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How is Bitcoin different from Etherium?

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So let’s start off with the question “What are Bitcoin and Etherium?”. Well, they are cryptocurrencies, based on the blockchain. So what makes Bitcoin and Etherium so different, if they are based on the same system?

Bitcoin

Bitcoin is often defined as the “digital gold” and that is for a reason. It had been one of the first cryptocurrencies to appear and this makes it such a popular coin nowadays. It can be defined as the dollar of the blockchain, as it is only a payment method. It can not be described as an innovative and mind-blowing technology, although it is very useful itself, it is just your money, held in a digital form. Bitcoin can be used for multiple purposes, one of them is inviting in ICOs (Initial Coin Offering). Once you support an ICO, they give you their tokens, which can be compared to stocks, which grow with the company, although are dependent on the price of Bitcoin and the market in general. Some other purposes are investing and basic payments, which are getting more and more popular nowadays.

Etherium

Etherium, on the other hand, is defined as the “digital petroleum”. It had been launched at the beginning of the crypto market development, and many people see it overtaking Bitcoin in future due to it’s flexibility. Of course, it is priced lower than Bitcoin as it had entered the market way later, but that does not deny it’s usefulness when it comes to innovations. Shortly speaking, where Bitcoin is just a currency, Etherium is a platform for other applications to host and grow at. It is so “open-minded” as a platform, that you could build anything on it, starting from 3D printing to traveling network management. And that is the quality that allowed Etherium to enter the big market: it occupies a different area rather than Bitcoin, therefore serves for different purposes.

Conclusion

For me, as an investor, Etherium poses a bigger personal interest than Bitcoin, but it is pretty clear that at least for the next year bitcoin will be the leading currency in the crypto market. That is also because most of the people nowadays are familiar with Bitcoin, but have heard nothing of Etherium. But if you are looking for a long term investment, Etherium might be your solution.

The difference is that the Ethereum platform is Turing-complete. Various new functionality can be developed with relative ease. This makes the blockchain Ethereum often also called programmable blockchain. While Bitcoin has only one function that aims to facilitate peer-to-peer transactions as a digital currency.

Bitcoin is the base of all cryptocurrency, and Bitcoin will remain the king of Crypto. Actually, I do not want any coins to be able to cope with Bitcoin as a means of investment,
of the earliest bitcoins are made as cypto currencies but at high prices many investors invest in bitcoins.
as well as Etherium although widely used by many real projects but will not beat the bitcoin position.

What a load of nonsense. You couldn't be any more wrong. People had been trying to figure out a trustless, decentralized electronic payment method for a long time. None of them could solve the double spend issue without using a centralized ledger. Bitcoin elegantly solved it.

I assume you are a newbie who has just recently been awestruck by the promises of ICO vaporware and the "amazing" things that people will do on this "decentralized global computer" called Ethereum. It is hard not to get bedazzled by all the marketing. You need to study bitcoin a lot more to understand it's technical as well as socio-economic aspects that excited the first people Satoshi contacted. For example, Here is one of the greats, Hal Finney speaking about it in his own words. (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=155054.0)

Also, Please stop shilling Ethereum like it is some kind of promising long term investment. It has proved none of it's proposed usages. It has only contributed to the ICO craze and even there it has competition in the form of competing chains like EOS, Lisk, QTUM etc. For anybody is looking for a long-term investment, bitcoin with its proven network, robustness, utility and community should take be the biggest part of your investment.

yes it is different because bitcoin is a digital currency that uses peer to peer networks and uses a database for its distribution. while ethereum is a chain platform block and functions like a virtual machine.

Bitcoin is a top coin and ETH is the second one. BTC has an immense capitalization and liquidity and BTC is very popular because a typical person imagines all crypto tech as just bitcoin. May be later ETH will change BTC but not soon. Anyway BTC is a very attractive asset of investing especially for amateurs.

Bitcoin is the king of cryptocurrency and Ethereum is queen of cryptocurrency. This two coins are shining in the market from long.As compared to the percentage of investors in this two coins is greater than all altcoin. Now a days many ICO is depend on Ethereum and this made huge investors in Ethereum.

- An average joe searched bitcoin on google - he found it on wikipedia

- then he searched for more - "bitcoin price", he saw coindesk and there were 5 coins listed on the right side of their page; what are those coins listed under bitcoin?, he asked himself.

- he searched a little further, goes back to searching 'bitcoin price", he saw coinmarketcap - average joe was shocked by the number of coins listed on it!

- he wanted more information so he studied the second rank and learned that it's a smart contract platform.

- he searched for smart contracts and learned that smart contracts is not only being used by the second in rank. He learned many coins that are using it including the top 1 too!

- now he's confused which coin should be worth investing!

- then he realized, he heard of bitcoins many times that it made him see it everywhere! He even saw a beggar asking for a donation in bitcoins, he shook his head and said; bitcoin made me hallucinate!

If you dig even deeper, you will realize that there are so many smart contract platforms out there, not only ethereum but bitcoin too! https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/yes-bitcoin-can-do-smart-contracts-and-particl-demonstrates-how/ (https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/yes-bitcoin-can-do-smart-contracts-and-particl-demonstrates-how/)

"While Ethereum provides more extensible support for smart contracts, that flexibility comes with a higher risk of security and privacy threats. The more code that goes into a smart contract, the greater the risk of introducing a vulnerability that could enable an intrusion." - source from mentioned site!

Just wait and see for this development of bitcoin and you will be shocked!

Right. I still think Bitcoin or Ethereum is a long term investment solution for you. I think both will be very well developed in the future. When Bitcoin has long appeared and has an irreplaceable standing position. In addition, Ethereum is a platform, a new digital currency, it's perfect, it meets all the needs of users and has the potential to grow in the future and be able to overcome both Bitcoin. So, I still prefer ETH over Bitcoin a lot

Bitcoin and Etherium in the Crypto currency market are standing side by side. Bitcoin's price depends on Etherium. Investors who benefit from buying a currencies and selling them with Etherium Price Growth.

Bitcoin and Ethereum actually use a system called Block Chain. In this Block Chain system, data recording and transactions are performed on multiple servers connected to each other. That way, if there is one server that is broken, the data can still be accessed on another server.

The thing that distinguishes Ethereum from Bitcoin is the application of Smart Contract, which allows you to program transactions, before you do so. For example, you can create an arisan program that will automatically move the Ether belonging to each participant to the winner's account each month.

because the bitcoin is the number one coin that is the most expensive of any other coin in the crypto world. and ETH is coin after bitcoin, so the difference between bitcoin and ETH is in terms of price and its potential also if in my opinion

Despite the fact that etheruem is the petroleum of the cryptocurrency due to the fact that it operate on a 1.2.0 software while bitcoin is operating on 1.1.0 is still remains that bitcoin still remain the kung of crypto, because bitcoin as the first coin to be created still come with technology that is highly decentralized then what we have in the etheruem network. Etheruem is the mother of all altcoins but bitcoin still remain the most preferred cryptocurrency.

Off course for all the good reasons bitcoin will always stay on the top no matter what. I mean there is more attraction towards the bitcoin rather than ethereum no matter what developments take place in any of them. Its know that people always start with BTC when they enter into the crypto currency and gradually they start moving towards the ETEHREUM. Thus, its the slow process and thats why we have ETH on the second position after all the application it has. Surely it will rise too in the future but BTC will always lead for all the differences that you stated and what i just mentioned.

They are tottaly different, not even doing the same thing. Ether is fuel for the business, smart contracts are built do conduct business. Bitcoin is a payment solution, even more now with lightning network. Some would say it is a store of value also. Also bitcoin tests everything well before rolling it out and is immutable.

LOL. Well written. The OP is our average Joe just like every newbie who tries to do his own research on bitcoin and crypto in general. New people should realize that media and a lot of internet publications out there have vested interests in promoting these so called alt-coins.

These platforms have failed to show any merit or deliver any product in all these years. The only thing they have been good at is making people part with their bitcoin. All while billionaires are doing their best to hoard it. Checkout this post shared by member Hydrogen (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3692768.0)

Media channels like eyeballs so they promote unethical people like Roger Ver as Bitcoin Jesus when the bitcoin community out there prefers to call him "Bitcoin Judas". They falsely maintain that the throughput and storage needed for 32 MB or unlimited blocks is not a hurdle for decentralization. They attack real innovation that has been happening on bitcoin by targeting the developers. All of this is being done to confuse the newcomers into spreading out their investments in all sort of worthless platforms when they should really be allotting what they can afford to bitcoin.

I fairly think that each coin has their own pros and cons, though you are very right about long-term investments on ETH, because of BTC's high volatility, I think it is preferred if you do ethereum instead of bitcoin, though I have tried investing in both and I really can't compare the two if what is better, though I fully support both coins but I can see ethereum one day taking over bitcoin's place.

Bitcoin specialising in it's role as digital gold offering the dependable monetary system free from outbounded inflation and political intervention.
ETHEREUM evolving into world computer a Blockchain based programing language enabling code based contract and decentralized  application .I think both coins face considerable challenges if order to realise their full potential. However, this industry tends to attract some of the world’s best and brightest minds, who invariably relish intellectual challenge.

Bitcoin and Ethereum are the same cryptocurrencies which ethereum was the alternative coin of bitcoin which mean having the same blockchain technology. We have a different perspective on these two profitable cryptocurrencies, that means Bitcoin is currently held at around the same value as Unilever, whereas Ethereum has the same market value as Starbucks. If you could compare these two it seems the same but different way of the platform they have.
Differentiate to each other is a good gathering idea but both of them are the same profitable so we do not need to compare them instead of choosing them both.

bitcoin is the mother of cryptocurrency. The first time digital money is bitcoin, after that it is his followers. it is what distinguishes the bitcoin with eth and other alt coin. outline is equally cryptocurrency.

Although both BTC and ethershop are based on the principles of distributed ledger and encryption technology, the two are still different in many areas of technology. For example, the programming language used by ittai is Turning complete, while BTC USES a stack based programming language. Other differences include blocking time (the etheric lane transaction confirmation within a few seconds, while the machine is in a few minutes) and their basic algorithm (Ethernet lane use ethash and BTC is using a secure hash algorithm, SHA - 256).

Both Bitcoin and Ethereum are cryptocurrencies. Bitcoin being a digital dollar is exclusive of all the bank formalities and people invest in it hoping that it's price will go up in the coming years whereas Ethereum on the other hand is more robust while both have block chain technology base etheruem is using 2.0 version compared to Bitcoin using 1.0 version.
 Ethereum technology is supported by heavy technology which is Enterprise Ethereum Alliance which is basically group of 500 fortune companies formed together "smart group" that work together for discovering the new applications for the Ethereum technology.
As compared to Bitcoin Ethereum has been considered to have more promising applications though Bitcoin technology has also been used and is in process of application by big enterprises of developed countries.
Only time will tell which one will survive and be on top in the market. Let's see :)

Yes Bitcoin ia the king of cryptocurrency because it has larger market share then ethereum. Bitcoin has higher value then ethereum. Bitcoin is accepted in many country then ethereum. Ethereum is the second most popular cryptocurrency after Bitcoin. Both coin are different from in other in many technical way. In case of money transaction speed ethereum has best track record then Bitcoin. And ethereum has different programing and concept then Bitcoin. Bitcoin is primarily meant for transaction where as ethereum is used for running some kind of distributed application known as Dapps.

Bitcoin is the father of all coins and it is the most sought and popular coins in cryptocurrency and until no coins can surpass it's price and when we say etherium it is a coin thats making it's way to become also popular as Bitcoin.

when we say crypto currency. people must know it is bitcoin. and it can be concluded that bitcoin is a popular coin in the crypto world. and it is no longer denied that bitcoin is the originator of the popularity of digital currencies

bitcoin is the No. 1 coin, is the most expensive of all other coins in the world of cryptography, and ETH is a coin after bitcoin, so the difference between bitcoins and ETH depends on the price and its potential.

Not just about the popularity but the technology eth is quiet different from bitcoin but of course these two coin is great. Bitcoin may stay on top buy eth will still follow bitcoin until people realize that investing on theae two coin is a good choice.

