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With so many coins obtaining a >$1bn marketcap now (29 at time of writing) I see that BTC's dominance is at 50.0%, the other major coins have built up very quickly in the past few weeks and it looks like billions are pouring into different projects in the crypto world, to coins that provide specific solutions rather than being a 'one coin for all uses'.

If this continues I can see Bitcoin eventually equally sharing the market with other niche coins, many have predicted in the past the death of altcoins but they help strengthen the economy and trust in them is now building very fast. I think the time they stop reacting to BTC price movements so drastically is nearly here.

What do you think about the future of BTCs dominance and position as 'main player'?

This is the normal reaction of the market, if all the money into the bitcoin, then encryption monetary cycle is not healthy, the past two weeks into a lot of money, everyone is looking forward to reflect the crypto currency in the future, believe that after a few years there will be several altcoin grow into big unicorn.

I think bitcoin will remain the "main player", but its share may drop below 50%. Bitcoin may become good for investment and store of value ('digital gold'), while altcoins may become media of payment, some of them niche ones.

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you are talking about market capitalization and then using it instead of volume.
what you see as "billions" is the market cap of those projects. the volume going into each of them is way lower than this number. in fact most of them don't even reach a considerable amount. they stay at a couple of thousands. and when they go up they only go up temporarily (2-3 days in most cases) before being abandoned again.

you are confused about market capitalization and sharing the market.
and it is a very unfair comparison. because first market cap is a useless factor for comparing since it is easily misleading. you are practically comparing bitcoin which only has 16.7 million coins in circulation with at least 1500 different coins each have from 100 million to 100 billion tokens which is bloating their market cap and the worst part is that most of their supply is not even in circulation.

definition of being a "strong cryptocurrency" is not having some short term pump and dump and increase in volume for a couple of days and then not a peep out of them.
it means a high volume for long term and sustaining it. it also means being adopted by merchants and be used as a "currency" otherwise why are we even talking about them when they never leave exchanges and speculation!

I think that BTC dominance will be decreased till 30% in the future. BTC price is high and stable so a lot of investors have big interest in altcoins

No other coin will take the Bitcoin place, at least not in the near future, and Bitcoin will remain in the number one position. But since so many altcoins appear all the time and the altcoin market is rapidly growing the procentage of market share might change but not for long term, these values will vary. Some altcoins realy don't "live" long on the market so overal nothing can't significantly disturb Bitcoin position.

The current dominance of bitcoin is 49.4%. Even if the percentage looks small, but in dollar value it is huge. So the market is very dynamic and changes from one range to another within fraction. However, with the rising transaction fees and slower bitcoin network, I doubt bitcoin will be able to keep up with the 50% market dominance. I believe it will start loosing ground slowly to the technologically superior altcoins like ETH or Ripple for faster transaction processing speed. Bitcoin will remains as an investment asset only.

It's hard to stay above 50%. I think it will slowly lose ground to Alts. Bitcoin is great overall, it's the Adam of the crypto world, but, the altcoins are having better functions and lower fees.

Bitcoin is a pioneer, but I think it can only account for 30%

Bitcoin will still be the major or role player in the cryptocurrency world why? Because it stand as the most popular or known coin out there if you ask the people because it is like the major shareholder if you put in a company perspective.

The gap was so far in the previous years, but we see other coins closing in since Bitcoin is so heavy to move now, it requires huge amounts to move prices up or down.

Bitcoin shall and always be number one, every coin looks forward to Bitcoin only. The alts are growing, but they shall never be able to take down the crypto king. I feel it's healthy that the alts are growing, but they lack the potential of Bitcoin and every time they rise, they move it and put it back in Bitcoins. So for me Bitcoins shall always stay on the top, few fluctuations are expected. 

There are many types of cryptocurren. Although the price of bitcoin is highest, the cryptocurrenal market is shared by other currencies. there are many projects and dollars are pouring into other cryptocurren. I think bitcoin will gradually lose it's dominance and not be 50%.

Bitcoin dominance index shows what percentage of the whole cryptocurrency economy is dominated by Bitcoin, that is Bitcoin against 1368 altcoins, of these majority of the coins doesn't have any utility, immature market that is heavily manipulated/pumps and driven by speculation, does this index seem like a reliable metric that represents the growth of Bitcoin? Absolutely not, but it does indicate that the overall crypto market is growing rapidly. A few altcoins are getting genuine attention, but it doesn't mean Bitcoin's popularity or its demand based on current and future utility is declining. A lot of money is flowing into alts also and if we have a total of 3000 alts by the end of next year then obviously BDI would decrease further.

Check the average transaction fee here, and you will get the answer:

https://bitcoinfees.earn.com

Whenever the fee increases, or whenever the number of unconfirmed trasnactions rise above a particular threshold, the market dominance of Bitcoin slides downward. And that is happening right now. During the past 2-3 days, BTC dominance has come down from 61% to 49%.

Interesting correlation and charts about the fees, it's clearly cheaper and quicker to shift money around if it's converted into certain altcoins sometimes. Definitely something to consider when predicting the future movements.

Nothing trust is built in altcoins for strengthening the economy.Instead they are mostly pumped and dumped coins due to which their marketcap some times increases.Earlier,bitcoin's market cap was almost 80% of the total marketcap.Later,it got reduced to 40%.Now,its getting back to 50% is a good sign.Some times,we could see a shift of investors from BTC to BCH when its price gets pumped and then return once again to BTC.Bitcoin's dominance decreases some times due to entry of new altcoins,but very soon such investments would return to bitcoin.Also,we could see bitcoin getting popular all over the world getting new investors and not altcoins.So,in future once again bitcoin dominance would retain to atleast 70%even if it could not reach the older stage of 80%.

in my opinion, why the change in bitcoin price does not really affect the price of other altcoin like before because many investors now focus on Bitcoin Cash. But that does not rule out the growth of bitcoin. This is why bitcoin is capable of developing itself without any other altcoin. But on the other hand altcoin is developing better than in the previous year which may be used in all economic sectors.

