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Very interesting comparison that analyzes holding ETH in 2017 vs holding it today... https://cryptotradernews.com/cryptocurrency/hodling-ethereum-2017-vs-2019/ (https://cryptotradernews.com/cryptocurrency/hodling-ethereum-2017-vs-2019/)


Thoughts? I'm super happy to have swaped all of my ETH for BTC to be honest

You swapped all of your ETH for BTC? I feel like you shouldn't have done that. Not all of it at least... Diversifying isn't bad

ETH is as dead as centaurs. If those ever existed... Nothing is bringing it back to those 2017 good old days

Eth hasn't been able to come back to live whereas BTC has and will continue to do so. Good trading move that you did there mate.

It's a matter of time till ETH goes down to zero. It's been dead since 2017 actually

We are talking of comparison between 2017 and 2019 for ETH, right? Are you guys already analyzing stuff for ETH in 2017? Or have you been immersed in crypto or even in altcoin within those years?

I wonder why out of 5 posters here, 4 are newbies. I can smell something fishy.  ;D

you sure? ETH has lost nearly 90% of its value against bitcoin! this means if you had invested 1 bitcoin in ETH and became a bag holder now you would have only 0.1BTC left. if you think that is a good idea then you shouldn't make any investment at all.

as for diversification, if you want to do that then buy stocks or gold or things like that to diversify not altcoins.

2017 was a big year for ethereum and majority of the ERC-20 tokens. Further there is no big growth, the market kept crashing. None expected such a huge loss in ethereum value falling low to $100 from a value close to $1500. By those days bitcoin too experienced a great fall in its value. Later when bitcoin started to pump high ethereum was the same without big growth. Hope 2020 will be big for ethereum.

There are a lot of thread who discuss about alt season and most of the user said the alt season will not come at this year, yeah those are only specualtion generally because we never know the altcoin season come for sure. However, you have a good choice to move your money into bitcoin rather than you choose some altcoin to store your money because that is will same as you hold ETH.

I believe bitcoin will have a good price in the next months, I read some article that says bitcoin price will goes up according some experts especially the people who have a company. More than that, there is a new who stated that Bakkt future trading will be launch on 23 september next month. Actually that is a good new we have so far since we always wait the news in last year. We have a hope that some companies will choose bitcoin as their investment since the global crisis has been coming.

We just have to hold our ETHs for next bill market which will take it to all time high. Just waiting for that moment. Most people expect that to be in 2020

In the year of 2017 Ethereum was reached it's highest ever peak in the value of more than $1500. This because of the super bull came then not only for the giant but whole cryptocurrency market. Now in 2019 Ethereum declined from it's peak almost above 6 times but this decline in the crypto market is very usual and not countable as maximum of altcoins decline more than 100 times. So, keep fain in ETH network and the time will come again by the year of 2021. Then Ethereum must reached the price level of $10,000.

No coin till date has over performed its 2017 price. None, including Bitcoin. 2017 was a glorious era for this industry. On the hindsight, I am sure you too would've sold all your Bitcoin holdings for Fiat because even the mighty Bitcoin took a great fall to as low as $3,000. However, there are greater and interesting days ahead for this industry with daily happenings pointing towards that direction of mass adoption.

In 2017 I sold all ETHs, because at that time the price was very good if we compare with the current one, and I also feel sorry for those who have bought ETH in 2017 and hold it until now, because the price comparison is very far away.

I still have some hopes for ETH. The funny thing is in 2017 I really disliked it, because of the history surrounding it and how it all seemed to be centralized around 1 guy. But he has become nicer and the pool of developers have really grown as well, and there are serious moves towards ETH 2.0 so all hope is not over yet for this coin.

On the cue ball the whole market is held , and all the coins are traded to the cue ball do not see diversification here , Ethereum has already outlived its and my opinion it will roll down , since there is no future for it !

I have swapped my ethereum too but there was only a few ether still left in my wallet.
I have been reading the whole article and my opinion even ethereum has so many advantages compared with bitcoin but it's not clear what will be the main business will have taken by ethereum.
ICO market has already destroyed by exchange site through its IEO and what's next? This can be an interesting topic to discuss.

I believe ethereum is still worth holding. but I don't agree if there is a prediction that ethereum in the future will have a $1T marketcap and prices above $11K, this is very unrealistic.

That prediction is too optimistic, I personally think that in the future the crypto market will be dominated by several coins, not just bitcoin and ethereum.

But you must admit that they have been market leaders for quite some time. So they need to be taken for granted. And new coins will be created every day.

Ethereum has a future if they can keep with the times and focus on innovation, why was ethereum going for 1400 at the peak times instead of 8 bucks like it started the year? Because, it was capable of creating a reason of purchasing, you bought eth to buy crypto kittens, you bought eth to fund ICO's which was billions of dollars in funding, you bought eth to build on blockchain app for it.

Basically, there was a lot of reasons to buy etheruem, right now there looks to be none, if ethereum team can create a reason once again so will the people follow and buy ethereum however if they fail to innovate and create new stuff than eventually they will be out of business and ethereum will go low while some other coin go up. I am not saying it will be zero but look at litecoin, at one time litecoin was the second biggest coin, silver to bitcoins gold, now its out of fashion, same could happen to ethereum.

I thought that you will compare Ethereum - use, technology, user base in 2017 and now. But you only talk about the price, just everyone else.
Why there are not many blogs that deeply research an altcoin and will shortly review it?

it is true that the price of ETH in 2019 does not increase very high like the price in 2017, but at least the price of ETH has started to increase compared to 2018, so I am sure in the future the price of ETH will definitely start to increase very high again and of course it will give investors a big profit.

I think we still cannot compare holding ETH in 2017 vs holding in 2019. You know that 2019 is not over yet, there are still many possibilities to happen in the next few months. Surely, it is not the right time for comparing them, guys.


Why you are super happy? Have you got high profits by moving your asset from ETH to BTC?
You probably will regret it when ETH can go up significantly in the near future, while BTC just grows gradually.
I am afraid that you just follow FOMO.  ;D

I stopped reading when it says that ETH reached its all time high (ATH) in December 2017. That is wrong, it hit its peaked second week of January 2018 @ @14++. So I guess this is just another crappy article for click bait and ad revenue, (just warning to those guys who are going to read it.)


Good for you, Around March-May 2018 was the best time to switch from ETH to BTC because that month alone, ETH went on a downward spiral. So for those who decided to HODL, then it's either they remain as a HODLer or have sold it at a loss.

Ethereum 2017 has a huge price and was very promising. But in 2019 price fall a lot. Bu t now it good time to bought some pieces of this coin and hold it till price will return.

It is one of the best time to get more Ethereum at this rate.
If i were you i will not do the swapping, you might end up thinking deeply why you did that.
For me it is better to cut it to half. ill go 50/50 with BTC and ETH at the same time!

It is understood that the future of Ethereum is no longer so rosy. And Buterin says that it doesn't climb? It was also known in 2017...

