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As Ethereum forks its way into becoming a full-fledged PoS cryptocurrency, the new year of 2020 is expected to bring a rise of ETH's price across the crypto market. While Bitcoin is still the true indicator of altcoins' prices, Ethereum could experience a short boost in price due to people's excitement of the release of Casper PoS on the ETH blockchain. I have to admit that development has been somewhat slow, but everything has been done in a safe and secure way. Maybe 2020, will be the year Ethereum goes full PoS? Or maybe the dev team will delay the process until further tests are made?

Whatever the case will be, it looks like this year will be ETH's biggest one yet as it's one step closer towards becoming a PoS cryptocurrency. At first, it'll be a hybrid PoW + PoS coin until its ready enough to become a completely PoS coin. Staking Pools will be the hottest trend of 2020, as people who cannot afford the minimum requirement of 32 ETH to become a validator, will simply resort to these services. With a PoS version of the Ethereum blockchain, the competition will be fierce among other competitors such as EOS and Cardano. On the other hand, Ethereum Classic (ETC) will retain its PoW consensus algorithm distancing itself from Ethereum in every way. Maybe ETH miners will flock into ETC once the former does the transition from PoW to PoS?

What are your thoughts? ???

That, we cannot be certain of right now. But the upgrades and updates that are on the pipeline for Ethereum within the year are great enough, at least as per their designs, to probably steer the price until the 4-digit level. PoS is well anticipated. Sharding is also upcoming. Ethereum will become much faster with the upcoming developments. All eyes are on it. 

We hope so, this implementation could have strong impact on Ethereum’s value due to the big change in its ecosystem. Many spectators are watching closely this event, this could also bring Ethereum to next level of their achievement and I really hope it will succeed.

The POS transition has already expected to be done in the next year. it looks like this time will not be a big year for ethereum caused by a lot the complete update will not finish this year.
I just try to take a lot of hardfork will be happening in the upcoming months. That means so many people will try to bet on it. The bull for ethereum may occur but it will not so big as the complete update as people can calculate how much they will earn from the dividend based on the annual yield that will be offering by ethereum in the future.

your expectations don't be too excessive, you will get sick if wrong, indeed ETH 2.0 will be released soon, but the dominance of bitcoin is still high, this is very risky in my opinion

Same expectation that mostly have for Ethereum just like last year. Yes, the devs are pretty slow about the process and being not a dev by ourselves we can't understand how long it would be because we have no idea how they'll development it.

But regardless of that, we just have to let them have their times so that they can work on it fully and they can upgrade it and have its transition without any problem soon. We're all counting that this is going to be one of the best year for ETH and hoping for that it will.

it could have happened if they had started to use the POS system, of course inviting large investors to buy it again getting more rewards from larger POSs, of course also preventing dumper at the beginning of people who hold large amounts of ETH, at least only fish small fish that roam around holding funds a little in the round, ETH 2.0 is meant from this POS concept, I am waiting for them to really finish with their testing and whether it succeeded in getting many people back on ETH

It looks like it. Every evidence points towards that angle, well, majorly fundamentals, can't say much about the technical aspects as I've not been able to look through that angle. But if this fork makes little to no impact on price, or worse, has a negative impact, then ETH may remain undervalued for a longer time, probably till 2023.

That's kind of what they said in 2019 about ETH too if anyone remembers. That that was the year to recover from the ICO problems. If we saw, ETH solved quite a lot of their network issues too, so we should have seen plenty of problems go away but that somehow just never translated into the price of ETH going up. Will this year be different? Probably, but because price is already so low. I don't think price goes up because of new ETH in 2020, since 2.0 only comes true next year!

2 things that make me believe ETH will pumped, bitcoin pump and ETH 2.0. So in this year, which is near of my  prediction or actually what i hope is ETH follow bitcoin to pump. But in case something that i not expected happen to ETH, between ETH and BTC mostly what i hold is BTC.

Agree with you that 2020 will be an important year for ETH, ETH will be updated to version 2.0 and this is definitely the reason why ETH will increase in the near future. In 2020, if bitcoin is pumped strongly due to halving, I believe that ETH price will also be pumped with ETH 2.0 news. ETH price in 2020 could reach at least $ 500 or even more

There is a few things happening this year and if all stars align we might have a good environment setup to produce huge upside moves quickly. All the development going and growing popularity surely lays a nice foundation for the next cycle. Although i am not really sure it will all happen in 2020.. Even if it goes right then it might easily take like 18 months from now until we reach another ATH or something as meaningful. If it's dollar value grows just because whole crypto world gets pumped then we are not gaining much. We need strong position vs BTC and bigger part of total crypto market cap.

Let's hope that ETH gets the attention it deserves by 2020. As long as the Casper PoS upgrade doesn't experience further delays from the dev team, the world's second-largest cryptocurrency by market cap will be able to gain massive traction across the crypto market. Otherwise, you can expect ETH's price to stale as people won't have a reason to invest in it. Scalability is a must for decentralized applications to become useful for the mainstream world. In this part, both TRON and EOS are in the lead. Ethereum must quickly switch from PoW to PoS if it wants to stay in the competition. I know that the dev team wants to implement the Casper PoS upgrade in the safest way possible for the ETH blockchain. But most people are tired of waiting for ETH to scale with each delay postponing the smart contract platform's most important hard fork to date.

One thing to keep in mind is that ETH's supply is infinite, whereas Bitcoin's supply is finite. This would greatly undermine ETH's price across the market in the long term. By this year, we could expect a short increase in price if ETH becomes a PoS cryptocurrency. Subsequent years could lead to short term gains, as people become excited about the platform. But the supply is what kills ETH as being a serious investment for the long term, unlike Bitcoin. After all, ETH is meant to be used as "Gas" for the execution and deployment of smart contracts on a global blockchain network.

Nonetheless, 2020 has been off to a great start where Bitcoin soared from $7.5k to just $8.7k in a matter of days. Ethereum has also experienced some gains in price, but not by a large margin. With something new and exciting for ETH this year, you could expect demand to increase like never before across the crypto market. There's high hopes that 2020 might become the biggest year for ETH. Just my thoughts ;D

With the Bitcoin halving coming up and the new Ethereum update coming out, one would think this should be a huge year for ETH. With ETH being the number 2 coin by far, even if people are mostly just investing in Bitcoin, a lot of that money will find it's way into Ethereum. Especially since news will start coming out about the update. Usually good news coming out about a coin has a tremendous influence on the price. Just look at what has happened with BSV the past few days.

Ethereum 2.0 has just been launched, so it's only natural that there has not been any development for Ethereum, specifically regarding prices. I think it needs a process, until the full PoS is achieved and is felt to be beneficial to all communities and ETH holders.

Indeed there are many important moments that will occur in 2020 and I'm sure not only for ETH, but will have a good impact on the crypto industry.

Eth change to POS is a good move from this project and i think this will make their project become more popular. But base on the price, i dont think that ETH will back to its ATH because too many reasons. First, ETH team not holding the most ETH now. Second, in current market with lots of people losing from downtrend, not much people will buy ETh if the price too high. Third, lots of DApp leave Eth chain to new platform.

If it happens everyone in the crypto industry will be happy because holding BTC and ETH is common to everyone! But I don't think it gonna happen only by these updates. Right now Ethereum price is not suitable at all, ETH should have held at least 300-350$, so, by these developments, Ethereum price can rise to there! But without Bitcoin pumps, Ethereum won't cross 350$! So, I can't hope a big year for Ethereum yet, we need bitcoin bull run first which is the real indicator of altcoins rises!

ETH is now widely expected with the release of 2.0 but it has not yet been determined what month the launch will be because there was no announcement about it.
Yes, I also still hold ETH because I am sure that when there is a pumping from halving, ETH will also follow it, let alone this is altcoin number 2, of course there will be many people holding it and there will be more demand in the market.

But I am sure ETH will soon reach the price of $200 in the near future and currently keep moving, what is not possible in this market like yesterday's BSV rose in a short time 3x that means ETH can also be like that and will soon reach $300 because ETH is altcoin number 2 is claimed to hold a lot of it.
Remember Halving will happen in a few months and of course the bullrun will come and there is still time for ETH to rise again as before.

Everybody hopes so. And so far, the year has been showing some signs that this might indeed be Ethereum's biggest year. Not only Ethereum but also of other cryptocurrencies and Bitcoin itself. This early, the bulls are clearly showing the tip of their horns. ATHs of leading top coins might finally be renewed this 2020.

Your reasons are quite good, but all can happen, you see BSV with a 300% increase to a new all time high, did you previously think that BSV is a failed coin? Ethereum is better than BSV. I'm sure ATH ethereum can be achieved

touching $ 170 today hopefully it will also go above $ 200 in the near future, if all investors lock their ETH to take part in POSs of course all the big guys will follow to get long-term profits by holding their ETH on the POS, but they haven't released it until now As we heard before that in early January ETH 2.0 will be released but the news hasn't arrived yet, but I am sure ETH 2.0 will come soon this year and make all eyes in the crypto room look back at the potential of ETH to be greater than before

Imho, Ethereum is forced to completely switch to PoS in order to increase people's hoarding and speculative demands. And that will boost its value. But as far as I know, switching to PoS completely is something that takes a lot of time to complete.

