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Could anyone tell me why investing in Ethereum or Ethereum Classic might not be a good idea? Besides from it being a volatile market?
Seems like Ethereum is very popular atm and nobody can really tell me a downside of Ethereum and its tech

Thx a lot!

I´m not a tech expert and i think ethereum e good overall. The main problem for me with ethereum is the kind of projects built on it. There are several eth token that are nothing more the crowfunding for projects. The token itself is useless. The there are several scams going on. And finally the amount of eth going to ICO´s.

So, i, just if you get Project owners dumping ICO eth, people understanding that the tokens they hold are useless and some "GOOD, SOLID Project" turns out to be a scam you will have the perfect storm for eth to take a very very strong hit...

For me investing in ethereum and ethereum classic is good Idea for me because this coin have big future and possible ethereum will becone next bitcoin once bitcoin die. But it depends all in demand on the market if the price of will go down or it will increase.

Because there is no major downside. On the opposite, getting stronger and more support. I would stick with ETH which has the core original development team.

Go for Ethereum, the real thing.

Dev’s from previous coins and ico’s are using Ethereum Classic to ride on the price of Ethereum so I would invest in Ethereum instead of Ethereum Classic. When the price of Ethereum Classic goes up, the price of Etheruem is already in the green especially when there is a pump.

The price of Ethereum goes up with the price of Bitcoin too, so when the price of Bitcoin goes up then the price of Ethereum rides on the price of Bitcoin for a short while.

For me ethereum is better than ethereum classic and that's why invest with ethereum is recommended. Depending my strategy I only see price action history with long time period, volume and news speculation. Even today ethereum price falling down but this is the right time to buy it. Don't lose faith with ethereum, but remember always using stop loss and good money management. Good luck.

I dint really invest and research about ethereum classic after ethereum hard fork ETH and ETC happened . Ethereum is good investment because lots of ICO happening based on ERC20 Token for each transaction for token need some gas it will make ETH price more.

Both are very good coins according to me and they will be worth good in future Ethereum is already growing very good and Ethereum Classic is yet to grow in value I am sure both are worth to buy and can give good return in future.

Root for Ethereum Classic, they have a good and solid team now... and has a lot of marketcap growth and potential.

Cons can be found everywhere and in everything, there is nothing perfect. If you look negatively at the Ethereum project and look for the cons in it, then you can allocate a couple of this unlimited number of coins and the current situation with fraudulent projects that influenced the price of Ethereum .

If it's explored better, good or bad for a project or coin according to each person's version, because I see both have their own advantages and potentially will be better in the future after the bear market ends, I hope you know for yourself any more information mature rather than asking for an explanation here without further reviewing all those who post here, they must realize that crime has several levels and cannot show that some of the coins are bad with an empty head of knowledge, I am not too worried about those two coins, because I believe only Ethereum where travel was very clear and experienced a tremendous increase after last year's hype.

I think ethereum is also a good coin and its value also tends to be stable, so I believe ethereum is also a good investment to do trading now, because now ethereum prices also tend to increase.

I believe the major problem with ethereum is it level of volatility and that is caused by the various projects that are built on it blockchain because it house the various tokens and at that it operations is always affected by the presence of this token's.

Etherum and Ethereum classic , both have their own advantages and disadvantages. It also completely depends on the person who holds it whethere to hold it further or sell it. By the way, i am really not an expert about investing money in which assets. But I can give an opinion based on my views that why investing in ETH and ETC will not be an good idea.
You have yourself mentioned that, it's price is volatile. And i am completely agreed with you as no one should risk his/her money on a volatile crypto. Moreover as it is one of the oldest crypto therefore we can't assume the correct price.
IMO you should invest or not depends on the amount you want to invest.

I think these two coins do have good development, Eth does have a good capitalization and Ethereum Clasik still has good volume.
The developments that occur appear to be related and will become a popular coin for the future.

For me, Ethereum and Ethereum Classic are a good coin and I still hold some of those coins. I don't know how about other people because I think that coin can increase higher. ETC still at the low price and if you are interested, you can buy right now before the price increase but ETH is legit too as you know that ETH can increase like the other coin. Besides that, ETH is the main base network of all ICO so the chance to get increase will be open.

Why can I. The problem with ETH is that it is constantly experiencing an outflow of investments at the expense of frauds. This will destroy him. Because too many projects collect this coin and then simply remove it from the network.

it is interesting to see this old topic be bumped by some random user since it lets us see how nothing has changed, people are still repeating the same cliches as before and all the time  they were telling people price is going to rise over the past year, it actually was dropping.
so OP has already lost more than half of his money if he listened to them.

Be careful if you are buying ETC as the hash rate is low enough for a double-spend attack to be launched through rented hashing power.

