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So apparently there are ways for ETH to beat BTC? https://cryptotradernews.com/cryptocurrency/5-reasons-why-eth-could-beat-bitcoin/ (https://cryptotradernews.com/cryptocurrency/5-reasons-why-eth-could-beat-bitcoin/)


I mean the speed one is definitely an issue that BTC is going to have to resolve sooner o later...

Thoughts?

Even if there are many advantages and features that ETH performs well over BTC.
BTC will always be regarded as the first currency of its kind, no matter what.
BTC is the foundation which provided many other cryptos to be born over its principle.

I too used to think this way that ETH will surpass over BTC but I'm wrong.
Even if ETH will be widely used or more popular in the future, BTC will always remain the crown jewel.

Wouldn't really compare both although both are coins
One focus on DAPP, one are more off a type of "commodities" or a suits more off a anti inflation tools
Ethereum supply is much more higher than BTC
Both have different use case

For using, of course i will prefer to use Ethereum because of the low block time tho

With rising dapp and token transactions eth also has this issue but still it is far better when compared with bitcoin regarding speed of transaction and as far as i know eth developers are working to resolve it this year and similarly for btc there are some solutions being worked out like some third party applications like lightning network so i think both will stay where they are and no one is going to beat the other one.

There are advantages and disadvantages for both coins, maybe speed of confirmation, but always there Bitcoin is the starter of this crypto world and Ethereum is the king of altcoins.

I don't feel comfortable with this type of comparison, is like attempting to compare two parallel lines, ethereum is very good and had completed 100,000 transactions in one second but btc has influence, great name and very high popularity.
Btc transaction speed are been working on and that is why we are having direct btc forks in order to lightened the network.

I wouldn't care about the speed / confirmation speed for bitcoin because it's comparable to any other fee. It has been an issue for most but if you will really understand the issue, there are solutions that has being done for this like segwit and lightning network.

I've only seen at least 100 people in the last 1 year asking the same question. The same answer was valid in all of them. Bitcoin is the most important coin for this market! And none of them will pass. Also in Ethereum, I think it always has a second importance!

even ethereum or maybe others altcoins said if they are better than bitcoin, personally i will never believe it,
because for sure without bitcoin, altcoins will never exist in this world
so, king will always be the king my friend ;)

Unfair comparison, Ethereum is Tesla, Bitcoin is a bicycle. :P

It's natural if bitcoin has a delay, because there are very many users in the transaction. I don't think that ETH will beat Bitcoin, and for me it doesn't really matter. Because both (BTC and ETH) benefit me in every trade that I do. There is no perfect project, but developing every time is mandatory and great. 8)

I think bitcoin will become the leading position and ETH will not be able to shift the position of bitcoin, and most importantly we must have both of these coins because it is very important and good as an investment.

I think the current leading mentality is that eth is not money. I think everyone should understand that. It is a platform for token development. of course it has other functions but that is what it is mainly right now. maybe when sharding is complete it would function as money much better. But then it will always support token creation, and what form of money creates money? makes sense? no so I choose btc just because it is pretty close to being real money as any regular fiat  8) 8) 8)

ETH is good with developments and the price is really going up with a good pace but putting versus BTC is a no no. BTC remains the pace setter. Vitalik and another co-founder of Ethereum talked recently about a great improvement in the overall architecture so the hopes are high for ETH holders.

Lol, it's been years since we heard this that ETH or any other whatever so-called Bitcoin-Killer will kill BTC but let's not forget that in all these brags they do, they all still depend on Bitcoin for survival so how then are they gonna kill it. There's no crypto without Bitcoin buddy!

both are good coins.  I like BTC because it has an extraordinary priority scale and ETH has a high trading volume in every market. 
and ETH value is still low and affordable.  very good to be a place of investment.

it just a theory but the fact is the ethereum cannot even beat bitcoin market cap. if it so, then ethereum price would even bigger than bitcoin.

Bitcoin will always be foundation, if not for Bitcoin l, there wouldn't be an Ethereum. Ethereum revolutionized the integration of smart contracts. It will always be Bitcoin 2.0 to me.

In my opinion, ETH is already now in many ways better than Bitcoin, but Bitcoin is the king of cryptocurrencies, the coin with which everything started, while ETH is the king of altcoins and they are both in their places.

I think BTC is the leader of other cryptocurrency.

Btc is more advisable for me. I specifically can't keep eth for too long because of the market instability.  Though eth has been quite pumping since the bull run.  But i will go for btc.

the thing is that soon on the bitcoin blockchain it will also be possible to create smart contracts and then who will need Ethereum?

For me there is no problem with the speed of bitcoin, so the number one in my cryptocurrency portfolio is Bitcoin ;) ETH I consider as asset number two!

