Honestly that was a terrible analogy. All it says is you don't know much about Bitcoin. Really you should educate yourself on what Bitcoin is. If you think it is no different than meme coins you reallyyyyyyyyyy don't know what you're talking about. Bitcoin and meme coins are nothing at all like those examples you gave. Like seriously, learn about Bitcoin before you try to make this sort of claim.
I don't know how you got to the point where you think Bitcoin is a meme coin and there is no difference between them, but someone led you very astray. You're spitting pure misinformation in your post. This is the kind of advice that makes people lose money haha, when altcoin shills convince people to buy some random useless meme coin instead of Bitcoin, claiming that some random useless meme coin is just as good as Bitcoin lol. It's a zero knowledge argument.
I know Bitcoin quite well. I know the architecture, and I know a fair bit about the implementation. I would probably be qualified to be a core dev with a little bit of ramp-up, for instance.
What,
specifically, am I missing about Bitcoin such that I don't understand that, unlike every other technology that's ever existed in the history of mankind, it is so special that it will never ever be replaced by another technology? That it not staying around until say the year 3036 is an utter impossibility?
To be clear, I am not saying
anything related to the
market price of Bitcoin, which I personally have absolutely no knowledge of. But the market price and the technology are two completely different things, and in this case aren't even related since there are many other technically equivalent or even superior platforms that have only a fraction of Bitcoin's value. People invest in Bitcoin (as opposed to say ETH) because it's called "Bitcoin" and for no other reason.
A couple other people already gave you good answers to this. But I'll answer myself.
First off, not sure why you're trying to make it out like I was talking about market price. What I said related to prices is that the kinda of stuff you're saying it the kind of stuff altcoin shills put out to try to convince gullible people to buy random altcoins with no future instead of Bitcoin which is a completely different thing, but you don't seem to understand the difference for some reason.
Honestly I don't know specifically what you are missing in your understanding about Bitcoin. But it is something very deep, very fundamental, if you think there's no difference between Bitcoin and meme coins.
People put out a new meme coin every day, and their entire value is based on having a funny name and funny logo. That's the meme coin value proposition. That is OBVIOUSLY not Bitcoin's value proposition.
DooMAD might be correct in that you are getting too caught up on the "technology". You might be making the mistake of trying to say blockchain A is the same as blockchain B because they are both blockchains. That's like saying Facebook and a dinky little website I just put up online are the same because they are both websites.
And I can assure you, unlike meme coins, where people actually do invest in them because of the name, nobody invests in Bitcoin because it's called "Bitcoin" lol. Just like people don't invest in Apple because they like Apples, or like they don't invest in Google because its got a funny name. People have turned Bitcoin into a trillion+ dollar asset not because of its name (it could be named anything), but because of what it IS. I have no idea why you think people invest in Bitcoin because of its name, and I can't imagine how you came up with that idea, but its obviously wrong. Nobody hears the word Bitcoin and says "I have no idea what that is but with a name like that I've gotta have my money in it!!" haha.
Bitcoin's main advantage is that it was first and it was built with certain principles in mind. This is what makes it different from random useless meme coins built on similar tech. Bitcoin is the most secure network in human history, show me a meme coin that will ever do that. Bitcoin is decentarlized over the whole world, show me a meme coin that will ever do that. Bitcoin is supply capped, immutable, not controlled by anyone. Show me a meme coin that couldn't simply be changed at will by the creators. There's all these different network effects that come from Bitcoin being the first and strictly sticking to the idea of secure, decentralized, immutable, sovereign money. Whether you are talking about meme coins or Ethereum, or any other cryptocurrency, there is nothing else in the world like Bitcoin. It is entirely unique. Will it be unique in these ways forever....I dunno, maybe. But in the past 15 years since Bitcoin was invented, there have been thousands of attempts at making other blockchains and tokens on those blockchains (including the meme coins that you think are the same as Bitcoin) and not a single one of them has come close to these advantages that Bitcoin has. Not even close.
DooMAD mentioned the internet and that's a good example. If I come out with my own network that's just like the internet and I claim this is better than the internet and the internet is old so my thing will take over the internet. You'd consider that absurd right? I would hope so. And for very similar reasons why its absurd to say a meme coin is like Bitcoin and could replace Bitcoin.
I think probably you think the technology is what is important. But its not. The technology was the START of Bitcoin's importance. But if that was the only important thing then Bitcoin would just be another cryptocurrency out of thousands, and nothing special. It's what came after that start, the concepts Bitcoin exemplifies, the network it has built, which makes it unique. The technology can and has been copied over and over and over. And yet, nobody has been able to create anything like Bitcoin. Some cryptos were literally just bitcoin's forked code with a few numbers changed. If it was just the technology those things would be competing with Bitcoin. I guess you could say the INVENTION of the technology was very important, but once it is invented its not unique anymore, so that is not what gives Bitcoin its value to society. It's everything that came after the invention of the technology.
Ask yourself, why is Bitcoin taken seriously while some random let's call it floofyelonmarsdoggie meme coin is not taken seriously. It's the same basic tech, and by your own words you think they are the same thing. Yet Bitcoin is a global currency while floofyelonmarsdoggie or some such thing is a joke crypto scheme. You should be asking yourself what the difference is. It's not because people just looooooove the name Bitcoin sooo much more than floofyelonmarsdoggie. If anything the reality is the opposite, because the only reason people by floofyelonmarsdoggie is BECAUSE of the name. Nobody buys Bitcoin because of its name. So ask yourself why floofyelonmarsdoggie coin is a silly meme coin that nobody cares about but people all over the world talk about Bitcoin as the future money for the world. The answer is in this post of mine, its in the other replies people have given to you. It's something well understand by everyone who understands what Bitcoin is, by everyone who takes Bitcoin seriously and laughs at silly meme coins. It's got nothing at all to do with price or name or technology. Though the long term price allows us to measure the success of each, and the technology is what enables Bitcoin to do such great things in the first place, but those have nothing to do with why Bitcoin is a taken seroiusly as a global currency and no other crypto is, certainly not useless meme coins.
Here's one final hint. If you took away Bitcoin's decentralization, reputation, security, immutability, then and only then would it not necessarily have anything to offer above any other random cryptocurrency. And what are the things that no other cryptocurrency has? - Bitcoin's decentalization, reputation, security, immutability. No meme coin is ever getting Bitcoin's decentralization. No meme coin is ever getting Bitcoin's security. No meme coin is ever getting Bitcoin's immutability (because that relies on it getting decentralized). And without getting all those things, no meme coin is every going to get Bitcoin's reputation, because Bitcoin's reputation is built on all those things.
Bitcion is global money, meme coins are joke tokens for traders to mess around with to try to 10x their money before the next meme coin takes its place.
If somewhere in this long comment you didn't find an answer...then just do your own research buddy. You claim to have a very good technical understanding of Bitcoin. But it seems you have no societal understanding of it - no understanding of what makes Bitcoin special and valuable to society. Like understanding how to build a combustion engine but not having a clue why anyone would want to use one. Or like not understanding the difference in value between an EV and a remote control car - both four-wheeled vehicles that looks the same and run off electricity....but not remotely the same thing, one is immensely useful to society, one is a toy. Bitcoin is the one immensely useful to society, meme coins are the toys for traders.