If you remember for what reason at all ETH became a real fork of the ETC project, then you should remember that this was a very serious reason why Vitalik Buterin restarted what could not be touched in principle, since he promised decentralization.

i prefer to invest in the ethereum than in the ethereum classic.
Because ethereum is more famous than ethereum classic.And about a couple past of day ago, ethereum is holding hardfork to get better chain network.

Maybe the classic Ethereum is better if you want to invest long-term and are afraid to take the consequences.
because ETC is more stable than ETH

In my opinion, one reason to invest in Ethereum is because ETH is very popular among other altcoins. ETH is also very much used as an ICO platform, only its weakness is that ETH prices are very unstable and difficult to control. because ETH supplies do not know for sure.

honesty people are moving away from ethereum project and investing on other platform. NEO, Tron, stellar. the scammers keeps denting the ethereum image. i don;t see much different between ethereum and the ethereum classic. it seems the same thing as bitcoin cash and bitcoin.  both are the results of forking. it depend on choice. choose the one that suits you.

investing in ethereum is a good thing, but there are still many doubts in ethereum clasic. but believe me ethereum still has good potential to be made as one of the good things for investment. look at the position in ethereum right now we can see it's in a good market, so this is probably a good step in ethereum

in any case, I will always support ethereum, And no matter what, I will not consider hardfork any of Altcoin as a real promising investment. Based on this ethereum Classic gave opportunities earlier for many investors, but she has no future.

Don't know who told you that investing in these coins are bad , I think it's 2 fundamental coins are a great grow in the future , they have long proven already to market themselves

I don't recommend that you may invest ETC. ETC never reaches its potential. I think, it never reach also. I don't trust their team&works.

Both are good coin to me. But I think it is not proper time to invest Ethereum classic. Because day by day it will fall. Otherhand now ETH rate are cost. So invest ETH are good decession.

Ethereum classic is a non-official ETH fork and I think it can not comparable to ETH. It was able to go up to these places, because it was an ETH named. This choice should definitely be ETH.

Of these two projects, I would probably choose ETH, and it is this project that shows great popularity today. The popularity is due to the fact that a large number of projects are being created on the platform.

My opinion does not pretend to be an expert assessment, but I believe that Ethereum is both one of the most innovative coins, and at the same time it can become useless. Smart contracts and the ability to launch new projects on the Ethereum blockchain have become a breakthrough among blockchain projects, but over time projects can abandon Ethereum and choose more advanced projects, then the value of the coin will be under big question.

And I like Ethereum Classic more. This coin has quite a lot of liquidity. And the network reliability is also high.

Both projects have very high potential for value growth, but in my opinion Ethereum has gained a big advantage thanks to Constantinople hardfork. If I had to choose, in my opinion the investment in Ethereum is definitely safer than in Ethereum Classic.

Investing in ethereum is such a good idea.Ethereum is a stable coin even in volatile market and it has a good platfrom and have potential for growth in the future.Due to high demand in the market ethereum would be the most popular coin next to bitcoin in the future.

ETH is already a high class coin and demanded by many investors! It's necessary to remember that there is almost 6x more ETH in circulating than BTC. Maybe if ETH owned fewer coins in circulating the prices could be others right now! But anyway, ETH is well accepted and growing. ETC is the shadow and before HardFork there was an expectation of ETH's escape for ETC, but that did not happen.

if it is a matter of investment, I think ethereum is the right choice and currently the price is cheap, which is $ 137. But I actually want to dig up information about Ethereum and its development to date, of course after the occurrence of Hardfork Ethereum. Are there real changes or developments especially in the network? Thanks,

Investing in Ethereum or Ethereum Classic is a good idea. Yes, there are drawbacks. But both blockchains are in the development stage. Constantly made their revision.

ETH and ETC projects that have already clearly entered history as legends of the cryptocurrency world. Therefore, I think that now we need to invest in other projects, because the time of these projects has already passed. These are working projects.

Everything has its own risk, mate. If you believe in ETH, so just buy it right now. ETH price is still quite low and affordable to buy. Don't wait till the price rising more.Ethereum is certainly one of the best options which you can currently invest in. You need to, however, look at the tremendous increase in the price of Ethereum in the last months. Thus, it shouldn't come as a surprise that the price of Ethereum can reduce its value in the shorter term. However, in the longer term, you can be positive that the price of Ethereum would increase. You can convert ETH to BTC from CoinSwitch at best rates.Ethereum (https://coinswitch.co/app/exchange) is also called by the king of altcoins because of its advantages and the use of the coin. I will never stop to buy it.

