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Bitcoin ofcouse is the main cryptocurrency but what do you guys think of long term value of Ethereum? seems that developers do not like it much but its applications seems limitless. could it surpass bitcoin in future?

The major event will be PoS switching for Ethereum. But I don't know if it will be "that good". Of course they'll be less energy and material cost, but security need mathematics. How to secure a network better than bitcoin without PoW ?

Everybody knows, Eth is walk with sure steps.
I think it keeps a good plan for the future.

I think it won't surpass bitcoin but they both will grow significantly with time. There are great team and genius founder at ETH foundation to be success. It's already a lot.

I think ETH will stay the slver and BTC the gold

ETH have a future for sure, next two years will be a huge rise of it

No I don't think so. I think both of them will rise, and presently ETH is undervalued, but I don't see it ever overtaking. I think the tech is strong and it might have more real-world/business uses (I see it working with existing banking), but I don't think it can ever surpass the value of BTC...at least that is without a major major crash and the banning of BTC or something.

yes both bitcoin and ethereum are the leading currencies but both are very different to each other and used in different ways, it is hard to know if ethereum will overtake bitcoin but anything can happen in this world

I think it's not easy for ethereum to surpass btc in next 2-3 years but ethereum also has big potential to rise because daily lots of new coin launching using Ecr20 support wallet. Btc is the king of the market and very strong at the moment as compare to the ethereum. Rest all depends on ethereum dev how they approach for future development of ethereum.

I think for myself not because many people trust in bitcoin while i know some people that don't trust altcoins. I trust fully in bitcoin so its would be hard for me to trust and invest in eth.

I have made some profit from investing in bitcoin so thats why i still use it also bitcoin is for me the best coin.

100% Agree, nothing will ever pass Bitcoin.

I give ETH two more years before it becomes worthless.

No never, not any alt will do this.

I think the price of ethereum in the future will not be much different from now because the platform is only used as a bitcoin stepping stone.

My personal view about ethereum is positive because expert team and technology is much reliable with ethereum  but then also i can say bitcoin will be ahead then ethereum just because it was not only new technology of bitcoin it is new revolution given to market and business and it is accepted by many people and countries also      

If we draw an analogy bitcoin is like bank system while Ethereum is industrial sector. I suppose bitcoin will be TOP-1 coin for very long time.

i dont think so, because ethereum has a lot of better alternative
well BTC has not alternatives

It may not happen so soon because BTC will also be working to maintain its lead in the cryptocurrency world. It will surely take a long time even if that will happen.

Ethereum itself might not surpass bitcoin in the future. It is a given because ethereum is meant to be used to run smart contracts with the use of erc20 tokens while bitcoin is meant to be used for micro payments itself and is accepted more by all crypto merchants and users. People also tend to use ETH merely just for speculation while btc has more real world use. As time pass I believe it would only be the silver of cryptocurrencies.

who knows... but what if a genius appear and invent such an alternative?  ;)

Yes, as more and more successful applications will be built on the Ethereum platform (currently the majority of developers in crypto are working on it). Moreover with the switch to Proof of Stake next year ETH will reward investors as well (yearly inflation capped at 3-4%, plus 5-7% of interest if you stake your ETH).

Bitcoin will remain as sort of digital gold ...

I dont think so. We can't deny it that ethereum is a good choice in terms of altcoin. It has a good platform and ICO, and actually it already has a good value in the market of currency. But still, I dont think its enough to surpass bitcoin. And in fact the value of ETH is just depending on the bitcoin. That's why they are called it as an "alternative coin".

I dont think Ethereum will surpass Bitcoin in the long term. Well it depends on far is long term. But for now Bitcoin is way to up for Ethereum to catch up. The only downside i think Bitcoin has is its delay in trading with other crypto's.

Nope not at all ETH itself is buggy and has many vulnerability and it is forking almost everyday how can this coin compete against bitcoin when the price value itself and the market capitalization is far growned and has unlimited potential to into becoming higher in every year. ETH is still having a hard time proving it's worth while bitcoin already surpassed $6000 which means the demand for bitcoin is becoming higher and more people are starting to adapt and recognize it. Bitcoin is even one of most use payment methods in both online and offline.

Just like what you have said. BTC is the main cryptocurrency, as long BTC rises there's no way or chance it could be exceeded by ETH for now. Its just that I don't really see that thing will happen for few more years.

I'm a supporter of ETH and if you will observe the market, the price of it just go w/ the flow of BTC.