The Ethereum development team always wants everything to be safe, so it needs to take more time than usual. I guess we have to wait until 2021 to see that.

sign still hasn't appeared I'm tired of waiting for that ,honest same hope as people others for ethereum but the many products and potentials in other altcoins too make ethereum prices not yet get attention and bitcoin also still fixes prices too ,return to ethereum about the PoS project all talk towards prices I have thoughts the same that ethereum will get the full change and flooded of investors but is 2021 only opinion

I am currently all in all the dollars I have to buy ETH at $ 160.  I believe that if ethereum 2.0 can be implemented early in 2020, it will be a great year for ETH fans.  But you know, it's all just a plan and it's just in the process, I still haven't seen Vitalik say anything about this upgrade process.  We may have to wait a long time and don't expect too much , because the team can delay at any time.

if you don't want to wait it's better to do trading because it will provide a better profit opportunity, rather than having to wait and wait then buy and hold it.
I agree with you a bit that the possibility of ethereum will be flooded by investors in 2021 not this year, there is a possibility because this year all crypto prices are being corrected whether will go bullish or will remain in bearish conditions like last year.

I doubt it will be its "biggest year yet", from 2016 to 2018 we have seen ethereum going from 10 bucks to 1500 bucks, in two years time there has been nothing in the whole world that has managed to make that much money with that much volume and liquidity before, sure there could be some pump and dump coins that made similar ones but there was no coin that made that much increase and still allowed you to sell over a billion without destroying all of the market in a single move and still able to cover it.

Basically, eth could potentially have a great year, an amazing year, an unbelievably awesome year, but lets not get out of reality and forget that eth was once 1500 dollars, even if it reaches 1500 dollars from here, that wouldn't be the biggest year of eth's life.

I think the biggest year for ETH could be the year that ETH will fork, which is when ETH should grow very much.

I think Vitalik will have news soon this year and investors should wait more for this time. Currently the value of ETH is very cheap and don't miss this investment opportunity because this coin will surely help you to earn huge profits in the near future. Maybe people still have doubts about the potential of Ethereum but for me, this coin will definitely help a lot in our lives.

Of course, everyone mindset is different, but I believe in Vitalik and will continue to invest this coin in the long term as the possibility of ETH reaching $500 is very high this year.

That $500 is somewhat accurate figure for this year, which I think more difficult since it wasn't starting to show any progress yet. As far as I observed with the latest market of btc breakdown, it was amazingly pumping and touched $8.9k. most probably it will create an influence for eth.

This remains the strongest fundamental for ETH so far. Would be nice to see how the year ends overall, that would speak for long term prospect for the number one altcoin. But so far, its price seems to be doing good and we may be heading out of the bear pit completely - at least for ETH.

ETH movement like it is increasingly creeping up and now the price has reached $ 177 maybe in 1 week ahead will reach $ 200.
As far as I know, if bitcoin is slowly moving, ETH will be the same but I want to know after approaching halving what will happen maybe a big pump will happen to Ethereum.

Imho next altcoin season will be biggest year to most big altcoins. But i don't know if that's happening this year. It can easily begin in this year tho.

I doubt it.

If you look back onto 2017 data you'll quickly find out that the scale of the ETH bull run (from <0.01 BTC to over 0.1 BTC at one stage) will be unmatched. I don't think that with this current market there is as strong a demand for ETH as a speculative token as before in 2017, where markets are a lot less mature than they are right now.

But if you're coming from an fundamentals standpoint, then yes, ETH2.0 could bring about some serious improvements.

In the discussion about the ethereum's price for the year majority of the users have mentioned it to be a big maybe or no. This is the prevailing reality, because ethereum grew high and touched its ath in a very short time than bitcoin. This made people have more interest on making investment on ethereum. Further till date the growth expectation is there, but the real expectation hasn't got fulfilled. Hope this year marks the something better than 2019.

How you know that? when bitcoin has increased and I believe it was a bull ran from $3500 to $13000 in a few days at that time but there is no altcoin which increased  a lot too. Even, the altcoin price just decreased and I just thinking that there is no altcoin season anymore. The investor will just believe that bitcoin is always being promising place to be choose for investment. As has happened recently, BSV price has increased drastically I saw on coinmarketcap its price increased for almost 100% but now, the BSV price just decreaseda loot. Don't you think the altcoin is really susceptive to be made as pump and dump scheme? Figure out of it and I guess investor will be more wary to choose them to store their money.

Chances are eth will lose the miner but gain investor that prefer POS staking. Being a validator is not too bad as you need 32eth and likely will be increase in time. There are many already signed up and secured their position as validator and somehow this will boost eth price. I'm positive that eth will be the most trend coin of the year for 2020.

2020 - 2021 have the potential to be the biggest years for crypto in general
i think that it can be huge for ETH but not as huge as it already was
its like bitcoin, to move it x10 you need a lot of money
i think the ETH alternatives will move a lot more - such as ADA and ETC (for example)

It would be great to have ethereum increase in price as a result of the ethereum 2.0 project. I had the same inclination, but heard that the ethereum 2.0 project may not be activated this year. I really do wish that the price of ethereum could experience some substantial boost during the course of the year.

I think this process will be not finish this year. So, it will not happen this year. 2019 was the big year for ethereum. It can be boosted next year.

It was planned since last year and as you can see on ETH twitter they already anounced the ETH2 so i'm sure it will happen this year if there's nothing obstacle to stop the development or at least they will launch it and the end of the year. But will the price reach the ATH before ? let's see

hopefully, as there as so many news regarding ethereum.. there are so many articles coming out that ethereum but the price is still the same  ;D ;D hoping this news could hype the community

$ 13,000 isnt enough to make another altseason. it has to more than last ATH, $ 19,000
after that, many people will see and make Bitcoin hype again. and that's when people invest in cryptocurrency

Dont you think that Bitcoin also possible to get that PnD scheme?
That often happened in the past. I dont wonder why, bcz crypto is still low cap which is easy to manipulate
if you are here for long time, I think you have known about that

To be honest, the price of ETH is difficult to rise, although there is a lot of positive news surrounding this project. Investors' needs are no longer the same as in 2017 and 2018, when the ICO was in a prosperous period and many investors needed to buy ETH to participate in the ICO. It helped ETH's price soar and reached ATH $ 1300, and now that the ICO is dead, nobody uses ETH anymore so the price cannot go up

Exactly. There's no real influx of capital flowing to ETH. ERC20 is considered dead right now, no one use token anymore and most of DEX right now are dumped so hard despite in bullish market. I just can't see ETH performing well in 2020 but if the upgrade commenced it will be a different thing. But the reality hits hard when the upgrade always got delayed.

Actually, increase in ETH price was due to ICO but this form of investment is now dead and no investor is interested . I think ETH will now be just a normal coin and will depend on Bitcoin because this is the only coin that can help this whole market to rise. In my opinion, the most popular form of investment this year is IEO but IEO projects do not use ETH, which has made the coin lose value in recent years.

In addition, Vitalik has not yet updated on Ethereum 2.0, so over the next few months will still be a difficult time for this project and you should be more careful when the market turns red.

Is everyone a fan of this update? I don't really know a lot about PoS vs PoW but it seems some people do still prefer PoW over PoS. These people who prefer PoW over PoS might turn away from ETH to ETC once ETH gets full PoS. If that's the case, it's not good for ETH and opens the chance for the "flippening" for ETC if more people prefer the initial PoW.

How soon is this update could come into effect? It doesn't look too big to me though, I don't see why going into PoS could boost ETH price to new high. Especially if the high is in the range of thousands :D It will need an even crazier bull run than 2017 to achieve that in my opinion, not just a PoS update.

If Bitcoin will keep rallying this year, then we have to expect that ETH will do the same. Somewhat just a puzzled this time since we are not already in the bullish and the trend is still at usual flows (dump and pump). We'd supposed to think also of some factors that could trigger a market surge and that is HALVING but we're not sure if it pushes the entire market just like it did in the previous halving or it will just stay the same.

we cannot deny that ICO is currently in a bad period and IEO is growing, but I believe that whatever form is created, if indeed the character of the person who makes bad intentions will be the same. so I still believe that ethereum will still be a good alternative for investment and there's no denying this. Even though the glorious period of 2017 ethereum has been experienced, why can't it also happen the following year if ethereum still remains the goal of the growth of the new altcoin.

what will get Ethereum toward the price of $ 500 is Ethereum 2.0, currently Ethereum developers haven't published when it's time to launch, if they really decide on this Q1 then I'm not surprised Eth prices have crept up

I don't know if for ETH will be a big year when pass to PoS, i see coins that after change from. PoW to PoS drop a lot in price and not recover yet, but also there was bear market so i can't compare it.

