Decentralization is a very powerful feature, I think underestimated by many. Everyone is looking for coins that 'can do things better', but the degree of decentralization is way more important. This makes me believe Bitcoin is the biggest opportunity of all.
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I believe that decentralization is not one of the key points of Bitcoin, since it can be mined with ASICs, and there are just a few minig pools that handle it. So by making Bitcoin minable only with ASICs, all the small users are taken out of the equation because they don't have the required equipment to mine and this, the number of miners, creates real decentralization. They are the ones supporting or not a hard fork, and they are the people who sustain the entire blockchain. In case of Bitcoin, those miners are a few huge mining farms in China, and a few other small miners around the globe.
On the other side, if you consider the case of ETH, it is much simpler to become a miner and because of this, there are a lot of them. You can see here decentralization. No ASICs, people are mining only with their GPUs. And the next thing to consider is that it has a lot of advantages over Bitcoin like smart contracts, smaller fees, hard-forks support, and many others.