Congratulations to you then. I have kept my ethereum and never traded it for bitcoin because I have my bitcoin on held too.
Don't say it.  :-[
I'm still hopeful that there will be a trendy move for ethereum with its 2.0.

at what date did you do that ?  swapping eth for btc is not really a good idea if done these days  because you will only suffer for the conversion fees and you will still loose because the value of btc is also declining however if you already done that back on the year 2017 where eth and btc are both pumping then you made a right choice because the value of btc rise verry well that time as when compared to eth where it stop at 300+usd ath  .

are you trading in a market that prevents you from buying back something that is pumping? if so then you must stop trading there and come trade where the rest of us are trading. there you can easily buy any coin that is pumping so the wise thing to do is always dump the coins like ETH during their dumping years and only buy them back when they start pumping in their pumping weeks.

I'm surprised and at the same time confuse at you post you posted this article link that stated

It never says that Ethereum is going for extinction or it's losing its appeal to investors and supporters but you are super happy that you swapped all your eth to Bitcoin, is this a good move I don't see it is, Investors should and must include Ethereum to their portfolio, like what is written in the article 

Many investors already did the same but i will keep holding my ETH for long,if my prediction is right i think by 2021 ETH can easily reach 5000$ per one if crypto adoption keeps growing like since the start of 2019,this year alone have shown the smart ones how crypto will be better in years to come,it will be unwise to stand on btc only

There's nothing wrong if you swap all your Eth into Bitcoin, Because whether Ethereum or Bitcoin are both good to hold frankly to say.
I remembered that during 2017 Ethereum achieved the high peak price of 0.1BTC almost each ETH by that time, so I believed that's
possible to be happen again that's why it is also good to hold Eth now and better to buy em while the price was on cheap stage.

ethereum has high quality and is still trusted by many investors, in my opinion now ethereum is still priced at a low price and is very cheap if in 2017 ethereum has a very high selling power value that is able to provide benefits because I first saw the ICO program is always successful and able jack up platform from ethereum that is often used by projects in the market

There is a mistaken notion by some that ETH is doomed to go to zero because it's price hasn't recovered. Well, no price for any coin, including BTC, has recovered, as mentioned above. BTC is down like half ... and alts from 2017 are down even more -- but for those who have been around long enough know, this is all cyclical.

Or a simpler way of saying it, predictions are useless, nobody knows what will happen.

In 2017 I bought ETH and sold it in early 2018, there was a slight decrease in prices, but at that time the price of BTC also fell and everyone would think ethereum prices would rise by more than $ 2k at that time, but the market situation said differently, experiencing a little loss and I tried to buy ethereum at $ 98 at that time many people thought ethereum would touch the price even lower, but what I saw was, ethereum prices have now gone up and I still profit by buying and holding ethereum until now

5/18/2020 will be halving the BTS award. then BTS will grow and then Oyan will grow ETH.
until this time we wait and save

the perceived difference between the development of ETH in 2017 and 2019 is very striking. in fact, for now, ETH prices have not developed much since the beginning of the year, and in fact, ethereum have decreased if measured from the highest price increases this year.

to be honest, I am quite sorry that I did not convert all of my ETH into the ETH form when the price went up last month. but, for now, I might see developments again, however, bitcoin has dominated 71%, so there is no other choice but to hold ETH for now.

The author(Pragati) must have no clue there are many many Eth competitors and some are even better than Eth and much cheaper price.

If someone want to make comparison of Ethereum performance between years, they should do comparison between the year of 2015 and 2019. I don't understand why OP compared performance of Ethereum between 2017 and 2019, TBH. General conditions of crypto market are very different between two years, from bitcoin domination to other external factors (outside crypto) like political isusses, Trade-war, e.g.

Don't worry too much, in worst case, Ethereum will 'only' fall to around 0.008 BTC per ETH. You won't lose all your money invested in Ethereum, and it is much better than investments in lots of other shit altcoins.

Comparing Ethereum in 2017 and 2019 are two different things I must say. First comparison is 2017 is in bull run and 2019 is in bear market so we cant really compare the price of Ethereum in this two different era. But one thing for sure is that Ethereum will surely be very useful again in the long run. Smart contract kings I must say, no one can defeat.

in terms of prices between 2017 and 2019 it is very much different, where ethereum was able to follow the bitcoin movement. different from today, where when bitcoin rises, ethereum cannot follow it. I think it happened because a lot of investors have switched to invest their funds in bitcoin, and I'm sure that soon they will convert them to ETH

When did you do the swap?
If you did that this month or last month then you made a wrong decision.
Look at ETH now @ very low price compare to BTC or USD.
This is the best time to invest anda wait with ETH.

One can make out the huge difference in price when comparing the price of Ethereum in 2017 to its current price in 2019. 2017 experienced a bull run and most of the ICOs which utilized the Ethereum Blockchain were successful hence Ethereum had high level of market demand during those time, hence reaching its ATH price of $1.2K.

If many people started talking about that the holdings of ETH is bad idea - for me it signal to buy. Ofcourse - holding BTC is the most talking about, but for big money better Ethereum.

In 2017, the market starts recovering from October onwards, now we are seeing the same situation in the market. ETH price is very high compared to current prices, yes, there are chances for ETH to increase its price with the futures they launching very soon. We need to wait for the market stability before ETH starts recovering its price.

Conditions in 2017, the dominance of Bitcoin is not too high compared to now so there is a chance the price of altcoin rises. With the current dominance of Bitcoin reaching more than 71%, I think this altcoin will continue to be depressed including ethereum but this also provides an opportunity for investors to accumulate good altcoin because of the low price

2017 is certainly different from 2019 both from ethereum prices and market cap values. Overall, market cap value of cryptocurrency market has fallen by more than 60% and this must have an impact on the price of every coin including ethereum. The price of ethereum is currently depressed against bitcoin and certainly affects also the US dollar but ethereum is still the biggest liquidity coin on the market after bitcoin

Holders of Ethereum have much anticipated for the bull run of Ethereum since it dipped after the 2017 bull. Most ICO projects which collected huge amount of enter are equally in the waiting for this moment. To achieve this bull run for Ethereum, the team must revise most of its strategies to meet the contemporary expectations of investors on the market. Now, it appears attention has shifted to coins that offer staking rewards to its holders.

We can make this comparison for every crypto entity other than Bitcoin. So it is not a very healthy comparison.


I think everyone who holding altcoin in their own wallet is regretful now. And if there is someone who is not holding any altcoins in his wallet, they are so happy now.

You are damn lucky man. Most of my Eth dipped badly when I held at $400+. I saw it all go down to below $200. However, I still believe that Ethereum is a good coin to hold. My opinion might be unpopular but I have a feeling before the end of the year, Eth will rise in price

I think 2017 was the golden year for Ethereum because that year ETH started with the price of $9 and finished almost $1K. Surely, people who invested in Ethereum made a huge profit. Now in 2019 Ethereum price dropped to $172 which indicates very poor performance from ETH. But, honestly, I take this positively because I believe Ethereum can hit $1K again in a year. So, buying ETH now would be surely profitable. Within mid-2020 ETH will hit $1000, mark my words.

I personally dont hold above one eth in my wallet, all i hold is one for my transaction fees but i strongly believe there is definately going to be a turn around for eth

two different times. 2017 being ATH from the crypto market is not just ETH. trade is high, adoption of crypto continues to increase. whereas in 2019, ETH did not increase too much. the effect of 2018 which brought the market and ETH down very deep, and now ETH is still struggling to make the best moments can be repeated.

