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Are we about to witness the decline of Ethereum?

I read the other day something like 80 percent of
all available ethereum is owner by a very, very small
percentage.

And with EOS & Tron and NEO creating alternatives,
I think Ethereum will steadily drop to a $150-250 range.

I am not saying Ethereum is a lesser technology.
I'm saying that when people have an alternative, some
will change. And, I mean, we know Vitalik Buterin is a
very very talented individual. And Ethereum has been very
important for the little time is has been around. But
as a trader, I get tired of ico's dumping huge amounts
of ethereum whenever they feel like it.

what do you think?

Ethereum's success is about its technology, it is not like bitcoin, so as there are many new projects competitor of ethereum, it will over time lose its market dominance.

Ethereum still has a long way to go.

As Ethereum develops itself, the price will rise. The rivalries are increasingly proliferating. but ethereum will make the necessary attempts and will come to more beautiful locales.

The only way you can comment this. Do not believe everything that they write. Many news specifically deceive you. After this kind of news, there is a chance that people will start to do a lot of stupid things.

Basically every ICO and new project is on ethereum.  Trading pairs are always eth and btc.  Eth is the 2nd strongest crypto, its not going anywhere. 

Not only ethereum, and more than 90% of bitcoin has been owned by very small percentage of holders, Ethereum will be changing its direction to the POS system with 1 million TPS in the future through double layer to fix the scalability solution makes ethereum will able to run hundreds of dapps at the same time. You can earn passive income through ethereum in the future. In fact, they are all creating the similar platform as ethereum but they will fail. Look at waves or even lisk and the platform has already existed since 2015 and both platforms have no demand till this time. EOS has raised 4 billion dollars and it has wasted for only to pump the price of EOS coin.

That idiotic ''article'' that you read was simply not accurate. Most of any coins is held by a few wallets because those wallets are exchange wallets, the idiots obviously didn't take that in count or the fact that there are hundreds of thousands of wallets with dust amounts of ethereum. It may seem like 3 people are holding the majority of eth but it's far from the truth.

The bad news has diminished the value of the market recently and it has caused many investors to panic and sell a lot of losses. Consider the news because if it has not been confirmed it could be false news to fool the investor.

This is simply discussion.
I appreciate the replies.
I'm not reading from any bad news outlets.
I'm glad there wasn't dozens of members attacking
what i said. Like I said, thanks for the discussion.

I think with the passage of time Ethereum will keep increasing in both supply and value, so I don't think so there will be any decline for Ethereum in coming years.

I don't think etheruem will decline that heavily only because of these reasons.
There are lots of factors associated for price declination.
I agree that Neo,Eos and other blockchain platform will give tough competition to etheruem but that doesn't mean they will destroy etheruem or something like that.And i think competition is better for overall cryptocurrency industry.

the influence of prices because there is supply and demand, so it's normal and reasonable.
plus the date of 18 March 2018 is 1 day before the G20 takes place, so many respond to the negative it is so many who sell because many things, could have panicked or there are others that require them to sell ETH owned.

It's a normal movement  increase and decrease the price, for sure this coming few months it will continue to rising. Ethereum is one the great altcoins that had a good potential to growth and her performance are excellent.

Just because new technology comes out doesn't mean that it will kill the old tech. Bitcoin is technically old and its still the highest priced coin period.

Well agree to that if we talked about bitcoin the technology is as is and it will on top of all coins. But in ethereum even their is a decline of price it is just temporary stand. Price were low and high so it can recover and will increase eventually.

Ethereum is the most popular network for ICO's, and the majority of the ICO's are held on the Ethereum Network. I don't see this fact changing anytime soon and also they are continuously developing their technology , making it better than the competition. So there is no reason to fear that Ethereum will have a decline, i would actually place my bets on Ethereum passing again the 1000$ mark in the next months.

There's must be a good competition in the market so we can know which one is better and those who will continue to improved their technology will survive. ETH is a good coin, and I think even a lot of new coins are coming eth will still be on top of the, well better to still have this coin or regret later.

Ethreum will not bow to these Altcoins because the Ethereum platform is the best commodity of all Altcoins in the market. As you can see that most ICO will chose Ethereum platform to support their projects therefore the real demand of Ethereum will always open in which you can see already how huge the price gap between the Ethereum against these coins of yours.

