if you are okay with a LOT of volatility, i think yes. i have a decent amount invested in it personally
ethereum in no way has better security, in fact the tradeoff is capability for security it's more programmable, but that makes it less secure (not good or bad, just a tradeoff) see the DAO incident
well they "fixed" the incident. the instability from the bitcoin community is a source of insecurity itself
at this point I would only invest in bitcoin with play money. it's all over the place and someone needs to explain to me the fundamentals of the bitcoin value. There's also so many groups out there constantly challenging bitcoin. I don't know if they will succeed or fail but the point remains that there will constantly be innovations and replacements challengers which is why you need strong fundamentals to withstand the barrage. German Mark (sound fundamentals, strong history) is history (many actually thanks to Euro in 2002) so recent currency extinction does happen. Also, with the orders of magnitude of computing potentially possible in the future with quantum computing, the blockchain isn't secure. Nothing today will be for that matter. It might not happen in my generation but maybe the next.
it's fungibile, unforgeable, scarce, portable, doesn't degrade, is an abstract token pretty much everything you want from a currency just needs to achieve enough network effect for the value to stabilize
That "network effect" and stability is what makes those characteristics meaningful. It's not without its uses but I don't see it becoming currency in a meaningful way, but maybe whatever becomes bitcoin 2.0 or 4.0 will.
Almost all altcoin has gone up since the surge of Bitcoin. It would have been nice if I invested my money in Dash (Darkcoin) or Ethereum instead of Peercoin. Either way I'm happy to have multiplied my initial investment.
ETH recovering well and BTC going for 2k Anyone in with the lesser coins in order to gain on a bigger volume? Ripple and STR on a recent run.
Yea.... a currency that doesn't maintain it's value isn't a currency. Seems bitcoin is pure speculation at this point.