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I am so curious that if Eth price overcome Btc's, what will happen in crypto world?

That will be absolutely ground breaking, but it's not impossible, BTC become really valuable because a lot of people using it, when a lot of people swap their usage to eth then it can make eth more valuable than BTC, and at that time we will have two valuable coin to use, I think a little rivalry is good for both coins

I mean in my view if this happened it would only last for a small amount of time, as I cant see something like this lasting for more then a couple of minutes. Because once something like this was to happen it would freak everyone in Crypto and probably cause a mass ETH selloff, as people would think that ETH is massively overvalued as it still wouldn't be Bitcoin -- the big grandaddy of investing and crypto.

People do like change, but losing Bitcoin as the #1 and the #1 on price isn't something that I would think people would be too keen on. There would be massive resistance and the massive price drop of ETH after this.

I think the ETH price is likely to be higher later in the day, why? because BTC alone is now rarely want to get, cook ETH will be like this continue to cook to lose the same BTC, BTC just the more expensive the more expensive.

I'm not really sure about ETH beating BTC in price, but I believe ETH still has a long way up to go and is good in investing for the long term.

You know there was a time when more than 50% of the cryptocurrency world was dominated by bitcoins but then ripple suddenly emerged in price and so did etherum which made that percentage a little below 20 , so as you can see if that happens then the percentage of people switching onto etherum and others will be higher causing a massive price decrease in bitcoins and I do think that for that to happen they still need a lot of time and I do believe that bitcoins will be back up stronger.

Nothing. It is normal for a crypto to exceed other crypto's market value. But I highly doubt that this thing will happen since the market value of Bitcoin is way more expensive than the price of Etherium and knowing that it is continuously growing, it is obviously not possible. Don't get me wrong, etherium is a good crypto but it is jist a total mismtach to Bitcoin

I think that if it even happens, it is not very soon and if suddenly what happens is that such a situation is formed then bitcoin will be killed as it will lose its relevance and people's trust

Since the public market doesn't have really much used for ETH as of this time, I highly doubt it would surpass Bitcoin's price for no reason. Ripple has a better chance than ETH, in my honest opinion.

It is not impossible, but it is less likely. I believe that if bitcoin dies for some reason, ethereum will succeed it. Therefor ethereum can have higher price only if bitcoin dies.
And as far as changes are concerned,  there wouldn't be much of a change. Everything would work as it is, only ethereum would be number one crypto.

After reading a title at first I thought, that would never happen, but after a while of thinking.. Why not? Atm it is true BTC is implemented more widely but this could change. Algorithm is slow and not design for high load/speed.

On the other hand smartcontracts proved that ETH can't handle high load transactions either. But there are also other candidates, so who knows :)

If the eth price exceeds btc price,  it's a good news for ethereum holder. But unlikely to happen bitcoin price is hard to reach and it may takes time to reach it. The eth price goes higher the demand goes higher too then the supply will become too limited.

I think this won't be the case, since a sudden increase in the price of ethereum will probably trigger an increase in bitcoin's price as well. Since bitcoin has a huge headstart, and actually still is the poster child of cryptocurrencies, I'm thinking ethereum will not catch up to btc in terms of price in the near future.

You may be right, either bitcoin will find a solution for higher speed or it will fade away for sure, it is just matter of time. Also at the moment fees are insanely high, and that is another serious problem for its survival. Bitcoin is leading crypto, but if those problems are not solved some other crypto could win the race.

It will be a wonderful news to everybody ;D. But i think it may not because BTC is the main coin in criptrocurrency. In future if it happens it will be more pleasure to those who came lately in criptromarket and did not reserve BTC. Now they are trading ETH and reseving ETH instead of BTC. it would be a very good news yet 8)

I cant imagine for this to happen. there is a huge gap between the price of bitcoin and the price of ethereum. maybe it can surpass bitcoin in terms of market cap because of ethereum huge supply but market cap is useless. and also i dont think that people will transfer their investments from bitcoin to ethereum just because it has too much fee to transact bitcoin. this bitcoin issues will have a solution soon. im referring to lightning network.

Nothing will happen. Competition is very high in the cryptocurrency market. So if anyone will overthrown bitcoin in the top spot, it's expected. Well of course investors of the coin that'll pass bitcoin will be very proud of their selves.

The current behaviour of ethereum there is a possibility that it will par or exceed btc.
ETH climb so fast.
One of the reason ehy it climbed so fast maybe many of btc trader migrated to ETH because of the price.
Btc is high price but the possible profit is not high unlike ETH has enough space to soar high.
 

if it is a prediction then it is a silly prediction in my opinion .... so far the comparison between ETH with bitcoin even to balance it already may not be .......

i would mark my calendar because it would be the day that either bitcoin died and price of it fell down to something like $1 or zero even so that ETH could be higher than it. or it would be the day that hell freeze was over.

After so many happenings in this crypto world like that impossible prices that already achieved after only some months bitcoin price is not hard to bypass by etherium reaching the price of bitcoin may take time but if this happens may bitcoin hodlers for sure will shift to ether, bitcoin faces serious problems regarding scalability and if this successfully solve by eth it will explode like bitcoin.      

If the ETH price is more than the cost of BTC, then the good news of the ETH holder is good news. But the price of the ETH is not low and its price takes a lot of time to grow. The price of the demand is not high. The supply will be very limited if the demand increases more. BTC and ETH are different. The land in both the currency is related to the sky.

Price ETH is increasing because many users now pay attention to this coin because of the high cost of a bitcoin transaction. I am sure that this year this problem will be solved. In any case, bitcoin was and still is the best coin for the accumulation of capital.

From the midst of my research to Cryptocurrencies and after investing with other coins I come to love ethereum more than BTC, because of the massive price gap with between the two and Ether was compatible with ERC20 tokens, that is why I had more ETH than BTC, Well I think it will be OK if ETH had exceeds BTC there are still gonna be BTC and other crypros to trade in right, And there will be a no problem expect with the ranking of the Coins now that is all I know that may happen if ETH would exceed in price.

Don't think its possible to happen. But if that happens, I don't think any sudden change to the cryptoworld could happen except the ranking of the coins in the market.

I think bitcoin is a father who can educate his children. because bitcoin is very popular all over the world, but I think ETH is very likely the price may be close to bitcoin, but if eth will not replace bitcoin at this time. and if you are investing in eth it is also good in the long run, because the future is also very good eth.

