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Economist Raoul Pal says Ethereum’s (ETH) probable adoption as programmable money may see it becoming the largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, overtaking Bitcoin (BTC) within the next ten years. At such a time, several blockchain networks may account for a larger share of the global financial markets as digital assets become more mainstream.

“My hunch is BTC is a perfect collateral layer but ETH might be bigger in market cap terms in 10 years for the reasons above. Money and collateral is just the base layer. Everything builds on top. The store of value is collateral, the trust layer and exchange of value is bigger.”

Pal dismissed the “one blockchain to rule them all” argument, insisting instead that different networks will carve out niches for themselves in the global business process. For Pal, Ethereum is better placed to capture areas like the $1.2 quadrillion derivatives layer, the $70 trillion equities arena, and the $260 trillion debt market.
the DeFi market has seen significant growth in 2020 with numerous protocol launches since the start of the year. According to DeFi aggregator Defipulse.com, the total value locked (TVL) in the DeFi market now stands at almost $14 billion.
Commenting on the need for a broad-based assessment of value across the digital asset (DA) space, Pal argued:

“This is why I care about the entire DA space. There will be many enormous winners, many failures, many scams, many false dawns but in the end, trillions and trillions of value will accrue across digital assets, tokens, protocols and crypto that tie all of this together.“


source: https://btcmanager.com/ethereum-bitcoin-market-cap-10-years-economist-raoul-pal/

i dont think that any coin can surpass btc in near future.
btc is king, eth is second and xrp is third.
the other coin will race for top 10.

I agree with you. and indeed Bitcoin is the parent of altcoins. although Ethereum will have potential, it will remain under the bitcoin umbrella. not only that without bitcoin as the king of cryto, ethereum wouldn't be as great as it is now.
Bitcoin is irreplaceable even though in the next 10 years, the scarcity of bitcoins at that time has become an immutable integrity.

It would never happen none of altcoin have any kind ability to do this in current century. ETH's smart contracts are full of bugs and smart money is interested to buy this coin. This could be marketing trick to let people buy this coin.

Many coins have been trying to beat Ethereum but are not yet to, also, even though Ethereum is trying it's best to remain on top, I think the team are doing so in order to keep winning but not to challenge Bitcoin in any way. Bitcoin has grown a lot ever since its inception and have passed through stages which made it stronger, hence the reason it is valued today and also the reason more platforms are finding it worthy of accepting as a payment method, while more people are finding it worthy of investing as well. This fact has made it possible for Bitcoin dominance to keep growing hence Bitcoin controls the whole crypto market. Also, the reason why Bitcoin will continue maintaining that position while making it difficult for any other is the fact it is highly trusted.

I honestly don't see any coin ever eclipsing Bitcoin's market cap.

I think there is no doubt Ethereum will always be the second major player in crypto, as it will likely become a globally important platform for finance. But Bitcoin looks likely to become literally the reserve currency for the world. I guess you can debate which of those two things will end up being bigger.

But for Bitcoin in the future I see corporations buying up hundreds of billions of dollars, investment firms buying up trillions of dollars, retail market buying up trillions of dollars, central banks and governments buying up trillions of dollars, and hundreds of billions or trillions of dollars of gold being moved into Bitcoin. Literally talking about a possible market cap for Bitcoin at several dozen trillion dollars.

Ethereum will no doubt go into the trillions, and maybe even significantly over 10 trillions dollars, but I don't see it matching Bitcoin. Also there's a decent chance there will be smaller blockchains competing with Ethereum and forming a whole industry for decentralized finance and other industries of  dapps - I don't think Ethereum is going to take 100% of the eventual smart contract use case. But Bitcoin is likely to take 100% of the store of value / reserve currency use case because there is literally nothing in crypto competing with it, and Bitcoin will obviously eventually beat out the USD and Gold for that use case.

If in 20 years or so the marketcap of crypto is let's say 50 trillion, I would say Bitcoin would probably be 30+ trillion, Ethereum 10+ trillion, and everything else combined <10 trillion made up of coins merely for speculating by traders, smaller competitors to Ethereum, tokens that are involved in Ethereum's ecosystem, and niche coins that serve some small specific purpose.

All of major coins were pegged with bitcoin. bitcoin's market cap will never be surpassed by anyother crypto.
Trus decentralized, low and limited supply and it has more and more big investors are coming in right now.

The smartcontract being programmed by 3rd developers. Ethereum was only providing the network and platform to do that. There are so many sourced for the creation of smartcontract and this was coming from the various parties.

remember the amount of bitcoin supply is 21 million, and if it is reached what will happen? it will be very rare, so this will increase the price of btc in the future. if the price goes up high, the market capitalization will also increase. different from bitcoin, ethereum does not have a max supply. and this is what makes Ethereum can never match Bitcoin.

until whenever ethereum will not beat bitcoin.

Ethereum will become the largest crypto ecosystem but might remain short of Bitcoin's market cap. BTC has already claimed the store of value status whereas Ethereum is a platform for decentralized web applications - Ethereum will likely drive Web3 to the next level. Whether BTC or ETH will be used for mainstream payments is yet to be determined. If the ETH 2.0 update does what it says, then Ethereum will scale faster than Bitcoin, since BTC's current second-layer solutions are nowhere as concrete and scalable.

it could happen, because indeed the use case of Ethereum is very clear,
DEX, DeFi, and several other categories are built on the Ethereum platform,
of course this makes Ethereum very strong, yes to be honest, Ethereum is still better than Bitcoin,
but Bitcoin is still more popular than Ethereum.

The usability of ethereum platforms being discovered by the community. ethereum will be nothing without the community dude. All of the platforms that pegged with ethereum must have become big industries and this can make the price of pump for ethereum price too.
Ethereum is better than bitcoin in term of usability.

10 years is still very long, there will be competitors for Ethereum in the future,
5 years we will see, maybe Tron, Binance, even EOS will be in the top 5, and it could overtake Ethereum,
everything can happen in the world's cryptocurrency.

Could be true, I do not see why not. 10 years is a long long time to happen but this assumes Bitcoin also remains the way it is and ETH also continues to be the #1 smart contract and Dapp chain.

Looking at the way things are now, that is probably how the world in crypto will look like,,, but 10 years is huge in tech.

I guess it will be harder than we imagine, although we have seen ethereum developer are trying to improve and make an update in their system which can make many people like ethereum. Like as of now, they are trying to update the system to make the transsction is more fast since we have seen the ETH transaction get a problem when the DeFi system is booming, but sooner ETH can fix it and run normally.