Actually not , its for stability and even POS will be happened, eth still have a bit lack.
About ETH fight with EOS , we know exactly EOS just nothing, even though EOS more stable than ETH , somehow people still choose ETH as a investement.

And you didn't watch the latest tweet from ethereum core development if the full implementation is about to be finished next year. I just try to remind you there will be a lot of phase to upgrade the network into the ethereum 2.0
The core developer just try to take the longest time scan to make sure if everything can be done perfectly. I think that's not a problem of ethereum doesn't try to rust it.

In my opinion, this year is an introduction of the good thngs that will happen in ETH network because of the upcoming POS, bitcoin halving and i will advise you to never underestimate ETH upcoming POS cause it a strategy planned by the ETH team since block rewards is reduced.
EOS is just another centralized coin and won't believe it prices stable if i were you.

The bear market still continues to be become a biggest struggles for us nowadays, and yet previous price increase was still having difficult moments to increase progressively. This year for eth was indeed unpredictable, we can predict accurately and we only hear speculations without strong evidence that it could provide us 100% awareness on when to hit the right target.

no one knows about it, we need to wait for it, and soon we can see the development of what happened to ethereum. honestly I am also waiting for the price of ETH to be above $ 400 this year and I am sure of that. however, reaching $ 400 is very good after ETH 2.0.

New system should be adapted to the market before it going success, and it's not an easy process, that's why many coins that have transtion from PoW to PoS is dropped because they can't survive the adaptation. I'm sure ETH with great team and great community could pass that time

There is a lot of phases to the update, yes. However, just the fact that it's being updated with a bunch of new features will hype it up and probably increase the price. Just look at how much BSV has gone up with good news over the last week or so. That same thing is probably going to happen to Ethereum whenever they roll out updates. Good news is usually good for the price of a coin.

I'll make a positive call on 2020 for Ethereum

Ethereum is progressing real good this 2 quarter
Network upgrade, Proof of Stake, Defi is what will make Ethereum something big in 2020

Price of ETH will not increase without any official information as it is currently only a prediction of investors and certainly people will have to wait a long time to see this. I think you should not put too much faith in this coin because ETH has not been able to rise well during the past 2 years and caused a lot of investors to give up. Personally, I will invest again when this coin returns to the best stage of development because that is the time when I can make hight profit.

Agree. The PoS design will greatly increase demand for ETH, resulting in higher prices over time. If successfully implemented this year, I believe that ETH will finally reach a price of $500 per coin. But if the team keeps delaying the upgrade, prices will stall across the market. Many people are desperate to see something big happen with Ethereum by 2020. With Bitcoin's halving event in May, the pioneer cryptocurrency's rise in price could positively impact Ethereum and other cryptocurrencies on the market. It's no secret that Ethereum rises according to Bitcoin's success in the mainstream world.

Of course, ETH devs want the safest path for scaling the second-largest Blockchain network in the world. But its competitors (EOS and TRON) are already in the lead with faster block times and cheaper transactions (no fees) than Ethereum. The longer the dev team takes in upgrading ETH to PoS, the worse it'll be for its survival in the mainstream world. Other alternatives can rise in mainstream adoption with their current design which is scalable and efficient for decentralized applications. They could take a large portion of Ethereum's market share, as most people prefer convenience over censorship-resistance. I hope that I'm wrong, and this year would turn out to become the biggest one for ETH yet. While I don't mind waiting for another year or two, the gap in time will allow ETH competitors to become bigger and stronger than ever.

Nonetheless, if 2020 turns out to become ETH's biggest year yet, many early adopters will benefit of the high prices on the market. We're still early as ETH hasn't adopted PoS. As long as prices remain below the $200 - $300 range, you'll be able to buy some coins to sell them once Ethereum becomes a full-fledged PoS cryptocurrency for the mainstream world. In effect, it'll be a win-win situation for both the ETH "hodler" and the platform itself. Just my opinion :)el

I believe that in 2020 ETH will grow, I hope that this year we can see the price of ETH at least $500, but I would like to see even higher.

And here I was aiming for at least $1,000. But to be fair, ETH has been undervalued for quite a while and it would be nice to see it gain some momentum in price action. If we reach the $500 mark, it means it's only a matter of time before we hit the 4-digits.

Did you know that about this if investors were buying on the rumour and sell for the news? that means if any rumour or speculation about the future of ethereum will be a support to create FOMO in the market.
Even this is a common thing in the crypto currency. We are on the speculation market and remember it.

Its possible for ETH, and I'm still supporting this coin by holding and buying the ETH. We will see the best price again, we just need to see bitcoin grows again and the bull in the market. The short term pump is great to make short profit but for those hodlers don't worry because this year will be a different scenario for us and we will end the year on a $1k and up, have confidence on ETH this is a new beginning.

It looks like ethereum is not doing anything for now. Does everyone think that ethereum will make a huge jump thanks to hard fork? Is it that important? I get that switching from PoW to PoS is very very important for a coin (which we still don't know if it will happen this year) but does it have to be really a big change that will increase the price?

From the looks of it the logic is that right now there are tons of people who mine ethereum and sell it to cover their expenses and that costs ethereum to go down a bit, all the funds that gets from coin offerings are sold as well, with PoS people won't be mining and selling, there will be funds that stay to make money etc etc etc, however is that logic gonna be real? Will it be ethereums future or is it just wishful thinking?

if this happens?i am one of the most celebrated account because i have converted half of my bitcoin to ethereum just weeks ago because of the lowering price so i took the advantage.
though i have read some thread from last year pointing that this Year might break the 2018 price of Ethereum.anyway i support Both ethereum and Bitcoin so what comes first will be a Big help for my crypto investment.

I see no positive impact on ethereum prices in 2020 prices do not go up high even though bull run come yesterday even this now, ethereum prices are coming back down, although not much

Indeed there was no positive impact on Ethereum this year and prices fell again after there was a slight increase, and not only Ethereum but all the coins on the market came back down and bled and many people thought it was influenced by Chinese New Year celebrations. or just coincidence.
Do not be afraid, this is only the beginning of the month in 2020 and 2020 which is still long and there are still many opportunities for the market and Ethereum to increase again and hold it is the right choice for now and take advantage of good opportunities when the market goes down to make purchases.

yes , i also have a hope for ETH POS but the fact as i read on many many article , even though ETH post already applied , there still have a lack on their blockchain.
about EOS, oh come on i just talk about what OP says, i know exactly EOS just a semi decentral , posibility same like tron.

ETH is the best smart contract coin by a long way. It has a good future in store, I'm sure, and the move to PoS will play a big part in driving up the price.
But I can't see that 2020 will be ETH's best year ever in terms of price - there's no way we can realistically match what happened at the end of 2017. A price of over $1,000 seems very unlikely this year. ETH does look under-priced, just not that under-priced.

Waiting what will happen with ethereum in 2020 become lower price or keep continue to be higher price and raise more than fantastic price last 2017 where touch above $1,500. I trust with ethereum but after many ICO investment have failed ethereum look slowly for raising up to higher price, many moment ethereum always have lower price.

I really like ETH, I have a lot of faith in the future of ETH, but if you look at the reality, it's unlikely that ETH will grow much this year and it's unlikely that anything will show the grandeur.

There are only 2 reasons that could help ETH price to move and reach to its peak again.
  *Bitcoin halving- that could possibly drag the top altcoins/or of the entire market
  *ETH 2.0 upgrade

But it feels that it will never moves the market price instantly as we know that the huge effect of halving will show a few months after.
Anyway, it was in the previous halving, not sure if the market will run through the same because it depends on the market adoption and as well as on investor's movement.

Good point. The PoS version of Ethereum will encourage people to "hodl" their coins instead of selling them. Prices could rise to the moon because of the huge demand for ETH. However, the ETH economy will not be moving as it used to be. For smart contracts which require ETH as fuel for execution, it's necessary to encourage spending every once in a while. But ETH's PoS model, would prove to benefit the whales most instead of the average Joe.

Still though, this is beneficial for scaling ETH within the mainstream world. This year could be the biggest one for ETH if it adopts PoS in its entirety. At least, most early adopters will benefit from ETH's latest trends as prices will skyrocket like never before. For those who want to keep mining ETH, they would have no choice but to resort to ETC. Miners can continue using their equipment on the Ethereum Classic chain, while "hodlers" will stay with Ethereum. Everyone wins in the end, thanks to the decentralized nature of crypto and Blockchain technology. If by any chance the community disagrees with the PoS hard fork, they could simply create a new version of Ethereum that will suit their own needs.

