Bcash

it's not about the money goy
it's about sending a message

Industrial applications, like the fucking chips in your computer that allow you to write dumb things in public?

Yes. I know crypto has very specific strengths and weaknesses, in the properties of money. Besides immutability, BTCs great strength over other coins right now is acceptability. Which is why r/bitcoin censors discussion, why shills congregate in /biz threads, why early adopters are not happy with facing real competituon. There's an elephant in the room, and Coinbase adding BCH today was like casually referring to the enormous grey mammal occupying half the living space. We aren't supposed to actually talk about that thing.

Shills actually rant and rave that if BTC does, everything dies. Like a hostage situation, or an emotional and needy teenager. Like, what? What were we doing here again?

What scandal? Jesus Christ you people have to feel like you’ve been wronged waned cycles shit with your tether conspiracy theories

This.

bitcoins current value in the whole crypto space is a) sentimental and b) based on the fact that it is the most easily accessible crypto to buy with Fiat AND in the amount of trading pairs in exchanges. In that sense BTC is very overvalued compared to ETH for example.

Sentimental value will depreciate, just a matter of time.

And as people learn that you can also get other currencies with fiat and exchanges increase the amounts of trading pairs for other currencies, bitcoin will die.

Missed out the most important one:

FUNGIBILITY

What's a good service for altcoins? Bittrex closed new registrations for the moment

binance is ok

it's value is based on solid tech that has been tested for almost 9 years, security through decentralized mining and comunity efforts to maintain it as a valid alternative to fiat.

That's useless when you aren't actually using the tech and just holding in an exchange. Nobody is using bitcoin as a currency, which is the entire point of bitcoin.
Also BCH is based off that exact same tech, but scaled as intended. The 1MB limit was not meant to be permanent, the whitepaper details this.

Yes because gold wasn't valuable before it was used in industry.

It's valuable because
1. Scarcity
2. It takes work to get
3. Its not counterfietable
4. People have agreed it's worth something