What are the real advantages bitcoin have over other cryptcurrencies?

[passioncrypto]

In spite of the amazing advances in home office color printing technology,most national governments take a fairly dim view of you producing your own money.With bitcoin, however, it is encouraged.You can certainly buy bitcoins on the open market,but you can also mine your own if you have enough computing power.After covering your initial investment in equipment and electricity,mining bitcoins is simply a case of leaving the machine switched on, and the software running.Everyone would like their computer to earn them money while they sleep.

[chukaday]

Everyone could in theory but you need a huge space and tons of electricity to pull this off and the average person doesn't have access to that nor the resources to pull it off. The real advantage that bitcoin has over other cryptos is that it came first and that its one and only major advantage as far as I can tell.