One of the main reasons why Bitcoin has more worth than any other cryptocurrencies is because it has the proven track record to secure hundreds of billions of dollars ($269 billion as of Dec.8 ) without getting it lost to theft or accident.
If a person manages to successfully hack Bitcoin, he or she will easily top the Forbes Billionaires List at #1. And believe me, people have definitely tried to get this money that Bitcoin holds right now.
No other cryptocurrency has been held to the same amount of scrutiny and stress-test as Bitcoin. Lets really test the limit of this technology.
Good or bad, Im extremely excited what we will see in the future.
I hope you are too.
If a person or government hacked bitcoin then that person will not become a billionaire since the trust in bitcoin will be lost and its worth will be zero, despite the huge leap in technology that is bitcoin, bitcoin is still a currency and it needs to follow the same principles that any currency follows.
Trust is the most important aspect of a currency, that is why the US dollar is still the number one currency despite the fact that is being printed too fast but once that confidence is lost the currency collapses, even gold is subject to that, what it happens to gold is that it has been money that has lasted for thousands of years which is why it is trusted by people, and bitcoin even if it is very young is getting that kind of trust very rapidly as well.