Well, nothing special will happen. It's normal trend here in world of crypto currencies to overcome one another in a mean time. The value of crypto depends upon the number of active users. Today bitcoin has alot of uncountable active members and thus it's value is much higher. If in near future user switch to ethereum then obviously ethereum value till touch the peak of success. But in current scenario it's quite difficult for ethereum because day by day bitcoin users are growing and thus it's market value is rising as well.

This is not far to happen because ETH is also developing thier technology .If this will happen their is a fair competetions in the crypto currency world .but I forseen that there is a massive dumping in BTC and changes will occur very quickly because investors are very keen about this.

Let hope that ETH will beat current btc price and ETC will beat curent ETH price, o boy there will be a big celebration on my street :). I do believe that ETH might beat BTC price in the long run. What will happen ? well bitcoin price will drop and ETH will increase. Ofcourse there will be other changes in the market too.

I guess it depends if you are talking about the overall market cap of Bitcoin and Ethereum or the price of one individual coin. There is roughly 6 times more ETH in ciculation than Bitcoin so it would be pretty unlikely for the price of 1 ETH to pass BTC currently at $17,000

The cryptocurrencies world is full of competition, competition between the different cryptocurrencies but one can be rest assured that the king of crypto which is bitcoin has been on top of the game ever since. But that not withstanding ethereuem becoming more higher then bitcoin in term's of price is possible because in the cryptocurrencies world volatility is the order of the day and any thing can happen with time.

That's if well if the alternate coins come to take over cryptocurrency then we can say hello to the end of cryptocurrency because the start of fall of bitcoin will mean government's scheme must have really come to full effect to negate the development and influence of the crypto world in our globe today.

It will take the first position in the coinmarketcap top coin list. First again this depends on how much market cap it has achieved. Because being lower in the rates XRP is at top 2 position and thats only because of its high market cap and high volume being driven everyday.

If ETH surpasses the BTC then things may no the right for the BTC because it is already become useless after its heavy prices in terms of fees and confirmation speeds. Further more ETH is way faster than BTC and thus it would be always beneficial for us to use it over the upper hand.

Its not just that the prices, lighting speed but on top of that how much people are getting attracted towards it and making the fortune out of it.

It is impossible for the price of ETH to exceed BTC, and BTC will always confirm who is the boss of cryptocurrency market.

i can not see any scenario which that can be possible under normal circumstance. and each time ETH price makes a major rise it assures me that it is being controlled by whale banks that have been behind centralizing it and it scares me the most.

there is no logic to the rise. it is not a currency. it is not used for anything apart from ICOs. it has lots of issues including scaling and fees and bugs that cause loss of funds and a lot more.

Then we would have two coins with major scalability problems ;D Though it is not completely impossible, I'd like them to find the solution for the current problem first. If it indeed were to happen, it would accumulate a large audience to non-crypto people.

I am not sure that whether it is going to happen or not and it may be possible for ETH to overcome BTC. Ethereum nowadays gaining a lot of popularity as it has become one of the main sources of the payment source for the ICO's and also chart wise it has proven some good trending patterns similar to that of bitcoin.But i don't see that it will come near to bitcoin level of popularity within the short span of time, for that it will need many tons of hard work and efforts by the ETH team and their Manager's.

Then ETH will overcome bitcoin's price and it will be the leading coin of all. But it needs to surpass Ripple's market cap first which is covered by the bankers and let's assume that we are already there that ETH is dominating and it exceeded the price of bitcoin. Then most of the cryptocurrencies will still depend on bitcoin and majority will depend to ETH simple as that.

      Maybe it will happen someday that ethereum price exceed to bitcoin but i doubt also because bitcoin has a greater value and demand compared to ethereum and the gap of ethereum price are far beyond the bitcoin price.

for now bitcoin prices are still number one in cryptocurrency. but eth is always under bitcoin for price issues. if at any time eth price becomes higher than btc it is very good and will be amazing moment along the journey of cryptocurrency.

I can not rule out that the price of the ETH  will exceed the price of bitcoin, in the world of cryptocurrencies there are the most unexpected events. The ether now is very necessary for payment of transaction costs, therefore it also becomes expensive.

I guess it will not happen eth price exceeds btc price, unless bitcoin die. Eth will remain number 2 after btc.

At this moment it looks impossible, but in future ethereum may exceed bitcoin.Ethereum is the second best coin after bitcoin in the cryptocurrency world.

ETH price is around 1000$ ++ right now, and BTC price is around 17000$ ++
from 1000$ to 17000$ i think it is possible. If you look at the price of bitcoin in the beginning 2017, its around 1000$ too, now it is 17000$ ++
If the ETH surpass the BTC, i think the ETH holder will get very much profit.

But the availability of ethereum is unlimited so they can print more ethereum as much as they want so the demand of ethereum will not reach the demand level of bitcoin because it's availability is limited amount of 21 Million.So ethereum don't have that much ability to reach the level of bitcoin and I hope bitcoin will be always the king.

I doubt that ethereum will surpass bitcoin but if ever that it does, holders of ethereum will be super happy out of it.

its not impossible.i think soon the ETH will be come close to  BTC

If ethereum price beats bitcoin, then it will be the new king in the cryptocurremcy world! I think it is possible to happen, and if it does, then bitcoin will be a legend, something to look back and analyze with everything that happens to ethereum.

Etherium price exceeding bitcoin price in the future could not be impossible. Ethereum has learned a lot bitcoin hurdles and most probably bitcoin can lose it's value over Ethereum especially on the people who use crytocurrency. However, we may not know. Things changes easily.

it's not easy to happen , bitcoin will still rise , and ETH also , but Bitcoin have more trading volume and most of people know only about Bitcoin

This is far beyond my imagination. The king will always prevail but if the king is sick then the queen will rule the entire cryptoworld.
Pretty thing so interesting but weird. BTC should improve in the first place rather than beaten by a copy cat.

If that happens then that is the best thing. Currently eth is having a faster transaction speed than bitcoin and a lot of diggers are digging eth. Eth is the basis for many different coin.

It is not possible ever,because slowly slowly bitcoin is adapting the same technology which is eather  are using.

Things can change but no one knows who will gain an upperhand between bitcoin. XRP already rally with growth in the market and its possible that ETH can overtake Bitcoin in time. Time and investors can tell the market if its time.

