Blockchain size already over 60 Gigabyte in Jan 2017 and growing Fast.
Eth will have to hard fork every time a judge makes a ruling in any country that someone was not legally qualified to enter into a contract.
If you want to make money invest in hard drive manufacturers because their blockchain is growing exponentially.
You can make money off it , until people wise up, but when it does crash , it is going to be devastating .
Plus when they move to PoS , all of their PoW miners are going to switch to ETC.
LTC is not trying to be more than what is technically possible at the time.
Eth could only truly succeed if the Entire World Governments Court Systems were going to follow it , which they are not.
Every litigation arising from a disagreement on ETH, will result in a hard fork, the Eth dev set a president with that DAO problems.
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Is LTC the final solution, of course not ,
but it is better than BTC on all levels, and BTC had 10 year run at the top, expect LTC to get and hold at least 5 years, when it becomes #1.
Eth & Etc will have collapsed because of its flaws within 4 years from now.
Good post and fully agree with you here.
LTC is poised to take btc's crown on their current pathways.
ETH i am unsure which way it will go but the negative points that you mention are undeniable. Although perhaps it could become the tool of big buisness operating within countries that make it binding. It will have some use cases that are as yet untapped.