The difference is that the Ethereum platform is Turing-complete. Various new functionality can be developed with relative ease. This makes the blockchain Ethereum often also called programmable blockchain. While Bitcoin has only one function that aims to facilitate peer-to-peer transactions as a digital currency.

Bitcoin is nothing to more than a currency, Etherium is a ledger technology that companies are using to build new programs. Bitcoin and Etherium operate blockchain technology, however Etherium is far more robust. if Bitcoin is 1.O Etherium is 2.0 allowing for the building of decentralized applications to be built on top of it.

I like bitcoin, because aside of the big and valuable amount the transaction is easy and fast. Unlike in ethereum in the myetherwaller, there are many transaction you will need to study like transferring or depositing. So for me, I always choose Bitcoin.

OP might want to stick this to his posts for being a great one. It is not about the disagreement but how people look at it.
Engaging to better answer this difference of two valuable currencies by now.
I also would pick bitcoin if you are really looking at long term or better never even selling it for usage on the future.
We just cannot see that now and Ethereum is being mostly used by now because of the hype of the ICO's. Again better look at it using a magnifying glass and don't come to conclusions like it is already the future here.
We are still in the stage where people are glued to the traditional fiat.

There are many differences between Bitcoin and Ethereum.
1.   Bitcoin creates 12.5 new Bitcoins every 10 mins and Ethereum creates 3 new ethers every 15 seconds.
2.    Bitcoin is limited to 21 million Bitcoins, of which 16.7m have been created so far. Ethereum has no hard cap currently, but there are plans to reduce or stop issuance in a year or two.
3.   Bitcoin creates new block every 10 minutes and Ethereum creates new block in 15 seconds.
4.   Ethereum assigns a cost, known as gas, to every operation or use of storage on the blockchain. Bitcoin transaction costs are based simply on their size.
5.   Ethereum smart contract code lives at its own address on the blockchain as opposed to being within a transaction as in the case of Bitcoin.

Bitcoin and Ethereum was two best coins in crypto currency world.Bitcoin is known as assured profitable crypto currency.Whereas Ethereum is best for long term profitable crypto currency.Sometime you will get more profit in Ethereum compared to bitcoin.

Bitcoin is the father of all coins and it is the most looked for and well known coins in digital money and until the point when no coins can outperform it's cost and when we say etherium it is a coin that is advancing toward turned out to be likewise famous as Bitcoin.

bitcoin was created the year 2009 and it is said to be the origin of all cryptocurrencies and is the one that creates the blockchain and is called to be the digital gold. Ethereum, on the other hand, was created the year 2015 transactions are much easier in ethereum and It is also known for its versatility. Both are famous crypto currencies but both have different objectives.

While to many Bitcoin and Ethereum are both simply examples of cryptocurrencies digital money transfer systems which use blockchain technology and encryption - there are subtle differences in how they work and what they can be used for.

if you are looking to invest for speculative reasons. or even more so if you are considering using either platform for business- it's important to understand those differences. because they could be the deciding factor in which coin (if either) goes on to become a widely accepted standard, and wich will disappear into obscurity and worthlessness.

The distinction between Bitcoin and Ethereum is that the indisputable fact that Bitcoin is nothing over a currency whereas Ethereum may be a ledger technology that corporations square measure victimization to make new programs. The common thing in Bitcoin and Ethereum that each operates on blockchain technology.

Bitcoin is the Pioneer in crypto currency followed by ethereum.Bitcoin is used for P2P transactions whereas ethereum provides a platform for the tokens issued nowadays.

In many ways bitcoin is different from Ethereum. Bitcoin is best for both short and long term trafers.But Ethereum is best one for long term traders.We no need to hold for very long period to get profit in bitcoin.We have to wait some long period for Ethereum,till it price is reaches maximum.

The main difference between Bitcoin and Ethereum is that Bitcoin is only a coin while Ethereum is a coin and a platform as well. Its smart contract platform allowed many people to create and invest in tokens using the ETH network. But both BTC and ETH are the most valuable crypto currencies right now.

I believe that each and every coin has its own philosophy and that's how it works. Bitcoin came up with the solution for the issue of high cost and time for the transaction. On the other hand, Ethereum came up with the innovative concept of smart contracts to deal with the digital agreements across the globe. It is definitely one step ahead when it comes to the transferring values along with some additional information and conditions.

Yes, Bitcoin is the first coin and Etherium is the second or the king and queen of all currency. Bitcoin has a large value compare to etherium but etherium is more profitable when you analize it. Bitcoin is good for long term investment and in etherium is good in short term investment because every minute the value grows. But both of this is volatile.

I think the defference of bitcoin and etherium is bitcoin is the king of all cryptocurrency and the main of all crypto is bitcoin and all people investing on crypto is monator the price of bitcoin because if the price of bitcoin will high all crypto is high also and ethereum is good also for investment but its uses to GAS to transact our token so that etherium is uses.

yes I agree. Bitcoin is the main reason why cryptocurrency is known by most of people. It is the starting point of all digital currency unlike ethereum it is maybe the second best currency. Bitcoin has a larger value compare to ethereum and it is better in long term investment. Ethereum is also good in long term but I think it is more applicable in short term investment.

Bitcoin and ethereum is good investment right now in cryptomarket, its more safe because both coin combined dominate around 50% market cap in cryptomarket. Indeed bitcoin is like gold and ethereum is like oil because both commodities are valuable in our life

The thing I have understood so far in my experience, is that Bitcoin is an Ethereum for wealthy. Ethereum is a king of alternative cryptos.

That's true and I higly believe that no matter what would happened Bitcoin will stillbe better than Ethereum given the fact that it was made with the help of Bitcoin, without the latter currency Ethereum would be non existent and I guess it was made so thethings that Bitcoin cant obtain will be present on this alternative coin. I always prefer Bitcoin than any cryptocurrency due to it is very expensive.

actually there is not much difference between bitcoin and ethereum. exactly bitcoin and ethereum have many similarities. bitcoin aims to be a medium of wealth storage, digital gold and eventually become a globally adopted currency that can repair or replace conventional money to some extent. while the goal of ethereum itself is to be a platform that smart contracts and decentralized applications can use. uniquely these two coins are nesting behind blockchain technology, so there are only a few differences in my opinion.

That was the difference from a technical point of view and honestly, a subject which majority of investors are least interested in. all they care about is making money and that too as quickly as possible. Bitcoin is the king of crypto coins while ETH is known as the number one altcoin.

Bitcoin has a growth rate far beyond even the imagination of ETH. BTC is present in a very limited rather scarce amount but ETH is available in abundance.

Both are good but two are different currency. Such as bitcoin prices so high & other currency price not so much high. There are many different this two currency.

Bitcoin is different form Ethereum and other cryptocurrencies as it is the first and unique currency out there in the market, the affects and functions of Bitcoin are quite different from other cryptocurrencies and that is why the Bitcoin  is popular than the other  cryptocurrencies on different levels. The market price tells better the difference between Bitcoin and Ethereum.

The first thing about Ethereum is that it is not just a digital currency. It is a blockchain-based platform with many aspects. It features smart contracts, the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) and it uses its currency called ether for peer-to-peer contracts.There are also many smaller aspects that differ between the two blockchain-based projects. Bitcoin’s average block time is about 10 minutes, while Ethereum’s aims to be 12 seconds. This quick time is enabled by Ethereum’s GHOST protocol. A faster block time means that confirmations are quicker. However, there are also more orphaned blocks.

Bitcoin and Ethereum also cost their transactions in different ways. In Ethereum, it is called Gas, and the costing of transactions depends on their storage needs, complexity and bandwidth usage. In Bitcoin, the transactions are limited by the block size and they compete equally with each other.

ETH is the most popular coin on the market, Ethereum Blockchain's smart fit for many types of tokens are under development, many ICO-approved ICs that are why many people trust ETH is BTC.

The difference between Ethereum and Bitcoin is the fact that Bitcoin is nothing more than a currency, whereas Ethereum is a ledger technology that companies are using to build new programs. Both Bitcoin and Ethereum operate on what is called “blockchain” technology, however Ethereum’s is far more robust. If Bitcoin was version 1.0, Ethereum is 2.0, allowing for the building of decentralized applications to be built on top of it.

There is a lot of thing which make Bitcoin different from ethereum. First of all Bitcoin is the reason for discover of other crypto currency like ethereum etc. Bitcoin is world most popular and recommend cryptocurrency. Ethereum come after Bitcoin in the case of market value. Bitcoin is accepted in many country in comparison to ethereum. Bitcoin is a currency which mainly use for money transaction but ethereum is not only use for money transaction it is also used for developing various applications. In the case of cryptocurrency investment many investors like ethereum for long time investment because of its less volatile nature than bitcoin.

they are almost identical because of course Etherium is made because it looks at how the bitcoin system, and what needs to be improved and then after that there is Etherium which is now a very large platform

of course different from his name alone is different ha ha ha. . .

The difference of bitcoin and ethereum for me is that,bitcoin is the leader in all cryptocurrency other altcoin discover because of bitcoin it has unbelievable price as we think the price of bitcoin before.bitcoin and the first cryptocurrency out in crypto market.and its very papular.while ethereum has a promising price also that in the future maybe it will boom as well.and its next to bitcoin.

Bitcoin is more popular and has more potential to become the main currency. However, etherium has great potential as well as it is based on the blockchain technology and it is considered more multifunctional

Thanks for the useful information. First, when I read about ether I thought that it has more potential because of blockchain but later I found out that btc is much more popular and now I think that it really has more pros

It is a nice conclusion. I consider that ETH is undervalued comparing with BTC we may see and compare 2 charts (BTC and ETH) and it becomes obviously that BTC has dropped much more than ETH and it means that ETH is more strong. I consider that there will be a ration 1:10 between BTC and ETH soon and ETH will chase BTC and decrease a diffirence.

Bitcoin is the first cryptocurrency so it is somehow obsolete compared to ethereum. And in my opinion, I believe that ethereum is better than bitcoin. In the near future, ethereum might become a subject for people to study about the blockchain and the cryptocurrency

I think bitcoin is for payment purpose but right now bitcoin more like gold in digital world. Ethereum is working product for many platform and thats why ethereum networkd used by most crypto in market. Ethereum is like for bussiness and bitcoin for payment purpose

First of all,bitcoin is most valuable than ethereum. A bitcoin is trusted by more people,it is proven and many promising in the future. Transactions will be made without the need your personal identification.it is fast and secure transactions.

Bitcoin has very clear edge over ethereum and rest of all altcoins. The reasons that you have mentioned are fundamental causes why bitcoin is a better option than the king of altcoins. Ethereum is still dependent on bitcoin for every increase and decrease in the values.

You talked about the market price, definitely bitcoin has much greater than that of ethereum. Ethereum still needs couple of years to be as popular as bitcoin is.

Bitcoin is different from etherium in many ways. First of all Bitcoin is the oldest crypto currency and it is more user then other etherium  :). According to price at international market Bitcoin beat etherium. Bitcoin is accepted in many country in comparison to etherium.  In term of volatility etherium is much more stable then Bitcoin and because of this many crypto currency investors choose etherium  for long term investment instead of bitcoin. Etherium  also provide its user fast money transaction facility then Bitcoin. But Bitcoin is much more stable coin then etherium .  ;)

Ethereum and Bitcoin are both different from each other, bitcoin is a cryptocurrency that is used only for one thing and that is financial, while ethereum is considered as a blockchain platform rather than a currency, and etheruem is open source that allows developers and project owners to bring blockchain technology into their business and this creating a wide variety of different ways to use cryptocurrrency is our lives.

Bitcoins is the first cryptocurrency that has been created therefore it get all the popularity and ethereum today is the next coin which is altcoin that has developers who work hard to promote their ico and become the next to bitcoins.

Great post. I believe that a lot of newbies here has really learned a lot from what you have shared to this forum. You are also right that ethereum seems to be something that is really good and is getting more and more popular with the masses. But still not better than bitcoins. If you really want great gains, go ahead and invest on low priced coins that are promising since they have great potential to go real high.

I do not know exactly how to distinguish, but Eth is getting more and more powerful thanks to the ICOs. Technology is better than bitcoin. But ultimately, no matter what happens, bitcoin is shaking, and neither Eth remains nor another altcoin.

