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which digital currency would you say is the best to come out after bitcoin when it comes to useful attributes to the system.

Id be really interested whats a useful thing after bitcoin since i really got out of touch with all the new altcoins coming out.

Is NXT/MSC still a thing?

First, this thread should be in the altcoins section.

Second, this site, http://coinmarketcap.com/all/views/all (http://coinmarketcap.com/all/views/all) should help you to see what is currently in demand.
    NXT still exists and is #12 for market cap.
    MSC is now OMNI and is #34 for market cap.
Of course, demand does not equal what is the best with most useful attributes.

Third, something I saw today worth passing on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gfntBEI3Aw (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gfntBEI3Aw)

I think bitcoin does not need a successor... It will evolve and improve as it goes...

NXT/MSC are nota thing anymore.

and if the blockstream crew have their way "liquid" closed network will be the next thing, followed by their premined sidechains.. and then the crippled bitcoin that they stop improving on

bitcoin do not need any successor. bitcoin is live and will be live long.

1.Bitcoin is not dying roughly 10 years from now,too early to ask this question
2.The successor of bitcoin will only be bitcoin but regulated maybe.
3.If again I had to choose another altcoin I'd go for dodgecoin.

any coin that you see in the coinmarketcap is not a worth successor, ever they are clone, nothing more, they do not offer anything that can not be easily implemented in core

they are a good test tool, like you test the next upgrade of core before releasing it, treat them as RC for future core upgrades

so no, i believe that the next successor is an evolution of bitcoin, or a completely new thing that use not a blockchain but something else that you can not even imagine right now, like you were not able to imagine the blockchain in 2007....

Bitcoin needs various competitors, Then only it would grow high than other cryptcurrencies
in the market which has been developed based on the bitcoin technology

So far, nothing comes close to bitcoin. Bitcoin is the king, and only king.

Nothing even after the Ethereum hype to which they say its revolutionary that they almost say its better than bitcoin?
I guess no one yet had been persuade to move there just for the sake of profit when they pump up.

If bitcoin SOMEHOW dead / unused (which is weird) I'll go to use litecoin or doge.

A lot of complacency in some posts... Bitcoin is well ahead of the pack due to its first mover advantage but with all this fighting going on things could change quite quickly.

Right now ethercoin is the challenger.

some coins look really serious and have good idea to make their crypto really have many users and become a popular currency,such as Neucoin,NXT,XMR,and many other.

Its nothing we've seen yet and i would guess there wont be a successor since everything can be built on top of bitcoin or in conjunction with.  We will probably have centralized competition from banks.

Solidcoin all the way

There should not be a bitcoin successor.  Other than minor changes to the blockchain, nothing can be improved upon from the view point of the consumer. Satoshi planned all of bitcoin's  features ahead of time, and it is his design that made bitcoin a success. If there is a successor to bitcoin, it would be something issued by governments, as where each country would have their own digital currency.  The latter is probably a bad idea, therefore bitcoin should be around for a long time to come, at least in the western world, where if it came down to it, courts would enforce its existence.

It's hard to say really. I never really tried to understand much about Ethereum, because it doesn't really sound like it's a "currency", rather, it's sort of a "database" system prototype.  I'm pretty sure Microsoft bought out Ethereum as a testing ground for their Azure platform.  So, in a way, I'm just not that interested in Ethereum.

I don't want to sound like some kind of shill for an altcoin on here, because I hate when people use FUD to encourage people to buy some of their coin.  But, I personally think the new coin on the block that holds a legitimate value compared to bitcoin would be Monero (XMR).  They are sort of a fork off of DASH, in which they both use the "cryptonote" code.  If you don't know much about the cryptonote system, it's basically a way to anonymize transactions on the blockchain through "ring signatures".  Monero is different because of a group of active devs working together on the codebase... whereas DASH has become sort of stagnant with active development.  

DASH is also pretty well known for being insta/ninjamined at the beginning, so that the very early adopters have an incredible amount of coins under their belt... Monero was a fairly launched coin, which makes it more appealing to other people who weren't the very first people to hear about it.  

If you want to read more about cryptonotes... here's the white paper:
https://cryptonote.org/whitepaper.pdf

Also, here's what's being worked on Monero as of right now; which is Ring CT (way of anonymizing the actual amounts on the block chain) this is being worked on by Shen-Noether... someone in the monero research lab:

http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/bitcoin/Ring%20CT%20for%20Monero.pdf

Again, I really don't care if you guys get into it... I just really like it to help remain anonymous in my transactions, and not have everything publicly available on the blockchain.  A cool tool I use, primarily for buying stuff in BTC, is using my XMR (monero) and using https://xmr.to/  to pay any vendor who accepts bitcoins, and pay with xmr to help remain anonymous.  It just converts how much XMR is worth at the current moment of purchase (in BTC) and pays the vendor in BTC.