ETH beating BTC in price is not possibe in near future, but I'm sure that ETH is good in investing for the long term than BTC.

That is surely not at all possible due to the early market advantage which bitcoin got. There are still 80% investors who dont even know that other coin exists, they just know Bitcoin. ;) And the 20% investors cant dominate market. (Number might be wrong but I hope you understood)

I think you tend to forget the influence that the circulating supply
has on the price of the underlying cryptocurrency.

E.g. Bitcoin has roughly 16.7 million coins outstanding and of this amount probably
more than 5 million BTC are lost indefinitely. On the other hand Ethereum
has roughly 96 million ETH outstanding, which is a multiple of the BTC
supply.

This fact alone makes it incredibly hard to overcome the BTC price.
Besides, Ethereum has a lot of competitors for its main use case (smart contracts)
in NEO, Cardano, ICON and so on while Bitcoin has not a single
competitor for its main use case of being a store of value.

ETH price will never exceed the BTC price.

it would not surprise me to see the ETH exceeded the BTC in the long run, it has a real utility on the blockchain and it would allow to have a less volatile currency, finally I hope

I don't think that this phenomenon will happen, there won't come a time that Ethereum will overcome Bitcoin. These two coins are very different.

This will never happen, for the past few months, people kept believe it would happen but the Bitcoin reached a price the ETH could never reach, it's already struggling to reach 1000

I think the value of eth will not pass bitcoin. Eth is pretty much coin to choose the eth board. The value of eth is quite cheap and eth's transaction fees are low. Eth want to pass bitcoin will take a lot of time.

This event is unlikely. It's just not logical. ETH is just a popular platform for ICO, it's a cool purse, it's a strong product. But even ETH has its competitors, for example, Waves, EOS, Bancor and many others.

It will be an astounding victory in the world of cryptocurrencies, but it is mere speculations. It is illogical to think that the price of Ethereum will one day be higher than that of bitcoin.
There are more people who are involved with bitcoin than with ETH and therefore the market cap of bitcoin will continue to be higher than that of Ethereum and this ultimately affects the price.

Eth might exceed bitcoin but tezos Wil exceed etheureum it's the new technology it will hit the coin market on February and it has high hope

Even if it not possible,at least for now,to exceed Bitcoin,Ethereum​ has received a lot of attention since its announcement way back 2014. The natural consequence of its rising popularity has been its constant comparison to Bitcoin, the first virtual currency.
In 2014, Ethereum had launched a pre-sale for ether which received an overwhelming response. Ether is like a vehicle for moving around on the Ethereum platform and is sought by  developers looking to develop and run applications inside Ethereum. Finally, Ethereum is obviously receiving wider aceeptance by the day and is good for cryptocurrency growth.

I don't believe that ETH price will ever exceed the BTC price. I base my conclusion on the fact that Ethereum had some problems in the past, the DAO hack , which many people seem to have forgotten about now but I don't, I keep track with what happen with every coin and I believe Bitcoin will continue to remain the undisputed king for a very long time. The true competitors to bitcoin in the longer run are fully anonymous coins like Monero, Dash and Zcash in my opinion. Anonymity is becoming more and more valuable in our time.

What happened to Ethereum is that its investors renewed their interest on it. Remember last year the price surges to unprecedented levels and people think that it could challenge and that the "flippening" would happened. Unfortunately it didn't so I don't think it will make any difference today. Bitcoin is miles ahead in terms of its price and marketcap. So I doubt that it can gain that much price to at least equal or even surpassed bitcoin.

If Ethereum pass bitcoin, then there would be a huge shakeup in the crypto market for sure. But if you look at today transaction fees, Ethereum as well is experience slow confirmation and high gas. So in the future if its price double we will hear a lot of investors complaining as well, similar to what we are hearing from bitcoin when it reaches all-time-highs.

I think ethereum cannot have the capability to surpass the bitcoin's price or even to tie from it. Bitcoin is the all time high crypto asset ever recorded on the past 6 years and the gap between every coin's prices are damn far to it but if and only if eth exceed to its price i think thats the time that bitcoin is totally banned on many country.

The cryptocurrency users will seperate, not all in bitcoin again but half will go to ethereum. Many services also start using Ethereum for the payment. well it will be big if that happen, it's also will affect the altcoin price too. It might happen though someday.

it could all happen, because in my experience all this time, the price of bitcoin and ethereum depends on how many people use it. for example, if people trade very heavily with ethereum in trading and investing, I am sure ethereum can definitely beat bitcoin.

naa, it will never happen, or better, it might happen if people will lose interest in BTC and switch to ETH but for what purpose?
BTC is growing strong and will keep growing in the future, going on the stock market it's something huge for the life of BTC, it could happen for ETH as well, but the first coin it will always be BTC.

It certainly wont be a good thing in the beginning since hundreds of billions are in bitcoin. However, I think the cryptocurrency community will be just fine.

It's impossible. Just for one reason - Bitcoin have Maximum Total Supply and Ethereum doesen't have it.

It's funny because you ask this question on bitcoin forum where most users are pro bitcoin.


DAO whaaat are you talking about? If something similar happens vitalik and company will just rollback the chain again and we will be back to normal. Anyway my opinion for recent pump is many new ICOs that accept only Ether and we are seeing fork that will occur to people minds that fork = free coins so in order to get your free coins you have to have ethereum, you have to buy it.

Although ethereum and bitcoin can't be compared and looked at market cap really. Ethereum wasn't build to be a currency, although it has that feature, it was mainly built to be a platform where ether is a gass for that platform - pretty cool business model if you ask me. Ethereum is a good project with a lot of support.

About privvacy I think that people are aware of that and LN will and could add an extra layer for us to mask where are coins moving to and from but we are still far from implementing in bitcoin that kind of feature. It could be done if needed something like what shadowcash did and other coins, where you can trade and have open part of transactions  but you can swap and trade totally in private, because I don't see that bitcoin is going to add some privacy features like monero that is instant at least not from now, since it was open from beginning. I don't mind transactions being open, but I mind when people can write algorithms to track who is who and for what are you using your money for. But I do agree privacy should be one of our top priorities.



well they could have higher market cap and if etherum goes viral and gets more adoption than bitcoin, for now I don't see it happening but its not something that we exclude.

As someone said it is not impossible. But I would like devs to upgrade eth it's clogging up again.
Bitcoin is old tech, but ethereum still doesn't have what it takes.