As what i known for bitcoin, the total difference from ethereum is that first decentralized digital currency system that works in a single admistrator. Biggest market capitalization which refers to supply and demand which can called as a King of all cryptos while ethereum is second rising star next to bitcoin which is also decentralized platform in which decentralized application. Being called as a Queen of cryptos base on his market capitalization.

No, the value of BTC is much higher than ETH, but in terms of popularity, ETH is the most common coin in the market. Perhaps in the near future ETH can compete with BTC, many ICOs have used Ethereum blockchain technology to not contain their coin. Show ETH is a potential coin in the market.

Thank for your comment, such a short one but show the main point right the way!!

Regarding to there development, obviously bitcoin will be the first cryptocurrency  has been in circulation since 2009 while Ethereum is a recent development at 2015.
-Bitcoin is blockchain that simply to  be pictured as a database of accounts (or wallets) with an amount of currency stored in each,while ethereum network  is also allows the creation of other cryptocurrencies, or tokens, using the same protocol as Ether but distributed on different blockchains, which can be public or private.

 

I might say the difference between the two is that ethereum is the upgraded version of Bitcoin. Bitcoin is the first in blockchain technology which allow the user to do transactions online, while ethereum has updraded what Bitcoin was and that is allowing erc20  tokens to be traded through it.

Bitcoin establishes a decentralized public ledger, which allows anyone to freely send and receive Bitcoins.
Ethereum additionally establishes a decentralized world computer, which allows anyone to set up and run "programs" (smart contracts), e.g. an ERC20 Token contract (which in turn allows sending and receiving ERC20 tokens).

Bitcoin's functionality is only a subset of Ethereum's. Ether is valued by people, because it is needed to pay for the execution of smart contracts, and useful smart contracts are valuable to people.

Bitcoin has his own mining protocol, it has its own blockchain technology, wallet, Sphere of usage. Bitcoin is completely different from Ether

they are different in terms of potential in the market, you can always see that bitcoins is more popular than ethereum and because of that, you can expect that the growth of btc is much faster more than ethereum but still eth coins is a good investment for low capital investors.

I think its different between bitcoin with ethereum. Bitcoin is like currency that we use for paying like currency. Ethereum is platform for bussiness and ethereum is like silver in investment and bitcoin is like gold in real world.

They both differ from its creator, and its value. Bitcoin is more valuable than ethereum.

Bitcoin is far better than Ethereum. People invest in crypto currencies because they want to make benefits out of them and bitcoin is best in this regard. Everyone knows what the end year value of both coins was and how much bigger were the profits of bitcoin. Ethereum is a good coin but it is nothing in front of bitcoin.It is like a lazy but strong cow while bitcoin has speed as well as power.

Bitcoin blockchain is not using smart contracts.

Statistically, bitcoin is different from ethereum in terms of value and capitalization.Bitcoin is more valuable than ethereum but it is known to us that ethereum is also getting more valuable today so there might be a possibility that ethereum can go together with bitcoin in the coming years.

The main difference between Bitcoin and Ethereum lies in their role. The fact that they are aiming for parallelism target but with different purpose. Bitcoin interrupts currency, while Ethereum disrupts equity

The easiest way to define bitcoin is to think of it as a "digital dollar" and, of course, remove all the regulation of Banks. It's not a technology, it's not a company. It's your money, just in a digital way.

The technology behind the ETH is Ethereum, where people can buy tokens issued by other companies' ICO, like bitcoin. What makes it different is not that it is another encrypted currency, but its technology. Unlike bitcoin, which is just a currency, itaifang is a ledger technology that companies can use to build new projects. While both bitcoin and Ethernet are backed by blockchain technology, Ethernet is more powerful, allowing for decentralized applications based on Ethernet.

- Currency issuance: Bitcoin creates 12.5 new bitcoins every 10min (or 75/hr) while Ethereum creates 3 new ether every 15 seconds (or 720/hr).
- Currency cap: Bitcoin is limited to 21 million bitcoins, of which 16.7m have been created so far. Ethereum has no hard cap currently, but there are plans to reduce or stop issuance in a year or two. There are currently 96.4m ethers.
- Bitcoin creates a new block every 10 minutes (on average). Ethereum creates a new block every 15 seconds.

We already know the differences, the question that you need to ask is whether you can afford to invest any of it. Since most probably the rest of us can still afford to buy ETH, stick with it because after all its useful and needed which makes you sure the price will sure go up. Unlike bitcoin, you still are sure that the price will rise but if you can't afford to have at least 10 BTC, then you're better with ETH.

Helpful thread. Thanks for sharing this with us. I also believe that bitcoin and ethereum have the vital role to make crypto more better than today. We will be able to see great changes that even we can benefits for the huge improvements.

Etherium is an excellent coin with good potential, which has proven its advantages more than once.  bitcoin dad, but the Etherium son who surpasses his father, but Dad's authority does not allow his son to rise above him. ;)

Basically, they are both the same thing and are meant to serve the same purpose. It can only make a difference when you start breaking it down like you did now. They both have features that makes them a lot different, it can be that Ethereum is faster than Bitcoin when it comes to making transactions and charges less fees. And if I’m asked, I think Ethereum is better than Bitcoin, the only reason why I think that Bitcoin is winning is because it was the first to get into the market and that makes it famous than Ethereum, and the number one choice for the people too.

The main difference between bitcoin and ether is that they play different roles!

BTC has changed the traditional currency, while ETH has changed the application of cryptocurrency!

Thanks for the advise, i will use these information when deciding my next investments. Then again, from what little i know, BTC is an old and first coins so it had novelty in it and it is sold at a high price. ETH on the other hand is a far younger coin. But the advantage of the latter is that it has alot of projects using thier coin so it has more movements.

I was hearing many times here at the forum, there is most of guys who dont know the anser, so they would say like - bitcoin is a king. Ether is a prince etc.

Bitcoin and ETH are different in many aspects and I would love to focus on the basic ones. Bitcoin has the ability and does create 12.5 bitcoin every 10 minutes while ETH creates 3 new ETH every  15 seconds. The number of bitcoin accessible to people is limited and is 21million Bitcoin but if we talk about ETH, the number is currently 96.4 million ETH. There are other market based differences which are quite common.

Bitcoin is the first crypto language people understand, ethereum follow.

I don’t think so stability of ethereum is a factor that can give it edge over bitcoin because too much stable prices do not make favorable conditions for traders because they want prices to fluctuate so that they could do trading. As far as I know, ethereum has always followed bitcoin and its prices’ increase and decrease should synchronize with that of bitcoin. How could it be more stable than the king of crypto?

Bitcoin and Ethereum differ in purpose. While Bitcoin is created as an alternative to regular money and is thus a medium of payment transaction and store of value, Ethereum is developed as a platform which facilitates peer-to-peer contracts and applications via its own currency vehicle. While Bitcoin and Ether are both digital currencies, the primary purpose of Ether is not to establish itself as a payment alternative (unlike Bitcoin) but to facilitate and monetize the working of Ethereum to enable developers to build and run distributed application.

Ethereum is an advancement based on the principle of blockchain that supports bitcoin but with a purpose that does not compete with Bitcoin. However, the popularity and rising market capitalization of Ether brings it in competition with all cryptocurrencies, especially from the trading perspective. Currently, the market cap of Ether (ETH) is more than Ripple and Litecoin, although it’s far behind Bitcoin (BTC). On the whole, Bitcoin and Ethereum are different versions using the blockchain technology, and are set to establish themselves, driven by different intentions.

Both bitcoin and Ethernet are virtual currencies based on blockchain. Virtual currencies and blockchains are different things. Blockchains are like open books, allowing people everywhere to see uncensored trading records. Virtual money is programmable digital money.

The use of Ethernet beyond virtual currency is a platform for decentralizing applications and executing smart contracts. A smart contract is a program code that automatically executes when certain conditions are met, such as transferring some of the application profits to investors after a certain date. In short, Ethernet is like a global computer, where people can exchange information, data and information without fear of being scared or manipulated. In this way, the network no longer needs to be managed from top to bottom, but instead enters the era of decentralized networking.

my mind is different from you, let us see between them is the same? logically ethereum is used as a venue for ico payments, but is it after the payment they keep eth? mostly for bitcoins. eth scalabititas have big transaction than bitcoin but miner feel burdened with amount of hardiks size so big. if ethereum does not rapidly improve concept then sooner or later it will be a disease for him

Another difference of bitcoin and ethereum is,bitcoin is proven and trusted by many people,unlike the ethereum,it is not yet proven and many people have a doubt to invest it.

The main difference is main currency and altcoin because bitcoin is more popular and valuable and the legally acceptance of bitcoin is everywhere and Ethereum is good for projects. But for us both are good to become successful in the crypto currency.

The difference between Ethereum and Bitcoin is the fact that bitcoin is nothing more than a currency,whereas Ethereum is a ledger technology that companies are using to build new programs.

They pretty much serve a totally different purpose in the market and they are both going to be doing well. Sure, a lot of attention is being drawn to Ethereum due to its smart contract usage and that has really given it a huge chance to grow over the years and a lot of support to grow for it. Nevertheless, bitcoin as a currency still stands and there is absolutely no way the first mover’s advantage will not still keep giving it an edge.

Bitcoin is the fundamentals of all coin in crypto currency world while ethereum is a kind of altcoins or subsidiary coins that has a low value than Bitcoin but it is mostly used altcoins.

It's not just the rank or position in the market that keeps them different from each other. Although they are both based on decentralized blockchain system but unlike bitcoin, ethereum allows a pretty quick development and improvement for new applications. Decentralized Applications or DAPPS is made possible by the ethereum platform.

There is a lot of difference between each other. Ethereum is more advanced than Bitcoin. So, the speed of transactions of ETH is speeder. The only reason why the price of Ethereum is cheap is that created late.

Basic principle was the same but for real, ETH has made huge step forward while BTC hasn"t changed that much. Still the market rules makes BTC more valuable

the difference of bitcoin and ethereum is a lot, like total supplements of bitcoin 21 million while ethereum 100 million, in my opinion ethereum is a refinement of bitcoin, so ethereum is superior to bitcoin

thank you..
for explaining what about bitcoin and etherium ..
we can learn a lot with you this can be an example to start business investment cripto money lovers as money trend nowadays.

now the world has a high ability in crypto money development, I think we should know more about crypto money.

i would think of several parameters from user stand point. Fees, speed, scalability, eth is a platform for altcoins, smart contracts

Bitcoin is the main crypto currency. It is the entire infrastructure of the Etherium. On the ether, smaller coins are created

both are of their kind,bitcoin started a revolutionary payment method and is the most popular cryptocurency whereas eth provided base for new project and startup to initiate their project by using blockchain power and also boosted ico .but if you go by technology wise eth is far superior than btc as it provide smart contract and dapps platform but still btc is the one who initiated craze of blockchain technology among st  people.

First of all, they are in the cryptocurrency market. It looks like a two currency with different value. We know what are their difference, but for us traders, we only focus on their market value. We are not for the meaning of etherium, we are only focusing on its market value, for we have an extra income for own coins. We know bitcoin is very popular than etherium.

The bitcoin is the first coin, and the etherum is a altcoin that emerged after the bitcoin. They may be blockchain-based, but their positions are very different. volumes, investors and exit goals are different.

Both of those coins have good points. At some factor, one is better than the other and somehow, they both share the same point. They have their distinct line of popularity.
For me nothing is needed to be chosen. What is important is that we both have investments to their so we can gain from both.

briefly the difference in bitcoin and ethereum can be seen from the total supply of bitcoin and total supply ethereum and you can also see from the smart contract available from both platforms.

Digital gold and Digital Petroleum looks very very dark age names. I think we should not be comparing them with such words as there meaning, work of nature, characters and appearance is all different than the normal forms. The only difference between them is nature of work, speed of transaction, limit of transactions and user base. This is what defines our BTC and ETH. They run with similar protocol on the blockchain but in real use case they both differ. One being used to transfer the money and second one is self sustaining platform for creating the different ICO smart contract. I think we dont need to compare them hypothetical as the use case is straight forward thing for both of them.  ;)

They are both cryptocurrency in common but if you are planning to determine on what is the specific difference then that will be the growth and the potential of every coin that you should be looking in order for you to have the right choice.