The ether of 2017 is almost exactly the same as the ether of 2019, but now they have very different price and market position

Ethereum is going through it's first bear cycle. I have never had ETH only BTC. Recently I have bought some ETH. If it goes ATH you have a higher profit than BTC. I think ETH brings value to the table and can be a good number 2 coin. There are ETH ATMs... All good signs.
What I have seen is that alt coins always follow after BTC and the price will rise one BTC goes ATH and people start buying all kinds of altcoins.
I believe ETH still had some good years to come....

I would not say that you missed your step swapping your Ethereum for bitcoin, but those that are still holders of Ethereum has also not missed their step too, there is a season for everything, there was a time too that bitcoin was this down and people never had faith in it, remember also that bitcoin grew from $0 to $19800 and back to where is now, so if people had given up on bitcoin when it went down to $3000, would they be seeing the $10k growth right now on their investment.

We should not discourage the team of Ethereum, they are really trying their best, they cannot force people, and they can only encourage people. So it is left for people to decide when to invest heavily in Ethereum and I am sure that there will be a factor one day that will massively encourage people to put money into Ethereum market.

Diversification is really a good thing in investment world, and its your idea to convert all your holding, but i thought , you should have an ETH also, because this is a good project and still working right now, regardless of its price movements.

Correct, was late on investing though, I think it was around $300-$400 when I did enter Ethereum's market. But it still gives me a good profit 2018 when it touches it's all-time-high. Those are the days.

But we all know that Ethereum is still the best performing assets in altcoin. It went very hard just like the rest of the bunch, but it doesn't mean it cannot go as high as $1k in the future. It's just base on timing in crypto, right now though it is best to throw some money and put in Ethereum and just wait for it to bounce. It just needed once catalyst and maybe the plan Ethereum 2.0 in January 2020 will be the one.

exactly...
as much as i would like ethereum to rise again.
the competition doesnt sleep.
it could very well be another crypto that gets some major attention.
especially if these other platforms are quicker and have more to offer.

but if you talk about ATHs then you always have to consider the whole crypto market cap.
currently its $260,347,609,542
back in jan 2018 it was almost $800,000,000,000

as long as we wont reach this number again, no coin will explode.

The step you take are very well and right, in 2017 Ethereum reached its peak and almost all Ethereum holders at that time made huge profits. But in 2019 the reality is very much different, Ethereum experienced a very drastic price reduction, Can Ethereum be able to repeat the achievement as it did in 2017 in the near future ...?

The difference is the market is no longer the same back in 2017. Investors are now wiser and make their investments more secure, unlike before where everyone are hopers that the bull will bring things up in a short period of time. Everything now is all about how you do your research and how you will analyze the progress of the project to support.

ETH will always be a good option after Bitcoin, having a good amount of money that you are willing to take the risk would add up to your advantage.

i don't get how some people still believe this after all this time! specially old members who should know better based on their experience.
a coin like ethereum that only thrived on hype and nothing else, has a lot of serious issues and to top it all it has an unlimited supply can not even be considered a half good investment let alone an option after bitcoin. there simply is no long term potential of growth for such a coin.

Good old days will begin when Ethereum crosses the mark of $ 400, and everyone will talk on the new one about that Ether is an extremely potential coin.
Now the entire market of altcoins can be called dead.
More precisely, the word "dead" is hardly suitable here, I think it's better to say that the altcoin market is in a state of hibernation.

The potential of altcoins is still here, we are dealing with the crisis around the world not just on cryptocurrency so this is still normal. There are much expectation with ETH this year and we still have more months to go. If the altcoins is dead then bitcoin must be more dominant, well I’m still positive with ETH and will love to hold for more months.

Altcoin will not die, let alone ETH a few months will show growth, all like altcoin or ETH holders will not be disappointed to hold long.

Comparison of Ethereum year 2017 with the current? This may be different, but we no one knew that by the end of the year 2019, Ethereum could possibly be like Ethereum in the year 2017.

The season of Altcoins that many predictions will happen in 2019, but until now has not happened. My hope that this year 2019 is still left a few months so that with that time the value of Ethereum can continue to increase.

Not so affected with this, when it comes to holding, I'm not judging ETH at the current condition as I'm live by the definition of HODL.

Maybe there is a big difference on its value between 2017 and 2019 but it's better to make a good comparison in 2018 as it's the time when ETH hit its ATH at almost $1400. Compared to the current price now which is only $180, it looks very bad if you will sell, but if you understand how this market works, its trends, you would not feel this big dump.

Maybe let's compare again in 2020 or in 2021 as I'm pretty sure ETH will be back again at $1,000 or more.

You are right. Despite the drastic decline, ETH has considerable market power. Moreover, the technology has been widely adopted by developers, the benefits are very broad so that with this good network ETH can still survive and will again reach record high prices.

I have felt the highest price increase of ethereum in the end of 2017 until the beginning of 2018. I sold ethereum to FIAT and got a lot of amazing profits. But after the price of bitcoin dropped very dramatically, ethereum also experienced a remarkable decline. We hope that in 2020 after Ethereum 2.0 is launched, ethereum prices will improve and reach their highest prices again.

I agree to you dude ethereum is one of a powerful and useful project network in the market no doubt it will survive in the future we can see now a decline on price but again this is normal in cryptoworld and I still believe ethereul price will be back to normal in that case and if you believe in ethereum future just buy more and hold.

A big improvement for ethereum in this two years , from tech develop to price action and furthermore switching to stake wich is the future even if some of us don't like this. There is a huge documentary explaining how bitcoin pow will need too much electricity power in order to sustain the network.

Why did you convert all of your ETH to the BTC ? In 2017, all crypto coins were having a high value in the market.
If we compare crypto now with crypto in 2017, it seems crypto is not profitable anymore because the value has going down about 90%.

ETH prices at the end of 2017 are above 1000 USD, and after that the market is bearish,
but despite that investors already know that ETH will rise even higher in 2020 to 2021,
one of the reasons is because ETH will continue to be developed by vitalik buterin and continue to develop its scaling, which is why ETH will experience a fork.

I don't think investors know the future, people are just trying to think about the most positive situations for their investment and here, they are trying to create a sense of security when they predicted that ethereum would rise higher in subsequent years. But it's just a form of psychic hypnosis, people should skip this process and accept that crypto and ethereum are not as good as 2017, it has started to go down, the pump has been less active, depending on the situation to invest, should not try to hold it as in the past, very dangerous

Now it makes no sense to compare the same coin, because ETH 2017 is no different from ETH 2019, it will be possible to compare after updating the ETH 2.0 and switching to PoS

the most fundamental thing that distinguishes ethereum in 2017, and in 2019 is in 2017, ICO is very popular, and most investments use Ethereum, so most investors buy ethereum in large quantities, especially when bitcoin halving occurs, which causes cryptocurrency prices has a high price especially ethereum. it could be said at that time was the golden year for ethereum.

whereas for this year,  it is very difficult to choose a good ICO and most ICO are scams. while the IEO investment does not only focus on ethereum, but also on tokens of an exchanger, or stable coins such as USDT. so, it can be said that ethereum in 2017 is much better.

Ethereum is the perfect variant to invest in. ETH team has surprised everybody already. We can hear about the launch of the test network this month already. It will work for 3-4 months before the deployment of the main network. There, users will be able to transfer their Ether through a deposit contract. The estimated launch date for the main net is January 2020.
 However, these are just updated information about Ethereum 2.0.