These are all running off of the Ethereum blockchain though. None of those coins would exist without Ethereum. The main issue with Ethereum is the transaction fees. When I can send Bitcoins for pennies, why would I need to use Ethereum and pay a few dollars for the transaction?

competitors are not one good reason to make ethereum fall, you see after the launch of platforms by Eos and Tron, has it provided maximum growth?

indeed we are all already tired of the ico that happened lately, but remember that there are many ico who are successful, have survive and growing rapidly every year.

I think ETH will only grow in the future. This is a good and popular coin that has support around the world. Yes, I agree with ETH there are many good competitors, but I doubt that they can be better than Ethereum.

I don't think ethereum is going to decline in price now because of the competitors and I think in cryptocurrencies ethereum has the best technology and I it has gathering Alot of users therefore I think ethereum will remain above $500 for long-term.  If ethereum are being hold by few people that did not mean that it is going to fall it price except the holders sell.

No, we are not about to witness the decline of Ethereum. It is one of the strongest projects out there, with extremely active development. It is one of the best bets for a long-term hold.

Why would you say so?

Simply based on the price speculation, you should not discard a project that has a strong team, good usecase and solid community backing.

It is still growing and will grow furthermore.

Ethereum will never disappear if that is what you are trying to ask in here, and it will never happen because there are a lot of people that wont let that happen after all.
EOS is not better than eth

According to my reference, from the beginning of 2017 until now Ethereum prices have increased nearly 40 times, from $ 8 to $ 300. These figures will certainly make us no doubt about the future of this currency as well as the electronic money market. That tells us that eth will continue to grow

I dont think so.

More and more projects are coming for the ETH chain, essentially keeping it strong and maintaining its value.
Also, ETH is improving, and most seem to forget that. Ethereum Casper protocol will combine Proof of Work with Proof of Stake consensus at the beginning, eventually transitioning to PoS.
With the speed increase it brings, I'm sure ETH will not fall behind and decline. It will lead.

I agree it is a long term hold and worth buying.

Probably not. It may go down for now. But ethereum is one top competitor of BTC. so give it some time.

I think to fall to $ 150 it will not happen in 2018 exactly the end of the year eteherum will be stable at a price of $ 1000. but again this is just a sometimes right and sometimes wrong prediction

I strongly disagree with you. I don't think Ethereum will reduce to 150-250$.Ethereum had good team and huge investors like a Bitcoin.
Do you know,Ethereum is the queen of cryptocurrency.Do you think the queen will step down to the bottom of the price.Ethereum had huge support in cryptocurrency market.

in any case, today you need to use the chance to buy the etherium at a cheap price. Definitely Each of us understands that in the near future the etherium Show your new price records. If a user of crypto currency really knows how this works, then he must understand the value of the etherium.

Ethereum is jot hold by small people compared to Neo. Ether is not going to decline to the 200$ you are anticipating. Ether current price is the lowest ever it will get to before the year end

are currently in the top position, but over time they are said to be ethereum competitors will continue to grow and try to improve the technology to realize it. but here I am not saying that the ethereum will be defeated but if ethereum does not grow further then it could happen.

What can we expect if there's something better than it? We're going to change our course and will head a different destination from what we are supporting before.

I have no words for this but let's wait until POW to POS is done.

Please verify what you have read. Double, triple, quadruple check them first before believing in them. There are so many stories, news, and articles that are either fake or overly far-fetched they appear to be written from Pluto. In contrary to what you have read somewhere I don't know, the price of Ethereum has already turned green. Even though I doubt this will sustain, I know that this year will be very generous to Ethereum. Expect at least $2,500 for Ethereum before the year ends.

Just because EOS and TRON created a copycat and OP was thinking the possibility of ethereum to drop around below $250, But the main net of EOS has alreayd alive and nothing happened. Op is getting panic.
EOS and TRON don't have the same demand as ethereum did. Ethereum will be fine and it will be so healthy after EOS has been dumping all of the remaining ethereum.

Ethereum is moving up and down. But it does not mean that it will continue to drop until $150. Ethereum is one great altcoin in the market. And it will not drop big easily.

I will not say that this is a complete fall of the coin, almost every coin is a difficult time when the price goes down and almost explode, I think still this coin will break out and will have to rise.

But till now we are seeing tons of ICO's using ETH to make their own token and use its blockchain for their platforms, ETH is not the only one who is declining, The coins that you've mentioned are also decreasing together with bitcoin and ethereum, it doesn't mean there's an alternative there would be a demand all of a sudden for that coin and it is the best for your project to use that crypto.

