Bitcoin with it's high fees and slow transaction times is hardly suitable for payments – spending the same fee whether you buy a coffee or send $100,000 is a joke and the promise of scaling solutions such as the Lightning Network hasn’t been fulfilled.[1]
While there's no shortage of old and new believers to keep the party going, along with plenty of developers working to create better, forked versions of bitcoin, I’m betting my chips on a more flexible alternative.
The door is wide open for blockchains that use smart contracts, like ethereum,[2] bitcoincash, litecoin and more......
2018 Will Be ....... Year’s? [Writer choose ethereum, what will be your choice?and why?]
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[1] [2] Everyone are betting what they can bet on the table, some people have been holding BTC for so long and because this last December is a huge drawback, because they are expecting that BTC's price will climb up to 40k$. Some waited weeks in order to see if that huge rollback in price will result to a new ATH but not. We are slowly being consumed by the problems like congested network and very high transactions fees. What to do? go to alternatives. I have tried investing on bitcoin cash last year but as to what I'm seeing now. Its pump is still caused by some market manipulation, what worse is that there are so many forks that came after the first fork, which it is an obvious sign that because they cant control BTC's supply, they are making free money through forks and they are not even serious in finding some really helpful currency (or fork) that can solve the transaction time and transaction fees.
So if this lightning network don't do any good, people will turn to other crypto like ethereum.
If you are asking me this will be ethereum year, well IMO Ethereum network can get congested too when delivering a very large number of transactions. It is not a good sign. Im treating last year as the year for new projects or what we called ICO, and because the platforms last year is still developing and some are releasing their end product, good results and applications of their service we can call this year as the year for decentralized applications. Let them put into application what they are coding for years.