Isn't Altcoin a distraction to Bitcoin adoption?

[Marvelockg]

We know that the primary purpose why we even have anything like altcoin is because of Bitcoin and this has been fully reflected in the fact that when there is a major event that affects Bitcoin either positively or negatively, all altcoins and a bunch of meme coins feel the effect directly.

We also know that what makes Bitcoin relevant is firstly due to it decentralized nature and it ability to making  international transaction easier through the p2p concept and that Bitcoin has taken away the issues of unnecessary middle men and bunch of controls and regulations that's common with fiat or international banking systems and that the whole crypto ecosystem revolves around Bitcoin and that whatever project that has ever come up after Bitcoin have all been centered around modeling on the functionality of Bitcoin and maybe focused more on the volatility aspect of Bitcoin to attract individuals and investors to those crypto project while bitcoin in itself has all those qualities of volatility and provisions of the solution to international transactions that these altcoins hope to solve.

Again, Most of those who have had bad experiences in the crypto ecosystem are individuals who invested in some altcoins thinking it has the same potential as Bitcoin and the fact that it's always a norm in society to call Bitcoin one of the cryptocurrencies, it's no strange that altcoin might have played a great role in reducing the level of adoption of Bitcoin globally.

This begs the question, what if we had only Bitcoin? Wouldn't the level of adoption outgrow what it currently is at the moment?

Do you think that altcoin is a major distraction to bitcoins adoption?

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[OcTradism]

We know that the primary purpose why we even have anything like altcoin is because of Bitcoin and this has been fully reflected in the fact that when there is a major event that affects Bitcoin either positively or negatively, all altcoins and a bunch of meme coins feel the effect directly.

Do you think that altcoin is a major distraction to bitcoins adoption?

People will not be exposed to altcoins if Bitcoin does not have a bull run, make noise and trigger a cryptocurrency market bull run. Altcoins depend on Bitcoin but because they are very scam, people who are firstly exposed to altcoins, invest in altcoins and lose money through altcoins, will not have good thinking about this market.

They will have wrong thinking about Bitcoin and think it is a scam but they must learn to differentiate between Bitcoin and altcoins. We can not stop altcoins and investors must prepare their knowledge to avoid scam in altcoins. Bitcoin has nothing to do with altcoins and what investors do.

Altcoins can not stop Bitcoin adoption growth, never can do it.

[Gladitorcomeback]

This begs the question, what if we had only Bitcoin? Wouldn't the level of adoption outgrow what it currently is at the moment?

Do you think that altcoin is a major distraction to bitcoins adoption?

No, I don't think so, I would rather say that altcoins have helped the adoption level of Bitcoin greatly because if there were no altcoins at all, it would take more time for Bitcoin to spread around and it is altcoins that make Bitcoin look better because people compare altcoins with each other and also with Bitcoin, and when they find out which one is the best, which is Bitcoin, of course, they become more interested in Bitcoin after that.

One more significant thing that altcoins have done is that their teams and creators promote their coins and tokens which in return makes people investing in their projects turn back to Bitcoin eventually because once they get in the industry, they start looking here and there and doing their research, and their final destination becomes Bitcoin. So altcoins indirectly have supported the adoption of Bitcoin.

[Dunamisx]

Do you think that altcoin is a major distraction to bitcoins adoption?

ITs not, if you consider the entire cryptocurrency market cap and the value of the market cap for bitcoin alone from there, you will deduce the fact that bitcoin has been the mainstream digital currency and what people actually want to have, only few are investing on alts with certain amount they believed they can afford to lose, everyone into cryptocurrency today would have heard about bitcoin and invested before going into any other crypto, in which they would have understand what is at stake, bitcoin is decentralized while other altcoins are mostly centralized.

[kotajikikox]

This begs the question, what if we had only Bitcoin?

The attention would definitely be focused primarily towards bitcoin only and we would finally prevent misinformation from spreading.

Although I doubt that there would be totally no misinformation left even without the presence of altcoins. I am sure that many people are still going to make the wrong choice and would lose some money into bitcoin and then complain that bitcoin is a scam.

