LTC already uses lighning. its not that fast. faster but not billions a second lol/
bitshares is faster and handles more transactions than visa and mastercard combined. quicker too. iota is nearly instant. the bigger the iota network gets the faster the transaction gets and its built on a dag not a blockchain which is truely unique.
theres just far better technologies out there than btc. but btc will continue to rise in price just because its the poster boy of cryptos and the first in the market. its not going anywhere anytime soon.
not saying btc is super bad or anything. but its nowhere near as good or efficient as most other cryptos today. its old school. and theres bilderburgers behind it now which i absolutely do not like. i dont want the elites/globalist zillionaires having any control over anymore currencies. they already run all the fiat world banks. yuck.
look it up. theres bilderburgers involved in btc now. theories around too that theyre trying to sabotage it which could be a reason why theres so much tension in the community and failure to implement the new better technologies. -_-
that y i see the fork kinda of a good thing. With every fork it takes out oppositions groups. Bitcoin unlimited taken out so segwit talks are going. Gpu people out in the diamond and gold fork. One fork over anonymity is needed to rake those people out. Maybe anther fork to the segwit2x supporter out. Leaving a much easier time fore core to do it thing. It going to be a messy year of forks in 2018 and we shall see if bitcoin aka bitcoin core survives
the lighting network in theory can process up to a billion transaction a second. Litecoin one has one protocol. With more research on lighting protocols lightning network alone can process up to a million a second by end of 2018.