Will Microsoft use Ethereum or an Ethereum-like technology? The difference is only in who benefits from the increased popularity - owners of ETH or owners (not existing yet) of MS-ETH. If owners of ETH - why would Microsoft want to make rich someone else?
Microsoft can buy a lot Eth itself, and develop systems around Ethereum.
MS is late for Bitcoin. Ethereum is till in its early stages. So if MS catches Ethereum bandwagon, it will be rich.
That could be the secret to the Pump, They are super late to bitcoin, but with Ethereum they can inject themselves in from the start and help shape it. I would not be surprised if they just started funding Eth dev directly buy buying eth.
Plus Ethereum is a bit more softarewarey(yeah not a real word lol) than bitcoin i.e with smartcontracts and damp not just a glorified ledger like Bitcoin.
Ive been furiously mining Eth with around 1GH/S of hash rate for a few months and buying on the dips. From this point on i think ill stop selling what I mine and also buy more eth weekly on the dips.
I could see this popping to $10/eth some time next year don't want to miss that boat. What scares me more is we dont even have a killer app yet.
If Augur or one of those other etheruem based projects blows up we could be kicking ourselvs next year for not loading up.
Not a pumper myself , but i missed the early BTC boat, missed the LTC boat I'll be dammed if i miss another. Worst comes to worst i break even and sell my hardware