But in fact we have to see another factor, although the altcoin has a good fundamental and can push the price to the moon it can't happen if bitcoin price is down in market.  Like there are some bad informations come to bitcoin and give an affect the investor sell their bitcoin, this thing will happen to altcoin as well. I never see there is an altcoin who has a good market, I mean its price increasing when bitcoin price is decreasing.

At the end of discussion, it will end up like this. I'm a holder for both coins and I've got more with bitcoin but the investment I have for Ethereum is also a lot for me. Whether it will surpass bitcoin in 10 years based from the opinion of anyone, an expert, a speculator or anyone that just likes to speculate.
There a lot of things that can happen but it's not on my mind to see bitcoin being replaced in the top charts because IMHO, bitcoin would still be the leading even after more than 10 years.

There was a time when everyone thought that the price of ETH will surpass bitcoin before the last rally in 2016 but then bitcoin just move higher leaving behind every other coin and now i am surprised to see that some are thinking that ETH might surpass the market cap of bitcoin in the next 10 years which is highly unlikely.

The possibility is you should assume that bitcoin would go down in valuation in the next ten years and that is impossible to imagine at this stage.

for the next 10 years?with this huge difference from the beginning? and Ethereum in which having difficulties to move up now?nope i dont believe in this one ,maybe believing that ethereum will hold the rank 2 position even there are tempt of ETH being taking throne for rank 2 to rank 3 or 4 sooner.
But the topic talks about Bitcoin being overtaken by Ethereum and not ethereum is being overtaked.

But you are correct there are some coins that may took the eth position so how come that in 10 years Eth will take the bitcoin throne ?

Nothing is impossible to happen but the first problem that ethereum must face is the chance of This rank 2 coins will be replaced by other coins like Tron,XRp or other coins who's threat to his position.

and 10 years a very long years for something could happen in Crypto world.

We can see bitcoin falling or even Gaining over those years.

What collateral might are those mate?for Ethereum to become more valuable in terms of collateral than Bitcoin?

No it's not that simple and there are many stages to consider before this happens.

Specially looking at the market cap in which Bitcoin literally dominating at very Huge difference from ETH and any other currencies in existence .

I will consider this to have possibilities once ETH get even close to Half of Capital  than Bitcoin now,so there might be sign of this to come,but until now to be shown?i will take this as wild speculation.

^ your opinion really makes more sense than the OP opinion. Bitcoin is the king of cryptocurrencies and will not be able to be overtaken by other cryptocurrencies including Ethereum. Ethereum and Bitcoin will continue to be where they are forever.

Op just shared what he wanted to visualize in the future, and as the technology get more advanced there's always changes in this temporary world. Me also agree that bitcoin is always on the top of all coins right now, but don't treat that as forever. There could possibilities that in the future 10 years, bigger changes will uphold unexpectedly.

If you look at the development of Bitcoin in the past 11 years, it seems unlikely that Ethereum can surpass the Bitcoin market cap
in the next 10 years. Because Bitcoin has always dominated the market for 11 years, and Ethereum has always been below Bitcoin
all this time. So there is very little chance that Ethereum will perform better than Bitcoin, so we have to think realistically about this.
We do have to admit that Bitcoin is too strong for Ethereum.

Price? No
Market cap? No

It is simple, ETH will always be in the 2nd rank in cryptocurrency while Bitcoin still dominating in the market in all aspects. We don't want to push ourselves thinking that it happens because, in the first place, both of them are created unique. And there is no way that ETH will compete with BTC in the market.

Ethereum will turn into the biggest crypto biological system yet may stay shy of Bitcoin's market cap. BTC has just asserted the store of significant worth status though Ethereum is a stage for decentralized web applications - Ethereum will probably drive Web3 to the following level. Regardless of whether BTC or ETH will be utilized for standard installments is yet to be resolved. On the off chance that the ETH 2.0 update does what it says, at that point, Ethereum will scale quicker than Bitcoin, since BTC's present second-layer arrangements are no place as concrete and versatile.

What if Ethereum is abandoned in the next 10 years? If you look at today there are many Dapps platforms that are better and cheaper than Ethereum. Scalability issues on ethereum are a big concern and let's not forget the high costs. what if ETH 2.0 still can't solve it. won't everyone be looking for a new, better platform?
forget about the rising market cap, it's all still dream-like speculation. but ethereum's competitors are there today and ready to challenge ethereum. If Ethereum can't do the best, I think it's hard to stay in the ranks of the best altcoins.

So it's a long way off to think that Ethereum will beat the market capacity of bitcoin in 10 years. because there are still a lot of problems on ethereum.

On contrary to this belief, I have a hunch that ethereum may not even be second most ranked coin for a long time neither. In 10 years time there could be something that could challenge its position. Ethereum has one thing working for it, what is that?

Decentralized projects, it could be dapps, it could be defi, it could be anything and price will always worth a lot because it is used like crazy right now, and there is still a lot of attention and with the surge of defi and the idea of eth 2.0 right now is a perfect time to be an ethereum holder, people made x5 returns in a year thanks to that. However in 10 years we could have something that does everything eth does and does it quicker and cheaper and does more as well, that could really danger ethereums place in rankings.

I did jot agree with your statement that eth marketcap will surpass btc marketcap. Both has different usage and Btc will be the number one forever. About high fees ? Btc will be traded for rich people only and it will be done OTC. It will be store of value like gold now.

It would never happen BTC has no competitor in this field rest of the coins are altcoins including ETH too. Maybe OP don't understand the fundamental which make BTC superior and make it valuable. ETH is born to remain at altcoin because it has a lot of competitor and at the moment suffering with high gas and some critical bugs which could take few years to get fixed.

I have been feeling this for a couple of years now but what we all failed to see was that the competing platforms never got as many developers as they would have preferred to. Talking about NEO, Waves, even TRON for a while.

I hear EOS has a lot of devs now but still not to the level of Ethereum. This can change of course:)

Getting to the top ranks or spot wouldnt really be an easy challenge for those projects out there and theyre trying their best when it comes to showing some progress and updates towards their project.

There's no assurance to be on the peak because the better the coin/project the more demand it has then its expected that it will surpass into those coins whose above it.Its a matter of time that

we might be seeing some changes and ETH is really hard to believe that can be easily beaten with other top tech.For me, it will take sometime or wont ever come for such chances.

1 decade is indeed a long time and a lot of space for something to improve and lets see on what area they will tend to progress on.

i think so many defi user here.
but eth must make a some respect for bsc. are you sure for this?

