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Many people in the community are saying that Ethereum will eventually overcome bitcoin.

I don't actually believe that it could be happening, but would like to hear your opinions.

Please explain your answer!

I see its now down, it used Ethereum to be at 0.032 BTC, now is at 0.023 BTC, I don't think it will overcome bitcoin and the decision to go to POS led to this price decrease and I think it has now no more chances to compete with bitcoin.

I dont think so.
Eth has worse problems on scalability than BTC.

can btc  do the same thing as ethereum ?  is rootstock similiar

Yes btc is unique despite ethereum and it's really difficult (read impossible) they can overcome on btc.

probably this is another bubble, good for traders and pumpers ;)

Bitcoin is far ahead than ethereum.Btc has larger user base and many related online business run completely on bitcoin.Ethereum or any other crypto can't even come close to btc

We will see what will happen, but i believe bitcoin is much more popular than eth and i doubt any
altcoin can endanger bitcoin at this moment.

"many people" are not saying that, a handful of people who invested in the premine are saying that to create hype so they can dump their coins at very high price and retire

they say also eventually so never mind...
this look as good experiment not so much and I guess people make only a "bet" and nothing so much.
In btc there is also a political view of monetary system that is stronger than a new algorithm.

How so? If it moves to a stable proof of stake and survives fine, then scalability should be significantly better than Bitcoin.

Anyone who says that Ethereum will beat out Bitcoin in the crypto economy are probably not very well versed in the various advantages or disadvantages of the different cryptos.

Bitcoin is very solidly the "gold" of the digital space, and Ethereum is the silver, in my opinion, and it will stay like this for a while. Eth has it's uses, but Bitcoin is more versatile and user-friendly overall.

For what I remember a similar link is between litecoin and bitcoin.
So bitcoin is the only coin, I say only because ethereum seems more a new block chain, an evolution of itself, where the coin is "a part" or part of it, yes fundamental, but the really advantages are from a new chain, new block idea.
nothing that btc itself can do it with an app or site linked (like btc graffiti or direct bet to be more clear)

I have no problem for Ethereum to go PoS. But it should be PoW mined for a few years to distribute the coins.

I actually think that there is a lot of space for both. Since Ethereum offers other features that bitcoin can't offers and vice-versa. Bitcoin is more as a currency while Ethereum is more a smart contract coding platform, so, there will always be a market industry to satisfy the demand of both cryptos.

I seen one guy alone (roach i think) post the best answer why you can't compare the two. (prob 20 times)
I am actually stunned to hell & back you guys still don't get it..
2 seconds after it's explained here ..it will have to be explained all over again (and again)

That is also what I think. These two coins are complementary.  I hold both to benefit from future adoption.

Ethereum is a good coin but I don't think it will overcome bitcoin. Actually I think that no altcoin will overcome the bitcoin for at least 10 years.

It could be true. As long as bitcoin evolve all the time, no other coin can replace bitcoin in the medium term.

Bitcoin will always be number one, I don't think Ethereum can replace Bitcoins :D

Asking this question in bitcoin forum, you will get opinion strongly lean towards bitcoin.
If you in Ethereum forum, I guess people will trash Bitcoin there.
I myself believe in Bitcoin, not Ethereum, so I stay here.

you mean 10x increase? bitcoin has do it two time already, one was 25x increase in 2011, so yes it's above thereum already, and you will see another huge pump this year with the halving

The halving could double the price of bitcoin. If the block size increase to 2MB or higher and the price will be even higher.

The halving could reduce the supply of the bitcoin. If we have the mass adoption, that will increase the price.

How can you even start to match a coin like bitcoin, here for a long time vs a coin that's just there.
ETH has some great potential I agree with that. But comparing it to bitcoin after 1 pump.. like reallY?

I think ethereum can not beat bitcoin, bitcoin has been believed for a long time while the ETH is the new altcoin, I prefer bitcoin as an investment.

Bitcoin is the father of all alt coins. No other coins can beat it for sure. The only lack from bitcoin is the fact that we can make it as an instant transaction. We have to wait for at least 1 confirmation to be able to use it at any purposes.

If a alt coin were to "beat Bitcoin" it would be Ethereum for sure.

Never compare bitcoin and dollar, Bitcoin and other altcoins. This is pointless, everything at the end leads
 to bitcoins or dollars. People don't care for digital money..  :) Now someone will attack me, i know.

Bitcoin is king here so nothing will surpass it unless you purchase alot in any alternate coin you will say the same. Until one that can prove it's self worthy in value then it will keep to the top of every coin holder's wish list to have.