Edit: I will have to say though, that it does propose fixes for a couple of the problems that Bitcoin is facing right now... 1) XMR has adaptive blocksizes to adjust accordingly to amount of transactions being done 2) Tail emission features, where the total amount of XMR is added on to in the future to incentivize mining in the future (should be 18 Million coins, and then keeps adding coins as need... where it will get closer and closer to 21 Million over time, but keeps decreasing rewards so it never really gets there).

to be honest none. I think there will be some popular alternatives remaining like Litecoin and Dogecoin but no suitable successor.

Litecoin was and still is a legitimate alternative that has an active user base and has somewhat a different functionality than bitcoin (with somewhat faster confirmations times)... but Doge will never be a legitimate alternative.  It was just a fad that had it's "heyday" in 2014 when the doge "meme" was popular, and garnered a lot of attention from people who just like the meme...  It doesn't have any different functional purpose compared to Bitcoin, it just has millions and millions of more coins... that's the only real difference between the two.

Dogecoin is very popular and I'm a big supporter, if you ask me I'd say it's the second most important coin after BTC  http://coinok.pw

Yup no need of successor and all. It has its own specialty like transparent, Digitalization, User friendly, and many more. I don't know whether it need successor But bitcoin is successful thing among us, that's why we people are crazy about it.
In future there is a chance to rule the all fiat money by bitcoin.

That's cool.  Everybody has their coin that they personally like, but I just don't see anything that makes Doge any better than other copy and paste type of altcoins.  They just increased the number of coins, that has the same functionality of Bitcoin.  And also, I don't know what you were trying to show me with that link, it didn't really have much info, besides selling it, faucets, etc.  ... ???

You can say the same thing about Litecoin or any other coin...

Doge has faster transaction times and it's very popular espacially among youngsters... something to consider.

dodgecoin? thats new to me? Crash free cryptocurrency?

As I stated before, micro transactions are a huge market.
Why should banking let this go?
The are going to revamp the way transactions are made,
and make it standard. Officially.
The Bitblockchain is hosted by private persons for free, and its exceeding 60GB already.
All for FREE. Thats not part of the future.

No, there are other coins out there that is built on different code than Bitcoin... look at any other cryptonote coins, Eth, etc.  I gave my spiel about cryptonote coins on the previous page, maybe you should consider reading that.

Doge is popular among youngsters, it was popular among old folks too during 2014... doesn't make it a legitimate coin though.  I just can't take something seriously, if it is only popular because of some "meme".  Litecoin is a legitimate coin I think, because it was one of the first to propose a coin that can be able to confirm at a faster rate than Bitcoin.  Doge is the same way I think, in that it confirms faster than Bitcoin... but it doesn't give any advantages over Litecoin or Bitcoin, other than that it has a cute little dog attached to it's brand name.

Even though this is an interesting question, still, bitcoin won't disappear very soon.

not very soon. yes.  :D

The way i see it Bitcoin will be used in the future mainly for large payments and will skip the small & very fast payment opportunities as
it is simply not designed and efficient at that. The sidechains just add more third party to it and will centralise things for Bitcoin even more.

The successor / main competitor of Bitcoin will have to excell at all the following :

It needs to have very fast transaction times with very low fees (for both very small and very large transaction amounts)
It needs to be fungeable in order to function as digital money (so each individual coin wont get tainted and possibly loose value because of that coin's history association)
It needs to be as decentralised in setup as possible
It needs to be anonymous as most people and companies value their privacy
It needs to have a strong network with as much full nodes as Bitcoin itself  

Dash already has all these essentials and is adding user-friendly to it as a cherry to the icecake with its next update Dash Evolution

Read more about Dash here : https://www.dash.org/
Info about Dash's masternode network (its network of incentivized full nodes) can be found here :   http://qwizzie.1apps.com/dash/

  






 

I dont think that any altcoin exceed to BTC, But certainly main altcoins joined can exceed to BTC in value some day.

Have a look at the following three alts:
Ethereum, currently number two in market cap offers Smart contracts
Decred, tons of new features to Bitcoin
IOTA, first Coin without Blockchain, for micropayments and Internet of Things

the main reason Doge became popular is due to the fun nature of it. since it was so cheap, i.e many coins per block. people used it heavily and it created a community of active donation and usage. the funding of he nascar car is he bobsled teams are some examples. it was the whole culture behind doge that makes it different. I think the meme part just helps add to the fun nature of dogecoin

Ethereum.  Soon there will be a full ethereum node in every samsung IOT device making it the biggest blockchain. 

There will be no other bitcoin successor. Bitcoin is the successor to itself. It will change all the time to be better.

Wishful thinking.   There are many problems with bitcoin that can never be solved.

My vote is Decred, or MaidSafe's Safecoin.

Bitcoin will remain remain the king of  crypto currency and no crypto currency can succeed it,everytime their are problems facing bitcoin the community always have the solution, we can say alternative but never successor,it's not going to happen..

