Bitcoin is known as the first coin over established in 2008 and has the highest market cap of $108,617,372,869,00
current price of $6,300.21.
On the coinmarketcap, they are coins with higher prices than bitcoin like,
1, Bit20 (BTWTY) with price of $177,216.60
market cap of $180,052.00
2, Project-x (NANOX) with price of $26,761.96
Market cap of $2,094.00
3, 42-Coin with price of $24,183.25
Market cap of $1,015,69.00
We have coins with some awesome project, so why is btc regarded as the king of coins and it's so unique than others?
Why make you consider those shitcoins are in the same level with bitcoin? They are not having a lot of daily trade volume and they are all just pump and dump tokens. They should not be counted as altcoins because have created nothing. Just try to learn about that and then you will know the reason behind that.