If ETH price exceed the BTC than all altcoin will go to moon. However this is not possible in near future, But one day ETH or other Altcoin will exceed the Bitcoin.

Probably we will such situation. However, currently BTC is the main pair traded at all criptocurrency exchanges and I do not see reasons for that at present

it's probably possible but it needs long time since we know that bitcoin is mother of cryptocoins

Bitcoin needs to do something about the transaction time and fees. It's unusable now for lower amounts. Hopefully, the Lightning Network (https://coincodex.com/article/1165/lightning-network-closer-to-reality-mainnet-transaction-completed/) will be implemented, it would definitely cause more people to use it not only keep it as digital gold but as payment.

I would not be so sure. ETH is now very strong. Today the price of ETH has exceeded 1k $. As we know BTC has a certain number of units, ETH does not. Let ETH now jump 4x?

I'm really not sure, I believe in both projects. I tend to think if ETH achieves what it is trying to achieve, it should fundamentally be worth more than BTC. Then again, if you look at the value of gold Store of Value should really justify a higher valuation

Yes, I don't think ethereum price will ever go anywhere near to bitcoin price. Perhaps, ethereum might grow to a few thousand, that's all.

I don't know, but anyway this time bitcoin has always been the king of all crypto. and it will happen for the next few years, I believe it. at this time no one can compete with bitcoin.

It is not possible. Due to the existing large gap between the two coins value. This gap is not going to change, there is a high probability that the difference will remain the same in the future.

I think ethereum cannot have the capability to surpass the bitcoin's price or even to tie from it. Bitcoin is the all time high crypto asset ever recorded on the past 6 years and the gap between every coin's prices are damn far to it but if and only if eth exceed to its price i think thats the time that bitcoin is totally banned on many country.

that's imposibble if eth is the next bitcoin killer. we know bitcoin very very famous. everybody will use bitcoin as their investment. so bitcoin price will over over value. we dont know who will the next bitcoin killer.

you should read about bitcoin, there is a lot of reading knowledge about bitcoin in this forum. take your time to seek knowledge and experience.

There were many predictions of many experts, in the beginning of 2014, Ethereum 1000 Dollar will be. And that happened. Now it's worth $1100. And with that, it can go to a big moment.

the future of bitcoin is always wide open, I believe bitcoin will remain the king of all crypto for the next 10-20 years. however bitcoin is the main choice in investment, that's why its value is always increasing

ETH price will not overcome the Bitcoin one in a near future. It looks clearly. Furthermore I suppose that to the end of January Bitcoin price will being growing steadily. We’ll see how BTC price is becoming 25-30k USD.

If this happens it will be the biggest news of crypto world. But in near future it seems impossible. Bitcoin investors have full faith and confidence in their investments. Last year China banned bitcoin currency, bitcoin price dropped by 20% a day but recovered later. Speculators sell large amount of bitcoins by the end of December resulting fall in bitcoin price. But bitcoin recovered sharply. This shows bitcoin`s popularity among its investors. Ethereum work under the shadow of bitcoin. Above mentioned situation  seems impossible in near future

The possibility of ethereum exceeding bitcoin’s price is zero. Ethereum will always follow bitcoin but it can never catch or pass bitcoin. Sometimes we forget how good bitcoin is.

Totally agree in near future but who know in some day!
eth has been balling lately
more and more ERC20 ICO coming out these days and ETH is gonna have a  big 2018.
As bitcoin too expensive for micro payment and take huge time to transfer. So it main competitor will be BCH not ETH

It’s getting harder to make accurate predictions day by day. Normally I don’t think ethereum will never be able to compete against bitcoin but just like i said markets are so unstable. Anything can happen.

It is not going to happen. There are already many good competing platforms to Ethereum with
more  coming in future so some of those will start taking ICO share from Ethererum. ETH network
could not even handle the load on one crytpokitty app so cannot expect it to run all these thousands of
new dapps at all.

I think it is possible, but then the market cap is a lot higher than BTC since there is more circulating supply

Thats amazing thing which will happen to the crypto community. Most of us are waiting for such coin which can be good hype and can cross the BTC prices. People who missed that low budget train of the BTC since five to six years will always want to invest into coin like ETH to get more into it and more out of it! Just look at the current market situation where BTC is being stagnant at its rate most probably because the whole alt coin market was overcoming the market of BTC, this was in terms of getting more investors into the investment. We saw major pumps like ETH, XRP, IOTA, and currently there are coins like XEM, ADA which are getting spiked too. This is killing the BTC and giving the Ethereum market a perfect chance to make a way through the crowd and win the whole thing.

I think it would be amazing thing to observe. Anyways its very possible.
Bitcoin's purpose still stays even if ether exceeds. I will keep using both.

There will be a new leader in which they will invest to the maximum and will receive possibly the same profit as from bitcoin. Let's see after a few years whether this happens, until it is completely unrealistic.

Well I actually want this both coin.
Because I believe in their potential to be the future currency in the world.
That's why I little bit comfuse whybsome people keeps on comparing this two different coin?.
And in fact they are both good and worth to keep.
Holding this two coin , will really gives you a nice and huge profit.
Unlike other coin in crypto's.

The ethereum will not be able to takeover bitcoin price, there are several reason I see behind that.

1. Coin Supply - Ether has 4x time more supply then BTC.
2. Ethereum is not only a coin but it is a platform and no one like to pay 30-50$ per tx to use a platform.
3. Ethereum price will be decided by the miners in the future rather than holders like in BTC

I agree with this answer. Moreover, coupled with ethereum network fees that can not be stable and change very quickly if ethereum transactions increase. Investors are also paying attention to this. The possibility of ethereum price equal to the bitcoin price is very small.

Not impossible but it will take a long time for a complete shift of investment from BTC to ETH. If ethereum overcome btc price then surely bitcoin will fall down rapidly and we will then have ehtereum as the leading cryptocurrencies.
Altcoins based on ETH will begin to shine, and some alts will face huge dump due to high uncertainty after this shift.
Trading will be affected due to this shift, alt/eth trade will become more valuable then alt/btc in exchanges.