Nonetheless, I think that ETH will remain with ProgPoW for a while until devs decide it's safe enough for the chain to migrate towards PoS consensus. Maybe they'll delay the upgrade another year? Or maybe the time has come for ETH to become a PoS cryptocurrency? No one knows what will happen this year, as the dev team has left us in suspense. But I can guarantee you that the cryptocurrency will be here to stay for a very long time. All in all, I hope that this year would turn out to become the biggest one yet for Ethereum and the Blockchain industry in general. Just my thoughts ;D

That's a very simple yet a more accurate reason of the bull market.
Hopefully ETH 2.0 will be launch this year, probably after the halving schedule as that would be a great timing just to support ETH for a possible dump which is correction of a possible pump going to the halving.

Ethereum has possibilities, no doubt here. The fact is, Ethereum is not doing well since 2018, but every year we expected high and called this year will be Ethereum year, but we were wrong! If the Bitcoin bull run comes, if Bitcoin price crosses 20K USD, then yes, Ethereum price will be growing highly as like other coins! But Truly I don't believe this year will be the biggest for Ethereum! I think Ethereum lost the momentum that's why last year when the Bitcoin price was near to 14K USD, ETH price was 330$ only!

We can hope ethereum can increase again after getting dump for a long time, and like many others said that this year would be a good time to grow back and hit the highest price. We can wish that this year, ethereum will get more investor who will invest their money to the ethereum projects, especially ethereum project wants to release the update in this year. So the chance for ethereum to increase is wide open, and it is a matter of time to see ethereum will increase later.

ETH will not grow in price this year, it will start to recover with time and after a while will grow in price very much.

The problem is that achieving a price peak will interfere with ETH in development and widespread use. Increased commissions and the continued use of ETH as a means of speculation is dead end path. I believe in ETH, I invested part of the money in it, but I believe that if the price of ETH drops once again ~ x0.1 it will be useful for the whole ecosystem. Subject to ongoing technical development of course.

Etherum already have a number of benefits which includes deploying smart contracts onto the etherum blockchain, etc which has already made etherum be one of the most popular coin and also a number of newly launched projects have already launched their tokens on the ERC20 network which indeed is etherum network.

Etherum will go through major development which everyone here is talking about and that would be the major reason why we could expect a high pump in the price of etherum. In this year, a lot of coins have started showing us a significant growth including XRP, ETH, etc which is a good sign from the markets and we could sooner expect the bull runs to arrive.

Ether doubled in almost a month, which is a good indicator, but all this happened solely because of Bitcoin's growth in the market.

This year is said to bring something exciting for the price of each altcoin because of the halving event. After the halving proceeds, we could expect a higher prices for each coin as it would be the start of the bull runs. Etherum would be among the first few coins which would start showing us a dense growth and hence I have to correct you there that the price for etherum would surely rise this year itself.

The development news from the developers of etherum is not coming on a regular interval and that might be what is stopping etherum from having a sudden pump but once the 2.0 version of etherum is officially launched, we could see huge price rise in the price of etherum.

137 x 2 = 274 not 200 https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/ethereum/

Or are you from the future and see what others do not see?  :)
By the way, I think that such a rapid growth in a highly capitalized currency is a bad sign. Perhaps this is a signal that liquidity has fallen and volatility has increased. Therefore, the reverse movement can pass at the same speed or even faster.

That's certainly true, mate. Ethereum has lost its luster mostly because of the decay of ICOs within the mainstream world. After all, ICOs were the ones which triggered most of the demand for Ethereum across the crypto market. With heavy regulation on the Blockchain industry, most ICOs experienced a full crackdown from the government. Now the next biggest trend for Ethereum would be the implementation and adoption of STOs (Security Token Offerings) and IEOs (Initial Exchange Offerings). But even the most prominent companies in the mainstream world haven't adopted Ethereum for their own benefit yet.

We'll have to wait until Ethereum upgrades from PoW to PoS, to see a drastic change in its performance. Only then, adoption will increase resulting in higher prices over the long term. In the meantime, Ethereum will only rise in price if Bitcoin does. A Bitcoin price of over $50k could make Ethereum worth $1,000 or more. This, coupled with several upgrades to the ETH blockchain, could make the world's second-largest cryptocurrency by market cap one of the most valuable cryptocurrencies in existence today. For what we know, Ethereum has done remarkably in development and innovation over time. Maybe this could be the year of Ethereum, if devs decide to adopt Casper PoS at a full extent. Otherwise, you could expect ETH to stale both in price and adoption within the mainstream world.

Nonetheless, time will tell us what will be the outcome of Ethereum's developments in the Blockchain industry. If its competitors manage to stay ahead of the game, then Ethereum's existence could be at risk as we know it. Ethereum needs to quickly scale for the world if it wants to catch up with its competitors in order to provide a better solution for the development and execution of decentralized applications for the whole world to enjoy. Just my thoughts ;D

With time for any coin, there will be lighter days, now ETH shows itself very well, but after time it can get even better.

I think he was too eager to speculate, and seeing the current ethereum price, I think in the near future, the price will double. currently, the price of ethereue is $ 212, and only less than $ 62 before reaching the price of $ 274. ethereum prices will be big this year, but if the range doesn't reach thousands of dollars, I doubt that this year will be the biggest year for ethereum

We are all hoping that this update would really help the Ethereum to boost its price. Plus the fact that there is an halving. Ethereum price will for surely gonna be affected also by this even that will lead its price to pump up even more and achieve its biggest price or value this your or maybe from the start of 2021.

I miss those days of $1,400. I better start stocking up on some ETH. The goal is multiple 32 ETHs. POS will make Ethereum more valuable this year.

I like your optimism, I am an ETH holder and would like to see such numbers. But given the number of coins and the already huge capitalization of ETH, this is very unlikely (~ $300). At the moment, I’m even thinking about getting into a short position, such price movements must necessarily be accompanied by correction.
As for the price of a thousand dollars, this is an idea completely divorced from reality. It seems to me that even if traditional banks begin to stack ETH and participate in Defi  :D such levels will not be achieved.

Btc price influenced in mostly top ranking altcoins. Btc touched 10k$ this is positive impacted in cryptocurrency. Overall ETH,BCH,BSV are big pump for btc. ETH investors will receive huge profits, who's waiting long time and confused about future. Those investors bought eth in cheap price market. 500$ is easy to touch in the year, 800$ is my hope end of the year.

All ETH holders are waiting for the moment of Ethereum 2.0 launch, which until now has not yet been released. But don't worry, I'm sure they will release it in the middle of this year, or maybe it coincides with the 5th anniversary of Ethereum, on the 30th of July later.

Of course, when ETH goes to PoS mining, ETH will start buying very actively to get passive income. This should add value to ETH.

I also heard that the developer will delay this development a bit, and the reason is not clear, because there are too many tokens using the network, so this interferes with the development, or they really did it on purpose, until Q2 this year.
Whatever it is, I hope it will be implemented quickly, and we will see progress from Eth with the new version

It looks very strong. We have to look at onchain data

Yes. We've been waiting a very long time for the dev team to adopt PoS on the ETH blockchain. But day after day, they keep delaying the same. It's somewhat disappointing for the ETH hodler, as its competitors are already one step ahead of the game. EOS, TRON, and Cardano are much more scalable than Ethereum with faster transactions, and in some cases, no fees (especially DPoS chains like TRON and EOS).

Perhaps you're right and the team decides to implement PoS on Ethereum by July this year. It will coincide with its 5th anniversary becoming an exciting event in crypto land. But rest assured that if this year there's no improvement for ETH, people's interest into the cryptocurrency will continue to decline. And if this keeps going, you could expect ETH's market share to decline paving the way for its competitors to take over its second place in market cap. I hope that I'm wrong and this would turn out to be the biggest year for ETH yet.

In the meantime, prices are still below $1k per ETH. You could easily accumulate Ethereum until the time comes to sell it. With a PoS version of the Ethereum blockchain, people will buy more ETH than they will ever sell. After all, the Blockchain will reward hodlers most. The more ETH a person has, the more the reward will be. While I'm not quite fond with the unlimited supply of ETH (which leads to inflation), it has still managed to retain its value within the mainstream world. The dev team could easily decide to implement a hard cap on ETH's supply if the need arises.

Nonetheless, there's no denying that Bitcoin's halving will have a positive effect over Ethereum's price across the market. This, combined with the PoS upgrade, should make 2020 the biggest year of Ethereum yet. Just my opinion :)

Well, it depends on how Bitcoin's price will progress over this year due to Ethereum is the follower of the king. In fact, I am pretty that Eth's price will touch $ 1K  but after Bitcoin halving, possibly, this prediction will happen when Bitcoin's price rise to $ 18K or $20K , I advise everyone invest into these best coins, because you will certainly earn an acceptable profit in a safe way.

BTC is biggest player and a lot demands from it. If it will keep going up im sure eth will do well. It better should do, placed to big bet on it ...ha
If BTC crashes everything else will crash.

my honest opinion? ETH is doing some things right but I have already said several times that I don't see a new ATH. :-\
the ICO hype a long time ago was the highlight of ETH and it will probably stay that way.
would like to fool me as I already own several ETH but I am afraid that the altitude flight will not come as expected.

