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Hello,

Most of you are confident with the long term for Bitcoin. Yet some altcoins has the same features so why are you so confident about bitcoin and not about litecoin instead?

I compared them and approximatevily the same assets!
The only difference is that bitcoin was the first, is it that important?

Yes, that is an important factor buddy. Along with this, there has been many important factors as well. Like, i think you know now a days bitcoin has become a very popular cryptocurrency and a very helpful digital payment system than that of litecoin. Many people are becoming dependent in Bitcoin these days.

As a newbie, i think you should gather more and more knowledge about Bitcoin and then come to an controversial discussion about Bitcoin and Litecoin. Then, you alone can differentiate it and understand it more carefully. If you want to know more, follow this link. Then, it will be more clear to you.

Here is those links :

https://99bitcoins.com/bitcoin-vs-litecoin-major-differences/?gclid=CL_I44ah3tQCFQsEaAod0QEKfQ

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin

The answer is simple. Bitcoin is widely used and it is what makes bitcoin more valuable than other crypto-currencies. Bitcoin is better tested on higher volumes and in a longer period of time which makes bitcoin more trustworthy than other crypto-currencies. On paper it is easy to say that all coins are similar, but one line of bad code can be a huge disadvantage and the experiences with bitcoin made it clear that we would not have easily a major problem. To conclude coins don't really produce anything. Their value is based on trust and usage.

Let's say that they are the same that the only difference is Bitcoin being the first one.

The fact is that Bitcoin is more popular, accepted, and has built a nice reputation to the people. Also it has a bright future that is people see the price to surge up to multiple fold in the future that's why they prefer Bitcoin. Also it has been adopted and considered as the main and major cryptocurrency that is with countries who accepted Cryptocurrencies it is more mainly about they accepted Bitcoin. These countries who have announced their acceptance with Bitcoin as a medium for transactions, it added up to the trust of people that it would be more great in the future hence they prefer to invest on it.

Why would you invest in a coin which you are not confident about? People are confident in Bitcoin than any other coins out there.

I would be wary to become overely positive about Bitcoin in the long term. There might be a chain split on August 1st and it's looking very likely.
I think that's an opportune time for altcoins to gather a larger marketcap than Bitcoin, things might get rearranged.

Because we have reason to be confident in bitcoin in which is not present on other altcoins. Yes there is some altcoins that is worth to hold but not too long. The usage of bitcoin is now widely and compare to other altcoins, most of them are used for trading purposes only.

Just because you saw others making profit on other altcoin, it doesn't mean people will used it. For profit yes, but for general purposes, well as now it's lacking to be used of.

Bitcoin is a successful experiment, but litecoin just has reached the ground. In the start itself it gave a threatening to the bitcoin. But it was with a short time period was overcome by bitcoin avoiding the splitting and other issues. In this way think wise and decide which one you'll be selecting to be on the safe side.

For me, bitcoin is the safest coin because it has still exist since 2009... Other coin's price can decrease very fast or coins can just disappear but bitcoin seems to be serve for long years (stable).

A simple example, Bitcoin as USD and Altcoin as other currencies (EUR, GBP, AUD, JPY, CNY ...) in market, you can see USD always more popular than all and Bitcoin too ;)

In Olympics the difference between the first and the second is just a matter of seconds and nothing more but someone will be made reference to than others which is what is happening here and come to think of it, they may share similar characteristics or even came at the same time but the truth need to be said that bitcoin has gone ahead of LTC in all ways which we cannot begin to list and this is something that give basis and ground to btc which makes the trust in it on the increasing side compared to LTC.

Bitcoin really got a headstart and have the most number of users. It's also the more recognizable of the cryptos. Actually most people hear of bitcoin first before they even know there are other cryptocurrencies out there. It's more of the introduction to the crypto world.

Of course as some people here has noted, there is the chance some other coin could over take it because of the split. Still, I don't see it   suddenly just disappearing as many people usually use it to buy other alts and back.

Which makes bitcoin the first to be the popularity of bitcoin to date so that many people who trust this digital coin in the form of a promising investment so that bitcoin value is more valuable than other types of altcoin even though the price has decreased bitcoin will still be used by most people.

Popularity and trust. Investors go to the most trusted quickly so value will grow.
I have this own opinion that when something ages trust grows with it.
Well, even peopl without much knowledge with the crypto currency would surely fall with bitcoin even if they were introduced with an altcoin.
It is like the USD in the crypto world. They want to always compare the price with bitcoin and that says it all.

Seems like you are really a noob OP, they first need to accumulate enough LTC and then the price will start to rise to half of the bitcoin's price, Litecoin is literally the duplicate of bitcoin with algorithm and total supply/ block time and size being the exceptions. just wait a few more years for miners to mine most of the coins and then they will pump it no worries.

Great question.

First, while Litecoin is an altcoin, all altcoins are not Litecoin (or Bitcoin obviously). Litecoin is likely the most viable currency and store of value alternative to Bitcoin. Most of the other altcoins are just copy cats or attempts for a very few people to get rich of a pump and dump initial coin offering.

Please not that Ethereum isn't a monetary currency or coin, so it doesn't fit into the category of alt coins discussed above.

Here's an article on the specific differences between Bitcoin and Litecoin: http://www.coindesk.com/information/comparing-litecoin-bitcoin/ (http://www.coindesk.com/information/comparing-litecoin-bitcoin/)

Some of the data is a bit stale based on the time of the article, but core differences Litecoin has are:

• Ability to handle larger transactions
• Faster block reward time, every 2.5 minutes rather than 10 minutes for Bitcoin
• Merchants don't have to wait as long to confirm transactions
• The proof of work algorithm approach is different

I'm sure others have more differences.

One other thing to consider as a benefit to Litecoin as an investment is that it has not see the appreciation or adoption that has been seen by Bitcoin. Litecoin will have 4 times as many coins as Bitcoin, so the theory is (based purely on if demand becomes equal to that of Bitcoin) the price of Litecoin could achieve 1/4 that of Bitcoin.

You did compare both litecoin and bitcoin and even you found some difference and that is all it needed to make the entire difference on how people accept bitcoin and litecoin ,litecoin is simply a clone of bitcoin .

Yes, some altcoins may be similar to Bitcoin when it comes with the long term investment. However, we are talking about investment here and just saying they are the same would mean that engaging in either of them will give the same end result. The major factor here would be the trust of the community. Many have trusted Bitcoin up until now in contrast with Litecoin. So people will definitely prefer Bitcoin who established strong trust with the people over litecoin.

I think being the first has its perks and others is just an alternative. Some may have copied bitcoin design and improved it a lot but bitcoin has already established and became the dominant crypto's ever. Of course, people will also go for the original and not the copy cat or shall we shall fake. And now the prices is so high that not even one single copy cat coin can ever matched it. Well some have tried, but the flippening did not happen.

Well yes but how many bigger companies and businesses you know that have adopted alt-coin instead of a bitcoin? Bitcoin has the great advantage in the means of marketing and widespread adoption.

If viewed from the side it is true so, but this time we see bitcoin with limited stock only 21 million course, surely its value will rise high for long term, but unlike other appliance most of the stock that lot more than 21 million coin even some Can be added again, this is what makes the difference between bitcoin and altcoin for the long term, therefore I still believe the bitcoin in the future

Im more confident in bitcoin because of one thing, adoption.  Bitcoin being the first mover to decentralized blockchain had cater most of the people that is involved in cryptocurrency plus the number of developers commiting and proposing ideas on its github.  Meaning there are lots of supporters to bitcoin that some altcoin is missing.  The adoption of some nation to acknowledge bitcoin as money or legal tenders is another thing.

Are litecoin and bitcoin the same assets? The only difference is the date of establishment? Oh my god, the most weird statement I've heard in bitcointalk forum so far.

Bitcoin has a community and demand dude! Litecoin not.

exactly, people always looking for the original and original always better than the copy cat, that's the reason why people prefer to choose bitcoin as a long term investment instead of investing on litecoin. litecoin might be better than bitcoin if it can offering something different feature that community need like other altcoins did, now litecoin is a good alternative for sending small amount since bitcoin isn't suited for small transaction.

Also the fact that litecoin doesn't really offer much above what bitcoin already does. Being first is an advantage but a coins success depends also on what it offers and litecoin could overtake bitcoin if it really offered something substancial that bitcoin couldn't or wouldn't do.

At the end of the day its more or less a clone and it can't be as successful as a clone that started up second.

Yes it is one of many important things, all other altcoins created in order to catch up with bitcoin.
People familiar with bitcoin, they trust to put Million of dollars into bitcoin which make it rise.
The idea of decentralized digital currency as an alternative, separate from bank or government systems.
Another factor is the highest price of bitcoin, been around for years and used for many purpose besides trading.

I think bitcoin will last for a long time, why I say so think about it myself, how long bitcoin known, of course we can judge that bitcoin can still be stable until now, so why should we doubt

Much has been said that perhaps there are many altcoins similar to bitcoin, and there are some others who claim that there are new altcoins with better features than bitcoin, but without doubt the benefit of being the pioneer and the best positioned as well-recognized brand around the world  only belongs to bitcoin. It is something very similar to what happens with fiat currencies. Perhaps the Swiss Franc or the Japanese Yen have better support than the American dollar, but they will never be able to displace it as the most popular and best accepted currency in the world.

The main reason is that bitcoin has been tested universally in different conditions in different volumes.More over,it has gained trust all over the world which is very much difficult to gain even without government support.No body wants to take any more risks as they are already satisfied with features bitcoin has provided them like low transaction fee,decentralized nature,instant transfer to any parts of the world.Only if they find a major problem with bitcoin,they would think of using another altcoin.

The argument of altcoins being superior to bitcoin does not really work at all - as you said, bitcoin was the first. All altcoins are essentially based off bitcoin no matter how distant they seem to be apart from bitcoin, and a lot of them fail to recognize this fact and keep focusing on how superior their techonolgy is.

Altcoins can be great short term bets, sure, but definitely not long term.

Litecoin used to be the next big thing, remember? But now, it's behind Ethereum and Ripple. The argument of altcoins being better than bitcoin in the long term is the same as platinum/palladium being superior than gold/silver. It might be rarer and be able to used in many more applications, but there is no trust in them as monetary mediums.

Maybe your right that bitcoin and litecoin almost have the same attributes or same assets, and that is an important factor. But bitcoin is more known or popular and more subscribed cryptocurrency and it really have many achievements more than litecoin.

Litecoin is just a back up for me and yes i do invest in litecoin too and i am confident in long term both bitcoin and also litecoin but the secret for this choosing method is the popularity and the community as well as the market capitalization of a coin so if the coin has a high market capitalization then it is more like has more chance to pump rather than other coins.

Currently, Bitcoin is the best and most popular cryptocurrency. That is because it is the most widely used and accepted. That isn't something that you can say about basically any other cryptocurrency out there. However, that doesn't mean that it will forever be the most widely use and accepted currency. I definitely believe that some altcoin will overtake it and for that reason, I don't keep all my money in Bitcoin and instead invest into altcoins such as Ethereum, Dash and Monero. I don't see Litecoin as a good investment, but that is just my opinion.

Also, being the first cryptocurrency doesn't mean anything and it could easily be overtaken at anytime.

As a human being we would really normally go for the first and bitcoin isnt only the first but yet a crypto that last already 8 years and we did already witnessed its journey all over the years have passed and yet its still kicking and becomes more valuable and its really normal for people to choose whose stronger compared to alts we can say that they do have some similarities but no alt could able to equal on bitcoins progress.

Several reasons:

- Most altcoins are for-profit projects, designed to benefit the founders and the team around them. Therefore they usually run ICOs before anything is even released to public. All there is is promises of a good coin, and that's it. This contrasts with bitcoin drastically.
- Altcoins die off periodically. There are hundreds of dead altcoins that were considered good in the past.
- There is only need for decentralized payment processing, really. I really don't see the point of smart contracts etc.
- Altcoin are "altcoins". They'll never achieve the status nor the trust of bitcoin.

Yes, it is important which of them comes first because whichever did, the first one will be the one that has been used first, so people are already used in bitcoin and even though you say both of them have the same features, it will be a more reason not to try litecoin right ? Imean why will you try something new that is also the same with the previous one. Also, TBH bitcoin has more advantage than litecoin and other countries that are accepting them know that.

Thank you all for your answer.

To sum it up what makes bitcoin valuable is the community as I understood.
I bought my first bitcoins today ! 3mBTC but I'm very disappointed because the fee to put it on a wallet is 1mBTC, around 3$! Thank you Kraken!

Being the first is important. So one of the reason why bitcoin is popular is it because it iss the first digital currency. Long term investment is very effective and many people knows about that.

Well they're probably the same and good for long term holdings but personally i haven't researched much about litecoin yet so i'm nit yet too confident in holding fir long term. Btc has been here for quir a while now and a lot of people are interested in it already as well as some countries so as of the moment i thnk btc is more stable and secure.

Just think for litecoin as a copy of it then you are good to go. There is nothing we can think about litecoin because it is just a copy of bitcoin and i think it is also a good back up for the bitcoin users and we all know that litecoin has a small fees and also a fast transactions because of the segwit that gets activated few months ago so it is a good alternative coin for bitcoin if bitcoin will die then i will just go to litecoin.

Yeah you're slightly correct. Being popular is a advantage to the bitcoin. This is the reason why many investors are prefer to invest their money to the bitcoin and also this is the reason why conquered the crypro world.

Many analysts say that some alternative coins are very promising now. I, too, would prefer to invest in young coins, which have not yet risen significantly. But I know that this is a risk. And if you invest in bitcoin, the risk is not so strong

Most alt coins are unknown, some may even possess better characteristics compared to bitcoin but due to low adoption and usage by the public they may just die off. Bitcoin has done the hard part by dragging itself from obscurity. The rest are only riding it's waves. A few like monero,  eth, dash will break through.

Do you know who was the second person to put his step on the moon? Well, you will take a paus before telling the answer or may be you don't even know the answer. So what makes up this question? Well Neil Armstrong was the first and his name is on your toung because he was the FIRST. Yes it matters a lot in the race of coins. Bitcoin has went all over the head of people and it has given them freedom to choose and profit to them. Lite coin is secondary to everyone and they won't believe in it so easily as long as it gives back big trust in the form of profits, gains etc.

I feel these few listed altcoins only dangerous for bitcoin due to high growth rate from the past few months. Especially Etherum has been emerging as project (smart contracts), cost wise and usage.
If we wish bitcoin live longer we need to stay away from any altcoins that we reduce the demand of any altcoins and bitcoin's demand will increase to moon level.

The reason that we know that bitcoin will be ok long term is due to the nature of the code that is publically available.

We know that every certain amount of years the bitcoin block reward goes in half. The reason this happens is because it provides a deflationary currency that people know what will happen. The USD for example goes down in value because we continually print more money and go into huge debts. BTC isn't in huge debt and the amount of BTC created is steady and knowable. The reason the USD is worth less and less each year is because it is random and always too much. BTCi is just the right amount and we know what it will be = far less risk.

Beyond BTC being secure and all that, we know how many BTC will exist 10 or 20 years from now. Making it a sure thing. That is why it holds value and will continue to do so. More and more people are switching to online payments and online ordering and this will only help further the btc usebase.

The answer is plain and simple and a big yes. It is the first and it already has build its reputation while the other altcoins are still trying to build their own. It also took a couple of years for bitcoin to stay where it is so don't question or argue why people chose bitcoin and are confident with bitcoin for long term investment than those other altcoins, you wouldn't be here in this forum if not for bitcoin too.

I think it's not so important to be the first. There are many coins which are more developed in technical sense than bitcoin. But keep in mid that bitcoin started it's "career" almost 10 years ago and LTC and ETH are kids if to compare them with BTC. I am sure one or even some of altcoins may replace bitcoin one day and get even more success, but I can't tell you now when exactly it will happen.

The possibility for that to exist, because there are some coins that have a performance system and have good progress for the future, either as an investment or trading altcoin.
But bitcoin as it remains will be king of all altcoin circulating in cryptocurrency

Usually because bitcoin is still the number one cryptocurrency. People still believe it can never be replaced even buy a new and better alt-in.

Bitcoin being the first and the most trusted crytocurrenc which are some of the greatest contribution to the cryptocurrency world, and in fact even to the world itself. Bitcoins's blockchain is something really revolutionary.

Many altcoins are pretty much Bitcoin copycats

So Bitcoin has an obvious advantage of being the first comer. But it is not only that. There are quite a few coins which might be considered a lot better than Bitcoin in certain aspects (e.g. anonymity, cheap fees, fast confirmation times). But these features don't significantly increase the popularity of these coins and the reason for that is quite simple. Bitcoin is primarily a tool for speculation, and its use as a vehicle for profiteering by far outpaces its other uses. And you can easily see that all these advantages that many altcoins have are completely inconsequential to this use (i.e. speculation)

It is a matter of trust.