Bitcoin is still #1 for investment. Eth and others just follow the king.

i think many Ethereum holder will be happy and
some people who convert their Eth to btc will regret
that they did that

Nope I don't support that ethereum to cross the price of bitcoin and moreover it is not at all possible to see the bump in the market. We have to check the reach of bitcoin in the world before investing on the ethereum and goes for the more value.
Sell the alts for bitcoin bro but having the ethereum will not profitable all the time buddy. Now you may see the bitcoin value down but soon value would be increased.

I guess no? since there are lot more circulating ETH coin than BTC. But let also take consideration of all major trading sites uses ETH as alternative to BTC to trade in other alts.

I don't think so that this will happen. Because possibility of such happening is very less.
Bitcoin is the most strongest coin in world of crypto while also BTC have more users as compare to ethereum with addition with this bitcoin life is more and performance is more better then ethereum so it will very hard to happen this.

Yeah, I agree too ethereum cannot have way to overtake  the bitcoin's price. Bitcoin is the most high crypto asset ever recorded in cryptocurrencies world.
For now I obserb Ethereum still the second best coin but if  if ethereum exceed to its price, I think this is time that bitcoin is die already.

I am so curious that if Eth price overcome Btc's, what will happen in crypto world?

You are right but what is the use of thinking about something that is not going to happen ever. No offense. I was just trying to figure out the purpose behind fantasizing this, honestly. Ok maybe it will come to Reality someday but what are the chances of that again.

Yeah ETH is all good and at the top of alternative coins but it is not going to beat Bitcoin in regard of value. Bitcoin is the mother of digital currencies and the benchmark for all other Crypto coins.

if that happens then I'm sure bitcoin will be less desirable and lose the confidence of the investors, but to make it so eth reality it is necessary to have a lot of strength and other support from the community.

Hahaha that's is impossible to happen now, even there's a possibility but now I can't believe that this ethereum touches the position of bitcoin in the market. Maybe it will happen after a decade, because for now ethereum value was in the under position of bit.

that's impossible it will not happen, bitcoin are more popular than ethereum, but if that's gonna happen then ethereum investors will get a big profit and nothing will happen in the crypto world its just a price increase.

I think it will not happen, btc remains no 1
eth does shock me in the last 6 months the price is skyrocketing ....
and even if eth exceeds bitcoin will not affect cripto
both of which are competing but I am sure eth will only reach 10% of btc

Bitcoin would remain the most decentralized cryptocurrency, and unlike ethereum, it really scales. So nothing would change for Bitcoin.

However, the crypto world could take a hit, because a lot of people might lose money when investors see that ETH doesn't scale.

All hell will break lose as ETH’s market cap will break BITCOIN’s by like 7.5x which is like in the couple of trillions range iirc but that would be pretty crazy none the less

If ETH price will exceed BTC's price, then i would accept it since we now that ETH is a very good contender for bitcoin in the cryptoworld. Maybe, it will only happened if there is no demand for bitcoin anymore which is unlikely to happen. :)

It's not impossible but i don't think that ethereum price overcomes to Bitcoin price. It's really hard to believe this thing.

For one thing, why btc's price is much higher than all other crypto coins?
Is all other crypto coin less useful  than btc?
As Eth from functional construction is better than btc, it looks possible that ETH's price can reach BTC's since they have about the same user.

Bitcoin is still dominating on the market charts but the exceeding of ETH is not impossible. If ETH would succeed in prevailing over the Bitcoin there would be huge market changes that would push other undervalued altcoins to grow in the value.

I don't think that the price exceeding will happen because the Bitcoin developers will soon release the lightning network on the market and that will for sure disallow the Ethereum to match the Bitcoin price.

Lot of investment is necessary in ETH to exceed the BTC. ETH is still climbing and will be close to BTC.

Based on Ethereum's total supply, it seems highly improbable that it will ever exceed Bitcoin's price, however, there's a slight possibility that it could give Bitcoin some competition in terms of total market cap in coming years.

I actually agree. It will be hard for the ethereum to reach bitcoin if  it had a few supporter. But if everyone will be using ethereum as the main coin in cryptocurrency. Then the chances of it to be like bitcoin is more relevant. Or can be surpass bitcoin, if ever it continue to improve and be better than bitcoin.

Definitely even now the price of the ethereum is undervalued. On its platform is conducted out ICOs, smart contracts are written and it develops no matter what. In the long term it will grow tens of times, but I think it couldn't reach the price of Bitcoin.

The possibility of ethereum price exceeding bitcoin  is very thin so do not imagine it.

There is posibility that ethereum can exceed BTC price. But it will take a long time before it will happen. For now Bitcoin is unbeatable because of its high value.

I think they will still go with bitcoin. Ethereum will make you more frustrated than bitcoin because I experience a lot of transactions where I spent a lot of gas which deducts my eth also but my transactions are still not successful.

Nothing major happens since Eth is as valuable as bitcoin at least. This would only change the leader of the whole market, nothing else. We all know bitcoin and ethereum are the trusted and most strongest ones on the market.

then investors will suffer inordinate ethereum advantage and vice versa owners bitcoin will experience large losses. certainly, many people will switch from the coin towards the bitcoin other potential such as for example the ethereum.

For every BTC there are more than 6 ETH so the chances that ETH surpasses bitcoin in the price is almost impossible, now if you were talking about the market cap that is another story just in the previous year ETH was very close to bitcoin, at some point bitcoin was above by less than 10 billion dollars and many speculated that ETH will take the lead but that did not happen.

of course, when that happens then the ethereum will become a new benchmark in the world of crypto as the best coins. But if it can happen it seems to need the not briefly considering the distance between the two coins is very far away.

I think this sort of thing could have happened but certainly will in the long run. ethereum itself is indeed a nice coin to invest, thus opening it is unlikely that it will shift the ethereum bitcoin later on.

ETH has the massive amount, this could increase the total crypto worth so much.

I agree that Ethereum have a possibility to surpass bitcoin in the crypto currency community but it takes a long period of time before it happen. Because ethereum have high potential and their systems had a good and quality. However I know that bitcoin can't wants to surpass their position in the market so I'm sure that they can make a good strategy to stop ethereum.

I don't think that we will see ETH surpass bitcoin anytime soon, if ever. Ethereum does not scale well enough, look at what the kitties did to the network. This will be the demise of ETH I think

If that is the case then it will cause the ethereum holders up to from this moment in the future will be getting multiple fortunes, therefore pray for the holder of the ethereum so that this can be realized.

