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BTC is now the base.

Most of the exchanges have BTC as prime currency to trade with.

If BTC will have the hard fork, means BTC will sink.

Is that means that all exchanges will now put ETH as prime coin to trade with?

NO

BTC will not sink, if there is a fork, the winning fork will take the place of BTC as we see it now.

This is just a wet dream. If he see a hard split, there will be two version of bitcoin. One will die soon, and the other will be even much stronger than current bitcoin.

ETH has nothing to with this. Ether will fight to keep its second best position only.

Which 2 versions of Bitcoin we gonna see and which one of them will die?

How can you predict the future and saying Ethereum will only be second?

we will see a bigblockers chain like bitcoin unlimited (onchain) and a segwit2x with offchain. onchain ia the better option imo.

Why not, there is chance for ethereum be next bitcoins because ethereum had been succesfull in hard fork and ethereum's network running good without problem, but bitcoin's hard fork there is chance to be fail and there is chance to be succesfull, although we don't know what will happen after 1st August. The best way to see what will happen is just wait until bitcoins does the hard fork.

No no no. Even if there will be a split that wont never happen. There is too much big investors with BTC for that to happen.
It is just a fork and that doesn't mean the end of it.
The throne will still be with bitcoin and ETH will stay there.
Let us not make conclusions out of this.
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- Just remember what have happened to ETH when it was splitted into ETC and ETH recently.

- There are already ETH based market apart from usual BTC market, However ETH price will always be  based on BTC. Bitcoin will remain king in cryptos forever.

Forever in cryptos is like a couple of years )

ETH is not meant to be a replacement for Bitcoin. It is not designed to be the world's best payment network. It is overpriced and over-hyped... until the developers can deal with the high transaction rates and have successfully implemented Casper & Sharding I would be weary of ETH hype. Other serious competitors to BTC exist, take Monero and LTC as examples.

Don't see this happening because even after the hard fork and division, BTC will still remain the father of all cryptocurrencies being the first one. Ethereum and other cryptos will make a small buffer for themselves when the hard fork happens but they can't pip BTC in the race for supremacy.

We shouldn't compare ETH with BITCOIN both have their own features. BTC will be base currency for all cryptos and other alts like ETH will always remain as assets for traders to pump & dump daily for profit.

No matter what bitcoin will face, it will always be the king of cryptocurrencies. If btc falls, others fall, if btc rise, others rise. And do understand fork isn't for bad or end of bitcoin but to give reboot to btc ecosystem. Don't you wanna see new members attaching to it, transacting bitcoin, giving it utility? It is only possible with amendments in btc through fork and I am sure btc will rise again with great force.

I personal think BTC will be in a better place after August 1st. If BTC sink all alt coins will go with it. I personally think eth is not there yet to take over BTC

Bittrex is already expanding ETH pairs. And in the future, they will include fiat pairs. I'm guessing they see Bitcoin not holding that top spot forever.

If there is a fork/split then I'd imagine it's gonna cause some chaos in the exchanges.
Personally I'll be pulling any BTC from them till this all blows over.
Going to be quite a drop in liquidity.
Wonder if the likes of Polo will suspend trading?

There is now way for ethereum to replace bitcoin. Thery are very different coins. Consider bitcoin as the fiat money of crypto market and ethereum as just a functional asset.

Let's go back and compare ethereum with waves, bancor and tezos. Bitcoin is not comparable with others.

Absolutely.If there is a hard fork, then the new king.We are waiting for August 1st

no way, bitcoin will always be the king, even after a hardfork. Remember ethereum did a hardfork itself too, does not really affect much.

my be yes..

ETH have its own fork... and what now ? there is alt ETH that is all.

Stoping actions on exchages was month ago for ETH ! yea
so what now you want swith to ETH IMO much better would be LTC because that one had 0 network issues
maybe they are used less maybe not. But ETH getting BTC price is dream today especially when 3rd fork is cumming with POS change.

I don't think so neither, ETH is still in beta, and will need a lot of soft and/or hard fork to be fully operationnal.

