i think the only obvious answer is "If things change maybe"

bitcoin is right there, it has been around, it is trusted and it is decentralized but the problem which everyone now knows is the block size debate between two sides which are pulling at bitcoin from two opposite directions. if we can finally come to some decent conclusion for that, the adoption will happen. specially with the movement that Japan started.

but about altcoins i have to say it won't be possible. at least for existing ones. these are too deep in problems that can not reach the adoption stage. for the most part is because bitcoin does what they want to do 10 times better. for the other part is because these altcoins are not created to be adopted by anyone other than traders. and they have already adopted them with open arms and big whale-y pockets.

actually i am glad that this happened.
maybe people start to realize how crappy marketcap is when they are comparing cryptocurrencies. they have been repeating over and over that since ETH has the highest marketcap then it is a good altcoin and now this one. all these coins on top are proving how fake it is to "produce" a big market cap for an altcoin.

what you don't understand with your long text is that government don't care much about the bitcoin price. what they care about is how bitcoin is used, aka trying to prevent people from using bitcoin for illegal activities such as what they do in dark markets.

and for that bitcoin can be worth $0.01 and still be used for illegal activities.

i don't know why people do this! throw in a bomb and run away
the bug is not from Trezor, it is from Trezor.io and how it is estimating amount of fee.
in short it is because Trezor is using third party services to get the fees (i believe 21.co) and that is causing the bug.
Trezor is compatible with many wallets for example you can use Electrum with it and it allows you to set the fees manually.

nobody is preventing your favorite altcoin to come to the front, by all means come on.
we all love cryptocurrency and it just happens that we all find bitcoin to be the best thing. but if there is an altcoin that is really better than bitcoin then surely that will be used and will become bigger than bitcoin.

but the problem is, all the altcoins that you think are "better" have a lot of problems that you either don't see yet or are closing your eyes on.

the problem is that bitcoin is under a heavy spam attack, then there is a lot of adoption and the price rise always increases the number of transactions. so the fees go up. newbies pay less and get their transactions stuck.
here is where altcoins come in. their network is empty since noone is using them to transfer money. many of them also have faster block generation. also to make newbies think they are better they have set the fees lower (also since they are mostly different).
now you look at this and think to yourself, altcoins are better.

but when you go in, see the centralization, see the pre-mines the ICO scams, all the bugs in the code, all the exploits that are right there, all the other problems that they have, so many of the big altcoins don't even have a proper wallet, all the security issues, and a lot more, and also when the manipulators dumped on you and price crashed you will crawl back to bitcoin just like each year.

but by all means, introduce a better cryptocurrency than bitcoin and we will all switch and start using it.

the funny thing about altcoin investors is that they don't give a shit about what they are investing in, even if they are scam!
we have seen many times that even altcoins with a keylogger, virus,... in their wallet file have been listed on exchanges and be traded! and that is the obvious kind of scam.

in this market people only care about money. and if an altcoin can give it to them, then they will invest in it.
now the experienced traders know when to get out and get out with profit while others wait around or get in too late and get dumped on.

there isn't really any formula or any easy way to say if (this + that) then (price rise) and if (these + those) then (price drop).
but there are many things to consider.

i like starting with some technical analysis, i am still learning it but it can tell you that it is helpful to know it than not know it.

then in this market usually we should follow the news. specially in altcoins. they only move with hype aka news about them. the news doesn't have to even be true. for example we saw recently that ethereum got pumped for another time with a fake news about etf!

i wouldn't get my hopes up for a "not changing" price! there are still some people who are caught up in the fake hype and will surely panic, you know bitcoinewbies love to panic at times like this and everybody loves them for their panic

thank you very much for worrying about us idiots and also thank you for warning us out of the kindness of your heart.

kisses

whenever i see people complain about "risks" of double spend and "incapability" of bitcoin to do instant transactions and "confirmation time" and... the first thing that comes to my mind is the real merchants that i have seen or read about.

for instance there was a guy owning a food truck who started accepting bitcoin last year. after a while when he was updating us he said "i have never had to worry about double spend and nobody scammed me and i saw a lot of interest in bitcoin from a lot of different people".

