So Bitcoin is King.. why is it?!

[mrsimons121]

Being the first at anything gives you a big advantage. Couple that with the widest mass adoption that btc has..and you get yourself a clear winner. A clear sign of how dominant btc is is the obvious correlation of other currencies. When btc drops pretty much everything else drops.

[zhundy]

We can say that the king is bitcoin, because. Remember when bcn was forked from monero , the price of monero has go to the moon , so i think if there is a hard fork of btc , also btc will go to the moon also the same thing has happen to eth when etc was forked from eth , we have see an increase in the price of the ethereum , so the hardfork and segwit are positive things for the future of bitcoin!

[MisterStylish]

Bitcoin will always be king - it was the first major crypto and the popularity of the coin will not die off in my opinion.

This being said, Bitcoin is suffering major problems and if they aren't fixed it could face some serious turbulence. The unconfirmed transactions and high fees will NOT go on for long. People will get tired of this; no one wants to wait DAYS for a transaction to be confirmed - and because of this I believe BTC will plummet later. ($1300-1500ish)

If Bitcoin doesn't find a scaling solution soon, what will stop an altcoin from taking over? Say Bitcoin doesn't get one for a few years, where do you think BTC will be at that point in time? If there are 120-150K unconfirmed transactions @$1800, I don't want to even imagine what that number will be @$5000 or so.

[nellakarisma]

if bitcoin is said to be the king of all coins it deserves and deserves.
- if we see in terms of the price of the most expensive bitcoin when compared with other coins.
- all markets accept bitcoin. not necessarily other coin can enter in all market .

[kabelpeggek]

Bitcoin is the king because becomes the standard price of all coins, as we know that the effect of bitcoin is very strong, more than 10,000 exchanges make bitcoin for trading and this certainly makes the use of bitcoin very large compared to other coins.

[anana ris]

For me, it is a King because it is simply a father of all cryptocurrencies, the pioneer on the market. Blockchain technology is associated with Bitcoin mostly, although there are many other great alts.

[ekateriinae]

I understand for the past years, Bitcoin has been the king of cryptos, but why is that so? I have been for several months now reading a lot about the whole crypto ecosystem, i even bought several bitcoins back in August (sold them all today, for 4x returns and am keeping all the money in the broker account, and maybe i'll buy BTC again just as soon as i manage to retrieve my belief in BTCs future viability -i am trying really hard).

Enough background, now on to the topic at hand. I am now all too familiar with the challenges BTC has in front of it, and i sincerely can't see a solution.

1. Slow transactions - If you pay a high enough fee (at the moment over $15), you'll get a 10 minutes confirmation for your transaction. So at the very least it takes 10 minutes for a transaction to pass through, which really isn't so much assuming one is willing to pay the high fee. If one doesn't want to pay over $1 (i mean why should we, since the original idea of cryptos was that they should be cheap, fast and anonymous!), then one will wait indefinitely, probably for days or even damn weeks!!!

2. High fees - Now over $15 for high priority on the blockchain. Imagine if the price were to multiply by 5x. The fees!! $100+ per transaction maybe? This is insane. Satoshi Nakamoto has/have probably unfortunately died (i mean he/they WOULD by now have come forward and said enough is enough, miner cartels are ruining the BTC system and these high fees are outrageous insanity) turning in his grave with the hell that is happening to the BTC's ecosystem.

3. Lack of solutions - The major solution everyone is currently clinging to is the Lightning Network. Really?? It is still theoretical. Will it ever be effectively implemented and integrated into BTC and its blockchain? We don't know. Will it be practical, and effectively reduce costs substantially? We don't know! When will it be ready? Sometime in 2018? With a measly small team of developers? 2018 maybe! If it ever becomes pratical. Right now it seems the WHOLE BTC ecosystem hopes that the LN will work and solve ALL of BTCs complex problems. This is a very big and risky assumption. If it doesn't, i sincerely don't see how the BTC is going to navigate ever higher demand and users. It will bottleneck even more and the result will not be pretty. Besides, the whole concept of creating off-chain direct channels between users doesn't seem very practical to me, but perhaps i am wrong.

4. Miner cartels? Have major miner groups taken over the BTC? I haven't studied it deeply enough to make this conclusion, but this is the feeling i am fetting, maybe i am very wrong. Why isn't a solution to this DAMN OBVIOUS BOTTLENECK PROBLEM being chased with the urgency that i think the BTC community should have? Maybe i am missing something, or many things, i am by no means an advanced and very knowledgeable member of the community. But is the theory that major miner groups hijacking the BTC ecosystem in order to keep their high fees absurd? Maybe it is, but at my current understanding it seems like a possibility.