Technically, the dominance in percentage doesn't really matter as dominance in price. In the first quarter of this year Bitcoin hovered between 87-93% in dominance of the CMC. In spite of that the price was below $2,000. Now, even with  a much more decreased dominance the price is over $18,000. I think price dominance is what should concern every btc holder and not percentage.

Bitcoin had around 80% of the crypto coins marketcap earlier.But later due to changes in market conditions,it dropped to 40%.Now once again,due to its ATH price as a result of big financial firms like CME,CBOE entering bitcoin market,its mrket has once again started to rise to 50%.I think that it would continue to increase in futureand it may reach 60%.

As we are seeing these days, earning bitcoin becomes more and more hard and getting money through poosting too became limited and with a lot of rules, so i think that the future of the dominance of bitcoin will resist but with a harder way.

Competition is good. If not then bitcoin will not be in this place.
They need something to where they will pour the profits they made from bitcoin.
Since bitcoin price now is so calm then it might be a good idea to diversify.
Actually it is much better than staying with one. It is not about being loyal or what.

we all can not know for sure how bitcoin in the future because until now there has been no provisions and the definite discourse that will guide the future bitcoin

Why do you all think that bitcoin will always have a dominance of more than fifty percent?

It is already below 49,2% right now, and i think that it will keep decreasing only because bitcoin is going down as hell right now (from $20200 to $17300 in just 36 hours)

But it does not change anything, the marketcap is still going up, the marketcap of bitcoin, is going up too., so i can not understand of what are you complaining about.

Even if it keeps it below 50% it will let people make much more money with alts instead of bitcoin.

Probably not. There are a bunch of good altcoin alternatives to bitcoin, so 50% is way too high to keep i think.

Bitcoin is certainly showing it's dominance over all the other cryptocurrencies , and it is very expected from the father of all cryptos to do so . Other coins aren't actually being able to keep themselves in the race with bitcoin , since it ain't the same race anymore nor the same track . Bitcoin has shown to the world that it is beyond any expectation and will continue to do so for the many years to come . Mining new coins is exponentially harder , right along with the investing rate , which won't do but make bitcoin stronger and more dominant in the scene .

Still dropping and coming more in line with the rest of the market, 46.9%, I think it's a good sign that the big money is seeing value in a range of coins that can help different areas of business, services and the economy rather than banking on just one.

This is having its own advantages and disadvantages. Personally, I would prefer a strong Bitcoin, with a market dominance of >60%. Others can have their own place, but they should not pose a threat to the dominance of Bitcoin. However, right now it seems like Bitcoin is under a lot of pressure, especially from Bitcoin Cash.

I think, with bitcoin's popularity now, it can maintain its dominance if people will continue to invest on it. Its investors is its power and without people investing on it,there would be a chance that other altcoins can dominate the industry. Inspite of this, i still beleive that bitcoin can maintain its status now.

on 2017 JUNE 17, the bitcoin market cap was 38%, and Ethereum was around 32% .. this is the one time I can recall it went below 50%

It is highly unlikely, look what is happening today: bitcoin is going down while bitcoin cash is going up to more than 20% value of bitcoin. Eventually I predict bitcoin cash to overthrow bitcoin core as a dominant "bitcoin" because the current situation with network congestion is not sustainable in bitcoin core.

Well I did not verify it myself but if that information is true it would be kind of a milestone for bitcoin and for other currencies as well.

The market cap of bitcoin cannot grow at the same time as its price moves significantly down, becasue the only other factor is the quantity and the increase of the quantity is very slow. Maybe you ment the total market cap of all coins?

Bitcoin is the main coin to use and pretty much all the coins on coinmarketcap has Bitcoin tied to their prices.

The prices has been crazy the whole year, I don't see dominance being an accurate stat to be taken in care on.

It has been historic. More headlines will be made.

We have hit new heights and we had setbacks with countries banning bitcoins in their respective countries. But despite all these, we are still soaring and the most valuable cryptocurrency and it will continue to be for a very long time but i doubt that it is going to stay above 50% forever.

Bitcoin's market capitalization relative to the rest of the cryptocurrency market has risen above 50% for the first time in two months, according to a popularly used metric. CoinMarketCap's Bitcoin Dominance Index has climbed as high as 51.62% today, the site reports. The last time this metric was above the 50%

BTC is still the crypto.  ;D

Btc will still dominated the market, most of the  investors now is investing in alt coins because  the price moves so fast when they finish they will be back to btc, no matter what btc still play important rules to trading because all of the coin can be traded using btc, and btc transactions volume is very huge so btc will keep on dominating the market just wait until the  alt coin stable and we will see btc dominating again

Bitcoin is the leader now and may dominate the market with more than 50% market cap in short term. But in longer term, its market share will very likely drop below 50% due to the emerging alt coins.

Bitcoin based on demand and supply , need long time to be main player.
remember old players can use them bitcoin to stop bitcoin and make more profits from bitcoin.

Dont make false promises about the dominance that bitcoin has, i dont know why it has been decreasing that much during the last few days.

it is below 42% at the moment, this is a very critical situation, i have never seen this kind of situation.

But the price is going down right now, maybe that is the reason of why the dominance is so low..

All the other coins are in red too, so if the domination is going down too, there might be an explanation. Maybe everybody is now switching to other altcoins that are having lower fees