If Etherum price surpass the bitcoin price, it will be a big thing happen for sure. I'm sure many campaign will pay with ethereum too, not only bitcoin. Also many services and gambling site will start accepting ethereum as their main or second coin.

I think Ethereum will not exceed the price of bitcoin,it is unreal. Although many projects are based on Ethereum, there are shortcomings associated with the transaction that the command is still not decided. Bitcoin is the Foundation of the cryptocurrency world.

The first flipping will trigger more chance for every altcoin could be just ETH as take the #1 spot.

If ETH were to surpass bitcoin in terms of its pricing then a lot people will be shock and will become a multi millionaire, nothing drastic will become to crypto world it will just continue the way it is, it will only open a new possibility that other alt coins can overcome bitcoin.

A lot of aspiring coins will emerge from that time since bitcoin has been overthrown and been replace by ETH, and bitcoin cash,ripple and other alt coin will be doubling their effort for being number since there is a chance for them to take over the scene.

I don't think it will happen. BTC is the benchmark in this industry!

I agree with you, if ETH can overcome Bitcoin then surely this market will have a new king and Bitcoin officially became altcoin, this is very unlikely because Bitcoin is the foundation for the way industrial network

That would be a blast. A breakthrough indeed. But it is highly unlikely to happen, not in the near future. Or maybe, just maybe if bitcoin would experience a total crash, a landslide, a brutal drop. Then and only then, ETH's price can outperform BTC

Ideological bitcoin developers do not want to improve it, but create forks unlike ether developers and I think this is quite possible because it has a good growth prospect. Ether simply can takes first place in the world of crypto-currency.

i think crypto world will still be normal.
but i think it wont happen .
because in Bitcoin we dont know who controls the price.
maybe someday BTC will only the standing Coin.

People assume that ETH price should increase in order to exceed BTC, which is not the only possible outcome.
What if the BTC crash so much that it goes lower than ETH?

I do not think it will happen because bitcoin users/holders have faith in bitcoin. However, if it happened, then people lost faith in it and gave up on using it. Therefore, the value of ETH would surely increase and would be the number one in term of usage. But it would take years for something like that to happen.

As a matter of fact, bitcoin's reputation is still spreading across the world and we are seeing many countries accepting bitcoin. Therefore, many people will be aware of it, so they will only start using it which will lead to the increase of price.

I think this is not possible. ETH is a solid crypto, but BTC is top 1 and probably will be on 1st place forever in terms of usage and popularity

This is good thinking it is actually possible for ETH to become the first ranked coin like on coinmarketcap. Bitcoin is facing these days a real test it is continue changing in the price.

I think that Bitcoin will not last forever so on some point it will not be the first ranked coin.

Then it would be a new record which the king is being replaced by an Altcoin. Sounds impossible for those die hard fans of bitcoin but this thing isnt an impossible one which anything do have the possibility for it to happen.If people start to recognize ETH over BTC then this thing will surely happen where price might be over than on btc's. There are really some chances but i would say it would really much takes time to happen.No one knows since no one can predict the future.

I think it is not possible for the moment. Maybe if BTC fall at $1000? There is too much ETH compare to the number of BTC. And if BTC falls at $1000. I think ETH may fall lower. Maybe return at his start price?

i personally dont think the 'flippening' Will happen. They both have their times of booming and btc Will most likely be next again

I think this could only be positive. The whole market right now is so depending on bitcoin.

I am a supporter of ETH and it is one of the coin that has the majority of my investment but we have to face the reality that no one can replace bitcoin. It is possible but that will take decades for us to know the answer. As I always say we just need to support it because we will never know what will happen in the future.

I hesitate to that, because even et never have price more than 20% of BTC, but if really happened then btc users will switch to Eth and will have a bad impact on BTC.

When the demand is more on the Eth and accordingly, all the money will be transferred there, then it will come to the forefront and will be just a new leader in the market. But for now it is far from that, so it's worth accumulating alts for the future.

It will never happen, since the marketcap of ethereum should be of more than 1 trillion dollars, and that is much more than what the entire marketcap of all the cryptos have right now. Consider it impossible, at least not with the current marketcap.

It will never happen either. I believe that no other coin can increase higher than the bitcoin value. Because bitcoin is already in the highest value that no coins can beat.

i believe market cap can switch, but not price per coin. eth has way too many coins to ever be as expensive as BTC

Ethereum price will reach bitcoin price that is very impossible to happen that is only a dream of all altcoin holders,because bitcoin has a high demand in the market  and the strongest coin of all crypto currency,and it will never happen that prediction because bitcoin price has a highest value in the market and its prize continue rising day by day,and altcoin price is depends on bitcoin prize that's why they cannot reach bitcoin.

may be its 5 years later when so many ICO have succed for long term...

What’s up with cooking BITCOIN and ETH lol, they are cryptocurrency not freaking food that you can cook, do you mean to say mining? If so it makes more sense

Had it happened that price ETH might outperform bitcoin, then it's certain altcoin selection would be harder than now. There will be alot altcoin being knocked out, because tokens ETH will more exist.

Can't happen probably, bitcoin is still the king and will probably always  be, most people around the world only know bitcoin and no other coins, and it's demand is huge..

If ETH price exceeds BTC, it would only bring in more investors to Eth. In every situation, there is always a possibility, which could either be certain or uncertain. The above speculation cannot be far-fetched as to whether ETH price will exceed BTC's. ETH has a platform that is different from BTC and thus, have the potentials.

If ever Ethereum does exceeds bitcoins price I think most of the traders would shift to Ethereum then it bitcoins price will lessen too but I don’t think it will happen soon because bitcoin has a lot of loyal supporters.

ETH rising ratio not even close to Bitcoin, so i think ETH price could not catch Bitcoin. But if ETH price rise too fast, their ecosystem will broke due to high fee and it could make Vitalik leave ETH team.

No problem if ETH overcomes BTC price. They are still two best coins in the world. But I think that cant happen. All coins are falling down now and they need more time to recover.

Ethereum mining would be very difficult in this case. If we observe a shift through ethreum, the mining will become much harder because of the increasing number of ethereum miners.

I don't think this approach is realistic but ethereum will be more valueble in the future.

Now the price of the BTC can be closer to the price of ETH. If bitcoin continues to fall so rapidly)) Etherium project has a very large potential to grow but it won't exceed bitcoin, perhaps only by cap and only in a moment. Everyone understands that bitcoin is the main coin.

