The future is clear: Bitcoin can and will do anything that altcoins can do, but better, using sidechains/layer2. And Bitcoin does it on the blockchain layer that is the most proven, secure, trusted, and decentralized.

Compared to altcoins, Bitcoin’s sidechain/layer2 functionality has more community, competition, tech, people, capital, flexibility.And it is here today.There is Lighting of course with near instant transactions and near zero fees at any scale.There are fully anonymous transactions via ZeroLink and TumbleBitSmart contracts and instant payment via RSKNear instant and confidential trading between exchanges via LiquidAnd much more underway now...and this is still just the dawn...not even sidechain gen1...just the sunrise. via /r/Bitcoin http://bit.ly/2mYn7xp