Yes, there are many altcoins out there that has the same feature as Bitcoin that is good for long-term investments. However, if it is not trusted by the people then you might get profit very slow or will not profit at all. Since Bitcoin was around before these alts came to existence, Bitcoin is trusted by the most people so they prefer Bitcoin over others. Having the same potential as long-term investment does not mean the have the same ROI within a specific span of time.

i do not think that there is any reason that compare bitcoin to nay other altcion. bitcoin is in fact the mother of all the coins, and all the people are revolving around bitcoin, even those people who are investing their money in altcoin for trading purpose but still they are using bitcoin for trading altcoin therefore bitcoin is the number one crypto currency and will remain as number one for ever.

Bitcoin is the pioneer of crypto currencies, it has been around longer than any coin, the popularity of this coin is already high the trust level on this coin is also high, but the main reason people choosing bitcoin is because bitcoin has proven to survive multiple obstacles and it always survive and become stronger and bitcoin got a huge supporters

The scenario is that, when someone heard about cryptocurrencies for example he heard about etherium and thought curiosity of course he will know about Bitcoin too, and because Bitcoin has the most users and has the highest value then he will fall in love with btc and will research more about it and if he has money, he will invest it. Being first is always has a difference in the second, of course there are some cases that the newest version is always the best but btc gained trust and been the major cryptocurrency through the years, it is possible to beat that but it will be tough.
I'll be storing more btc.

With that being said, bitcoin kind of happened before the banks were aware of it, it crept up on everyone. Bitcoin is a goverment/bank nightmare; funds whizzing around not attached to socials, capital flight, and citizens hiding assets. In other words, hard to regulate. ETH and XRP are mutable in that regard.

Bitcoin is the oldest and most generally trusted blockchain; that's why it will always be here. But it won't necessarily be the most popular blockchain forever, that will be a corporate sponsored blockchain, and most likely Ethereum.

If Google makes a coin, ID drop bitcoin like a bad habit. Because Google and it's coffers simply wouldn't let that coin die.

You are right about some altcoins having the same features about bitcoin. In fact, there are some that have better features when compared to bitcoin but people are more confident with the long term for bitcoin just because it has built it's trust and bitcoin has proven multiple times already that even if price goes down, it will go up again someday and other altcoins are only bitcoin copycats or just a hyped coin. Even if you compare bitcoin and other altcoins, bitcoin would still prevail at least for now. There is still a possibility that someday a new altcoin will dethrone bitcoin. That being said, I don't think it would be litecoin because it only got segwit implemented, nothing more and many altcoins are better than litecoin too.

Being the mother (or father) doesn't mean that it will always be at the top

As I said above, many altcoins are technically better than Bitcoin, but this alone doesn't guarantee their popularity since Bitcoin is popular not because of its technical edge (there is none), but simply because it happens to be the most popular coin as a means of speculation. And in this regard specifically, the first comer is the first to receive most of popularity and success (that basically explains why Bitcoin is still No. 1 even if it is technically inferior to some coins). But this cuts both ways, apparently, i.e. if Bitcoin loses its appeal as a speculative asset, for example, it starts bringing constant losses while some other coin gradually rises in price despite Bitcoin going down, Bitcoin will quickly lose its popularity. This is the real thing which every Bitcoin user should remember

actually I think also so we get something original then it will be better and good impact anyway. bitcoin is great for long-term investment because of the bitcoin very profitable. but for the litecoin, but also great for litecoin very nice for a small transaction compared with bitcoin. for now litecoin is indeed great for particular communities but one day maybe bitcoin will be very useful to the wider community with a large transaction.

The answer still : first one become more popular and trusted than others, because its decentralized system even though there are a lot of altcoins copied this idea. And yes, if bitcoin start to fall down, altcoins will follow to decline as well, because people see it as the standard of cryptocurrencies. Altcoins could exceed bitcoin if the price could reach Bitcoin level, like $2500 right now, but that's hard to achieved due to people trade altcoins to get bitcoin in the end, simply because bitcoin more popular and worth more than others.

If we look Bitcoin history since it was created it's worthing on long term even more and the AltCoins pattern is the same since it was created too (always in second plan while Bitcoin rules). Bitcoin have built reputation, smart investors, developers are interested on it, maybe because when they started having interest in Crypto-Currency, they chose Bitcoin as it was the first Crypto-Currency and all the rest was like a copy of it.

I see Bitcoin like Coca Cola and all the AltCoins like the another sodas. They are all soda, but Coke has something special, Bitcoin the same.

I don't think this is actually required

Price as such is not a very good metric on its own. For example, Bitcoin's monetary supply equals 21M coins while Litecoin's 4 times as much, i.e. 84M coins, therefore, to be on equal terms with Bitcoin (provided the same number of coins is circulating), Litecoin should cost around 500 dollars per coin (with Bitcoin at 2,500). but even this monetary supply against price parity is ultimately irrelevant. What is really relevant and decisive here is how many dollars a coin is able to attract. In this way, if Litecoin (just an example) starts to attract more dollars than Bitcoin and this is not a one-off event, then Bitcoin is set to lose in due course where it is at its best right now

The cryptocurrency market could be anything. The value of these currencies is determined by demand. Bitcoin was the first and therefore the demand is more after the price increase of bitcoin transaction, the situation may change. This is assuming that we do not yet see the active struggle of national currencies with cryptocurrencies.

but we can hope that the situation will be in favour of bitcoin, because of the interest of the people, the interest of the people is increasing from time to time and hope that with the passage of time more and more people will start taking interest in bitcoin which will increase the popularity of bitcoin more. so we need to invest more money in bitcoin as its price is expected to increase more.

Bitcoin will still be the king in the market and even there is a lot of coins that can be a great competitor for bitcoin, it will not become easy for them to defeat or dethrone bitcoin because people are only focusing on what is on the top and that is bitcoin so i think it will take a lot more years before we can see an altcoin that is close to the bitcoin.

when you talk about bitcoin versus the altcoins in general it is about how most of these altcoins are flawed and have many bugs. you can see the noisiest coin around called ethereum and how flawed it is and how the transactions have all been stuck for over a week and lots of others problems that this and many other altcoins have.

when you talk about bitcoin versus specific altcoin like litecoin there are still some minor issues but in the end it is all about the adoption. bitcoin has it and litecoin doesn't. that is why Charlie Lee is hard at work these days trying to advertise litecoin to others and make them adopt it. and as a coin gains real world adoption and starts being used more by merchants, starts processing more transactions and most importantly when it went under attack for 3-8 years and survived then it can be a valid competition.

Yes, its the demand of bitcoin differs from other altcoins.
There's a high demand nowadays of bitcoin but limited in supply while other altcoins are low demand but high in supply because of this the rate of btc is affected.
Therefore bitcoin is the top cryptocurrency not to mention its establish platform.

Actually long term investment are more better when we put our money in those things which are more secure , more reliable , more safe , and also have a better technology algorithm .And also with this a big responsibility also a big matter for users.
Here you can take the example of the ETH coin that It is increasing , but still you should see what happened in the start of this week .
And many bad news came in the market ( since eth is safe and secure ) and now it came at original trust with the holders .
So here we have more trust with btc then in eth , dash or in another coins ( since most of them are safe like the Bitcoin ) .
So we always prefer to use Bitcoin for long term investment and also ita use increasing and legalisation in country are only for Bitcoin not for every coin or altcoins .

This is not the only way to become popular

It is likely the best way to get there in an absolute sense (i.e. without taking into account the competitors), but so far even Bitcoin itself couldn't make it. The other way is pretty much along the same way as Bitcoin itself got to the top, and (what is more important) managed to stay there. I refer to its value which it received via pure speculation (as opposed to the adoption by real economy, i.e. as a means of payment by merchants). In this way, Litecoin (since we talk about it here) doen't need all that if its aim is just to take over Bitcoin. Technically, to do that it, it should just switch speculative money flows from Bitcoin to itself, i.e. start to receive more cash (or just "outperform" Bitcoin here). If more money gets poured into it over long enough timeframe, it will become more popular than Bitcoin purely as a speculative asset (that's what Bitcoin itself is about right now). This is sort of a shortcut to popularity

Not only the Bitcoin is a value growth for investing but now a days several other altcoin also in the way of child stage that was in bitcoinsome other years back also. So for now Eth is good bet.

Yeah , I will also say that Bitcoin is anesthesiology option for the long term investment , it is because we have trust with the Bitcoin then with any other coin .
Bitcoin was the first coin which entered in the internet world and after that many other useless coins enter  .
So Bitcoin has a big support of the investors and big secured algorithm that making the Bitcoin separate from other coins .
No doubt that other coins like doge , litecoin , blackxcoin , ripple , monero , 1337 , rdd existing from long ago and also have better technology but still they are not growing , I mean investors in trading are not going for such types of the coin .
So here we should hold Bitcoin only because people are using more than any other coins .

Indeed,bitcoin has a good potential if compared with altcoin primarily as an investment in the future, even today some countries have adopted bitcoin as a digital currency that have to legality and has a function similar to the real currency, this certainly gives impact Positive for development of bitcoin in the future.

If bitcoin overcomes current issues it has very good perspective for the future. It will stay the strongest cryptocurrency with highest value. Adoption will rise and so will the price, also some countries will regulate bitcoin or at least try to regulate it and to my opinion banks will be interested for Bitcoin too.

What you said, but not Bitcoin. Maybe Ripple or Ethereum ;) I agree it will most likely retain the highest price, but I think the crypto that corporate America adopts will be one of its own inception. Bitcoin is great, established, and trusted. But the very nature of bitcoin makes banks and government wary of it (pseudonymous, non reversible, non regulatable and deflationary). We will see our blockchain in everything, give it a decade. But bitcoin may not be the king at that point.

And I'm not mad at that. As long as it persists, and confidence in cryptos grow, our investments will be safe ;)

Your comparison of the two and arriving at the conclusion is based on what you wanted to believe but that cannot be the only factors why others prefer on to the other. In my own case, when I started with crypto currency, and I was exposed to faucets, did I see any LTC faucets? NO but only bitcoin, did I get involved on LTC dominated forum? No but BTC now tell me, if I want to keep my investment and I have to choose of the two, which one will I go for? Definitely bitcoin.

Yes in fact the system of bitcoin is actually the best reason for people to have a long term basis in bitcoin. We all know that bitcoin is the most reliable crpto-currecny ever exist because its the first coin that established a name and price in the market. So it proven and tested for transaction in volume and stock. So the reality is bitcoin can be developed more as more people will support and trust its long term system making it as a well developed currency in the near future.

Why I choose bitcoin other than coins, not without alasa I choose bitcoin because bitcoin can be used as a benchmark for every other coin to be seen more clearly the price in the market, and bitcoin is always stable in price increase in the market, We know now for the development of very good bitcoin from year to year, some other coins are not as good as bitcoin, and limited stock of bitcoin for now is not easy to get bitcoin, that's why many of them still believe And hold bitcoin for savings or investment long-term

Your argument 'the crypto that corporate America adopts' have a deep logic, I never thought about it in this way. Strong countries can do many things on blockchain, bitcoin is the first and now we have a lot of different coins, what actually stops some country to make it's own coins, and with money that corporate America poses and with power to force companies, banks and people to use that coin they can dominate on the scene probably like they dominate with dollars now. Why did you mention ripple, that coins is very cheap at the moment to be compared with ETH or BTC, at list I think that.

One need to understand nothing in this world is immortal. Bitcoin being an IT product which is very volatile industry is no exception. It may happen in future that bitcoin would demote by any other cryptocurrency or some better technology.
"Motorola was first company to invent mobile but it is not the most famous at present."

I don’t think monero and dash could be the one who can come to cross the way of bitcoin nor do I think ETC is much stronger. Bitcoin is the first one in bringing the new technology and making people accept the crypto technology. The rest are just copying bitcoin but are not much trusted for the transaction or to be held for a long time. Bitcoin have made its way to success and is quite smartly crossing all the hurdles.

Without discussing technical differences the users base  is much broader than any other including the one you mention, in that sense everyone can have his own argument and probably most of them will coincide on the same. Hence users base might be a good argument.

First of all, bitcoin has the most trust out of every single altcoin. Altcoins are essentially a zero sum overall game that speculators play, because it is so volatile. Bitcoin's price volatility is already criticized by a lot of bitcoin skeptics, and altcoins' volatility is just on a different level.

Being teh first cryptocurrency around means that bitcoin has the largest user base, probably many times more than Ethereum which is the 2nd largest crypto by market cap. Altcoins wouldn't exist without bitcoin, their idea is all based off bitcoin's.

Not sure if you are aware of this either, but a lot of the hype recently is generated from ICOs which are designed to benefit the founders and the core team of an altcoin. The fact that altcoins are for-profit and bitcoin is not, makes a huge difference as well. No matter how advanced the technology is, people will always only need bitcoin. These are all arguments as to why you should hold btc instead of alts in the long term. People thought litecoins were a good long term bet, they thought namecoin and peercoin were groundbreaking as well, but ultimately they all fell.

The exact same reason why people are reluctant to move to bitcoin.

To break people's habits and beliefs in something that they have touched first is extremely hard. People have used fiat since they were growing up and it's probably the first currency that they've ever used. Therefore, trying to sell the idea of bitcoin to someone can be hard, especially to older people.

But the major difference is that bitcoin is groundbreaking technology. It is the first functional cryptocurrency to be based on blockchain technology. All the altcoins are just derived from the idea of bitcoin. And plus, they'll always be called an "altcoin", instead of a much nicer name of bitcoin.

In the long term, bitcoin price will rise steadily. Though in hte short term you might see major fluctuations from one halving to another.

Litecoins still seem to be a good bet

Especially if things go decisively wrong for Bitcoin (which is far from being completely impossible). Aside from that, I can't agree that "people will always only need bitcoin", no matter what. As to me, it is not so much about technology (the same Litecoin is already more advanced than Bitcoin), as about profits. People will need Bitcoin only as long as it continues to bring profits in the long run. If it fails and some other coin fills the void (i.e. starts to consistently bring more profits than Bitcoin), folks will quickly forget about Bitcoin. Don't get delusional about that

with Litecoin will never reach to the power of bitcoin you know why. It seems like you are comparing son his father. Threading is given by everyone who are the competitors. Competitors never want to see that his opponent going well therefore litecoin started threatening to bitcoin.Because Litecoin what to take a place of bitcoin and now bitcoin is totally safe.

Recently is seemed the son is gathering more and more people. As i can see there are more and more people thinking about litecoin right now and it is surging !

And frankly btc is great but it has also served as the starting grounds for any cryptocurrencies  out there. Lets face it everyday we are advancing specially technology. We cant simple avoid some facts that btc will not always be  number 1 but creators of btc will always have the upper hand. Its not the technology thats gonna make it famous but the creators themselves. Lets not just focus on creation, try knowing the creators first for smarter approaches towards anything.

Bitcoin been the first is very important! Currently bitcoin is servings as a gold standard for others altcoin. Bitcoin has face alot of challenge and overcome them All  because of one thing " the owner or founder was not greedy" not just like owners of different ICO or new project we are having today. Major of them are selfish and interest on personal profit instead of collective benefits.

Yes it is an important factor since bitcoin is the first and leading crypto-currencies that is why a lot people are confident that bitcoin will get on a long term and can be alive in a long run, for sure it will have a good value for the future. Maybe litecoin needs to have more advertisement to do. But as of now bitcoin is recommended as many people are using it and they know how bitcoin they do a lot.

I thought I chose bitcoin because it was the first and indeed very promising, maybe now many crypto currencies exist in the internet world, but they are of course in some beside different from bitcoin, now peoples have known Bitcoin extensively, so they would prefer bitcoin Than others. And one of the guarantees of crypto currency is that they have been legal to use, and currently bitcoins have been legal in some countries. So bitcoin is still better for me.  ;)

Adoption is key.  Same reason why useless USD fiat is #1 over other useless fiat currencies.  It's just accepted by more of the world (global reserve).

At the end of the day, I think that the asset based crypto's like Golem or Angur or Storj will eventually become very popular, since there is a purpose in the processing power dedicated to it.  Bitcoin requires a lot of processing power, which doesn't have an underlying purpose, other than being secure.

Bitcoin is now popular and best cryptocurrency, so its majority and chooses the long term. But no one can say exactly what will happen to him in a few years, so some people buy other currencies for subsistence.

The answer is simple. Bitcoin without any doubt is the most popular cryptocurrency out there which makes it the best crypto to invest in. Bitcoin is the oldest cryptocurrency and is one of the fastest growing investment. Bitcoin can yield maximum returns in long run.

Why do you trust bitcoin? Do you want to earn yourself some money or otherwise make money or own a property. When you have a goal and learn about bicoin, then be assured about it. This is a digital currency, not a virtual currency that people think. When you want to have some money to spend, you can sell a bitcoin that you hold and convert into cash or can participate in translations to make money. And work hard every day.

