If there is no bitcoin, then there will be no altcoins since altcoins were inspired by bitcoin. We would never know about satoshi and his bitcoin "peer to peer" white paper. There would be no bitcoin pizza and there might be no blockchain. The only thing that is simular in the parallel universe might be stocks. I would rather live in this universe with bitcoin since it makes more money quicker than stocks. In the parallel universe, I might not be writing this as well since the forum does not exist either.