Ethereum developers are working in the background, so we need to wait to the new Year to see the progress.
But I believe that all nw features such as Plasma, Casper and Sharding will make Ethereum stronger than anytime before.  8)

A lot of people are getting disappointed in ETH and it is totally understandable. While BTC is raising and making another 50 percent price increase, ETH is struggling to achieve at least 200 bucks per coin which makes me think that it should be replaced by a more competitive coin.

Thats too much for a prediction it was very impossible to happen in 2020, to be honest im an Ethereum fan so i believe that Ethereum will bounch back in the near future. but it will not reached in that prediction level thats too much and just more like a fantasy to me base on that article thats too good to be true that was base on my opinion.

I also believe that Ethereum will be able to overcome Bitcoin in 3 years by capitalization. Over the past years, Ethereum has shown how to quickly develop in the cryptocurrency market.

the market is at its peak in 2017. but I think now eth should have to go through a bleak period, I think maybe in 2020 and so on ethereum can return to a good position and in 2019 this will be a year for ethereum adjustments to get back to the best situation.

Why would any one wants to compare eth of 2017 with eth of 2019? 2017 market was in total boost that is why eth managed  to skyrocket over 1000$ and now 2019 is not in altcoin favour at all so its unreasonable compare, i still don't know how the eth2.0 will change everything for eth but can't say for now

No this is not like this I think now same as BTC and other altcoin like ETH is making progress and time to time increasing in price. Recently I have notice that after bitcoin ETH is the most struggling coin and even now it has millions of fans and investors I know it’s time to wait but in 2019 I am sure ETH will active good market value.

Technically, yes. Essentially, Ethereum 2017 is different from today's Ethereum. In 2017-2018, ETH had an ICO engine. Now this source of pumping the past takes money from this coin.
When the time comes for ETH 2.0, I hope it will be a completely other story.

Ethereum is still one of the most stable and promising coins. This year it has already brought a good profit and I think it will bring more. I am waiting for the price of 300 dollars per ETH.

Ethereum now looks weak on the market, but I think that by the end of the year it can grow and I think at this price you can buy Ethereum as in the future there is a large update of the coin and I think the price may be worth more than$1000

2017,ETH is a basic platform for funding and token issue,and more than90%+ projects and tokens select to be on eth.

2019,ETH is the base platform for more large-scale Defi open finance, as you can see,MakeDAO,ddex,and so on.

so,anyway,the promising future is coming for eth.

As far as I understood they don’t say Eth will die, on the contrary – they see a potential growth. I still support eth, it’s genius.

How can ETH die in this market? If all altcoins die, only ETH will live, and it competes at No. 1 in this market with BTC.

Until recently, I had a positive opinion on Ethereum. But my mind has changed after reading the article and after seeing bitcoin rising and ethereum not rising on a par with bitcoin. Now I can say that bitcoin is most secured and profitable investment. I doubt other coins than bitcoin will exist in the market in the future.

You are super happy, you are a nerd to do that, it's not a wise decision Bitcoin dominance for one is now 80% people are going for Bitcoin and leaving many shitcoins, I'm not saying Ethereum is a shitcoin but if you want aa good portfolio Bitcoin and Ethereum is the two must coin.

Altcoin will never die as long as there are good investors using it, ETH is one of the most popular coins that will last a long time with Bitcoin.

Well, not only the Ethereum but most of all Altcoin holders are swapping or selling their Altcoin assets just to buy Bitcoin resulting to 70% Bitcoin dominance in the market for this year and you are lucky that you are one of those holders that able to buy Bitcoin at lower price. As we have observed, Bitcoin market movement is really fast compared to all Altcoins that is why there are lot of people are now moving to Bitcoin.

For Eth 2017 was a golden period, Converting all of your Eth to Btc might not be a good move as it still a second best. We might get some good news (https://www.coincurb.com/news/) in 2020 for Eth.

2017
" Wow ETH is cool, we can create our own token and collect funds for our company. Let's make an ICO !!"
then people buy their token with ETH, demand for ETH increased extremely

2019
" ETH is shit, I lose everything again because investing in scam ICO, better invest on IEO"
People now dump ETH because they think ETH trend is done, now buy exchange native token like BNB, KCS, HBT, OKB for join IEO

You would've left some portions of your Eth in Eth not to convert all to Btc. Eth/Btc pair is recovering and from the charts, it's going to do well soon. Don't nt always convert all tokens once.

I wouldn't convert all my ETH to BTC at all. I would always keep it into 60% btc and 40~30% in eth. ETH has so much potential to grow its price (if that's what you're after) because of all the developments happening. There are good coins that are focused on different areas in the space like the fashion market (http://apm-coin.com/?utm_source=lx) using the Ethereum Blockchain (ERC-20) for their project.

Bitcoin is no longer getting updates at all and has become stagnant for years, while on the other hand, ETH is making its moves and has 2.0 underway. It's a very exciting time now to be an ETH holder!

The different about ethereum in 2017 and this year 2019 is the price. We know how hype the ethereum 2 years ago. And people expect this year good price like before but its not easy because we know that its depend to the flow in the market. So even we compare it before and now it will be still hard what eth price will be in the future,if its high or low.

indeed 2.0 is the most awaited thing for next year it's just that here I am still in doubt, because I think correction on eth is still likely to happen and it's good to wait for this kind of thing to buy eth, oh yes for erc20 I think it's still not good because there are only a few tokens which does have a good impact on ethereum, the rest actually makes the eth image worse because many projects that use erc20 have problems (scams and such).

It seems to me like the basic platform even did a little better than the present one, because 2017 was really a great year for Ethereum, and this 2019 has not been great at all, and this 2019 looks like their hype is seriously dying down.  I believe that there is still a very great future for Ethereum, but that bright future can only be achieved if there is more push from the side of the developers and team, because other projects are quite pushing their project better than Ethereum now, and most of those projects are not on their chain which we would have said will still affect them positively.

Let us see what their Ethereum 2.0 will look like when they release it next year, I learnt that it is really going to be a great new thing entirely with the introduction of new features which is what we need now for Ethereum to keep getting attractive.

The good news will be this year, ETH 2.0 will be updated soon, then it is planned to switch to PoS mining, so that soon ETH will recover and become stronger

2017 is the best year for ethereum and Bitcoin but this year ethereum alone not performed in the crypto marketplace. Very sad to see the people whoever invested on ethereum and it's fellow tokens.
Maybe you can believe ethereum now for the the future growth but still it is unsure.

I see someone commenting ethereum is dead in the thread
I dont think its dead, be always specific on what you are telling or sharing because it might give the reader a wrong information to other people, let me say it this way, a dead project will disappear and we might not even see a site or anything if its dead
but ethereum network is still here and there are lots of people using ethereum so its not dead, it might go down but not gone,
besides the price of ethereum is still above roi why? because from what I know the price is just like a cents or a dollar way back so its still alive

Yes it is true, that nothing is bringing it back to those 2017 good old days. But there is a big chance were it can be happen again,
only time we don't when? because we all know the market are too unpredictable. I also believed that Ethereum will bounce once more
at the right time fro sure, so it is good to buy now then hold.