Yeah we don't know what will happen with bitcoin for a few years but as of now I am enjoying to earn bitcoin and if bitcoin will fail me sooner or later I guess bitcoin will make way to improve again.

todays bitcoin is really popular among people and tomorrow bitcoin will become most famous. with many benefits from bitcoin, people can use bitcoin as an investment or make money in short way. many people hoping that they can make a big money but if they are make a wrong decision, then they need to waiting for a while because bitcoin and other coins is changing the price too often so if they want to sell their bitcoin to make money, make sure that we can sell at high price.

The ratio of altcoin will be equivalent to bitcoin if the coin can be a benchmark of other altcoin conversion, the belief in this pair will encourage the enthusiasm of newer coins to engage with it, for example we can see from the smart contract ethereum, But judging from the increase in volume, bitcoin is still far superior, not as easy as expected.

Simply because bitcoin has stabilize its name in the market. Playing major role in the crypto world and of course bitcoin is the first considering its originality not a copy cut and trusted by many.

I believe so, I agree with you that there are other altcoins there in the cryptocurrency world in fact some are better than Bitcoin. But the main difference is that separates Bitcoin to others is that Bitcoin has the largest demand of them all, you can see how the prices are compared to other which means it has a greater demand compared to others. That is the benefit of being a pioneer in the market they are the ones who gets more attention or popularity as Bitcoin is the face of cryptocurrency.

This benefit wouldn't last long on its own

For example, there were quite a few companies in the past which had been pioneers in some field, but most of them got eventually crowded out, forced into oblivion by more successful descendants that came after them and then completely forgotten by society. Bitcoin has been successful mostly because it didn't face serious development issues until lately while other coins couldn't suggest anything beyond imagination which would attract a lot of people. Basically, other coins couldn't offer long-term profitability comparable to or exceeding that of Bitcoin

Bitcoin has the best team of developers, altcoin developers often screw up and have to do hard forks, and they might even be very centralised, like Ethereum. So there's much more than just history to Bitcoin. Bitcoin also has the biggest amount of nodes, miners and hashing power. meaning it's the hardest coin to attack, while smaller coins could be an easier target.

The most powerful corporations in the market are those that have a very long history. There are certainly cases when the descendants of the more successful, but this is the exception to the rule. People always trust the long history of the company and therefore the name and the history of the company is very expensive.

Actually, bitcoin is more feasible in the long term than altcoin. Most altcoins have no longevity and tend to be scam, so it is very risky if for the long term. Although there are some altcoins such as ethereum, litecoin, etc. that have a future but not as good performance bitcoin if in the long term. Especially in the last 4 years bitcoin prices have increased every year, so it is also convinced that bitcoin is feasible for the long term. Actually the difference is not only bitcoin is the first, but also the adoption of bitcoin which is bigger than altcoin.

I basically agree with that

That's what I tell myself, i.e. that corporations are inherently immortal and immoral (unlike us, humans), and the older they grow, the more powerful they become. That's why it is so hard for a generic human to beat a company (and still harder an old and well established corporation), they are like vampires that become only stronger with age. But that doesn't mean that these corporations were pioneers in their respective fields. For example, do you know which was the first company to produce an automobile in the US? It was Oldsmobile which was purchased by General Motors as early as 1908

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Pioneers rarely make it to the top

You mentioned very good arguments in a very simple and clear way, if I would add one thing would be the simplicity of use for the common user if we relate it against others coins, if we talk about arguments outside of that context perhaps we should mention as an argument the fungibility which is what is required for common transactions, I guess.

Bitcoin is the first it is a big impact for me in choosing where to invest bitcoin is there since day one and it never turned me down i've got a lot of profit since then. Bitcoin is genuine and litecoin is an innovation same with the other altcoins, genuine will always be the best for me and i trust it the most. Bitcoin is the legend for me And legends never die.

Of course it's the most important thing that bitcoin came first and had the opportunity to be a monopoly for a while thus being the most known and trusted for internet users before becoming an oligopoly with the arrival of other crypto currencies . We still witness the dominance of bitcoin and it's ability to maintain a growing trajectory through time surpassing all expectations and increasing it's market cap day by day . Bitcoin is sitting on the throne of cryptos and will remain on it for many years to come .

that's not the main problem, it's true some altcoins have the same features as bitcoin and even some coins emerging always want to beat bitcoin but here we should know that bitcoin is the king of many coins because bitcoin is anonymous without anyone knowing, altcoin need bitcoin

Crypto is the first example of money in terms of Bitcoin, but Litecoin silent silence gained much value, the number of users increased, there was a value between 3-4 dollars a night. If Litecoin's advertisement was made, it would be $ 300.

Bitcoin is not fully anonymous because transactions can be traced. It was not deisgned to be fully anonymous. Some altcoins offer full anonymity.

Ultimately, features are a moot point when compared to bitcoin's increasing value.

In layman's terms, bitcoin is the original digital currency. Where in it is having the main functions of crypto currency
Altcoins in the other hand are copies and are added with features that bitcoin lacks.
Well most people including myself, thinks that it's a good thing for the are trying to develop its flaws for other possibility purposes but it was set in our minds that the original's foundation remains the strongest.
It's like people buys original brands than imitations.
Imitations gives you cheaper and short time benefits. But with the original branded things, it's for a long term keeps.
This is based on my opinion though.

It is not only you who believes in bitcoin. In fact there are number of people who actually believes in bitcoin including me. It is because of the reason that bitcoin has and is helping all of its investors in making as much amount of money as they want to. The way bitcoin is making such a good reputation in the international market as well as investors, I am very much sure that bitcoin is going to have a very bright future.

Its much easier now to convince anyone how effective and reliable bitcoin now, it can be googled everywhere, news were started to be seen in magazines and in television as well as popular personalities started to use it, i guess those who are not risk taker will only left in doubt.

Yes, it totally matters into that. Knowing that if you are on top, most probably you can do a lot of things without limitations. Bitcoin is soaring wildly and nobody could stop for this. Though they are digital currencies but in some features and capabilities in gaining profit is very far from each other. Of course, everyone will go to the one that provide more rather than of providing less.

Yes we are confident enough to think that bitcoin is for long term investments than any other cryptocurrencies,its already proven from time to time..It is widely known and used in the market through its existence until now it proves that it really make people profit.Litecoin or some other cryptocurrencies will never exist without the idea and platforms of bitcoins thats why bitcoin has earn the trust of people than any other altcoins.

For me the reason why i chose Bitcoin rather than Litecoin are first Bitcoin was the first cryptocurrency therefore though litecoin has the same features like Bitcoin it is still a clone of Bitcoin (this is my opinion about the two). Second reason is that the Strength of Bitcoin it was proven over and over how Bitcoin survive those attacks. Well lets just hope that someday Litecoin will reach Bitcoin in the future.

I really don't see much difference between bitcoin and some of the altcoins that have same potential like bitcoin other than that, bitcoin was the first & the most likely the digital money known to most people and that keeps helping its popularity.

Other digital currency have the potential to do well like those who have low supplies at the moment. This is actually a wake up call to investors that some altcoin can spin - out money in the future and not necessarily only litecoin. The likes of SIC etc.

Bitcoin has first mover advantage, which is something that cannot be understated. If you ask around, most people have only ever heard of Bitcoin. The name is already a brand known worldwide (but not in mainstream yet).

That doesn`t guarantee anything going into the future, as it might change in the next 3-5 years.. But for now and the near future, Bitcoin will remain at the top.

In actual you can found easily many coins with same technology but still we need to see toward the another factor that they are making thm more useful , more powerful , more stable , more fast , more realiable .
Here if a coin getting launch than the demand of the coin depends upon the features of the team that have how much experience and how much the owner invested money in the coin to make more better ( hosting data and faster network to have )  and also here marketing is a big thing .
We can see that many coins have same technology that the bitcoin have , but still are unknown like coins , so here we can understand well that how much they are stable and reliable in the public .

We cannot really tell when will the mainstream adoption will happen, but what we are seeing now is that bitcoin is progressing and we should be thankful of what it has already achieve now as that means people are trusting it with their investment. I have my bitcoin for long term hold, I don't know when I can sell this but I have a big target of price before I sell it and I optimistic it will happen in the next 10 years.

I actually also believe bitcoin is the first and virtually every identify with bitcoin first before any other. This is part of the reason for the growth.

Meanwhile, is not only litecoin that has the capacity to be like bitcoin, many cryptos have that ability too like etheruem, waves and the likes. Buying some of these cryptos is good, they might turn out to be highly profitable in the future.

Bitcoins and Litecoins are just the same. They are both crypto the difference is the extent of the person trusting bitcoins and who invest in bitcoins. Bitcoins have higher volumes while litecoins are only low. In volume, the difference is far apart. If the price is about x1000 the difference between Bitcoins and Litecoins.

Bitcoin is a digital currency system it's a more advantage which is something can't be understanding and all are most known only a bitcoin because it only reach world wide across after that only a altcoin like lite coin  and all so this is the part of reason to growth of Bitcoin.

Bitcoin as the mother of cryptocurrencies will always be the most favourite for every cryptocurrencies users that's why don't compare between altcoin such as Litecoin and bitcoin because obviously people will choose bitcoin will more profitable for long term purposse and it will more good if you have all of them because i personally consider Bitcoin and Litecoin is good for long term asset and make 80% for bitcoin and 20% for Litecoin from your investment is very good i think

Bitcoin besides being the first crypto currencie wich had achieved sucess, it is currently one of the most profitable mining currencies, have a huge volume of investment into it, besides its potencial to keep growing and legalization is coming from more countries, wich should legalize bitcoin at first. Litecoin isnt a bad coin at all, but well not such profitable as bitcoin, and not soo volatil as it, litecoin is like the child were usually people make some tests, like segwit and then they implement into bitcoin, i do like a lot litecoin since i havent to wait hours to get my transaction confirmed, but there are faster coins with much lower value like doge, wich has becamed a coin of speculation and nothing else.

If you compare the hashrate and mining decentralization of Litecoin and Bitcoin, you will be able to see that the difference is not only in the fact that Bitcoin is the first.

And when you compare the network effect, you will be able to see that Bitcoin is far ahead of Litecoin and any other crypto.

Op needs to understand the difference that exist between bitcoin and the other altcoins. Growth similar to bitcoin takes place with lots of altcoins, but how long that lasts is the question. With bitcoin that is different, it has proved it to be potential and long lasting overcoming lots of hurdles.

Market size matters a lot!

Bitcoin is getting popular globally. People know cryptocurrencies through Bitcoin. Bitcoin is a base currency in most of the exchanges. It is being accepted at many stores globally. Banks are integrating it. Countries are legalizing it. There are indeed many Altcoins in the market better than Bitcoin in terms of technology or use cases. But bitcoin is getting global adoption that is increasing its demand. Right now it isn't possible for any altcoin to reach anywhere near it in terms of demand.

Bitcoin is mother of cyrptocurrency and also king of altcoins. This makes bitcoin more valuable. Because many people have started to use bitcoin before altcoins are mined and now they are investing with bitcoin too. They choose bitcoin than altcoins. Maybe this situation may be changed but it is going to be very hard for altcoin investors.

This is been most talked about with bitcoin more users adopts its uses. Bitcoin has helping many people already because of the features it has. Also ofcourse the price increased and users daily become growing this is what I think people have no doubt about bitcoin. Due to it is already proven many things that bitcoin become stronger.

well its been witness and only time will tell whether what can be the fate of bitcoin but surely for those who already inside the system they already enjoying what bitcoin gave them, there's no argument regarding to many new user who also having their faith that bitcoin will give them good revenue.

You lost me their for a minute. Bitcoin is not yet universally accepted by many stores. Even Amazon has put aside the idea of accepting it. And banks are not integrating it, but the technology behind it - Blockchain is what they are acknowledging. Banks would never accept bitcoin in my opinion.

Definitely bitcoin is the first crypto to attract investors worldwide. By just looking at the price alone, it definitely reach mass acceptance and most sentiments of the people around are very positive. And its now starting to be a store of value or investment for most of us. I don't think that any altcoin today could have a feature like that because they are being used for Pump and Dump only.

If we do decide to engage on bitcoin then it would turn out that we do really have fate on it to give us decent profits not only on bitcoin but also to altcoins. Regarding on long term argument then it cant be remove since people do have different perspective when it comes to anything. For now the most important thing is that we should cherish the possible opportunities that bitcoin would give.

                                 Yes exactly. We do have different point of views to what we see and hear, and since it has been argued most of the time, there is nothing wrong having bitcoin, and some other investments right such as alt coins? It is not that if you believe on bitcoin, you are already disregarding those new and has greater potentials than bitcoin, it is only that bitcoin is the first crypto currency that has been made, and as you can notice even though those coins that has better features than bitcoin, are still depending on bitcoin's price.

It is not like bitcoin came first so he is the king, but the main point is it is not controlled by any developer and it is free to use and no one is holding pre coins so that they can dump and run away. But if you see other coins they are fully manipulated by the developers as they are holding high percentage of their own coins so that they can manipulate their coin.

Yes it is important, as bitcoin was mother of crypto currency's, with market users matters a lot!
Some altcoins has been try to reach bitcoins size, but it always failed even was Litecoin. This year bitcoin was reported to many news related about it security, price and many thing, this cause attracted many new bitcoins holder interest to learn it and investing.
In fact, Bitcoins still being top of crypto market cap, there nothing reason to compare it.

It is not important that bitcoin is first, besides for me I choose bitcoin rather than litecoin because it is more secure and trusted base on my own experience. In addition, being a bitcoin users I will prioritized first bitcoin rather than other coins.

That bitcoin was first is an important factor yes , but i won't be that important forever.
There really is no long term argument for bitcoin , they are not solving their scaling issues and the community is only more split.
Almost every coin can offer the same bitcoin has and most can offer something better , so the first mover advantage is clear here.

everyone can already know the bitcoin before the other altcoin hence the bitcoin will remain the first and the best in crypto. because all the beginning crypto is a bitcoin that will remain the choice of everyone

First mover advantage is always important, but Bitcoin always feels on the verge of not keeping up with innovation of squandering its first mover advantage. Block size is going to remain an impediment to expansion. SegWit has so far done a fine job handling the immediate crunch, but it's another limit that will hard cap the capacity and there hasn't been a lot of enthusiasm to further raising the block size. Lightning network as far as I understand it seems like a centralized solution which is not in keeping with the spirit of Bitcoin.

There are lots of examples of companies squandering first mover advantage. Pandora was the first music streaming service, but didn't adapt and keep up with market demands and now has been largely supplanted by Spotify and to a lesser extend, Apple Music. There's no shortage of other examples. Bitcoin hasn't demonstrated to me it's committed to not squandering their advantage.

Let's say that the bitcoin has a long term but we can not even get rid of our minds that bitcoin is in the middle of his term because it's too late and he's the first digital currency probably just ending its end. The only difference is that bitcoin was the first.? Maybe it is. because many people are confident that it is here and that most of us have been tested so maybe that

To date, bitcoin is like a dollar compared to other currencies. But the crypto world is dynamic, plus a lot of people don't consider bitcoin perfect. It can't be ruled out that a year later it will no longer be in the lead.

Can you buy other coins with LTC now?
That is the problem. If I want to join one ICO and be an investor they have limited options for buying it. Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Qtum. It stops there.
Litecoin is missing now.
Some ICO will have the LTC option but not all of them unlike bitcoin.
Everyone now will pick to be paid bitcoin rather than other coins.
I am sure you will know about that when you got used to the community.

I stick to bitcoin even though there are lots of ICOs out there because they just pattern their specs and featured to bitcoin. Bitcoin is the original and is the 1st when cryotocurrency is being talked about. Bitcoin has created its bran already, just like any other business.

The first mover advantage for BTC has a few key benefits for BTC.. media reports of crypto have often centered on BTC so new comers are first introduced to BTC first, and because BTC is the most common among the crypto, most cryptocurrencies are priced in BTC or satoshi, So BTC becomes the base currencies for the entire crypto space. This in itself makes BTC very valuable.

If you look at USD.. one of the key reason for USD to be so strong over the years is that USD has been the base currency for international trading of goods and services, and one of the biggest commodity is oil. If you want to buy oil, you got to buy USD first in order to pay for Oil.. so that drives up the demand for USD.

So in order for you to buy any altcoin, you got to first buy BTC...

P.S. Eth is posing a threat to BTC as you got to buy ETH in order to buy into ICO..

First of all many are very confident on the long term for litecoin where you get the idea most of the community thinks otherwise, and second being the first is a huge advantage, even in a game where everything is equal like chess the first move gives you an advantage since it allows you to direct the game in the direction you want, bitcoin had that advantage and still has it so it is still the coin with the biggest potential.

In the cryptocurrencies market, investing in Bitcoin and Etherum will be very safe as well as the ability to make big profits if the investment is determined in the long run. Because it is possible to recognize that the rates of altcoins, as well as tokens, are greatly influenced by Bitcoin and Ethereum rates. So that you should invest and hold Bitcoin as well as Ethereum will never suffer losses.