SPEED is an issue for the BTC transfer and also the transfer fee.
Though BITCOIN will remain on top, and as i want to tell! There must be no versus but the two must join together.
They should not be rival and things will be better if they can collide though impossible because Nakamoto is not here.

When Bitcoin lightning is implemented it would instantly make Bitcoin more faster. And with similar tech like sharding that ETH is implementing, Bitcoin can too do that and be equally as fast as ETH if not more. So I do not think speed is that issue, as the tech matures, speed will come on its own.

I don't think that there is any chance whre ethereum would beat btc out. They both are very different coin and the use of these coins are different. Ethereum is a platform based token and Bitcoin is a payment portal based token. So yes there is problem about speed in Bitcoin but if you saw the whole market ethereum is also not a coin with good transaction speed .there is many other coin available which have greater bspeed but it doesn't mean they will cross Bitcoin with marketcap. So it's hard and it's worthless to campare them.

I don't rule out this possibility, but it will be very difficult as BTC has the first-mover advantage and is widely regarded as more decentralized. Ethereum on the other hand has smart contract capabilities, though this competitive advantage may disappear due to smart contract capabilities added to layer two and three of bitcoin in the future.

Correct mate bitcoin is still reamin the crown jewel that's give profits, both have a different role in crypto currency world both coins is popular but bitcoin is still the king of crypto even ethereum goes from the very top highest rate crypto currency value.

if the price of Bitcoin does win than the price of Ethereum, but if the system I'm sure Ethereum can still beat Bitcoin system, because in my opinion fee and speed transaction of Ethereum faster than Bitcoin, so it just needs to wait for the right time for the price of Ethereum to beat the price of Bitcoin (although it might require a very long time), because to beat the price of Bitcoin is very difficult even though it can happen (the probability is very small).

Actually, too I use differently when i decide to invest in an ICO it is dependent on ETH. And when I hold for long time then it is BTC. I think btc will always look first and we all know that the location of btc is always coming to the first place.

Depends upon the quantity of your investment, you can choose one according to your investment. Choose investment plan either for Ethereum or Bitcoin will be productive because we have been trying both of them since long. Make sure to invest in Bitcoin only if your investment amount is big and furthermore do the same for Ethereum because you have this choice in case of low investment amount.

In the crypto world everything can happen, maybe ETH can beat Bitcoin in terms of price or anything else, but for now I think ETH still can't beat Bitcoin

This coins are very good for investment and it is truly profitable but i need to pick up the bitcoin which i could believe bitcoin will show a huge of price in the future that many of us will gonna surprise. Bitcoin right now is continue rising up the price and it is time to buy.

If I could just start to invest in crypto I would choose BTC, but now I hold ETH and can't buy expensive BTC :-[

I really don't pay attention to some articles because I know it's irrelevant and the publisher just want to have traffic on them it's website. Fact remains that eth and btc are the top rulers in the market including xrp who has also maintained the 3rd place over the period of time. But eth can't go over btc for any reason explained by the writer else btc ceases to exist

You can say ethereum chain is a bit faster than bitcoin but not that ethereum too is that best in the market to overtake bitcoin. There has been nothing new about ethereum and all the upgrade they have done so far still did not solve their own problem too or make them gain recognition more than bitcoin.

So why do you think it is now that there are so many people even competing with Ethereum, while it is possible for BNB and EOS to overthrown ethereum. My friend, it is not bitcoin you should fear for, it is really ethereum that you should fear for, because speed or no peed, bitcoin will always remain dominant while we already have some projects that could send ethereum packing.

The name bitcoin has built alone is more than enough to retain bitcoin on that seat for the rest of life. If anyone educational institution is to introduced blockchian technology into their course today, I am sure their reference point will always be bitcoin.

I therefore really do not know from what angle ethereum wants to come to topple bitcoin. If OP says speed, they are not both perfect because many people still complain of ethereum transaction speed a lot. Secondly now that the basic thing ethereum relies on for growth which is smart contract is gradually going to fade away too as There are no much new ICO again being registered newly.

I think that Bitcoin will remain slow as before and no one will care. Over time, Bitcoin will be a means for investment, and there are other more suitable projects for calculations and money exchange.

ETH and BTC certainly have their own advantages and disadvantages, but with all the advantages ETH has is still not enough to match BTC. becoming the king of altcoin is a very remarkable achievement for ETH.

If the only basis will just be both as payment then people will surely use ethereum for fast process and shorter transaction time but this is not the case, people look at both of them differently as much as they regard and value them differently. Not much of us want to use bitcoin to pay for pizza or coffee and not all also regard ethereum as a commodity or store of value. It will be like substituting salt with sugar or vice versa which cannot be because each has different flavor.

Yeah if youre talking about the speed, of course eth is faster than bitcoin for transaction. But most of investors will choose btc instead ETH because they know Bitcoin is legend of the crypto, without bitcoin ethereum will not exist.