ETH is finished now is the time of LISK and after we will see what is next choice of whales.. ::)

Eth and Lisk are good opportunities only for traders, but for long run don't even consider them as some kind of competitors to the Bitcoin. This is only hype and people are overjoyed with pump, but this is normal thing when pump starts.

The Ethereum has much bigger develop team. It has more chances to succeed than the lisk or other altcoins.

all those people who are saying Ethereum will "replace" bitcoin are either delusional or they are trying desperately to spread as much FUD they an in order to push the price higher to unload their bags that they are holding and get out faster.

I liked Ethereum project once, it seemed so cool but never believed success of EHT means death of bitcoin that is just stupid. there is relationship between these two facts.
and now all the FUD and the fake hype will create a lot of angry investors who believed those things and now are facing the reality.

Seven years, multiple bubble warnings and one near disastrous technical hitch, bitcoin is still going strong . Bitcoin is now accepted by many online vendors.i think it is a Russia Vs Us Coin battle

To me, bitcoin is useful. I have used bitcoin to buy on line goods. That is a very fast process, very impressed.

could well be, its hard to say or predict anything these days im not sure if the positive comments regarding eth are coming from people who are holding eth and just want the price increase

I think yes, the ethereum will one day reach to a height and will have the price same as now bitcoin.There are ore people to support ethereum as they are feeling interest in there.

Ethereum will not be a new bitcoin, it is just a coin related to a "trading platform". A platform can also be built to use bitcoin.

It is very difficulty for the Etheruem to reach the price of bitcoin. The bitcoin price will be $10,000 in 10 years, but not Ethereum.

such thing will never happen, and i don't even know why they are insisting on it. even if ethereum or any other altcoin someday could become big and popular there is no reason why bitcoin should still be used and remain popular.
besides the price will show soon what will happen to eth.

It all depend on the usefulness of the bitcoin or the Ethereumm. When it is useful and adopted, the price will be very high.

you can't compare bitcoin with ethereum , each one of them has it's own positives and negatives
but what I'm sure about is that nothing can replace bitcoins at least in the value , bitcoins will always be the boss of other coins maybe like gold in our real life
in the future we may see many things happen , new coins will come and go but btc will never lose the value 

I think so. The bitcoin is a base currency and can be used in many places. The Ethereum is a smart contract platform.

That might well be. True: a lot of us are soured by the Bitcoin bubble of '13 and '14, but I would not count Bitcoin out. Granted the the block-size-controversy dysfunctionality has hobbled its new bull market, but it has turned around. $430 is a lot higher than $200.

The block size increase controversy gives us 5 months of chance to buy the bitcoin on the cheap. So it is good for me.

I strong believe in bitcoin and i think bitcoin will be more popular in every each country.. if you know about brazil has 150 store are accepting bitcoin as payment and i hope it will happen too in our countries.. so bitcoin still remain and ethereum is just kind of altcoin. so altcoin is altcoin.. it will never changed..

Bitcoin will be very popular and become a major currency. But it will take long time, many decades to achieve that.

There is no chance for Ethereum because Bitcoin is more stronger crypto currency, i think to make compare bitcoin with that kind of shit coin it doesn't make any sense, in many ways ethereum would take so many years to get a stable way and at the moment it is just an experiment and nothing more than that.

Bitcoin has been around for years. Bitcoin is the center of exchange of all alt coins. For example, if you want to convert your ETH to LISK, then you have to convert it to BTC first. ETH >> BTC >> LISK.

All alt coins have to go with this drill if they want to convert their alt coins to another alt coin. Not sure though why people are comparing ETH vs BTC. The price, the popularity, the stability and the time they are on, all goes to bitcoin. Bitcoin has a lot of use compared to alt coins.

Trading alt coins to BTC may be better than trading BTC >> USD but that doesn't mean that an alt coin will simply surpass the power of BTC.

bitcoin has always been around and it is useful. and there is a lot of services that are using it, so a lot of people will turn into bitcoin if they want to use a cryptocurrency. and this situation will only grow as the time passes.
what ethereum offers is not what normal users (average joe) wants, so even if it gets bigger it will never reach dust of bitcoin.

Comparing Bitcoin and Ethereum is like comparing your dog and your cat : it's possible but not relevant.

Ethereum just for make our bitcoin become add and not for agaist bitcoin. Because ethereum is new coin and bitcoin is old. It will be hard for ethereum to agaist bitcoin.  ;D

I find ethereum completely different than bitcoin in terms of its use. Ethereum is created for keeping only smart contracts in mind which need ethereum to create thats why whenever new smart contracts are created based on ethereum price will keep on rising as deamand will be high. You can take DAO ico token sell as an example for current pump in ethereum where as bitcoin is purely meant to be payment method and only payment method.