If the developers could improve ETH more and the supporters of ETH continue to arise, then we'll have a debate. Again, I really don't see that happening up to this date and in future years.

That is a fair point. Ethereum is obviously better than bitcoin in terms of opportunities it provides to users. Smart contracts are now a must for currencies. Eth is also better in terms of transaction speed and fee. Nevertheless, ethereum also has its big down which is security problem as well as lack of popularity. New people first hear about bitcoin and a lot of them don't go further at all. This is also a factor that might be a great obstacle on eth's way to the throne.

No doubt that Etherium Coin has the better technology in his coin and also a old coin in which new new chnage in the technology always happen to make the coin better and more better for the use .
But still here we will use the word father is father and king is king , Here I am saying so because we can understand well that how the bitcoin is better for us .
Here we can see that if we will transfer the Etherium coin from one adress to the exchange then there will be minimum limit of deposit .
But if we will see in the bitcoin then we will find that no limit in the bitcoin , we can even transfer 1 Satoshi from any Wallet to the exchange site .
So here the ease of access of the bitcoin is better and I don't think that any another will be able to replace the bitcoin Because king is king .

I think it will not be able to go beyond bitcoin, but eth will follow bitcoin as time goes by. it is difficult to be able to surpass bitcoin because bitcoin is the ancestor of all coins.

Why does bitcoin not have any alternatives? What function does bitcoin do right now that no other currency does? Nothing, really. It simply has a first mover's advantage. I think eth or whatever currency comes up with the best application will become the most valueable in the future.

what does the surpass mean? does it refer to the market cap, community activity or popularity? one thing i can confirm is that both of these two coins will not stop its development and both are on my portofolio list

I think eth have a great future but btc is benchmark for crypto.

Its hard to answer this question. Bitcoin and Ethereum are two different things which can't really be compared.
Bitcoin was the first cryptocurrency and also first introduced the blockchain technology, which created a system not needing trust.
Ethereum built up on that. Its not "just a currency", its a platform for smart contracts, which can execute contracts without the need of a 3rd person.
If ether (currency of ethereum) will surpass bitcoin cant be said for sure. Personally i think ethereum will definetly grow their user base and their adoption.
With ether currently sitting at about 300$ and BTC at ~6000$ i dont think ether will become more worth than BTC in the near (or mid-long) future.
Nevertheless there is a big potential in ETH and it may give bigger profits then BTC if you start investing now. But only time will tell.

There was a coin recently switched to POS, their market crashed, price dropped like a stone. the same will happen to Ξ after switching to POS, also you don't have a hard fork on Bitcoin every week like people are used to jump their girl friends, mistresses and wives every week, fully fledged lol.
Bitcoin will remain the same to the end but looks like Ξ doesn't know what to do.

If the ethereum to outperform the bitcoin I think is quite difficult, very few possibilities. Because we know that bitcoin is the first crypto can be said also mother of other coin or altcoin. Bitcoin will stay on top and ethereum still follow it in the second position. But what should be on beware of bitcoin is a smart contract that is in etherium. That's what bitcoin does not yet have.

Bitcoin is currently very popular with the extremely high value. Compared to Ethereum that has a very far difference will not make Ethereum surpass Bitcoin even take over position of Bitcoin. However Bitcoin will remain first because this currency is the first cryptocurrency in this world. People are more familiar with Bitcoin than Ethereum.

despite Ethereum is one of my favorite alt coin, I still don't believe that eth can surpass bitcoin. it doesn't seem like eth has such a strength at the moment.

Ethereum to reach current BTC price means $540 billion market cap. Seeing the current trajectory of both crypto and Ethereum as a service, doesnt really seem that unlikely in the long term, lot of years from now.

Beating BTC though? Doesnt seem likely unless some major incident happens.

No and it will not.

Ethereum with it's current price still not acceptable in some of the merchants. So how come it can surpass bitcoin for long term.

ethereum is good platform and the price is good but I think it's too hard to surpass bitcoin. Bitcoin is major of cryptocurrency no one can beat it

 It can’t but ethereum may manage to be a good competitor to bitcoin. Im optimistic about ethereum future as it has good fundamentals and might bull run its price next year and it will be a big one that for sure. I’m planning to make hold of it for long term investments.

I don't think it will surpass it before 5 or 10 years.
In the mind of neophytes, the only crypto currency is Bitcoin. Medias only know Bitcoin.
So when people will really be interested in blockchain and crypto currency, they all will go on Bitcoin, because it's the famous one.