It's just a probability so I won't take it that seriously, the fact is Bitcoin will never remain the same within that 10years interval, things will have change drastically for Bitcoin, Ethereum will be there to take the second place still, forget the probability that Ethereum may have higher marketcap, bitcoin won't stay the same either

No joke, this is the only "unrealistic" claim that I find realistic. Normally I say to people that tells this type of huge claims that they should find something more realistic and close to where we are at that time, like for example saying bitcoin will increase another 50% soon instead of saying bitcoin will go 10x soon, because what I suggest is more realistic.

However we are at a situation where ethereum is moving towards ethereum 2.0 which will have proof of stake which could mean that people will keep their ethereum instead of sell it (like miners did for covering costs) plus it is going to be cheaper to move around compared to now, AND we still have tons of projects all rely on erc20 as well. So I think if any coin could ever go above bitcoin, that will be ethereum.

Maybe even soon than 10 years as the difference between Bitcoin and Ether cap is just 6-fold. And there’s no limit or cap on Ethereum.

But, there is a giant BUT. It would happen only if Ether keeps its leading role in DApps, DeFi and Smart contracts. Polkadot is getting stronger, DASH will get involved in less than a year, etc. Will see.

Pal is a very reputable individual and him getting on board in crypto and interviewing lots of big personalities n the space had really help spread the word.

10 years is a long way and there will be many things that will happen in this period of time. The Polkadot which also have the plans working on different blockchains and then there is also ADA. I'm sure its not Ethereum that will have the chance.

yes maybe it could happen if ethereum had a max supply and kept using PoW. But in fact not, today ethereum made a big change with the release of ETH 2.0. what do we expect here, beating the market capsization of bitcoin within ten years ?. that's impossible. maybe in the future ethereum is no longer the best Dapps platform. So that happened, is Ethereum still what it is today?

all must have known the answer. So do you still think it can come true?

You have a good point, things could be be different from what we are seeing right now, Ethereum can evolve into something great and adopt on what the society wants, while Bitcoin will stay the same because of it's structure, this is something worth to bookmark and see if things will have some big changes on how we look on this technology.

Ethereum needs to add a lot more stuff to be liked that much. Don't get me wrong I am not saying ethereum is a bad one, it is second biggest ranked, obviously it is awesome and will continue to be awesome for a very long time, however it is not going to be anything like that unless they change something. Right now they are working on eth 2.0 right?

Well, for that to happen higher and higher, we need them to be going for eth 3.0 as well, you may think I am joking but we are talking about 10 years, so eth 3.0 and even 4.0 is quite possible if you ask me. Which means it "could" happen, it is not impossible but they have a very long way to go if they want to pass bitcoin, I am talking about the development team that works on ethereum, community also has a lot of work, they need to keep buying ethereum and not give up on it neither for at least another 10 years.

It seems to me that even today's technical characteristics of Ethereum, without taking into account future updates, are in many ways superior to other altcoins, and I quite seriously think that ETH is also superior in many parameters even to Bitcoin. Of course, Ethereum is unlikely to reach some 23,000 dollars, but the volume of capitalization and the level of market dominance can be compared with Bitcoin, it is quite capable of it.

In order for Ethereum to replace and surpass Bitcoin, it needs to go through the transformation from digital silver to digital gold. How to do it - there is not a single recipe. Moreover, at the moment the platform (Ethereum) has systemic problems that are only accumulating and do not yet have a quality solution. In addition, ethereum was a product for its time, now the market has already changed a lot, new technologies, ideology, and market demands have already appeared. Most likely, ether will remain a niche solution, which in fact it still is.

I’m also thinking if this is really possible to happen since we know Bitcoin dominance and we know many still want to see bitcoin on top. ETH is a great platform but I don’t think it can surpass bitcoin in the next ten years because for sure, BTC will become more expensive in the coming years so don’t wait for this.

It's not wrong at all as some people might believe with the utility that already offered by ethereum can make it to surpass bitcoin. I do believe if they will never waste their time just for waiting the price of ethereum to go to the moon soon.
I doesn't matter whether bitcoin is the king or not but if you are seeing from the usability and that might be a real thing in the future.

There's no stopping Ethereum now Eth 2.0 is coming and they are still developing many new investors are coming into the market, they are picking the most progressive coin in the market and Bitcoin and Ethereum is the most progressive coin in the market, but many investors are now looking in Ethereum and make it as equal to Bitcoin in their portfolio distribution.

btc takes the lead by now but before , eth is in the top and btc is at the bottom . what if that can happen again sometime ? there is no development for btc but for eth there is but the development is slow because it was big but i dont believe that it eill take 10 years , thats already long .

it isnt a waste of time because we are not obligated to wait and why its a waste of time when you only need to do is to wait ? holding eth and waiting for that big event is exciting because you can see how your eth investment grows

People would love to see some coin that actually has a decent use case at the top place that is not a news to me, but I do not know how it could happen. To be perfectly honest with you, bitcoin has this first mover advantage that hasn't died down yet, and still goes on, and it is growing even bigger as well, look at the price of bitcoin which already passed well beyond the all time high whereas ethereum is not even near the half of what the all time high was.

So, I think it looks like that bitcoin first mover advantage will continue to grow, I would prefer ethereum to be higher as well, bitcoin doesn't really have that much technological reasons why it is so high, it is just the first one and people love it and that is why it is high, whereas ethereum is awesome and used and bought for purposes and that is why it is high, I would say ETH reason is a lot better.

any way.
after all, i think "crypto high risk"
but:
defi "super high risk"
DYOR

Ethereum will not create another hype until the full implementation of ethereum update. There are so many people keep talking about these and then more and more rumour about which EIP that will be implemented was also coming to the community and that creates so many speculation about the future of ethereum itself. it looks like people will be going to buy more when the total supply will be determined.
This time people are only betting into the staking update but I'm sure they will be changing their mind for that but it's impossible to surpass bitcoin mcap.

However, the attitude towards bitcoin will inevitably change over these ten years. We see that over the next two years, the ethereum network will be completely updated and will become much more functional and easier to use. The prospects for the development of bitcoin are very vague. Therefore, the above forecasts regarding the capitalization of ethereum to the level of Bitcoin capitalization are not devoid of logic. In the world of cryptocurrency, anything can be.

Definitely for the next few years and I think for Bitcoin at least until the next 2 halvings it will just have organic push towards 6 figure sums. ETH 2.0 I'm not sure, first mover yeah but a lot of competitors who haven't got their act together. BTC breaks ATH and ETH still not even 50% of ATH. Really, really hard to say but I would put my eggs in several baskets at this point, but most always still in Bitcoin.

If bitcoin decides to uses satoshi unit instead of BTC as a whole while the price of BTC is already too high Ethereum may not have the chance to surpass bitcoin market cap. It's the most widely used crypto for transaction after all though the main problem with bitcoin is its fee and how long it takes for a confirmation.

