If anything altcoins are the ones that are bringing unwanted attention to the market, with the huge amount of icos coming every year and the huge number of scams some countries began banning their citizens of participating in them and some others put in place policies like KYC, so if that was the plan it has failed completely and I doubt that you will be able to find any document published by satoshi justifying your claim.

In fact I really think that if this market ever falls it will be because of altcoins, because altcoins are generating bad press, while it is true that bitcoin receives bad press as well most of it is FUD or simply the opinion of people that do not understand how bitcoin works, but the bad press against altcoins and the huge number of scams is deserved.

Uhm, I'm not really sure about what you said, but altcoins didn't take the attention away from Bitcoin. Instead, Bitcoin has been the centre of attention in case of cryptocurrency and to most of the people Bitcoin is the only cryptocurrency they know. And as far as Government is concerned, that attention doesnt affect Bitcoin anyway because Bitcoin has potential and it can grow and make people appreciate it without any other extra influence.

LOL. i think OP thinks the "government" is a kid with ADD who you can distract easily by dangling your key chain in front of them

not to mention that all the negativity that altcoins have brought to bitcoin. for example last year's ICO scams which go to billions of dollars scammed out of people's pockets have caused a lot of issues. the smallest of which have been banning of all crypto related ads on big platforms such as Google and Facebook. not to mention all the illegal pump and dumps that are happening every second in the altcoin market.

Yes, that is true. A lot of unwanted attention crypto markets has received from altcoin scams. Even many online advertising companies are banning cryptos just because altcoin scams not because of bitcoin issues. Not all altcoins are bad because some of the altcoins are filling gaps which bitcoin not able to do it but some people think that it is an easy way to make a fast money so they have started with fake coins and cheated investors indirectly brings a bad name to bitcoins as well.

As we know altcoin and bitcoin are both digitalized cryptocurrencies . Bitcoin is the  most usable currency than altcoin. I think government confuse both of this because both of this cryptocurrency  is very secure. Transactions , deposit are also very secured.

I definitely agree with you, Altcoins have given birth to so many ICOs and people are now busy with both of them. However, if the distraction was not created, I think the market would have got heavily saturated. People will keep mining Bitcoins only and the price and value of Bitcoin would have gone down because of that.

That is one way to see it but that is not that big of a problem for governments, in the case of a potential law banning bitcoin they only need to change the word bitcoin for cryptocurrencies and they can ban them all, besides if that happened governments will need to find a way to block bitcoin traffic and even if that happened the developers will surely find a way to get around that and the rest of the coins like always will just follow bitcoin and its solution, just look at what happened with segwit many coins activated segwit because that is the path bitcoin followed, so even that benefit that you claim that altcoins give to this market is marginal at best and non existent at worst.

This was a masterstroke by Nakamoto by removing all the attention from Bitcoins. Right now, not only Altcoins are trending but also a lot of ICOs that depend on these Alts are stepping up and creating a good distraction for the goverment to stay away from the BTC market.

I definitely agree with you, Altcoins have made it possible for people to come up with ICOs and government is also being busy with regulating those. The distraction was very important for bitcoin for not only to grow but also avoid wrath of the government by now. Definitely one of the greatest step taken by Satoshi.