Topic: Bitcoin Vs Ethereum - page 16. (Read 3671 times)

It's difficult to predict anything since bitcoin appeared much earlier and the etherium will take more time to reach a level like bitcoin. Time will show who will be stronger.

While ETH may still see some growth, I still see see BTC as having the brighter future.

There are 3 major flaws in Ethereum that prevent me from believing in its long-term viability:

1) Ethereum's turing complete scripting language just calls for trouble and neither the DAO nor the Parity hack are going to be last of their kind. And unlike crypto-currency exchange hacks, this is indeed a problem with Ethereum itself, not just the centralized infrastructure.

2) ETH as a currency is easily replacable and there's little to no motivation for major businesses to actually build upon the ETH chain as opposed to a private, permissioned ledger -- ie. the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance is more or less a sham. The "businesses" that are currently being built upon the canonical Ethereum blockchain are unfortunately mostly scammy or at least very questionable ICOs.

3) ETH is suffering from a high amount centralization in that the dev team controls a disproportionate amount of ETH and with the upcoming switch to PoS will also control a lot of staking power. So instead of the checks and balances of BTC, ie. Developers vs Miners vs Holders you get an unquestioned Trifecta that has enough power to simply reverse transactions by forking off the main chain and still become the canonical Ethereum blockchain. Call me idealistic, but creating a hard fork to reverse a smart contract that you yourself fucked up is a huge red flag for me, even though it's unlikely to happen again.

I think bitcoin is still more profitable than bitcoin, it's because bitcoin users are still much larger than etherum. But did not rule out etherum is much more profitable than bitcoin.

Both are playing a vital role in the cryptocurrency world. if you want to compare Bitcoin with Etherium then you have to judge based on popularity and acceptability. then you can get the best result of this issue. for me, Bitcoin is still now better then Etherium because of price value and acceptability.

bitcoin is the king of any currency but etherium has a potential ...

Although the increased potential of bitcoin is now much lower than that of etherum but the probability of bitcoin is great for achieving a much higher value. Bitcoin is much more desirable and also the market share of bitcoin is much higher. Look at this time bitcoin has started to have a lot of market. Many stores have received bitcoin and this is the bitcoin era.

Are you still asking it?  I can understand your question if when eth at $ 1400 but for now i think you already know the answer. however bitcoin is more promising in profits even though the price for one bitcoin is quite high.

yes it is, but it takes time. it needs big whales or a big investor who will invest eth that will make eth become in demand.
if the rule of demand will apply here, as long as many investors will buy eth the supply will short, and that could be the reason to increase the demand, and it will have a big impact to its price.

Till now Ether hasn't shown any downward trend and this surprises me quite a lot. I thought that the exchange rates may drop after the ICO ban in many nations, including China. But on the other hand, the prices have remained extremely stable, at around BTC0.065 - BTC0.075.

I think that is a common aspect of bitcoin and if bitcoin is not limited and has an unlimited amount of block then bitcoin will don't have a value anymore, there is no such thing as supply and demand anymore if there is no equilibrium between the two, and there are no desires for buyer anymore to buy bitcoin because the relationship between the two will surely crumble.

I think Ethereum have a better technology then bitcoin, because of the platform and smart-contracts if you compare price 394$ and 4300$ that's not right because they have different amount of coins comparing can be only at marketcap

whenever bitcoin crashes, etherium will crash 2-3x as hard.. because ico's will start cashing out all their etheriums. i think bitcoin has less inflation and is safer long term investment.

even tho i prefer using eth because how fast it is...

We know bitcoin and ethereum are on the top volume market capitalization as we saw in chart of coinmarketcap but these two has advantages and disadvantages between each other. For me, the advantage of ethereum, he has the faster transaction than bitcoin and the advantage of bitcoin, we can now buy directly a thing without converting bitcoin into cash because of its popularity.

Bitcoin is far superior in this comparison simply because it is accepted much more widely than Eth, hence the value is much higher too.
But Eth has stood 2nd in the market cap for very long now, so maybe it also has a prosperous future like bitcoin. But Bitcoin will remain number 1 in this battle.

It seems to me that Ethereum can come even close to compete with bitcoin. Firstly, bitcoin is more common. Secondly, bitcoin has a limit in production and it protects it from inflation. In the third bitcoin does more prospects of recognition by governments that will give an even greater increase in the capitalization of the currency.

I think it will be hard to know now, when seen with the development of bitcoin from other coins is clear, bitcoin is better because it is expensive nowadays.
No one knows whether bitcoin will survive until the future, or eth disappears from the world of cryptocurrency.

I think your logic is flawed, because for it to be valid requires the assumption that both coins have an equal probability of going back up to their respective ATH valuations within a specific timeframe. There is no way you can make this assumption as there are too many other variables to consider as well.

Are you still asking it?  I can understand your question if when eth at $ 1400 but for now i think you already know the answer. however bitcoin is more promising in profits even though the price for one bitcoin is quite high.

I think there is room for both, on the basis that they are doing somewhat different things. There is also room for other altcoins. This I suspect isnt goin to be a winner takes all contest. IF you look at commodities trading markets there are many variants - the same will be true of crypto.

Bitcoin is the real cyrpto currency, Ethereum is an Alt always remember it. Bitcoin is decentralised and Eth is not, Ico often use eth based contracts and as we know most of them turn out scam. Bitcoin has a bigger number of users and eth has less, Bitcoin is the best, eth is second best, eth may go but Bitcoin won't ever go. I have never purchased eth, will never ever purchase eth.