Noobs saying Ethereum is on challenge to be bitcoin's sucessor

Jesus christ, hahahahahhahahahahahahah stop talking s*it guys please....

Is there any other coin who is not directly clone of btc or ltc?
I mean something completely different?
Are they are all based on blockchain or am i wrong?
Can we see something different in future?

very interesting post,this is the kind of post that will educate newbies like me on what to look for on any crypto currency,newbies and seasoned holders should read this post before they hype on useless coins

Ethereum?

Ethereum is not just a coin. it is a trading platform for smart contracts. So it is more user than bitcoin in some extent.

Don't you Ethereum shills have a Ethereum forum? This spamming is pretty full on

No wait. Sorry you do and it's dead hahaha. No wonder there's so many fan boys spending their days in here hahaha

I think you must first kill bitcoin, and then you can talk about successor..
I mean every coin no matter how good he is will stay second until a Bitcoin heart is beating. :P

I think the bitcoin cannot be killed by external forces. It is a legal property. It can only be killed from within.

Ethereum

We can't talk about Bitcoin in such manner as he is already dead.
He is still alive and all those coins only can take second and third place, nothing more.
They are just clones.

As a matter of fact, XMR is not a fork from dash but from BCN, the first cryptonote coin which have probably been ninjamined/instantmined...
Dash and XMR are both targetting privacy niche but they are very different.

Ethereum is bitcoin 2.0

And who says this?
Ethereum investor and bag holder?
This is some really serious statement. Many could be laughing right now, t
his is bitcointalk not ethereum-talk..

Ethereum IS bitcoin 2.0

There are so many supporters of Ethereum, there could be basis, there could be none but what's important is the support of the community. With the community support, it means that when there's a major dump a lot will still buy it thinking that they're getting at a bargain. I'm not pro-ETH but the way I see with how they push their coin, it's something that other altcoin doesn't have.

I love those self proclaimed successor of bitcoin, especially if they come from ico groupation.
Probably many of supporters are actually investors. This is worse kind of advertising through hyping (spam).
This can be very bad and dangerous for newbies, my advice stay away when you see such hype.
I have saw this many times. 8)

If the Ethereum becomes very popular and many applications are built on its platform, then it can become 2.0.

Would be funny if Ethereum became very popular as it would choke and stop working.

No it wouldn't. Ethereum is being constantly developed.  The scaffolding is already in the code to allow massive scaling.

Amount of resources put behind ethereum is pretty big. Don't see it dying any time soon

The successor to the bitcoin is the bitcoin itself. It will be developed constantly and becomes better and better.

Bitcoin development is stalled.

Ethereum will subsume bitcoin quite quickly.

Although there is constant development in the Ethereum, there is also developments in Bitcoin, the block size will increase to 2MB by next year.

Bitcoin is deadlocked.  Either the chinese miners go bust or the price goes down

O rly? And where else would the Eth pump & co cash out their profits? What else could serve as a safe haven once Ethereum investors start running for the exists?

I don't think you have the foresight to see what the endgame is.

Iota will be the one to be Bitcoins successor. Research it.

We are talking about bitcon successor when it is still in the early stage development. It will be successor to itself.

Bitcoin will have no successor, only technologies and coins that exist with it.  Bitcoin will work out the current issues and the technology is still superior to all coins out there.

Bitcoin coin wont have any successor because bitcoin wont die and will still be used by people no matter how many HYPE alt coin will come in the market.

many have said that about many different coins. don't see what's so special with this

Many coins think that they are really the next big thing next to bitcoin but look at them now they hardly get any sponsor to continue.

No, there is still too much money to be made. This just the beginning...

The best current alternative for Bitcoin is Emercoin in my view. It offers such a bunch of great feature no other coin does at the moment.

These guys don't let others rush them. Potential is there, once added at polo, who knows...
They need a new qt though...

Scalability, quantum resistance, zero fee txs and the list goes on.

Sounds like bitshares.

Iota may have serious consensus issues. Nobody even knows if it will work. Anyone can use the dag/tangle concept.

they bought it for 130sats now pumped it to 3500sats and not even released on exchanges....you will notice the same 20-30 accounts pumping it.

RSCoin will be bitcoin's successor and anybody who disagrees will be tracked, chipped, and dealt with in due course when the re-education facilities are available.

As the bitcoin evolves all the time, so it can become better and better. I would say it will not succeeded by other coins.

Really doubtful if there will be any. Since its being 5 years no one has even come 10% closer to BTC.

I think Ethereum will be bitcoin successor *IF* Bitcoin is dead (which is hard to imagine)

Ethereum is used by microsoft now, one of the biggest company. Not long until Ethereum is used in other companies.

Ethereum will not be bitcon successor as they are different coins for different operations. Bitcoin will evolve.

How many new successors we will see these days? And everyone of them have very good pretensions for the first place, This is impossible even if Bitcoin suddenly disappears. But they still hype their investments.

Bitcoin will be the successor to itself as it will evolve all the time. That is similar to other altcoins.