When the whole world will be pluged in with crypto, they will start to check what is around it, and they will discover contracts, services, and the companies will (thay already did) start working on blockchain services and use some concepts, like ethereum or maybe other new ones.
In the same time, Bitcoin will arrive at it cap, and all the coins will be mined, so those coins will take again some value for their rarity.

After some years, when the usefullness of BTC will start to decrease (because nearly all the coins that are currency are currently faster and safer than BTC). Then, maybe, ETH will start to surpass BTC.
In any way, both of them will be surely very high and will take value with time.

Every thing here is, of course, pure hypothesis

Yes mate!

Bitcoin Development Team ain't weaker than Ethereum Team as Bitcoin is open source, as long as you can make sure 51% of miner agree with your idea. You are good to go.

But IMO, Ethereum serves more purpose than just a currency, with the help of smart contracts, alot of things can be done with it

I agree many crypto enthusiast was already using the ethereum blockchain ,I think the more people adapt to it the larger it's value will increase , so right now I am Holding some amount of ethereum and stored it to some secured wallet because I know in no time it could surpass the bitcoin value

A few months ago I would have answered with a resounding YES, now I am not completely sure any more...

I think this will definitely happen. I expect a lot from Waves, Ethereum and Stratis, and I think these coins promise the future. Bitcoin as a market share of ethereum will soon pass.

Such a situation will never exist. Bitcoin will always be the leader for the digital currency network. Ethereum and other assets will serve as the platform alternative to bitcoin. Lot many projects were functioning as well successfully developed on the ethereum Blockchain platform. This might add value to it, but this won't cause a growth to surpass bitcoin in long run.

In the near future, Ethereum's market volume of 200 billion dollar will pass very comfortably. It may seem impossible, but make sure it is not impossible at this point, but with a simple message everything can begin.

I agree, even tho btc will allways be the first one, eth still has a long way to go, because lots more uses.

Maybe yes, maybe not. Ethereum has more milestones and plan to develop while bitcoin is now controlled by many different forces. They all want to take the advantage for themselves and refuse to make any improvement without the spliting in the bitcoin chain. That is why we have bitcoin cash and on tomorrow, we will have bitcoin gold. At the middle of November, we will also receive bitcoin2x

Sorry for the bad news but ethereum will never surpass the bitcoin. Ethereum is a great coin and all but it reached its natural limits. I don't expect ethereum to reach 1k any time soon.

Things change so fast that it's hard to predict what things will look like just a year or two in the future.

I can see Ethereum becoming the most dominant medium of exchange in the world, and I can see Ethereum being completely supplanted by a blockchain with easier to write, safer contracts.

To illustrate, consider the example of Tezos: the whole concept was to develop a blockchain that was similar to but better than Ethereum. That could have been the future of crypto. Now it looks like Tezos is going down in flames. In other words, the future is too difficult to predict.

Etherium is a pretty awesome coin. And i believe that it has a very big potential to give big profits to all investors that are willing to stay on etherium for the long run and hold. As good as that sounds, i still think bitcoin will remain as the top of the list still even after a few years. It has already proven itself worthy for our trust. So i suggest you stick with bitcoins

Ethereum is a coin which has alot of potential and is the platform which hosts most of the new projects and ICOs. The team is strong and the project seems very promising but i don't think that ethereum will be able to surpass Bitcoin in the long run as Bitcoin is the master of all cryptocurrencies. It is the most popular crypto and is the most widely accepted crypto available in the market. I don't think that ethereum will be able to surpass Bitcoin as it is nowhere as popular and as stable as Bitcoin.

No,  it can never surpass Bitcointalk

There is information that 95% of bitcoins belong to 1% of people. And these people are very interested in the bitcoin growth. I think that the bitcoin price will only grow.

As I already wrote in another thread about Bitcoin vs Ethereum - ETH will not surpass BTC, at least in the nearest future!

ETH has a really great potential, a lot of people support ETH and believe in it, lots of projects, companies and even governments are interested in it and it's functionality and possibility... but.. ETH face a lot of obstacles and has a lot of problems to solve before going to the moon.
But nowadays there so many opportunities and ways of development that I think that Buterin will solve out all difficulties and lead his project to real success. No one can say when, but it is a fact that success will come to this coin.  

I think ethereum will not go beyond bitcoin. quite difficult in my opinion. bitcoin is the mother of altcoin.