I don't think so, The hardfork will be running in less than 12 hours for the BIP148, I mean the BIP148 will be deployed. But the ethereum will be a good place to save your money as far as i know to avoid the more dump in bitcoin.
I think the possibility is there.

That would be the dream. Who knows, people could sell off their BTC for ETH or everyone could just sell their BTC for fiat and buy back into BTC at a later date. It could go either way, ETH could flip. There is no way of predicting what will happen.

It can happen for the Temporary time until the Bitcoin problem is not solved then the Bitcoin which gets strong support will bounce back and will  be leading it back. Like ETH first it went down and after some time it bounced back and created new ATH that everyone knows it.

btc is the first cryptocurrency based on blockchain, and it has a special position in many people's heart, but the reality is new comer prefer eth, since eth can give more profit, and eth itself has a strong function and also run successfully for several years, i think eth will surpass btc in the future, even if btc has no spilit

Aug 1 will be not hard fork only seagwit activation,from today untill aug 1 we have seagwit test,if succesfoul btc will rebound f not we have chaos and more btc war

Nothing is impossible ,, if btc continues like this and there is no development of it, then other competitors are not only eth only, but other altcoin which also has good potential like Ltc and monero could be his successor

LTC will be the new king :)

LTC and ETH may not be the new king of the crypto world, I'm still very sure BTC will be the first in Crypto, only now they have trouble with this August 1 issue, maybe after that maybe he'll wake up and become A Big Bubble for the future, let's We see how BTC will bounce back and touch high prices.

Maybe because ETH is widely used by bounty campaigners for their token. ETH may have a potential to pass BTC when btc go down. Let's see till august 1 what will happen .

there i no if and there is no hard fork.
there is only a soft fork for bitcoin on August which will activate SegWit because it currently has a very high support from the miners (nearly 90% support and it only needs 80% so it is already over the mark). and when it activates like this there won't be another chain. there WILL BE ONE chain only and price will rise up faster than you can blink.

even if bitcoin dies right now, nobody will switch to a shitcoin like ETH. nobody even trust ETH anymore. everyone knows how unreliable its network is. how their transactions are going to be stuck and their money to disappear easily because it is buggy. exchanges have already disabled ETH wallets. and as you can see ETH price is dropping hard.

the second best thing (like always) is litecoin and always will be litecoin. and if someday we decide to replace bitcoin we will do it with LTC but that day will never come as i said by August 1 we will have a smooth 100% soft fork without a chain split.

Agreed. The impact of hardfork is temporary. The primary/winning coin will bounce back and get stronger.

Calling Ethereum a shitcoin is just making no sense..

It is faster the bitcoin and almost every new coin/token is based on Ethereum for a reason...

With bitcoins transaction fee issues and confirmation times, I would not be surprised to see Ethereum volume to increase dramatically. ETH will be the new king.

Its not ,Bitcoin will remain and after a successful fork bitcoin will be even more better in transactions .Bitcoins will not sink ,its like Eth and Etc had a fork already.

but what if it will be hard fork and not soft?

Bitcoin will no go down that easy and beside ethereum is a different algo, whatever the outcome of that fork Bitcoin will emerge stronger again. people are panic selling for no reason at all only those who do not know the history of Bitcoin will  sell their coin and in the end will blame themselves for doing so.

I am not sure bitcoin will manage to overcome such a thing as a hard fork. Especially if both versions will have many miners on their side. That would mean there btc would be at least two times less powerful and that will make eth better if of course it does not lead to the death of cryptoworld because of major panic and thus result in economic crisis.

So what you mean is that what ever happening is to just kill the bitcoin and rise the ETH popularity but i dont think that big whales will make Bitcoin die. If the Segwit2x implementation gets success then their wont be necessary for hardfork thus it will make Bitcoin more strong and the price will go up. So now their is all chances of anything can happen.