[KiaKia]

Do you think that altcoin is a major distraction to bitcoins adoption?

No it's not a distraction, for some people altcoins existence is a blessing, they are able to get their hands on Bitcoin because of altcoins.

The last person that I introduced to crypto claimed that Bitcoin was too costly for him, so he went for altcoin and when he started making some good money he started using the profits to buy back some Bitcoin.

He understand that Bitcoin is much more reliable than altcoins but altcoins have some nasty opportunities to bring some good amount of ROI faster than Bitcoin, you just have to be smart to make this work.

Altcoins is the most risky play but it has the higher return on investment opportunities if you know how to play this out, but still I will advice people to focus on Bitcoin as their main target.

[peter0425]

This begs the question, what if we had only Bitcoin?

I know you probably think that if we only had bitcoin it would be a good thing but actually there would still be some consequences that would make us, investors, suffer.

First of all without altcoins we would never be able to experiment with new technologies we can implement within the bitcoin system that could potentially save bitcoin from any failure problems.

Second without altcoins yes all eyes would be on bitcoin which you might think is a good thing but if there’s no any alternative then all investors would be cramped into bitcoin making the mempool as congested beyond your imagination.

And because we can’t successfully test out any scalability issue without risking damaging bitcoin by implementing it right away then we might never find the answer to the problem at all.

[Frankolala]

Do you think that altcoin is a major distraction to bitcoins adoption?

There is a unique nature in bitcoin which assuming there was no altcoins, people wouldn't have seen that uniqueness, and that is the decentralized system. Also these altcoins would not have survived assuming bitcoin does not exist. This is because most of them duplicated bitcoin for their own selfish purposes, and that is why you see that they keep it centralized so that the coin can be manipulated by the dev at anytime.

Nobody created any altcoin to solve financial problems and to also give financial freedom to man. Those potentials made the value of bitcoin start increasing, and altcoin dev jump into creating all sort of shitcoins, which was an eye opener to people that altcoins are used to scam people of their money due to pump and dump. After so many investors lost to altcoin, because they think that all cryptocurrency are the same. It was then they realized that bitcoin is different and can be trusted if you invest in it for a long term. Altcoin made bitcoin to be more popular.

[avp2306]

Do you think that altcoin is a major distraction to bitcoins adoption?

I don't think its really a distraction since altcoins can also help people to be aware the existence of bitcoin. There are new people that has been introduce to invest on altcoins by some people they meet on internet or maybe even in real life and provably on the way for trying to earn some profit from their investments they know that bitcoin is at the top of the chain on cryptocurrency and for sure with that they would do a research to know more about bitcoin.

If your concern is they might get discourage if this people will get scam by scam altcoins then provably that's the case if the person is not really interested on cryptocurrency. But if they want to try other crypto then for sure they would start to learn on how to invest their time and money on bitcoin.

[PhillipDe78]

If only bitcoin existed, its popularity could be higher than it is now. Numerous altcoins, which often attempt to reproduce or improve certain aspects of Bitcoin technology, can confuse or weaken the attention of potential users and investors. Thus, the presence of altcoins can be seen as a competing factor that may be hindering the introduction of Bitcoin, rather than supporting the cryptocurrency ecosystem as a whole.

[Minor Miner]

To me, it sounds like you want to blame altcoins just because bitcoin adoption is not what you expected. It's like when you start a business but the business isn't what you expected and you start blaming the stores around you that are competing with you. That only shows your weakness and failure and only knows how to blame others instead of admitting your own fault.

For me, I don't see any influence or connection between altcoins and global bitcoin adoption. I think if bitcoin really meets people's needs and desires, they will choose bitcoin, but if it doesn't have what people need, it's understandable that it won't be popular. But I see that bitcoin adoption is progressing very well and quickly, not stagnant or slow like you think.

[Don Pedro Dinero]

Of course it is a distraction and I don't know how so many people don't see it that way. If there were only bitcoin, the market cap and price would probably double, as the market cap of all altcoins is about $1.2T, the same as that of bitcoin.