There's rumour going around that in the future we gonna use satoshi unit frequently which might sounds good.

guess what I think so too, even I hold more bitcoin

10 years is a Long and waiting ,i don't think all of us will happen to witnessed  this so i won't give and speculation ,also for sure all the Youngsters we are breeding now here  in crypto will have their own businesses and doings that surely will be connected or to be connect in Bitcoin .
ETH is a good coin but until now the old timers in crypto called this a Shitcoin ,if that is about politics ?i don't care because what i care more is the value of bitcoin today and what will be in five years because those are the days that i'm sure can be attain in life.

Agreed but this time we are talking about the possibility for ethereum to surpass bitcoin. I remember ethereum has ever passed the bitcoin's marketcap a few years ago but this time it looks so different than it.
I consider about bitcoin has attracted more and more institutional investors while ethereum could not do that.
Ethereum has no potential to surpass bitcoin's mcap even with a bunch of update that will be coming soon.
An impossible thing to happen with ether

Yes this is possible but will take a lot of dynamics to change because im expecting btc to grow to over 2 trillion market cap in 2021 but we all know ethereum is still very small by market cap as compared to btc so in the near future such comparisons do not seem realistic but yes over a course of years it can definitely happen.

Even with the reforms carried out, ethereum has not yet been able to act for ethereum's interests, because ethereum is still being debated with the issue of gas fees which are still high and are constantly complaining about but the response is too slow and it seems that something is waiting for it.

especially when bitcoin has increased quite high and usually ethereum always sticks to every movement, but now it can't keep up and looks like confused with the very fast movement of bitcoin. Are you saying that ethereum has ever surpassed the mcap of bitcoin in the future !!! seems unlikely and difficult to be able to do, let ethereum be able to complete the stages so that there is no other intention altcoin to shift their transactions.

Mark my words that " ethereum will never surrpassed BTC marketcap "  you need to know that ethereum and bitcoin has another use case and other used. Ethereum most like the platform to built Dapps and Bitcoin is as a store of value. Another tuing is hitcoin creator or funder is dissappear and this is one of many reason people like this coin.

It won't surpass bitcoin. Although it will also rise as bitcoin is doing but its time is not yet. It's enough that we're seeing it at 2nd on top of all the cryptos in the market and that's already a good thing for Ethereum. Ethereum is for new projects while bitcoin is as good as a store of value that we've been doing for a long time. You'll not lose having both of them, having 2 breaks the number of investors that have a lot in their portfolio but has little in BTC and eth.

There's a big possibility that it could happen, every year so many things are happening in the industry, it's very important for new and old  investors to follow the market and the industry, there will be new technology coming up and old projects going down, it's probably the best time to be here and be part of this technology, we are shaping the future.

The main point is that there is a big possibility of changes in the industry as it keeps on changing and with regulators finally looking to clamp on the free market and we now know how the SEC went after Ripple and that can happen to any other coin that collected money from investors without the authorities permission and ETH during its initial phase collected funds to launch their project and it will have an impact on the market if the authorities comes down hard on them as majority of the scams were carried out using the ETH platform.

many predict ethereum in the future will replace bitcoin but in my opinion it is not fully possible because ethereum price movements are quite very slow
not comparable to bitcoin, which continues to pump and can't be stopped and of course provide a lot of profit for investors now

I think that bitcoin will be in the first place, unless some kind of token on the hype will darken it for a while. Of course, dont forget about the ether, it has its own ERC-20 ecosystem, but bitcoin is in great demand among investors. Bitcoin will be top 1. I think the only option that bitcoin will leave the first place is an instant hype over altcoin.

of course because I still have the principle that ethereum is the coin of the future as evidenced by this time the price of Ethereum began to rise and had touched $ 1k more volume is increasing in all markets and my speculation, pump will continue and ethereum will be able to reach the maximum price later

no, i don't think this will happend buddy
because most of top investors will always drop their money in bitcoin, and remember ethereum will never exist if bitcoin never born
thats my simple reason why ethereum marketcap will never surpass bitcoin's market cap

theres alot of older coins that are being ranked down and replaced by even newer build coins , if that is possible to them it can also be possible to bitcoin but we dont know when will that happen .

 for now eth is on the second spot and eth is the strongest competitor of btc , eth have an advantage but as we move on , eth isnt the only one that grow in terms of market cap and othere but btc as well . ithis makes it hard for eth or any other altcoin to replace btc

the probability of this happening is very low. BTC is the most important asset of this market. And for this to change, very different developments must be experienced.

I will start taking this talk of Ethereum flipping Bitcoin serious when Ethereum is done with its scaling issue, Ethereum have this issue now that it could become useless for Dapps and if we can get a successful L1 scaling solution on other platform this could be the beginning of the end for Ethereum. I just hope the fee and the transaction speed is brought down significantly

That is what they are working on as of right now as well. They are moving to ETH 2.0, and in fact they already achieved phase 0 of it as well, so now they are just letting it work and they are developing for phase 1 and when phase 2 comes we are going to have full scale eth 2.0 . At that moment we are not going to have any fee at all charged for miners because there won't be miners, it will be people who stake and the more people stake the faster you will pass, by logic if there are little amount of transactions it is going to be literally free, but with a ton of transactions right now, it is going to be at least cheaper.

However what I assume will happen will be since 2.0 will be something awesome, the price of eth will be higher, and there will be a lot more transactions, so it would be profitable but also it will cost even more than right now because of all the demand.

How I will this may come ,But Ethereum can't even reach 2k for the last years of existence ,and if this can be true then the network must be successful in the Version 2.0?
But why until now it looks like a failure? sorry but this is what i noticed.
and also this .Bitcoin is the most Needed currency so need ETH to be the most in demand ?

Feels Like but never come to happen .

And Even now that Bitcoin is losing Cap yet Ethereum is going down together , so In 10 years lets Hope that the Market go Sideways to Favor ETH whenever there is a Bitcoin Movement .

But of course this is just all our speculation because all of us Understand that It's either other coins come and Beat Bitcoin than EThereum do this alone .

And ETH is still considered as Shitcoin from LEgit Bitcoin community that Knows what happens in the past and still monitoring the market now. Well thats what i have reading here and not my Own Belief.

ETH is the second coin which has the potential not like Bitcoin, but along with the price of Bitcoin definitely, the price of ETH will continue to raise. The bitcoin market is completely very huge which more than 70% Dominance, which it is impossible to predict the ETH price in the future.

i dont think btc will lose 1st place on market long term. maybe after 25 years when new technologies and new cbs-dc enter market then btc can lose its 1st place.

