I agree a potential fork is still a big worry, however bitcoin is still THE main Crypto.
Anyone outside of crypto will have only heard of bitcoin (and possibly ethereum).
It has first mover advantage. Anyone in the real world who accepts crypto accepts bitcoin, not one of the 900 alts.
If you trade alts, you need to do so through bitcoin. To buy in, most exchanges only accept bitcoin and you have to exchange bitcoin for fiat. Additionally, most pairs are for alt/ btc not alt/alt2 (although some exchanges are listing alt/ETH now.
bitcoin is the safest as it has been around the longest, come the furthest and grown the most. The majority of alts are clones with very little history or time in development to iron out bugs. bitcoin has had nearly 10 years to do so!
Lets hope the next few months go smoothly and all will be good (for now).
Good points and I also hope they are able to increase the block size and get transactions moving faster on bitcoin. If they can manage that without a split then bitcoin is seriously going to moon.
Which puts me in a battle with myself buy a shit ton now and hope for the best or maybe reserve myself into some alts till this all smooths out and perhaps regret it if it moons lol the struggles are real.
The other issue that if bitcoin rockets, the alts will probably do so as well (from past experience). If bitcoin tanks, so will the alts. I think you need to be in bitcoin (primarily) and if you don't trust it, out into fiat. I see the alts moving with bitcoin currently and I don't see that changing in the near future, until more mainstream adoption and the recognition that there is a difference between them. This will also need most alts (without a valid use case) to die off. Not a popular statement I know, but 900 instruments with no real life application outside of speculation is too many!