Bitcoin + Lightning = win?

The Bitcoin community has been working on regulations, wall street adoption and security. How about alt coins? Well, they only talk about 2 things: "cheaper" and "faster" transactions. Technology is cool, but if you want to make it you need to seriously work on the real problems.

So, to answer your question - YES. As soon as the lightning network becomes part of bitcoin, I think there won't be a need for alt coins anymore. Unless it's something totally unrelated to digital money.

> Bcash

It's always easy to spot a Blockstream shill by the way they refer to Bitcoin Cash in the pejorative.

I think some coins main difference is the ease to work with in creating applications and contracts. Plus in some cases coins like Neo that are build around China's regulations are likely to stay and improve in new ways.

Also less energy consumption and ease of use are big points. Many alt coins will eventually fail I think, but at this moment they seem mostly linked to how well Bitcoin is doing, so if Bitcoin goes up or down, so will many alt coins at first.

LN is not a Bitcoin-specific technology; it would allow any cryptocurrency to integrate with it. In fact, atomic swaps have been performed between Bitcoin and Litecoin.

A more likely scenario is that Bitcoin remains a store of value and people exchange Bitcoin for some other cryptocurrency like Litecoin which they'll use for their everyday purchases.

Low transaction fees and fast transaction time was never a sustainable competitive advantage.

Yes, coins like these will need to innovate somehow or their utility will drastically decrease.

I do think so yes, if the only thing a cryptocurrency solves is to be "a little faster and cheaper" than bitcoin it has zero use case.