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March 24, 2017, 09:12:07 AM |
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My guess is that if scaling is solved in a reasonable timeframe, then - the important thing for this Speculation forum - very probably the bullish long-term price uptrend would continue. With not much media attention, mainly under the radar, but steady.
I think "scaling solved" would not have much impact on the altcoin world, either. There are basically two altcoin classes: "technical experiments" (like ETH, Sia, Decred, Monero, Iota/Byteball or ARDR) and "speculation vehicles" (>90% of the rest, maybe also Dash). Altcoins of "Technical experiments" class whose USP is a scaling solution like ARDR or Iota would perhaps lose traction, but the rest was never a competition to BTC but a way to make a few bucks, and will continue to be so.
Negative results of the scaling debate (fork, permanent stalemate until 2018) would be a different thing. There could be much media attention - media tend to like negative news more than positive ones - and a disruption regarding the altcoin world - e.g. ETH challenging BTC's first position regarding marketcap.
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