You are right that one of the reason why many big investors bitcoin is their first priority because this is the first crypto, aside from this, it is attractive for having a high value.Oeople are always prepared in easy way as much as possible most specially when it comes to money. So as we can see and knew that litecoin  is an alt and
still not like as bitcoin when it comes to price and stability so that is why it is very normal for the majority to choose bitcoin.

Yes, bitcoin is the first crypto coin and is very important to determine its user population. Surely people will prefer the strongest crypto coins as a place of investment.

And why do you think bitcoin could lose the lead of the market in just one year? Bitcoin like anything can be replaced but why do you think it can happen so fast? There is no coin that can do that currently and even if a coin were to come out today with great characteristics it will take a while before it gets any support from the community, so I think that idea of bitcoin being replaced in a year will not happen.

very important, although bitcoin and altcoin have almost the same side and features.
this is just a matter of confidence, people's belief in bitcoin is greater than belief in altcoin.
because bitcoin first known, automatic bitcoin has greater confidence, which is not owned by another coin.

For me, Bitcoin and Ethereum are the best coin to invest and hodl when it comes to long term because both has the potential to grow in the market. They are the coins that is more being recognize because all the token being sold with the exchange in ethereum and to bitcoin.

Bitcoin is widely used and it is what makes bitcoin more valuable than other crypto-currencies. Bitcoin is better tested on higher volumes and in a longer period of time which makes bitcoin more trustworthy than other crypto-currencies. Some altcoins has been try to reach bitcoins size, but it always failed even was Litecoin. This year bitcoin was reported to many news related about it security, price and many thing, this cause attracted many new bitcoins holder interest to learn it and investing.

I think the most important difference between Bitcoin and it's slightly improved clones is that Bitcoin has the best distribution. Most coins are sold in ICO's or were mined by big miners since the start. If you don't count Satoshi's million BTC, Bitcoin is actually distributed quite well.

i guess long term its good because there's a chance high probability that you can earn more profit

This is very important, because bitcoin is the bridge of all altcoins, but the difference is the value of its currency, which bitcoin still ranked first.

Everyone would think initially to know the crypto world, the first to point to bitcoin, but now the increasing market price, there has been a movement of competition in the crypto world, is the increasing number of latest tokens.

There two major differences between BTC and other coins:
1. Hashrate
Hashrate determines network strength to 50% attack. A lot difficult to attack bitcoin than any other coins.
2. Developer
BTC core team is considered the best, so they can implement newest blockchain technology into BTC core blockchain
The other dev cannot catch up with BTC development and code robustness

I agree that Bitcoin is original phenomenon. And furthermore it is a brand. Most people started their way in cryptocurrency world from Bitcoin actually. There are a lot of services which support Bitcoin.

This is by far the safest strategy, you can obtain great profits with icos and altcoins but if you are comfortable with the amount of bitcoins you have then the only thing to do for now is to hold your coins, however I like many people here in the forum have not yet reached an amount of bitcoin that I like so I will l keep investing in altcoins until I get the desired results.

Bitcoin was the first thing I heard before joining.  So as many people, once it is what they hear, they tend to register under it. I didt get to hear about other currency until I started searching then registered under bitcoin. If any one want to talk about it, its bitcoin they mention and use for advert not other currencies.

The first mover advantage of bitcoin goes farther than that most of those that are holding their coins for the long term have bitcoin as the basis of their strategy with the limited supply of bitcoin this only makes the supply available to others even lower making the price higher and making the long term holders to hold even more, bitcoin becomes more valuable as a result of the actions of the holders, the growing demand and the limited supply.

if we are going to compare bitcoin to other coin there are two major differences between hashrate and bitcoin .hashrate. As far as I know it determine the network to 50% aatack compare to bitcoin . bitcoin is the best because they can implement newest blockchain technology in bitcoon core.

Experience matters a lot in this cases. The bitcoins are first and so are more experienced too in the cryptoworld

I think it's because the price and we know that bitcoin price is too expensive depends on litecoin although litecoin could increase higher but it won't higher as bitcoin price. and for me, I am doing both bitcoin and litecoin because bitcoin will increase higher and this will happen too with litecoin. besides that, I still have many another coin that will increase too.

Being the first cryptocurrency/digital coin is very important and if it was not for bitcoin, I don’t know if these other altcoins will ever be created in the first place so you should be very grateful bitcoin was created. Although there are some altcoins that have somewhat the same feature as bitcoin but it won’t replace bitcoin.

I prefer bitcoin because aside that it is the first, it is already tested through time. With other cryptocurrency, we must choose it wisely. Just like the Etherium, it slightly  has the same as value that of bitcoin. It is also could be trusted and tested already. It is just good to hold them at longer term especially that its price is volatile.

Being first gives you opportunity to get popularised about it more and more. Also whenever someone enters the crypto market they actually find bitcoin more comfortable because it is what attracts them most. Why this is so? Simply because it is first and one of its own kind. They feel that it is larger asset than any other asset in the crypto so you see since the bitcoin existed it is getting popular day by day and we cant forget that at all. Rest of the coins came recently and they are not as popular as bitcoin is or nobody speak about them being new as they dont understand what they are in first place. Thats why I think they love bitcoin more for long terms as compared to the altcoins.

Although many other Altcoins has good prospects I remain confident with Bitcoin for long-term investments. Actually, this is just a matter of taste for each person, so cannot be forced to someone like the coins.

Bitcoin Is Reaching  All over the world.There is a lot of Arguments Here But None of are the catch.In the world, Bitcoin is more popular cryptocurrency.No Other cryptocurrency is not much popular like bitcoin.Bitcoin is Truly Accepted by people There has been not any confusion about buying bitcoin and trade bitcoin.

Bitcoin is remarkably a pioneer to all of this, being first in the scene did play out greatly with bitcoins.
Without bitcoin and it's block chain technology, I believe altcoins wouldn't have also been conceived.
We can always compare bitcoins with other altcoins but that seems to no avail damage or shows little
concern to it's reputable rise over the years. To assimilate the fact that what bitcoin's did and have can
be achieved and be made better by newer and more robust systems is entirely possible and the technology
is available today, there are more of it actually. But bitcoin still is the preferred currency of choice, it's still
on the top and it has dominated so much it's influence is notably uncanny with other altcoins in the market today.

You have said a million dollars thing. Bitcoin IS definitely the most popular crypto currency in the world this time and will remain so forever. No other digital coin can become a superstar like it. All altcoins are far behind bitcoin in all aspects. For investors, most important point is that how much they can make by investing in a particular place and in how much time. Bitcoin is the only investment capable of brining ample increase in money within months that the mankind has known so far.

Cause it is still a beginning and crypto, bitcoin and whole alts will be developing in near years and could just take advantage of normal money. That is why bitcoin could in 10 years be worth even 500.000$.

No doubt it is very important to have some experience about crypto currency, it will be high as now in market bitcoin demand is rising so if you will buy bitcoin and have some amazing experience with it then later you will be able to tell about your bitcoin experience to other people, investing in bitcoin is good thing for now as it is all affording you can invest in Bitcoin’s later on you will argue with someone and will convince them to use bitcoin for bright future as you are in bright shining days of your life with bitcoin.

Bitcoin is said to be standard in cryptocurrency. If Bitcoin rise..altcoins will automatically grow. Every Altcoin ha the pair with BTC and this leads to the price of a coin is directly propositional to Bitcoin. Moreover, everyone knows and trust Bitcoin than any other coin. Everyone wants to hold Bitcoin after seeing its growth in past few years. It is a time-tested cryptocurrency on which people trust more than any other cryptocurrency.

my opinion about all ya i choose all altcoin because we get it instead of bitcoin and i also really like altcoin than on bitcoin but bitcoin is important for me so i choose both. because they are mutually sustainable and useful

then that is an argument against bitcoin's usefulness, which in the long run you would expect to drive the price. And yet as a rough cut it seems to be true.

Certainly there are tokens/alts that is way better than bitcoin, what bitcoin given us is the opportunity and what bitcoin has right now over those alts/token is the trust from the community, we can't argue over that because if bitcoin falls alts will always go down as well.

Its not an argument everybody has their personal opinions isn't it? Some favours this while other favours that

I'm not so confident about bitcoin btw
There are a lot of more convenient and interesting coins, so I think on of those will replace BTC

There are actually lots of potential coins other than litecoins but why are so many bitcoins in the pick? because bitcoin has a very large user and that is the greatest potential of a cryptocurrency. with very large users it will certainly be easier to grow. that's why many people choose bitcoin for the long term

Thats true, that is the power of the first cryptocurrency, although altcoin will always come with great technology though. users will still choose bitcoin because bitcoin must be believed by many people first. security is certainly the number 1 to choose an investment in cryptocurrency

We should understand that we people have different point of view and we should understand and respect that. However, we should not forget to always give them constant advise and educate them how important bitcoin's existence is and how it has affected the lives of many. I believe that if we change ones mindset, every aspect along with it will follow.

I think if we see in terms of popularity it is already very clear that bitcoin is the first crypto created so that makes bitcoin a better crypto. but on the other hand litecoin certainly has advantages that are not owned by bitcoin and litecoin has a faster transaction time than bitcoin and I think each has its advantages and disadvantages so I can conclude that if you plan to use crypto currency as a means of exchange in the transaction process, then Litecoin is a better choice. But if you want to make digital currency a long-term investment asset, Bitcoin is more reliable.

Indeed, in security no one makes a very secured wallet ever than bitcoins. Newly altcoins created has its own agenda's that comes from their own timeline well for bitcoins have no timeline but theres always a main activity on before it will be legalize bitcoin is the main currency and widely used by most of the people.

I think bitcoin is already well known, and it has been used in every field.

When it comes to functionality, I think ETH is more powerful, but its price is one tenth of that of bitcoin.

Don't worry that bitcoin is not popular, and if bitcoin does die, there will be no other cryptocurrency.

the litecoin is owned by a company, the persons are known but btc is anonymous and have not a control which interacts with the crypto mission and being the first one it deserves to e a leader and be trusted a it was there and will be there 

I think the argument should be about the use or dumping of btcs. Everybody should be well aware of its negative sides too

not just because they believe bitcoin but they also know that they can make real money from bitcoin by doing many things related with bitcoin and cryptocurrency. and now, I guess many people start a new work in bitcoin and I am sure that they can earn bitcoin and make money too on the other side. and if we continue our work in bitcoin, we can earn much of bitcoin and if we sell the bitcoin, we can make a lot of money so we can buy anything we want.

in addition, perhaps because of its popularity so bitcoin can be trusted by many people even if there is a type of altcoin that can beat bitcoin, people will still trust bitcoin as the best investment asset than any other type of crypto.

Prices of both coins alone determines why a lot of investors put their confidence to bitcoin over litecoin or any other crypto in the market besides bitcoin is more widely used than any other coins out there.

for me, first or not is not a guarantee that determines the quality of a coin or not. but indeed bitcoin is the best coin though it has some drawbacks. that's fair and I'm sure many people still believe that bitcoin is a trusted place to invest.

From the day one I am supporting daily trades. Why should we take risk even after knowing about its price fluctuations

There are so many crypto coins in this world and that every crypto coin has its own characteristics but the point is there can be no other coin in the future as well which can match bitcoin or can even compete with bitcoin.

Bitcoin is and will always remain the best of the best crypto coin amongst the entire list of the crypto coins. Bitcoin holds a wonderful future for all those who believe in it.

I agree bitcoin is a long-term investment. Because bitcoin in addition to being the first coin in cryptocurrency. Also because many are using bitcoin for transactions, investors also believe with bitcoin and some advanced countries have legalized bitcoin. This makes bitcoin the best coin in the appeal of which coin other.

Most of them are selfish and interested in personal gain rather than collective benefit. Bitcoin being the first is very important. Currently bitcoin is serving as the gold standard for altcoin others. Bitcoin has faced many challenges and overcome them All because one thing the owner or founder is not greedy unlike the different ICO owners or the new projects we have today

Mostly people or the bitcoiner prepare to invest in long term investment of bitcoin because of the value compared to altcoin,because we already know that long term investment is a long way process before you can gain a big earning,so to make sure that you can income  big growth of your asset,because its a long term so its better to choose these bitcoin to make sure that your investment can gain high profit,and can be usable in so many transaction.

It's really significant that we still prefer bitcoin. As you can see btc is more established than other altcoins like what you've said "litecoin". Yes, they have the same characteristics but still bitcoin builded the trust for most of the investors and litecoin is just starting to establish it's  reputation in cryptocurrency.

Yes thats a very big factor being the original and the first cryptocurrency that makes the world going crazy over it.People trust on bitcoin because it has proven its worth in crypto industry,although we sometimes think that it failed us in such times that its price goes very dip but bitcoin has already build its reputation to stay longer in this community to recover everytime it falls.Bitcoin will probably work for long term and short term if an investors wants to get huge profit they prefer to hold longer.As of this very moment bitcoin had smoothly recovering that already pumps to $9k plus,the crypto community gain more confidence that a great start has already started to take place again.

Bitcoin does not depend on the country, it is a condition for the breakthrough in the value of bitcoin. can replace the market, the system change to good luck with investors, this is the process of proving its worth

                       Yes I do agree and respect what you are trying to point out. Aside from it is the first cryptocurrency being created, most of the coins that are created are still depending at bitcoin that is what i have noticed and maybe some of you also noticed. And also aside from arguing over these matters most new comers have knew bitcoin first before other crypto, aside of it, while we are arguing here, some people are taking advantage to the prices now to which is better currency and tend to ride with the flow.

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It is important indeed because it makes it more famous. More people know about bitcoin than about any other coin. Even people who are not interested by alt coins have already heard about bitcoin.

This is why the community is bigger. And this is also why we are quite ready to bet on its future. Just because roots go deeper!

I am at your side too in this argument. Definitely bitocins are best in the crypt world and we can see it from the love and fame that people are giving them. Secondly the performance they are showing in international market is enormous. So this argument should be cleared as marked true because everyone believes in them. They are giving us back too so this bond is becoming stronger.

This is real fact that I seen in this field where two coin of same technology are having big differences like bitcoin vs litecoin ( we can see that litecoin is still even today litecoin but bitcoin is growing more rapidly than  litecoin ) . And another exam is OMG coin , one of them is at yobit.net and one of them is at bitrex exchange with big difference .
So here we can understand very well that how the people have believe with the market and support only , Because most of the people want to make profit and also want to go with most stable coin and here surely bitcoin is more stable than any another coin and also bitcoin had more options ( I mean most of the people are accepting bitcoin and using since long time ) so people have more attractions toward bitcoin then with another coin with same technology .

Bitcoin is supported by the big investors. I have made some standards and it has influenced many people around the world.
It is actually the first coin that the people without the knowledge on the crypto heard about.
It is true that other coins have better technologies but currently, the market is only spinning itself around the profit and I can also say the greed. Maybe in the future, some other coin will perceive the value of the Bitcoin but I highly doubt it.

Bitcoin was the first. It is quite important. because everyone knows it. and it has no owner. Its owner is everyone so it is impossible to die

Experience matters a lot in this cases. The bitcoins are first and so are more experienced too in the cryptoworld

But today the long-term investment in BTC is not very profitable. I think it is only possible to invest in surfing. Because BTC is not as high as previous years. BTC market is now saturated. Can the price can not pass $ 10000.

no, I think it still profitable in the long-term investment and it depends on you, what you're going to do with your bitcoin. you can save your bitcoin in your wallet without thinking about the price or don't want to increase the amount and you let your bitcoin stay in the wallet for at least one year. after one year, you remember that you still have bitcoin and you check that your bitcoin stays in your wallet and when you check the price, it increases higher than last year. so the point is if you want to make an investment in bitcoin, don't attract with the price that still volatile but keep your mind to not thinking about the price and let it flow and when the time comes for you to check the price, you will be surprised.

Its all we need to be confident and remain positive that bitcoin can stay longer in this business,bitcoin already has its strongest foundation in the market where it stands as the strongest cryptocurrency of all time.Litecoin also is profitable but if im going to compared with bitcoin,bitcoin were still the highest popularity and usage for payments purposes,and for short and long term investments compared with litecoin.

As crypto awareness continues to gain traction, and adoption grows, the value of bitcoin will rise. Besides, even in the current market situation where the price is highly volatile, news of big players taking an interest in bitcoin (BTC) are on the rise too, and this is good for its long-term growth.

Yes it is important that bitcoin is the first and already proven  can survive from FUD and the prohibition of some countries does not make its value to fall or disappear. And bitcoin has been widely accepted and used by large companies. Like big cameras and microsofs. Investing in bitcoin is very precise.

Many people in cryptocurrencies make a whole lot of insinuations about Bitcoin and how it is important compared to other cryptocurrencies. This has made bitcoin to be regarded with favor, affection and approval by people who know slightly, but not into crypto market. Most people also try to compare litecoin top bitcoin, wanting to know which one has greater importance that out ways the other. Frankly speaking, the digital payment of bitcoin is far better than litecoin. I hope this has cleared peoples mind on the confliction of litecoin to bitcoin.

