Interesting topic and something I've been thinking about lately.
Bitcoin is completely dominant, but if they can't lower transaction time (verifications), it'll never work as a currency for everyday transactions. It could still be a great store of value, people don't use gold at the grocery store.
Government always want control, they will try to steer the focus towards something traceable.
The people want anonymity, so as to get away from the government looking over your shoulder all the time.
Will government control or anonymity win?
My personal favorite is CloakCoin. Great dev team and they are working on making it open source. Will it be the one to challenge Bitcoin? I have no clue, but it's fast and as anonymous as it gets. I'm betting anonymity will become increasingly important. As the economy gets progressively worse, government will strive for greater and greater control.
I don't know if the bill has already passed or if it's still being worked on, but the last I heard, you will be expected to declare (if you're entering or leaving the US) the amount of Bitcoin you're carrying if it exceeds $10 000 in value. This tells me a couple of things. The government wants control and they are completely clueless about how crypto currencies work.
Topic: Which cryptocurrency will become the gold standard of the future? (Read 1763 times)
June 28, 2017, 06:53:39 AM
I chose ethereum
Why?
Because Ethereum Wallet is the gateway to decentralized applications in the Ethereum blockchain. This allows you to hold and secure ether and other crypto assets that are on top of Ethereal, as well as writing, deploying and using smart contracts.
Why?
Because Ethereum Wallet is the gateway to decentralized applications in the Ethereum blockchain. This allows you to hold and secure ether and other crypto assets that are on top of Ethereal, as well as writing, deploying and using smart contracts.
June 28, 2017, 04:01:18 AM
I voted Stratis, because I think it has the most potential but I see a future where many coins work together. For instance the Stratis team said they aim to work alongside the bitcoin blockchain which is why they are making a trustless bitcoin mixer.
June 28, 2017, 01:35:33 AM
I will choose the ETH and ICO based its platform. BTC will be very difficult to keep the current location if not improved
June 28, 2017, 01:28:34 AM
Definitely bitcoin. More popular and being use to buy goods. Alot of people trust bitcoin than the others.
June 28, 2017, 01:19:51 AM
I'm not sure. Obviously the most likely candidate is going to be bitcoin as it is indeed the number one cryptocurrency ever since cryptos were a thing, and was also the first cryptocurrency that was ever developed.
If you think about it, it really does not matter whether or not your coin has more features than bitcoin. You have to have more features AND have nearly the same trust and adoption of bitcoin, and the blockchain needs to be scalable.
I think that Monero has a real future here. It is probably the best altcoin out there at the moment, because every single coin is fungible. With bitcoins, you're getting much better privacy than bank transfer, but Monero is on another level.
If you think about it, it really does not matter whether or not your coin has more features than bitcoin. You have to have more features AND have nearly the same trust and adoption of bitcoin, and the blockchain needs to be scalable.
I think that Monero has a real future here. It is probably the best altcoin out there at the moment, because every single coin is fungible. With bitcoins, you're getting much better privacy than bank transfer, but Monero is on another level.
June 28, 2017, 01:13:42 AM
I have two option cryptocurrency that going to be gold eth and bitcoin. I think no other altcoin can beat them in near future.
June 28, 2017, 12:57:17 AM
I voted for bitcoin it is the first crypto currency and also most of the people knows about bitcoin . Once they familiar with bitcoin then they will look into altcoin . Bitcoin having limit 21 million once it reached then its value automatically increase.
June 28, 2017, 12:56:08 AM
Bitcoin for sure, i can guarantee it
June 28, 2017, 12:55:49 AM
Digibyte
June 28, 2017, 12:52:37 AM
It will be a platform for ISO, for exchange. Or purses for storing different coins. I make bets on such projects.
June 28, 2017, 12:50:32 AM
Why people always claiming their coin or project going to beat Bitcoin? I mean confident is good but too much confident make ones look stupid?
June 28, 2017, 12:44:36 AM
For those who said, "other" - what other?
June 25, 2017, 03:19:49 PM
My take is on Ardor with its childchains and smart transactions build onto NXT proven technologies which is 3.5 years old.
https://www.ardorplatform.org/
It only miss point 3 at the moment, it has all the others, but the devs (https://www.jelurida.com) are working on this improvement (point 3) with childchain subnet.
NXT currently does 100tps, it should be note that Ardor will do more than NXT at release since it is an optimize version of NXT. Then now that Ardor has solved the scalability issue concerning the blockchain bloat (point 1), the next objective by the devs will be to push the tps to the higher as possible.
In the end, i'm very confident that the team behind Ardor and Nxt will contribute at lot to the blockchain space.
I invite you to take a look at this very underlooked project.
PS. Some fork of NXT by others did achieved a lot in term of tps (800 tps) in private environment setting by the Russia’s National Settlement Depository:
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/russia-s-national-settlement-depository-successfully-tests-blockchain-based-e-voting-system-1464198071/
Now imagine what Ardor will be able to do.
https://www.ardorplatform.org/
It only miss point 3 at the moment, it has all the others, but the devs (https://www.jelurida.com) are working on this improvement (point 3) with childchain subnet.
NXT currently does 100tps, it should be note that Ardor will do more than NXT at release since it is an optimize version of NXT. Then now that Ardor has solved the scalability issue concerning the blockchain bloat (point 1), the next objective by the devs will be to push the tps to the higher as possible.
In the end, i'm very confident that the team behind Ardor and Nxt will contribute at lot to the blockchain space.
I invite you to take a look at this very underlooked project.
PS. Some fork of NXT by others did achieved a lot in term of tps (800 tps) in private environment setting by the Russia’s National Settlement Depository:
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/russia-s-national-settlement-depository-successfully-tests-blockchain-based-e-voting-system-1464198071/
Now imagine what Ardor will be able to do.
June 25, 2017, 03:13:40 PM
I don't think the "gold standard" exists yet.
June 25, 2017, 12:55:36 PM
Viacoin is going to be much better then litecoin imo. 
June 25, 2017, 12:49:02 PM
ETH, cos this is going now: it giving life for new coins like a basic treasure.
June 25, 2017, 12:17:18 PM
Litecoin
June 25, 2017, 10:47:25 AM
I think or I'm sure bitcoin would become the gold standard in the future. Look at its price now for goodness sake out of all the other coins, alternate coins that is.
June 25, 2017, 08:54:50 AM
The answer is pretty obvious,right now it's still Bitcoin and will always be Bitcoin if the current trend continuous, there will be big update on August 1 this is I believe to fix what current bitcoin holders are facing after Bitcoin will continue to hold the number one spot.
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