Yes,,, correct. ICOs made Ethereum popular but they also were responsible for everything bad that befell ETH after the boom. But we take some lessons from Bitcoin in the early days when everyone thought it was just gambling and dark markets,,, and to be fair at some point early on it was a lot of bitcoin gambling! From adversity comes oppportunity so let us see ETH 2.0 and what it offers.

ETH 2.0 should be an imrpovement of the current system and every improvement deserves to be appreciated by investors.
However, to think of the price reaction, I think it is more on the market sentiment than the development of the project, if it launch and the market is bullish, then we will likely see a bigger success for ETH with ETH 2.0.

Not just Ethereum but majority of altcoins are greatly depending on the bitcoin price. And with the incoming bitcoin halving and the updated version of eth, we can expect that ethereum will definitely gain a very positive price making it reach another ATH. Once bitcoin will make a very high price increase, ethereum too will never be left behind having its price maybe ranging from 400$-500$ i guess by that time.

Today, there are a lot of forecasts regarding the development of the entire cryptocurrency market, as well as individual cryptocurrencies.  If you pay attention to the analysis and forecast of online analyst Bob Ullari, who bases his statements on the indicators of the global economy and global interest in the blockchain of many institutions of state and commercial structures, as well as in international trade.  The forecasts of this person is that in 2020, Bitcoin and Ethereum will occupy almost 25% of the total cryptocurrency turnover in the world.  I think this is a great indicator and for ethereum it can be really big leaps forward this year.

So far it's just the beginning of the year and I personally think that ETH is not going to have a great year because the best year for ETH is 2021-2022

400-500$ would be my minimum target after seeing todays gains. There is unreal usage on eth as far as i know #DeFi

This is a possible prediction if demand for investment in this market tends to increase in the near future. However, you are not always lucky to make a profit because the market is very volatile. In fact, the $1,000 price is quite achievable but ETH will certainly have many major adjustments before this price occurs. Currently, I only spend 5% of assets to invest and will keep for a long time.

Firstly, Ethereum has over the years hown its strenght in its Samrt contract innovation and as it gained the first mover advantage, it has attraccted loads of project in its platform and its new POS algorithm that will work alongside POW is kind of a new development to the ethereum team, i am yet to fully get the picture of how they are going to handle this technologically but i know its going to attract an increase in the price of ethereum, more like a compensation for the hard work by the team. A good one there i must confess and Kudos to them this year 2020 and beyond.

Well, at least this year will be a trigger for an increase in ethereum prices. I believe that right now people are trying to buy and hold ethereum and wait until ETH 2.0 is achieved. however, the ETH 2.0 system will make it easier for people to make money, even I also prepared it. I think that the minimum price for this year's ETH is $ 500.

Funny, but only 10 dollars left to make your words extremely accurate!
Maybe you want to make some more forecast? Now I'm really interested  ;)

Much expectation to ETH. I was even preparing for its POS so I can just stake my holdings.

Maybe ETC is indeed where the miners will go or they can go to XMR if they are going to take the risk while some exchanges are not pairing it anymore.  ETC is a much cheaper coin for now but it may not take long til this one also will make its way up. There isn't so much project using ETC however so its demand will only evolve to small community where some teams prefer ETC.

Not true at all. Ethereum is moving independently from Bitcoin at the moment. To understand this, you need to look at the ETH/BTC chart:


ETH was in a looong descending channel since 4th January 2019 (!) So even when bitcoin had a mini bull run in Q1-Q2 2019, Ethereum was losing against Bitcoin. And when Bitcoin had correction in Q3 and Q4 2019, Ethereum kept falling against Bitcoin.
Turning point was the beginning of 2020 when Ethereum reversed and is now growing in price faster than Bitcoin. It took one whole year that ETH broke the resistance (red line on my chart). This move from 0.023 to 0.0257 (current) was so obvious that I'm so angry at myself that I didn't take advantage of it. Why obvious? (1) ETH broke the ONE YEAR LONG resistance and (2) a 3day chart formed a three-bar-play pattern which is more often than not followed by upward momentum. The question is, is ETH going to continue this rally and return to 0.04 BTC, or stabilise bellow 0.03 BTC.

I say that ETH has good chances of reaching 0.04 BTC in couple of months. Bitcoin Dominance is falling for several weeks in a row. It was rising for TWO YEARS and now it broke the support. After second thoughts I'm gonna wait for this week's candle to close and if it closes bellow support, I'm hunting for some Altcoins, ETH being first on my list.
Good luck fellow traders. And don't forget, always use stop loss!

I do not believe in technical analysis, but in this case I agree with your conclusions. If market growth continues, it will mainly be due to altcoins. They are more volatile and have less capitalization, therefore, their price is more dynamic. Which in turn attracts both investors and speculators.
The best altcoin is ETH, so if there is confidence in the growth of the market, investments in ETH are the highest priority.

I have to believe that ETHn will show some exciting moments this year. We could notice that it has a strong uptrend motion and that seems to be of continuous market movement. Many speculations arise that ETH will soon to Bullish and the possibility is still there.

https://www.newsbtc.com/2020/02/10/ethereum-flirts-with-key-resistance-uptrend/

Having this resistance, it is big enough to say that ETH will be having a big day in the coming days. And I would like to suggest that it is better to accumulate more ETH at this time while the market price is still low. It is one way to anticipate the market before we will run for the next level and I believe that you'll never regret of what you've got.

Technical analysis have basis if you analyze the situation of what's going on the market. But I yet believe that this will be the best year for ETH compare on previous years where a major upset cames and for sure if this current pump will continue maybe we can reach the ATH or if more greater times came provably we can see a  new historical figures came this year or maybe next year onwards.

A lot of news is coming when Ethereum 2.0 is released and I believe that time will be very good when you choose long-term investment. Currently the value of ETH is greatly improving and could reach $300 in the next few days so hopefully a better future will welcome the return of Ethereum. Personally, I always spend a lot of time researching this coin and always consider investing when the market enters a bull phase.

Yes....ETH will end this year btw 2k-2500$ at least ;D ;D ;D

Ethereum 2.0 News has indeed become the biggest thing for Ethereum this year. The price of $ 300 will be very easily achieved by ETH, I'm also sure in a few days later the price of Ethereum can reach $ 300 or even more than that. People are also waiting for the moment Bitcoin Halving later which can have a positive effect on all Crypto prices, including Ethereum.

Biggest year yet is a real stretch, I can't see 2020 eclipsing 2017. Having said that, PoS is the future, and we should see 2.0 this year. I can see ETH rising considerably against both BTC and USD... just probably not the same percentage increases we saw at the height of ICO fever.

Smart contracts will only get bigger, and ETH is by far the best smart contract platform. Don't bet against it.

ATH > 1500$ ?  ::)
It's impossible. ETH has too much capitalization, plus mining constantly produces new coins. In the distant future, subject to a complete transition to POS and some other factors, achieving this level is realistic, but not this or next year. I would love to be wrong (I'm ETH holder).

Ethereum is starting to improve the price and it is certain that this uptrend can last for a long time because the demand for investing in this coin is starting to increase more.

I think everyone is waiting for the news of Ethereum 2.0 to appear and it will be big news for everyone here. However, in this market, it is impossible to be sure of anything and everything can happen unexpectedly.

We'll see. If Ethereum adopts PoS during the year, we could expect prices to rise like never before. This, coupled with increased adoption of STOs and IEOs could make 2020 the biggest year of ETH yet. Considering that ETH is the best smart contract platform in existence, it's bound to increase in demand over time. The only downside is ETH's undefined total supply, which makes it an unsuitable long-term investment for anyone. But I believe that's more of a feature than a bug, since the native cryptocurrency "Ether" is meant to be used as fuel for the development and execution of smart contracts (dApps) across the Blockchain.

Comparing ETH's All-time-high of over $1,000 per coin back in 2017, it has a long way to go before it'll be able to experience a massive surge in price anytime soon. Its substantial rise in price was largely attributed to the "ICO hype". Now that that's over, Ethereum's prices have stalled across the market. Only the PoS upgrade and the adoption of STOs (alongside an upsurge in Bitcoin's price) will have a positive effect over ETH's price in the long term.

Nonetheless, even if 2020 doesn't turn out to be the biggest year of Ethereum yet, the world's second-largest cryptocurrency by market cap will still be loved by crypto enthusiasts, everyday people, and mainstream businesses/companies alike. Ethereum is like the "Bitcoin" of the smart contract space providing truly censorship-resistant dApps unlike its competitors. Tron, EOS, Cardano, and other platforms may be faster and cheaper to use than Ethereum. But they're missing decentralization, which is one of the core principles of a Blockchain. And Ethereum has a fair advantage against other platforms because it keeps decentralization in mind. Just my opinion :)

The upgrade was done and the price of Ethereum is keep on increasing while following the footsteps of bitcoin, so far Ethereum is doing good as the demand is also there so the chances that Ethereum will dominate this year is very big.