BTC will never ever sink and it is the king now and forever. You are confusing the hard fork situation with win-win race stuff. The thing it is just creating two different currencies and one will be for sure bigger one than other gaining more value. It doesn't matter which one but it will be more than ETH for sure.

Ethereum is the king? Are you joking? Even the value of bitcoin is continuously decreasing in the market, I can never think that ethereum was take over the position of bitcoin as a king of all crytocurrencies. But if suddenly happen it, I need to accept that fact.

Bitcoin is still the undisputed king and personally I think that's a good thing. It proves there's a strong, dominant market leader in this space.

Yes I agree also, still bitcoin is on the top, bitcoin is still dumping its market value now because of this August 1 bitcoin split, but it doesn't mean that eth will surpass bitcoin! eth now is also dumping its value.

BTC/newBTC will continue to be a king of the cryptocurrencies.

Seems it's a chance, but ETH has been dumped heavily recently.Don't know why?

Like ETH and ETC ?But who will have a larger market cap?

Bitcoin hard fork does not means that bitcoin will die it means that bitcoin will be divided into 2 coins like ETH and ETC and you see that after the Fork of Ethereum coin for some time it stays at low price but after that it grow amazingly same will happen with bitcoin that after the fork the one coin which will be better will rule the crypto world....

Enthereum will dominate CryptoCurrency if Bitcoin is split into two groups. I think this does not affect investors much since they can trade in both of these coins no problem at all. I think the same as ETH and ETC

some people always be compare between bitcoin to altcoin even some of them hoping that there is an altcoin could be the replacement of bitcoin but i think if bitcoin isn't became the king of cryptocurrency anymore then there is no altcoin could be the replacement of it and possibility if the king dead the followers also will be dead too because i'm pretty sure most people more likely to considering bitcoin as long term investment and rare to see the people invest for altcoin only because the future of altcoin is so unpredictable

Bitcoin isn't sinking and isn't going anywhere, ETH although a competitor is not going to take over from bitcoin, if anything I see ETH dropping even further then what it has been until all of these ICOs fade away and it stops being the new thing to do. 

I agree with you Bitcoin is still the king of cryptocurrency. If Bitcoin collapses then surely many other altcoin will fall apart because the altcoin still depends on the blockchain platform. I think Bitcoin is still the top currency for long-term investment as Bitcoin will be very well developed in the future.

What do you mean saying altcoins still depend on the blockchain. Blockchain is NOT Bitcoin. The price of Bitcoin doesn't reflect to the qualities of blockchain technology.

I believe ethereum can take bitcoin place if there is forking, eth is the strongest candidate to replace bitcoin position, the users amount is also quite a lot compare to other alt coin and the investors for implementing eth is also quite a lot

I agree with you, the hard fork is technical issues, the price is a market behavior,  and i think the position of BTC will not change in a long time.

I'm quite disagree with your speculation, even there's forking, I can't believe that ethereum can replace the bitcoin as a king. I believe that ethereum had a potential to be a king but this is not the right time replace bitcoin. Maybe if the bitcoin was diminish in crytocurrencies world.

I will accept one thing the Bitcoin is king of all cryptocurrencies it will not give his place to other altcoins that much easier. Eth is fast growing currency, and in future, it has good value but to replace Bitcoin it needs a number of years. Becasue still, all altcoins price depends on bitcoin price. If Bitcoin lost reputation, then other coins also lose their reputation.

if bitcoin hard fork eth will drop to 3rd place, 2 bitcoin will try to competing each other. you heard from this legend here first on bitcointslk eth will be 3rd and the shit will dying out without anyone doing anything to it because of clogging and bloat. eth is a poorly designed get rich quick scam.

If BTC falls the causative agent, being the new split will
take over. ETH will not be the able to take over since its
a has a different basis

I hope so , btc take up the no 1 for a long time , we need a new face  here.

happenings will not breed in comparison with your thoughts
BTC will always retain its leading position by many objective reasons different  ;D ;D ;D

....one will die, another will be stronger....

is this a pure guess?

it is more like a blantant 100% inflation, btc wull worth less