The difference between Ethereum and Bitcoin is the fact that Bitcoin is nothing more than a currency, whereas Ethereum is a ledger technology that companies are using to build new programs. Both Bitcoin and Ethereum operate on what is called “blockchain” technology, however Ethereum’s is far more robust.

While both Bitcoin and Ethereum are powered by the principle of distributed ledgers and cryptography, the two differ in many technical ways. For example, the programming language used by Ethereum is Turning complete whereas Bitcoin is in a stack based language. Other differences include block time (Ethereum transaction is confirmed in seconds compared to minutes for Bitcoin) and their basic builds (Ethereum uses ethash while Bitcoin uses secure hash algorithm, SHA-256). (See also: Risks and Rewards of Investing in Bitcoin.)

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For me the defferent of bitcoin on ethereum is the price  because we know the price of bitcoin is so big and theres a potencial to growth in the original price and bitcoin is the king in all cryptocurrency and all cryptocurrency is depending in value of bitcoin if the price will goes up all crypto to will goes up also.

Probably this bitcoin and ethereum has its own connection because the bitcoin is the parent of all altcoin and includes the parent of ethereum if you have relatively small capital you better buy ethereum and again this ethereum is suitable for long-term investment and again more relative ethereal changes and not fluctuating like bitcoin.

I always like the way that is usually called. The king and the queen and there is no doubt that these two are the most heard and interesting coin for now based on the purpose they have served over time, with the king solving payment issue as a currency globally without any form of third party in between, whereas the queen solving the smart contract issue with a lot of improvement on and on over the years. Not just both are volatile, as the whole market in general has a huge volatility which we can't simply run from.

I will have to say that No Doubt this is one of the best explanation in regards to the difference between the two. I will definitely like to say THANKS
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of course it's different, basically it's different in usage. although BTC and ETH always compete. well, but it's very difficult to distinguish between the two, it's just that I feel that bitcoin is still better than ETH.

practically there is no point comparinh those two coins which has basically different platforms and purpose one another. from different aspects many would prefer bitcoin as it is the first crypto, then second they would choose ethereum which has solid structure, but all in all they have different features, it is literally hard for me to distinguish which i should prefer, besides i am earning both of them and in a healthy way, so personally i cannot argue with which is better.

Bitcoin of course in Nr.1 in crypto world, but ETH is very, very promising altcoin. Do not forget, that Bitcoin mining will end one day, so altcoin and also ETH will go up. So you can invest in ETH and wait for good price.  ;D

Bitcoin and ethereum are very different but the same value to us. Its the same big help to everyone, because bitcoin is so much expensive unlike ether. So its different but the same money.

Additionally, I think of the simple etherium and bitcoin, etherium I think the second alternative to the first or the top of the crypto trade is the bitcoin and the mother of altcoin, both of which are unique and distinctive, according to this only the problem of our ability, in buying or investing of the price and our ability as a user of crypto can adjust the existing alternative if not able to invest with bitcoin we buy etherium only, if etherium is a lot of time to buy bitcoin, even if we can not buy both there are many other alternatives in accordance with buget investment ability, while waiting and seeing the market price developments, it may now be as long as the benchmark of the bitcoin-based crypto price includes the price of etherium so that all market prices are still under bitcoin nauangan but that does not last long could be someday there are replacing bitcoin positions as peaks of the standard market price, may be useful and successful for all of us

There are two main differences between bitcoin and ethereum that are not related to the technology, the first is the limit of the coins, ethereum has no limit and bitcoin does this makes bitcoin better, and second bitcoin is immutable while ethereum is not and that is a critical difference.

Yes that is right to say that different projects are using Etherium as their platform but still we have to accept the fact that Etherium is still not so much popular as compare to bitcoin, whose people is even increasing from time to time.

Your posting almost said every aspect of positive things about Bitcoin and Ethereum and there is no other specific thing to say from my end but one thing for sure is Bitcoin will be the king of all crypto currency for ever and Ethereum will be the king of all altcoins for ever.

Bitcoin is the number one cryptocurrency and is the most expensive and valuable one.Ethereum is the second cryotocurrency and is not that much valuable.Bitcoin has established itself from the last nine years and day by day more and more people are joining bitcoin.On the other hand ethereum has just started recently and does not have that much of users.Bitcoin is known to many people.Bitcoin is the choice for investment in today's date as it gives huge amounts of profits.But this is not the case with ethereum.

For me the only different of these two cryptocurrency is their popularity. Both of them, can generate income to our investment. Both of them have great position in the market.

yes many differences between bitcoin and ethereum. from many different technologies. but ethereum is very good and more modern than bitcoin. the speed of transactions and the cost of shipping is very cheap ethereum rather than bitcoin.

Bitcoin and Ethereum both are good coins for investment. Bitcoin is the king of cryptocurrency while ethereum is next to bitcoin. Bitcoin suits for both long term and short term investment. But Ethereum is only for long term investment. Now many projects are based on ethereum due its blockchain technology. Bitcoin is very fast in its growth and Ethereum takes time to shows its growth. Both are good for investment.

Bitcoin on one hand being the pioneer is much more widely accepted in the financial market than Ethereum and hence has a more market capital. Ethereum works with a more advanced technology and hence has a more developed blockchain and secure cryptography.
While Bitcoin is currently used just as an investment asset, Ethereum is more versatile and is used as a token for smart, decentralised applications and also is used as a platform for posting new ICOs.

Yes, Ethereumis good, but I don’t think it will ever be able to reach the level of competing with Bitcoin and taking its position as the leading cryptocurrency in the world. When you think of cryptocurrencies, the first thing that comes to everyone’s mind is Bitcoin, and whatever happens to Bitcoin affects the others.

Even when BCH (Bitcoin Cash) was introduced after the hard fork, lots of people thought that would have been the end for Bitcoin, after it dropped to a certain level, it still got up. Bitcoin will always be the best because of so many reasons, no need to doubt it.

I still feel that bitcoin is better than etherum in all aspects, compare the statistics, growth graph, the valuation, popularity, the potential, number of investors of bitcoin and etherum and I think bitcoin is superior in all these aspects, though etherum worktop more developed technology and has more developed block chain but still bitcoin always has upper hand over etherum and moreover people find bitcoin more trust worthy and profitable than etherum.

bitcoin is for payments whereas etherum is for smart contracts we can write any program encrypted in etherum blockchain so both the coins have different advantages all together

The difference between bitcoin and ethreum are bitcoin is the first crypto currency and it is the king of all crypto and ethreum and other coins only follow to bitcoin.And if we compare their value even bitcoin going down still it is higher than ethreum.So that bitcoin has a lot of investors and users.Ethereumis is also good, but I don’t think it will ever be able to reach the level of Bitcoin and taking its position as the leading cryptocurrency in the world.

I disagree completely with what you are writing especially when you say that bitcoin is not an innovative technology, if it was not for bitcoin all of this market worth billions of dollars and that in the next years will be worth trillions created by satoshi which created bitcoin will not exist, people do not invest that amount of money in the market with a strong weight on bitcoin out of charity, they do it because they understand the great potential of bitcoin as a technology and as a currency.

In my opinion, bitcoin is like gold in internet world and its used for store of value and used for peer to peer transaction. Ethereum mostly used for bussiness purpose and thats why most token in market using ethereum smart contract

Bitcoin and ethereum both are cryptocurrency. But bitcoin is more popular than ethereum. As bitcoin's price is more than ethereum's price. And also because investors mostly invest on bitcoin.

Bitcoin is different from ethereum by simple as the security. Security or how the blockchain or network of bitcoin is unhackable unlike ethereum that has been hacked by a lot of times and the reason why ethereum is not a good option for investing for long term purposes because it has a record that things can be messed up because of its security.

IMHO

go with your heart, it is like comparing a apple to a orange, pick whatever one you like! just remember some fruits rot a lot faster than others.

Now many projects are based on ethereum because of its blockchain technology. Bitcoin is very fast in its growth and Ethereum takes time to show its growth. Both are good for investment so Bitcoin and Ethereum are both good coins for investment. Bitcoin is the king of cryptocurrency while ethereum is next to bitcoin. Bitcoin is suitable for long-term and short-term investments. But Ethereum is only for long-term investment

Ethereum with smart contract is powerfull platform for bussiness. Ethereum is good long term investment. Recently i am reading online media that some analys make prediction ethereum can reach $2500 end this year and $15k on 2023.

Lolzzzz this is very funny😂😂 some people has the time to be checking all these things lol. I don’t even have time to be checking the difference between BTC and Ethereum, all I know is that they are all cryptocurrencies, no time at all.

Ever since I discovered Ethereum I have never had the time to check it out and read about. I just take it that Ethereumis the same thing with Bitcoin, they all serve the same purpose… so I don’t know what you mean by crypto petroleum, lol… are you putting in your cars fuel tank? 😆

For me, Bitcoin is the Father of the crypto World. It is the first thing that you will know when you want to study about Digital Currency. Ethereum, on the other hand, is what we can describe as Bitcoin's number one Competitor. though some say that Ethereum is better than Bitcoin, I can't comment on that. because they have their own advantages.

It has a big difference since bitcoin become the root of everything, because of its existence a lot of opportunities out there are coming our way because of this and we are all thankful for this kind of opportunity as we have all given the chance to earn more and to explore our limits and knowledge.

Bitcoin is the king of all the crypto coins followed by the ethereum. Ethereum on the other hand is the boss among qll the altcoins. In a nutshell they are all digital currencies.

The different between the two bitcoin and ethereum is that the bitcoin is the first in cryptocurrency and establish its name already in the cryptoworld as leader of all the altcoins in the market, and bitcoin has a high price value in all altcoin in the market ,while ethereum is just still rising ,lower value than bitcoin and it has yet to establish its name in the cryptoworld as a good kind of altcoin, next to bitcoin.

If you look at it that way, then I would agree. Both Bitcoin and Ethereum possess their own pros and cons in terms of what it can offer to the table as an investment medium. It has different capabilities due to its differences in price point and marketability, but no doubt, both the coins are good coins to actually hold and invest upon it is two of the best coins in the market. It just depends on the season you would choose to invest in, there are times when Bitcoin is doing good while Eth does not and vice versa. You just have to choose the right time.

They are all digital currencies? Could be, depending on how far you can stretch your definition of a digital currency. Ethereum & co technically aren't supposed to be used outside their own ecosystem. They are all crypto currencies? They aren't. Bitcoin and Litecoin are pure crypto currencies, where Ethereum and all other rubbish have to be put in the category of regular tokens, equity tokens, utility tokens, etc. Other than that, Ethereum is the first after Bitcoin to become actually successful and maintain and even increase in value throughout the years, which despite my dislike towards Ethereum, is quite an impressive achievement.

no. there are many projects based on ethereum and many merchants accept it as payment. of its use and function are also many different. ethereum with its platform can create a token for the offered project. and transactions in need of gas. so actually a lot of difference in bitcoin and ethereum.
both of this coin is really good option for investment

Actually, btc and eth they are vastly different projects and have different intentions, bitcoin has emerged as a relatively stable digital currency  while eth aims to encompass more, with eth just a component of its smart contract applications,

This comparison explain a lot and its favor the Ethereum but for me the huge difference was Bitcoin will not need any commodities just to be promote and to be advertise unlike Ethereum it will always rely to its ERC20 platform just to make the demand to increase therefore if the ICO numbers will reduce in any reasons or the platform will be replace by another platform like the Wave then for sure Ethereum demand will reduce.

There are some technical differences in technologies that support the Bitcoin and Ethereum platforms, but in the early stages of this project, they are more or less the same. As these projects will grow, the differences may become much more tangible and can influence the direction of their own goals.
 Another important difference is the amount. The amount of Bitcoin is limited to 21 million, but the number of Ethereum is not limited to a certain amount.

The most obvious thing different from bitcoin and ethereum is with ethereum we can keep hundreds of tokens, this is because ethereum is sophisticated and can be used for tokens, while bitcoins can not be used to create tokens like ethereum, so I think ethereum is better than bitcoin.

