In the past and usually a new altcoin is being created with the only purpose to steal our bitcoins, with that said it would be better to have only bitcoin, and it would be more trusted and safe investement. For other side several altcoins as allowed people to get more bitcoin then they could get if were going to buy them, i do believe its a need situation, peoople need altcoins to get easy bitcoins.

yes it is a fact, as most of the people are using bitcoin for trading in alt coins and making money there. therefore altcoin is an important factor of bitcoin and it really important for trader specailly.

That is why the price of bitcoin is so high because altcoin is there to support and to spread the news about bitcoin.. because before they can buy altcoin they need to buy bitcoin first and invest in altcoin.. Also altcoin are always promoting in many different ways facebook forums or any social medias that can attract other people to invest in altcoin and before they can buy altcoin they need to buy bitcoin first. so that altcoin is important and how bitcoin getting benefits by altcoin..

I do agree, most of the people dont realize that alt coin is helping bitcoin to increase the transaction rate from trading and also alt coin can become a profitable investment for traders, so actually we need alt coin to bring more way to earn in crypto currencies world

If the above quote is true, then bitcoin seems to be the fuel. Without fuel the engine never functions, so without bitcoin altcoins were nothing. They just run successfully upon the technology which keeps bitcoin the leader of cryptocurrencies. So both are mutually needed for growth, still everything cannot be successful as bitcoin.

It's a healthy competition that what we have witness, altcoins has help bitcoin to be popular, but you cannot expect bitcoin will be surpass easily by altcoins in terms of value.

Sooner or later there will be only bitcoin but without alternative coins. They will die first when fiat virtual currency and banks digital money will run online. So it will be the competition between bitcoin and fiat virtual currency. It is not clear if this virtual money will play like a cryptocurrency which is market based or it is run by the government and the central bank. Everything is unclear yet, let wait for new updates from the new online.

Altcoins have no thread to bitcoin at all, just look at their market caps. The altcoins did tested many interesting ideas and advanced our understanding on the blockchain, so push blockchain technologies into many different areas.

Wrong. Altcoin's company has introduced a lot of people to bitcoins. Without them, bitcoin wouldn't be as successful as it is right now. I know that altcoins are just a copy of bitcoins and people mainly just use altcoins to earn even more bitcoins, but that's okay. The gist is that every new member of the altcoin community is eventually a new member of the bitcoin community. The introduction of altcoins is one of the key to reach mass adoption. I've never seen someone promoting bitcoins but I've seen tons of people promoting a certain altcoin.

Bitcoin might already have become recognized even without altcoins but that recognition wouldn't push forward if it wasn't because of the help of altcoins. The bitcoin success would be much slower without altcoins.

Yes but many time i see fluctuation keep arising in altcoin only dumping and pumping the coins, but altcoin are completely based on the bitcoin only they need to secure like bitcoin means atleast people should have more confidence in altcoin. But people are arising more speculation daily about the altcoin.