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The main difference is that bitcoin is completely decentralized while ethereum isn't.
Very true and main reason of it boils down to PoW vs. PoS.
Quite contrary to PoS, PoW is very hard or almost impossible to compromise. Not so for PoS, where more attack vectors can be found.
For example, PoS can be abused by rich stakers. Many PoS projects have a so-called pre-mining of coins allocated to the team and the team can abuse such pre-mined coins to gain influence about project decisions.
A large pre-mine is making a project centralized in many ways and devs can gain much influence by staking a large amount of PoS coins. PoW is not having such issues.

A similar problem is called “nothing at stake”, where attackers benefit from no cost to stake ETH or similar PoS coins. Should a fork occur, no matter if the fork is a friendly, accidental or a malicious attempt to rewrite history and reverse transactions, it’s a given strategy for any staker to stake on every chain. By doing so, he will get a reward no matter which fork will succeed and he will have no additional cost to do so.
In PoW, such a problem is not happening because PoW always means work (spending electricity) needs to be done. A cost occurs for every miner.
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The main difference is that bitcoin is completely decentralized while ethereum isn't.
Bitcoin transaction fees is usually cheaper than ethereum but on the other hand ethereum transactions are validated faster than bitcoin.
Both the coins are different from each other and have their own supporters and haters but can coexist in crypto.
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I do agree that utility of the coin is also very important but that is also directly related to returns. If a coin is really that useful, the returns will be good over a period of time. For useless coins, they may spike temporarily but over  a longer period of time, the value will come to almost zero.
Not necessarily. We have meme coins with no utility that has been traded for several years. The crypto market besides bitcoin has a $900 billion dollar market cap while over 90% of the altcoins do not have utility.

As long as there is a market and traders who want profit, a coin with no utility can flourish.

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The best course of action was to fork the chain and render the stolen ETH tokens to become invalid. Since then, their network have become more resilient to attacks.
Since then other cases similar to DAO happened, some of which were in millions of dollars. They never rolled back those!
The best course of action would have been to hard fork and fix the bug in the protocol to prevent future DAOs from happening instead of just getting their own money back. Tongue
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The benefits of BTC over Ethereum are reflected in returns these coins offer.
Returns are not reliable figures to determine which coin is better than the other. In the case of bitcoin where it has happened over several years and at a reliable rate, one can maybe use it as a yardstick, but do not use it for smaller coins which can boost by 300% or more within a few hours.

Utility is the real benefit of any asset and the security of that asset

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When you are comparing the returns, look at the bigger picture like return per year over last 10 years and not sort based on last 24 hours returns. Because, there is manipulation by whales in small coins.

I do agree that utility of the coin is also very important but that is also directly related to returns. If a coin is really that useful, the returns will be good over a period of time. For useless coins, they may spike temporarily but over  a longer period of time, the value will come to almost zero.
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Another two major difference is the centralization of Ethereum and the fact that the centralized authority has abused its power in the past to effectively nullify mutability of Ethereum blockchain when they decided to roll back blocks to get back the money they'd lost in the bet they made on DAO without even fixing the protocol's flaw that led to the problem in first place.

The other is the huge premine that Ethereum had. While Bitcoin has no premine and every single satoshi is created fair and square, the Ethereum is not the same. They premined tens of millions of it before releasing the project.


Well, Ethereum has an ICO[1] so of course they had to premine some coins in exchange for the invested funds that went into building of the chain. The Ethereum DAO hard fork was the right way to go about it especially since the technology was immature and things went wrong. The best course of action was to fork the chain and render the stolen ETH tokens to become invalid. Since then, their network have become more resilient to attacks.

Once the miners agreed the hard fork was the way to go, they made it happen. Being a POS chain now doesn't make it much different since entities that Stake can vote for network consensus.



Reference: https://icodrops.com/ethereum/
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ethereum does not have much of its own independent utility/economy.
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i agree with this point. ethereum is like a shadow that follows bitcoin.
I don't think Ethereum is to blame for the fact that it seems the price movements of Ethereum is in line with that of Bitcoin, the crypto-currency market mainly shift according to the price movement of Bitcoin.
Ethereum is an altcoin and in my own opinion it's the best alternative for Bitcoin and it has had that throne for a long time. My only issue with Ethereum is that it's transaction fee are very high.
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Bitcoin is safer and more decentralized, but Ethereum is also a very big project, so I'm sure they're watching out for security risks, too. Also, Ethereum transaction fee is around $1, much lower than what Bitcoin transaction fee has been lately. To many people, this can be an important point when making a choice. As for potential of growth, it seems to me that Ethereum roughly matches BTC ups and downs and does so at a similar proportion (Ethereum is currently 52% below ATH, and Bitcoin is 39% below ATH, but it's close enough). That means Ethereum is a decent investment option, even if not the best one.
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ethereum does not have much of its own independent utility/economy.
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i agree with this point. ethereum is like a shadow that follows bitcoin. just look at how when the price of bitcoin rises, the price of ethereum and other altcoins will also be affected by the increase. and once the price of bitcoin goes down, ethereum also goes down. from this alone it shows that ethereum does not have a strong economy like bitcoin has, where it is still based on bitcoin price fluctuations. i can even say that bnb has a stronger economy compared to ethereum, even though these two types of altcoins are still equally affected when the price of bitcoin falls, but bnb is still better.
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Ethereum blockchain was rolled back by Vitalik and his team after the DAO hack.