Bitcoub was the first crypto currency of it's kind but Ethereum is one of the most useful. I mean even on exchanges we convert alt coins to Ethereum first then bitcoin. Yes also, Bitcoin is like gold totally decorative, ethereum however is much more useful. I also believe that Ethereum will one day reign supreme over all crypto currencies. 

Actually this might be hundred percent right in your point of view and many others as well but not hundred percent right in many others. The thing is, every person comes here with different mindset and sense of trading or investing. So to some, this eth gets maximum attraction and for others this comes at second place after bitcoin. Both are amazing just depending upon what you want.

The blockchain network of ethereum and bitcoin is where all the difference between the two coins initiates , the coin of ethereum is one which supports its own cryptocurrency on its blockchain and as well as other small cyrpto currency or altcoins whereas bitcoin blockchain network is too large to support any other coin

  As for me it's just a water that took time for you. The idea of the article is not bad, but from execution as a beginner.
  You as an investor invest in Ether - because it costs much cheaper than bitcoin. And what about me when bitcoin grows then and the ether grows. It's just bitcoin harder to buy and it will be true when you buy it for 2-3 pcs

Do you have the link to those predictions? Because I would like to read why do they think ethereum can reach that huge price at the end of the year when we are in the middle of a bear market, and if they do not give convincing reasons I will probably never read anything from those persons again, I'm bullish in the long term for ethereum and the whole market but in the short term things are not looking good.

They are different in platforms and concepts but if you will simply tell this to a stranger or to another person that you are encouraging to join as well, you will tell them that they are just the same, that they are like money in the internet!

obviously different. in terms of value alone is different. that's all I know

Yes that is true both Bitcoin and Ethereum is a long investment but all I can say that they are just differ from the value of the price. Although they have the same functions in the community just like paying bills in different areas that can be accessable.

Between these two projects there are many small differences. As the average time of each block of Bitcoin is 10 minutes and Ethereum is 12 seconds. The faster block generation means faster transaction confirmation.
The transaction costs of Ethereum and Bitcoin are also quite different. In Ethereum the cost for the transaction depends on their storage needs, complexity, bandwidth capacity. Also in Bitcoin the transactions are limited in each block size and equal with each other.

That's the big difference between the both crypto currency , Bitcoin and etherium, obviously pice value is the big difference between them and also Bitcoin is ahead to etherium when it comes to start to built in crypto currency
 And we must say it as a pioneer in the industry of crypto world.

Btc and ETh also cost their transactions in different ways ,in eth it is called  gas and costing  of transactions  depends on their storage needs while in btc  the transactions are limited  by the block size and they compete equally with each other,

Eth is that it is not just a digital currency, it is blockchain based  platform with many aspects, it features smart contracts.

yes of course the bitcoin and ethereum are very different, the bitcoin has a coin which has a maximum supply limit of 21 million pieces of bitcoin and no longer exhausted, whereas ethereum has a very unlimited supply so it makes ethereum very much its supply and differs considerably bitcoin.

although its bitcoin values are higher than etehrum, but demands on etherum are not inferior to bitcoin. as altcoin which becomes the biggest platform for bounty campaign, will automatically make etherum become more holders.

Well you can say both of them are being used under business and individual level. Bitcoin is also an effective element in business and it is being used in foreign counties where bitcoin is legal. Where eth is mainly used as non-business thing as far as I know. May be this is wrong but I have got this over internet. Whatever coin it is, just use them for your own betterment and get things done.

Prominent differences we can see from the price, bitcoin has the highest price and ethereum number two. Bitcoin is the main popular coin then next ethereum.

Unlike ether, bitcoin will always lead in all tops. By bitinoin always deduced in phyat and vice versa. According to the bitcoin the future, it is stronger and will always be in the first place.

I am hardly looking forward to have the similar posts describing the Cardano as the new generation of blockchain, the new bitcoin and ethereum, the next Conqueror of all the crypto currencies in the world, lol. You will remember my words.

Thank you for sharing that, in my opinion most of us including me are drastically uneducated in this questions, and maybe the overall market and stability is caused also because of that we don't actually fully understand in what we are involved in.

 Bitcoin has long been dominant in the cryptocurrency scene, it is certainly not alone. Ethereum is another cryptocurrency related project that has attracted a lot of hype because of its additional features and applications.

Let’s have a look towards differences between Ethereum and Bitcoin besides their similarities. The important thing we know about the Bitcoin is not present in Ethereum as we know that Bitcoin is base currency which has affect on other cryptocurrencies.

Bitcoin helps us to get more profit while Ethereum helps us in getting lesser profit than Bitcoin. Moreover the Bitcoin benefits us in both its markets the most either in low market or high market.

Yes, they are been running for a while now and already proved their worth, bitcoin and ethereum have different blockchain and they are both leading those blockchain now.

I don't know how ethereum can help us to get lesser profit in bitcoin because if you are investing in ethereum and you are buying at the high price then you are in a high risk to lose a lot of money but if you are just buying ethereum at a low price point then you will not experience the lesser profit because instead of losing you will earn more bitcoins.

Bitcoin still leads the crypto market which dictates the majority behavior of all cryptocurrencies. In other hand ethereum are now in competing with bitcoin for popularity and demands with investors looking both which are the great potential of investment in decentralized technology.

Ethereum differs from bitcoin in concept of functioning and slightly different technology.
It's very prosperous coin with good value but unlike bitcoin it can be so widely used and it will never be at the same position as bitcoin is. Also I don't expect that it will ever reach so high value as bitcoin.

Bitcoin for me is the main crypto and this is the major in crypto trading , yes ethereum is a digital petroleum because this is gas to transfer our erc20 tokens to other ethereum address .I agree with you, ethereum have more purpose and good for long term investment .

They are two different blockchains and they cover different niches. bitcoin was designed to be used principally as a means of payment while ethereum was designed to take care of Smart contracts

For the sake of argument, let's assume Ethereum is indeed decentralized, then everything running on top of it is heavily subject to Ethereum's centralization. The only reason it is not a big deal for projects yet, is because they only care about noobs buying their ICO tokens. This will change eventually, where ICO's will no longer seek to run on top of something, but just operate their own blockchain that they can scale as they wish.

Also don't forget that everything running on top of Ethereum is directly pumping worthless data into its blockchain, which will lead to less nodes, and more node congestion amonst smaller groups of entities.

Bitcoin and Etherium are powered by the principle of distributed ledger's and cryptogrphy, the two differ in many technical ways. For example the programming language used by etherium is turning complete whereas Bitcoin is in stack based language. Other differences include block time  ( Ethereum transaction is confirmed in seconds compared to minutes for bitcoin ) and their basic builds ( Ethereum uses ethash while bitcoin uses secure hash algorithm, SHA 256)

I think that btc is more popular but in reality they have many common features and this can explain the great popularity of ether as well as btc. i m sure that btc is the best of the best but ether is a real rival of btc

bitcoin is king and ethereum is queen of crypto currency? I guess that's not the difference between bitcoin and ethereum

one that distinguishes between bitcoin and ethereum is the amount of supply of the coin. if bitcoin is limited to only 21 million coins while ethereum is not limited in number

Basically Both are good cryptocurrencies but bitcoin is a most popularity & other ETH not so big popularity. Bitcoin price high & ETH not so high & also there are many different this both cryptocurrencies

I don’t even have time to be checking difference between cryptocurrencies, all I know is that they are all the same thing. You can use Bitcoin for making transactions and same can also be done with Ethereum. You can invest money in Bitcoin and can also invest money in Ethereum.

Ethereum can be used or everything that we use Bitcoin for, so there is no difference, unless you want to be reading all these meaningless things.

in my opinion bitcoin is of course very different from ethereum you can see from the very limited supply of bitcoin and from very high demand make bitcoin and ethereum very different.

Totally agree with OP. Bitcoin could be compared to digital gold. Since it is one of the first cryto currencies and is definitely expensice as anything. But there are not much uses and projects under Bitcoin. On the other hand, Ethereum is younger still than Bitcoin but it has way more uses and projects under their belt. Even converting alt coins to Bitcoins need to be exchanged to Ethereum first.

Yeah, the main thing here is that they both serve two different functions which make them to have their own complete differences.
The thing about bitcoin is that it is more focused on being the currency aspect that would make everyone make easy and swift transactions without a third party while Ethereum is more concentrated on the whole smart contract thing which makes it highly valuable as well considering the number of tokens that has come out of the platform.

Ethereum is just an altcoin and alternative cryptocurrencies are just created in order for other investors to have a variety of coin to choose since cryptocurrency is widely use in different countries now a days.

The dominance rate was here we bitcoin beats ethereum, bitcoin has a valuation of 154 billion dollars whereas the valuation of ethereum is half of that and the price of the coins is 500 of one unit of ethereum whereas the price of bitcoin is 700 per unit for bitcoin

First of all I would like to say that the title of this topic has been opened by a complete information intern. He does not even write the name of one of the two options he wants to compare, but he shares his ridiculous thoughts with the users here. I would like to state that there is no cryptocurrency called '' Etherium '', there is a cryptocurrency called '' Ethereum ''. For that reason, I think it is useful to be careful and not to accept what we know.

The two coin led the market, and the BTC remained the king of cryptography, without any coin that could compete so I believed in BTC rather than ETH.

Off kilter for all the great reasons bitcoin will dependably remain on the best regardless. I mean there is more fascination towards the bitcoin instead of ethereum regardless of what advancements happen in any of them. Its realize that individuals dependably begin with BTC when they go into the cryptographic money and bit by bit they begin moving towards the ETEHREUM. In this manner, its the moderate procedure and that is the reason we have ETH on the second position after all the application it has. Most likely it will rise too later on however BTC will dependably lead for every one of the distinctions that you expressed and what I just said.

No, Ethereum is more than an altcoin, this altcoins was created not only to imitate the bitcoins blockchain but to solve, improve and develop more technologies that they may add into it. Bitcoin we know its features and advantages but if you don't fully know what is the difference behind these two you can't say altcoins is just an alternative as saying in equivalent like its useless.

Bitcoin is the father of all the cryptocurrencies while etherium is the second cryptocurrency.Bitcoin is the most popular and the most valuable and expensive one while etherium is not that expensive and popular.Although etherium is doing well in the market but it does not have that potential and capability to overtake bitcoin.Bitcoin in today's date is the best option for investment purposes as it gives tremendous amounts of profits and that too in a short period of time.Etherium does not give that much of profits.

Bitcoin and ethereum are of course two different crypto, of course have advantages and disadvantages, and the most interesting thing from ethereum is that it can be used to make tokens that look very interesting than bitcoin.

Bitcoin becomes the first crypto so it is most popular than ethereum or another, until whenever bitcoin is hard to replace as it is a standard price for altcoins and already a lot of big companies are investing in bitcoin.

Ethereum is a good coin that currently occupies second position after bitcoin, I'm sure that ethereum usage keeps increasing because it is used for hundreds of tokens.

Bitcoin is a “cryptocurrency. while Ethereum is  a token.  Ethereum’s innovation is that it allows you to write Smart Contracts. Ethereum dramatically improves this model because it is digital, and proof of the transaction can never be deleted.
Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are competing against existing money (and gold) to replace them with a truly global currency.A global currency which allows individuals to own their own money (without having to rely on national banks).

the difference between the two is the bitcoin is the precursor, and etherum is altcoin.
of course both have far-reaching differences as well, bitcoin has a greater belief than Ethereum.
but if compared with Bitcoincash, the bitcoin's own cousin's sister. I prefer Ethereum. because Ethereum trust I think is bigger than Bitcoincash.

Although there are many similarities in nature, these two currencies are still different in terms of technology and their role.
Bitcoin and Ethereum are the two most heavily invested electronic currencies in the current Cryptocurrency market.
Bitcoin is the father of all cryptocurrencies while Ethereum is the second cryptocurrency.
If set Ethereum next to Bitcoin, it is easy to see that both are good candidates to call for investment in the ICO and all operate on the Blockchain protocol. However, every electronic money is born to build a strategy for their own, to make a difference.
Bitcoin stores data on peer-to-peer computer systems and has never been deeply intervened, while Ethereum has branched out after DAO is attacked.
And a lot of difference.

