How can people still rationalize that Bitcoin is better than ETH? The infinite supply argument has already been disproved. By the time proof of stake arrives, ETH would be better than Bitcoin in everything.
Bitcoin isnt even used for anything aside from making more money and buying alts. ETH actually has utility to back it up as a store of value.
its ok user i also want a rocket ship
BTC is worth $7000 ETH is worth barely $300. That's how I know which one is better.
Ahh, the logic of a Bitcoin maximalist.
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Kek no bitcoin fanboys can even argue against ETH?
You should be looking at market cap, not unit price. Unit price is never a signal for the value of a crypto if not given context.
Bitcoin has the first-mover advantage. Bitcoin has a better name than Ether. If you hear the word "Bitcoin", you at least have an idea of what it is. Wtf is an Ethereum?
People are illogical and the best tech doesn't always win. See Betamax. That's all I've got.
Also don't underestimate the cult-like nature of Bitcoin maximalists. Many of them are never going to sell their Bitcoin for anything. No other coin has that kind of mentality, not even Ether.
OP is right.
Delusionals think that if BTC implodes it will be replaced by BTC-clones with minor improvements like BCH, LTC, vert, groestle, feather, but they don't understand that BTC's specific manner of functioning has nothing to do with why it has the highest market cap and being similar to bitcoin is actually bad.
The one thing that mattes the most to be a potential replacer of BTC as the highest marketcap currency is to be ready to replace BTC as the primary intercrypto trading currency and primary store of value currency. As an intercrypto trading currency, ETH is leagues ahead of others in its position on being listed with many pairs on exchanges. As a store of value, it has more resilience against dumping than anything else because it's backed by being a utility for using the ethereum network, and it's also traded by tons of people and businesses, and many of those businesses have an interest in a stable ETH and might accumulate on dips and expect each other to accumulate on dips to have cheaper gas for their projects.
When do I buy eth. It's at 285 but I'm playing this like a game it will drop lower tonight
If ETH is better than BTC, why does BTC have five times the market cap of ETH? Huh? the proof is in the pudding, faggots
Kek you could even argue that ETH is already better than BTC for buying alts. Its much faster and cheaper to transfer, the only thing BTC has over ETH in trading is having slightly more trading pairs. But that gap is quickly closing.
Kek Bitcoiners who use ETH for quick transfer between exchanges when panic buying SHOW YOURSELVES. Best coin my ass.
ITT: crypto noobs crying while being beaten by king.
Stellar lumens blow both out of the water and it's 3 cents.
Yeah and so is your mom
Lumens will probably blow up though indeed (if they are fast enough with becoming useful before ETH scalability).
But it's hard to know how far its uses will expand outside being a superior paypal/swift.
I'm hodling a decent chunk of lumens so I'm hoping it will be fast enough to grab market share in payment, but I'm going to sell the shit out of it before ethereum rolls out changes that enable high transactions/sec because long term I think ETH tokens will crush it if so.
bitcoin is a better investment than eth. if this is not obvious to you then you are in denial
i am saying this as someone who went big in ETH and some alts and not bitcoin because back in aug seemed like it had peaked and ETH had better use cases. but i am wrong. btc is the future and ETH may be either not used or superceded by other blockchains
institutional investors will set up their investments to invest in bitcoin and not eth
Because any serious investor who has put a lot of money into bitcoin isnt just going transfer it all out into some altcoin and play with their money like at a casino. Any investor with a brain wants to be safe with their money and right now bitcoin offers that security with its brand name. But to be fair I think eth will rise but you will just have to wait it will be a slow process if it is to ever overtake bitcoin,
BTC has no use cases that aren't better fulfilled by something else, other than the "store of value" meme, and that only exists because it has the networking effect of being Number 1
It's overdue a crash
>and that only exists because it has the networking effect of being Number 1
that's literally the most important thing you mong
do you know how much PTSD long term BTC holders must have by now? they have survived everything. EVERYTHING. the average 21 BTCoiners could eat every alt fag alive in terms of emotional courage
the BTCers will NEVER give up
You're like the angry kid with a Zune when everyone was rocking iPods.
Myspace is #1 and has the network effort, how could Facebook ever overtake it? If Facebook was actually better, everyone would be using it already.
You realize that this argument makes 0 sense right?
First mover advantage and network effect is all BTC needs and will ever need to remain number 1.