There's no accurate prediction whether this coin will able to dominate and replace Bitcoin on the top seed, even there are lots of developments and pottentials Bitcoin continue to have the dominance around this industry. It will depends from how supporters and
investors to choose between this two well known projects, as for this moment we are still seeing that Bitcoin have a high edge among
all the project inside crypto market.

yes, nothing impossible in crypto world, but to beat bitcoin marketcap is not easy my friend, because the simple reason is without bitcoin, altcoins will never born right ?
even in 20 years i think its still impossible for ethereum or other altcoins to surpass bitcoin's marketcap

Nice try to push the Price of ethereum up..

But like I said earlier "nice try"   ::)

i am sure everybody remember in 2017 bitcoin dominance was less than 60%
in the bull run today bitcoin seems to becoming stronger than ever extending dominance
https://www.coingecko.com/en/global_charts
it will be a long catch up

not only long catch up but never buddy
by the way, if i'm not wrong in the past ethereum marketcap ever surpass the bitcoin marketcap, but just in few hours
and because bitcoin marketcap now more than x4 from eth marketcap, seems this predictions will never happend

Really, I don't ever remember that happening. They did talk about it during the Flippening hype era but it simply never happened, not even for a second (unless I missed out).

ETH has a virtually unlimited supply though, you do know that right? So BTC has a cap, it will rely only on price.

no one can predict the crypto world difficult to guess and sometimes a surprise Moreover, what we are discussing is ethereum ethereum has always had good development and a high demand in the market most likely in the next 10 years ethereum will exceed bitcoin capacity

I think the group are doing as such to continue to win however not to challenge Bitcoin at all. Ethereum will probably drive Web3 to the following level. Regardless of whether BTC or ETH will be utilized for standard installments is yet to be resolved. The possibilities for the advancement of bitcoin are obscure. Hence, the above figures with respect to the capitalization of Ethereum to the degree of Bitcoin capitalization are not without rationale.

my prediction, it will not happen...
I don't see any chance for Ethereum to outperform Bitcoin. In 10 years the number of ethereum will be more than it is now and that makes it difficult for eth to grow to outperform Bitcoin.

i like this predictions, and the man that predict about this is not an ordinary person
but, my personal opinion about this is ethereum need more than 1 decade's to surpass the marketcap of bitcoin

If ethereum could hold its price while having their total supply uncapped I think it's possible considering there's also quite the amount of bitcoin loss overtime due to sending to wrong address though the chance might be slim if BTC also increase on its value caused by scarcity of it.

But, many circulating supply for ETH could also become biggest obstacle that holds the price for growing or the market cap from increasing. It's just everything could happen in crypto market.

But, maybe even if btc market cap got surpassed by ETH bitcoin still the icon of cryptocurrency no matter what.

If you look at the growth and the development of the eth so far, it is likely that in the next ten years ETH will equal the value of BTC, but we need to know that ETH is getting more and more in the number so ETH prices will never be as high as BTC, because more and more circulating on the market, the more stable the exchange rate is, it's different from BTC created in a limited amount, the more demand the higher the selling price ....

Or it will never happen as when ethereum gets increase and bitcoin too. I doubt that will happen dude. bitcoin will always be pumped before the whales will try to move into ethereum and then pump it.
This scheme will be last forever and there's no chance for ethereum to surpass bitcoin even in the next decades.

I also will do agree with you there is no chance for any coin to do this even ETH is 2nd most strong coin after BTC. Only few people understand the potential of BTC and how strong it could be in future. I believe ETH will remain as an altcoin and this would never happen in this century.

i am a quite surprised about this crazy topic is appear , btc has being store of value , bitcoin is limited ,more than 98% will be mined by 2030 , only 2 % left of bitcoin until last block on 2140 will be mined , hunger whales grayscale has been buying a big amount of bitcoin every week or even day, to control 10% of supply by Next Halving in 2024 , all of that its fact, and u still dare say ethereum will surpass bitcoin ?

don't dream mate !, Ethereum does have a chance to replace Bitcoin, but what we have to remember is that Bitcoin will not be replaced.
have you ever heard that Ethereum is supported by a country? no right? yup and Bitcoin has proven it ,
because that Bitcoin is needed by a country and even the world.

I recently made a post of this nature, using 6 degrees and LinkedIn to Facebook comparison...
where I said that 6 degrees was the first social media platform built on the internet.... then LinkedIn and MySpace but 5 years later Facebook comes in and kicks all the others around....
I do know cryptocurrency and social media are two different things.... but it would be worth noting they have a very common factor, "human users".
one moment everyone could be dying to watch a movie on TV then boom now we have Netflix on our phones....
we are just arguing for ourselves... forgetting that the next generation won't see things through our own lenses

We have achieved a lot in ten years and there's a big possibility that the landscape will be very different from what we are seeing right now, ten years from now there will be major big players, I don't rule out the possibility of Ethereum overtaking Bitcoin but what if another technology will emerge that is far better than Bitcoin and Ethereum, the technology is still young and so many things are still going to happen.

I was skeptic reading this for the first  time but now I start to believe that even in 5 years

We are all free to speculate price but we cannot assure that it will going to happen  in the next 10 years, eth has a strong foundation and many crypto users used it and now it is rising but i also believe that the bitcoin price affect the eth so if bitcoin will fall down eth will also going down so i think there will be no surpassing of price will happen in the next 10 years see eth network tx fee people are now complaining with regards to fee and find another network to save an amount of tx fee so i think it is hard for eth to become rank #1.

It's hard to tell what might happen in terms of the coin that will be more useful in future! I still believe cryptocurrency is emerging market and many value proposition is still at the very begining! Defi development have changed the narative about cryptocurrency and we are begining to see how useful cryptocurrency could be for the world and many of better services we desire!. For naw, BTC has the value and the liquiidity. Ethereum is definitely closing in!

Market cap growth isn't as linear as most of crypto folks thinks, this day the dominance of btc could be 40% next time when in bull run it could increase to 70%.
It's just matter of how the market behaves whether it's gonna only pump BTC while dumpint altcoin or even where the money from the investors flowing in.
Just try to see the statistic of BTC market cap time to time you will understand that it's now always going up, when in altcoin season it is safe to say that BTC dominance gonna fall down because it
certainly is an altcoin season as the name speak for itself.

In the next 10 years I agree there will be many possibilities, there could be much more sophisticated technologies that will even replace Bitcoin
or Ethereum. But for Ethereum to surpass Bitcoin in 10 years like impossible, because if we pay attention to Ethereum always moves to follow
the movement of Bitcoin. Therefore, I believe that Ethereum will never surpass Bitcoin.

