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Iets als bitcoin kan waarschijnlijk nooit meer opnieuw ontwikkeld worden. Achter alle andere projecten zit een bedrijf of foundation.
"Satoshi didn't create bitcoin to get rich. He created bitcoin to allow online payments to be sent directly from one person to another without requiring
trust or permission of anyone else. Over 99% of altcoins were created to enrich their founders and over 99% of them have no future. None of them are as secure, as decentralized, or launched as fairly as bitcoin.
The issuance schedule and maximum supply are both clearly defined and will never change. If you properly handle your private keys then your bitcoin can't be stolen or seized and nobody can stop you from sending it to anyone else. Bitcoin development is decentralized and anyone can contribute because Satoshi published bitcoin under the MIT license so that it's open source and anyone is free to do anything with the source code. Bitcoin protocol rule changes are also decentralized because they require nodes to come to consensus. This is vastly different from many altcoins. Some other differences are that bitcoin has the most users, largest infrastructure, no premine, no developer fund/tax, no leader, longest track record, is the most secure, is the most decentralized, and bitcoins circulated freely for 18 months before ever having any monetary value which can never even be replicated by an altcoin because the genie is out of the bottle now. And unlike the founders of every altcoin, Satoshi never cashed out. Bitcoin is a scarce tokenized derivative of inflation and corruption that's kept honest and secure by it's own decentralized ledger of value that can't be forged or hacked. Put simply, bitcoin is the hardest money that's ever existed.
Bitcoin is also switching to schnorr signatures and activating taproot this year which will improve privacy, security, and efficiency. This will also lower the operating costs of running a node and the miner fees for exchanges by an expected 30%. The block size limit is also supposed to be raised sometime in the future which will increase the amount of on chain transactions per second that can be performed, but that may never actually happen because it requires the nodes to come to consensus. NFTs can be done on bitcoin and that's where they were done first back in 2012. There's also new discreet log contracts, RGB, musig2, coinswap, and various sidechains in development, including liquid network. RGB allows smart contracts to be done using bitcoin. We should also have trustless cross chain atomic swaps available this year. Schnorr signatures also allows us to have point time lock contracts. Taproot and schnorr signatures make it so that nobody can tell if a multi-signature transaction or a trustless cross chain atomic swap has even happened by looking at transactions in the blockchain. They also allow massive multi-signature transactions to be scaled down to a much smaller size."
Bitcoin is zijn eigen league en eigenlijk kan je andere projecten hier niet mee vergelijken. DeFi heeft een ander doel.