One of the best long term transactions were buying bitcoin for $0.2 and selling it for $20.000, this is an awesome thing for me!

Controversies are circulating around against bitcoin, but that doesn't change the reality that it's the leading cryptocurrency in the global market, and more are in development to continue strengthening its network and it's backed up by strong influencers. I hope that bitcoin will continue to stay stronger and longer as its team will be getting bigger amidst adversities. Arguments and different point of views from people are very unruly, we can't stop them but we can be an exemplar to let them be aware what Bitcoin is and how well it could change the way of living if you sincerely put your trust in it and being passionate in dealing with different circumstances.

Bitcoin is a long-term contract. Because bitcoin is an online transaction. In this, one person is trading through the contract. There is no business except the contract.

I agree and my opinion about bitcoin is bitcoin is good in long term investment.  If you hold your bitcoin or coin in few months or a year. 
I tell you  have a good profit after you sell your coin after a year.

Bitcoin is the first and always be at the top its because its very popular and we all know that it has the highest value among all currencies.Being the first is hard to defeat because most people in crypto world had trusted and believe in bitcoin.

Bitcoin will always be controversial and full of arguments, this is because many countries are banned bitcoin while on the other hand the user is not affected by any issues.

if compared, bitcoiner with the total population, i think too small number of active bitcoiner. we can imagine if half  population of the world's using bitcoin, surely the price will double. to get there requires a long time

I don't know why exactly but there is no a person today who has never heard of Bitcoin compared to other coins which aren't so famous.  I am sure that Bitcoin won't disappear in the nearest future

Indeed, there will be no end arguments in bitcoin, like what he said, too many countries banned bitcoin, I think that's why there will be a long term arguments when it comes to bitcoin. I think, some countries will be hard to convince because of bitcoin volatility. There will be a positive and negative side, I think that side will be equal when it comes to arguments, that's why it will be a long term.

The fact is that bitcoin has the largest capitalization in the cryptocurrency market, so it is the most reliable asset.

Of course it is very important. Because the first in business, always take off the cream. And then, in the case of even the appearance of competitors of a certain product, if it is properly conducted in the market, it will retain a large market share. So it is with bitcoin. People know it better and trust him more, not Litecoin.

As per my knowledge, the amount of bitcoins that could be exist in the world is finite. Therefore at a certain point, people will realize that they can collect bitcoins by mining or buying (will be very expensive). In such a case, if people think that "we do not need bitcoins anymore because the coins distribution has not been done evenly", they will refuse to trade with bitcoins. Therefore the demand will fall and demand for some alternative coins will rise.
My question is that will there a possibility of happening such a situation in the near future as I mentioned above?  

Actually it depends upon how a person, specifically the user perceives and think why he is still into sticking with Bitcoin despite of all newly established and launched altcoins that offer the same service or maybe even more compared to Bitcoin. Well for me, Bitcoin was already been the colloquial definition or identity when you say cryptocurrency because it is the first one you will encounter upon entering into this community and all people are already into using it locally and even globally and many altcoins are tend to be traded in exchange for Bitcoin for the reason that it is widely acceptable and that flexible to be used added by the fact that it was the first to be established crypto before anything does and also, its benefits are really more useful and accepted by people who have been into cryptocurrency community.

One of the most important factors is the recognizability by the crown. Almost every person nowadays knows Bitcoin and only a few have heard of Litecoin, Ether and such. That is going to affect their choice when investing.

Bitcoin is the first digital currency and it is the king of crypto world. First bitcoin then only we have to consider other altcoins. With bitcoin only  we can determine the values of other altcoins. Now all of us we know about the bitcoin and its uses. No other coins will beat the bitcoin. Bitcoin is suits for both long term and short term. While we hold bitcojn for long term it will give more benefits. Because the price of bitcoin is in fluctuations mode. Once it will increase the bitcoin holder will gain more profits.

The answer is very simple, not every coin in the market does have the same growth in the market because they have different developers and the platform will tell if the coin is really good for long term investment or not.

This is very hard to determine. If a project has a good foundation, but if the project developers are not good the project will fail, so people choose bitcoin.

Well first and foremost, Bitcoin is the first digital currency ever created that holds more value than any other cryptocurrency up to date and litecoin may be somewhat have the same assets with bitcoin but people cant take away the fact that if not for Satoshi Nakamoto who created bitcoin, I dont think litecoin will ever be created as well.

Yes, I think it is important because if you ask random people what is crytpo currency the answer you will get is bitcoin when it comes to popularity bitcoin has the advantage and to the eye of the investors bitcoin is very profitable because of having high demand and the supplies are limited,whether it has the same features but people want the original one.

We are talking about Bitcoin here. Bitcoin is in existence for over 10 years now and there are no other digital currencies that can surpass it in terms of its price. I guess Bitcoin will stay at the top followed by these altcoins and I do hope that Bitcoin will continue to develop through years because a lot of users now are using Bitcoin and I don't think that in the future, with a lot more of users, it might not keep up.

The fact is that BTC pioneered all the other coins and it didn't loose its reputation and popularity and hence its adoption became superb. Also currently almost everything is in relation to Bitcoin's price. There are only a few coins that do not wait for a BTC pump before their price goes high.

It is not important that bitcoin is the first, but the most important is the popularity of bitcoin because it creates trust in its holders that bitcoin is the main coin in crypto.

O would agree with most and say its because bitcoin is known and is widely used, unlike other crypto currencies.

  Okay so speaking about the long term investment I would say it is better than the short term because in long term investment, you are not prone to loosing much money due to the fluctuation in the market price and you make your mind about selling the coins only when the market price is more than the one you paid initially. The short term profits are the incremental profits and are also prone to the threat of loosing some money during the market shifts between red and green.

It is not only in bitcoin but in all kind of investment it is very important to make fine projects about what you are investing, when we start something it is very important for us to know each and everything about it then this way we will never fail for doing anything, so if you want to boost your profit with bitcoin make proper plan for it to hold long term and don’t sell at panic price as no doubt bitcoin each and every project have been profit worthy always.

I don't anything about litecoin. I only knew everything about Bitcoin. so for me, I would rather choose the first and original and the always Survivor in the Crypto World. I can try some altcoins. but I prefer to stay with Bitcoin. besides, Bitcoin is very Popular that most people in the World use it.

yes bitcoin is the first crypto currency and it very important because of that bitcoin can survive until now and continue to increasing its value year by year and it make the price gap with another crypto currency are very large. bitcoin has a highest value of crypto and it make bitcoin has a big potential to give us a good profit.

In fact, BTC is the king of the Crypto market for a long time. We can not think of any coin that can replace the BTC. If predictions about BTC price, I think in the future prices will not be able to rise higher now, the price can only reach the $ 10000 level. Not higher, although the market is now only at $ 8000.

Not only was that paramount but it is the sole reason I believe people prefer Bitcoin over any currency. It is called the network effect and it explains a lot about why Bitcoin remains #1, at least for me it does. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect

I must say that this whole will remember the name of the bitcoin and that this is something which they will never forget even if they couldn’t manage to invest in bitcoin for the whole of their lives. Bitcoin is something which is the backbone of the entire modern currency system known as the crypto market. The overall reputation of the crypto market greatly depends on the bitcoin and that bitcoin is doing its best.

crypto currencies are not very famous at the moment and majority of world population is not using these. I am certain that the number people who have heard about bitcoin is a huge one but users are extremely small because most of them do not understand this concept well and are not willing to spend money or time here. However, bitcoin will be doubling its value by the end of this year and its present investors are for more than before.

Bitcoin is responsive and works best in case of long term and in case of short term it is not so responsive. The response of Bitcoin is very good and gives us huge profit if one invests for long term. This long term of Bitcoin results in huge profit and most of the investments in Bitcoin are of long term. If you buy at low market value then you will get the profit after long time and not more than a year.

Bitcoin is a long term investment with huge returns at the end of selling. It should be long term as the market demand constantly or irregularly changes some times and you can not predict its fluctuations so investment in long term Bitcoin will be benefited and will make you able for high investments. If you are thinking that you will easily get huge profit in Bitcoin in a short interval of time then you are wrong, you will get huge profit only if you invest for long term.

the most important is the popularity of bitcoin because it creates trust in its holders that bitcoin is the main coin in crypto. It is not important that bitcoin is the first

Bitcoin has a more powerful technical side, he has more supporters, as well as bitcoin is the very first and original crypto currency. Litecoin - it's just a parody of bitcoin, which is a little faster.

You can see that bitcoin prices are continuously adjusting in recent days, after touching the $ 19800 level, bitcoin prices are constantly decreasing and are currently in the bearish trend in the long run. This leads to the current market. in down trend. But according to my analysis, if the bitcoin price can break the $ 8000 level, the bear market will end and the bitcoin price could continue its uptrend.

Even bitcoin isn't fully established and accepted by the community but still people give their trust into it. Of course we can't deny how Bitcoin strengthening crypto, and giving its name that's makes people seing great future.

Becuase bitcoin is a huge coin.  And i think bitcoin is a start in crypto currency,  it been long year when bitcoin paying for pizza,  and now the price is more than 6k dollors nad last year he reach 10k dollors.  So bitcoin has a big potencial to save us from our poor life.  We need to work hard. 

Litecoin is also good but Bitcoin is very big difference in terms of Price value I admit that it is volatile but you know because of the lower price dump people have a chance to get huge profit if ever the price going back to the top highest value last December 2017 so your losing money become live again and continually moving up and more profit is to come. that was the people think long term investment is the best this time so if you have no BTC just buy it while the  price is very low.

Yeah bitcoin has great potential in the future, that's what many people are waiting for. they hold bitcoin because it will see higher prices in the future because bitcoin has a great potential, where users will keep coming and will push up prices in the future. that's why long term investment is so worthed..

Buddy you will simply get tour answer if you will compare the valuation of bitcoin with other alternative coins . Bitcoin has always proved its worth and always prove that it has potential to be very great. Initially everyone was in against of bitcoin but as soon as people come to know about its real fate, countries legalised it and now they are experiencing boost in their development and success stories of bitcoin billionaires simply suggest the greatness of bitcoin over other crypto currencies.

As far as I can see, both are true. However, bitcoin is developed longer and people have more confidence in investing in bitcoins.

Many times altcoin project can go scam and while bitcoin is the first ever currency made by the blockchain creator itself then we are sure that it is not going anywhere. Plus he himself is holding more than 6% of the bitcoin so we know very well how much important bitcoin is to him and to us. Thats why it provides more assurance that long term holding of bitcoin will always benefit us no matter what. Altcoin for example, liteocin is created over the blockchain by new start ups who has goal in front of them. But they are not bound here by any means and they can literally screw us at anytime so thats more riskier.

Bitcoin is the "king" of cryptocurrencies for a reason.

It is at the top because it not only has the most value, but because it is the most known and most used cryptocurrency as of the moment. Of course, this can and probably will change over time, but until some other coin gains approval and popularity at the level of bitcoin, bitcoin is going nowhere.

yes you really should be like that should be confident that bitcoin can be used for long-term investment because with bitcoin and apply long-term investment you can get a lot of profit.

Bitcoin and other technologies are transforming money systems from centralized to decentralized systems.Decentralized networks are peer-to-peer, which means money passes directly from one person to another. This makes it easier for average people to get around government controls, and harder for officials to steal or seize money.

Simply because bitcoin is more popular and made a good reputation in the market that attracts the investors to invest,the perception of people if they heard about bitcoin is profitable which is right, bitcoin proved itself how worthy and deserved to be on top.

For some people around it is really important, because if bitcoin was the first it means that it is not so easy destroyable. Is something as living already for some time, it means that it is endurable more than other thing.

it because the first time we know about cryptocurrency is bitcoin and we know that bitcoin is superior to the other coins and it cannot compare with the other. we really want to make money from bitcoin and we are trying to collect as much bitcoin as we can while we can do many things to get bitcoin. all we want to make money is from bitcoin but we have another choice to increase the amount of bitcoin that we want from the altcoin. so altcoin will help us to collect more bitcoin.

Bitcoin is the number one encrypted currency. Bitcoin's demand is different from other altcoin's.

We all know that the currency is by far the most reliable, and the currency of reputation in the international market and investors is so high, I believe that the currency can bring huge gains to investors for a long time.

Bitcoin is the safest ..both long term and in crashes

Most peoples must be investing their money on bitcoin. Bitcoin have biggest market cap and domination on cryptomarket more than 40% right now. Its safest investment in cryptomarket and bitcoin is main currency in exchanger beside ethereum and USDT

Candidly Yes. Everybody's perception about Bitcoin in clear Terms is that it is the Pioneer coin that kick started every other coin including the Litecoin in question here itself through the BlockChain generation where every other coins are dependent upon for survival. Aside this, I don't think there can be any coin transaction of all other coins without converting them back to Bitcoin no matter what and how genuinely beautiful or creative their features could be, since Bitcoin is the only language understood by most investors outside this forum.

yes yes i agree on what have you said. bitcoin can simply be described superb in one simple word , though i also believe that altcoins is also important becuase alts do have any other usage and advantage that we cant possibly find on bitcoin .

some advantages that i am talking about is altcoins seems to be more faster when it comes to sending plus they also cost more cheap in terms of transaction fees.

the only reason why most people are confident on bitcoin it is because bitcoin is the first and most popular cryptocurrency when compared to others.

Well as you can see, Bitcoin has been around more than all the altcoins which makes it a factor for it being more chose than the others. Also, Bitcoin has been the safest investment in the entire cryptocurrency space compared to other coins that have been created. Not only that, Bitcoin also has been use all over the world to transact money for all kinds of services or Bitcoin to fiat. It's easy to use Bitcoin and that it's not that complicated to understand which is why people prefers it.

Well to each their own. If you want other coins because you see it as lucrative or even better than BTC then go right ahead. I myself am looking for other coins to invest in. Of course BTC is also in my portfolio but i tend to focus more of my assets on alt coins since they have a huge potential for growth.

The advantage of Bitcoin as become the first crypto currency is a fact in which if Bitcoin did not founded and created then probably there is no crypto currency investment will exist. Bitcoin already build a foundation of trust among the people as most promising investment in which it doesn't need a commodity just to be promoted and advertise unlike the other coins specially Litecoin that it will need to be promoted just to attract more investors.

Well, Bitcoin has definitely gained momentum and popularity due to its first mover advantage in the market but that's not the only reason for my long-term argument when it comes to the Bitcoin. Bitcoin has grown exponentially since inception and now it has the highest user base, volume and utility value since then. Any other coin might come up with good potential but it can replace only when it will have an equivalent or more user base, utility value and volume. I am not ignoring this possibility but I don't see any other coin having that potential as of now.

I have heard lot of issues and arguments from the other people. Lot of negative thought even without knowing the reality behind Bitcoin. I'm sure that all of these arguments will not be finish for lot of different people argues. Like bans from other and low value of Bitcoin especially the negative feedback of Bitcoin due to economy.

Of course "being first" is that important. Bitcoin broke the ice for other coins, cryptomarket wouldn't exist without it. But if we put that on the side, most investors want to have bitcoin because it is wide known and used as a payment method. Also, not many are familiar with the whole crypto market, they only know that there is something named bitcoin and that it can substitute real money if needed. :D I agree that Litecoin is a great investment, but all coins on any exchange are compared to USD and BTC and that won't change for a long time. ;)

Being the first is important since bitcoin will always be known to pioneer a market that will be the future of how we make transactions. People know bitcoin more than blockchain or cryptocurrencies and popularity is powerful enough to put all other coins with better features beneath btc.

I think On paper it's easy to say that all coins are similar, but a single line of bad code can be a big disadvantage and experience with bitcoin makes it clear that we will not have big problems easily. To conclude a coin does not really produce anything. Their value is based on trust and usage.
Bitcoin is widely used and this is what makes bitcoin more valuable than other crypto currencies. Bitcoin is better tested at higher volumes and over a longer period of time which makes bitcoin more reliable than other crypto currencies.

Good for me that I am also confident about LiteCoin, because I think it is a great project almost similar to Bitcoin, just the "Lite" version of it, and far not the worst one.

because the bitcoin is the first coin or coin and that makes it very important and also a reference to all old and new altcoins :-\

hem different stuff, litecoin are not much popular by people, the big factor i think people know if bitcoin itself are not produce any token more and with the low supply that bitcoin have at this time, well people are intresting to doing some investment in bitcoin instead

Yes that is highly important. Being the pioneer, bitcoin has the first mover advantage and is considered as the brand name of the cryptos.
Bitcoin was the first coin to bring the idea of a digital, cashless society and also due to the same, the coin is the most widely accepted coin in the financial market and hence has a market capital of $130 billion currently.
Litecoin does have similar assets like Bitcoin but it will take the coin years to reach the level of bitcoin.