BTC is indeed the mother of all coins, and everyone is happy to hold it. I think the price of ETH will also increase as BTC rises. But holding BTC is very sensitive. If we are unable to hold in the long term, we will suffer losses.

a very big difference can indeed be seen at this time. Many factors make ethereum prices have high prices in 2017, and now most of these factors have disappeared. however, because there will be some developments from ethereum in the coming year, I am pretty sure that the price of ehtereum can exceed the price of $ 500 in the coming year.
well, in 2017, the price of bitcoin could easily exceed the price of $ 1000, whereas this year, the price of ethereum even tried hard to reach the price of $ 200.

The only difference between ETH of 2017 and 2019 is the price, in 2017 crypto market in general are all in good shape but the 2019 is very bad but 2019 is full on good news for crypto, there is probability of higher price surge than that of 2017 in near future, ETH still have what it takes to achieve better adoption upon the bad names given to erc20 tokens because of scam projects

It's fine if you have swapped your ETH for BTC. Some people might only think that BTC is more profitable because it has a higher price but Eth is still profitable and it has proven a lot through years. Compared to other altcoins, it is still better than you have chosen Ethereum. I'm sure that the price will get even better in the future.

The differences is not only the price, but also the demand and the projects that using erc-20 was very nice and lot of investors invest on them.
Ethereum 2.0 is coming soon next year, and hope it brings back the throne of ETH as the best altcoin

Holding ETH is also very sensitive, and can suffer losses, because in 2017 the price of ETH had risen at the highest rate, but in the following years until now the price of ETH has even dropped very badly, so many investors have suffered losses.

if you look at the development from year to year I think now ETH still has a positive value, because we see a decline in prices from the end of 2017 where ETH has dropped more than 80%, but not only ETH you can see all ALT also down, even BTC also down though not as bad as ETH and other altcoins.

I should have done the same thing and right now I am not sure what is the future of ETH. It is definitely my beloved altcoin and I hope that ETH 2.0 will change things, but as of now, I stopped investing in ETH and switched to BTC as well.

If we compare ETH in 2017 and 2019 it is certainly very different, in 2017 is a happy and profitable year for many people who are in cryptocurrency and in 2019 at this time I feel that for the moment it is better to hold it for a long period of time and continue to observe market movements to determine when we will sell the coins.

Comparing Ethereum from year 2017 and today, we can really tell how different it was. Its price is continuously increasing before until it become more popular that it was.
Its price before is nearly below $200 but the difference is, ethereum is much popular these days. It is more advance than before and its chances for increase is much higher, ethereum price is expected to reach another ATH when bull run comes by 2020.

I think that now in General it is necessary to gradually bribe ETH and accordingly bitcoin, next year after halving the first ETH will take off, as bitcoin transactions will soar in price

A lot of things have changed if we compare ETH in 2017 and 2019. Back then in 2017, we sought ETH as a replacement of BTC but right now it is struggling for its own existence as many of the alts have come up and are sought as to its substitution. However, the price of the coin had decline so much and looks way more far from the ATH that it achieved previously, I believe that it would soon rise and we will be seeing a new powerful ETH hopefully...

For now it's safer to save bitcoin than Eth. Eth might only follow the movements of bitcoin like dogecoin. There are many people now prefer bitcoin over altcoin to invest long.

With how things are working right now and bitcoin still dominating inside, it might be much better to hold bitcoin even the value is struggling. ETH have good community support but not as big like how bitcoin have, if you are comparing things wayback you will notice that the chance of falling from this market situation is very big for ETH, while with bitcoin, supporters will try to keep it and try to bounce it up again.

It is indeed a fact that bitcoin is still currently at the top but if we are going to look at ETH, there's a lot of improvement that occured on it over the years. It may look very different with bitcoin since it experienced a huge crisis for the past year so I think it is not really a smart move to swap all your ETH for BTC. Bitcoin is still barely shining once again but who knows, maybe it would make you more genuinely happy soon if ever BTC regains its composure of being a great crypto.

ETH is one of the strongest project in the market. When compare to other coins it stay strong when the price of BTC changes suddenly. 

ETH 2.0 news very bullish and it can increase the price of ETH suddenly.

As hitting ATH seems far far away from current price, around 400 USD seems possible before ETH 2.0 which will be announced at the beginning of January 2020

The growth in price has been disappointed for Ethereum in this period and with the decline in number and interest in ICOs, it lost much of it's transactions. But still Ethereum is number one platform for tokens, dapps and smart contracts. Even though there are newer competitors, Ethereum still has the benefit of being the leader. And hope the introduction of version 2 would change it for better.

both depend on the user making the investment, and eth is not one of the bad coins because the developer always displays the development of technology about eth. but it needs to be recognized that the current price is far compared to the previous price, but I always believe in eth because I am a use eth on investment or other things

Yes, everyone who was here remember 2017, my opinion is that correction for 2 years, with a little recovery - these are only the first, maybe not quick steps to new records in the value of all coins

It seems as if it was yesterday, but you are right during 2017 there were many coins that were looking to replace bitcoin and of all of those coins ethereum seemed like the one that had the best chance to do it, in fact at some point it came incredibly close to having the same market cap as bitcoin since there was a difference of only a few billion dollars between each coin, the market of icos was incredibly strong and most of those coins were using the ethereum network so this created huge demand for ethereum.

And now only two years later things have changed radically, most investors have trust issues with icos, ieos are performing better but will likely follow the same path as icos, ethereum has not fulfilled its promise of becoming the new bitcoin and bitcoin reestablished its authority over this market and there is no one that thinks that it is going to be replaced soon.

The bounce options are not high for the price of Ethereum and the price velocity for Bitcoin is volatile which can change the whole viewpoint of the crypto community towards the crypto portfolio diversification. Taking the best bet is like gambling in the volatile crypto space, fighting for the best altcoin portfolio starts from the Bitcoin, after buying the BTC taking small amounts from promising altcoins looks more efficient solution for the recent bear market.

It really depends on how people looked on the situation and the potential in the market, but we cannot ignore the fact,m it's popularity among developers and creators, it is still the most preferred token creation in the market, some of the popular coin used Ethereum before they create their own, you only discard something that has no usage or lack of interest, but Ethereum has none of these two.

Ethereum is always best altcoin in crypto market so it was proved and it will maintain also but 2017 vs 2019 comparison is never useful in crypto market because Ethereum also follow the Bitcoin way so once it will going to moon Etherum also follow the same way.
I think everyone waiting for next bull run because further growing is beat and lead the other altcoins.

And now that Ethereum is average declining unlike Bitcoin in which it dominate the crypto market of up to 70% then maybe they will now regretting it and will think that they made a mistake. So better if they just sold all of their Ethereum directly to Bitcoin as this coin is proven safe for both long term and short term investments.

Yeah right? As if you missed the train. Dont rant here and saying those stuff. Youre only focusing on the price tag of the coin itself. Why not view the development of eth network has done since 2017. Eth 2.0 really show some improvement. Maybe just sell youre eth if you have, some real enthusiast will be happy to catch it. Amongst other altcoin eth is the superior and most advance I guess. Better read and search facts and analyze first before making bold statement here.