We can even see the highest ATH record of Ethereum this year if the market will not fall after the halving of bitcoin as the market is very dependent to bitcoin because of it's dominance over other currencies. If Ethereum can achieve 2000$ this year then it will be the biggest ATH record.

I also don't really hope that the price of ethereum can reach its new ATH, it's just that I'm pretty sure that the change from POW to POS will make ethereum prices go up, even close to the price of $ 1000. as far as I know, ATH ethereum is $ 1,400, and to date, ethereum prices have even tried to go up to $ 300. I am not so sure that in less than 1 year, the price of ethereum can reach more than $ 1,400 even with the help of halving, and ETH 2.0.
however, in 2017 ICO support for ETH is no less good than this year.

Of course, for now we can't really compare 2017 and 2020. There's still a lot to be done in 2020 to be even compare to the last great bull run we have. With that said, we will see how it goes, maybe investors become smarter now and just picking their spot on what ICO they are going to pour their hard earn money.

So 4 digit price is within our reach, beginning this year, ETH is having a good recovery. And it is goes strong against BTC and USD, then we can see it getting higher and could get to 4 digit once again.

The main difference is macro indicators. The main one is capitalization. I think you will agree that an increase from 8 billion to 800 looks more real than an increase from 200 billion to at least 2 trillion. If we are talking about growth rates, then I am sure that they will not repeated.

You are right, there is no better smart contract platform than Ethereum Network. Many new smart contract-based blockchain has come, but no one is close to Ethereum. People started talking Binance chain will surpass the Ethereum, look now, everyone is leaving Binance chain. Day by day Ethereum's popularity may be increasing because of the best smart contract technology. Though I don't believe this year will be biggest for Ethereum, but every good coin like Ethereum will do better at least!

The market will grow because we are expecting adoption here, of course 8 billion to 800 billion is easier to see than 200 billion to  at least a 2 trillion but for sure we will reach at that level as the adoption continues. We have big targets but we need to remain realistic based on the time frame of the target, so if we say 1 year from now I don't expect that we will reach marketcap of 2 billion but I believe if bitcoin will reach its ATH, 1 trillion marketcap is possible since I am also expecting that altcoins will pump.

You are right, the repetition of market growth cannot be repeated. even the growth trends of the crypto market a few years ago also cannot be used to make predictions in the future. in the future, there are only new conditions, and we must adjust the situation.

If you compare ETH to the past years, now ETH really looks very good and maybe lately it is the most successful year for ETH.

why can you say that this year is the most successful? what has been achieved by ethereum? if you look at my 2017 we all agree if it is the best year of ethereum and almost all crypto assets. but we cannot compare the present situation with the conditions in the past. the market is different, and the achievement of ethereum, of course, every year has its trends and achievements.

i believe he means to say previous year ( e.g 2019 and 2018 ) because the year 2017 is where eth reached its all time high  .

his right that this year 2020 is better because eth is now finally recovering  . eth has its rumoremed eth 2.0    , that can be consider as one of eth achievements  . comparing means that something has change  . nothing is wrong with comparing and we can always compare the performance of the coin from their current condition compare from the past   .

Exactly. No other smart contract platform has been able to surpass Ethereum in usage and adoption within the mainstream world. While many of ETH's competitors are faster and cheaper to use for daily payments, they're missing decentralization and censorship-resistance which is vital for the Blockchain network's survival against oppressive governments and other third parties. And Ethereum has an advantage over its competitors because it's completely decentralized. Even if this year doesn't turn out to be the biggest one for ETH yet, it'll certainly grow in development and innovation. Once developers integrate PoS consensus into the ETH blockchain, things will become interesting for its price as demand will grow like never before. PoS will encourage users to hoard their coins instead of spending them.

Rest assured that Bitcoin's halving event will have a positive effect over BTC and other cryptocurrencies' price across the market. Ethereum may very well increase in price right after Bitcoin experiences a reduction in its block reward. And if the dev team adopts PoS thereafter, Ethereum will be able to reach new ATHs in price. Remember, "patience is a virtue". As long as ETH is still cheap to acquire (below $500), you could "buy and hodl" as much coins as you can before the excitement begins. If this turns out the become the biggest year for ETH, you'll be able to cash out much more money than you've initially invested. Just my opinion :)

If governments start issuing their crypto coins, then we will reach this level much faster. The problem is that it will be a fake crypto, in fact there will be no difference from fiat. If we talk about a real crypto, then unfortunately the prospects for its mass adoption are not as good as we would like. People hardly refuse the benefits (yes they exists) that fiat gives them.
From ETH I expect a qualitative leap with a full transition to ETH 2.0, but seeing how everything is slowly developing, I do not hope that this process will be fast.

Ethereum will back to higher price in this year and not worry with your invetsing last two year with ethereum have higher price, I think you will get back your money with bitcoin keep continue going on to higher price and bring positive side for ethereum.

Yes ethereum will be the price this Year is our expect date but no one can know when. But maybe we still be positive even this year is not the ethereum year we can always wait when the ether begin to move up the price. So it's always think positive and have good faith in ethereum.

Ethereum does it slowly but for me it is certain, and again everything still depends on the conditions of the price of bitcoin. Ethereum is looking for the right time.

They are to many question in here that I read on when the etherium will be going start to increase or to reach a high price. But Ill think it was only prediction the answer they have because no one can tell if the etherium it could be have a biggest surprise in this year. So for me it would be maybe a time for etherium to rise again just like we saw in the past year ETH are increasing the price so much.

In fact, everything is interdependent and it is not clear what is more important. But I think that you will not argue with the fact that if the ETH drops to $ 10 now, then bitcoin will also fall. A huge part of the market depends on ETH.
Here is some very interesting information about the correlation between ETH and the market: Ethereum is the most correlated crypto asset, research shows (https://www.fxstreet.com/cryptocurrencies/news/ethereum-is-the-most-correlated-crypto-asset-research-shows-202001221244)

thanks for the links buddy . didnt knew that eth have a relation to btc too ? but i knew that eth have a relation to tokens and altcoins.  i also agree when you say independent because that is what i also notice  . i see that the value of eth is still stable but the value of bitcoin dropped again from the late 10k usd plus.  for sure he will not aruge if ever eth drop followed by btc because they think its not the fault of eth but not until now because you already posted a reason of the relation of eth to btc

So far ETH is not surprising, with the usual downturn and growth in the market now happening at ETH, I wouldn't venture to say that this will be the best year for ETH.

Good to know. I believe that such behavior is attributed to the fact that most tokens are based off the ETH blockchain. After all, ERC-20 tokens dominate a large portion of the crypto market. A massive downfall in ETH's price could lead most cryptocurrencies & tokens towards new lows in price. It's no secret that both Bitcoin and Ethereum are directly linked in crypto land. Considering that Ethereum is the world's second-largest cryptocurrency by market cap, it has a large prominence over the entire crypto/Blockchain industry. I'd expect that once scalability improvements start rolling in, the price per ETH will rise like never before. No one knows when the "excitement" will happen again, as everything will depend on the project's developers' release of new upgrades for the ETH blockchain.

If I'm right, this year could be such where Ethereum upgrades towards Casper PoS. Once that happens, people will gain the "FOMO" sentiment by buying as much ETH as they can (resulting in higher prices over time). But even if this year doesn't turn out to be the biggest one for ETH yet, it'll be remembered as such where Bitcoin experienced a reduction in its block reward. At least, Bitcoin's halving event will have a positive influence over Ethereum's price within the short term.

Nonetheless, it's certain that ETH has a very bright future ahead of it. With a prominent development team and Vitalik by its side, Ethereum could reach new heights. Hopefully, we'd get to see something new and exciting for ETH during the course of this year. Just my thoughts ;D

We couldn't really tell since the biggest year so far was at 2017.
When I think almost all of the crypto made their ATH,
And I think ETH couldn't break it's current record even for this year we wouldn't see it reach or surpass it's ATH.

I think the increase in ETH will continue to grow again and I think if halving has not occurred then it is likely to rise again but to record reaching ATH again I do not know and cannot predict but this vital coin is able to recover as the market develops and occurs bullish again.
Ethereum is still developing their project goals in various countries. I am sure that ETH will be better known in the community.

Few altcoins will halve this year as well, especially Bitcoin forks, as for Ethereum is a new thing switching from Proof of work to Proof of Stake but I don't expect a huge price growth just because of the POS implementation, ETH will still depend on Bitcoin

ETH is indeed developing this year, but so far the development is not so big. however, I think ethereum can reach 0.04 to 0.05 BTC this year. however, I think it depends on the development of bitcoin prices. so far bitcoin is stable in the range of $ 9500 to $ 10100. if the price of bitcoin exceeds that, there is a chance for ethereum to rise again. however, for the new ATH, it seems like it's still a bit difficult.