Yes, Long term argument for bitcoin started in the beginning of its career, I must say that bitcoin is very volatile, It serves millions of people in the world in the past years of it being existed in the market, The argument accumulates when the revolution of some coins and alts begin to emerge with bitcoin, they are against bitcoin which is very normal for a popular and most used digital currency.

Yes, the long term argument about bitcoin are only just speculations, They only care for the downfall of bitcoin, some are the faithful ones who are protecting bitcoin into this issues, crypto currency has been part of some people lives that is giving them a source of income in their daily living, some are fortunately become successful and it is good to those who are in crypto sphere.

What most important is the popularity of the coin in the society, most of the people believe on bitcoins because they already saw that the market price has managed to grow up to $19k dollars, but some altcoins also does have the potential, but still it will be depending to the people if where they are planning to focus on investing.

Being the father of all cryptocurrency was quite so important these had brought all altcoins on its track.Its concept was followed by all altcoins and when bitcoins price will rise,so as altcoins,bitcoins success is very historic that not all altcoins can.

 I was thinking about that, to transfer all of my savings from bitcoin to Litecoin while the market is bad, but I dont know why, Bitcoin causes more trust in me, than any other cryptocurrency that has own Blockchain.

 I love to have both of them because I believe that the more coins do you have, the more profit you would get in the times when the market would recover.

It really depends on a person if he wanted to hold it fr too long just like other long term investors did to their investments. And even me don't know how to deal with that thing before but if you are a good investors with a good mind set maybe you can take that kind of action but I always like to be a short term investors because of some of my reasons like I want to earn within a month to prevent my needs in my daily life so easy.

indeed we have to do with bitcoin using long-term, for the short term we certainly will never have the advantage, bitcoin increasingly day even decreased.

Looking at the current scenario it does look like that it is really important to see whats the first one ! I mean isn't this is the truth that bitcoin actually keeps up its #1 no matter what how big technology comes into the market or how much investors it gets in short period of time. Its investor's approach to be honest, it is very very casual about the altcoins. I mean they will always consider it as one time or temporary investment and thus wont look at it later on once they get their profits. This approach is what making bitcoin very much stronger day by day.

The fact that Bitcoin came to limelight before others is a very big factor. It will in a very long time to come remain the most relevant digital currency.

We have our own perspective of investment mindset. But what matters we are assure that a project or alternative coin has a good purpose or a solution to a problem in a conventional environment. Because if it will do like that, it could be a catalyst of change in the world especially for the modern day today especially for what bitcoin possess, the blockchain technology.

Yes, the long term argument from bitcoin has been there since the beginning, it is true that bitcoin is maintaining its place and popularity in the market also It serves an inspiration to other alts out there who is supporting this coin, Bitcoin has a low supply and it has a high demand on the market, The higher the demand the higher it will increase its value, don't forget that bitcoin is always been there for years and never fail us.

I wouldn't suggest to put all the eggs in a basket. Diversify your money. It is easy a very big project can fail in one day. Lower your risk of losing it all. I put money in at least five coins. And some small money into cheap coins

Long term argument in bitcoin can be solve by the bitcoins achievements , as everyone's see its potential to change a certain community bitcoin will remain number one in the crypto sphere, It provides a lot of income to those people who are believing and supporting it, Bitcoin possess a potential that the other altcoins can't have.

Bitcoin has more marketing power than any other coin. So thats why more people are believe in Bitcoin than any other coin.

Yes it is depending on the interest of the people, it is also depending on the experience of a person, because short term investment require high experience and good skill without have day trading experience it is more risky and low chances are to make money form day trading, while long term investment is comparatively less risky.

The reason why most of the people are preferring bitcoins is because of its popularity, people prefer to use bitcoins more than other cryptocurrency because the potential in the market is so much better than other coins.

Bitcoin has advantages that not many people know about it and many believe in bitcoin and invest in it because bitcoin is the main or crypto currency that can be called the crypto currency to be famous as it is today. And the volume of bitcoin number 1 then from that many people believe in bitcoin.

People prefers bitcoin because it is the first and it is tested through time and has encountered countless trials and errors. While other altcoins is just a copy paste of bitcoin features and how it works and most of all bitcoin is the most accepted as a payment method for online shops and merchants, That's why it's also considered as a safehaven.

i guess since Bitcoin is the first, it will be the first to actually be adopted by investors and be a stable coin. of course it will depend on how bitcoin willplay their cards by applying more and more projects and blockchains under their coins. but ultimately the goal is for it to be stable. i myself have alot riding on bitcoin since i believe it will be the first to be successful. of course we shouldn't just leave alt coins behind.

Yes I myself tend to exploit the existence of bitcoin as one of the coins which has a relatively rising price movement so when a person can be patient to wait for the exchange rate increases drastic automatically earnings can be earned in large numbers.

You can see that Bitcoin prices are recovering very strongly in the last two days, but I think the recovery is just in the short term, with a bitcoin now at $ 6400 and will likely hit $ 7200 before Great bar tack. According to my analysis, bitcoin prices will probably drop sharply so you should only invest in bitcoin at this time. The market is still trending downtrend in the long run.

I believe being the first has its advantages and others is only an option. Some may have replicated bitcoin outline and enhanced it a considerable measure yet bitcoin has effectively settled and turned into the overwhelming crypto's ever. Obviously, individuals will likewise go for the first and not the duplicate feline or will we will counterfeit. Furthermore, now the costs is high to the point that not by any means one single duplicate feline coin can ever coordinated it. Well some have attempted, however the flipping did not occur.

I think yes this is important because in that case bit go and cause more people to trust in it, people are thinking that if this current is existing already for 10 years, so it is a trustworthy investment source.

The last miners will be fighting over the last bitcoin in the far future.  This iw hy mcafee predicts it will be over 1 million dollars.

I think Bitcoin and other altcoins will have the same destiny, we can see now that Bitcoin dominate all altcoins prices, thus it is the strogest coin and it decides the future of other projects, however the confidence in some coins like Ethereum is surging and we might watch it compete Bitcoin on leading the market in the coming years.

I believe that Bitcoin will continue to grow very long and the cryptocurrency market will also become a major financial market in the world. In the future I believe the BTC will be of great value and it will become a widely used asset for its merits.

I am also thinking about the same idea like you because cryptocurrency will become a market where the stock investors will go and transfer their funds from stock market to cryptocurrency market because of the faster profit making and that will become the reason for the cryptocurrency market to become one of the major financial market.

We all know the truth that the Bitcoin is a long term investment and we should wait and hold with patience to use it in a high market at the end but unfortunately we are not looking at this point and just expecting for good. All we need is to work according to the basic market rules which will make us survive in the market. Besides the Bitcoin the 2nd cryptocurrency is Ethereum which is also favorable for long term.

I find there is no difference what this coin is, the first or the 15th. But at all, the strategy of holding is correct. A moment will come when the price goes up and it will be possible to get it benefit from it. Be patient and invest.

Bitcoin is more reliable than other crypto coins, and also many investors believe in bitcoin so it will make bitcoin there is always demand and will be able to survive in the long run.

I think for both the coins are the same as altcoin or bitcoin and here we as users are just for profit and to improve our lives from adversity so both coins are very important to make a profit.

I think on paper easier to say that all the coin similar, but one line of code bad can be a huge losses and experience with bitcoin make clear that we will not have a big problem with ease. to conclude coins not really any results. their value based on the trust and use. bitcoin widely used and this is what makes bitcoin more valuable than currency crypto other. bitcoin better tested on higher volume and in-term longer time that makes bitcoin more reliable than currency crypto other.

in my opinion, the price difference is also to be noticed. and an earlier price increase. bitcoin has a high price and fortunately quite good if the price goes up again. if compared with other altcoin, other altcoin prices have very long increased, so there is also a point if we hold long term, bitcoin is better.

Everyone thinks more about bitcoin as a more prospective investment than altcoin. it is seen from the change in bitcoin price which is always the same as the change occurring at altcoin in the crypto market.

Of course, that bitcoin was the first currency is not playing a big role, but more important popularization. I think everyone remembers, that after the end of 2017 when there was hype around bitcoin and 80% of people, who knew or heard about bitcoin, mining in same time knew nothing about other cryptocurrencies.

Will for me i rather choose bitcoin for long term investment. It because bitcoin quetly huge pump than the other currency even though they almost pumping period

Most investor in cryptocurrency choose bitcoin as their primary investment. Its because bitcoin is very liquid and bitcoin is biggest market cap in market. Litecoin is good coin and i think its good investment too, and i think investor will looking on it when bitcoin price too high and they will find alternative investment

yes, usually the first thing must have good features in terms of value, system and belief of its users. usually the first product created has good quality, it's hard to get that trust and btc is able to maintain that trust, now that's btc still in control as a reference value of altcoin products and still dominate, even though the price is unstable but really btc still in control in the crypto business

IMHO

If a horse has won a race for the past 8 years it probably has pretty good odds, so people like to bet on that horse. At some point I feel that horse gets old though and the horses odds will go down.  Bitcoin is still quite the young horse, compare dog years to human years. BTC seems to be more like one of these https://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/animals/stories/11-animals-that-live-the-longest

People like to bet on good odds.

It is really a good choice to invest in bitcoin especially now that the price has dropped. There will be no argument if one side has no point. That means that there is really a point that bitcoin shall recover soon and nothing can stop it. We just have to wait. So if I were you guys, I will not sell my coins that easily. I dont want to live in regret.

There are many coins that are claiming to be better than bitcoin and yes there are times when they really are better than bitcoin in terms of transaction fee and speed but what they lack is popularity and community. I am sure that most of us here are aiming to increase our bitcoin holdings that's why bitcoin is still the one dominating the market. We may hold some altcoins but still we are aiming for more bitcoin because it has the highest price and share in the market and the most popular of them all too.

An argument presented in a US courtroom will alarm many observers: Bitcoin is not real money, so one if someone accused of money laundering can not be summoned. money laundering. " That is the argument for its long-term investment

I’m not really sure but I believe you trust your bank more than cryptocurrency. So that’s the same thing here, people trust bitcoin than other cryptocurrencies because it was the first that came out and proved to be more reliable and safe than others. Did you hear about Bitcoin Gold, you can remember what happened to it, that’s why most of us trust bitcoin.

Although we were able to recover from that of bitcoin gold, but what of other cryptocurrencies that ended and everyone lost their money. Well,  the thing here is that bitcoin is very good and we are used to it than others, others can serve as backup.

And why choose between bitcoin and altcoyins, if you can invest both there and there equally?

in the matter of investing, of course cryptocurrency is still really worth to be chosen and it still has a high chance of getting a brighter future that ultimately benefits. Talking about bitcoin.. certainly no doubt that this is very feasible, so are altcoins, but maybe in altcoins.. really should be able to pick a quality coin and still looks has a future or good development until the future.

I guess, it's always the best to be the leading coin as Bitcoin is the pioneer cryptocurrency in the market. The fact that it made the market popular seemingly singlehandedly proved that it is one of the better and more reliable coins around. Having that trustworthy characteristic, people tend to gravitate on using it, which in turn, helps it gain more transactions and acceptability all around the market. That's why many businesses, even if not versed with cryptocurrencies, know Bitcoin at least.

Most of the coin as of now are tying to be as bitcoin or bringing more offer to surpass BTC, but almost of them failed, cause the reputation that establish by BTC was too insane to regenerate, its capability was all known in market and economy that's why the trust of investors are being root even there are many rivalry that try to make a better actions. The assurance of users since 2009 regarding BTC was it's mane sword for being top of the list in market and to expand its popularity around the globe.

In my own opinion, long term holding for cryptocurrency is not good because the market price just might go down and there is no guarantee that it will always increase so trading daily is much better than long time holding.

You mean long term "discussion"? Because argument is not something like this. I do believe in bitcoin and crypto in general because we needed something like this. Online social media world needed a way to connect with the world and they did that. This is the economical version of that.

We can connect and pay and get paid from all over the world for very cheap and without any hassle. In social media you use a nick and not yourself and talk about anything you want. In bitcoin you use an address (wallet) and get paid without knowing who the other person is.

Bitcoin is highly volatile so we need long-term and short-term investment. We must have a specific plan for each stage of development as well as each of our goals. this is  Long term argument for bitcoin

It must be admitted that today more and more haters, they are willing to spend large amounts of money to make users bitcoin panic, we as users of course must be familiar with the negative news and always believe that the future will continue to improve.

Bitcoin is the most popular crypto currency and also the foundation of crypto, bitcoin can survive in the long run and no other coin can compete with bitcoin. Bitcoin has the highest confidence in crypto and can make bitcoin will continue to increase in value, and therefore holding bitcoin in the long run will give better results.

Never compare Bitcoin into altcoin pal, because altcoin is just a copy of bitcoin in my opinion. Bitcoin is the highest value of digital currency while 

altcoins is just a 3/4 price only of bitcoin or less. And we cannot erase that bitcoin is the Father of all cryptocurrency and it can't never be change

at all.

of course that's important.
big names of bitcoin will be hard to replace by altcoin, although litecoin has the same features as bitcoin but still more people's confidence in bitcoin.
and yes, bitcoin is the first, and that's very important.

I doubt it, many countries are classifying Bitcoin as a form of asset, or currency. As such, it would applicable under money laundering laws. Virtually any asset can be considered under money laundering laws AFAIK

yes of course important because without the bitcoin also will not create an altcoin in my opinion
bitcoin own popularity is widely known by the public and we all believe for growth will be profitable and life change better
because if altcoin is still difficult to predict for growth, will it continue to survive like bitcoin or not, it needs careful analysis and research

Not only with these two coins but with another as well. Al the crypto are for this reason. We have to change our lives through them as they are best sources and chance for this thing. People have shown such keen interest towards this bitcoin world and they have got handsome earning. With which they have enhanced their living standards and now life is much happier for them.

Because BTC is the first cryptocurrency, Bitcoin currently has the largest user base in the entire blockchain world, with millions of people holding bitcoin. Many media reports and publicity on BTC have expanded the visibility of BTC!
As the most successful application on the blockchain, BTC has a high market value!

You are right to some extent but it does matter brother. Do you want to hold a coin that is not much stronger? You better know that this one would be faded away in coming days or once it gets in a dip, this would require so long time to rehabilitate? I am sure a wise trader of investor never goes for a coin. Like ripple, it just went up so long and people invested in it, but soon that ended up in nothing.

besides that, bitcoin still leading the crypto and still be the king in the market as the altcoin following to where bitcoin goes. so I don't think that altcoin can replace bitcoin position and as long as there is bitcoin then altcoin will be the second and altcoin can help us to make more bitcoin. I think this is the function of altcoin so far because, with altcoin trade pair bitcoin, we can earn more and more bitcoin.

There will always be that.BTC has more than one milion users.BTC is the only one that has so many people, and they will always have arguments from all these people.

I agree with your mind because the popularity of Bitcoin is incredible. If to look into past weekend see the following hands and groin for it but not closing and disappearing from the market. It has stability for real time.

The bitcoin built trust to its users. The users are now aware on how powerful is the bitcoin. You can ensure that the bitcoin will not lose its value because it has strong support from its solid community.

Yes, any other altcoin that are successful at the moment or at this point, are probably as the same as Bitcoin asset-wise. And yes it does matter, because we are talking about the long term here. And being first have a great impact on it, not that it is first come first serve but what I mean is, the reputation that has been built up so far. Bitcoin have influence some enterprises now, medium even large enterprises. They've acknowledge it since it reached the rocket stage, sure altcoins will have potentials but Bitcoin have already been exposed and have been used a way longer now. They don't have the confidence in using other crypto that they are not familiar about.

I believe in Bitcoin because it is currently Altcoin with the highest current price and highest capitalisation in the market. There may be a lot of Altcoins that has a better foundation than Bitcoin, but it's not widely recognised for the potential it offers.

It's a matter of popularity I think. Also, bitcoin gained already a respectable image in the crypto world.

The long term argument for bitcoins is that, there are bunch of people who are telling that cryptocurrency or bitcoins will die in this time bla bla bla, but in the end of the day, the price will be still growing and those people will regret not investing while the market price is still dumping.

Long-term investment is the right place from now on, especially on the issue of Bitcoin prices. The financial world recognizes the return of long-term investment plans, such as making a big bet on the future of a company or asset that will deliver much better results than short-term prospects.

It seems that bitcoin is preparing for growth. There is a full feeling that the holiday of investors is just around the corner)) ::)

actually long term is good to do if we buy bitcoin when the price really down or cheap. because at that time we already know and will be sure if bitcoin will rise again to the normal price. like now, bitcoin prices keep going down, I think it's the right time to buy bitcoin and we hold long term. but only people who are patient can use long term technique, because if not patient can be panic selling.

We all know that crypto currencies are increasing in the world with a very great speed and the matter of sheer interest is that for people the world crypto currency means a new way of technology and that is why most developed countries has even legalised it and moreover they have experienced a great boost in their development also but still bitcoin is the topper of all the currencies around and no doubt bitcoin among all crypto currencies is a very sustainable crypto currency.