This will not happen now or in the future as the "king" of his crown will not give up so simply and the etherium will find it difficult to get it

Most sensible comment in the thread, why does everyone think that ETH will beat BITCOIN, all madness in the cryptocurrency world would break down if that happened

Same as you, I'm curious too if ever ETH would be beat Bitcoin. I have a thought if it's ever to happen, ETH value will not last a day and go back in to second place behind Bitcoin, why? Because I think there will be a lot of ETH holder may selloff, that's what will happen I think. 

I'm totally agree, I even will sell all my ETH if it ever reach $2000,, enough profit already for me :)


yeah, still a long way event if it is going to happen in the future... maybe it will need more than 2-3 years ~

We cannot be too sure of the future, there is a chance that ETH will become more popular than bitcoin and price will be higher compared to bitcoin
but I would also not think that it will stay on top once it will happen as the market is moving and every project are finding its way to be on the top.

a thought which makes sense but it is very difficult and needs a lot of time for ETH in order to compete with the price of the BTC. but the current price from BTC has already started to go down so it's not impossible ETH will surpass the BTC.

I think nothing special will happen. It is just normal that another coin will beat other coins. And if this one happens, it will be a good news for Ethereum investors.

I quite agree with you, you really can not be too sure what will happen and there is a great chance Ethereum will become more popular than that of bitcoin but it will be hard for other altcoins to overcome bitcoin because it has been here longer than those other altcoins. But we'll try and see what will happen in the future because there are still a lot of room for growth.

It's possible that his can happen but not for a very very very v ery very long time from now. But yeah. ETH has the possibility to flip BTC and once it does it will become to top crypto.

I think it's going to cause a lot of the more select and switch to the ethereum. If this is left not har unlikely prices would drop rapidly and the bitcoin even very small as the price in the past year.

I find this to be normal and very likely to happen, because at present ETH is developing very well, I think the ETH can replace the BTC, because ETH is very current Commonly used around the world.

This is why we must not believe the marketing blindly many cryptocurrencies say they are better than bitcoin and faster but no one is using them so it is obvious that you get a fast confirmation but as soon as they get any traffic they suffer from the same problems than bitcoin which is why most altcoins do not get any success at all and their technology is not as advanced as they claim.

Things will shift massively, but it will be driven forward like always.
Things are not going backwards that's for shore.
Well maybe Bitcoin holders will have something to say, but whatever.

I think in the far future ETH may over come BTC in price. I believe ETH's consensus protocol proof of stake is better than BTC's proof of work.

The main thing now is to clarify in which year and at what price then will be bitcoin. These are the two main factors by which many alts will be able to equal the level of bitcoin, even if not for the price then for efficiency.

I think in future ETH can not overtake BTC in price, the current price is bitcoin more than 10 times the price of ETH. But we can not be too sure about the future, there is a chance that ETH will become more popular than bitcoin. and ICO projects have used the ETH platform, ETH is currently developing very well.

At present, the price of BTC is much higher than ETH. But I think with the modern and improved blockchain technology supporting ETH as today and the cryptocurrency market is also growing, the ETH can be higher than the BTC is possible. Price is high, sometimes it is low, this is the law of nature and very normal. So ETH may be higher than BTC and more and more people are trusting ETH as well as BTC as ever. These two coin are potential and safe in the cryptocurrency market.

Price is something that a majority of the holders of BTC and ETH care about. Sure, we could say that the prestige of being a part of something that may one day become the next Google or Apple is nice, but by nature we care about the bottom line and how we're going to benefit from it. So naturally price is an imporant aspect. Because ETH's coin cap is currently not set in store like BTC and there are already 4 times more ETH mined out than BTC, many people assume that its price cannot/will not go up as quickly as BTC, if at all. However,if ETH price exceed BTC's then I think theres a lot changes on the market regarding its value.

I do not think so, bitcoin created everything ( ethereum too ). So ethereum can not be better and higher from the creator. It is like people would be better than God

if eth exceeds btc, the token eth immediately flies up

If ETH price exceed one day BTC, it means that the price of Bitcoin is very very low. Like $100 or less. Maybe one day we may saw this, but not now. ETH price is decreasing faster than BTC. It may fall to $250 or less i think. It was pumped too much.

it will happen in your dreams not in this world at this time and in next 10 year ......

I am very interested in your post, if eth price can compete with bitcoin price then I think it is good news for investors who hold eth but it will be very difficult for ICO investors who will buy eth. it seems like it could happen but it will take much longer for ETH to rival btc.

There is no surprise when ETH exceeds BTC price. At present, ETH price is lower than BTC but in the future ETH price will exceed BTC price. Because ETH is popular with many investors, they are very popular in the Crypto market, so their prices are higher than BTC's. I do not see anything unusual. This will probably come true in the next few years.

i don't think it's possible for ETH to beat BTC in price, if it eventually happen then BTC might crash Harder

Maybe it happens at some point in the future, but with the way the market is developing now I think it is difficult to see something like this in the coming years, and when it does it will be a success for smart contracts

I don't think that's going to happen, the current price of ETH is very far apart than bitcoin. not only that, bitcoin marketcap is bigger than ethereum, it's very difficult for ethereum to exceed the bitcoin price

I'm thinking ethereum will not catch up to btc in terms of price in the near future

I think that with the Buterin's policies he pursues concerning eth, this altcoin will never exceed btc. The principles of the cryptocurrency are changing in the eth, and there is no decentralization and consensus. Etn is a good solution for smart contracts and ICO, and this will sustain its price.

A week ago, we looked with horror at the Etherium. Where does he go? 400, 300, 200 ??? Today it is 500, What's next. News will make earthquake and the market will go again.

Theoretically it is possible for ethereum to beat bitcoin by price, since the market is volatile in nature, any alctoins can best the price of bitcoin, but it will depend on the stability of the coin itself, as for ethereum, it is already stable, it is considered as second to bitcoin, and when things goes wrong with bitcoin, people tend to seek aide in ethereum in which, the transactions are much faster, if we checked the trend last year when all.coins are high, ethereum also had a massive transaction, due to investors converting  coins to ethereum and cashing out, which also gave lower value ethereum, but due to that, we can say that people are aware of ethereum and the volume could just go up anytime. I think ethereum no longer needs to be marketed since it is known by many already and people will be using ethereum if bitcoin is unavailable or has been congested again, people might get fed up and just turn to ethereum.

