i just ended my investment with ripple and got a huge profit. now all of that profit has gone into Litecoin. with their roadmap which was published for 2017 this coin is looking more than good. we are in for a huge rise.

and most importantly in the past few days tha we wee stable at a fixed price, there was always a big buy volume and it is showing all signs of accumulation phase happening.

you can spend them on a couple of million things. just google "where can i spend bitcoin" and find all of the things you can buy with it.

you can take advantage of services like gyft to buy gift cards and save up on a lot of money.

you can just holding them in cold storage (if that secure way to keep them you found is the same). and just hold them for a long time and wait for the price to reach a big number (many say 10K)

the first thing about price is coming from its supply and demand and that is true for literary anything in the world. from a loaf of bread to the most expensive things on earth.

now bitcoin has only 16 million coins available and will have 21 million after a long long time. and all this time it has gathered a lot of deamand. even big countries are accepting it as a legal way of payment. aka a currency. now bitcoin with this supply and this ever growing demand is barely worth $1600

now lets talk about ethereum. it already has nearly 92 million coins available and it has no maximum amount. until the end of this year it will probably have 150 million coins and growing. the demand however has always been restricted to two things:
1. traders buying it on exchanges. to dump later on.
2. newbies who are looking for profit buying ETH to invest in a scam ICO
both of these demands have an expiration date. and with this supply and this dwindling demand prices can only drop.

in short you can only dream about $1500 for eth

bitcoin is just money and people who can make money will make bitcoin too and vice versa. bitcoin doesn't change anything about it.

a trader trades anything, bitcoin, altcoin, forex, stocks, gold and makes money from all of them.

this also can be done with fiat. if you can run a business you can do it with bitcoin too. and vice versa.

in short none of your reasons sound to me like any "game changer".

however, if you see bitcoin as this decentralized cryptocurrency that you can use safely and without needing any banks or any third party for that matter, then you start getting closer to the meaning of "game changer" and all the things you listed can be somewhat true.

there are a lot of questionable texts in OP!

but generally speaking everything started with Japan becoming super friendly towards bitcoin and when the adoption of bitcoin happen in a massive scale as a legal way of payment.

that caused the rise in bitcoin. also the internal fight that outside world doesn't know much about caused the altcoins to start their fake rises (the 500% to 4000% pumps) and now everything is bloated.

we can only hope that altcoin market horrible crash in the near future doesn't reach the media. because that can kill the altcoin market for at least 9 months.

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you are correct but there is also one thing to remember, people usually don't hold these altcoins for long, good traders that is.
so they want to have them hot and accessible at a moments notice and as a professional trader you don't want to even miss a second. so you keep it on exchange and dump it as fast as possible to make the most profit possible.

besides running a wallet for most of these altcoins, specially ethereum with its terrible wallet is a pain in the ass and it will eat up your network and HDD so fast.

if you are talking about the value then you are right since fiat doesn't lose value under normal circumstances.
but if you mean "safety or security" then you are wrong, nothing is safer than bitcoin at this moment. a cold storage is literary impenetrable.

because it is still in the early stages and it is still being adopted and there are a lot more people left who need to adopt it

it disagree, it is nowhere near 50/50. the chances of price rise is a lot higher than drop. in long term i  say it is even close to 99% chance of rising and short term obviously it changes for example right now there is a bigger chance of dipping for a correction in price than there is for rising.

unless the ethereum team (who have a lot of money, and also gained a lot more money by the recent pump from newbies wanna be rich people) are planning to bribe SEC guys i can not see any other way that they accept their ETF in a million years.

i think if this was 2 years ago then you were right. but at this point in time we are way past that because to put simply there are a lot more good news about bitcoin than there are bad ones.
and with all of these good ones i doubt the number of people who think bitcoin is bad (a currency only to be used by criminals) are anything more than a handful.

since all of these are altcoins i am going to always trade them short term, i always advise others to do the same too. it is less risky and a lot more profitable but at the same time it is time consuming to trade these each day and be aware of the price each minute.

MAID and WAVES and GNT are the 3 coins from your list that i am trading these days. and also since LTC is hot these days i obviously have invested in that too.
the rest, no so much.

i see only two things in litecoin:

1) a very stable price at the moment which is staying up strongly, and each time it passes the resistance levels it jumps back above it. that shows a lot of buys happening as it gets cheaper.

2) there is a high volume on the charts. which shows there is a big accumulation going on.

so i say it is not over and we are in for the real moon landing this time.

we are all angry and sad about bitcoin and how miners are blocking the progress but i don't think any of us is losing faith in bitcoin. specially because we old users of bitcoin uderstand it well enough.
and the new comers are not losing faith either because they just started and paying a higher fee is not a problem when you are coming from a fiat system where you always paid much higher fees.

Lisk surely deserves a good rise to a very good and much higher price, the ICO thing is kind of a downside which makes it always look bad but this coin surely deserves to rise up it has a lot of potential and the platform it offers is a pretty good one, i can even say it is 1000 times better than ethereum.

but right now the altcoin market is in a full on dumping phase and Lisk has recently had a big rise so we may see some more drops.

actually there has been some increase in the number of trasnactions made by ethereum network because of its pump and all the ICO scams that are running using this platform but you are asking a very interesting question which i would also want to know the answer to.

how will other altcoins (eterum and others) react to a spam attack, will they even survive for one week let alone 2 years?

coinbase is earning money from being a place where people trade cryptocurrencies. so obviosuly they are looking for coins that have the biggest volume in trading to earn the highest amount possible from these coins.

also there are some regulation rules involved which means they are a bit hard on what they add to their platform, it is not like other exchanges that easily list anything no matter what they are.

that is true but it is always best to not invest after a pump and the first $1200 was obviously a fake rise and a big bubble. the bottom was $300 and it took a long time and price even went lower than that to $200.

i am afraid this time it may be a tiny bit similar situation. $1800-$1900 is a mini bubble. and it may pop and price can go down to $1500 again.

it is funny how each time there is a price rise in ANY ALTCOIN, people start talking about them in a manner as if they have solved all the problems they had and all the pump and dumps,... and they suddenly became good!

then when the unavoidable big dump comes, everyone starts desperately repeating the same things but to no effect.

then when price is properly dumped everyone becomes silent again until the next pump when the coins become "good and future of altcoin and replacing bitcoin" again!

it is always good that media is covering bitcoin in a positive manner. and that always helps with adoption and getting more people in. but at the same time it is a little bit scary in my opinion because any new person that comes in would be investing after the rise. and they will surely see the price drop AKA correction side of it and at first it may scare some away.

when and if price of ehtereum reaches above this current level instead of the reality of the current $100 bubble poping and price going down to $10, that means it will catch a lot more attention. the news will be filled with ethe news and that will bring a lot more usage to this platform.

then, that is the time when all the problems this platfom has will show themselves. and that is the time when news will start being filled with all the fails, all the problems it has,...

then worst thing will happen:
another DAO scam will take place, people lose a shitload of money and get angry, ether forks again but once again fails to do it properly and eventually kills the whole thing as people leave and price goes down to 0.5 satoshi.