Bitcoin was the first cryptocurrency successfully developed...

Bitcoin was the first cryptocurrency successfully developed using blockchain technology. Over the last ten years, its global adoption has been hindered by a number of factors — scalability being a major concern.

In order to avoid attacks on the network, Bitcoin was built with a maximum block size of one megabyte. This limited the total amount of transactions which a block could contain. Throughout the history of BTC, backlogs on the network have been common. Users have had to wait extended periods of time or pay high fees to confirm transactions on the network.

Initially, hard forks of the Bitcoin Core software client were attempted followed by forks of the Bitcoin blockchain to increase the block size. This has not proven successful.

Another attempt at increasing scalability, however, has emerged using SegWit and the Lightning Network. Doing this allows sidechain payment channels to be used to minimize the total number of transactions which take place on the main Bitcoin blockchain (mainnet). Furthermore, a number of uses for the network which might accelerate mass adoption and social integration have been proposed and developed.
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