Is that a disadvantage for investors? If they let electronic money be used by those who launder money, corruption is increasingly difficult. The disadvantage will come and the government will start. What a joke. But I think all the hard work has to be solved, we need to calm down before these events.

Bitcoin is the most famous cryptocurrency in digital world. People tend to be confident using Bitcoin because they know that there are many people trust the way Bitcoin do.

Its obvious that the features of most of the altcoins are similar since they are all as considered digital currency. However, I would say that this similarities is for sure resulting to a win-win relationship among altcoins and cryptocurrencies. As they find a way to be a unique digital currency, development of technological society growing faster.

Hopefully, these arguments continue to help altcoins to grow. Just keep the flames, while using netiquette. :D

It is indeed important. Some altcoins that are already on the market could still be destroyed and not all are good enough thus being terminated in lots of exchanges and tradings. Those who doesn't trust Bitcoin in its long-term would be the same as those people back then who use it to buy pizza instead of holding it.

Altcoin price is depending on bitcoin price. If bitcoin price going up, then altcoin price will going up to. If bitcoin price going down, altcoin price will be go down. I think bitcoin is more important to long term because bitcoin is king of cryptocurrency.

Yes, without bitcoin we could've never come across altcoins. Each and every altcoin has got some sort of dependence over bitcoin directly or indirectly. The dependence can be clearly observed, as the above quote states there will be massive fall in value of altcoins when the bitcoin drops low.

Bitcoin has already established it's reputation in the market that any investors will not be down in it if talking about a long term investment. Litecoin in the other hand is a good altcoins though, but it has never been a consistent one and has never gotten any huge rise on it's price even in the years passed.

Yes of course bitcoin is the first ever currency and It can easily increase it's price unlike the other currency they value is depending on a currency which is bitcoin that's why most of the investors are investing to bitcoin for a long term investments. And I think I also like to make some invesments to it just like other people did to their money that they invested to it.

I think for the long term bitcoin does have a very high potential, but to achieve this there will be many cliffs and valleys that will be formed meaning that it requires strong mental and confidence to be able to benefit long-term bitcoin.

Actually for me, it's not because bitcoin is first that i feel confident about investing it in long term. But because i look into the past, and this current situation, bitcoin surely is the strongest coin, not like others. It's the most popular and valuable among all cryptocurrency.
And we already know, although bitcoin sometimes faces it's down, it manages to survive and even the value increase more and more. I believe in the long term, we can see bitcoin develop even more than now. And i think other altcoin can't do that yet, some of them are great, but nothing able to beat bitcoin yet.

This is for people who have a lot of money and do not have much time to buy and sell by date. I do not have much money so I have to trade for profit. I have to get money to pay for my daily expenses.

I agree, I think for now there are no altcoins that can beat bitcoin even if time will pass I am sure that bitcoin will still lead the crypto market. Bitcoin is a long term investment for us.

bitcoin has been well established compared to other coins. It gain popularity as it is reliable to use and was tested by users and not just by being the first coin.

Ethereum has been performing well in the market too and its platform is being used a lot by several tokens but still can't get near bitcoin's price.

Well its the pioneer

After all, btc is the first blockchain application, the first and most popular encrypted electronic currency, so it has been the focus of people!
It is also the largest cryptocurrency, and it remains the leader in the cryptocurrency market!

We know all that bitcoin is not that good at all but it is trusted! It gains trust from everyone and for a long years it is still running and making money for everyone who invested on it.  So for me it is still effective to invest in a long term investment on bitcoin rather anything else in the crypto market.

Bitcoin was the first. It is quite important. because everyone knows it. and it has no owner. Its owner is everyone so it is impossible to die

I think bitcoin is more feasible in the long run than altcoins because bitcoin is the main one in crypto. Most altcoins are not long-lived and tend to be a scam, so it's very risky to be held long-term. Indeed there are strong altcoins like ethereum, litecoin, neo, but I don't think they can beat bitcoin, and because of that for the main I still choose bitcoin in the long run.

Well, the second big difference in price. Bitcoin is still no surpassing. And most people generally know only about bitcoin and they are missing it. It is clear that there are still many benefits to Bitcoin.

It's not that bitcoin was the first and not in its popularity. It's all about the still big capitalization of bitcoin. This allows him to dominate the price over all types of crypto currency. Therefore, many create the illusion that there is no point in investing in altcoyins, vseravno they will not grow in price without the rise in the price of bitcoin. However, the level of bitcoin capitalization is steadily falling: from 94 percent it has already fallen to 32. When he falls so much that he can not keep the prices of altcoys, for them it will be a real holiday. Then the crypto currency market will work fine.

Because it's the most used crypto , if you wanna buy those altcoins you need to buy BTC first from fiat

besides that, we are confident about bitcoin because bitcoin is the most expensive coins and it means, if we have one bitcoin, we can have much money and it's different if we have one ethereum. the bitcoin price still very expensive than the other coins and this is why people still choosing bitcoin as their main coin. with bitcoin, we can get a big money but in the other side, the altcoin existing is to help us to gain more bitcoin so we can have more money in the balance.

Bitcoin as it stands today has more mass adoption than anyother Cryptocurrency does and it is very evident in their market capitalization, the features BTC has can be put into a new cryptocurrency project but it still think it would take a very long time before it gets mass adoption like BTC.

Yes bitcoin is the first and it's trusted by everyone and not to mention its value that appreciate over time. Plus the fact that bitcoin is have the higher marketcap and we're just waiting from a mass adaption that will trigger the price to skyrocketed. Well actually, we all have different perspective in cryptos so if you like litecoin more than bitcoin then you're free to trade neither hold it.

And I think you should do some more research to enlighten yourself.

Bitcoin - the very first crypto currency, which is used much longer than other coins. And therefore has a great guarantee and his level of trust is much higher than that of the other coins.

Bitcoins have long existed and are the most widespread. If there is no bitcoin then I think there will be no altcoins and crypto markets. Atlcoins have far better features than bitcoin. but in the end is just a copy, imitate bitcoin. And most altcoin prices depend on bitcoin

As time goes by bitcoin become popular in terms of it's usage and capability. As it gives big help to each and everyone of us here in bitcoin community. Though, there are some ICO which aiming to reach the bitcoin but in reality they can't reach it as the bitcoin is the dominant crypto currency of all time.

Bitcoin regulates all the other cryptos that depend on it. With time, the price for BTC will be only going up. The number of people that are interested in Bitcoin is growing. Thus, hold it.

I have no doubt in bitcoin when I invest I hold it long term. It makes popularity because of the features it has and users are attracted to use bitcoin. Yes many users who truly believes on bitcoin even value is dump but I think in the future it will soar high.

Well, Yes bitcoin is the first and it's trusted by everyone and not to mention its value that appreciate over time. Plus the fact that bitcoin is have the higher marketcap and we're just waiting from a mass adaption that will trigger the price to skyrocketed. Well actually, we all have different perspective in cryptos so if you like litecoin more than bitcoin then you're free to trade neither hold it. But, I think you should do some more research to enlighten yourself.

Yes you are right, the market prices is based on supply and demand so you should always think positive or read different speculations that will make your confidence stronger to hold you coins and that is how you will be gaining profit in tough times like now.

You can see that the market has been fluctuating continuously and since the bitcoin price hit $ 20k, it has fallen sharply and there was a time when bitcoin prices fell to $ 5600. The market is bearish in the long term, so I believe the bitcoin price will continue to fall further in 2018, so you should only invest in bitcoin.

Because first mover advantage. You must have heard about Xerox, Pandora and even Apple. They all enjoy the first mover advantage and are making it big.

BTC being first in its era has huge community support. All its variants have nothing much to offer. Please thus stay with BTC. BTC is like a synonym to cryptos nowadays and also being a most widely used crypto in trading, BTC is hardly going to lose it value in near future to its slightly better variants.

Very important to me, indeed they are both fellow cryptocurrency. But bitcoin has its own value, bitcoin is more popular and has been used widely by the public in completing a payment. and also bitcoin has a higher price than litecoin.

Bitcoin is the most trusted coin in crypto and bitcoin is also the main one in the market. Because bitcoin is the main choice, bitcoin will be able to survive in the long run and will be able to provide good profits.

This is running for nine years of bitcoin and we hope this must be continuing for long time. pole is loving this coin and they are enhancing their life styles. This system is based on supply and demand rule. Basically, the price fluctuations are totally dependent on this rule. More people are coming in the field so demand in likely to get increased and thus prices jumps higher.

Being the first cryptocurrency and being released like over a decade ago gives bitcoin upper hand don't you feel? No matter how good a coin that launches now is late to the tech. What Bitcoin did in 2009 is remarkable than what a coin can achieve in 2018 given we have better tools and better programming languages.

long-term investment, short-term investment, or medium-term investment that is the investor's plan we should have specific and clear strategies, so that our investment gains many advantages

I think bitcoin is well known, and has been used in every field.
When it comes to functionality, I think ETH is more powerful, but it costs one-tenth of bitcoin.

Don't worry that bitcoin is not popular, and if bitcoin dies, there will be no other cryptocurrency that will replace bitcoin.
no bitcoin there is no cryptocurrency

Many altcoin have good project and potential in the future. But most investor choosing bitcoin because peoples think bitcoin is digital gold. Its store of value and have secure network.

Well as you can see, Bitcoin has been around more than all the altcoins which makes it a factor for it being more chose than the others. Also, Bitcoin has been the safest investment in the entire cryptocurrency space compared to other coins that have been created. Not only that, Bitcoin also has been use all over the world to transact money for all kinds of services or Bitcoin to fiat.

I think on paper it's easy to say that all coins are similar, but one line of bad code can be a big loss and experience with bitcoin makes it clear that we won't have big problems easily. To conclude the coin doesn't really produce anything. Their value is based on trust and use. Bitcoin is widely used and this is what makes bitcoin more valuable than other crypto currencies. Bitcoin is better tested at higher volumes and over a longer period of time which makes bitcoin more reliable than other crypto currencies.

as we all know not only because the first digital coin was created, but bitcoin has gained a lot of trust to be a profitable investment and its value will continue to grow.

although many altcoins are emerging with more sophisticated concepts and technologies compared to bitcoin, they are still untrustworthy for future prospects. because bitcoin takes a long time to be trusted as a good long-term investment.

well the reason is that the whole market is dependent on btc and btc has the most dominance, so in order for the other to increase or decrease they have to wait for btc first which makes it the most secure and stable investment in crypto.

I think this argument is very helpful for both sides. When the flames are keeping heated between them, innovators and their institutions find or work for development to improve their capacity. Thus, this development will be use to catch the attention and interest of the people in order to have their appreciation to the digital money in our society. It is very confident and challenging to have competitors rather than being alone.

You can make it two assets, bitcoin and litecoin and I think litecoin is also pretty good, litecoin movement is slow but sure.
And I think bitcoin is a benchmark for all cryptocurrency.

If you are looking to gain influence over the Bitcoin protocol, Bitcoin Unlimited is what you want to follow. Bitcoin Unlimited is setting a precedent for changing the protocol in ways that violate the “unalienable rights” of Bitcoin users.

The major factor here would be the trust of the community. Many have trusted Bitcoin up until now in contrast with Litecoin. So people will definitely prefer Bitcoin who established strong trust with the people over Litecoin. It is true that other coins have better technologies but currently the market is only spinning itself around the profit and I can also say the greed. Maybe in the future some other coin will perceive the value of the Bitcoin but I highly doubt it.

Though Litecoin is a good coin, but Bitcoin is the best coin from the beginning and holding number one position.  Litecoin will have a good future, but Bitcoin is the most successful, trustful and reliant coin in the crypto-currency world.

Yes it is very important that BTC was the first because it's the most popular and people are interested in it very much. It's not that we aren't sure that other coins are valuable, but we do now that BTC is definitely going to live.

Well, All I can say that Bitcoin is the Best Coin among any others. Investors knew that investing in Bitcoin is the smartest thing to do. For sure they know about some altcoins having the same advantage as Bitcoin. But there can only be One Coin that will be on Top. That is the Bitcoin.

This is not an important issue or not with which differences are created first, because each coin must have the concept and purpose of each of its development teams. there are many altcoins that have better potential than bitcoin but they cannot be as consistent as bitcoin which has provided guarantees for its growth and can be trusted by investors for profitable investments.

although many altcoins have a better potential than bitcoin but they cannot guarantee that they can continue to survive in the future and bitcoin will remain firm on top of being one of the best digital coins of all time.

Blockchain-based crypto keeps evolving. I'm pretty sure that it's here to stay.

Everyone in cryptocurrency is always concerned about the price of bitcoin and how the value will affect other altcoins. It is a true reflection that the price of bitcoin has a great influence on the prices of other alts.

not just the first but bitcoin is also a pioneer of other crytpo, bitcoin has a very large community, I'm sure users are also more interested in bitcoin and beginners often hear the name bitcoin, there are still many things about the advantages of bitcoin if you compare it with other crypto.

Very good, i'm glad you made the final statement that Bitcoin was the first cryptocurrency. As the first and successful cryptocurrecncy, Bitcoin has gained the trust of about 75% of the total investors on the market. Almost all the other coins look up to Bitcoin to start the signal of a bull market.

being the first in the market has an advantage, we all know that bitcoin being the pioneer coin among others have long before proven that it survives the tests way before litecoin was. bitcoin has survive many hurdles, even today, bitcoin is the gauge by other cryptocurrenies that are dependent on bitcoin price in the market, bitcion is the first of its kind, it introduce blockchain technology to the whole world.

For one thing my dear friend. If people were to think about crypto currency they'll immediately think about bitcoin. Another is that bitcoin is the forst of it's kind and would likely to be stabilized soon. Lastly, other crypto currencies are just rising the coat tails of the success of Bitcoin. I sincerely think that Bitcoin will make it to adoption soon

altcoin does have the same features as bitcoin because they use technology from bitcoin.


Bitcoin has shown the quality that is owned from time to time, Bitcoin is able to survive until now and become the main spearhead of the digital currency market.
Many investors have large amounts of bitcoin in their hands.
Unlike altcoin, he does not have many investors and still has a long journey to fight time, whether altcoin can survive or it will be worthless that many people think.
Time is important evidence to consider.  8)

I have heard lot of issues and arguments from the other people. Lot of negative thought even without knowing the reality behind Bitcoin. I'm sure that all of these arguments will not be finish for lot of different people argues. Like bans from other and low value of Bitcoin especially the negative feedback of Bitcoin due to the economy.

Because people are more familiar with bitcoin and get used to it rather than other coin since its the first coin of all they' haven't tried other coin but given a chance these coin too I guuess will advance and make it own popularity claim aside form bitcoin..but whether who's better or not that we all know already.

About the crypto market, Bitcoin's future market regulators have opened up many beautiful prospects that Bitcoin will reach its peak in global currency and dominance. However, there must be grounds for asserting that the arguments are justified.

hello, if you compare btc with ltc it really can't, because lct is a follower of btc. If we talk about the price of btc on longterm, it is certain to rise, as well as ltc, but I'm sure the increase in ltc won't beat the price of btc. BTC is a pioneer of crypto

I am still about how the future of bitcoin still green and light, you can save or hold your bitcoin as your investment asset for the future. Always have positive news about bitcoin become next power full investment at the future.

This. Not just because they have a lot of potential doesn't mean that they can surpass bitcoin. Just to remind everyone, altcoins are made from shadow of bitcoin since they see it a successful one and they're dreaming to have somerhing that can follow what bitcoin has reached.


Yes it is. Just see how altcoins' value depends on bitcoin movement.

Most people more trust to invest on bitcoin because bitcoin have biggest market cap and biggest liquidity. Litecoin is good coin but for long term, i am prefer choosing bitcoin because many expert said so and they predicting bitcoin can reach $50k

That's totally wrong, my friend!

Not bitcoin is the first and so this is the reason it dominates the electronic money market. People find more investment opportunities from bitcoin, perhaps bitcoin is safer than co-altcoin and they decide to place their trust in bitcoin.

Bitcoin is available in more markets and is considered the reserve currency of the crypto-currency world. This is the most stable coin. Litecoin can also be considered a fairly stable crypto currency, although it is still very far from Bitcoin.
Bitcoin markets are much larger, and even large transactions do not have a significant impact on the price. There are also over-the-counter sites where bitcoins trade is conducted. Bitcoin's market capitalization is well ahead of its competitors, so it allows for much larger deals.

You are right bitcoin is best coin to hold for long term because it give high amount of profit and it has a lot of benefit that no other coin could every give to anyone, now a day bitcoin is helping the society to make good ways of gaining profit, holding for more time is really an amazing way of securing your future and making good amount of money out of it, the more you will hold the more you will earn, better to buy at red so that you will  be able to hold patiently.