You imagine at what price then all the alts will be and how it should progress continuously to reach this level. Another question is that bitcoin will start to fall and reach a very low price, then it will be much easier to overtake it. But so far, even in the near future this is not observed.

Anything can be possible, as a i see today there are more development on ethereum side compare to bitcoin side. Ethereum is flexible and dynamic in 3 years ethereum can create new thing within the ethereum ecosystem. bitcoin on the other hand is still a commodity and asset to others and speaking of mass adoption ethereum is widely popoular than todays's bicoin. ICOs made ethereum popular in the next years or so, we could see that ethereum could beat btc's price. not in value but maybe in market cap.

It is hard enough to imagine this. even quite difficult for ethereum for could replace the position of the bitcoin's getting bigger. Indeed there is still a possibility, but it will also not bitcoin could ascertain the exact course.

If that will happen then maybe btc will have to undergo first the bubble theory I guess. Btc as its most low total supply than Ethereum and has just same demands or maybe higher should always ahead or dominates ethereum as we can observe in market. But if it will happen then maybe all investors will be really shock.

At present, it seems highly unlikely, but there is no denying the fact it is a very promising project. For the past two months its price has dropped sharply, so it is very cheap now. But it has got the potential to match bitcoin in future.

I dont think that it will happen anytime because Bitcoin is not controlled by anyone and it is mostly used by every crypto persons. Almost all coins are priced and valued in bitcoins. ETH is controlled by the developer who is holding high percentage of stock which is always risk as anytime he can sell off and the coin will be dead this case is not in bitcoin.

Usually referred to as the "flippening," ETH definitely has the potential to exceed BTC's price. I like many other don't know what will happen when it does happen but here are some possible reasons WHY it will happen:

1. The majority of coins on Coin Market Cap are actually Ethereum-based tokens.
2. Ethereum’s transaction costs are fractions of what Bitcoin’s transactions cost.
3. The upcoming Casper update, which introduces Proof of Stake, is going to be very revolutionary for Ethereum.

Ethereum might the potentials to exceed the price of bitcoin but it won't exceed the price of bitcoin cause it still trade against bitcoin and a lot of coin have been created which have the same features as ethereum so there some kind of competition betwey ethereum and those coin.

This is somewhat related to the supply-demand balance. Bitcoin is more valuable than Bitumin Etherumdan today because the demand is more from Etherum. In the future when the Etherum is more popular the price will be even more.

I do not think that this could happen due to the total supply of each currency, but it could be the case of a big collapse that makes the price of bitcoin fall dramatically, while the price of ethereum could remain relatively stable, which could lead to ethereum have a higher price than Bitcoin, although this scenario seems quite unlikely. What seems a little more credible is that in a medium term ethereum can displace the bitcoin in the marketcap.

There is not that huge difference in market value now, if Ethereum exceed Bitcoin, sure it will be a historical happening, but don't see any serious change just because of this.

There maybe no huge difference regarding on their status right now but we dont know in the future . there is a big posibility that etherium can surpass the legacy of bitcoin because etherium is also a good coin with lots of potential to succeed. Many platforms that supports etherium and infact almost all alts and other erc20 coins are backed under etherium. while bitcoin is only a stand alone crypto that is only built for payment purposes.

Eth is definetly a big hindrance to the success of bitcoin. But if ever eth can win the battle, many people will still be thankful for it because both coin are still superb .

according to my price bitcoin can not find coins that are able to exceed the price, the reason being bitcoin is the first coin develops with the investor backed by the coin. while eterum can be categorized altcoinnet unlikely in my opinion can reveal bitcoin prices.

If one-day Ethereum price can exceed the price of Bitcoin, of course, this is good news for crypto. I think the crypto world will not be why-this is precisely this will be the latest history in the world of cryptocurrency. Because even though Ethereum may exceed Bitcoin, I'm sure Bitcoin will not die just Bitcoin being the second coin that gets after Ethereum.

Yes, in an uncontrolled environment. Everything is possible. ETH has many advantages for future growth. a strong and improved team under the very creative and effective idea of ​​Buterin. It constantly develops trends and practical gadgets for users and investors. If one day the ETH value passes bitcoin, I think that's the madness of the crypto world.

I think that nothing is very critical. Just some coins that depend on bitcoin will fall in price. Their place in the top take the coin on the basis of Ethereum.

The price of etherium will never overcome bitcoin price as bitcoin has very lower supply then etherium.
High supply of etherium can not make its price higher than bitcoin. If the marketcap of etherium maybe more make sense overcome bitcoin marketcap but not the price.

Do you really believe in the such? BTC have so much possibilities to extension. Other top10 don't have the same. ETH never overtake BTC price. Because of his fundamental is weaker then ETH. Compare team, technology etc

I think it is possible but it could take a lot of years before ethereum overtake bitcoin's position as a no.1 cryptocurrency and if that happen, other altcoins will now have the big chance to become the king of crypto also if they overtake ethereum. The ranking will not be based on a current price of cryptocurrency but on its total market capitalization.

If that happens a lot of us would be millionaires by then. But it would have to take a gigantic leap for that to happen. I am not saying that is impossible i am also not sure when will it happen. It can happen yes, that is a possibility. It would be a exciting not only to witness it but to be a part of that growth.

I think if the price of ETH exceeds BTC it may be because I know the current price of ETH and BTC is decreasing hence from now we can invest between two coins, and thus, for now, this possibility of ETH will not be able to exceed the price of BTC because soon the BTC price will return to a stable price

Why not? Everything is possible in the world of the cryptocurrencies. I can admit that Ethereum will cost more than Bitcoin. It might happen in several years, and the market will look absolutely different.

the world of cryptocurrency can not be predicted in the foreseeable future, maybe now btc still occupies the best position but i think maybe there can be coins that have higher prices like ethereum but the time process that happens will be very long.

I know there is a high chance that ethereum price will exceed that of bitcoin but it won't be that fast. Because ethereum at $1,200 is already equal of the overall value of all bitcoins. Maybe if ever this happens it will take years. 

In my opinion, ethereum can reach a price which is equal to price of bitcoin in the future, but on the other hand, I think this can take a few years.

If this happens in the crypto-currency world nothing will happen. The price is not an indicator of the success of the crypto currency. The success of the crypto currency is measured in technological breakthroughs.