Ethereum remains the leading blockchain to develop dApps. It not only implements smart contracts, but also renders tools for decentralized software solutions, it is also being upgraded to be more powerful. This technology is also supported by the government. Moreover, Ethereum is supported by a number of companies in the Fortune 500. The above reasons are enough for me to believe that the price of ETH will return to the peak of the problem just in time.

I love Ethereum as it has real use case compare to Bitcoin and to other cryptocurrencies, and it's stability in price remains, it is not like other coins, who pumps and dumps. Still one of the best coins to hold at, I know some of us are expecting it to grow just like before, it will definitely happen again, we just don't know when.

Comparing the value and price of Ethereum in 2017 and 2019 reveals the massive drop in 2019. In 2017, during the bull run, Ethereum was able to reach $1200 as its peak and now Ethereum is $180. This is a high percentage drop but we can also say 2019 is better than late 2018 where Ethereum got to $80.

2018 was by far the worst year for cryptocurrencies in general and I do not think there will be another year which will be as bad, if anything it surprised me we did not saw even more coins disappearing, maybe the developers were expecting a faster recovery or maybe many coins disappeared only to be replaced by more coins which will follow the same fate.

In comparison 2019 has been many times better than 2018 especially for bitcoin, which leads me to the conclusion that despite the desire of many investors to see a bull run during the bitcoin halving it is more likely we will see an altcoin season.

It would be hard to see Ethereum see the type of growth it went through in 2017 unless the team solved it main scalability issues, the driving force behind the 2017 growth was ICO and ICO is dead for now so just expect the 10% to 20% price increase

Ethereum and other altcoins are not having a good time this year. This year favors bitcoin and very few altcoins (less than one percent) just like how 2018 did to bitcoin. Therefore, I don't think holding the Ethereum is a better idea perhaps in the future. There is nothing wrong with swapping your Ethereums to bitcoin.

of course there is a big price difference between eth 2017 and eth 2019. eth reaches a peak in 2017 when it costs $ 1500. and now the eth price is under $ 200. very sad but this is the crypto market. high volatility can provide large profits but can also experience large losses. but I'm still optimistic about eth because eth is a potential coin.

Very sad if we remember with ethereum price in 2017 and how etehreum price now, last 201 we find ethereum price raise up above $1k and now ethereum this years still down lower $180, how come ethereum can be extreme dump with bitcoin still above $8k, last years ethereum can raise to $800 and bitcoin price only $7000 but now when bitcoin up ethereum still lower price.

Swapping ethereum to bitcoin is choice a person but make sure they really know what they are doing. We saw the bitcoin was increasing upto now and the people who buy and have bitcoin can earn more money. But having ethereum now is good also that because they have a good future that you have and what's I really think Why i have more ethereum than the bitcoin.

It is very annoying indeed if comparing ETH prices in 2017 with ETH in 2019, the price difference is very drastic. Time for 2017 $ 1500 and
now at 2019 $ 200. Many people are already desperate with this situation, many have left ETH. By selling everything coin ETH, the average
investment switch to BTC. I will not blame anyone who does that, it is human nature that makes it humans are looking for a safe way. But
what you need to know is that ETH is a coin with enormous potential and very prospective for the future. But we really need to be patient
with this situation, the key to success in the investment world patiently waiting for the target sell is reached. I don't blame the owner
of this thread by transferring all of his coins to BTC. Just remember now is actually the right moment for buy ETH because the price is now
the lowest point, so it is appropriate to store as much ETH stock as possible. Continue staying waiting for ETH to wake up from his sleep,
then provide profits to investors. I am very confident in the potential of ETH.

eth prices in 2017 follow the trend up of bitcoin prices and also in 2019. for those who have swap/sold their eth to btc, it looks like you get a profit for making a good decision. I know the current situation is really very frustrating but we must be more patient and see after end of this years what will happen next.

Are people still hodling cryptos these days? We all know how it went down. Everybody was shouting Hodl in 2017 and that philosophy changed entirely in 2018. I don't think anyone should be hodling stuffs anymore. Rather, I trading them between swing highs and swing lows. I know some people that have made over 200% cumulative profit this year trading ETH.
One interesting metrics I got from the article was that, Even at a $1 Trillion market mcap, Ethereum still won't be able to reach its 2017 roi. 😢

During 2019 I benefited from holding Ethereum which I bought in early December 2018. Placing a 1:1 profit target at that time was the most realistic thing for me. Until finally I had the opportunity to resell Ethereum with a profit ratio of 1:1. After that, I did the same thing when Ethereum was around $ 150 in April and resold at $ 300 in June. During 2019 I thought I made a big profit from Ethereum with a ratio of 1:1. I think Ethereum will always be a good crypto investment destination and I prefer long-term investment.

Yes, I am still holding Ethereum and Bitcoin although not that much, I am not stressing myself checking the price from time to time, I treat is as my investment and I'll just check it after few years, for now, will just check other things to maximize my income aside from joining bounty and signature campaigns, I do trading too.

Very much different developments between ethereum this year and also in 2017 due to a trend that has experienced major changes in the investment sector where now many people are no longer interested in ICO which is ethereum's superior product that is able to make prices rise.but even so. predictions regarding prices and also people's beliefs are still quite strong

it's pretty good investing in ehtereum without checking prices from time to time. but not seeing that development can also make you lose, even more so if you hold it in my wat for years. for example, like in 2017 to 2019, if you don't see an opportunity in 2017, you would have already passed the train.
but for now, that is a good trick, there is a possibility that ethereum prices could again have the same potential in 2017. whereas for now, it looks like ETH is sleeping, and comfortable at prices under $ 200.

The Ethereum value if compared to the year of 2017 for now value then it is very foolishness to us. Because you know that in the year of 2017 it was a super bull for the whole cryptocurrency market. And one thing to be noted here is that the Ethereum value is only eroded 7 or 8 times from the then value while other and the most of the cryptocurrency are even not existed in the market. So, only patience is key point here with your holding.

Ethereum in the year 2017 is a good condition because it's trend is a bullish where it consists of higher highs and higher lows.  The ethereum today is in a downtrend that's why its price is still cheap.

Congratulations if you have exchanged ethereum to bitcoin because the ethereum price for bitcoin is declining. Indeed for current conditions, holding bitcoin is safer than other coins. I think it will take time for ethereum prices to return above $ 500

I cannot blame you as long as it is Bitcoin and not just any other altcoins in the market, I'm  surprise that people are leaving Ethereum when the number 2 coin is always a contender for a top position, checked the dominance in the market and saw that Ethereum is still enjoying a good lead from the other top coins in the market, people should still consider Ethereum in their portfolio.

Who is Bobby Ullery and how he draw a conclusion that Ethereum will cost 11 000USD in the future? That seems pretty unrealistic so I would really like to see what aspects he considered.

the price of ethereum in 2017 is higher than in 2019 because there are many successful blockchain platforms and market conditions are also good by indicating the price of bitcoin that can reach its highest price in 2017 so that many other coins whose prices increase as happened with ethereum.

The statement that already made by him is enough to draw a conclusion who is him. He is a speculator that create non sense speculation about ethereum.
He was seeing old ATH as a data to take his speculation. it looks like that he was taking it as a big rocket that never fails.
i hope that guy will realize everything as soon as possible.