I can't give you any assurance for you to invest in Ethereum Classic but I can tell you to invest in Ethereum with the little things that I know about the project. Ethereum will continue to stay relevant for long term and it is have enough opportunity for growth

Ethereum Classic has more liquidity, if we compare it with the levels of capitalization of other coins. I also invest in Ethereum Classic.

Before investing your money i think you need to do small analysis then you will get your answer.
From my point of view you can invest in ETH because it has ICO platform for this reason its future must be bright. Although ETC is good for investing but i think ETH is better than ETC.       

If you invest then invest in both coins , as they showed good growth in 2017 , but of course more money is better to invest in eth

I will choose ETC， because he is very stable, even 51 attacks did not let him have a big price decline.

I see another ethereum so like name and it is ethereum classic vision, despite of its name, it just scam people since it is launched at the same time when ethereum hardforks are on going, in that case, we cant see the originality besides these coin and I advice not to tolerate or neither support it as main coin.

in my opinion, ethereum weaknesses cannot be part of the real market in the product world, but it is still bound as a platform, so if the focus is on the platform, the market movements tend to be unstable. different from altcoin which is focused on production, the price of the coin can survive with the movement of its production goods.

but they are a lot which is above the blockchain etheruem. It will also improve the growth of trade etheruem. never am, ethereum is a formidable platform, until now we could see ethereum exist in almost all Exchange platforms. that's what makes ethereum became very large.

Im not that good at anything techy and my mark will be mediocre but Ethereum is a must for all crypto investors and Ethereum classic isn't that bad ,if I were you I'd go for both because they will both do well in future

Investing in Ethereum is always a great idea, because I think that ETH is still very oversold and once the market will change its direction, Eth will be able to show its full potential. However, I do not like ETC because it is only a fork coin.

from my point of view, ETC is good for short term ( it's ~5$ now, with small marketcap => easy to x2) and ETH is good for long term (ETH has huge team and big community). so my plan is buy ETC now and wait to x2 => dump ETC to ETH.  ;)

The two cryptocurrencies not only share the same name but also share an interesting story that is one of the most pivotal events in all cryptocurrency history. The battle between Ethereum and Ethereum Classic is one of ethics and ideologies.

Before there were the two different Ethereums we see now, there was only one Ethereum. Since then, $50 million was stolen by an unknown hacker or hackers, and this resulted in two distinct camps of people in the cryptocurrency world being formed.

Current conditions are not suitable for investing by looking at market conditions that are also not good, you should save your ethereum because I am sure ethereum will be victorious in the future with its technology which is very sophisticated for me, ethereum.

I prefer Ethereum in terms of investment because of the fact that it has huge support by enthusiasts and developers worldwide. Ethereum is always a good investment for me to be honest and I know that other investor would agree with me maybe beacuse it is a very trusted and a good project ever made next to Bitcoin. At the moment Ethereum is the king of Altcoins and I know you are going to agree with me right now.

They are just created by companies that wants to divide the volume of investment of people and make their profits. I think investing on the old ones are much better because in these days, people want to become the boss of their own coin, even that the coin is misleading, they are just pushing it because they want to earn, no good purposes and solution for community problems and needs.

Ethereum is a big altcoin, the king of altcoins while Bitcoin is the King of crypto. I don't see competitive ability of Ethereum Classic with Ethereum. They are different projects, that moved on different directions after the fork years ago. Ethereum shown more actively developments than Ethereum Classic. It is clear that Ethereum is better and bigger than Ethereum Classic in many aspects, market cap, price, total traded volume, total value of their ecosystems.

Of course I prefer Ethereum than Ethereum classic, if we pay attention then ethereum classic always follows what happens with Ethereum, besides that there are many my token based ethereum so that it requires ethereum for transactions.

Both projects really function successfully and I see that they are really undergoing development. Surely, it cannot be said that this will be really super successful, but I think that these projects will bring good benefits.

Both projects are good. ETC made me some good profits, but eth gives me a lot of profits comparing to ETC. When you ask me if what coin I'll put my money on, I'll probably choose the both of them. But I'll invest more on ETH maybe 65-70% of money and 35-30% ETC.

I will buy ethereum than ethereum classic because only ethereum is using for payment ICO platform, etc or ethereum classic is not use to purchase invest on ICO project,

I believe both projects aren't bad either. They all have great potentials and have the tendency to become great coins. However, I will go for ethereum than ethereum classic because of its popularity and the use of ICO payment

I always trusted ethereum. And he never let me down. I always keep it in my wallet. And about the classic, I still didn’t really understand it because I don’t use it often.

I will go in for ethereum than ethereum classic because i trust ethereum and in  terms of ICO payment and other transactions in cryptocurrency, ethereum is needed more than ethereum classic.

