its not the only requirement, the coins themselves technically are the only requirement. It's just that people who are into technology will have an easier time picking up on the concept behind these economies and therefore have a higher chance of actually using them in their everyday lives for whatever reason you could think of.
In the eyes of an optimist: Bitcoin is only going to go up in value as the remaining supply dwindles as mainstream support rises thus causing the value of Btc to reach 7 figures or more
In the eyes of a pessimist: Bitcoin is only going to stay at these values for a short peiod of time before it crashes due to a mass exodus of supporters for various reasons. Some are trying to make their own Btc, some are moving onto Litecoin, some can't remember their withdraw password, either way people are moving on as a steady stream of new and naive investors get a rude welcome to cryptocoin economies before they can even transfer them anywhere. Since these were the people who were actually going to spend some coins and make the economy work, it's now being held mostly by greed driven investors who simply use robotic algorithms to buy and sell all day. Once they start losing money, the value will really plummet.
And at that point it depends on the status of other coins and their support level comparative to bitcoin to try and figure out what would ultimately become of it. If there are a multitude of different coins all with reliable and legitimate places to use them at, I don't see why anyone would continue using Bitcoin outside of the brainwashed and hipsters.
If there is still a lot to be desired from alt coin services, it might even be able to have a final bubble and subsequent burst until something steps up to fill it's absence.
but anyone who knows anything about the Dark Web knows how much could have been potentially made if one made the proper decisions with their investment into Bitcoins. And when you miss out (relatively speaking) on an opportunity like that yet totally understand how you could have gone about doing it if you had a second chance, you are far more likely to consider using alt coins instead of bitcoins seeing as there is at least still time to get on board before it's suddenly not worth your time anymore. More or less happened overnight to Litecoin, and it's only because Bitcoin rose in value at the root of the cause.
As people received money simply for hitting their Refresh Browser button, they decided to diversify their portfolio a bit by buying some alt coins with Bitcoins in the hope that they would rise in value. While most people don't even think much of it, this is actually a major part of this whole Cryptoconomy considering it not only makes alt coins rise in value, it gets people to think a bit more outside the box about this stuff. While most people only consider the current value of coins, once they realize they just traded one random set of numbers for a different set of numbers yet somehow one set was worth 50 times more than the other one, some flags should go up, at least youd hope so. And if one coin happens to let them purchase their goods at nearly 3 times the speed, for the same price in fiat money anyway, why would you ever use Bitcoin?
Unless if you are a holder of a large amount, and don't want to lose your life savings, to which I'd say you should never risk anything you couldn't afford to blow in a casino somewhere, because it really is just gambling except with no comps or old people
