Quote from: Herbert2020 on January 17, 2018, 07:02:43 AM

Quote from: wuhanyan21 on January 17, 2018, 04:49:21 AM

Quote from: Mohamme on January 17, 2018, 04:44:06 AM

If bitcoin dies, then the entire cryptocurrency market will disappear. In my opinion, it should be. If bitcoin is 0, all tokens should be 0.

Disagree. Currently bitcoin has nearly no use besides being an exchange for alts. Alts such as Ethereum, Monero and others have some use. I can see them surviving if btc dies.

if you think that then it means you have never used any of these coins apart from buying/selling them on exchanges, or probably you have no idea how these cryptocurrencies work.
and you chose the worst two coins for your examples. if you chose anything else it would have been harder to argue, but when it comes to these two it is easy because they both have proven scaling issues worse than bitcoin.

in other words if 10% of bitcoin users start using any of these coins the backlog that will be created on them will the exact same scenario that is currently going on with bitcoin: high fees and slow confirmations.

ETH isnt a bad example. Im not saying it wont be replaced by a better Alt like say ADA that does not have the scaling issue, should be faster etc etc. Smart Contracts are in fact the perfect example of how Alts can be completely different from BTC and have lasting power regardless of BTC.