Recently, I was thinkig. Is there really any reason for the BTC to be the market leader? The only thing that is giving the value to BTC is pretty much the fact, that it was the first crypto currency. It is the grandfather of all cryptos. But we know it has its flaws... It was never designed for broad usage, it has scaling issues and so on.
On the other hand, we were given ETH. The Crypto Kitties or w/e the awesome internet meme ETH appliction is called showed us, that ETH network has issues with high amounts of usage. BUT, 90% of all altcoins are based on the ERC-20 standard, brought to us by ETH. The smart contracts using the Solidity are extremly good piece of technolgy.
So my question is. Do you think, that BTC will keep its leadership, or will ETH be the winner of this year and surpass its ancestor?
At the start of this year I seriously expected Ethereum to take serious gains over Bitcoin, however that hasn't happened at all, in fact Ethereum has lost market share compared to Bitcoin. As far as usage is concerned, Ethereum wins, hands down, but it seems that there is to many other things driving Bitcoin up for it to be slowed down. Unless we see some serious trend changes, Bitcoin will continue its dominance in my opinion.