5. Bitcoin considered solely as a store of value. Right now, the only use of BTC is functioning as a store of value. Let other cryptos serve the more mundane task of serving as cash! BTC is digital GOLD! So the argument goes. Is this enough for the BTC? This isn't what i thought BTC was supposed to be. It SHOULD serve as a srote of value as well as a means for making fast and costless daily transactions. You see i am not against a system that serves solely as a store of value but i WONDER if it will be enough, will BTC present enough utility for people once they realize they can't use it for small transactions, but instead they should see BTC solely as something akin to a long term investment, that isn't useful for small transactions? The way i see it the more utility a crypto currency presents to its users, the ore value it will have, and right now there are a dozen CRYPTOS will a lot more utility than the Bitcoin.

So i ask again what makes Bitcoin the King? Network effect? The fact that it has been time-tested longer than any other crypto? A supposed community that supports it (what support they give eludes me too, i don't see much support actually)? Right now i see the BTC as a bloated, outdated and overvalued ecosystem that may survive and continue to thrive just because it has the first mover advantage and biggest network, but i am not sure of it and would really appreciate if it actually kept the edge in it's design and technology too over other cryptos. Right now i don't see it at all.

What you state all above was correct.. bitcoin was just a failed coin that has been abandoned by satoshi. BUT one thing cannot beat bitcoin to drop or dump.. its because bitcoin has a very strong community that impossible to break down.a coin without community will be a death coin for sure. so it was a no secret why even shit token/coin can live long.

[Drakula]

It was very interesting to read this information about bitcoin. I agree that it is a king today as it has a number of advantages compared to other coins. It is the most popular one and its potential allows to use it as a currency

Yes, the father of all cryptos my goodness you're right its very interesting to read information about how reputable, famous and great bitcoin is and it will always be. Its dominance lives up to its name. King.

[Lomberjack]

Bitcoin was the first cryptocurrency using the blockchain. It s the "grandparent" of all crypto, altcoin included.

That's true, I cannot get the argument of some people here that Ethereum is better than Bitcoin given the fact that Bitcoins were spliced just to make some other alt coins in which help this forum to prevent sudden scarcity for Bitcoins, based on my understanding I guess Ethereum have those characteristics that was better than what is in Bitcoin but the fact that it was made to shorten the time allotment for transactions I can consider that Bitcoin is the mother of all alternative coins here.

[Froloff92]

Bitcoin is the king of digital currency because they manifest the most expensive value in crypto. Since it is the first crypto coin exist, It becames globally popular and yearly it brings historical milestone in crypto market.

[oi pantura]

We can say that the king is bitcoin, because. Remember when bcn was forked from monero , the price of monero has go to the moon , so i think if there is a hard fork of btc , also btc will go to the moon also the same thing has happen to eth when etc was forked from eth , we have see an increase in the price of the ethereum , so the hardfork and segwit are positive things for the future of bitcoin!

[Pejoh Asu]

I understand for the past years, Bitcoin has been the king of cryptos, but why is that so? I have been for several months now reading a lot about the whole crypto ecosystem, i even bought several bitcoins back in August (sold them all today, for 4x returns and am keeping all the money in the broker account, and maybe i'll buy BTC again just as soon as i manage to retrieve my belief in BTCs future viability -i am trying really hard).

Enough background, now on to the topic at hand. I am now all too familiar with the challenges BTC has in front of it, and i sincerely can't see a solution.

1. Slow transactions - If you pay a high enough fee (at the moment over $15), you'll get a 10 minutes confirmation for your transaction. So at the very least it takes 10 minutes for a transaction to pass through, which really isn't so much assuming one is willing to pay the high fee. If one doesn't want to pay over $1 (i mean why should we, since the original idea of cryptos was that they should be cheap, fast and anonymous!), then one will wait indefinitely, probably for days or even damn weeks!!!

2. High fees - Now over $15 for high priority on the blockchain. Imagine if the price were to multiply by 5x. The fees!! $100+ per transaction maybe? This is insane. Satoshi Nakamoto has/have probably unfortunately died (i mean he/they WOULD by now have come forward and said enough is enough, miner cartels are ruining the BTC system and these high fees are outrageous insanity) turning in his grave with the hell that is happening to the BTC's ecosystem.

