No. I guess altcoins nothing to do with the bitcoin ecosystem directly. But the developers and the coders of bitcoin definitely will get many ideas from different altcoins. The new innovate ideas of altcoins developments definitely will help bitcoins developers indirectly.

This is crypto world and it is stronger every day, and i'm very pleased to see that we have ore then one coin. I hope in future we will have even more different projects, with new features..This way we won't have monopoly.

Bitcoin dont need alt coins to survive.

generally i don't think altcoins have any effect on bitcoin's developement. but it is possible that they offer some excellent feature that can be also added to bitcoin not that there is any right now.

Yes without altcoins also bitcoin would have actually achieved this much higher level adoption by anyways. But all the altcoins have achieved their growth only because of bitcoins development. I too believe that altcoin would be highly possible to survive if only bitcoin is existing.

I don't really know if it's that much of an exaggeration though... If you go on exchange sites and see the volumes that the top coins are going for, it's pretty incredible to say the least.  Then if you combine the 3 or 4 top coins and that would easily go over 2K BTC or so...

So to say that altcoins don't effect the way the Bitcoin market is behaving is nonsense in my mind.  If those people who are in the altcoin market (only) and wanted to sell out into fiat, they would have to sell off the bitcoin value it represents anyways... so that indirectly affects the Bitcoin price (in a way).

We need to agree, without bitcoins, there will not be any chances for the existence of any altcoins. But both bitcoin as well as altcoins developers getting new ideas from each other in my perspective for fine-tuning their respective environments.

I agree that altcoins help bitcoins to grow and become more popular. But altcoins do NOT affect the price of bitcoin, the bitcoin affects the price of altcoins. The center of all altcoins is bitcoin, they have no control in the price of bitcoin. If the exchange of bitcoin to USD moves a lot, then alt coins will move as well.

Bitcoin without altcoin is bitcoin. Altcoin without bitcoin is not altcoin because the main wallet or the main money of the altcoin traders is bitcoin so for me altcoin is not altcoin without bitcoin. Thats only my opinion. And altcoin trading for me is the way to earn more bitcoin because i have many friends that using it to grow their money there.