Topic: why not everybody sell their bitcoin and buy etherium instead - page 2. (Read 1123 times)

Wrong. Ethereum itself has not been hacked.

What you've been reading and seeing on reports are ICOs and shitcoins that do not have capable developers which resulted in loopholes in their coin making them vulnerable targets for theft.

A car that was stolen because the doors were left open and the key left inside is not the fault of the car manufacturer.

We all have freedom to  choose where to invest. If you think it's better to invest in etherium and other think its more okay to invest in bitcoin, then go. Most of us here already hold bitcoin for a long time and they already have a big profit on it. There's a bigger difference with the price of bitcoin and eth.

Are you for real.
My only comment for this: Bitcoin is a currency. Ethereum is a platform 

That is for -quick investments. Ethereum is not going to make you that much money if you don't have Bitcoin. Trading with the charts make the trends easy to locate.

No need to mentioned it is better because it has quality and people are attracted to ETH so i would like to say that we should need to use ETH coin because it has a great future and upcoming days it would reach 1000USD.

Ethereum is better in many ways and thats true, faster transaction, smart contract and etc. Bitcoin has its value as a main currency on exchangeres and still i dont think that someone would want to dump all their bitcoins at once to get eth. ETH would have the same market cap as bitcoin sooner or later, but the growth would be little by little

That's hilarious. 

Some people just are not believing in ETH they rather invest in Bitcoin thats completely normal. Im also focused on Bitcoin, but not to other coins. I think that you can make great money out of btc.

I have also invested in altcoins, but i as i said before Im mostly focused on BTC, but if there is a good coin. Why should you not invest in it ?

First off newbie, Ethereum is highly centralized and most of the coins belong to limited people.
Second, Ethereum has shady operations previously, it seems that you don't know about them because you were not here. Read what happened when DAO is hacked, see yourself what Vitalik did. Nobody trust that kind of coin in Bitcoin business.
We are using Ethereum just for maximizing our gains. Ethereum is not a trusted coin anymore after that hardfork.

I suggest to read up on the reasons why Satoshi designed Bitcoin to not be turing complete. It's interesting information, will teach you a little about security and help you understand why so many hacks happen with various software packages. The number one reason is security.

You may have also noticed that as a decentralized system that ETH is a complete failure in living up to the hype. It was pumped as the "world super computer" that could do everything from issue ICOs, DAPPS, useful for businesses, smart contracts for banks and lawyers. The reason it's not capable of doing all this is as a decentralized system it's 1000s of times slower than the processor in my cell phone. Just think how single ICOs have totally bogged down the entire network, then imagine what would happen if a single popular DAPP was ever created (there are no popular ones in existence currently) that was used by the world population 24/7. The ETH network would be incapable of handling two popular DAPPs. The fact is a decentralized network is not able to do everything; but, might be able to do one thing well like function as money. The scaling debate for all decentralized coins demonstrate that even doing one thing  well is difficult. Ethereum the platform might be useful for private chains; but, when you buy ETH the public token you're not getting a piece of that.

Bitcoin is getting smart contracts on side chains. This means the turing complete chain is one step removed from the money chain. Keeping the money chain safe needs to be the first priority.

I don't like ETH. I don't trust these coins in the long run, but that does not mean that I never buy. If it can generate income that I will not abandon the transaction. BTC is more promising for storage of coins in the long run.

Cant you just understand what you read. I dont say "there is nothing to do with bitcoin" I am saying ethereum is a value same as the bitcoin and it also has got some extra features.

This guy was hooked by the buzzwords, because you're a pleb that's why. And nobody listens to one. How can we take you seriously when you can't even spell right? I bet you found this on your TV and be like whoa and proceed buying without reading anything.

For the one that is looking for the background from both of it eth and btc and see that the other one is much better of course they will choose the good and the better. So in this case that's what i see why some don't do changing eth to btc.

People will not sell their bitcoin for ethereum. Ethereum has been hacked so many times, just as of September 2017 there more than your fingers can count hacking incidents that involves ethereum. That is so bad as for their reputation, that is why people hesitates to put all their money there. You wouldn't want to put all your money in it with that kinda reputation. So bitcoin is still most reliable in terms of invesment and security. Im not trying to devalue eth, because I'm an eth investor too Im just being fair on my judgement. Etherium may have a very big potential but the security hinders it to surpass bitcoin.

Ethereum is a different thing. It offers a lot that bitcoin doesn't offer, but it won't replace bitcoin, it will expand in a different direction. Bitcoin is effectively digital gold, a store of value, and the gateway between alt coins and fiat. Bitcoin is not going away!

If everyone will going to sell their bitcoin it will result to slight value decrease of bitcoin because the selling demand will going high opposite reaction to ethereum because it will going to increase the value because of buying demand is going to be high. Maybe you are now investing in Ethereum that's why you want everyone to sell bitcoin and buy ethereum. Why don't you divide your capital for both because this top two coins is promising then you will earn from both too.

* bitcoin is a currency
* ETH is a useless token

* bitcoin is the most secure cryptocurrency ever. be it the code or the network
* Ethereum is the worst cryptocurrency and least secure out of all altcoins. it has already been hacked, the official wallet hacked, the smart contract abused multiple times, people lost multi millions of dollars.

* bitcoin is what everyone knows about and trusts, the merchants adopted bitcoin. investors see bitcoin as a solid investment. if you go out in the street and ask people if they heard about bitcoin or ethereum there is nobody who has ever heard of ETH and not bitcoin first.
* eth has no usage. it is only abused by the ICO people to create new ICOs and most of ICOs we already know are crap. there may be 1 or 2 that try to do something but the rest ....

* bitcoin has been performing seamlessly for as long as it was around (8-9 years) and never failed even a second to not work or the network to go down or anything like that.
* ethereum has already failed a couple of times to handle a simple surge of transactions

* bitcoin had no premine
* right now even after this much new ETH mined there is still 80% of it premined

* bitcoin is decentralized
* eth is greatly centralized.

smart contract is already coming to ETH. so if we all agree that you are correct then as soon as smart contracts come to bitcoin (in a couple of months) ETH should die.

+why not everybody sell their bitcoin and buy etherium instead
-Why would we do that?

+Etherium is a better coin
-No it's not.

+There is nothing that you can do with bitcoin
-Are you stupid or just ignorant?

+why not all people sell their bitcoin
-Because people are not stupid like you.

Ehereum will have hardfork soon as well as bitcoin will. But at bitcoin it's not clear anough if it would be or not - there is one more speculation about segwit2x and the price should be dumped before 1st November. Metropolis at ethereum will be realized 100% (sooner or later). That's why the ETH price should grow up significantly soon.