No Ethereum can never be bitcoin. It has unlimited supply feature. Mining of Ethereum is comparatively easy as compared to bitcoin. It is good for investment purpose but it can never overtake bitcoin.

Yeah, it depends on the usage of one of them, if people started to adopt bitcoin for their uses the the value of bitcoin will start to increase while if ethereum is adopted by people and start to use it for their use then the value of bitcoin will increase.

If the world economy growth is 2% a year and the supply growth of Ethereum is 1% a year, it is still a deflationary currency.

also one is pos within oen year the other pow forever, and how much pos interest will be determinate if ethereum will be good for staking or useless, bitcoin instead always rely on power, power set a minimum price on the value i think

world economy is headed for contraction, negative growth

That is caused by the bad fiat policy. Too much money around and crash the economy. With bitcoin and Ethereum, it will be different.

Ethereum can expand fast if buying price will be for example 1 USD, and sales price 1.5 USD, but even then Bitcoin will be Nr.1 crypto.  ;)

If the Ethereum price is just 1 dollar now, not many people will be interested in that. That was the situation last year.

I mined some Ethereum last year and early this year. I sold all of them when the price reached $1.5.

no coins can beat btc as of now based on popularity. many people buy ether just because of its price is rising. but soon to be dump. hahhaa

The bitcoin transaction is too slow at the moment, there is no desire to increase it by the concerned parties.

So there transaction fees will not be higher if the block block does not increase, miner will not mine if they cannot make profit.

Price bitcoin is slow to go up but it will definitely continue to go up in other words is stable. But if the price eth sometimes dropping rapidly and rising rapidly.

They are now the hot topic and the new kid in town but I still don't believe that they overcome Bitcoin at this point of time,they always say that when a new coin with a unique feature comes out it used to be Litecoin then ripple now etherium..

i was heard some people said that Ethereum will replace bitcoin but i personally don't trust them and will still use bitcoin because bitcoin is the most popular cryptocurrency also the first one and i think people have same thought as me will choose Bitcoin than Ethereum

Bitcoin has 6 years history and has been proven to be working. It will take several more years for Etheruem to achieve that status.

The thing must not be so easy, Imagine the following sign: Sorry modifications are being made on the network please turn off the miners and clients in the meantime your BTC are safe.

The difference between Bitcoin and Litecoin is very small. However, the difference between Bitcoin and Ethereum is huge.

So I think the Ethereum can live independently. It can be used in smart contract system by many people.

I prefer bitcoin,because bitcoin is old coin and in my opinion ethereum is a scam coin :-[

Ethereum is still new coin. It is under active development. It will take some time for it to be established.

With regards to current price, Bitcoin proves it cannot be taken down by any emerging cryptocurrency so easily.

The fundamentals of bitcoin is still very sound. It is the base currency of the digital world. It will last.

Compared to Bitcoin, Ethereum is not intended to be used as a currency. It is a fuel in the smart contract system.

But you can still use it as a currency. For example, you can use it to invest into the DAO. That is regarded as money.

     The DAO is a smart contract... One that I had the misfortune of becoming ensnared in. So far, my experience with both ETH and the DAO has been unsatisfactory. I'm surprised there are not a whole lot more of these tokens/smart contracts coming out of the woodwork. With such few lines of code needed to implement a smart contract, I would think these scam tokens/"smart??" contracts would be multiplying like cockroaches. These poor DAO people. Now every time they want to vote, they have to make sure their coffers are filled up with ETH for the gas. They can't even use their DAO to pay the gas, like it works with any regular cryptocurrency. They must buy ETH. No wonder most of the curators of the DAO are also big names for the ETH.
     For me, I think Bitcoin will always be ahead of ETH. Pretty soon, there is going to be s great deal of smart contracts bloating the ETH blockchain. The vast majority of these smart contracts/tokens are going to be absolute shit. It's going to be a bloated mess that will be in desperate need of an enema.

If ETH isn't a currency, then I suppose that this is the wrong place to advertise is it? Although you can say that about some of the altcoins in the market.

eth are tokens for the ethereum smart contract (highly experimental buggy) platform. It's not a currency it's a token to execute smart contracts inside ethereums bloated network. There is a difference and there's no sense in comparing them. Anyone saying eth is a currency (like bitcoin, dash, etc) is either a pumper/hodler or a n00b who doesn't know the difference.     

We dont know what might happen in the future. Ethereum has a promising future but bitcoin is already miles away. But I hope that both currencies will be successful. We can have any other options when choosing a cryptocurrency but for me, bitcoin is the best!

There are more money invested in the bitcoin related infracstructure. That could also help the adoption of Ethereum.