It could very well be a pretender.
Aren't they all at this point? (all the crypto-coins)
We're just at beginning folks.
We are at the Pong and PacMan stage.
Good analogy, but I think gen 3 cryptos are NES (Mario and Duckhunt) While BTC is Pong or Packman. BTCs gen 1 and can't handle the volume it already has. I can't imagine it being mass adopted when you can't even send a minor transaction. I'm going to turn all of my BTC to Dash to buy my Baikal miners, I don't want my BTC being unconfirmed for a week.