Hi Hive account@lukestokes,

Indeed the biggest bull market I have seen... Trading it is like slipping to profits... hehehe...
https://steemit.com/trading/@aarcee/bitcoin-trade-btc-usd-29-nov-2017

I think the early (and brand ambassador) value of bitcoin for cryptocurrency is far far big advantage which is unlikely to be broken.

For me,
If
Cryptocurrency is Internet-of-Money
Then
Bitcoin is http-protocol

There are are others which are needed like https, ftp etc... and anybody can come up with a ‘pttp' protocol which does things differently than http, but its not required and will not be adopted