bitcoin doesnt force anyone to just use bitcoin, people are free to choose any currency they like.. and they CHOOSE to like, support and be loyal to bitcoin based on its merits.. however when altnet cultists try to force people to not support bitcoin, not be loyal, thats where the altnet cultists go wrong and become hypocrits

blackhat supports features and bugs added purely to make bitcoin more of a headache and congested. he only idolises getting people to abandon bitcoin
in short he is part of a shameful group of people that want to recruit people over to sub-par networks

To be honest, I was kind of like this. I don't know why, but I couldn't trust any other cryptocurrency because I invested in some shitcoin in 2020 or 2021, and all of them became zero after a couple of months. I have invested in those coins because of the success of Shiba Inu. I thought, why not try my luck on some other shit coins which may give me 100x after a couple of months. But then my mind changed, and I thought Bitcoin was the only thing I could trust.

But the reality is, I started hunting for airdrops lately and to be honest, I did not know about most of ETH layer two solutions and the usage of most coins/tokens which has some potential. Not only that, a couple of news projects came on the market and some of them are successful now. Whatever you said, I guess JJG disagree with you 

Trump has nothing to Do with this.

Fee spike lasted for just a few weeks in a 13year range. Basically irrelevant...

I think you are ignoring your own experience to defend an idea.

If people were making runes in ltc chain the fees would also have skyrocketed, just like they did in ethereun (which used to be almost free). There are no ordinals or runes in ltc because that chain is basically irrelevant now

Ltc fees are cheap because nobody uses it. Network is not congested.

Just my 2 cc in this.

As someone who uses btc nearly daily for p2p transactions  for the last 7 years I am can say that btc is perfectly suited for p2p

I even prefer to receive in btc than ltc or doge because those coins lose value against btc very quickly.. their performance is much worse

It's a fact that the vast majority of altcoins are useless get-rich-quick schemes, but not all of them fall into this category. Some simply have different trade-offs, such as MimbleWimble in Litecoin or ringCT, ring signatures, and stealth addresses in Monero. Other trade-offs exist in Zcash, Grin and Bitcoin Cash. And I'm not claiming that they're more or less useful than Bitcoin. I'm simply saying we should recognize the situation for what it is: healthy competition among currencies, with each one satisfying different needs.

I think people should believe, as I do, that the market will be 10x bigger than it is today in ten years. That means the market will grow from $1.5T to... $15T.

In order to get to this level, which would require virtually every developed-world consumer to be involved in memecoins, there will need to be some new thinking, and the old ways aren't always going to work for a lot of those new users. Some in this community will evolve their thinking, and... some won't (although and it's not like Bitcoin is going anywhere, and it will grow too).

The most common issue people have with memecoins is that there has been a lot of failure and fraud in this business. That's a huge problem, but it needs to be challenged head-on. Consumers want safety most of all: they want to be able to invest in a memecoin and not worry about getting ripped off, or the market being manipulated unfairly.

And while Bitcoin and crypto started in the "grey" world of cyberpunks and (sorry) quasi-criminals, average consumers are repelled by this kind of thing. In other words, old-school hard-cores from the community will say, "do your research or you'll get ripped off", but average consumers don't have time for that, and they just want to click on an app and bet on their favorite meme without worrying about fraud. That's going to require a different mindset than the Bitcoin community is used to.

But the first step here is to realize this is not a zero-sum game. The growth of memecoins will increase the adoption of Bitcoin, not shrink it.

Ordinals LTC (supports Runes).
OrdinalsLite
Liteverse Marketplace

Should be the reason for the spikes in the numbers of transactions you can see on Bitinfocharts in late 2023 and early 2024. Now on both BTC and LTC the Runes/Ordinals activity has decreased drastically.

Second sentence is true, first is not. The number of transactions is stable at about half of Bitcoin's transactions. The current value was 192k txes/day. For a coin which has about 1/100 of Bitcoin's market cap this is quite good. Or is Bitcoin's usage "nobody * 2"?

LTC is also the coin most used at Bitpay.

On the link also you see that LTC's transaction throughput is continuously growing. In it's "perceived" heyday before 2020, much less people were using it. It's quite funny actually, when everybody was talking about "arise chiggun", LTC's chain was quite empty ...

I believe LTC is quite established now even if the price performance was indeed relatively poor last year. Doge too as the "historic and most decentralized memecoin", and XMR of course too (which is performing quite well price-wise lately). And this is quite a good thing. We have three quite different chains which can serve as a "backup" for Bitcoin, even if Bitcoin ran into problems (e.g. due to a critical bug), a recovery is more likely if there are such "backup chains" which can even in theory work, for example, as a Bitcoin sidechain.

I would also not be sad about more decentralized chains competing with these three main decentralized altcoins, but if we go down the rankings on CMC, Coingecko etc., after XMR (and perhaps Kaspa) there is a big "gap", all coins are centralized or semi-centralized until #200 approximately where Dash, Flux, ARRR and Ravencoin reside. (Edit: See also this thread in the altcoin forum where I list all coins I consider "decentralized" in the top #300 approximately and most which are ranked lower.)

This relates to everyday life where ego and the mindset of wanting to win alone are still applied by some people.
I don't know if it is included in Maximalism or not, but having a mindset like that is an act against the logic of many people. This tendency will limit the thinking of people who have ideas to develop and the intellect does not function properly.
Regarding the forum, it is relative and may be based on the mindset and how to see the problem from which point of view because the reality that we feel is impossible to please many people. The positive side that I see is that the forum has the freedom to think and we can openly discuss things more rationally.

For the problem of truth, we can test it at the level of knowledge, not only based on references written by others, this is fun for those of us who adhere to the system of freedom.
Except when talking more specifically about techniques because it must be based on the maturity of knowledge so as not to cause mistakes.
When talking about Bitcoin, it is complex, where we will talk about the essence of seeking profit in the investment process and so on, of course it will give rise to many arguments based on the writer and those who read it.

I love the op's argument about the Austrian school of economics and embracing the free market. I agree that the spirit of financial freedom and decentralization presupposes that there won't be any 'tyranny of Bitcoin', with it being supported and prioritized no matter what.
I still believe that Bitcoin is the best and most reliable crypto, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't hear out alternative opinions and pay attention to major developments.

I want to ask if FTT has its own blockchain? Does it have Dapps or any projects built on it or is it used specifically for the FTX exchange?I don't know if it is a shitcoin or not because it will depend on each person's judgment, but comparing it to FTT is lame and unfair to BNB. Not to mention it has a market capitalization in the top 5 on CMC and is also one of the layer 1s that has existed and developed strongly in the market for many years.

Likewise, there is no guarantee that binance will last forever and not collapse but looking at how Binance serves the community with what FTX did, there is a huge difference. As for whether they are a good long-term investment or not, it will all depend on the individual as each person needs to be responsible with their money.

OK, there's nothing stopping developers and researchers from building and developing other projects. I'm merely saying that with the network effects that Bitcoin has, all those other cryptocurrencies that you posted will either lose market value or will simply never be as dominant as Bitcoin. Plus some of those technologies will be implemented in Bitcoin, either off-chain, or on-chain, or side-chain in its own time and out of necessity.

There probably will merely be 5 blockchains existing in 20 years. The rest will either be dead or forgotten.