0.04 to 0.05 might not be considered as a growth if btc value will drop, imagine if bitcoin will dump to $3000 again and the price of ETH is 0.05 btc, that would still be lower than the current price, that is just equivalent to $150, and actually investors does not measure based on sats value but on dollar value.

agree, but imagine if the price of bitcoin is lower than what I mentioned, and in the bitcoin pair, the price of ethereum has a price of 0.027 BTC (currently), wouldn't it be even lower.
right now, to be honest I'm watching the rise in ethereum prices based on the value of the bitcoin. on a bitcoin scale, from the beginning of 2020, the price of ethereum is 0.018 BTC, and currently the price is 0.027 BTC, which means that ethereum prices reached an increase of 0.01 BTC within 1 month, which makes it a price of $ 130 at the beginning of the year, to $ 262 now with the help bitcoin price increase. so, if ETH can reach the price of 0.04 or 0.05 in the current bitcoin pair, the price can be $ 386 if calculated at the current price. Well, basically an increase in the price of bitcoin or dollars, I feel it's the same. Most importantly, ethereum prices can reach high prices this year.

The most important is that ETH will rise this year, it doesn't matter if it values 0.05btc per ETH as long as it's value will be $1,000.. I think that sounds more better and easy to understand that there's really an increase. I remember when I was still new, I tend to check on CMC using the satoshi value... but the picture is more clear if I will convert it to USD, but anyway, everyone has their own style of appraising the market.

An additional factor in increasing the demand for ETH will be that in order to create a validator (which should be a lot in the system), 32 ETH will need to be locked. As I understand it, from the news announcements issued by the ETH team, the number of validators will be huge.

The fact that Ethereum depends on Bitcoin to succeed, tell us that every 4 years of Bitcoin's halving will be the most prominent ones for the ETH blockchain. The BTC halving coupled with ETH's switch from PoW to PoS could make this year (2020) one of the biggest ones for the world's second-largest cryptocurrency by market cap. But no one knows for sure what will happen next, since crypto behaves in strange and bizarre ways.

If the ETH dev team decides to delay the PoS upgrade again, we might have to wait another year (or a few more years from now) in order to see ETH gain traction within the mainstream world. As long as ETH remains as is, people will have no motivation to buy it. The ETH blockchain needs to scale if it wants to provide real use cases for the mainstream world. After all, smart contracts cannot work as intended with limited transaction capacity of the main chain. With an upgraded version of the Ethereum blockchain, smart contract's performance will rise at an unprecedented rate. Only then, people will gain the "FOMO" sentiment buying as much ETH as they can. As a result, companies and businesses will join the "ETH train" in order to boost the adoption of ETH worldwide. :D




Yes. But even so, people will be able to stake ETH using staking pools. 32 ETH will only be accessible to big whales and players in the industry. I've seen an announcement somewhere across the web by Vitalik that the 32 ETH requirement will be lowered over time once "Sharding" is implemented at full scale within the ETH blockchain. If that's so, it'll become much easier for anyone to participate in ETH's consensus for greater decentralization of the world's second-largest cryptocurrency by market cap. It's no secret that the PoS upgrade will encourage people to hoard more ETH than they'll ever spend. If implemented this year, you could expect prices to rise at an unprecedented rate. ;)

it's hard indeed if the price of bitcoin goes down because Ethereum itself depends on the price of bitcoin but I believe the price of bitcoin won't fall that badly, at least it can still be above $ 5k, but we don't know the future how we can only wait

People think this year is the best year for Ethereum because this year Ethereum will release their latest version, Ethereum 2.0. But I don't think the release of Ethereum 2.0 will have an impact on increasing the price of ETH. Today, all Altcoin has fallen, including ETH.

All possibilities could happen in 2020, because some important events in cryptocurrency will occur in 2020 such as halving day bitcoin, halving day ltc and also plans for ethereum to release ethereum 2.0 as planned this year, I think if all events it happens, of course, not only eth will have an impact, but most likely all altcoin will also increase. Of course, we all hope that by 2020 it will be able to restore the glory of Cryptocurrency which has indeed experienced a downturn in 2018.

Hopefully there will be no delay, if they'll release based on schedule, then I believe it's good to buy more on ETH now.

https://www.coindesk.com/95-confidence-ethereum-developers-pencil-in-july-2020-for-eth-2-0-launch



I am certain that the price will rise and I even think of a possibility on seeing another bull run like what we witnessed and experienced in 2017.

agree, anything can happen to crypto in 2020, but it will most likely happen to ethereum. but maybe it won't be more than 2x when ethereum is in its prime. at that time ethereum could not penetrate to $ 1.5K and if there were changes the best of ethereum would be at $ 3K only. in addition to ethereum, it is clear that bitcoin is starting to get excited from the beginning of the year, and there will also be an increase in change.

ETH has not been very successful lately, but I think that in 2020 ETH will be able to achieve some success, and in 2021 ETH will be able to achieve its ATH.

I cannot analyze Ethereum because the coin is still very dependent on Bitcoin and if it is not possible, Ethereum will have a difficult time ahead. I hope after Ethereum 2.0 appeared, this coin can develop itself and have more new partners because this is a very potential coin for you to choose to invest. In addition, this is also my favorite long-term investment option and the altcoin season will definitely make this coin reach new ATH.

if this year is the biggest Ethereum ever?then i must say i am going to be rich in 2020?because i had been holding my ethereums for couple of years now expecting to make a Hype more than January 2018?
but yeah we have been also waiting for ETH2.0 right?and also this Bitcoin Miners halving that will happen in the next 2 3 months?
no wonder why there are threads that like this to Boost our trust Ethereum holders.

Im holding my eth as well for few years already, been waiting for the price to soar high again just like before but it seems eth is struggling to recover.

Hopefully this year will be different for the past years since many event can affect the price of eth and other altcoins. We know btc has an influence to alts price therefore if btc halving can trigger to have a bullish market then alts will turns up as well.

Its just a speculation but who knows it might happen for this year.

It's not. If you are aware of the ethereum chart right now and it does not totally depend on bitcoin. dapps is also affecting the price of ethereum. As long as the FOMO for POS will always there and it will not so difficult for ethereum to recover the price from the latest bearish chart. Maybe POS is not a big bet but that's enough to bring a good impact to make people wanna participate in the ethereum staking.

At this rate I think the general market has to make some sort of changes to itself in order to keep going up. It is not really sustainable for crypto to go up and down constantly because it is making some people money but losing some people money so it can't continue forever, it sure has been doing that for years now and we have seen nothing profitable in the short term and not long term.

Hopefully, we will build more and more infrastructure for bitcoin, we need a lot more companies, a lot more business and a lot more adoption so that when we go up, it will not go down that easily since there are way too many people involved which will do their best not to let it go down. So that is what we need, more money involved by more people that will keep the price higher.

I think that the transition to ETH2 will greatly change ETH and the whole world of cryptocurrencies. But I do not expect any records in prices since the global recession has begun and all assets will become cheaper in the coming years. But those assets that can survive the crisis in the future have great chances for phenomenal growth.

It seems to me that ETH 2.0 will have a very serious impact on the ETH price for the better, especially if the market grows, we can see a new ETH maximum.

2022 is more feng shui  ;D

That's because Bitcoin has decreased in price lately. As long as Bitcoin is down in price across the market, so will Ethereum and other altcoins. But I believe that the PoS upgrade will trigger a short boost in ETH's price, even if Bitcoin's prices are "in the red". Since PoS will encourage people to hoard more ETH than they'll ever sell, prices per coin in the long term could become higher than you've imagined. This year could become a biggest one for ETH yet, if the PoS upgrade takes place and Bitcoin halves its block reward at the same time. People will once again become interested in crypto and Blockchain technology, resulting in a "boom" of the entire crypto market.

I believe that businesses and companies will launch their STOs on the ETH blockchain right after it becomes scalable for the whole world to enjoy (with PoS and Sharding). Even if the excitement takes much longer than we've thought, I'm confident that Ethereum will see bright days ahead of it. After all, it's one of the most actively developed and maintained Blockchain platforms in the world. With Vitalik Buterin at its side, Ethereum will become a resilient smart contract platform that focuses on decentralization and efficiency unlike any other alternative today.

Nonetheless, the price per ETH is still low these days. If the Bitcoin halving and ETH's PoS upgrade take place this year, the world's second-largest cryptocurrency by market cap might get past $400 per coin. But this is just speculation since no knows what exactly will happen with ETH or any other crypto in the future. The best we could do is keep watch of ETH's (and crypto land's) latest developments in order to determine when is the right time to buy and when is the right time to sell. I'm confident that Ethereum will rise towards "infinity and beyond" given that it's the platform with the most number of dApps in the Blockchain space. Even though its competitors are faster and cheaper to use, they're not as widely adopted and supported as Ethereum is. Sooner or later, Ethereum will experience increased demand from people in the mainstream world resulting in higher prices across the market. Just my thoughts ;D

It is unlikely that ETH in 2020 will be very good, of course its price is increasing slightly and this is definitely a plus for ETH, but that does not make it the biggest one this year.

