Topic: BTC vs ETH? - page 3. (Read 5360 times)

In next one year price of both can increase but % increase will be higher for bitcoin for sure. Demand for bitcoin is growing significantly and we are not seeing any increase in ETH demand. I think ETH have already lost its charm after DAO attack and split of their blockchain. So best i think will be to hold bitcoin for long term.

That's isn't a bad idea but if you see the past prices it is clear that bitcoin will anyday give you better results than eth as far now. The currency still has the largest market cap so we never know. The best idea would be invest more in bitcoin and some in eth. For example if you have 1000$ buy 900$ worth of bitcoins and 100$ worth of eth.

Why not both?

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BTC is much better option, I agree with most of the members about that. I wouldn`t neglect eth, why not to buy some amount of eth just in case? For my time spent here in crypto community I learned that anything can happen, and it`s better to be prepared then to regret later.
It is best to invest in both coins, more in bitcoin of course, but I would consider buying eth, some amount right now, and little by little when you have extra money in your pocket. It`s how I`m doing with eth, I think price will increase over time.

If it is all about investing and making some cash, then have bitcoin with you. ETH is more for traders. Buy low and sell high. Right now it is more in sell level. Bitcoin is all set for another break out. Do keep in mind that if ETH comes out if a mind blowing DAPP which captures attention of lot of people, then ETH can make severe gains. So, yeah. Keep an open mind and keep a track of how prices are moving for BTC as well as ETH.

You couldn't disagree if you'd bought every ethereum coin at 0.5 cents on 2014 and sell them $13 for each coin. Many people are not seeing it from the technical possession. but more to the possession of the value.

You are right, in my book ETH/ETC is something that is sitting under a very malleable and fragile base, to the contrary of bitcoin which is simpler and solid. Turing complete as a base for the software was a mistake.

In any case, what makes me have second thoughts of not owning Ethereum, its the fact that it seems to be backed by the big business like IBM, Microsoft etc... so what do we do?

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there is not inflation on zcash where you see inflation? the block reward reached the maximum point for now and can only increase in 4 years to 2 more units for a total of 12 per block, the thing is that the current system promote a deflationary system for the first 4 years, because less dumping from miners with a lower reward

Its isnt a dilemma at all since the common answer on this question is "Bitcoin" no other than that ETH does have a potential but it cant break even on how good bitcoin was and regarding on the price movements i could say that Eth might have bigger percentage on a short period of time but there are lots of users on bitcoin and theres no doubt on that.

this is what i can agree on. and this actually is what i do.
obviously i am a Bitcoin Hodler for long term and when it comes to altcoins i am just a short term trader.

many say ethereum is going to be big and go to the moon in long term,... and lots of things like that. while i don't fully disagree with them but i say until i see some real potential and some real movement (not pumps) i don't see ethereum going to the moon at all.

Bitcoin is still the best choice to hold for yearly than ethereum because the movement of ethereum will not increase anymore or the highest price that i experience in ethereum was $14 and i think ethereum is just good for buy low  and sell high in short period of time..

zcash is very bad inflation coin
if answer to op iam recomended wait bitcoin down price buy and hold, if eth longtem is good too, bitcoin price high eth price down you can buy ethereum

i think ZCASH will be better

1. In Ethereum the block time is set to 14 to 15 seconds compared to Bitcoins 10 minutes. This allows for faster transaction times. Ethereum does this by using the Ghost protocol.
2. Ethereum has a slightly different economic model than Bitcoin – Bitcoin block rewards halve every 4 years whilst Ethereum releases the same amount of Ether each year ad infinitum.
3. Ethereum has a different method for costing transactions depending on their computational complexity, bandwidth use and storage needs. Bitcoin transactions compete equally with each other. This is called Gas in Ethereum and is limited per block whilst in Bitcoin, it is limited by the block size.
4. Ethereum has its own Turing complete internal code... a Turing-complete code means that given enough computing power and enough time... anything can be calculated. With Bitcoin, there is not this form of flexibility.
5. Ethereum was crowd funded whilst Bitcoin was released and early miners own most of the coins that will ever be mined. With Ethereum 50% of the coins will be owned by miners in year five.
6. Ethereum discourages centralised pool mining through its Ghost protocol rewarding stale blocks. There is no advantage to being in a pool in terms of block propagation.
7. Ethereum uses a memory hard hashing algorithm called Ethash that mitigates against the use of ASICS and encourages decentralised mining by individuals using their GPU’s.

Im going still choose bitcoin than eth , eth encoutring problem with their coins and if you are going to think eth are just depending on bitcoin if eth will become individual maybe soon ill choose eth for investing but i had eth to hold and will sell when the price is high.

if you have doubts you better buy both beer no regrets in the future then you hold it until next year and see I guess bitcoin which will give a plus when compared with ETH, for a year

I only buy ETH after 20 % drop rate,the very risky today ala hardforks drops.

I am not sure Ethereum issuance has been decided yet (after the transition to proof of stake), I remember having read some Vitalik's blog that it could even well be negative. For its applications in smart contracts, its price should above all be stable. Of course the question is stable against what, I would go with whatever is the main currency, which will be fiat for some time...