Very much different price developments from ethereum between this year and also in 2017 where prices are very difficult to rise. I myself still hold ethereum since the price decreased at the end of 2018 although the portfolio statistics show an increase but I am still holding because the target of $ 500 ethereum has not been reached this year

There are a lot of posts that I keep reading about eth is now dead, there is a misconception in the market because they do not know the market cycle where there are 3 trends that are occurring which are bullish,  bearish and sideways.

You should not sell your ethereum, just now all altcoins are experiencing difficulties because the cryptocurrency market is in a deplorable state, but when the altcoins will begin to grow, it is ehtereum that will can show incredible growth, so I still believe in ethereum and I am sure that ethereum will bring me good income.

damn dude, you are so cool you can get such a profit. not many people can take advantage of opportunities like you. if for 2019, i think this ethereum is suitable for trading or short-term investments (you must have big capital). but serious it's better that we wait until the end of this year (actually i am curious).

Everything related to market risk moves on a cycle. Same has happened with ethereum as well, the market value of ethereum reached the peak along with bitcoin. Later the drop is very big and unexpected, because more growth was expected from ethereum for the year after 2017. This is why more people stated ethereum is dead. As in the cycle, now it is time to invest on ethereum for a bigger growth for 2020.

Being optimistic is the right thing to do by now, since it's not only ETH who is bleeding but the entire market are suffering with this current situations. Instead of thinking of giving up much better to buy more if you still have money to invest in. Many things are possible to happen after this year, Bitcoin halving is coming next year together with ETH 2.0, there's impact for sure though it isn't an assurance but it can helps to bring more new investors inside and ride back with this coin.

I do not see why you think this is sad, if you had sold at 1500 and then bought ethereum for 200 you will have 7.5x your original amount of ethereum which is not a small profit at all, I know many believe in holding their coins no matter what but the evidence strongly suggest that if you know how to trade you could multiply your money even faster and this is an example of this.

Do not look at crashing markets as something bad, they are an opportunity for the smart investor to buy their favourite coins for a cheap price, and in the case those coins reach their all time high again then you will have even more coins from which you can extract even more profits than if you were just holding your coins.

Nearly 3 years when the price of ethereum is above $ 1k. You are very lucky because in 2017 the price of ethereum went up well, I just bought ethereum and want to repeat 2017, it is very difficult indeed, but I will do daily trade and take a little profit from existing altcoin.

Indeed investing in ethereum is best these days since the price is very low. Comparing the market cycle for that year really shows that the price movement is unstable. I think growth will happen in this coin possibly next year in my opinion. Many of us couldn't expect that price becomes this very low but I have a hope on ethereum to increase in time, also other alts suffered in a downtrend.

I think rapid growth immediately after the transition should not be expected. maybe it will be before the transition because miners will start selling their equipment and buying ethereum

If you didn’t catch up buying earlier 2017 then consider this season a second chance of sale. I believe Ethereum will have brighter future if the current issues will be solved including scalability and ICO issues. The upcoming 2.0 version could potentially bring investors back in the mood buying it.

Ethereum is still in my watchlists, Ethereum increased 8% today and it seems that the market is now recovering. Ethereum today is in bear market and it is the reason why its price is gradually declining.

Bitcoin and Ethereum both suffered a drop of 80%. But Bitcoin was able to jump back and could gain 50% of what lost. But ETH got stuck at below $200 levels. Moreover, all the alrcoins suffered more as compared to Bitcoin. But ETH could be a good option if you are looking for short term gains as ETH will activate Istanbul mainnet on 4 Dec. This might pump the price before the mainnet launch. It is a system wide upgrade and is gaining a lot of hype.

I know someone who held their ETH -- bought like a year before it hit ATH, had a chance at insane profit, and instead held every single coin hoping for even more. I think we are talking about a chance at 300K profit now reduced to about 50K. So for folks like that, or those who bought in at ATH, I can certainly see it being very sad for them.

I'm only have a small amount myself, purchased some over the summer using trading profits (as well as converting some of my dying alt scraps into ETH) -- not enough ETH to get worked up about however. So I'm not in the sad ETH boat ... however I can understand why many may be.

eth is currently not yet beginning to show growth in prices properly but I personally believe that eth will begin to grow, and this is only a matter of time. I hope that the mainnet in the future will be able to make eth grow to follow the potential of bitcoin at this time because eth has been home for quite a long time at that price and has not shown a more specific price development

Great analysis yes Ethereum is stuck under $200 and going through bear market from over a year's period and for me Ethereum getting into bear market itself was surprising because it was resistance to dump and it looks like people had shifted huge amount to bitcoin but still Ethereum remains as most preferred altcoin in the market and ready to break all the barriers once again.

the first reason I think many ETH competitors, like the TRX example (tron). ICO projects are slowly dying / almost non-existent at the moment. its replacement is IEO, where what is needed for funding is not ETH anymore, but coins from the exchange. the third is the trend flow. ETH peak in 2017 because at that time the ICO season when it was using the ETH platform and now in 2019 turned around, not the current trend. in my opinion,,

There are maximum predictions that show positive future of crypto currencies including bitcoin and popular altcoins. There is no one or not even a single person that is not expecting positive phases in the journey of famous crypto currencies. The transition of ethereum has maximum chances to bring new hype in the market, offering people something great that would ultimately increase buyers of ethereum.

That website is annoying, and using the term 'whales' in journalism shouldn't be allowed unless they're referring to the mammal. 

If the article is correct, tho, it is kind of scary. 


Imagine if those whales got cold feet and decided to sell all at once.  They would be insane to do that, but it could happen.  I'm just not sure if I can trust those numbers.

Despite what the article says, I'm pretty confident that Eth is a good long term hold and I do own some.  It's already a great altcoin and I don't think anything is going to change that anytime soon.

Seriously this year cannot be compares to years back especially the year 2017 which was the year of great miracles for altcoins and Bitcoin. This year has been a dwindling year for altcoins which ethereum happens to be the king and queen. Although, there is gains for the raise of ethereum even though it cannot be compares to the 2017. We hope the upgrade to 2.0 will give us the needed chance to believe in ethereum as the Queen of Altcoins.

Unfortunately, everything is striving for centralization, whales are everywhere.
This ratio is not good, but not completely critical.
In many altcoins, most of the funds are also in hands of whales and market makers.

I learnt that bitmain and its accomplices hold over 30 percent of bitcoin. Now that China has openly quoted its need for cryptocurrency and blockchain, i believe cryptocurrency is gradually tending towards centralization because that the only way it can be fully monitored and managed by the centralised bodies

Very much different comparison eth 2017 vs 2019, I do not understand the coin-class eth that is so big down in price, I also already swap to BTC, should price ETH 10% or 5% of the price BTC. But I'm sure ETH fore will return to the price of $1000.

The comparison between Ethereum 2017 vs 2019 is very different and even to reach half of 2017 alone cannot, and 2019 will end soon and hopefully 2020 Ethereum will reach the highest price.
2019 is a bad season for Altcoin or Ethereum and but what I'm seeing now is that an increase in bitcoin has brought Altcoin to a move, and unlike before, the increase in bitcoin makes Altcoin far and unmoving and hopefully this bodes well for Ethereum and Altcoin in years 2020

Ethereum have changed through time. Changes in the market affect the price of both. There was even a time when both pumped so hard and reached their peak prices and then time came when they both fell hard. But I think bitcoin can be more volatile.

we can only expect developments in ethereum 2.0 at this time. although I am not very sure that the development of ethereum 2.0 can exceed the development of ethereum in 2017, but it is worth waiting for. so many developments that occurred in 2017 that support the development of ethereum, and for now, of course, the comparison is quite far because right now prices are still recovering. however, the best price that can be achieved this year is most likely $ 350. well, it doesn't even reach half the price of ethereum in 2017.