ITs not, if you consider the entire cryptocurrency market cap and the value of the market cap for bitcoin alone from there, you will deduce the fact that bitcoin has been the mainstream digital currency and what people actually want to have...

Sure, that's why there's the tiny figure of $1.2T tucked into the altcoin market, isn't it?

[Apocollapse]

No, I don't think so, I would rather say that altcoins have helped the adoption level of Bitcoin greatly because if there were no altcoins at all, it would take more time for Bitcoin to spread around and it is altcoins that make Bitcoin look better because people compare altcoins with each other and also with Bitcoin, and when they find out which one is the best, which is Bitcoin, of course, they become more interested in Bitcoin after that.

That's just your thought, the reality it's the other way around.

If they know Bitcoin, they invest it and they feel they didn't make a lot compared to altcoins, they will try to invest in altcoins.

If they now altcoins, they invest it, they will keep invest in altcoins because they like to flip their money.

People choose to invest in Bitcoin when they get scammed in altcoins or they listen to their so called financial advisor.

[Miles2006]

This begs the question, what if we had only Bitcoin? Wouldn't the level of adoption outgrow what it currently is at the moment?

I sincerely don't believe cause people will always make their choice different from others, bitcoin adoption will increase with or without altcoins. Nowadays people still dislike bitcoin so if I'm not mistaken op is trying to say people who don't like bitcoin is as a result of altcoins. In the investing aspect investors choose to invest in both bitcoin and altcoins mostly bitcoin, let's be realistic bitcoin is the center of attraction and as a center of attraction bitcoin should not be compared with altcoins

Do you think that altcoin is a major distraction to bitcoins adoption?

When something is referred as a distraction just as op made mentioned of altcoins standing as a distraction it simply means altcoin is the center of attraction and I disagree. People who actually run after altcoins know the entanglement and benefit involved so I see no excuse blaming altcoin projects using the name of bitcoin, firstly bitcoin is a top choice, totally different from other altcoins. Bitcoin adoption is okay from my opinion and I don't understand why altcoins will stand as a distraction cause there's no distraction at the first place.

[Marvelockg]

This begs the question, what if we had only Bitcoin? Wouldn't the level of adoption outgrow what it currently is at the moment?

I sincerely don't believe cause people will always make their choice different from others, bitcoin adoption will increase with or without altcoins. Nowadays people still dislike bitcoin so if I'm not mistaken op is trying to say people who don't like bitcoin is as a result of altcoins. In the investing aspect investors choose to invest in both bitcoin and altcoins mostly bitcoin, let's be realistic bitcoin is the center of attraction and as a center of attraction bitcoin should not be compared with altcoins

Do you think that altcoin is a major distraction to bitcoins adoption?

When something is referred as a distraction just as op made mentioned of altcoins standing as a distraction it simply means altcoin is the center of attraction and I disagree. People who actually run after altcoins know the entanglement and benefit involved so I see no excuse blaming altcoin projects using the name of bitcoin, firstly bitcoin is a top choice, totally different from other altcoins. Bitcoin adoption is okay from my opinion and I don't understand why altcoins will stand as a distraction cause there's no distraction at the first place.

maybe you're just making a vague statement here and aren't getting the point so well. I'm never trying to make any comparison between Bitcoin and any other altcoin cause in the first place thier isn't any comparison at all. Bitcoin had an ATH of $73k that's obviously 7× what any altcoin have ever attained and even the few ones that gained value over time all went up under the shades of Bitcoin. What I'm talking about is that because of the way the society mistake Bitcoin as just one of the cryptocurrency, whenever someone invest in an altcoin that fails with time, it somehow sends a wrong signal to the whole crypto ecosystem and you have different people that wouldn't even dream of investing into Bitcoin because they know someone that lost his investment in a shit project and thereby drawing the conclusion that Bitcoin is same as those altcoins. Some even make the mistake of holding on to altcoins that can't stand the test of time thinking that by so doing, they will be able have similar worth that comes from investing in Bitcoin.