Agree, With a better alternative people will surely choose a better option. Actually, We all already see how Promising EOS is in term of technology. They surely offer a better technology but there are still not enough track record to prove. In time, I believe if EOS developments go smooth and steady. It will surely be the Ethereum killer.

aren't those running on an Ethereum blockchain? So I think we can't compare those token to Ethereum.

in the crypto world it's something that does not all run stable, fluctuate it's a common thing and we do have to follow this flow, because if ethereum down we can not do anything but wait, if I currently only need patience, because I very confident that this only happens for a while, and will definitely go back up again, here's my opinion on this

Well, there is something, though small, not a great explosion of the coin, but still strongly affects the coin itself on its economy and the full situation in the crypto-currency market, which affects it.

If ethereum declined, it means bitcoin is also declined because it is always follow the price of the bitcoin. Almost all altcoins react if there is substantial change in the price of the bitcoin. Ethereum is well-known for its platform where many djfferent apps are created. Almost all developers hses the ethereum platform to create apps so expect ethereum to grow continuously in the future.

I don't think etheruem will decline that heavily only because of these reasons as there are lots of factors associated for price declination. I believe ethereum still has a long way to go and it has a bright future ahead of it because has good potentials.

ethereum is huge but most of that is just pure hot air that was blown into it as it went into a bubble. in the end it doesn't matter how many hardcore people you see here supporting with tooth and nail, they will be the first to abandon ship as they reach their limit for the losses they sustain. and we are getting closer to that point as ETH loses another $100 of its value and goes lower and lower towards that $10-$50 real value that it always had.

Obviously what you are explaining is bad speculation trying to kick ethereum. Dont trust completely for everything you hear, you can play with your own analysis. Ethereum is a tested altcoin in the market and some ICO projects use the ethereum platform, this altcoin is special

It's way too early to say. We need to see first how they will handle their improvements (PoS,nodes,sharding etc),then we need to see how their competitors tackle their issues,what they offer,what are their plans. Right now only time will tell who will win that war, but the market is big enough for all these platforms and if they manage to keep improving their product we don't see a reason for them to fail or decline. At least not in the following months and even a year.

Volatility has always been a main characteristic of the cryptocurrencies. That doesn't mean that Ethereum market will go down. Ethereum has a very strong market capital of $51.8 billion at present. It has spread too widely throughout the financial market to go down that easily. Ethereum is a well established altcoin in the market and can be used as a token for smart, decentralised applications. Not only this, its idea of smart and ledger contracts which can hold state and arbitary code is quite revolutionary. The coin has a lot of potential and I'll suggest to hold the coin.

to experience such a significant decline it may not, by reading the descending graph it's disertain many things. . .
I think ethereum already has a lot of pengemar, then in the decline only experienced a matter of course

ETH isn't going anywhere.  Don't be surprised if it hits $1k Dec

I agree with this guy. NEO or TRON will never replace ETH, lol.

It is not the decline of ethereum, it is just a downside and we all should know that this is osmething normal and here and there is no need to be worried about this. It is normal.

ethereum has better technology than the other altcoin and this makes the best altcoin be ethereum. a lot of people interested in technology owned even to this day the request was getting bigger. though many other altcoins are also getting better like EOS and NEO, the ethereum would still be more of them.

I don't feel the rice of the ethereum will dump at $150-$200 because if you are observer people you can see even the rice of the bitcoin decreasing deeply the price of the ethereum decrease only and it is good for the ethereum and you will get more profit if you buy today ethereum and hold it for few years and you will gain thousands dollars because price becoke thousands dollars not hundreds dollars.

The market as a whole has been red for sometime now and it is not only ETH but also Bitcoin and the rest of the crypto currencies that have been in hot water. But we have also started moving towards good days as Bitcoin started recovering it value and was followed by few other crypto as well. As a result, there was witnessed a bit stability which is a sign of boom.

I agree, it's really normal. But I started to feel bored with what was happening in the market. It is like the dark ages of a people, can not grow, only stamping in place.

I can not believe that the ether will completely fall, many Ico on its basis and many coins. Therefore, there is demand and support, which means that they will not let it disappear or become a plain coin. Most likely, we will see a new lower record, and then a rapid growth.

Lol, it's quite funny to say that Ethereum will go as low as  $150 it's not possible,  eth has a trading pair for most of the altcoins in market the Trx EOS your are talking about has no trading pair so they can't even surpass Ethereum

I believe EOS and TRON and NEO are can be potential PAR to Ethereum,  I mean NEO for now i guess can really cope up as you see all of the coins are on dip while NEO stand still as green. What i can stand is ETH has a lot to grow if those coins are growing i believe ETH will not be left behind. Give it's vitalik well i believe there are lots for Ethereum to look forward too. So I think ETH will still be on top of them till 2018 for sure.

