i don't share this position of ignorance , as both the bitcoins and the other coins(commonly called altcoins) are required for the smooth running of the ecosystem .We all must admit that bitcoin has already gone through the gates in terms of pricing , these altcoins now provide that hope for crypto hopefuls who had missed the initial bitcoin wave to have an opportunity by investing in these cheaper altcoins to someday end up with dollar value similar to the high price bitcoin enjoys now a days.some of these altcoins are cheap and can be bought in significant amounts , what this allows is for a coin bough at 0.10 experiencing a rise in its price to 0.20 producing a return of twice whatever you invested , so if you had invested $5000 in that coin your investment would now be valued at $10,000 and this is only from the coin moving from .10 to .20 .. this might sound like children numbers but from a mathematical perspective the price of the coin has doubled and hence your investment would double in value as well.So even an incremental change in the price of an alt coin can translate into thousands of dollars based on the value of your investment and this is why altcoins continues to enjoy a huge following today as it takes less money(some are even less than a dollar) to acquire these coins versus bitcoins which was priced at 8458.57 at the time of this post.