There are a lot of years to go so don't lose hope by holding eth because if the bitcoin pump the ethereum will also pump soon but for now it not happen. So don't lose hope because ethereum wont gone.

You are among the lucky ones who have exchanged ethereum to bitcoin. If you buy ethereum bitcoin at this time, surely you will get ethereum in more quantities. Indeed, currently storing bitcoin is still the main choice amidst the continued dominance of bitcoin

2019 is already failure concerning Ethereum project, and the only saving grace for them for this year is when bitcoin makes a surprising move as it is doing now to reach a peak for this year like $15k to $29k, and that is how we can see Ethereum really increase in value and that is about value, but what is of more concern to me is the Ethereum project itself in the long run.

Ethereum is meant to be an investment for a very Long-term because of the nature of their project, which we have all believed in the product that is making them to gain so much relevance and value until the product’s image became tarnished by scammers, and until I think ICO is fully revived again before Ethereum may really reach another milestone again for us to see another bright future in that 2020.

That is definitely a bad scenario but at the same time when such things happen to you then a chance appears to change whatever mistake you made, while I did not lost anything close to that kind of money during the last bubble I lost some when I invested in an ico and that triggered in me the desire to learn as much as I could about the markets, and while I am by no means a perfect trader or investor I think I have reached a high enough level that I can use to protect my capital and to obtain profits as well.

This means that when the next bull market comes I will be ready to take all the profits I can while suffering as little losses as possible.

ETH was good bet if you ask me, in the past, I have seen many get rich over night with Eth. But now, it is going nowhere, personally I have invested some amount in Eth and have hopes that it will recover somewhat, but I don’t see that happening any lately.

It is not that bad actually, mistakes are normally committed without being noticed. Experiences like that can make an individual to grow and become better in the future.

I did not have any chance for the last ATH of ethereum, I did not lose anything, I also did not have an opportunity to make a profit.
For now, I have invested some for ETH and waiting for another ATH to experience the joy of making a profit.

I personally still do not hesitate to invest in ETH at this time. especially for now ETH will launch 2.0 soon. and is expected to make the price recover. I think there will be many investors who are waiting to invest in ETH given the good prospects

I still have a small bag of Ethereum that I squirrelled away in late 2017 and it's still in that wallet until today, I made a pact with myself that I wouldn't sell it if it doesn't exceed my buy price and I am willing to endure it if it never reached that price, I love Ethereum and I am holding it for the love and fun, not because of the potential profit I could make with that particular stash, I also did the same for Bitcoin and although bitcoin already exceeded my buy price, I am still just holding that small stash and hoping Bitcoin would hit it's all time high again.

Everyone is talking that Ethereum has the slowest progress among top 100 altcoins, but they probably do not know that Ethereum has the biggest developer team across the all cryptocurrencies, yes bigger than BTC :). 1300 monthly actove developers are working hard to finally create the first decentralized super computer, but they do not want to launch incomplete and buggy protocol just like EOS or Tron.

I still strongly believe in Ethereum and currently Ethereum prices are around $ 180 more and very far compared to prices at the end of 2017.
but I really believe Ethereum will increase again and exceed that price and until now I still hold it firmly and I will still wait for the highest price even though I have to wait a long time.

Eth was very good, and personally I don’t think that it will recover in 2020 but by the mid or end of that year we may see some light. ETH is a very good coin with so many people following and trusting it, so dumping all of it might not be a good decision, while BTC sure is the best in terms of safe investment.

I think you are wrong, because ETH is not dead but has not yet recovered, so I'm sure it's only a matter of time to be able to make the price of ETH recover and of course it will make the price of ETH rise very high again.

Not all of my ethereum was swapped at BTC. There are still ethereum left on my wallet. I want to have ethereum because compared before the price is really high. As of now, we can afford to buy and stock more etherum at wallet. If we buy 3ethereums at 150 dollars price and it goes up to 900 dollars then we easily got 2700 dollars worth of eth.

I think Ethereum 2017 is better than 2019. There are no more unexpected growths as before. At present, we should not invest too much but consider. The market is not as attractive as it used to be.

ETH is also dying. I won't want to see your link. I think you should not invest more or be careful vs ETH at this time. It's not as good as it used to be.

I agree, he just not yet recovered since he drop to $200 in october last year and stay like that until now like no movement. But people not can't be patient, it just because the famous ethereum coins look no change after more than a year make they sick.

There is no comparison between market conditions in 2017 and 2019. Conditions in 2017 are so hype that almost all altcoin prices go up by hundreds of percent as well as almost all ICOs are sold out for only a short time. In 2019 I think the conditions are tough but I think it will survive and continue to grow

Of course, if compared to 2017 and 2019, Ethereum price will be excellent in 2017. Moreover, many bounties are paid directly using Ethereum and generate a lot of profit. Ethereum prices are still difficult to breakout higher I guess. And I haven't heard any more recent developments regarding Ethereum.

How can bounties paid with ethereum generate a lot of profit?

Ethereum development continues even when the price is not moving well. Next year it will start to shift from POW to POS. I foresee that next year ETH can join Bitcoin's halving pump.

of course the difference is very far away. not even just etherum, but bitcoin is also a very far comparison between 2017 vs 2019. all coins fell by almost half the price. but bitcoin can be better than etherum because the increase has now reached half of the price in 2017. You are not wrong to exchange etherum to bitcoin, but etherum also has the same opportunity to be able to go up high in 2020, we'll see.

They do have different story, as we all know in Bitcoin there's a group of people maybe a company or what who can actually manipulate the price of it, while in Ethereum, so far it has a positive sign that although it is not a dump/pump scheme it's getting stable that for everyone is still a good choice as it does not dump too hard when the price of Bitcoin dumps dramatically. So, for the conclusion according to experts, Ethereum is a good way source of investment.

of course if you compare eth prices in 2017 with 2019 is very far. in 2017 it reached a price of $ 1500 and is currently only in the range of $ 180. many eventually end up giving up eth and replacing eth with another coin or bitcoin. but I am still optimistic that eth will pump again maybe the decline is happening now because of the impact of the many ICO scams and also the value of bitcoin is also down. I believe when bitcoin goes to the moon, eth will also increase. I will be patient waiting for that.

The current conditions are certainly far different from years 2017 ago and your decision is very right if you are currently exchanging your ETH with BTC. Bitcoin is a good investment now and Altcoin is suffering a lot, about price comparisons, of course Bitcoin is still much better because the price still stands at half the price from years 2017 ago.

It is true, at that time we had high hopes for Ethereum. Frankly, I was hoping that the Ethereum would go for 2500$, but with all the disappointment, Ethereum went down to below 100$. So many people might say that Ethereum already died, has no hope and so on. I didn't lose hope because I'm optimistic that If not possible in this year Ethereum will reach at least 1000$ mark in upcoming year.