Herber2020 darling, let's take it step by step;
and bitcoin is
- is decentralized
No, it is not. Being "decentralized" with 95% of it's mining infrastructure is china is not "decentralized" enough. It is controlled by a cartel that hinders innovation.
- a lot of real big businesses like Microsoft are accepting it as a payment,...
Yes, on paper it does get accepted in many places. Problem is, everyone is using it for speculation and very few for what it was actually meant to be, a peer to peer electronic cash.
there is no way in hell they are going to accept ETH ETF
- a centralized coin with lots of manipulation,
Let's take bitcoin as an example and let's compare;
1. It has more nodes than bitcoin, 14k vs 6.8k Proof
https://www.ethernodes.org/network/1 vs
https://bitnodes.21.co/2. On important matters the community is consulted regarding the path forward via voting sites or simply debated on reddit. You can look them up.
3. The development does steer the project as it should be, because not everyone is technical, and they are the inventors of Ethereum so who would be fit for a better job ? But the development is decentralized, there are 6-7 client implementations, most popular ones being Geth and Parity.
This is why there's a problem in bitcoin. Blockstream core self proclaimed itself as king and does only what it wants, although they have less mining support than BU. And these two groups fight for control.
- no adoption other than traders trading,
Ethereum currently has more adoption from big players than bitcoin has. There are literally hundreds of projects on ethereum. Few of the latest popular would be:
- car charging stations by RWE
http://www.trustnodes.com/2017/04/29/germanys-energy-giant-launches-100s-ethereum-based-electric-cars-charging-stations https://np.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/68n6lq/charged_a_bmw_i3_at_a_blockchainified_sharecharge/- microsoft's ethereum based blockchain supply ( with amazon and more )
http://www.coindesk.com/microsofts-blockchain-supply-chain-project-grows-to-13-partners/?utm_content=buffer802a3&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer- fight against odometer fraud by bosch
https://twitter.com/boschglobal/status/844131521426538497 https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C7MCZFRWwAETwsF.jpg- United Nations using ethereum for their world food programme
http://www.coindesk.com/the-united-nations-just-launched-its-first-large-scale-ethereum-test/- Everywhere where blockchain is involved, wether you talk about conferences, demo applications, ethereum dominates it
http://www.coindesk.com/ethereum-stole-show-microsofts-new-york-city-demo-day/There are too many examples and i wouldn't have enough space on this page to write them all, so i will stop here.
Let's continue
- a big ICO scam (you know these guys don't take this kind of behavior lightly),
"K"
- lots of forks,
Yes, survival of the fittest. When you are the best you do what you must to keep the technological and adoption lead ( by people who matter, corporations, institutions, academics, investors ).
- and lots of scam such as DAO scam
DAO's failure was a lesson to teach for people that don't give enough importance to testing. ETH is a decentralized permissionless platform that can't stop anyone from using it, because it is open to everyone. That being said, not everything is supposed to be succesful in this world anyway; i mean, look at bitcoin.
Over the course of the next 2 months there will be over 300 institutions and giant corporations working on ethereum. Some of them will work on private chains, some of them will work on public chain. Doesn't really matter, interoperability is what will link them all together.
Look at linux. It is considered more secure and prefered by usually more technical people because it is better than windows in many areas. That because it is open source.
A huge room with very important people. Bald guy talks about ethereum, says there are over 200+ interested in joining EEA on a waiting list ( more like bitcoin's crippled transaction backlog ). And he mentions the possiblity of ethereum to be valued at trillions in the future, and no one even flinches.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlYXMm4qKsc