Understandably, Bitcoin is simply created and valued as a currency to hold values, while Ethereum is more inclined to create a platform based on smart contracts. smart contract).

Ethereum has a blockchain protocol that is more powerful than Bitcoin, with an average of only 12 seconds per Ethereum block, while Bitcoin takes 10 minutes. As such, the Ethereum transaction will occur faster than Bitcoin trading.

After digging Bitcoin, the digger receives the reward but the value is reduced by half every four years, now 12.5 bits. Ethereum relies on POW job proof algorithms to reward 5 ether for each block.

Ethereal's hacker penetration is higher than the rest of the currency because Ethereum runs Turing-complete code, and if enough time is spent, all calculations will be made.

Bitcoin concentrates on ASICs while Ethereum is against that and encourages miners to decentralize on an individual basis. One point to note is that when digging Ethereum, the diggers have to use more dedicated graphics cards.

I dont think that bitcoin and ether have many differencies

Bitcoin was the first virtual currency . Etherium is not just a digital currency it is a blockchai platform with many aspects. The two also have there similarities  bitcoin and ether is both cryptocurrencies and niether of the two is controlled or regulated by centralized body but the main difference of bitcoin and ether is the speed bitcoin creates block every 10 minutes and ether creates every 15 seconds.

I think bitcoin is a big reason to other currencies to continue in this world and etherum is following with bitcoin

It's not so easy to realise. You have to think the same way as the market will see these assets. And market over long period of time thinks that Bitcoin is the king. And even if we see that some coin has more and more usage and adoption it doesn't mean it will be number 1. If you remember few years ago people think the same way about Bitshares. But as we can see it's not even in top20.

Bitcoin can be referred as digital gold that ,It had been one of the first cryptocurrencies to appear and such a popular coin nowadays while Etherium is an Eth-petroleum that had been launched at the beginning of the crypto market development.

While both Bitcoin and Ethereum are powered by the principle of distributed ledgers and cryptography, the two differ in many technical ways. For example, the programming language used by Ethereum is Turning complete whereas Bitcoin is in a stack based language. Other differences include block time (Ethereum transaction is confirmed in seconds compared to minutes for Bitcoin) and their basic builds (Ethereum uses ethash while Bitcoin uses secure hash algorithm, SHA-256). (See also: Risks and Rewards of Investing in Bitcoin.) However, from a general point of view, Bitcoin and Ethereum differ in purpose. While Bitcoin is created as an alternative to regular money and is thus a medium of payment transaction and store of value, Ethereum is developed as a platform which facilitates peer-to-peer contracts and applications via its own currency vehicle. While Bitcoin and Ether are both digital currencies, the primary purpose of Ether is not to establish itself as a payment alternative (unlike Bitcoin) but to facilitate and monetize the working of Ethereum to enable developers to build and run distributed applications.

Ethereum is certainly faster than Bitcoin – with transactions typically settling in seconds, rather than minutes. But it also takes things further. While still blockchain based, and operating as a store of value, its fans and evangelists see it as a platform for distributed computing, which comes with its own built-in currency, called Ether.

While the Bitcoin blockchain can simply be pictured as a database of accounts (or wallets) with an amount of currency stored in each, the Ethereum network blockchain is a more sophisticated construction, capable of storing computer code – applications – that can use the CPU power going into the network to execute.

Bitcoin and ethereum are two very different coins, and according to experience from experts states that ethereum is better than bitcoin because it is safer, but for today's popular bitcoin can not yet be replaced.

Ethereum is a scattered public blockchain network. Although there are many technical differences between Bitcoin and Ethereum, the main difference is its purpose and function. Bitcoin offers a peer-to-peer electronic money system for Bitcoin payments or transfers. While Ethereum focuses its blockchain to run a decentralized program, including one payment or an Ether transfer.

What a great debate mate,you perfectly delivered what is right to learned by all of us.and not this nonsense about what OP says..ethereum is a copycat and not to be trusted as what blockchain is

Many has become a ethereum believer because of the popularity he has by many shit projects using its platform to scam investors,but the true value of this is just a shit

the most basic deed to my knowledge is the purpose of them is very different, bitcoin tested is used as digital gold / wealth storage assets while ethereum aims to be a smart contract plaform, apart from that the amount of bitcoin is also limited to 21 million coins only after it will not there is a bitcoin that is produced again while the ethereum does not have a production amount, CMIIW

While Bitcoin and Ether are both digital currencies, the primary purpose of Ether is not to establish itself as a payment alternative (unlike Bitcoin) but to facilitate and monetize the working of Ethereum to enable developers to build and run distributed applications (ĐApps).

This is impossible to say. ETH is also very popular in the world. Many companies and organizations are also investing in ETH every day. ICO projects are created on the platform of ETH. I think it is possible that in the future ETH will be able to replace Bitcoin

Both currencies are different from there nature process and working. You can't compare bitcoin with ETH 

Bitcoin is a crypto currency where as ETH is an alt .Bitcoin is good for investing and specially for long term process ETH can be used only in trading

Etheruem can be used in creating coins and crowd funding purposes while bitcoin is not.

Between bitcoin and ethereum are many different points of view. As the average time per block of Bitcoin is 10 minutes, and Ethereum is 12 seconds. Time creating blocks faster than synonymous with the confirmation of the transaction will be faster. However, will create many “Orphan Block”. A main difference between them is the source of supply. More than 2/3 of the Bitcoin has been mined and put into circulation on the market. Longer own, Ethereum is not fixed in supply, but that does not mean that Ethereum will be inflation over time.

Ethereum is usefull for bussiness purpose. With smart contract, I am believe every bussiness in the future can be tokenize and peoples no need third party. Bitcoin will more powerfull if used as store of value because bitcoin is like gold

The difference between etherium and bitcoin is the fact that bitcoin is nothing more than a currency, whereas etherium is ledger technology that companies are using to build new programs, Both bitcoin and etherium operate on what is called blockchain technology however etherium is far more robust. If bitcoin was version 1.0, etherium is 2.0, allowing for the building of decentralized applications to be built on top of it.

means Ethereum is better than bitcoin?
I think bitcoin is still the best right now, and besides I think it's just a confidence factor. bitcoin has greater confidence than ETH.
and also bitcoin is the first coin.

The difference between bitcoin and ethereum is that the bitcoin was born before the etherum and the value of the bitcoin was much larger than that of the etherum etherum but was inherited by the bitcoin technology and improved.

The most noticeable thing is that it is the top coin of the electronics market. The credibility of the electronic market if one owns it in large numbers, is great. The same thing is electronic money to trade everything when it is recognized in the financial markets. The difference is the different birth dates of the specifications are also different, which also does not affect the common users.

Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency.Etherium is a token invented by Satoshi Nakomoto and was introduced January 2009 while Etherium is a token invented by Vitalik Buterin,J9seph Lubin etc and was introduced on July 2015.

The Bitcoin blockchain has a block limit of 1 MB. what that means is the the number of transactions that fit into a single block cannabis exceed a 1 MB. the time it takes to mine, or create, a new block on the bitcoin blockchain is about 10 minutes. this effectively means that the bitcoin network can handle 3-4 transactions per second.

The Ethereum blockchain does not have a block limit. the number of transactions that are put into a block are decided by the members. each block is mined in 12-14 seconds and the number of transactions per second are around 15.

Yes bitcoin is good in that sense no doubt and that is the reason that still people have more trust on bitcoin than any other currency. But I think that we should also accept the importance of Ethereum which is providing assistant to people for developing their projects.

Bitcoin and Ethereum are considered two of the largest and most popular electronic currencies currently available. If you compare Ethereum and Bitcoin, it's easy to spot differences. Bitcoin is created and valued. a currency, Ethereum is inclined to create a platform based on smart contracts. On the world's only 21 million bitcoin, Ethereum is not limited by the amount.

Bitcoin được tạo ra và có giá trị như một loại tiền tệ để lưu giữ những giá trị, trong khi đó, Ethereum lại nghiêng về việc tạo ra một nền tảng giao dịch dựa trên smart contract

Ethereum có giao thức blockchain mạnh hơn Bitcoin, thời gian trung bình mỗi khối của Ethereum chỉ có 12 giây, trong khi Bitcoin tốn mất 10 phút. Như vậy, giao dịch Ethereum sẽ diễn ra nhanh hơn so với giao dịch bằng Bitcoin.

Thank for the clarification. I now understand the difference and similarity between Bitcoin and Etherium.

Bitcoin having some expertise in it's part as computerized gold offering the tried and true money related framework free from out limited expansion and political mediation. Ethereum developing into world PC a Blockchain based programming dialect empowering code based contract and decentralized application.

Bitcoin was the first digital currency, while Ethereum was born with the hope of providing a more complete digital currency.

I hope that it will help you a lot and give an information about bitcoin between ethereum.
A lot of different things through the role of digital currency and any cryptos.

Bitcoin is a digital currency that was originally created as an alternative to the financial system and Ethereum can be used to create and run smart contract applications via blockchain.

Bitcoin concentrates on ASICs while Ethereum is against that and encourages miners to decentralize on an individual basis. One point to note is that when digging Ethereum, the diggers have to use more dedicated graphics cards.
Bitcoin stores data on peer-to-peer storage systems and has never been deeply intervened, while Ethereum has branched out after DAO is attacked.

Ethereal's hacker penetration is higher than the rest of the currency because Ethereum runs Turing-complete code, and if enough time is spent, all calculations will be made.
When dealing, Ethereum pays for gas (which can be converted to an Ether), calculated on the amount of bandwidth along with its storage needs. Bitcoin seems to be more pleasing when transactions are always equal, being limited by the size of each block.

There is a huge gap between Bitcoin and Etherium. Bitcoin is called Crypto King. And the crypto works as a regulator for all the activities of the world.
On the other hand, Etherium works as the base of Altcoin. And Etherium is a part of Altcoin.

Both offer anonymous transactions, and neither of the two is controlled or regulated by a centralised body. While both bitcoin and ether are cryptocurrencies, the ethereum blockchain is very different from the bitcoin blockchain. ... Also, they cost their transactions in different ways.

NICE post very informative,some points is just new to me and i thank you for putting this here,maybe from this post many investors might learn why they will be investing on bitcoin or ethereum ,looking on their option for the hard earned money to use as capital

Bitcoin is the main crytocurrency and ethereum is an altcoin. We can say that bitcoin is the father of digital money or cryptocurrency and ethereum is a son.

I think ETH is becoming more popular because of less fees. Investors can also get higher returns with ETH.

Bitcoin and Ethereum are for the cryptocurrencies as the USD and EUR are for real (centralized) currencies. It remains to know who is who in this comparison. I see Bitcoin as the base-currency. It serves as a reference for others, including Ethereum. On the other hand, the Ethereum, if it oscillates up or down, can, yes, also influence the value of Bitcoin.

It has the first mover advantage to begin with. That is more than you can ever know. Ethereum is now gaining public acknowledgement however when bitcoin first came out and news never even heard of eth and etc people were talking about what the price of bitcoin will be on news and economy shows, which means bitcoin was known by the public and the financial sectors in a longer period of time. You have to consider this and judge two coins on that, ethereum hasn't paved the path bitcoin has gone.

Then bitcoin has thousands of sons and daughters, lol ? The prime differences I like to mention, supply limitation. Etherium does not have any cap on its total supply. It is gaining popularity due too its capability of providing easy platform for tokens but already many coins are having that capability hence etherium is not unique whereas when bitcoin was introduced it is am unique way of payment system.

Ethereum is more functional platform than Bitcoin. Btc - it is simply p2p payment system, but Ether provides a lot of features like smart-contracts, launching initial coin offerings etc.

To simply understand about the BTC and ETH, i will use the nickname of them, BTC- blockchain 1.0 and ETH is the blockchain2.0. Although BTC has alot of disavantage such as: low transaction, high fee, not secure... but i think it will sit at the TOP 1 in crypto in the long time and if you want to get the profit, you can invest in it.