Indeed, there is a possibility that this will happen, but for me personally, I am a bit doubtful that for the next 10 years there will be advanced technology that will replace bitcoin.
in the next 10 years I still believe Bitcoin will still be the number one coin, even ethereum will not be able to beat it,
most importantly, just keep abreast of cryptocurrency developments

Agree with this point. In the future, ethereum will be more beneficial than bitcoin, especially ETH has a good CEO Vitalik.

In the next few years bitcoin will be outdated because many other coins can provide more benefits than bitcoin.

- The obsolescence from bitcoin is a factor that we talk about a lot when other technologies are becoming superior and have greater strengths but what is surprising is that despite such obsolescence, bitcoin remains an integral part of crypto. In addition, what many people think is outdated always seems to set up an isolation zone, altcoins cannot encroach on the lands that bitcoin owns, ethereum has also attacked the land of bitcoin for many years but it still has no chance to step in here, maybe the future will not be touched

You may be right that you doubt that in the next 10 years there will be any technology that will replace Bitcoin. Because Bitcoin alone is
quite sophisticated now and Bitcoin technology has not been fully explored in my opinion. So maybe in the next 10 years Bitcoin will be
invincible, but for one thing we have the same opinion that Ethereum is unlikely to beat Bitcoin. You are absolutely right that we must keep
abreast of crypto developments, because after all the development of crypto is quite rapid.

of course this is very possible, because ETH has not yet released ETH 2.0 which is predicted to shake the crypto world, which I strongly believe that the price of ETH will skyrocket at that time and could reach at least $10k . in the next 10 years there is a very high possibility for ETH to be able to take 1st position in the marketcap.

ETH 2.0 is NOT gonna shake the crypto world, it's just fixing a gas problem that's already solved by now because traffic in ETH chain is decreasing.

 if ETH 2.0 rolls out it's just gonna be your another crypto day with ETH but lesser gas fee which is pretty much ordinary, not increasing scarcity and all in all very little have to do with its price.
I prefer watching bitcoin's sidechain that enables defi in bitcoin rather than seeing a solution that's supposed to solve gas fee but the problem is already gone long before ETH 2.0 even rolls out, so funny.

I think the OPs opinion makes more sense now since we've seen xrp leave the third position to sit in the seventh position according to today's coinmarketcap data, as of during writing this post, usdt was third and BNB was forth, this is to prove to us that no coin is fixed in their current position even bitcoin, they are all likely to drop their position for a more worthy coin to take over when the time comes.
Bitcoin isnt fixed to number 1 in coin ranking though it might be the king of cryptocurrency, but remember that a king does not remain a king forever, he either dies and his son or some other family takes over rulership or he's forced out of office if he's under-performing for someone else more deserving, better and worthy to take over the mantle of leadership.
So my conclusion, if op believes that Ethereum will some day take over bitcoins position, never say it's impossible because many things we thought were impossible to happen already happened before our very eyes.

Not really an exceptional upgrade if i would say but lowering the gas is really a good change but we have seen this before into those times where ETH does have really some cheap fees and fast confirmation and it is just demand had bloated up which did really make the pool busy and made the gas more expensive but lately it had been coming cheap but not as cheap as before but still demand was there.I do see the same thing that this wont really make a change or shake crypto world even if they do make out 2.0 but lets see on what would happen because everything would really be varying on publics
reaction towards such changes and time will surely tell.

It will happen sooner than 10 years - but only if Bitcoin does not hit 1 Million. Confusing I know.

These are facts as the gas price has dropped considerably even without ETH 2.0 because developers and users migrated to other chains which makes sense because they are sick of the high gas fees and they could maintain that even without migrating and with the total number of coins in existence there is a possibility that it could surpass but even if it does then it does not make much of a difference.

The scenario is changing every year, Ethereum could surpass Bitcoin in the next ten years but what about other coins they are also competitive, ten years from now it could be between this token and another token that will become Bitcoin tough competitor, look at Binance it is building its momentum and many are shifting to Binance now, and many more tokens are on the rise, thanks to DeFi, it creates momentum on other coins.

There are at least half a dozen different networks that can realistically displace Ethereum. Every new altcoin nowadays can do smart contracts and defi. Replacing Bitcoin is much more difficult. There isn't any alternatives to Bitcoin that have all the features that make it unique. Dogecoin might be good for payments but it is not a good store of value. Bcash is a complete joke and Litecoin only copy and pastes whatever Bitcoin does. Monero is still out there and doing well but since it is primarily focused on privacy there is always a chance that a better privacy coin will come along. If the market was more rational then Bitcoin's dominance should be much higher than it is right now.

the thing about BTC is its scarcity that keeps growing day by day, some people gonna lost BTC like sending to wrong inactive address, etc

it could make bitcoin more valuable because of that but also can be a double edged sword if you think about it, less and less circulating supply of BTC in the market and if we dont calculate fully diluted market cap the amount of market cap of BTC could decrease overtime and the only solution to that is the price of btc keep growig up linearly helping it mantain its position as number 1 coin by market cap.

You are absolutely right, the scarcity of bitcoin is also one of the reasons it so expensive in price today, cus we all know that the more  coins a project has in circulation, the less expensive the coin is even with a high market cap, but the thing now is that coinmarketcap does not rank a coin based on its price but the rank based on its market cap.
So right now, I think the advantage Ethereum has over bitcoin is that Ethereum has no fixed supply which means that in the future, the current number of Ethereum coins in circulation as reported by coinmarketcap is likely to go up, if this happens and Ethereum is able to maintain its current price and bitcoin also maintained it current price, then for sure, in the future, Ethereum is likely to over take bitcoin in market capitalization.

You know what makes me feel better? If big money is involved it’s good to hold. Bitcoin is master piece and number one product in coinmarketcap. BTC  market cap is too high to compete. Pretty sure anyone anytime bought in a huge amount, so profitable than anything other. There's so much ETH competitor in the market, it's not good over emphasized on just single product but diversify our investment.

Seeing the dynamic market conditions I'm sure I won't wait 10 years, maybe 4 years or less. of course this can be achieved, the bitcoin market cap continues to decline, and now for the daily transaction volume Tether is the largest, and Tether is an Ethereum-based token so that the use of ETH will continue to increase.

indeed there is such a possibility, but ethereum and bitcoin are clearly different, ethereum is a smart contract or also called a smart contract platform,
and bitcoin is a pure blockchain technology without any smart contracts, and if analyzed Ethereum is a blockchain company, and Bitcoin is a financial revolution,
of course it will be very difficult for ethereum to be able to shift bitcoin in terms of marketcap

I don't think that even in the next 4 years or lesser than that, the market cap of bitcoin will be surpassed by any other cryptocurrencies. A lot of forecasts and predictions said the same but it didn't do any good.
USDT got the highest volume but that's still different from the market capitalization.