I also agree with your suggestion because ethereum is not just an ordinary coin but a very potential one and it has very good qualities and technology. Ethereum will continue to rise when the market is rising and it has a very bright future.

There are too many competitors with ETH. It is very difficult for ETH to achieve better prices. In addition to ETH technology has come up next. If so, ETH can decrease over time

If an alternative better platform with more possibilities appears then there is no obstacle to replace eth. So far, most projects are based on the ethereum platform. Competition will certainly have a positive impact on development, but so far eth remains a leader and I do not see any possibility that this will change in the near future.

Ethereum is a great choice for most ICOs but problem is whenever any ICO finishes, ETH get dumped hard and that is a big reason for low price.

Yes, this is the time of the decline of ETH, maybe we will never think that ETh drops to such a low level, but in fact they are happening, and you buy them to hold now.

I do not think that Ethereum will fall to 200$, but rather just grow on the contrary. Many people say that there are many similar projects that will replace Ethereum, but all these projects were created on this platform and therefore they will never catch up with Ethereum.

EOS is a buggy blockchain, TRON is just another ethereum rip-off platform, NEO is lack of the development. The truth has been telling us about the fact that NEO is not so popular among all of the crypto communities in the china. NEO is an overhyped platform. When casper and sharding will come and it will die asap.

Etherum is having constant changes in this speculative mode we can expect slow growth from ether coin and once the market bull rally start we can expect more positive growth and previous all-time high may reach

Remember that Ethereum transactions look like cash where transactions can not be canceled - so if you send Ethereum to the wrong person, or your Ethereum wallet is hacked and someone steals your Ethereum, it's very difficult and even impossible to take it back

Ethereum is a fantastic investment to have made IMO, it very clearly has one of the best and highest use cases in cryptocurrency right now. it has given many companies the opportunity to create their own tokens. ETH will always be necessary, unless another blockchain comes around and beats it out. For now eth is the gateway into most every ICO, some great ones like these are worth looking at if you have some extra eth laying around.
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I also think that with the rapid development of EOS and NEO, the status of Ethereum is likely to be affected, because the 3.0 blockchain is really powerful! But this takes time too much, and in the future they may replace Ethereum, but not now!

I think you wrongly understand the Ethereum smart contract. If any new projects are comes in the market they need promotion and reputation but project owner is willing to invest in bounty campaign then only it will reach good move. I saw many projects are create the phase 1 once it will reach soft cap they will stop but right now many projects are create the phase 2 also so ICO investors are slowly reduced in the market. It is the main reason to dump in the market but future we will good results in all projects.

The situation about the distribution of ethereum has not been an issue despite this being public knowledge for a very long time, what has really changed is the amount of competitors of ethereum, we know that bitcoin can survive and thrive despite the huge competition what we do not know is if ethereum can resist the competition and that will be something really interesting to see.

If you are talking about the current condition of the market then you are wrong to say that this is the decline of Ethereum , it is just an extended correction phase there is explanation that without any reason the Ethereum market capillarity would fall to zero

Some investors were already sick to the scenario of being a scam or waiting too long, they might find other ways to earn more through other activities since BTC was not yet in a good position due to some news, and other cryptocurrencies were affected by it like ETH.

I think that Ethereum still has no equal competitors among altcoins, so it's too early to forget about it. In addition, he often fell in price, and then returned and beat his records.

This has been the period of entire price decline of the crypto assets. There is nothing specific to stay without any kind of price drop. Some has got some stability due to the increased market circulation, which too seems fluctuating at specific time interval. This can be considered to be the best time for buy as the price is found to be the all time low.

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From the above image, I don't see any light of ETH yet. Along with the fall of bitcoin, ICOs trend dooms. That's why ETH can't maintain its value. There are some rumors that ETH will move to PoS. If this comes true, ETH will plunge to hell since there's no more pump for selling miners. EOS or NEO is not the reason. Those coins have no decent value yet.

Yes, I agree with you. Although many people are very supportive of Ethereum, I think Ethereum is now being abused. Moreover, some people have been crazy about trading Ethereum to make Ethereum congested. Now there is no better coin to replace Ethereum.

I don't think it does in any way signal the decline of Ethereum although it's true that in recent weeks it has been on a steady decline but then it's not the only crypto experiencing that. Bitcoins too has not had it easy particularly after the ETF debacle. Right now it's trading at the 6k threshold and that's well below expectations but that's not to say all hope is lost. The market is definitely set for a rebound.