Changpeng Zao and Binance wanted to roll back the Bitcoin blockchain after their exchange was hacked. Smh.
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why Ethereum can’t compete against Bitcoin.
First mover advantage. You can't defeat a founder that came out with a bang accompanied by huge followers. Bitcoin sets the pace, others just has to follow. But Ethereum success stems from the fact it created its own niche.
History is filled with these so called "first movers" that no longer exist.
Apart from the fact that Bitcoin was not the first attempt at creating a digital currency like this, I've to say the reason for Bitcoin's success is that it works as it should! The reason is actually that simple. Bitcoin was supposed to be a decentralized censorship resistant payment system and with all its shortcomings (like the fee spikes) it does do exactly that.

In other words if something new came along that worked as it promised and solved the issues Bitcoin faces, it would easily replace Bitcoin; just like that. The reason why nothing has come close is because each new project we see is either created to be pumped and dumped or is not doing what they promise.

Take Ethereum for example. It was supposed to be a decentralized and immutable smart contract platform without bugs. And it is none of that!
The only reason why it has not died yet is because it has become a gamblers' paradise where newbies go to get scammed by token creators on a centralized and bug filled platform.
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Ethereum can’t compete against Bitcoin at all.

Ethereum isn't competing with Bitcoin at all. They can coexist and help each other thrive.
Ethereum is created for other purpose which Bitcoin doesn't have like the speed of transactions getting confirmed and more. Well, there are other things that Ethereum doesn't have where Bitcoin have like being decentralized. You can say both have disadvantages and advantages between the two. Since the Ethereum created then many people used it when they know that the transaction getting confirmed isn't slow that's why it is now used by many people and became the alternative of Bitcoin or altcoin.
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Or in terms of Quarterly returns , anyone can check this graph here:



https://www.coinglass.com/today

And obviously, we know how centralized ETH right now when they moved to PoS, so that is the big difference right now as BTC remain PoW.  I doubt that devs are going to switch to that validating model.

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And with the current situation of the network of Bitcoin now, there are suggestions that Bitcoin should transition the same as Ethereum from PoS to PoW.

No thanks.

It's not all about the current fees that we have although it's actually a serious matter now. But if we are to choose, definitely we will choose to maintain its security.
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Bitcoin is the first digital cryptocurrency and every other cryptocurrencies are regarded as a carbon copy, some called them alts, bitcoin make use of transaction fee while altcoins make use of gas fee, bitcoin is PoW while ethereum is PoS, there are many things to compare and contrast the two of them together with, but for now, what gives the solution to what the people want is bitcoin and not ethereum.
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when ethereum reached its ATH in may 2021 it then shadow pegged itself 99% of the time to blindly just follow bitcoins market(only varying to slowly lose price pegging)

you can see it by its near flatline comparison to bitcoin after may 2021 compared to its independent variation pre may 2021


looking at bitcoin vs ethereum

you can see the wiggles look similar where ethereum only deviates by ~1% a month time slowly gapping  away from bitcoin peg as ethereum drops down from its premium

like the first chart was only 12 eth per btc now 18 eth per btc over the 2.5 year period
meaning it deviates by 0.03% a day on average of those 2.5 years (~1% a month)

where by before may 2021 ethereums wiggles deviated alot from bitcoin on a daily bases

all of this shows that ethereum does not have its own independent market/sentiment/utility. and is instead just copying bitcoin and slowly losing peg over time.. which would continue and could make ethereum drop to $50 if things went very wrong
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Ethereum unlike Bitcoin is centralized with individuals with the biggest gun having control over the currency.

Another reason would be the infinite supply and malleability  of Ethereum supply, the central authority can choose to produce more or burn more through gas fee.

The biggest difference comes from why they were created. Bitcoin was created to correct the flaws of traditional money system  while Ethereum trying to find its place created an Haven to create Shit coins.  
On the other hand, BTC was $0.00076392 in 2009. From there, it has increased to 4-billion percent.

Almost impossible for ETH to catch this growth ever.
Shiba inu has risen more than dollar
Does that mean it's better?

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why Ethereum can’t compete against Bitcoin.
First mover advantage. You can't defeat a founder that came out with a bang accompanied by huge followers. Bitcoin sets the pace, others just has to follow. But Ethereum success stems from the fact it created its own niche.

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Ethereum isn't competing with Bitcoin at all. They can coexist and help each other thrive.
Uses and potential they ain't, but they are as an investment.
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Ethereum can’t compete against Bitcoin at all.

Ethereum isn't competing with Bitcoin at all. They can coexist and help each other thrive.
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Bitcoin and Ethereum are the top two cryptocurrencies as of now occupying the top two spots of the largest market capitalizations they are often considered to be the most safest investments in the crypto world

However even with impressive performance and growth over the years, ethereum can not still surpass bitcoin be it due to its security or utility bitcoin is miles away further than ethereum

There are still advantages that ethereum has over bitcoin like having faster transactions however its gas fees are much more costly than bitcoin’s already high transaction fees
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The benefits of BTC over Ethereum are reflected in returns these coins offer.
Returns are not reliable figures to determine which coin is better than the other. In the case of bitcoin where it has happened over several years and at a reliable rate, one can maybe use it as a yardstick, but do not use it for smaller coins which can boost by 300% or more within a few hours.

Utility is the real benefit of any asset and the security of that asset

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