The way the demand for ethereum is growing in the crypto market it is expected that ethereum will surpass the market cap of bitcoin in the next 10 years. But the price of other currencies along with ethereum will depend on bitcoin as the price of bitcoin rises so will their value.

That's true but ETH market cap is still too big to get overtaken easily in my opinion, the 3rd coins have relatively low gap compared to the 4th coin that's why the position keep shifting overtime but eth has established quite strong market cap as its foundation to retain its position.
on the other hand project like cardano could be a strong competitor in the future, but bitcoin with defi is what gonna steal market dominance once it's booming and people figures it out, so many factors that could actually change the crypto market as a whole but not really much people knows about it.

- Ethereum knows how to increase their capitalization, bitcoin will also seek to attract capitalization by its potential, the two have been arranged to become rivals but this era is choosing bitcoin as a best product, not value or technology, it's in the form of trust. Feel and look at history, the first moments we always see are bitcoin's lead in every crypto life, I don't know by any method or force, the value of bitcoin is still stronger than ethereum while looking at the mission of ethereum, very variable but failure is still the norm every year, a destiny is to fall at the feet of bitcoin

I think Ethereum has a great opportunity to increase its market cap this year.  They have good news from ETH 2.0 and very potential from ETFs.  If everything goes well, it could create a huge incentive for people to get into ETH.  However, it will be necessary if bitcoin is still leading the market and until bitcoin dominance drops, it is very likely that ETH will catch up.

If ypu wish ethereum will surpassed bitcoin in term of matketcap it will never happen. Ethereum it self economically based on bitcoin. Ethereum ICO was 1btc = 2000 ethereum if i am not mistaken. Ethereum is good altcoin with good features but bitcoin is still the safest network on earth. And weeks ago is the proof that if bitcoin crash whole altcoin will crash too.

Ten years is a lots in cryptocurrency,  bitcoin and ethereum may not even exist then.  I believe that bitcoin will continue to be valuable and and it will continue to  be gold standard of digital currency! Ethereum has also have it's path made. Ethereum will continue to be the versatile altcoin that will be useful in economy,  banking and finance,  maritime etc!

I think that BTC can continue to shine a lot, it is something little credible to say that ETH will exceed it, maybe it can exceed it when it rises with a higher percentage, however, it is more likely that new ATH will reach ETH faster than BTC:

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Source: https://ambcrypto.com/heres-how-ethereum-can-reclaim-3600/ (https://ambcrypto.com/heres-how-ethereum-can-reclaim-3600/)

You hear a lot of rumors that it can reach 3600usd quickly, but it's all a matter of waiting for the moves of the Bitcoin King, the ETH bulls are waiting to take profits.

Remember that the market cap of bitcoin didn't decline linearly neither increase linearly, it's up and down. sometime it could go up to above 70% it could go down to below 40% this is what people usually forgot when judging BTC market cap

but one thing that could make the odd of ETH surpass BTC in market cap bigger is the uncapped total supply of ETH and if the price could stay like this for another decade it could surpass btc in market cap but i heard eip1559 gonna burn some portion of coin for every transaction.

Until anytime no one will ever be able to overtake bitcoin, even now there are many ETH rivals about smart contracts with cheaper speeds and transactions but ETH is unwavering in its position, as well as bitcoin which is the first crypto on the market whenever will never be replaced.

I think that BTC can continue to shine a lot, it is something little credible to say that ETH will exceed it, maybe it can exceed it when it rises with a higher percentage, however, it is more likely that new ATH will reach ETH faster than BTC:

https://i.imgur.com/URp31nR.png

Source: https://ambcrypto.com/heres-how-ethereum-can-reclaim-3600/ (https://ambcrypto.com/heres-how-ethereum-can-reclaim-3600/)

You hear a lot of rumors that it can reach 3600usd quickly, but it's all a matter of waiting for the moves of the Bitcoin King, the ETH bulls are waiting to take profits.

Bitcoin is not only a cryptocurrency but it is also an investment. People invest in Bitcoin ignoring technology so its value can decouple from the crypto market.
Ethereum has more applications than Bitcoin but its capitalization will never surpass Bitcoin. It is true, scarcity, decentralization and community support are the factors that help Bitcoin stay ahead and lead the crypto trend. If Bitcoin doesn't go up, there won't be an altcoin season.

I don't see bitcoin showing any signs of breaking down or slowing down such that Ethereum would surpass it so easily???

Lets remember that the  limited supply of bitcoin makes btc super precious and valuable and it's value will go up with time and by the way I hate we have the pandemic but should it end or continue people would be more inclined to use digital channels for thie financial use and maybe stash some of their monies in crypto to avoid governments prying eyes and all this means btc will be bullish and price will go up ,so will its market cap.

If Ethereum scales strongly and maybe even more than most investors expected, I think it is not impossible. Out of a sudden all applications would have the perfect platform to go to and that might drive the price up a lot. When full POS is rolled out with more scalability solutions and there is an ever-growing need for gas it is very attractive for investors to hold onto Ethereum.

- According to what you said, trying harder can't replace bitcoin but why are so many altcoins still struggling to grow every year,
they are doing something in helplessness or they know chance and victory will never give them up, unless they automatically give it up. In fact, this battle still has many chances, bitcoin could be at its highest this year or for many years to come but effort won't give up altcoins trying, ethereum has paid off its hard work and it won't stay behind bitcoin forever with these advancements, no struggle won't find the light

Bitcoin dominance tends to decrease nowadays. Ethereum has made a great premium in the last 1 year and they have some very good news. I think Bitcoin will lose blood and Ethereum will be the market leader in two years at the most  :-\

What you think as a challenge in fact is just a byproduct and not the real challenge at all. Ethereum could become 1+ trillion dollar market cap, and bitcoin could be 5 trillion dollar market cap at that time, does this mean ethereum failed? Of course not, it just means that bitcoin is doing even better, and that is fine. Just because ethereum fails to surpass bitcoin doesn't mean that it will not become a good project, it can still be a good project even while staying behind bitcoin.

Doge didn't even cracked into top three this year, yet it was the most loved and most increased coin, so why did it succeeded? Because the price went higher than almost all the other top coins, and that means you can still be great. Tron could become 4th biggest coin in a month, would that make it a "failed" project just because it is not over bitcoin? No, it would make it one of the best. So going over bitcoin is not a must, if it ever happens it is just a byproduct of the situation.