Ethereum is good and sure is coming up with lots of development but I really still do not see how it is going to surpass bitcoin now or in the future. It has its own advantages and it will definitely grow, and as long as it keeps growing, bitcoin keeps growing too.

That first movers advantage will always be there for bitcoin, but we surely don't know what happens in future, but to me it seems impossible.

First of all, anything can happen in crypto world. Right now there is no huge barrier in the way of Bitcoin due to which it is growing at a great pace but future is unpredictable and hence crypto. It is totally possible that people may dump Bitcoin in the future and move to different alt due to some strong reason.
Secondly, if Bitcoin stays long in the market, Ethereum can hardly surpass Bitcoin basically because there is limit on supply of Bitcoin but no limit on Ethereum. Moreover, Bitcoin price is comparatively higher than Ethereum but Ethereum growth rate is higher than Bitcoin. Also, there exists a speculation that if Ethereum growth rate goes the same way it is right now, it can also equalize or overtake Bitcoin in future. Lastly, one should quote Bitcoin may be the king of cryptocurrency but Ethereum progress cannot be ignored.

I think it is likely that ETH will pass BTC in market cap, but perhaps not in importance. For people who are not involved in cryptocurrencies, the only name they know is Bitcoin... and I think it will remain this way for quite a while.

The main thing to believe! If you are interested in this coin, you mean you earn it. Just believe and everything will come true. ;)

All depend on the cryptocurrency of bitcoin. We see it all the time. Until the rising price of bitcoin is increasing and the price of Ethereum. Of course this does not apply to such moments as we saw before the fork. at this point, the price of cryptocurrencies is reduced because the capital is removed to buy bitcoins, but then the capital is returned. And of course a limited amount of coins bitcoin will restrain inflation. The Ethereum on the contrary has no restrictions on mining and it will inevitably lead to inflation.

There are a lot of people who don't know about the altcoins.
There are only people who know to bitcoin.

Ethereum needs to work hard.

In terms of value per coin it would be impossible to surpass bitcoin because it has only 21 Million supply but in terms of overall marketcap it would be possible because  ethereum has more supply than bitcoin.

I do not think that in the foreseeable future, the etherium will outstrip bitcoin. Both coins are very promising and they have a future, but bitcoin is more popular and supportive, and the course between them is too different. However, in many ways it will depend on the team of developers of these coins, how quickly they will eliminate their emerging vulnerabilities and improve their technology. After all, it may happen that some other, more perfect coin will take a leading position.

ethereum will remain number 2 under the care of bitcoin, but it can not be denied if ETH has a bright future.
whatever it is some people will be more sticky to bitcoin because only bitcoin is able to enter in all aspects of trade.

Anything can possible in cryptocurrency but the thing is supply when compared to Bitcoin, Eth has huge supply and when it comes to growth Bitcoin is already expanding it network. In some countries Bitcoin is another option for payments but ETH is not up to the mark.

I dont think it is possible but this is life and literally anything is possible so maybe there is an off chance this occurs. But I can only see that happening if bitcoin some how messes up, not through ethereum excelling .

This is just a pretty good way of putting it. There will be so many development for bitcoin to make it remain at the top of its own game judging even from the recent developments now, but that will never make it surpass bitcoin at the long run.

There are so many alternatives coming up for eth and if ethereum does not stay at least one or two step ahead of its game, it might even be surpassed by these alternatives.

I know everybody are looking for a great opportunity in terms of gaining investment. If people having found in ethereum, it might change their mind and put their money in ethereum. But as we recall its history, bitcoin is still having a huge potential in earning profit and having a chance of surpassing bitcoin by ethereum is very impossible.

Bitcoin will always be the cornerstone crypto and most tradable.

But, Ethereum is doing more on the development of blockchain side of things.

Surpass in tech, yes, definitely. Currency wise, not so sure.

In my humble opinion, yes. Ethereum as a project has many more real case uses, and the number of developers building on top of it is unprecedented on the crypto world. Meanwhile Bitcoin is stuck not being able to scale to 2mb even after 2 years of heavy debate within the community.

I don't think that Ethereum will suprasses the value of bitcoin yes we know that the main root of altcoins out there is bitcoin. Maybe the prize of ethereum will go higher but surpassing the value of bitcoin is impossible. It will stay on the top 10 coins in the market but ethereum will never replace it. Future of ethereum maybe far ahead compare to bitcoin but I hope developers and investors see the potential of this coin.