This year ETH will grow strongly, but for ETH to be able to surpass ATH 2018 is very difficult this year. We need to wait longer and have more investors to enter this market, then the price of ETH can continue to go up and create a new ATH.

Agree. It may take a long time before ETH hits a new ATH across the crypto market. But rest assured that the BTC halving combined with ETH's PoS upgrade will produce a slight increase in price for the world's second-largest cryptocurrency in market cap. This is more of a long-term investment than anything else. If devs decide to delay the PoS upgrade further, then I believe this is year will be quite a disappointing one for avid crypto investors and enthusiasts. After all, ETH's competitors are way ahead of the game. ETH may be decentralized and censorship-resistant, but mainstream businesses and companies are looking for scalable blockchain platforms than anything else. Delaying the upgrade this year will only make matters worse for the mainstream adoption of Ethereum.

Of course, no one knows what will happen in the future. This is just pure speculation based on rumors that ETH will upgrade to a PoS blockchain soon. If it does happen this year, then it'll be the biggest one for ETH yet. Otherwise, 2020 will be another year full of promises by ETH's developers leaving many in suspense and desperation. The longer ETH takes to adopt PoS consensus, the lesser people will be interested in acquiring and using the cryptocurrency for their own benefit. Besides, blockchain platforms like Tron and EOS are faster and cheaper than Ethereum for smart contracts. Tron is widely compatible with Ethereum smart contracts, making migration a quick and easy process. Maybe dApp developers will decide to switch to another chain if they find Ethereum too expensive and slow to deal with? Whatever happens, it won't be good for the mainstream adoption of the world's second-largest cryptocurrency by market cap.

Nonetheless, I have high hopes that this year will become the biggest one for ETH yet. As the market pressures, the ETH dev team will have no choice but to make ETH more scalable for the whole world to enjoy. The more interesting part of all this is Bitcoin's halving. Once that happens, ETH and other cryptocurrencies' price across the market will soar like never before. But for ETH to retain its value (and stay ahead in the competition), it must adopt a scalable solution as quickly as possible before it's too late. Just my opinion :)

It's possible that eth can grow big this year or go the side ways, no one knows what will happen even if the ETH 2.0 upgrade gets completed, what if nothing happened after the POS feature gets completed? I won't expect much just like how investors are adviced not to rely on a single coin

Seeing the development of ethereum this year, I agree with above that ethereum has not been very successful. but this is just entering its third month in 2020, and to remember in the middle of last year 2019 ethereum was quite improved, will it also apply this year as well? many hope of course because it will excite other altcoins.

What particular development you are referring, TBH, I haven't see any good development yet, in terms of price now, in terms of technology, not yet since the one that we are anticipating which is the ETH 2.0 hasn't been launch yet.

I am also quite pessimistic that the price of ethereum will reach its best price this year. in fact, I think that ethereum's best year is 2017-2018. however, the price of ATH ethereum is really very high. so far, the rise in ethereum prices to $ 600 to $ 800 has been very good. Well, I think that ethereum prices will really go up, but I don't think that prices will pass ATH.

You're somehow right about been pessimistic because the infinite total supply implemented by the ETH team could somehow hinder the rice of Ethereum to reach a new ATH but if bitcoin claim a new ATH Ethereum will do the same because it always follow the trend of bitcoin market during rally and the crypto community strongly believe in the coin either.

This year is unlikely to be the biggest for ETH as far as I am concerned, the next 2 years will be the biggest for ETH in its history, with the strongest growth in the market coming.

I think this year the price of Ethereum will only increase to a maximum of $700 because this is a price that can be achieved if the altcoin season comes back. In fact, very few old coins can reach the new ATH because in the past these coins had beenpumped high so very few investors would choose to invest. This year I will still encourage people to look for new investment options because those are investments that can make you more profitable than investing in old coins.

Your thinking may be true but it may not be completely accurate when right now, eth doesn't really have a boom in value, negligible growth in the market, so from an analysis and evaluation perspective, 2020 is not really the best year for eth, it does not show any signs, even without any basis. However, we are only in the first quarter, a bad start does not mean that the year will be similar, the next three quarters could change eth's fate very easily, hope will remain until the last quarter ends

This year will not be the biggest for ETH, but this year will be crucial for ETH, if ETH can recover this year, strong growth can be expected in the coming years.

Well, ETH has been off to a slow start this year. Rest assured, that if developers decide to adopt PoS by July 2020 (coinciding with Ethereum's 5th anniversary), prices could quickly soar across the crypto market. This, alongside Bitcoin's halving event in May will trigger a "FOMO" sentiment for both BTC and ETH among people in the mainstream world. We cannot know for certain how ETH will behave on the market since crypto prices are truly unpredictable. But I do know that sooner or later, Ethereum will experience a boost in price and mainstream adoption like never before. That's because Ethereum is actively developed and maintained over time just like Bitcoin. Not to mention, it's the biggest smart contract platform in the world with an ample userbase.

If everything goes as planned, this could be the biggest year of ETH yet. As long as prices are still cheap, it's the perfect opportunity to buy and save some Ethereum for the next bull market. Before you know it, you'll be able to double or triple your investment in no time. Despite the profits, one cannot deny how useful Ethereum is for real-life applications. While smart contracts still have a long way to go before they're widely adopted by mainstream businesses, corporations, and individuals, they're bound to change our lives for the better. And knowing that Ethereum is still the leader of the smart contracts space, tells us that it might be a lot more valuable than what it is right now within the not-so-distant future. Just my thoughts ;D

This year is the year for bitcoin as it's halving time this year.
ETH will grow only if Bitcoin will stable on its growth, thus far, we have not seen it yet so we can't expect ETH to grow.

What are the possible reason ETH will pump? the ETH 2.0, right? but it wasn't launch yet, people are still waiting for it, but if Bitcoin will have its bull run, investors will hype the ETH 2.0 and that would result to a growth of ETH.

Look Eth has started to grow now they will soon touch $ 250 less $ 6 from now I think if expecting ETH 2.0 is too long now it is also more stable without having to wait for the release, I think it will continue to move according to what is happening in the market the bullish trend has come but at this time ETH has the opportunity to rise in short time.
At present ETH surged higher than other top coins.

You shouldn't expect anything more from ETH this year, I think ETH will become stronger this year and won't fall very much in price in a short time.

There are too many people said that about the ETH in this year if this would be have stronger price increasing or not. But as you can see we cannot expect it if the ETH will be go high or not. But Im read some comment about ETH that have be biggest update of ETH maybe on that time ETH will be increase the price in no time.

I think that ETH is still weak to grow strongly this year, personally I think that this year ETH will move along with other coins on the market.

This won't be attractive to watch if the market is not bullish, it will move along with bitcoin that's for sure but not sure with other altcoins.
For us to see a good market this year, we need to see bitcoin to stay bullish, and not to dump big time like what's happening today.

When we expect that it will hold at $9K but it didn't happen, it even dump below of course it has affected ETH much, which could fall below $200 also.

Again it would be difficult for Ethereum actually to even surpass the resistance level if the thing keeps going. THere are no updates or big news happened for Ethereum and as far as I remember the price itself is going downhill from now on. I don't know how Bitcoin halving could affect the other cryptocurrencies, but let's hope for the best.

altcoin's dependence on bitcoin is very high, so is ethereum. if you see bitcoin is now down and currently under $ 8K, then ethereum will also be indirectly affected, but ethereum is still pretty good and still stands above $ 200. hopefully ethereum can rise again when indeed everything is in a negative position. and ethereum has had that experience that can last when bitcoin goes down.

It was shaping up to be a good year, with 2.0 and the move to PoS on the horizon, expectations were mounting. The trouble now for price is coronavirus, which has hit all markets hard, and it may be a long time before recovery.

But people are dying, and it seems cold to be focusing on the price right now.

There is this "building up" phase on ethereum nowadays that will probably show itself in 2021 and not this year. Right now there is development going on and there are many other companies and projects that are basing their situation on ethereums 2.0 upgrade to staking. As soon as it hits proof of stake and not mining there will be a ton of changes going on that will make the price skyrocket but until that moment I feel like it is probably just building up to that point and not doing anything right now.

The real deadline was January 2020 and that is why there was such a big topic for ethereum and such a huge increase as well but they missed that deadline, it looks like they may not do it at all in 2020 and that is the reason why it stopped, the moment they give an exact date we will definitely see a huge change.

I do not really believe that this year will be the biggest for ETH, even now ETH could not keep the price above $200, I hope that next year will be the biggest for ETH.

You can't remove ethereum in altcoin as any coin aside from bitcoin is called altcoin or alternative coin and the whole altcoins market is lower than the total market of bitcoin alone, and that's where they are dependent on BTC.

Not anymore, bitcoin dropped below $200 today, and that's the effect of bitcoin dump.


Everyone wishes this would happen as crypto market has been struggling for years already, it's time that it will start to recover.

It's only been a little over two months since the beginning of the year, so it's too early to tell if it's going to be the biggest year for ETH, as anything can happen in crypto in a short period of time.