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Saw some influencers actually believe ETH will outrank BTC because of the smart contract advantage and then the future which is the metaverse too. Raoul Pal is also one of these influencers who did believe the same thing. They are spreading this information for months now, one would think they purposely want people to sell their BTC for ETH. I was wondering, why (or why not) do you think that Bitcoin is better than Ethereum? Ethereum seems to provide everything that Bitcoin offers but it has a huge advantage: smart contracts. Smart contracts are small "programs" that live on the blockchain, so you can use them to build actual services and applications, while Bitcoin is useful only as a digital currency. So why do you prefer Bitcoin if Ethereum seems superior? Or maybe I'm missing something that makes Bitcoin actually better than Ethereum in some way? I do agree at some point, the design of Ethereum is better that Bitcoin. But what separates Bitcoin to the rest of the crypto's? I think it's more of it being the prime mover in the space, although you can also argue that Ethereum is also one of the first altcoin and now the top one. However, Bitcoin remains so dominant that it's name became synonymous to crypto. An for noobs, they prefer Bitcoin first because that's what they hear on the internet. And that's why we have this "Bitcoin maximalist" too. I was wondering, why (or why not) do you think that Bitcoin is better than Ethereum? Ethereum seems to provide everything that Bitcoin offers but it has a huge advantage: smart contracts. Smart contracts are small "programs" that live on the blockchain, so you can use them to build actual services and applications, while Bitcoin is useful only as a digital currency. So why do you prefer Bitcoin if Ethereum seems superior? Or maybe I'm missing something that makes Bitcoin actually better than Ethereum in some way? I do agree at some point, the design of Ethereum is better that Bitcoin. But what separates Bitcoin to the rest of the crypto's? I think it's more of it being the prime mover in the space, although you can also argue that Ethereum is also one of the first altcoin and now the top one. However, Bitcoin remains so dominant that it's name became synonymous to crypto. An for noobs, they prefer Bitcoin first because that's what they hear on the internet. And that's why we have this "Bitcoin maximalist" too. Ethereum seems to provide everything that Bitcoin offers Ethereum's development is completely centralized, a few people basically fully control its course. In Bitcoin there is a broad community of developers, so no single individual or a handful of people can hijack it. Ethereum's blockchain is so bloated that few home users can afford to run an actual full node, so even if Ethereum people try to claim that they have a lot of nodes, in reality Ethereum is already being run only on a small numbers of large farms. Bitcoin full nodes on the other hand can easily be hosted on old PCs and laptops, which a lot of people actually do. With Proof of Stake Ethereum will get even more centralized, as whales will become a major factor on the network. Smart contracts are small "programs" that live on the blockchain, so you can use them to build actual services and applications, while Bitcoin is useful only as a digital currency. Except you really can't make almost anything useful with them. All what Ethereum has achieved is becoming a fertile soil for countless scams like ICO and NFT. I remember in 2016 Ethereum was promising to bring automatization, allowing things like automatically paying for your electricity bills via smart contracts, but none of that became a reality. Instead we got things like DeFi and NFT, which have zero use in real world. Ethereum is a solution in search of a problem. Bitcoin is a solution to existing problem - trust in third parties when you deal with payment networks. The only reason why Ethereum is so expensive is because the people behind it invest a ton of money into marketing and spreading the myths about how useful and revolutionary it is.
You don't need a microscope to view it or microscoped the difference between bitcoin and ethereum, because from the upset bitcoin is like father of all cryptocurrencies seconded by ethereum from the introduction, since 2009 is when bitcoin was created and it has been valuable till date and i believe that remember valuable till the day it will scrab out, comparing bitcoin and ethereum, the difference or margin is very far, the price of bitcoin at this point is not stagnant but you can't use it relate or compare to the price of ethereum. The firm of cryptocurrency generally is because of bitcoin, so in summary bitcoin is highly potential than ethereum.
Both bitcoin and ethereum are superior to the other coins and it is like a king and queen in the crypto market. I do not compare bitcoin and ethereum because I think bitcoin and ethereum will have different paths. Ethereum can provide smart contracts, which you think gives a huge advantage, but bitcoin is superior. Besides that, ethereum has a gas fee problem that is not solved yet and still needs more time.
I prefer bitcoin but I also like ethereum because both bitcoin and ethereum give me profit. I do not yet expect smart contracts can be applied to real life so soon because that depends on many things such as government regulations.
Gas fee has been one of the tackling issues of Ethereum and it's founder isn't anonymous making it easier to manipulate the total distribution and market capitalization. Bitcoin founder till date is anonymous and even though it is currently used basically as a digital currency as everything done With Bitcoin revolves around transactions it's more safer and cheaper to transact with compared to Ethereum
I do not really look at them in that sense, whether one is superior to the other even though that argument might be there. In terms of investment, since both of them have been doing well overall, I believe that they are both superior coins in the space. This discussion will continue but in the end, it all depends on whether the ROI on both coins is attained by investors.
Well, why not have both of them if you think that any of those are superior and you see the other is also superior in the sight of the other investors. But honestly, it's because being the first in the market is very important and bitcoin is like the gold of the crypto market. I think I've seen the same discussion years ago that people are getting into bitcoin because it's stable, not the value but bitcoin itself is a stable asset that you'll be sure to have it someday if you hold it. While in Ethereum, it's quality is good as it is but this time, it's fee is one of the discouragement that we have which has been said for bitcoin bitcoin.
I'm glad there's a person who came well-intentionally and asked this excellent question. I hope the responses you'll get, will satisfy you. To me, it's a matter of opinions of what's better.
You see, newcomers look on a cryptocurrency that way and try to define its value superficially. Does it have these “smart contracts”? Is it better in terms of utility? Could this new feature it has make the difference? However, they don't ask themselves what's the monetary policy of each cryptocurrency and to be honest, that's the only thing I judge when I evaluate a currency. Even if in “terms of utility” it's better than any other, what to do with it if an entity owns the majority of the coins? Or, what to do if this very entity can have a huge impact on the community or the market? It's pretty clear that I'm taking part in a highly hierarchical system this way, which I'm strongly disagreed with. And this is what gives Bitcoin its value; the fact that it has the greatest monetary policy, humanity has ever witnessed. I choose not to compare them in any way other than their monetary policy. Either way, they are two different innovations providing different solutions for different problems. The only common thing they share is that they're both currencies. They bitcoin is fully decentralized unlike ethereum Why? At the moment Bitcoin has 15.000 nodes deployed around the globe (source: https://bitnodes.io/) while Ethereum has 6.000 nodes (source: https://www.ethernodes.org/) so this makes them both fully decentralized.
The founder of bitcoin is anonymous and bitcoin is fully decentralized unlike ethereum. Bitcoin total supply is still 21 million, ethereum supply is manipulated now as some other are burnt in transaction fee. If you need a totally decentralized currency that is not controlled directly by certain people, bitcoin is what to go for, this is what ethereum can not achieve as it is still controlled by some set of people.
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