In crypto , everything is possible but as we know that all depends the market ( supply and demand )
So far , bitcoin is undefeatable !

Before ETH , LTC was 2nd position but it can't retrieve the throne so I doubt ETH either

A "localbitcoins" with cash is still working for ethereum...
Not for BTC anymore  ::)

Btc is still the best for me and eth  is the secondary coin for me,there for those to coins are the best  here in cryptocurrency so if we invest we can do that two coins to invest.but must try other altcoins but make sure go only in legit projects so you will gain profits.

I see bitcoin and ethereum right now still the same. Lately they just following each price if going down or up based on their price. But bitcoin is the best for higher volume of all alts.

Bitcoin is the number one cryptocurrency, bitcoin remains the leader in the cryptocurrency market, and I'm sure at 100% that not one altcoin can't beat him, even ETH

they have of course different areas are used,in General, Bitcoin is well suited for the preservation and preuvelicheniya money,it is called digital gold,and the carp here will be gold, money flow,and Ethereum is a technology for which there are 1000 projects,altcoins,but Bitcoin konechngo not for nothing is the main currency,believe in him and know him!

The two tokens differ greatly in terms of the potential and longterm of many who support eth and bitcoin because of the large price drops but many investors still believe that this year the price of bitcoin and eth will be higher.

I don't think that ETH and any coin in general can overtake Bitcoin, personally for me Bitcoin will always be number 1 in cryptocurrency

Bitcoin or ethereum, both have great potential. It's just that ethereum is moving a little slowly. And bitcoin cannot be replaced.

Yeah speed is one.

Don't really know what is happening with bitcoin but it seems that is because of the ban in China for miners which will lower those who verify the transactions. Even with a good amount in fees the tx time is still way slow than before.

Recently, I used ETH as means to gather funds because of the slow tx time in bitcoin. Sold my bitcoin for ETH which really hurts a lot including exchange fees.
The good thing is the payment for ETH transaction is not that high and also the time is way fast which is like bitcoin before.
Something must be really done.
I am no developer,engineer or programmer but just a consumer and bitcoin user and also waiting for good news on changes about this.

If you compare these two coins, then of course Bitcoin is much better.  because it is the most popular and it invests a lot of people.  But if you compare ethereum from any altcoin, then I will tell you that it is the best among the altcoins and you can’t even argue

Eth can be superior in transaction speed aspect, but it doesn't offer any threat to bitcoin leadership on the market. On the other hand, there are other altcoins which offer risk to eth 2nd position: eos, neo, tron and so on.
I think there are more chances for eth to lose its position than taking anything from btc.

Nowadays, people cannot use either as a more convenient and faster alternative to fiat money, as well as a more stable one. It is precisely the overcoming of these three criteria that is capable of revolutionizing the market of means of payment.

We often see ETH and BTC benchmarking, and the result is always the same. Bitcoin and Ethereum are competing in different lanes. It's not quite right to compare them!

Btc is more advisable  :o

True, In their path it is different and not worthy of comparison, but in their crypto space it is the same, because both are in a cryptocurrency even though bitcoin was born earlier than eth, we can compare it only to the interest

I am still not sure if ETH can exceed BTC.
the proof is eth is declining and it is difficult to rise again like in 2017.
while BTC can be said to be stable.

I do not care how many things ETH can do better than bitcoin, there is one huge issue that will never be resolved, the immutability of the bitcoin blockchain is absolute while this is not the case with ETH as demonstrated by the DAO incident which led to the ethereum hard fork and the creation of ETC, ETH is great for trading and making money with it but that is it, I will never hold my money long term in ETH because of this, if they can reverse transactions once they can do it again and as such they are no different than banks.

but a limited number of coins on Bitcoin still equalizes the advantage and makes Bitcoin a popular speculation coin.

I think bitcoin and eth are both crypto currency coins that are both potential and very popular with the public. But public popularity and trust in bitcoin is so ingrained that bitcoin can continue to lead the crypto currency market. Bitcoin and eth continue to compete even though eth technology is better than bitcoin technology but it is not easy to defeat bitcoin. Maybe someday if the community is more aware of the benefits then it will switch to eth. Now the community still maintains bitcoin because bitcoin is still potential and provides big profits if invested or used for trading.

This question is never end, BTC vs ETH who will win.
I think that is different coin condition but if i have to choose that is BTC.
BTC is center of cryptocurrency and always be the first of all coin, we can call it all father in cryptocurrency.
ETH yeah this is the best altcoin until now, you can see how that is so popular in cryptocurrency.

Agree with you bitcoin is the best and it is the best crypto currency which made huge progress in market, people only knows bitcoin because it is there in the market since long, ETH is good too but bitcoin is the mother of all other altcoins, since long the price of bitcoin I getting higher and low to give us an opportunity to have so many coins at low price and to hold after that so bitcoin is the best coin because of which crypto market has value.

