BTC has higher than VISA Tx fees. Transaction times can even take days while Dash (and PIVX) offer 1.3 second transactions for almost 1/100th the cost. BTC has ZERO governance while many coins have built in governance structure. BTC community is toxic, full of censorship and doesn't even stick to its promises. BTC has no privacy functions. SegWit can compromise security and has done little to solve the scaling issue. Year 2017 had negative BTC merchant adoption which had NEVER occurred in any popular crypto.
BTC has no solid future roadmap. It has no Ease of use features such as user names. All these problems have already been solved by other coins and anything BTC can do, Alt can do better.
I'll repeat the last part. Anything BTC can do, Alt can do better + Most of the problems have BTC have been solved by better coins. Swarming around inferior tech IS A MANIA. Fanboys/girls of BTC are nothing but Luddites.
RE: HODL was BAD for the TULIP MANIA