Bitcoin has the highest marketcap as well prices, in fact from research almost 40% worth of bitcoins are untouched and owned by whales, they arent going to end the market soon as the entire cryptocurrency industry would just stumble, bitcoin is the best bet to play against a highly volatile market, no investor Is going look into alts when the main is exchange medium is keep going down

As far as I know bitcoin have small total supply and most difficult to exploit. So their prices are usually more expensive than the easy-to-earn altcoins. People often prefer a transactional security and bitcoin to meet that

i think bitcoin is easy to get too, provided we have funds to buy it. but long-term bitcoin because btc is a modern exchange tool, which will eventually use the internet network

For me bitcoin is the future currency and I would like to hold as much as I can because I want to fulfill all my dreams of the future and for that I need lot of money and bitcoin is the only way to earn huge money. Current situation will be recovered soon and good days will start again. Investors of bitcoin should be patient and cool and just wait for little more. Bitcoin is good and will good in the future as well.

As a trader I asserted that everyone was transferring 60% of their profits from altcoin trading to bitcoin and the remaining 40% switched to usdt.

That said, most traders believe in bitcoins and they are willing to buy them at any time. Prices may rise sharply if there is good news like the government accepts bitcoin

Obviously it is very important, when the existence of a crypto currency influences the level of investor confidence, when a crypto currency can last a long time even though there is negative news that hit it this can increase the confidence of investors to invest their capital in reliable crypto currencies (bitcoin ) when compared to altcoin the level of trust in bitcoin is higher

Well, I am not sure now if that percentage still following by most of investors now. A lot of investors already losses their profit now because of the drastically dropping of price in the market.

Definitely that bitcoin was created first is a very strong argument as it marked the beginning of the creation of the same Litecoin and without it would not have started the era of cryptocurrency.

It seems to me that its depend on what you are earning all of cryptocurrencies are worth it, few are not though. Its not who came first or last its about how they handle and giving other people opportunity to earn this cryptocurrency. Bitcoin is most popular because once you says cryptocurrency the first thing enter into my mind is Bitcoin, I know you too.

While more backward countries denounce them. It seems crypto's are the future after all. They've just been recognized by the World masters of banking. I would recommend for everyone to get on board even micro bits will serve you well . It's time for the MIGHTY BITCOIN to reign supreme .

in my opinion, all coins are important. not only bitcoin, altcoin is very useful for our future. the difference is only bitcoin is more famous and has a high value of trust, so many people are interested in bitcoin and impact the price of bitcoin is much more expensive than altcoin. whereas altcoins, have not yet received the value of privilege in investors because the coins are only circulating in the coin market. and altcoins don't necessarily last long in the coin market like bitcoin. so it takes longer for the altcoin to be accepted by investors.

Yeah you are right. Due to current bad situation of the market many people dishearten and they say diffident things about bitcoin, but in my opinion bitcoin is the most profitable investment on the world especially for those who have no time for bitcoin trading. They can only invest and wait for some time. This day the price is stable but in the near future we will see big growth in the price.

The most important thing I have to admit to you is that bitcoin has a huge support community. Although bitcoin has many drawbacks compared to new altcoin coins but it is supported by a large community and so its value always determines the price of other coins.

In my opinion litecoin is more centralized than bitcoin. Accordingly litecoin easier to manipulate and a great chance you can stay without money. ;)

In my opinion Bitcoin is the safety full coin because it has right exist since 2009 year like that.we know and others coin going to quickly down ever but Bitcoin price not have quickly goes to down.so Bitcoin is best ever.

The world is turning towards cryptocurrency which is a digital currency and the whole world will use only digital currency in the future. So there is no doubt that the future is that of cryptocurrency. I am confident because I know that as more and more people will come to know about cryptocurrency they will invest in it and the market cap will increases and so the price.

I think the important thing about bitcoin is not the first coin in cryptocurrency but in network security. Bitcoin already proven secure and almost unhacked. Transaction data spread all around the world and hackers can not control or change the data. Thats why many people hold bitcoin for long term

I think that is important, because it relates to trust as an authentic coin. Bitcoin is accepted by many companies and also investors who save their money in bitcoin, and because of the strength of bitcoin, bitcoin will survive in the long run.

Because people consider bitcoin more reliable. If we take the functional, then some altcoins outperform bitcoin

to invest in long-term bitcoin is very profitable if you do have more funds and do not need money in the near future, but you must be able to control emotions as long as you hold your crypto currency assets until the price rises according to what you expect

In my opinion, total supply and demand only determine the temporary price of bitcoin. Most importantly, market capitalization, declining capitalization means lower bitcoin prices. If the cap is 10 times higher, the lowest bitcoin price will increase 5 time

bitcoin is a digital currency that is mostly relied on by many investors and traders because its value is always increasing to be expensive. so with bitcoin soaring in price, altcoins will also go along, but if it is to counter bitcoin it seems very difficult for altcoins

you are right, bitcoin does have a very high value. bitcoin has a big risk. if we want to invest, we must be careful. because someone uses bitcoin for a crime. bitcoin is also influential for other coins. when bitcoin goes down all the coins go down and when bitcoin rises, all coins also go up.

The inflation rate of bitcoin will only decrease over time which will make it a great investment because supply will drop and demand will only grow.

Well, the first mover advantage is huge.

Bitcoin can offer the best security due to its size. It can also offer the most liquid markets, price doesn't change much if you do big transaction.


It takes less space then Ethereum to run a true fully validating node.


On the long-term bitcoin can remain top dog, due to the fair distribution and name recognition it has as well as the factors mentioned above.

When you think crypto-currency which one comes to mind first?
Which is the least volatile?
Which has the biggest hashrate?

Bitcoin.

Soon, the inflation from miner rewards is going to drop below the inflation of The US dollar from money creation. I think this is the equivalent of bitcoin going from being a child to an adult.

I think that BTC will hold its 1 position of crypto king and that will guarantee it constant growth, I'm sure than BTC is actually the best long-term investment.

Yes it is not very hard to get a bitcoin because it is now famous and everyone know about it, we can get it only by making a miner research but it is very important to be careful while choosing for site to buy bitcoin, once we buy the other one wise step could be holding for long term and not selling it so early, so the more we will hold our bitcoin it will be high in price, short term holding give mini profit as compare to holding for long term.

bitcoin unlimited will allow the miners to ensure their profits are at a maximum in the long term. it will undermine layer two solutions like the lightning network and keep as many transactions on chain as possible. It’s mainly a greedy push from the miners for more money at the expense of the public.

I think that actual argument is not only for holding BTC for long term but actually for holding any crypto for a long time because it has a great potential to develop in future.

Bitcoin is store of value and can be global currency. Most people investing their money in bitcoin because bitcoin have limited supply and have biggest daily volume in market. Holding bitcoin for long term will be profitable when market start recovery and i am believe bitcoin can reach $50k like what experts said

As first cryptocurrency, bitcoin give trust to their investor thru secure network. Many old coin in cryptomarket before but they can not survive because they are not deliver what they promise to their investor but bitcoin deliver the security and the promising return

Its true that bitcoin is much secure than any crypto that exist now. All the informations that bitcoin hacked before is misleading. Is just that the exchanges before got hacked not bitcoin until the bitcoin network still improving and get better than before. And soon it will change our financial system and people will accept and believe that bitcoin is a good storage of value than gold itself. It will be the digital gold and its price will skyrocket in no time. Buy and hodl bitcoin :)

I think that is important. The more the coin survives the more it will become trusted by the investors, that is why they are investing into bitcoin and not on the other coins out there.

Bitcoin is the most secure because it has the longest chain, it`s impossible to alter it, maybe if there is just one node, but there are many ones, only together they can change something, why there is so many forks, some people can`t agree and they go to separate way. That is basic of bitcoin, who wish to study it can find so many things online about nodes, chains, transactions, wallets, this is huge! But people still don`t make difference between centralized and decentralized systems, between mining and staking, and plus all that have their subsystems. I think the main benefit of cryptocurrencies are that you are your own boss, you can do what you wish, as long as you know how. Blockchain is a new world, and it`s being constantly upgraded, so we need to do the same, we need to learn a lot about new possibilities. That is the main advantage, you can be free much more than in any kind of centralized system, you can make your own destiny, again if you know how.

Yeah it is right that bitcoin is the first crypto in the world and is the leading crypto in the loss of cryptocurrencies. In the future bitcoin will take over the market and all other currencies will disappear from the market. Bitcoin will be the mainstream in the future no matter how much time it will take. The aim is the use of bitcoin as regular currency and it will take place in the future.

yes you're right, most people know bitcoin than others, it can be said that bitcoin is the god of the crypto world. almost all altcoins are influenced by bitcoin, for example, if the price of bitcoin increases then most of the altcoin prices will also increase

I am not agree with you not all cryptocurrency  have same features. If you compare other coins with bitcoin you'll find out that bitcoin has more potential than other.

The long-term reasoning for Bitcoin is in the existence of Bitcoin in the coming years. There are new happenings or stop at the value of Bitcoin hovering.

We can't chose alt coins for long term invest we can only chose them for trading.Bitcoin can be use only for long term invest and future purpose.You're bitcoin is the first but still there's no comparison with alt.

I agree with your opinion that crypto and bitcoin currencies are the same. The only difference is that bitcoin comes first while the sis follows, this is what makes the price of bitcoin much more expensive when compared to other crypto currencies, this is what influences investor confidence.

People who want to invest for long term do not have to worry much about the market volatility which happens very frequently as they would be concerned more about their returns after 3-5 years. Till then it can be like huge price if you stay invested and keep on adding the coins when price falls.

If nobody uses BTC as a currency and has no real purpose other than being mined because some people hope/believe that it will substitute the fiat currencies in the world, then probably it is just an asset.

in fact, in various ways in the world, especially trading products, the first is definitely the best in terms of quality, because the first is the determinant of the next product, why are you still doubting BTC? its existence has proven that the best BTC survives a long period of time is not easy, requires a lot of trust from the consumer, so the best btc need not be questioned anymore
 

We know that anything of long term trusted store of value has a bi profit for you even a source with long term store of value more than 25% is a good investment source. In case of Bitcoin you need not to say anything because it is a long term trusted store and we have seen the success of people here more than any other source is what the world is demanding for.

Bitcoin's special feature is its limited quantity. Only 21 million Bitcoins are exploited, so Bitcoin can be compared to assets that are not a currency. I think the price of Bitcoin can change constantly depending on the change in the economy.

Bitcoin is a symbol of cryptocurrency, its value may change a lot in the future, but in the long run, Bitcoin will still maintain its leading position in the crypto market.

Bitcoin can be a fun experiment, if you're willing to risk losing some money. You can even buy 1/10 of a penny (or less) to reduce your risk.

None, for long term, there is absolutely no way Bitcoin Unlimited would solve any problem. Changing the size of a block is just a hack, a small and short term solution.

I'm more positive about bitcoin on account of a certain something, selection. Bitcoin being the principal mover to decentralized blockchain had provide food the greater part of the general population that is engaged with digital currency in addition to the quantity of designers submitting and proposing thoughts on its github. Which means there are bunches of supporters to bitcoin that some altcoin is missing. The appropriation of some country to recognize bitcoin as cash or legitimate tenders is something else.

In my opinion it is because as of now bitcoin is the stongest coin of all coin. Being popular  is also advantage. More people are engage in bitcoin and invest on it. People believe on the characteristics of bitcoin and also believe  that it will help them in the future. Bitcoin has its security features that make people more comfortable using it.

The fact is that BTC pioneered all the other coins and it didn't loose its reputation and popularity and hence its adoption became superb. Also currently almost everything is in relation to Bitcoin's price. There are only a few coins that do not wait for a BTC pump before their price goes high

The long term argument for bitcoin. If I told you bitcoin was a phone the best on the market would you bet happy with what you have? I rest my case. When its ready to be called what it is, every individual on the planet will recognize what it was created for.

My long-term opinion on bitcoin is still hopeful, because prices tend to continue to experience a decline, but my hope is that bitcoin will be expensive in the future with halving day, where the amount of bitcoin is limited and continues to decrease until it will not there is bitcoin that can be produced again from mining activities

When I first started thinking of investing in crypto last year I came up with a basic criteria for what I thought the "currency of the future" would need: instant transactions, feeless,  sustainable, decentralized. My plan was to throw some pocket change at it, and sell when it was enough to retire comfortably with.  I'm a beginner with a strategic view on selling. So I look for highs and sell when I think the risk or reward is optimized using daily charts. Swing and day trading is more of a tactical view using the hourly and minute charts.

In my opinion, in the long run, bitcoin can rise again, so that there will be many benefits that we can enjoy in the future. For now we have to be more patient to wait for rising prices in the market. I am sure someday the bitcoin users will feel the impact of bitcoin profits. We can still invest and continue to process bitcoin properly so we are not in vain in investing.

Are pioneers not important in your opinion ...? I think King Crypto currency is the main. because all crypto currencies refer to Bitcoin. and more crypto users on Bitcoin. why not other crypto? unless other crypto can make it better than bitcoin. I think bitcoin users will move. most crypto users still believe that bitcoin is the best.

I know the coin Litecoin for a long time, but yet i didn't feel like investing in it. I just don't like it. I think i have just 0.1 Litecoin so not worth anything right now. I feel like investing in Ethereum is way more profitable.

I believe, for long term, Bitcoin will be more accepted among the financial institutions and countries which would increase its demand and supply and hence the coin's market capital.
Also, the coin can head towards being a mainstream currency in the future.
The coin will be more stable and no longer under a financial bubble. In the coming months, the coin has the potential to cross the $10000 mark.
It is a great coin with a bright future.

Let's not forget the fact that when someone comes in they need to buy butcoin first before buying their altcoins, that keeps the BTC price moving always and also it's volume, maybe the reason is not it is not the ffirst one but because majority of users already put so much trust in BTC.

Keep in mind that Altcoin must also be analyzed again, that bitcoin is the parent of all altcoins.
Because they see the conditions that are currently deteriorating, so all must be analyzed positively.

Yup if public perception of bitcoin changes so that it is viewed as useless technology (which it almost is right now) then the price will collapse 90%+ overnight. It needs to be developed further and actually be used by people and companies

It is true that altcoins and bitcoins are similar in many ways but the fact that without bitcoin there will never be altcoins so most people would still prefer having the prominent one or the foundation because it still the most reliable.

and with the many bitcoin enthusiasts also that to increase prices is also faster and bitcoin is a good investment place in the long run

Because bitcoin is the most successful coin and it is used widely all over the world. That is the reason why people are still confident about bitcoin

it's important ... because the first bitcoin means the second can emulate bitcoin, so we never forget the first, bitcoin is a digital currency for trading, many who invest in bitcoin and succeed with a long time.

For Bitcoin’s proponents, the surge is evidence that it on its way to challenging established currencies like the US dollar, payment systems like PayPal, or stores of value like gold.

The course of almost all cryptocurrencies depends on the bitcoin rate at the moment. If the course goes up - in others it will also go higher. Bitcoin is the most popular currency because it has a more useful payment system than lightcoin. I advise you to study the information about these cryptocurrencies.

You will see more than 5k coins running down there in the crypto market but only few are highly rated and best recommended for investment especially long-term investment. In long-term investment you will get very few choices in which the Bitcoin is the first choice. Bitcoin is of highest priority for long-term investment, you will get maximum profit of your investment only if it is Bitcoin as we know that other than Bitcoin other are best for short-term.

I think bitcoin its not only the first but about its decentralization project doesnt have any disturbed because of the creator Satoshi Nakamoto hide his name, place,and other identity, so it make pure no one can manipulate bitcoin and create the blockchain product goes properly.

Yes, being the first is very important. Simply because it has way more reputation, more well known in the mainstream, so more people are interested.

Yes, if you see any family that they give birth as the first baby, we know that is very important and valuable for their family. That's why, I am the side of Bitcoin.If you see the crypto-currency world, Bitcoin is the first and holding number one position for the beginning, so if any coin reaches the same level of Bitcoin, it takes time so long or not happen (though it is LTC, ETH,XRP,EOS etc.).Therefore, people are confident with the long term of Bitcoin.

bitcoin is the father of all crypto because he who experienced bitter and sweet things up to now, bitcoin will continue to exist considering that many markets in the market always make bitcoin as a pairing basis for many altcoins today. Besides that, large companies partnering with bitcoin are innumerable and this will continue to grow. this is what makes bitcoin worthy of being a long-term investment asset

I think bitcoin is most popular as a long term investment. Most people choose it as a means to preserve and increase their money.

It is not just about which is better, but also, which people trust more. And while the name of Bitcoin is getting quite famous, nobody have heard about Litecoin, outside the crypto community.

no one can be sure in the future because it's already the nature and risk of cryptocurrencies, maybe bitcoin now has the best intensity and fame so our future view of bitcoin can be a benchmark for the future but all possibilities can occur without predictions.

The biggest advantage for Bitcoin is that it is already well known and established so even people who doesn't understand it very well buy it.