Bitcoin has been battered relentlessly since day one. The technical failures that occurred such as the hard fork and multi billion coin incident occurred while it was still small. Other coins might have similar vulnerabilities that wouldn't be uncovered until they had proper value. No doubt thousands of people have tried to crack it open and have failed.

Bitcoin is just the first honest money on internet. In fact an honest money does not limited to bitcoin, as long as it is produced by inputting similar amount of value as its face value. From this regards, other coins could also have some value as their production cost

Universal acceptance is very important for money, from this regards, bitcoin has magnitudes wider acceptance than altcoins

Why Bitcoin? Because with all other altcoins you will get Paycoined^tm eventually

Bitcoins are limited to less than 21 million BTC. The value of each BTC, and therefore the value of all BTC combined is now in the billions.

If there are about 21 million BTC, and each one is worth $200 USD, then the market cap of the entire cryptocurrency is more than 4 billion USD.

market cap isn't the total numbers of bitcoin, but the toal value of the current coins in circulation

http://coinmarketcap.com/

OP does not understand how open source projects are developed.

Why bitcoin? That's easy, it's not an inflationary scamcoin like fiat. Nor is bitcoin backed by coercion and violence. No other currency with a 3bil+ market cap in the history of Earth can make that claim.

And now the defunct, basically insolvent BTCF wants to increase block size and further squeeze out end users

If you can't see BTC becoming the exact corporate bullshit it was 'made to replace,' then you're an idiot. Deep pockets can easily manipulate greed

The only thing surprising to me is how LTC has managed to stay at its current levels.

Hi everyone, I would like to work with a rich investor to pump our coin to the moon. You tell me exactly what specs and some innovation that you want, I build it, we premine it. You have complete control of what I develop. I am one of the top devs in crypto. PM to talk further.

Is cryptsy actually listing coins without a working blockchain?

I agree with Microguy, sorry kelsey, but I dont agree with people who think that such and such coin is 'righteous' while they go around trash talking about other coins being 'not righteous'.
I know they don't use the word 'righteous' but read between the lines, that is what they are implying.

As if a bunch of miners mining a coin is somehow 'righteous', I don't see it that way, no matter what.
( the word 'mining' is made up, I think, it isn't really mining, but they are finding newly minted money,
I would say they are like money printers more than 'miners' or the miners are part of the making of money process, but hardly 'miners'. I do not agree with that)

Sorry, but all unrighteous, not one righteous.

Bitcoin is what you would call a premine, and if you don't like that kind of coin, then why are you chasing after bitcoins, because this is a bitcoin forum, and we do not give a sh about that with bitcoin,
and I don't give a sh about that with goldcoin either, or any other coin either.

But I really hate the the posts that trash talk about that, when they don't seem to realize that bitcoin is a premine, and they are involved with bitcoin obviously.

The so-called 'righteous' coins of the 'no premine' theory or philosophy,
also exclude non-miners from getting in on the coin at all early on,
except to maybe buy the coin from miners at extremely inflated prices
while all the righteous miners go around pumping like crazy without warning any of the non-mining traders
that the prices are over-inflated by all the miners.

Your adolescent hatred for Goldcoin is well documented on this forum. I guess attempting to trash GLD is the best you can do regardless of the thread topic.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=353010.0