What is "real value?"
January 2nd 2014 bitcoin was "valued" at
$802.00 January 3rd 2009 the first bitcoin was mined ($0 value).
People who
bought bitcoin 5 years ago today had a
400% INCREASE in value.
If people just want to simply offset inflation over a 5 year period from holding the Dollar, Rand, Rupee, Pound, Euro, Yuan, Ruble, Lira or any other printed National Currency, Bitcoin has a use case now that
could suggest it's more valuable than Gold.
If 10 years data doesn't create trust as a store of value, people are still able to hold fiat in a bank account and compare the difference in spending power fiat vs bitcoin over the next 5 and 10 years....
Just because Bitcoin is the best cryptocurrency doesn't mean it's the only valuable one.
Bitcoin has helped fund EVERY cryptocurrency since it was created.... it is THE ONLY VALUABLE ONE (currently) for a reason.
Bitcoin can't and won't integrate most features (including private/confidential transactions) for political reasons.
Do research before ignoring wasabi wallet and mixers that have existed for years. The privacy of bitcoin isn't part of the protocol (yet) but that doesn't mean privacy options aren't available and increasing.
It will never use alternative consensus or scaling mechanisms (like proof-of-___ or sharding). I think it's naive to assume that no use cases or superior technological approaches will ever emerge from altcoins.
It's also securely stored and transferred value without the need for 3rd parties for 9 years, none of the "other" supposedly better solutions have done anything to prove trust and security wouldn't be traded just to try something "new"
I think it's naive to assume that no use cases or superior technological approaches will ever emerge from altcoins.
How many cryptographic protocols, to securely store value and transfer it in a decentralized manner, have you created or maintained? Right. Perhaps you're opinion doesn't hold the weight you want to believe it does, unless you've contributed something to the actual protocol or an alternative/better solution...