The basic difference between bitcoin and ethereum is:
1. Ethereal blast time is 14 to 15 seconds, while bitcoin is 10 minutes. The faster block generation means that a transaction will be faster.
2. The number of bitcoins is limited to 21 million. That means: every 4 years the reward of each bitcoin block will decrease by 1/2. Meanwhile, Ethereum does not limit the number.

We can say Eth is a pillar for altcoin family. Everyone is praising eth for its amazing performance in past few years. There was always a discussion on this topic that if not bitcoin, then what? Which coin must be selected who in under affordability criteria for most of population. Still, if someone have enough money, he may go for some other options as well.

They have both the same as a digital crypto currency and good for investment. But they have big differences in price value. Bitcoin price value is higher than Ethereum but this two characters need its other to gain more popularity.

You can only see the difference when you decide to go deeper with it and break down every of their details. But basically they are all the same thing and they are all being used for making transactions, you can send and receive payment with all from friends and family, and all of them can also serve as investment.

It’s only developers that will tell you that they are not the same, but you that is a basic/simple user won’t see that, and how the heck is that your business? Lol.

As I manage and spend my earning of both bitcoin and ethereum, bitcoin is different in ethereum even if that two are came from crypto currency. I can pay bills in bitcoin, can use as a payment some of the botique in the market and ethreum can't do the same as bitcoin.

I agree with you, and I'm sure ETH will be more expensive because as far as I know, now more and more people are interested. even though the price is now down, because of some additions I know. about this ETH will be released every year after the Genesis block reaches 26% in the initial funding phase, with 60 million ETH and Bitcoin released from the first, without crowdfunding. Etherium Fee transactions depend on the computing power of each client. Including bandwidth, and storage space needed in 1 block. This is called GAS on Ethereum while BTC is not distinguished,
The first creation of the ETH Block averaged 1 block in 12 seconds while BTC averaged 1 block in 10 minutes, this is why BTC is also becoming increasingly rare. but for some reason the price is now also down, this is beyond predictions. between Ethereum and Bitcoin together as a cryptocurrency decentralized using a peer-to-peer network. so I hope eth can make changes in the Crypto world with the technology that is now ERC-20, ERC-223, ERC-721. etc.

Bitcoin is different from etherium, first reason is the price value, etherium is just a flatform currency in processing of  conversion og coins. We can process any transactions but it needs a third party to function unlike Bitcoin can be transact directly no third party involve.

So there are pros and cons of every little thing in this universe. Nothing is made perfect except the god. Everything has got some loopholes and bad point that it can’t be compared and chosen as the perfect thing to have. Likewise here in this world of crypto, eth and bitcoin, both are amazing in their own regard. They are cheap and expensive, good and better respectively.

You can see that the difference you have is that bitcoin is just the intermediate coin to keep altcoin and dollars while ETH is the coin basis for altcoin. So, you can see that bitcoin dominates the crypto market, and at present bitcoin prices are in the long-term downtrend, which is very bad, which has made altcoin prices fall sharply and very well. Hard to recover and ETH is also among them.

It's an educative post. To add to what is being said already, Ethereum smart contracts capabilities is what should be term the disruptive technology itself. Ethereum has made it easy for several others solutions to emerge as a result of her platform.

Ethereum can be used in creating coins and crowd funding purposes while bitcoin is not.

Will in my own definition bitcoin is a first digital currency sytem created by satoshi nakamoto in order to  create a cashless society,while ethereum is the first altcoins thats can become a platform wallet  thats can be used in different trading or exchange different kinds of crypto coins,but probably this two  are the major  coins thats leads us now in coin market caps.

Bitcoin and Ethereum are the two most heavily invested electronic currencies in the Ethereal market, which are prone to creating a trading platform based on smart contracts.

I see that ethereum will be brilliant in the future because one of its functions is as a platform for creating platforms for new decentralized projects that we can call smart contracts, ERC20 tokens are an example of the success of this smart contract. ECR20 tokens that ride the blockchain technology choose ETH have been running almost in all fields of activity that continue to mushroom and make etheruem increasingly known and widely used

For my self Etherium and Bitcoin are really big help for me and my family even if I don't dream for being rich because of them, Stable financial for my family is enough for me. The Difference between Etherium and Bitcoin is their Price Value because Etherium is very too much lower than Bitcoin but regarding for services to All people are almost the same.

btc is the original and Beginning. eth is the follows.

Bitcoin is the first digital currency that we can used to pay bills or pay online  now, and ethereum is also known because of many token it has.

This is of no doubt that Bitcoin is a base currency and has all the achievements and popularity but rest of the cryptocurrencies are also struggling and made positions strong and responding to our actions. However we choose Bitcoin as a better currency for our selves due to its huge profit productivity and for fast transactions. Ethereum keeps second place in digital ranking due to its second highest price and performance.

As for the origin, simply understand that Bitcoin was created and valued as a currency to hold values, while Ethereum was more inclined to create a platform based on smart contracts.

well, it can be said that bitcoin and ETH have different platforms. so, of course these two coins are different. but, even though it's different, but until now, the price of ETH has always been affected by the price of bitcoin.

More than two-thirds of Bitcoin has been exploited and put into circulation on the market. Ethereum alone does not have a fixed supply, but that does not mean that Ethereum will suffer inflation over time. This is a special strategic direction of Vitalik Buterin, it is known that half the supply will be put into operation when Ethereum is 5 years old.

In terms of value, Bitcoin is much larger than Ethereum. But in terms of development potential, Ethereum could face up to Bitcoin directly.

By origin, Bitcoin is created as a currency to store value. Ethereum was created as a smart trading platform.

Currently these two coins are developed on two different platforms. BTC is always more valuable than ETH, but in terms of popularity, ETH is more popular than BTC.

Bitcoin is like a ramp to the cryptocurrency world. It is both a medium of payment and a digital gold, so you can almost treat it as an encrypted reserve asset. It is really good in terms of payment. Meanwhile, Ethereum is the world's computer platform. It is the Blockchain platform that contains smart contracts that can be built on that foundation.

So how about etherium ?  Etherium is can be also called a digital silver  and also a medium of payment because it can be used for both purposes just like what we have on bitcoin.

The only main difference between them , is that  bitcoin is the main cryptocurrency and etherium is just a mere altcoin but both of them are still superb or superior because of their solid characteristics .

Choosing both coins is also a good idea rather than choosing only one .

Bitcoin is simply a cryptocurrency, it is the future of the payment system. While Ethereum is a new platform that everything can set up on it. So things like Facebook's decentralization or all things connecting and cross-sensing to all kinds of devices, to tedious things like ICO, you can put everything on the platform.

The same is Blockchain technology but between Ethereum and Bitcoin there are quite a lot of differences. Bitcoin aims to form a currency, while Ethereum is a development platform.

Bitcoin is the lord of cryptographic money and Ethereum is ruler of digital currency.

This two coins are sparkling in the market from long.

As contrasted with the level of financial specialists in this two coins is more noteworthy than all altcoin. Presently a days numerous ICO is rely upon Ethereum and this made immense financial specialists in Ethereum.

Bitcoin has been made to create a substitution for online payments and anonimize them. Ethereum on the other hand is a project made to create other projects on its blockchain with Solidity as a programming language. They are quite different projects but both can be used for payments.

Bitcoin can be called by simply "dollar digitized". This currency is quite similar to the US dollar, except for the complex rules that come with the banking system. This is not a technology. Bitcoin is not a company either. It is your own money, stored in digital form.
What makes Ethereum different is technology, not cryptocurrency. Ethereum coin is called "Ether" and, like Bitcoin, Ethereum can be bought/sold, and used by investors to call for investment in the ICO. Both Bitcoin and Ethereum all work on Blockchain technology, but Ethan's Blockchain is much more powerful. If Bitcoin is version 1.0 then Ethereum is 2.0, which allows building decentralized applications on its platform.

Bitcoin is a king and ethereum is a queen who always next to bitcoin.Bitcoin can be used as a payment system while eth is a coin can used in investing in the market.Bitcoin was decentralized and Ethereum was developing its new platform to develop a currency.

BTC has been around for 10yrs,,that's a long while to be in any industry competitively

There are many major differences between Bitcoin and Etherium. For example, Etherium is the power and foundation of Altcoin. 98% of Altcoin's uses are by Etherium. On the other hand, Bitcoin is the first online currency of the crypto world. Bitcoin works as the controller of all Altcoin and Etherium.

You are right ethereum is always second to bitcoin, they both have a different blockchain and their are both leading their own blockchain. But bitcoin is the most popular and have a high price coin.

Compared to Bitcoin, Ethereum is not a purely cryptocurrency, but a platform for certain applications consisting of smart contracts.
The scene where ETH is currently being used is the most used for ICO. Once the tide has passed, the value of ETH will drop.

What is more etherum is a little bit more different than bitcoin from the technology side, they have in common not such a lot of things like other coins compared to bitcoin.

The main difference between the two digital coins is that Bitcoin focuses more on the currency and Ethereum on the technology that makes the currency smarter, better, faster and safer. Bitcoin is the first and the most popular and expensive cryptocurrency in the world. While Ethereum is also well-recognized. It takes the second place if we talk about its popularity.

Ethereum is another cryptocurrency, and one many people see as potentially overtaking Bitcoin as the dominant coin in the market.

The biggest difference from bitcoin and ethereum is the main goal of these two projects.

Bitcoin aims to become a digital gold-storing medium, and eventually become a globally adopted currency that can repair or replace conventional money to some extent. Ethereum's goal is to be a platform that can be used by smart contracts and decentralized applications.

About 5 years ago, bitcoin acted as the main cryptocurrency of several dozen that existed at that time. But over time, there was and ascended Ethereum system, which is a kind of upgrade Bitcoin, the creation of a much more advanced service based on the idea of blockchain fundamental difference here is that if the entire Bitcoin system is only and exclusively a mechanism for transactions with a record of them in the blockchain with the added to this all the ability to generate new bitcoins, with which transactions are carried out, then Ethereum expands this field to the possibility to carry out any transactions of any kind., also without certification by any Central authority or any third party. At least that's the theory.

It is all non sense what you have mentioned here and it makes no sense.

The difference between Ethereum and Bitcoin is the fact that Bitcoin is not more than a currency, whereas Ethereum is a ledger technology that companies use to build new program,distinguishing feature is in their monetary supply.
More than 65 percent of bitcoin has already been mined, while since its inception, not more than 50 per cent of ethereum are mined so far. Both are different in block-size,and also block- time.

Yes i do agree on that as well, ethereum has a good potential in the market as well which has the chance to be the next bitcoin when the shortage of mining for bitcoins occur in 2021.

Ethereum is a cryptocurrency that has a full of bugs and it can be the reason for itself to fall and i really believed that the ethereum is not going to be the next bitcoin because if it is the next bitcoin then we can really see the closeness of bitcoin and ethereum in terms of market capitalization but it is not happening so i still believed that there is more to come that is better than ethereum.

Bitcoin and Ethereum are not really the same and some people will tell you that they prefer Ethereum because it is more open and there are lots of projects that can run through Ethereum,  but that’s none of my business.

Since I’m just an investor and all I do is make transactions with the two and also make investment,  apart from these there is nothing else I do with them,  I’m not a developer, so I like the both, most especially bitcoin. Whatever people has to say is none of my business.

Just to make it clear I saw bitcoin even when it does not have a good market, it does settle at the top of the cryptocurrency and has since then been leading in sales. It still is the most sought coin of all and during those times when market was really good it was hailed as the digital gold. So many were very much happy about how bitcoin made their fortune. Now still it is on the top because of its popularity.

I think the biggest difference is that Bitcoin has a bigger investment base and value. Most long-term investments will buy Bitcoin. Etherium has absolute advantage in scalability, and most projects ICO will choose ETH.

This  post opens my mind to have good understanding about Bitcoin and Ethereum. I feel hard to understand or differ between both due to no background knowledge of it. To me, both are different but have similarity. No matter the differences from Bitcoin and Ethereum, in my mind both are have much advantages for future. These are best choice of investment.

