While bitcoin's price has stagnated in the last two weeks, smaller digital currencies such as ripple, stellar and Tron have surged into the ranks of the largest cryptocurrencies by market capitalization.
Although I do not agree with you it does not matter what happened in the past, let the market speak now.
[Bitcoin
3.56% ripple
1.85% stellar
0.60% Tron
0.46%]
Erik Voorhees, CEO of digital asset exchange ShapeShift, said that in contrast to bitcoin's dominance on the platform a year ago, about half of transactions on the platform now don't involve the popular digital currency at all.
When I use ShapeShift, it means that I have some bitcoin and I want to exchange it into altcoins to achieve some gains.
Therefore, the conversion times are often from the Bitcoin to Xcoin "because of the ease of getting bitcoin" and then from Xcoin to Ycoin to Zcoin" because small fees compare to bitcoin."