Quote from: 1Referee on January 30, 2018, 11:57:20 AM

Quote from: trecore4 on January 30, 2018, 11:20:54 AM

Alts is like shit side of the bitcoin and it should have never come out and we could have seen actual developments of the BTC. The whole idea was just the transaction and nothing else but we ourselves made them to work for ourselves and earn money for us.

That's pretty short sighted. I do agree that the majority of the altcoins are nothing more than shitcoins, but there are certain coins actually solving a problem, where alongside that, they have various other decent usability features that Bitcoin at this point in time doesn't offer. Technical developments in the altcoin part of the market may eventually even flow into Bitcoin, and the best thing is that altcoins can be seen as a perfect testbase for Bitcoin's potential future implementations. Anoter important factor is that altcoin trading is largely based on BTC, which basically means that altcoin trading keeps an insane number of coins off the Bitcoin markets. I am happy that we have altcoins being part of the cryptosphere

I read about the same thing somewhere not so long ago. But it was a pretty dated piece to be honest, so my question is whether this is really so and not just another pro-altcoin hype and propaganda? What are the features that Bitcoin already adopted from altcoins yet? I know that there is an initiative to implement smart contracts in Bitcoin, and that would be a perfect example of such technical developments. Smart contracts is a pretty solid and polished technology now, but how long are we to wait until it actually makes it into Bitcoin?