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recently a lot of people have started investing in waves and have converted their coins into waves.
i havent done much research about waves,but i have recently seen some sites accepting waves as their payment.
so do you think it is going to compete with ETH for the no.2 spot soon?
or will ETH always be in a league of its own.

I dont think as of the moment that Waves will post a threat to Ethereum. The Eth blockchain has so much advantage to waves.
Refer to this thread for practical comparison.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2019276.0

I think people have to stop viewing these platforms as direct competitors to each other. Waves is not trying to dethrone ETH, and ETH is not going to look over its shoulder to see if Waves will catch up or overtake it. I think decentralization is not about competition, or fighting each other for supremacy. Everything can coexist, and natural "rivals" are good to help each other get better. I can use ETH and Waves and Bitcoin, and I do not see any as better over the other, they simply have different functions better suited to my needs.

I doubt. Waves is taking different path. And he won't love to go compete with ethereum, ethereum is way far more advanced. For that coins who are going with waves was because waves was also a pretty good network and still developing. You must tell that to over 500 tokens running on ethereum network. No need to compare LOL. So funny  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

NOT AT ALL WAVES follow other way

Definitely not to ETH, but maybe to Stellar, but still I loke Stellar more - my predictions in 1 year Stellar 3rd coin and WAVES in TOP 10 though.

I think this is a very interesting question. I don't think Ethereum will be beaten by Waves in the near future, but I certainly like Waves project! EOS is the biggest competitor to Ethereum in my opinion.

I think it's still a long, long, long way for Waves to become a threat to Ethereum (but correct me if I'm wrong). Right now, I do have 3 types of assets in my possession under Waves platform (only YOLOCoin seems to be active on my list).

I believe that Waves could pump well this year, but being a threat to Ethereum and other top altcoins in the market are somewhat a long way to go. Who knows, maybe I'm wrong, or maybe I'm right. Cryptoverse is unpredictable, you may not know how long the bears are gonna grip for long, or how long will the bulls gonna strike.

I don't think it poses a threat to ETH, they are a bit different, and I think there is room for both in the crypto space. Also, nothing wrong a bit of competition  ;)

not for now, I trust more and choose ethereum for long term investment. I'm sure, eth is always superior to other than altcoin. eth is quite powerful and in use by many ico, for smart contracts. this is one of the advantages of eth.

Waves coin is look like ethereum,  they have possible the price become hundreds dollars in the next few months and after years become thousands dollars.  

But I think if waves will increase more,  for sure ethereim will increase more too and possible become 5 digit the price.  

I dont think waves will become threat to ethereum. Because they are totally different to each other.

No, I don´t think waves will become a threat to Etherum

The project that waves compares should not be ETH, it should be XRP.
It is true that as more and more websites support waves, it may be a threat to XRP, but not ETH, ETH and waves are two different types of tokens.

I can't see wave as a threat to ethereum will tip eos network instead. Ethereum is a threat to bitcoin not the other way round.

i believe ethereum is now too centralized and too big to be easily threatened by any other project specially since there is a lot of new coins being created every day (big mining reward) which adds to its total market cap and lots of advertisement that is filling the media for it and lots of ICOs to ensure its price stays up.

but this doesn't mean Waves is not going to grow big. it is a very good project with a lot of potential. and recently it has been growing well.


oh this number 2 spot again!
the funny thing is that if any coin can take that place, it woul be Waves! because it has 100 million supply compared to ethereum's 97 million and it is worth $9.23 right now with a lot of potential to reach $1000 and take the number 2 spot of ETH.

Waves (https://coincodex.com/crypto/waves/) has no chance to surpass Ethereum. But it's way undervalued atm and has potential to go up 10x this year for sure... so I'm gonna hold my bag of Waves :)

Nothing is impossible in crypto. Waves is one of the good coins and I really think it will be at top10 in 2020. Now it does not pose threat to eth though.

in my own opinion waves do not pose a threat to Ethereum because the two coins are very much different Etereum is much more stable and always increasing.

Waves can't even compete with cardano, And, does it make sense to see waves will try to fight with ethereum? Ethereum is the only competitor to the bitcoin right now.
When you realize about the fact that there will be a lot of projects will try to make another copycat of smartcontract. Ethereum will be leading the smartcontract platform.

But waves still too far from ethereum. you must forget to think waves as ethereum competitor.

IMO it's not a competition.
We ALL should more care about the mass adoption of the whole crypto market. Waves and Ethereum are both great projects.
 ;)

I am yet to see a successful ICO under waves but ETH have lots of them. And then NEM is also slowly coming into the picture. I think it will be a tough competition and waves will still take years before it can compete with ETH.

I never thought that waves could threaten the position of ETH because eth is a pretty popular coin and a lot of people are starting to recognize eth, and I think the opportunity is NEO because now I often come across ICO projects that use NEO.

As Wave going from right now, I don't think it will pose a threat to ETH because Wave is different from ETH.

No doubt wave is a good coin but I do not see anything now that wave is a threat to ethereum. Ethereum is a far ahead to waves. Waves has a long way to go ahead to surpass the eth but eth is very strong at the moment & growing steadily. Waves is nowhere to eth. Ethereum is strong because most of the new coins launched on Erc20 support and very rare coins are waves supportable.

This thread is just full of posts where people express opinion, I don't see any constructive thoughts on eth and waves there (the thread is extremely long to look through everything, though.
I would not say eth is more stable. They both experience price fluctuations. At least waves is a bug-free platform and it gives it a big advantage over eth. Another thing is that on eth you have to program a coin, whereas on Waves you can interactively create a token, so waves is a lot easier to use. Waves is a strong project, but in the world of cryptos the first one wins more often than the strong one, so I guess eth will always be in top-5 no matter how many other improved coins appear.

A threat? Maybe no...

Competition? Yes.

They are both high-tech platforms. They can transact cryptocurrency and money, create and transfer new tokens, run ICOs, run a decentralized exchange, run smart contracts (in near future for waves) and much more. So they can be considered rivals, although there has never been bad blood between them.

All these waves vs. ETH topics remind me of this old pic:




 ;D

I do not think that even the most optimistic forecasts would show that Wave will reach the level of ETH, Waves are popular for the time, but it's different weight categories.

WAVES can not now become a competitor for ETH. Last year ETH was developing very fast and WAVES were already falling behind in development from ETH. This platform requires updates in order to compete with ETH plus it needs strong projects.

I don't think. Maybe later but not now.
They are different and have enough room for both and others.
When Waves implement smart contracts and have many independent developers on the platform then we can think about it again. I don't think Waves has enough time and development to become decentralized so far. I like their visions though.

Per my understanding, the answer is just "NO", there is NO Threat what so ever.
we have seen and heard of a many #ALTs trying to be the replacements for existing ones, saying #BCASH to $BTC, and a lot many against $ETH, but it is not happening, they just cant do the flipping.
I do believe in Waves too, but comparing it with ETH at the moment is a lot to think about, specially when $ETH keeps on growing and with ETH 2.0 coming into picture, others dont stand a chance.

No, i think it doesnt. Probably only NEO poses some threat to ETH at the moment.

they dont threathen each other both are just miner powered encription systems they help encript obligations in form of token, thats it

speculants are to stupid to get whats going on here, speculants have pumped up ethereum price, so vitalik had to decrease amount of gas needed,

this then  leads to different plattforms becoming valuable because their gas is less speculants infected.