitcoin? I guess not.
Note: Bitcoin is open source, there's no such thing as someone stealing satoshi's idea while satoshi himself published the source code and the definition of open source is: nobody owns or controls Bitcoin and everyone can take part.