3. Lack of solutions - The major solution everyone is currently clinging to is the Lightning Network. Really?? It is still theoretical. Will it ever be effectively implemented and integrated into BTC and its blockchain? We don't know. Will it be practical, and effectively reduce costs substantially? We don't know! When will it be ready? Sometime in 2018? With a measly small team of developers? 2018 maybe! If it ever becomes pratical. Right now it seems the WHOLE BTC ecosystem hopes that the LN will work and solve ALL of BTCs complex problems. This is a very big and risky assumption. If it doesn't, i sincerely don't see how the BTC is going to navigate ever higher demand and users. It will bottleneck even more and the result will not be pretty. Besides, the whole concept of creating off-chain direct channels between users doesn't seem very practical to me, but perhaps i am wrong.

4. Miner cartels? Have major miner groups taken over the BTC? I haven't studied it deeply enough to make this conclusion, but this is the feeling i am fetting, maybe i am very wrong. Why isn't a solution to this DAMN OBVIOUS BOTTLENECK PROBLEM being chased with the urgency that i think the BTC community should have? Maybe i am missing something, or many things, i am by no means an advanced and very knowledgeable member of the community. But is the theory that major miner groups hijacking the BTC ecosystem in order to keep their high fees absurd? Maybe it is, but at my current understanding it seems like a possibility.

5. Bitcoin considered solely as a store of value. Right now, the only use of BTC is functioning as a store of value. Let other cryptos serve the more mundane task of serving as cash! BTC is digital GOLD! So the argument goes. Is this enough for the BTC? This isn't what i thought BTC was supposed to be. It SHOULD serve as a srote of value as well as a means for making fast and costless daily transactions. You see i am not against a system that serves solely as a store of value but i WONDER if it will be enough, will BTC present enough utility for people once they realize they can't use it for small transactions, but instead they should see BTC solely as something akin to a long term investment, that isn't useful for small transactions? The way i see it the more utility a crypto currency presents to its users, the ore value it will have, and right now there are a dozen CRYPTOS will a lot more utility than the Bitcoin.

So i ask again what makes Bitcoin the King? Network effect? The fact that it has been time-tested longer than any other crypto? A supposed community that supports it (what support they give eludes me too, i don't see much support actually)? Right now i see the BTC as a bloated, outdated and overvalued ecosystem that may survive and continue to thrive just because it has the first mover advantage and biggest network, but i am not sure of it and would really appreciate if it actually kept the edge in it's design and technology too over other cryptos. Right now i don't see it at all.

Yes, Bitcoin is the king of Crypto currency, because bitcoin is only the highest value in the whole crypto currency coin so the bitcoin is dominated by it, and the bitcoin first goes out and it's the common use of many people, they also love bitcoin because of its high price and fast Also, when it comes to price, they want bitcoins because they earn a lot of money based on trading.It is my opinoin.

Currently bitcoin controls about 37% marketcap and then followed by ethereum with 20%, in addition to having the largest marketcap daily transaction volume bitcoin about $ 20 billion so it is difficult to beat bitcoin in the near future.

[Mr.grin]

Bitcoin is the king of digital currency because they manifest the most expensive value in crypto. Since it is the first crypto coin exist, It becames globally popular and yearly it brings historical milestone in crypto market.

well the face of crypto itself is bitcoin. it's because the long-held belief in bitcoin makes it more popular than other coins, and is the king of all crypto for now. but, I feel that so many coins are trying to knock it down, and ETH is closest to bitcoin. it's just that ETH is also still often dragged currents from bitcoin.

[pantheraio]

Because bitcoin is the world's first known crypto currency and one of the faces of the crypto world. And maybe because the price of bitcoin is expensive from last year to make bitcoin like a king in this crypto world. Expect to bitcoin for the future to be more used by some countries that want to legalize bitcoin and become a payment place to be used in the future.

[Cash BTC]

That's interesting. Why almost in all themes, the first answers the most interesting, useful and informative. And then it starts all over again. Thanks to those people who think what they write.

[Bodik1710]

I think that Bitcoin is King because it was the first .His value is the biggest in the world.I recommend everyone to invest in it.

[Tusher1234]

Yes, bitcoin is king. Bitcoin is the first cryptocurrency. The price of bitcoin is much then other cryptocurrency. And people use bitcoin more then any other cryptocurrency. Maybe no other cryptocurrency can take the place of bitcoin.

[Thomas petersen]

Bitcoin has introduced an awesome technology known as Blockchain. Now many valuable data records are being preserved using this method. Also bitcoin is the father of all cryptocurrencies now we're seeing. Its also the most valuable currency right now. That's why Bitcoin is the king.