Yeah, Bitcoin is not done yet. Maybe this round it is done, but we all know it will continue to grow fundamentals that the market can't ignore for too long, and then we enter a new rally that really takes it to 6 figures.

ETH 2.0 will definitely be a boost and that could take it really high too, but if Bitcoin isn't doing too well, ETH will always be having that pressure on its price.

I am not so sure about that. Staking could become very attractive if it is fully rolled out. Right now the bottle neck for Ethereum is beyond doubt its salability. There is uncertainty in how far the developers will be able to solve that problem.

in principle it is true what you said that investors will determine whether ethereum can also develop well as desired. maybe after a new system starts to come and the benefits that investors want, anything can happen and the ethereum platform gets stronger and many continue to take advantage of it.

but the problem is ethereum is catching up with time because now many other platforms are popping up due to their own effect. if this is ignored, it is likely to be constrained and difficult to imagine because there will be many platforms that can be used by adjusting the price to what is needed.

I agree that in the crypto market bitcoin is at the top of all currencies and but bitcoin is followed by ethereum. The price of ethereum increases depending on the price of bitcoin if the price of bitcoin stabilizes a bit the price of ethereum will go up.

confident lol, but will this be happening in the 2021 ? or will take at least another 10 years to take part/
Ethereum will never surpass the market capitalization of bitcoin forever, because even before this happens , ethereum will die first lol.

ETH is a great platform when every project is rooted in the ERC20 platform, but to surpass BTC is probably a long way, no matter how strong the demand for that platform is. , because simply BTC is the king of the crypto market.

The OP said that it's about the market cap. and I think it's very possible that ethereum can outperform bitcoin in terms of market cap. currently despite the dip, ethereum is still pretty strong and even they haven't finished updating their technology thoroughly, I'm sure when the time comes ethereum will have a pretty big market cap and maybe on par with bitcoin's market cap

If you are right, in fact one of the things that ETH fans expect the most is ETH2.0, but as I had read an article they stated that Vitalik himself has problems with the update, which is due to internal problems, that it is necessary to a lot of development and that its programmers still cannot meet the demands, I don't know if this situation has already changed? Because some people calculate a maximum time to wait for up to 2 years to have it fully developed, of course I have not found more information about it, so I am not confident, the FUD can occur at any level.

it's will surpass but only the volume not the price itself in the market , and it all depends on the situation in my personal opinion. For example on this current situation wherein there's a lot of issue about bitcoin so there's a tends it will always decrease the value and volume but the fact that bitcoin still very optimistic, perhaps it's enough reason that no one can surpass in it no matter what happen in the market.. Indeed there's a big differential when it comes the price so its really impossible to happen even in the future..

There is no impossible for Ethereum to break the capitalization of Bitcoin after multiple updates from Ethereum platform.

the 2.0 is doing well now and may take another steps to bring how high ethereum can be.

the time frame is 10 years mate so there might be a possibilities though the question was made back in 2020 so meaning there is at least 9 years to go before this breaking.

There are many theories put forward, and many people have good thoughts on Eth, personally I also think this coin is very good however I do not think it will surpass bitcoin. What can't compete in this market is BTC and nothing will happen.

It won't happen.  BTC is anonymity from the head, this is freedom, it is the inspiration that makes bitcoin strong, immutable.  Will ETH's blockchain specifics go mainstream towards neutrality, decentralization, or will it slowly sink into centralization?  Whatever happens, ETH will not surpass bitcoin's market cap even though bitcoin is more than 20 years old at that time. ;D

You shouldn't forget that it is harder to sail big ships than small ships. Changing directions or speeding up is much easier with smaller blockchains that are not as popular. Those claiming they could roll out updates faster are simply not as big as Ethereum is. As soon as they reach the size of Ethereum's network all other projects will run into the same coordination problems when it comes to rolling out upgrades or protocol changes.

- Many people and ethereum are probably obsessed with the dream of pursuing and dominating the crypto system and the only way to ignite this path is to hit bitcoin directly but bitcoin's successive assertions also point to it being the only one in power here, I can see ethereum's persistence and stubbornness to this path but unfortunately, Bitcoin is also not someone who can be easily bullied and weak in the face of persistence, it is also the one who is the most resilient to the market so far.

I agree with you on BTC's dominance over this market so far, and I also think that in the future there will be no coin to replace it.
It is possible that ETH is doing very well in this market, but the factors necessary for it to surpass BTC are unlikely.

It's not impossible, but it won't happen. Maybe there will even be a new coin or another coin that will surpass the BTC, but this coin is certainly not ETH. The economy, a structure that has already developed around the BTC, is enormous and this won't be affected so easily. There are many factors that inhibit current prices, but in 10 years if you have to bet on who will survive and still be number 1, betting on ETH is really being very brave.

Nothing is impossible of course, but realistically speaking it will be hard to surpass Bitcoin anyway. It could happen though because there is some intrinsic incentive to it. If Ethereum gets closer, there could develop something similar to self-fulfilling prophecy. The closer Ethereum gets, the more the people are excited to see Ethereum surpass Bitcoin.

There's nothing wrong with making such assumption but considering bitcoin and ethereum's history for a very long time, I don't think 10 years would enough for ETH to surpass bitcoin's market cap. Bitcoin is continuously evolving and even its popularity is growing wider considering what happened to El Salvador and if ever that becomes successful, other countries would follow leading to more success for bitcoin. ETH is not that far as well as close but still amongst other altcoins, it was the only one that was able to stay behind bitcoin for a very long time.

I agree,its really hard for Ethereum to surpass Bitcoin. For all the new users that get to know crypto all of them first use Bitcoin and once they start learning more about crypto they start to consider Ethereum first. But mostly everyone starts with Bitcoin and they only heard about bitcoin. 95% of people heard about bitcoin and the other 5% know about Bitcoin and Ethereum. Bitcoin is the most known cryptocurrency in the world and will probobly stay like that for 10-20 years.

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ETH with its high gas fee will not be able to shift the position of Bitcoin, Bitcoin is the strongest cryptocurrency and forever will be.

El Salvador has sacrificed themselves to be the first country to recognize BTC as a currency and if they succeed then a domino effect will be created and ethereum will have no hope of shifting BTC. 

Total supply is one of the main factors and of course the demand because everything would really be varying or depending on it because no matter how big or small it is then it will still be varying with the support the community gives.Nothing is impossible here on crypto and nothing do last forever on the peak spot but basing and observing on how bitcoin perform since from the start until now after a decade then its really hard to believe on that it would be easily be
replaced by ETH but we cant also deny that ETH is really a good altcoin which did really have that significance into its existence.