When you start mentioning others publicly in a negative way.... you're in trouble. 



MySpace was way too far ahead of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and etc.  They must be failures with hardly any users today.

Hey coinbase ceo,let's say obvious things 

I guess that's pretty much true.  Although altcoins are fun and there's definitely money to be made if you know what you're doing, I hardly believe that they will ever compare to Bitcoin if Bitcoin is adopted as a worldwide currency, as it ought to be.

Totally apples to oranges comparison there. Myspace is neither a network protocol, nor a form of currency.

Rofl, what a monumental logical failure. First, Coinbase isn't even an exchange (yet). Second, they are the only service with 70 million dollars backing.

HTTP has flaws too, but for some strange reason no other protocol ever rose to compete with it. Why do you suppose that is?

I'll give you a hint, both HTTP and Bitcoin are protocols which change and evolve over time. You don't need alternate versions of an entity which itself is capable of change.

There's a reason neanderthals are extinct, they were an inferior version of an evolving entity, utterly redundant. Natural selection did its work then, just as unnatural (market) selection will do to altcoins now.

There are plenty of alts with merit, but at some point there has to be consensus about what to get behind, especially with something that can be replicated like BTC.

So far the weight of numbers have settled on bitcoin and a leading company in the space would be pretty dumb to start dabbling in weaker systems.

It's similar to domains. Why did .com become the most prestigious? All the others work just as well. It's only because people en masse decided to award it value.

And I don't think Ripple/ Stellar are bitcoin alternatives. They're a different beast.

Well, now Coinbase has an exchange, but this is a very recent development.

Has a future? No, I think Bitcoin is the future [of money].

Loads of reasons, chief among them being that unlike fiat scrip, bitcoin is not backed by state violence.

Cool story bro. Spoiler alert: No one cares what you think of me, least of all me.

Why? What reasons do you have for believing that altcoins will grow and bitcoin will shrink, despite the overwhelming evidence to the contrary?

Altcoins are dying is because more and more people are finding out how easy it is to create a new coin and try to profit from it. That results in a large supply of altcoins, there are dozens of altcoins coming out daily on bitcointalk.org. Altcoinland is dominated by get rich quick scams, pumps and dumps, lies and deception. As more people get scammed by investing in a scamcoin the liquidity of the altcoin market decreases because traders are left with a sour taste in their wallets. When liquidity decreases so do the prices and marketcaps. Lets look at a comparison of altcoin marketcaps back in 2014 compared to altcoin market caps today.

Rofl.

I accept your forfeiture of the argument. Good day sir.

I couldn't resist.

Back in 2013, when Bitcoin reached a price of $1200, this gave rise to new interest in Bitcoin and naturally drew in more developers, users, investors, etc. So of course, there would be more altcoins near Bitcoin's peak price(early-middle 2014), than now. So frankly, your logic makes no sense.  Of course to the inexperienced eye such as yours, you're quick to dismiss things evidently after first sight, without fully grasping it's true nature. In Bitcoin's years, I'm sure you were one of those that addressed it as nothing more than play-money, missing out entirely on a new technology, and the same will happen to you again.

but we know this isn't going to happen in the near future.
bitcoin is and will stay nr 1 for plenty of years.