BTC is the mother of all the crypto and it will take a really long time for some coin to beat bitcoin IMO. Yes, the biggest drawback of bitcoin right now is the speed which they are actively trying to fix.

There's always an advantage being the first and being the basis of the market, Bitcoin will remained as the top coin around even there's still issues with transaction speed where the team is trying to figure out which will be the best solution.

In terms of investment  purposes, people will also be attracted to btc as there's only limited supply that eventually if all already been mined, value will increase far higher if everything around the industry will go accordingly.

Well, BTC is the trendsetter, therefore will always be the most import and loved cryptocurrency. Ethereum focus is on the DApps and follows a similar ideology. I personally believe they will coexist, probably in the near future ETH change its expects to also serve as a payment method for commerce, not only to pay the network.

Perhaps at some point, BTC will serve as a currency for "big" stuff, like buying a car or a house; and ETH will serve as the common currency for the day to day expense.

Time will tell...

Bitcoin is the most developed blockchain network and in fact it is dominant. There is no chance to overcome its predecessor at ETH, it is important to just take the 2nd place and hold it tight.
The blockchains themselves are different in their tasks. If bitcoin is "gold", then ETH should remain "silver".

All the reasons are valid, but the whole community are still  in support of Bitcoin because this is the one that started it all, speed and transaction can be resolved and the community can find a way, the whole community believes that Bitcoin should lead us to the full adoption of cryptocurrency before the other coin can take over if they had a chance to do so.

There is always a solution for everything. We can't deny the fact that the problem btc was facing was that of slower confimations of transactions and the higher fees. However, some may convert their btc into eth just to lessen the fees and to make the transactions faster than the usual btc tx's. With this issue, traders are still preferred btc. Let us see how eth will surpass btc with this said issue.

There is no point to compare these two coins. If you are good to go with both then go for it, you don't need to care with these stuff anymore.
If you prefer ETH over BTC, but you still have BTC in your wallet then you should go away or vice versa.

in terms of speed for transactions, BTC has not been able to match the speed of the ethereum platform but in terms of price of course BTC is difficult to replace with altcoin including ethereum. it is impossible and it takes a very long time to match the price of BTC.

BTC will continue to remain on the top of the coins as it is the king and the leader in this space. ETH remains the top of the altcoins and with btc rise ETH will also continue to grow and expand. So better to keep on investing in both of this coins as result will be positive and will grow in coming time as well.

I agree. There are some things that ETH cannot do and the only bitcoin can. The popularity of bitcoin worldwide since 2017 is very high and the crypto lovers are still increasing since then. ETH is better when it comes in processing but what if BTC already solve the problem on fees? For sure there will be many more establishments that would accept bitcoin and adoption will expand world wide.
I do like ETH for some reason the value of it also increases in just a matter of time but I believe that there is nothing wrong if BTC and ETH will be working together in the future.

I think it's stupid to compare any coins with Bitcoin because Bitcoin is the creator of the cryptocurrency, and all the other coins are just an alternative to Bitcoin

Both are like the couple destined in the crypto world, bitcoin is the father of cryptocurrency because the price is the highest among the other coins and Ethereun is the mother of Altcoin because the highest Ethereum prices and both have very profitable potential if owned.
so they cannot be compared but must be owned to be invested to get maximum profit.

I agree that Ethereum is a very good coin but still Bitcoin is the king. Bitcoin controls the market. When it rises all other coins also rise, when it drops, the whole market comes down. I still doubt that Bitcoin has any competitor yet

We'll see what happens in the future, who will beat who, but I still believe that bitcoin will be the best among the others and even though there is a statement that ETH will remain difficult to beat this bitcoin, because bitcoin is the parent of all  created

This is why theres LN but yet there still lots of things to be fixed on when it comes to Bugs that's why its the main reason why it isn't really fully adopted or commonly used yet.
Comparing ETH to BTC? They are different on any terms but I don't really believe that ETH can easily replace up the King of all crypto in a short span of time.
Theres a possibility but we wont know on what happen on future.

bitcoin is the determinant of all coins because when bitcoin pump another coin follow so there's no need to fight bitcoin even though it's ethereum
because from of all things nobody can beat bitcoin

The Ethereum blockchain have a whole lot of advantages over bitcoin talk in terms of speed of transactions. Also the use of decentralized applications on the blockchain of Ethereum. This has made the Ethereum blockchain network admired by many developers. However this does not mean ETH would beat BTC in terms of value.

I would dare not compare these two coins but if there are certain things to pinpoint, it's about which on e worth investing and their transaction speeds. I think Btc is worth investing in than eth and when it comes to speed of transactions, I will choose eth so I think the top cryptos are all doing well.