No I don't think it will surpass bitcoin although it could be next coin to bitcoin. Ethereum still is having a hard time reaching a new ath although most ICO project usually use the Ethereum blockchain. A lot has questioned why it still hasn't increased its price yet, so why would you think it could surpass bitcoin when it is having a hard time reaching a new target price?

I think bitcoin will remaing the leading cryptocurrency for atleast the next 2 years. What happens then is impossible to call given our very volatile and fast moving market. But in the future i could definitely see Ethereum fighting for the #1 spot.

It depends what you think "long term" is?

If you are talking about that being 10 years. Then I would say the answer is definately YES!

Basically I don't think that ethereum value will surpass the value of bitcoin in a certain long term, but indeed sometimes something we didn't expecting it.. could be happened without us knowing it. Ethereum is the one of altcoins that has the highest price consistent price of other altcoins, well it could be happened.. but for me personally the possibility is still small if in 1 or 2 years ahead ethereum will surpass bitcoin.

Yes but the ethereum already become a leader in the tech, and i think that the ethereum already passed the bitcoin in the tech comparison. bitcoin with the latest 2x fork just give a little improvement to the network.

It's a long stretch for surpassing the bitcoins and the ETH doesn't have a big shot for now to do it and yet bitcoins had great events happened recently and it gains more attention to the people and they had been lured to invest bitcoins and hold it for long term profit. And ethereum's BTC value is decreasing and that is the one huge disappointment that people cannot take to handle since ETH is bit scary since the price is little bit falling.

I believe ETH may not surpass BTH. THough, ETH is a promising cryptocurrency and the second best from BTC. ETh has an amazing possibilities with the use of smart contracts and programming codes. Though, It currently has scaling problems and potential issue of immutability.

I do not feel so that any coin can takeover btc in coming next 5 years. May be their demand may increase as the btc price becomes more expensive people might switch to altocins so that its affordable to them as well. This may result in a better chance of some of the good coins to march towards the highness of btc but beating them will be a tough ask.

I think the value of both will rise. I think the power of ETH is greater!

Ethereum might surpass bitcoin and become a leading crypto currency! There is active development happening with ethereum. And ethereum is also enjoying corporate world attention! No negative image for ethereum yet unlike bitcoin. Image is everything in business!

I don't think so , still bitcoins will remain number 1 even though ethereum gains a lot of adoptation but how much value that bitcoin and its uses make us believe that it is enough to be always on top.

Yes the prices and popularity of this coin is increasing the ethereum is growing and I think it will break the price record of bitcoin. This is very difficult the forecast about this crypto currencies and that’s why many people invested in this for the profit return.

it is hard for ethereum to surpass btc because ethereum needs more work to follow the price of btc. people know bitcoin than ethereum although now there is many project or ico based with ethereum but people still choosing btc for the king of crypto currency. but ethereum have potential to be increase for the price so we only need to waiting. ethereum itself needs more time before the price can increase and i think ethereum will be stay at number two for the position in crypto currency list.

We all know and believe that Bitcoin really made well to make it successful in crytocurrencies since Bitcoin is the first. But as thinking if Ethereum can surpass bitcoin, it will really depends. Eventhough many people will adopt it, it will still batt in any forms. Maybe we can count more years for ethereum.

we cant say it yet because we cant foreseen what will happen on the future and besides there are many new good coins these days that are popping out like a mushroom and some of them has actually a potential with good purpose that is somehow usefull in anyways , so i guess maybe these coins can surpass and beat bitcoin someday. although i believe that bitcoin can still go a long run and will continue to maintain its high value.

So far, I can't see it happening. Just looking at it now, there's a huge gap between the value of ETH and BTC. Although,  ETH is growing significantly and is now gaining more attention. Who knows, even if ETH cannot surpass BTC, it may still be able to run alongside it.

Maybe sill not, its because bitcoin is bitcoin and it would not be change by any other cryptocurrency and for additional, you can't withdraw money without the bitcoin that's why I don't think it will supass the bitcoin even if it is long-term.

 it will surely pass in the future, bitcoin will lose tremendous prestige with segwit2.
bitcoin will lose value over time

Interestingly this is what i just finished discussing with a fellow. All the signs are there! Ethereum keep developing! Bitcoin is riddle with complains, argument and controversies! Is there hope for development in an environment of divisions? I doubt if anybody can work well let alone be creative in such an environment!