The next fork? When is that? Do they have one every week now?
Seems like another mess. People buying into it just in hopes for another free coin.
Now that Ethereum’s reaching all-time transaction highs of 540,000 transactions per day, though, the current #2 crypto enterprise has notched an impressive win over its older cousin Bitcoin, almost doubling BTC’s volume of 323,000 daily transactions.
And while the die will continue to be cast, and this transaction dynamic may in time be reversed again, it’s certainly beyond mere promising news that the platform is now being used more on a daily basis than Bitcoin, as BTC’s enjoyed ultimate first-mover status hitherto.
Foresight, because you know that future amazing milestones will be notched on the backs of the milestones of today—milestones like almost doubling BTC’s daily transactions.
With the ongoing, incredibly contentious SegWit2x debate in the Bitcoin community, BTC’s future is cloudier than ever—there’s just no telling what will happen.
Ethereum’s future, conversely, is brighter than ever. And that’s a dynamic that doesn’t look like it’ll change any time soon.
Ethereum will never reach the price of Bitcoin but it could exceed their marketcap in the future.
I think Bitcoin will only have a cloudy future if all this fork stuff that's going on occurs when Bitcoin is mainstream. As of now it's not mainstream enough to have a huge affect on its future.
Absolutely impossible to know that. Maybe not in the next couple years, but in 5-6 years is anyones guess.
Same with price guessing with Bitcoin. In 5-6 years it could be 50,000. Nobody knows.
The marketcap for Ethereum would have to be massive to reach Bitcoin's price. For Ether to reach Bitcoin's price nearly everyone holding ETH would have to be staking to reduce the circulating supply.
A year ago people would have laughed at the thought of Ether ever hitting $400..it's done that twice already
Will be very interesting to see what happens when either switches to PoS in a couple years as well.
It's literally impossible to speculate since we have no idea how big Ethereum will be and who will be using it in a few years. Bitcoin is basically just a currency, Ethereum is something so much more.
Yeah, ETH has a bright future, but there's zero chance the value of the individual coin will eclipse that of BTC, short of some sort of black swan event to beat all other black swan events. And even then, I think you might be talking life support for crypto adoption at that point.
So did any of you read about WTC's wallet update? I'm putting almost everything into there now.
What do you think about NVO adoption, @Gardner McKay? The sub is pretty dead and I see almost no talk of it around the cryptosphere.