It's never a shift of blame of any sort but just a statement of fact that altcoin in one way or the other is a distraction to Bitcoin adoption in some sense.

[kryptqnick]

Actually, not all altcoins follow the price movements of Bitcoin. There are plenty at any moment that have their own things going on. Those are often coins that have a relatively low market capitalization and are being pumped or dumped. If you want to look at them, you can sort coins on a website like Coingecko by price change over 24 hours and over 7 days.
As for altcoins being a distraction, I'm not so sure. On the one hand, I think that the vast majority of altcoins are just rubbish. On the other hand, I guess thinking about Bitcoin and altcoins in that context is a zero-sum mindset (one's loss is another one's gain and vice versa), whereas I'm more supportive of a positive-sum mindset (we can all have gains). I honestly don't think that Bitcoin would've been doing better if there were no altcoins.

[Zaguru12]

If only bitcoin existed, its popularity could be higher than it is now. Numerous altcoins, which often attempt to reproduce or improve certain aspects of Bitcoin technology, can confuse or weaken the attention of potential users and investors. Thus, the presence of altcoins can be seen as a competing factor that may be hindering the introduction of Bitcoin, rather than supporting the cryptocurrency ecosystem as a whole.

I think the word popularity shouldn’t be used there because bitcoin on its own is already popular and sits alongside the general word cryptocurrency, if cryptocurrency is mentioned bitcoin is the next thing said close to it. The term to be used will be adoption, I think the adoption rate of bitcoin will maybe increase because many people wouldn’t jump into buying of this Altcoins. If you check the total market of cryptocurrency you will see that Altcoins take half of the which is still a large number if you ask me. Without them the market cap of bitcoin might increases.

But it still seems a bit tricky to say that people that invested in Altcoins today will have moved to bitcoin if they weren’t any altcoin because some will have totally opted out of cryptocurrency at large. If you look at how people treat this Altcoins you find out that it is treated as a get rich quick scheme and since they might know that bitcoin wouldn’t give them such feature they would rather not invest into it. So I will rather say the true bitcoin investors are already in bitcoin and altcoin isn’t like a distraction, only the few are distracted

[B1-66ER]

Isn't Altcoin a distraction to Bitcoin adoption?

I think that altcoins are an obstacle for bitcoin's adoption.

Here is my view. Bitcoin was a significant computing breakthrough in computer sciences to solve the “double-spending” problem in distributed systems. Real breakthrough ideas in computing are rare, I would say they happen once in a decade. 
Altcoins are mostly derived from Bitcoin's code, but with some changes or additions that claim to enhance its functionality or performance. However, most of these changes are either needless, untested, or harmful to the security and decentralization of the network.

Altcoins also create confusion and divert the attention and resources of others from the real innovation of Bitcoin. Instead of concentrating on the adoption and improvement of Bitcoin, which has the most reliable and proven network, altcoins mislead users and investors with false claims and hype, this is not my opinion, it is based on facts.

In software engineering, I appreciate the Layered architecture style (system is organized as a series of layers that are seen as stacked on one another like TCP/IP stack)  So rather than being sidetracked by the “new” get rich quick innovative yada yada yada blockchain.. people could work on projects higher up in the layer projects like LN, Nostr, BitVM, etc.

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[Ojima-ojo]

Fact is that, bitcoin will not be the only crypto coin in the industry because, as bitcoin serves as an alternative to the fiat currency, so are altcoin aimed at serving as alternative to bitcoin.


What I see is that altcoin will only improve the scalabilty of the cryptocurrency industry so for that we are free to welcome coins that serves as an alternative to bitcoin.

[kentrolla]

No way, I don't think so. There was a need of Altcoin and if Bitcoin would have provided everything then no one would opt for Altcoin. I want to share some bitter pills like what would you have done in order to transfer smaller amount of there were no Altcoins? Would you have paid more transaction fee than the actual amount itself while transacting in Bitcoin ? Would you have always waited for long time for transaction with Bitcoin  had there been no Altcoin with lightening speed transfer speed.