Well, Bitcoin is a research project.
Bitcoin to finally become cash equivalent needs to be untraceable, the transactions shouldn't have known inputs and outputs and energy efficient.
AFAIK, a lot of people that worked on Bitcoin found solutions to most problems and some of those solutions were reused in other currencies.
It's akin to IPv4 and IPv6. IPv4 is obviously the worse tech, but because of the scarcity and network effects the value of IPv4 addresses will keep climbing.
IPv4 is vastly superior to IPv6. The latter being far too complicated and over designed to have any justification for adoption other than IPv4 scarcity. 20 years later and your average non-engineer "power user" can barely get it working without a ton of handholding.
betamax was better tech than vhs.
it's adoption that counts.
Bitcoin has basically no adoption among people who use cryptocurrency for non-speculative purposes. Privacy-focused coins (Monero, etc) or coins with faster/better ledgers (Ethereum) are much more popular.
There was a time when Bitcoin was a promising digital currency! I had some back then, around 2010. This is not that.
Bullshit. The vast majority of DNM transactions are in bitcoin (yes, I know WHM is trying to change this).. Same goes for huge card shops like jstash, which tend to only accept bitcoin. On various crime forums like exploit.in and verified.sc bitcoin is definitely the currency of choice. Most ransomware payments are in bitcoin too, even if a few have tried asking for monero recently.
It's very strange to see someone choose to come up with lies like this. I would prefer widespread monero adoption too, but we're far from that.
How much Ethereum is used for actual transactions? All things I hear from it are tech toys/demos and weird financial instruments/gambling...
No idea but if I ever wanted to pay a friend or a business in crypto, that's definitely the coin I'd use. Fast, well-known, and easy to buy and sell.
What I don't get though is how people are satisfied paying so much in fees for sending coins. I get that bitcoin isn't really used as a currency but as digital gold. But still, so much money simply wasted.
At least considering an exchange like coinbase. Perhaps there is a way to send/buy/sell bitcoin at nearly no cost that I am not aware of.
It's understandable though, it was first and drives on the network effects and its name ever since.