Thank you!

you shouldn't comment on things that you have no understanding of.
go read the bitcoin white paper first and come back to tell us what satoshi is calling bitcoin.

please do that. and good luck.

again you have no understanding of the things you listed here. please educate yourself first.
i would have taken the time to explain each of these if i wasn't sure you are trolling and an altcoin bagholder.

no that is your assumption and it is wrong and unfortunately this is a wrong assumption that is being used in the altcoin market to dump on newbies who continue being a bag holder and even buy more even though prices are going down.

if you create an exact copy of bitcoin nobody will use it. you will only get some temporary pump and dumpers and some attention in the exchanges and have the coin dead in no time.

bitcoin is not good just simply because of the code. it is good because millions are using it. there are lots of nodes, a huge hashrate behind it and all of these are securing the chain. there are lots of years behind it that led to a big adoption by lots of merchants where you can go and securely spend money.

there are many good developers working on bitcoin and the code has been reviewed numerous times.

haha, this duck is either an employee of someone and is getting paid to spread the propaganda against bitcoin for whatever reason.
or he is short term trading the shit out of bitcoin and appears each time there is a dip to help the panic a tiny bit and buy cheaper coins.

in any case just enjoy the stupidity.

i don't remember getting the memo about bitcoin is supposed to be cheap, and it certainly has never been the main reason for using it.

maybe people have forgotten what decentralization means! what it really means when you are in full control over your money without needing a fucking bank to tell you what to do with it, to block your money, take whatever they want from you, government put their hands in your pocket, ...

we all know fees are high and we prefer it to be lower, we want to still be able to send transactions with lower fees. specially since miners don't deserve the extra income at this point with 12.5BTC reward per block. but that doesn't change anything about bitcoin's usefulness.

it actually is always the employees that cause the security risks!
the hackers rarely hack the system directly, they usually sue a dumb employee as their way to enter the system. for example with an infected Email with an infected attachment to the employee of one of these places, and as they open it, they get infected

right now it is not such a good idea to invest in any of the altcoins since they are all in big bubbles and the only logical way to go for them is to get dumped when their bubbles burst. and when a dump begins nothing much can stop it.

but generally i would invest in altcoins that have one of these following things:
- they have not been pumped yet
- they have something coming up like the SegWit and LN for litecoin
- they have dipped hard so that i can buy in dip and sell the fast like in 4 hours.

i wouldn't be so hasty to speculate like this.
there are a lot of things that need to be happening soon, that can change the price drastically. one of which is SEC decision about ETF, once again they can deny it and price continued dropping.
the bitfinex drama is not yet over either.
the BU drama is not completely over yet either!

all of these can go both way.

what i find interesting is that they always used a lot of different methods of payment but Bitcoin payment is always the thing people see, of course usage of bitcoin among them has grown more but only in past year.

according to wikipedia:
"A range of such payment methods have been used, including wire transfers, premium-rate text messages, pre-paid voucher services such as Paysafecard, and the digital currency Bitcoin."

1. because of the way these transactions are injected into the network.
it has a nearly fixed rate, which in normal circumstances it can not be the same.

2. because in normal circumstances we have 1000 to 3000 transactions in the mempool and with all the growth and price rise, etc it has gone up but not to 160,000

3. because of the transactions that can be found and look useless. for example sending from and address to same address or sending from 1 address to another but instead of sending 100BTC at once you send 0.01BTC every 5 seconds in a new transaction until 100BTC is spent, then from the second address you send to third address the same way.

according to price obtained from https://bitcoinwisdom.com/ it has gone up ~48% by the time i am writing this.

i believe that is only partly true.
bitcoin is known to rise at the sight of good news. which means those who are already in the market (old traders) start buying bitcoin up as they know the fresh money (fresh blood) is coming in which is the other part of the reason for rise.

this is indeed great.

apart from that, there is a new Bank in Japan which is about to start working with bitcoin only and it will be an interest paying bank.