If you don't understand this then it's your loss but the only people I see making these anti BTC arguments are faggots that heard about crypto this year and think they're geniuses. You know nothing about the market so just shut your ignorant mouth
the only argument i need is marketcap, right now BTC is ass raping everything it can get its hands on, nothing can stop it, nothing can even slow it down
i remember the ETH true believers. their courage lasted...oh let me see...six months before they all panic sold. and here ETH is today, range bound for months, nothing going on there
BTC have survived hacks, FBI raids, nuclear winter fudding, constant sleaze and bullshit, here it is today with 100 billion. the legacy of that success lives on in the initiative and effort of the BTC community - every miner, every trader, every developer, they're the FUCKING BEST
Until it doesnt anymore kek. This is the first year where we had a "prince of crypto" status aka ETH. Back then BTC was the only choice. Now they have the option of naming ETH as king since it is starting to get respected as much as BTC.
The only people who respect ETH are soccer moms and brainlets who heard about it this year
>Now they have the option of naming ETH as king since it is starting to get respected as much as BTC.
currently ETH's market cap is 1/4 of BTC, until that changes, ETH is nothing more than king of the shitcoins
>If you don't understand this then it's your loss but the only people I see making these anti BTC arguments are faggots that heard about crypto this year and think they're geniuses
I've been watching since 2012, in since 2013.
I'm thinking in terms of the next decade, not next year.
"Institutional investors in bitcoin" will use it as a speculation vehicle and nothing else
Arent you worried on how fast ETH is rising in marketcap and developer mindshare? Even if you include Bitcoin's recent pump (which is totally unnatural and is caused by the fork) ETH is bound to catch up.
ETH literally went parabolic this year much more than BTC, and if the blockchain projects that are being developed such as OMG, Kyber succeed in 2018 and 2019 then ETH will definitely take BTC's crown. Bitcoin took 9 years to get this marketcap. ETH is almost 1/4 in just a relatively small amount of time.
>Arent you worried on how fast ETH is rising in marketcap and developer mindshare?
not really, the smart contract shit is still years away imho, and in any case ETH by design is inflationary, which makes it poor for BTC's uses as digital gold. there might be a future where BTC is digital gold and ETH is digital dollars, but even so that doesn't make ETH a good investment, just something for companies to put their R&D into and coders to learn
>and if the blockchain projects that are being developed such as OMG, Kyber succeed in 2018 and 2019 then ETH will definitely take BTC's crown
don't forget that BTC can evolve too, much more slowly than ETH but evolve it can. it already survived a community driven evolution, they'll be others. ETH's coders are great, but so are BTC's
BTC is clearly the king, but this king shit doesn't matter, will it calm down and will ETH take up some of the slack when it does, if BTC keeps going, lets say this run shoots over 10k, will ETH bring back some of that next btc fomo from norman and rubber band again.
>First mover advantage and network effect is all Myspace needs and will ever need to remain number 1.
> not really, the smart contract shit is still years away imho, and in any case ETH by design is inflationary, which makes it poor for BTC's uses as digital gold
Once proof of stake hits, ETH will be a better investment than BTC. Honestly the fact that BTC is only being used to "make more money" and buy alts is bullshit. No one really uses this shit to buy things. ETH has as many trading pairs.
> don't forget that BTC can evolve too, much more slowly than ETH but evolve it can
Kek, like how BTC devs are fighting over the block size for years? Totally great.
>cloudy night
>bit nippy in the air
>high as fuck
>watchin devcon
>hoodie and blanket for extra comfiness
>feelsgoodman
plus ethereum allows for the construction of genius shitcoins like Satan Coin
I will always hate ETH for doing to crypto what the mobile phone did to video games.
The shitcoin deluge was from how easy it is to set up erc20 tokens. Before that, people actually had to program the damn things. Now we sit in a sea of garbage, never to be free again.
ETH will always be king of the shitcoins.
of course its stuck in ICOs right now. it can only trustlessly use blockchain data. thats why most of us also invested in chainlink which is a decentralized oracle.
Etherium is a sick name too man.
nicest name in the whole crypto space in my opinion.
do you know what Ether means?
ETH is not immutable. ETH is not scalable. ETH is dangerous because I don't want to mix my assets with buged or scamed Turing complete "smart contracts". The technology is brillant though, but not for transactions or store of value.
you really still think ETH is dangerous at this point? its pretty much considered tried and tested. anyone who could find a flaw in ETH would have profited off it by now. no the DAO hack wasnt a flaw in ETH.
>Etherium