Successfully should be used only for Ethereum, not for Ethereum Classic. The Ethereum Classic like abandoned one (not really abandoned, but just periodic actively a little bit sometime per year). Ethereum Classic tend to sudden rise and fall again to its latest price range. Of course, for traders, what we want is solely waves to take profits, hence it is good if you can earn returns from your investments in Ethereum Classic, or whichever coins.

If you understand that today ETC this is real and is the most real ether. I hope that you remember the history of DAO so I can confidently say that decentralization is really worsening here.

In Ethereum, you can and should invest, technology worthy of investment. It ranks second after Bitcoin and that says a lot. At the expense of Ethereum classic here everyone chooses himself, I personally do not invest in it.

Cryptocurrency investment is all about your level of understanding on how the whole ecosystem works and the basic factors that influence the pattern at which prices changes in the market. With such level of knowledge and understanding, you can choose to invest in any crypto coins and  still make huge profits. Its not about what coin you are investing in but your level of knowledge and understanding about investment and cryptocurrency.

I think ethereum is the best altcoin for investing because have higher rank position on market, ethereum now on second place under bitcoin and have many investor hold or become ethereum as investment altcoin assets for the future, better you can buy ethereum than you hold your assets to buy ethereum classic because still dominance ethereum in exchange market than ethereum classic.

Want to invest in Ethereum or Ethereum Classic Everything depends on your beliefs, you must have principles in investing, do not listen to the words of others, because others are not necessarily right, being an investor must have a strong strategy, capital, principles and mentality to anticipate loss.

Still I don't see the downside of ethereum and I don't know about Ethereum classic, but I think it's a good altcoin, seems good to hold for long term. Why not invest both of them, both are good for long term investment.

I believe that generally investing in hardforks is not the best idea, because I have never seen a coin that was created during hardfork to overcome the original one. ETH is not developing science ages, but it is still my favourite altcoin.

Splitting your investment between those coins can be done but make sure you understand the concept, ETH classic still low in value so of you have spare money and you can hold and wait this coin can bring huge once the market turned to bull again. While in the other side, with ETH you need to put larger amount of investment to maximize your profits but the chance is big enough since it's been second from the top crypto inside CMC.

Ethereum and Ethereum classic are going to have completely different futures with Ethereum going POS in 2020.  Ethereum classic is likely to retain the POW nature.
Ethereum might see a boost in price during the transformation and subsequent stability according to the success. Ethereum is a better option to hold for now.

Ethereum and Ethereum Classic are coins that are widely invested by investors, especially Ethereum.  They believe in technology owned by Ethereum, so investors are not afraid of investing in this coin.  Investors are sure to benefit from Ethereum, so there is nothing to worry about investing in this coin.

As long as the digital currency group owns close to $100 million of ETC, they will do their best to have it remain relevant, but when they back out after having dumped their bags the price will freefall for the rest of its existence.

It's kinda sad because I still consider ETC the original Ethereum. In this space however being original or not original doesn't mean anything.... the only thing that matters here is what the economy within crypto considers to be the original coin.

If you held ETC after the split thinking it will do well or take over the coin continuing with the ticker symbol ETH, you lost a lot of money and Bitcoin ratio. In other words, don't go against the economy's opinion. It will rekkt you.

Ethereum classic is a good coin and you do not need to feel sad for it. Rather celebrate what ethereum is doing. I am looking forward to its next release and it is good to see that the development does not stops. I don't think that the team will back out. There is no reason to. Ethereum Classic is a bit old and my suggestion is also ethereum. It is the current king of altcoins and beneficial too.

Funny, because I remember when the fork happened and there being a lot of confusion over which version of ethereum was going to be the 'real' one and even more speculation as to which one would perform better.  But after a month or so it was clear that Eth was going to be the one to carry the day, tho it still wasn't a sure thing that either one would do well.  Lots of controversy about that fork and the hacking.

I really don't hear much of anything about ETC these days and most of the time I forget it even exists.  That can't be a good sign.

It *is* the original, but as you said it really doesn't matter as far as its price goes.  Only the market's opinion on that matters.

Ethereum classic has helped the community by giving a fork. It was a nice move by this coin. There is no need to get emotional because of the difference between ethereum class and ethereum. If the room of improvement had not been availed at the right time then we might have lost it for long time now. Ethereum classic has already played its role by giving us what is known as the king of altcoins.

Ethereum and ETC are both good coins. There was even a good call on our group that was the trade was trading ETH at a certain price and boom, it was a good trade and I managed to get some profits.

With ETH, the best trade I got from it was when it went from zero to hero mode. From 150 dollars to 1k usd I think. That's the best trade ever. Both coins are great to trade.