Bitcoin is more popular than ethereum so many people investing in bitcoin rather than ethereum but for me those two are nearly the same that will be part of our future payment systems. Bitcoin started the trend of crypto market and followed up by altcoins and ethereum is needed for you to make transactions to other altcoins. having those two in your wallet will guarantee you a better profit in the future if you manage those two carefully.

To my mind, it is necessary to be a professional specialist to differentiate between them, I think that you need to buy ether as it has good potential and it costs not as much as btc. To my mind,you have to learn more about them asking experts

Bitcoin is a digital cryptocurrency in the country, it goes for the future and provides a payment system for their coin. While an Ethereum is the latest platform that can set up any of these things. So as social media decentralization or all of these earning mods are connected to all types of devices sometimes also fun like the ICO, you can place all the platforms.

Bitcoin has a different platform from ETH. But both are popular coins and also in traders's eye both are valuable coins. In future definitely bitcoin and ETH give us profit, But bitcoin is in number First forever. 

For me bitcoin is an expensive investment while ethereum is the affordable one but both are profitable investments depending on one's strategies, experience and patience.

I hold the same view until I read that Ethereum has only one application - ICO. I am wondering, what other application apart from ICO does Ethereum support? Are we hoping that the foretold Ethereum fork is aimed at addressing this?

BTC has a higher TPS & SPT than Ethereum

Bitcoins is the base of all the crypto currencies and therefore it is the best.

You guide us good, it is right, better to choose both of them rather than choose only one. But if we compare which one is better than definitely Bitcoin will be in first position than ETH.

When you said ethereim poses more investors interest meaning this was in demand?if your basis is the rampant usage of this coin for ico project then you are definitely wrong because this was just being used for scamming and nothing concerns as for the investors,when time comes that this ico's putted policies and regulations for sure the demand for ethereum will goes down and again bitcoin wins

Bitcoin is primary investment in cryptomarket and ethereum is bussiness platform. I am prefer think bitcoin is store of value and can be used as currency and ethereum is my second investment choice. Both are good coin and its worth to invest

As the average time of each block of Bitcoin is 10 minutes and Ethereum is 12 seconds More than two thirds Bitcoin has been exploited and put into circulation on the market. Ethereum alone does not have a fixed supply that is fundamentally different from ethereu and bitcoin

Me too, but when it comes to its price ethereum is still can afford to buy while bitcoin even drops drastically has still really have a high amount that small investors can't afford to buy a lot. Anyway, they are far different from each other.

Both coin are good but bitcoin is really different to Ethereum, they  say that bitcoin is the   father of CryptoCurrencies and ethereum is different to it because ethereum has a lot of  token unlike in bitcoin.

for me,I think bitcoin is more popular but in reality they have many common features and this can explain the great popularity of ether as well as bitcoin. i m sure that bitcoin is the best of the best but ethereum is a real rival.

The difference between the two is that bitcoin is the main token or currency while etherium is just an alternative coins. But i do think that of all the alternstive coins existing in the market etherium is the best rival of Bitcoin. Since it has been following bitcoins progress in the market.

Totally different in so many ways. Talking about bitcoin being deflationary while Ethereum being inflationary, talking about how one is more of a currency and the other is more of a smart contract platform and so on. One thing is that they both serve unique purposes which make them very useful in the cryptocurrency space and of course, make them keep being on top as they are now if they end up not getting a push from a competition.

Ethereum and Bitcoin differ a lot. If you are interested to get the detailed and curious information about the difference between these cryptos, watch it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSBfuGRvfvw&t=1s

The difference between bitcoin and etherium is their price value. Bitcoin price value is much higher than compare to etherium price value. And interms of popularity bitcoin is the first and etherium is the second.  But they have both good coins and gives good profits. 

Ethereum has open source algorithm to develop own dApp of use like we have seen ERC 20 Tokens in ICOs for raise money for developing a product or service for people. But on the other hand bitcoin does not support open source algorithm.
Ethereum has many applications such as Ethereum Smart contract, ERC-20, Dapps.

In my opinion, Ethereum is very suited in any aspects of the business, where in the near future the Merchants in the entire world would possibly

accept Ethereum as mode of payment to their business. Bitcoin was commonly use for investment and most of the time sending money whatever

country currency you belong as long as the nation has an exchange to convert from BitcoinBTC.

Both are crypto currencies like bitcoin and Ethereum and if we look at the popularity and usage then bitcoin is first ever started crypto while then altcoin starts and Ethereum is altcoin and it's price and value is less than bitcoin but both are them are using for trading and investment in present time.

This is true. Bitcoin will still be the king which is no question at all. This means that as bitcoin grows as well as ethereum will. This is one of their difference, etc depends on btc which is surely no doubt. They also have different market. In which more ICO are into etc now a days, however byc mainly focused on other investments market and mining. But still btc is the best.

Bitcoin is one of the topmost currency in crypto history, today we are in the popular state because of Bitcoin and is always dominant in the market. After Bitcoin, there are many coins proved themselves but at least Ethereum has taken place because with it smart contract technology. Compared to Ethereum, Bitcoin is still a popular currency where the outlet is accepting it for payments.

For me. I think the different of two leaded crypto money is the actually what is use for because eth is a altcoin or alternative coin for bitcoin and actually use for erc20 transactions and bitcoin is use for everybody as well and the difference between bitcoin is known to him all over the world so that's why bitcoin is have more value rather than ethereum.

Well i do believe that bitcoin is really a coin and that ethereum is an alternative coin for bitcoin that could be given and could be trade to bitcoin. At first it is so hard to give bitcoin directly so they choose to have an alternative coin for bitcoin which is the ethereum and all i know that ethereum is a platform and not a real coin like bitcoin.

Bitcoin and Etherium are certainly different, even the two don't do the same thing. but bitcoin and etherium are the same blockchain technology. Etherium is for business, which is built to do business. Bitcoin is a payment and mining solution, Some people will say it is a store of value too. Bitcoin is a very profitable crypto currency. And Ethereum is the best for long-term crypto currencies that can also be profitable. Maybe now you can get more profits on Ethereum compared to bitcoin. Because if you see for now the price of bitcoin is slightly down.

which makes bitcoin and ethereum different, it may be seen clearly from the total supply of bitcoin and ethereum which have different characters, bitcoin has a limited total supply while ethereum is unlimited.

I do not understand why you need to look for differences.  They are needed for different things.

the difference between bitcoin and ethereum is very clear you can see in terms of the total supply, demand and platform of these two coins, this coin platform has a very striking difference, but the technology they have is almost the same.

ethereum is supported natively downloads ICO, and they have 2nd year not getting better. so I think that it is best to step aside

There are lot of different between bitcoin and ethereum. They are totally different crypto currency with different value. The working sector of both coins are different. Ethereum is a currency that accept most of the coin supported.

Yes both of them are not same, when we talk about bitcoin so something profitable and safe comes to my mind but when I think about ETH something investing long and less profit comes to my mind, if we compare both for holding and getting output will make us see how different both of them are, if bitcoin is sky them ETH is earth, for me between bitcoin and ETH are totally change.

I think when we say etherium is a coin that makes it a popular method as Bitcoin.
Bitcoin is the father of all the most sought-after and popular coins and coins in cryptocurrency and until no coin can exceed its price

Looking on recent market condition, i think bitcoin is more stronger than ethereum. Ethereum pairs with bitcoin always drop the price and still not touch the bottom. Bitcoin and ethereum is very different because ethereum used for bussiness purpose and many similiar platform like ethereum

The thing about bitcoin is that it is more focused on being the currency aspect that would make everyone make easy and swift transactions without a third party while Ethereum is more concentrated on the whole smart contract thing which makes it highly valuable as well considering the number of tokens that has come out of the platform.

The most obvious thing different from bitcoin and ethereum is with ethereum we can keep hundreds of tokens, this is because ethereum is sophisticated and can be used for tokens, while bitcoins can not be used to create tokens like ethereum, so I think ethereum is better than bitcoin. ;D ;D

In my opinion, the difference is aimed at the difference in terms of the financial return both of the coins can extend after investment. In that perspective, Bitcoin has somewhat good and strong position and of course this is just because of the demand for the coin.

The demand exist itself because of the benefits that could be derived from the technology in any way possible. There are many ways you can use Bitcoin.

Bitcoin and Ethereum both are known for long term as these two have the same behavior but difference also lies in many ways. Demand for both the coins are different, Ethereum has lower price than that of Bitcoin.

The highly rated coin is the Bitcoin and ETH holds the second position in terms of long term investments. You will get huge profit from Bitcoin and lesser from Ethereum but the right strategy is to invest in both so that you get maximum profit.

Exactly, in my own perspective the differences between the two is bitcoin was the base of all coin. A lot of coin are just made after bitcoin. They are just depending on bitcoin

yes you are right, bitcoin and ethereum have the same behavior, but they are very different. bitcoin is the highest coin and very popular, it is too far when compared to ethereum. ethereum is still very low, but ethereum is not too low compared to other coin coins other than bitcoin. ethereum holds the second level below the value of bitcoin

   The topic as posted is very informative, it well stated how the two coins differ from each other, but it is the fundamentals, the market structures, and the level of confidence by the investors that would really determined the true value of this two coins. we can come up with a lot of discussion on the specific feature of each coins yet it is the perception on one investors for such coin on which is more favorable for investment in the market.

These two coins are completely different, they have different goals and ways of implementation, so it is not correct to compare them. They can only be compared as a means of investment.

I think it's the value of the market that made then different. We know that bitcoin is known as the king of digital currency, the most high valued coin in the cryto world.

If set Ethereum next to Bitcoin, it is easy to see that both are good candidates to call for investment in the ICO and all operate on the Blockchain protocol. However, every electronic money is born to build a strategy for their own, to make a difference.
As for the origin, simply understand that Bitcoin was created and valued as a currency to hold values, while Ethereum was more inclined to create a platform based on smart contracts. Supply is also another difference of these two currencies. Bitcoin is only 21 million, so far has circulated in the market about ? the amount it has, and Ethereum there are no limits, but have to wait until this 5-year old coins to exploit only ½ The possibility of being hacked by Ethereum is higher than the rest of the currency because Ethereum runs Turing-complete code, if enough time then all the calculations will be done.

the main difference for me is that, community can not add any additional features to bitcoin only with hard fork
But look on eth, it works as plugin app, you can develop smart contract and implent it to blockchain - for me ETH have more development and features

Yes, bitcoin cannot add more additional features to its blockchain now while ethereum can add more and maybe no limits, more developments will come up and it is still possible to add more.

I think both Bitcoin and ethereum are two of the better coins available in the market right now. Bitcoin being the master of all coins is the first and the most influential crypto available in the market. Bitcoin is the only reason the concept of blockchain gained so much popularity in the last decade. It is the foundation of all crypto and according to me, no crypto can exist if Bitcoin dies(ethereum included). I think that ethereum is a platform in which new projects are based upon which help in utilization of Blockchain but Bitcoin is Blockchain.

It is unlikely that ethereum is going to beat bitcoin at being a currency since in that aspect bitcoin is unsurpassed, ethereum has no limit when it comes to the coins that are going to be created and this is going to make the coin less valuable in the future, this is in direct contrast with bitcoin because since the beginning it had a limit of 21 million coins and people will prefer to use something that they are completely sure it is going to keep being valuable no matter what happens.

Bitcoin is like gold. It is a rare, independent, self-sustainable thing that will be always in demand as a reliable store of value. Ethereum is rather like oil. It can not only be produced for sale but also used for 'heating' (practical application). Bitcoin and Ethereum are not rivals because gold will never replace oil, and vice versa.

The world that describes the ethereum is it bein used for projects. It is imdeed widely used. Bitcoin is somewhat more on investment but well know as being currency. It can perform what the fiat can do and so as the king of cryptocurrency. Ethereum should not be compared to bitcoin.

Fom what I know, Ethereum is another cryptocurrency, and one many people see as potentially overtaking Bitcoin as the dominant coin in the market. ... The difference between Ethereum and Bitcoin is the fact that Bitcoin is nothing more than a currency, whereas Ethereum is a ledger technology that companies are using to build new programs

maybe your opinion is true, but in my opinion bitcoin is a pioneer of crypto currencies and is still the guideline of other crypto currencies and ETH is the alternative currency of the crypto currency