Which Altcoin(s) will prevail? - page 2.

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Quote from: kelsey on December 26, 2014, 04:42:11 AM

imo there are no 2.0 cryptos, nxt etc certainly are no improvement on btc when it comes to mass adoption. added to that nxt started with such bad distribution it'll never be fully accepted by the crypto community let alone the general public (and thats without even expressing how insecure it is or the dev replacing himself scam, though admittedly I know nothin of how nxt situation currently is nor do I care).

ltc impresses me more each time, especially not playing the lets panic and add some phoney 'innovation' to pump the value.

ltc out of the alts will hold number 2 if not take out number 1 imo, and this comes from one of the largest ltc trolls (of the past).

such a ltc hodler

kelsey

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imo there are no 2.0 cryptos, nxt etc certainly are no improvement on btc when it comes to mass adoption. added to that nxt started with such bad distribution it'll never be fully accepted by the crypto community let alone the general public (and thats without even expressing how insecure it is or the dev replacing himself scam, though admittedly I know nothin of how nxt situation currently is nor do I care).

ltc impresses me more each time, especially not playing the lets panic and add some phoney 'innovation' to pump the value.

ltc out of the alts will hold number 2 if not take out number 1 imo, and this comes from one of the largest ltc trolls (of the past).

MicroGuy

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I think the coins that consumers embrace will prevail.

Creating a cryptocurrency is a little like making a musical recording. It's tough to predict which ones will become hit records.

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Quote from: TaunSew on December 24, 2014, 03:22:03 PM

As previously mentioned Bitcoin's usage is not very wide spread. We have estimations from banking writers like Jeffrey Robinson who claim there is only as little as 250,000 people using Bitcoin. To put into perspective, to again reference something Robinson had said, there is more people with club membership at Air Arabia Airlines than people holding Bitcoin in this world. Even on the higher side of estimations, being 2 million Bitcoiners, there were more people using the internet in the late 1980s than this higher estimation. It was a regular lie last year when all the hypers and pump and dumpers were claiming this was like the internet in the 1990s (not even remotely close)

Since the numbers are so low it's quite certain, unless Bitcoin beats some other coin to the punch, that somebody will come along and figure out how to achieve exponential user adoption and it won't take 6 years to surpass Bitcoin - you can get more than 250,000 people in mere weeks to use something if it goes viral and it is considered cool.

Yup. You're absolutely right. I'm working on it.

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Quote from: Hueristic on December 24, 2014, 04:13:30 PM

Quote from: TaunSew on December 24, 2014, 03:22:03 PM

As previously mentioned Bitcoin's usage is not very wide spread. We have estimations from banking writers like Jeffrey Robinson who claim there is only as little as 250,000 people using Bitcoin. To put into perspective, to again reference something Robinson had said, there is more people with club membership at Air Arabia Airlines than people holding Bitcoin in this world. Even on the higher side of estimations, being 2 million Bitcoiners, there were more people using the internet in the late 1980s than this higher estimation. It was a regular lie last year when all the hypers and pump and dumpers were claiming this was like the internet in the 1990s (not even remotely close)

Since the numbers are so low it's quite certain, unless Bitcoin beats some other coin to the punch, that somebody will come along and figure out how to achieve exponential user adoption and it won't take 6 years to surpass Bitcoin - you can get more than 250,000 people in mere weeks to use something if it goes viral and it is considered cool.

REALLY? all the threads you troll and you picked this one to say something worthy of posting?

Whichever coin gets adopted for the dark market will be $2.

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Quote from: TaunSew on December 24, 2014, 03:22:03 PM

As previously mentioned Bitcoin's usage is not very wide spread. We have estimations from banking writers like Jeffrey Robinson who claim there is only as little as 250,000 people using Bitcoin. To put into perspective, to again reference something Robinson had said, there is more people with club membership at Air Arabia Airlines than people holding Bitcoin in this world. Even on the higher side of estimations, being 2 million Bitcoiners, there were more people using the internet in the late 1980s than this higher estimation. It was a regular lie last year when all the hypers and pump and dumpers were claiming this was like the internet in the 1990s (not even remotely close)

Since the numbers are so low it's quite certain, unless Bitcoin beats some other coin to the punch, that somebody will come along and figure out how to achieve exponential user adoption and it won't take 6 years to surpass Bitcoin - you can get more than 250,000 people in mere weeks to use something if it goes viral and it is considered cool.

REALLY? all the threads you troll and you picked this one to say something worthy of posting?

Whichever coin gets adopted for the dark market will be $2.

TaunSew

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As previously mentioned Bitcoin's usage is not very wide spread. We have estimations from banking writers like Jeffrey Robinson who claim there is only as little as 250,000 people using Bitcoin. To put into perspective, to again reference something Robinson had said, there is more people with club membership at Air Arabia Airlines than people holding Bitcoin in this world. Even on the higher side of estimations, being 2 million Bitcoiners, there were more people using the internet in the late 1980s than this higher estimation. It was a regular lie last year when all the hypers and pump and dumpers were claiming this was like the internet in the 1990s (not even remotely close)

Since the numbers are so low it's quite certain, unless Bitcoin beats some other coin to the punch, that somebody will come along and figure out how to achieve exponential user adoption and it won't take 6 years to surpass Bitcoin - you can get more than 250,000 people in mere weeks to use something if it goes viral and it is considered cool.

swansong

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i think litecoin will have a new all time high and will be around in 5 years.
if (big one) bitcoin will stay around and get new all time highs.

patmast3r

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I think it totally depends on how well they are adopted outside of the cryptosphere. Bitcoin is still not very widespread but any alt that would reach similar adoption would definitely prevail imho. Currently most alts are really just objects of speculation and people use them to make money by trading without any real regard for the innovation that they might bring.

So any alt that is going for wide spread adoption or has the means and feature to become adopted is most likely to prevail.

I'm obviously biased so I'll refrain from actually mentioning specific projects Wink

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alt coins won't die as long as speculators accumulate them and they aren't fundamentally broken. On the buy side, it's all speculators. On the sell side, it's all miners using them as a vehicle to get BTC.

I'm betting you will see change once scrypt ASICs become prolific and force those miners to consolidate and eventually move to non-scrypt coins in order to get BTC.

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I was going to make this a poll, but thought open discussion would be better.

I dont consider 2.0 currencies such as NXT or NEM as a true altcoin, since they are rebuilt from the ground up, however i will include these in the discussion, as i feel such currencies have far more market potential than the majority of altcoins in windows Qt.

Also when i say "prevail" this doesnt necessarily mean that they will hit #1 in market cap, more like being in #2 or #3 to bitcoin.

In another 5 years how many coins will have survived?
Will the good, the bad and the ugly be finally sorted out?

I can see Dogecoin being around for some time, but am unsure of its future.
Any anon coins could very well be a thing of the past with technologies such as night trader and black halo coming to the surface.

Im guessing NXT has a very high chance of getting to #2 and staying there, i dont think litecoin will ever get back to the all time high it had 12 months ago and people will move their investments into coins that have more potential.

Any thoughts?

IDK where Ethereum and Qora will stand in the future.

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