No. I think eth will drop to $100 or at least $150 again before getting higher than it is right now. You I think now is a bad time to buy it.
As for the price, I don't believe its marketcap will overcome bitcoin and thus I suppose that eth's price will be around $600 at that time with btc around $5k. Sounds unbelievable though. And eth might as well explode and be worth around $10 at that time if it gets a hard fork.

I agree Zcash has small chances to stay around. Why? I think the main reason is the infamous huge 'genius tax'. Mostly people say that eth is the best, some also mentioned ltc. I agree with them. However, ltc is more promising in terms of earning big money, because it is still cheap. As for eth, I got some of my stolen which makes it painful for me to look at prices nowadays. But yeah, at least it is already used.

I think you might be right about altcoins but bitcoin is rather juvenile, for it has shown the world what it is worth and now we can also see its big disadvantages. I guess we can't call it a bubble yet, because we are those who make the currencies worth so much money. Basically, they are backed up by our trust and it is up to us to decide whether it was a bubble or not.

Well, I can't say altcoins are really on top. I guess the big prices are mostly due to traders and some big companies' support. I guess the only thing where alts are used is trading among altcoins. The problem is that for a coin to be really good it needs to be used to buy some actual goods, not other coins. And this is a rather dangerous fact which we try to ignore. Btc dominance is still there, because at least it is really used on markets.

It is very nice you will lower the bets. What about creating a thread in Gambling section, an official one? I think gamblers would be interested in such a website, because there are scamming sites in gambling sphere of btc, plus, as bitcoin transactions are nowadays problematic, too slow, it is another advantage of ethereum-based gambling.

I hope you are right. I believe ltc is a promising altcoin which may become one of the dominant coins in the future but taking into consideration its price fluctuations around $30 I think it is not likely to grow in price that fast. If even segwit didn't make the price go up, I think litecoin is difficult to push in some direction.

Eth and bitcoin are too expensive, I agree. As for litecoin.. It's hard to say for sure.. I waited for the dump and bought for $20, now it is $30. What if there won't be a big dump anymore? Or, to be more precise, what if the next sump will lead to the prices we think of now as high ones? I think now is the time to invest in some cheap coins like waves and seek luck.

Good prognosing, I think. Altcoins are still growing although we don't see such big hopps in price anymore. The market depends mostly on us but there are some other factors that may influence the situation. For example, btc hard fork or eth unable to switch to pos. If something like that happens, I guess superbig panic selling will occur and perhaps the market won't recover from it. Especially it is likely to happen if both btc and eth fail.

XRP might have its chances to become dominant if the banks adopt it. If Chinese do then it is quite a good sign for ripple. However, regardless to whether it will become one of the best coins or not, I guess its price is likely to grow, because many people (especially newbie traders and investors) are likely to invest in a coin which is so cheap an #3 in marketcap already. So, no is not the time to sell in any case.

I recall 2 such times last month, at least on coinmarketcap everything was not just red but really red, especially the first time. I didn't miss the chance and bought some ltc for $20 then. For now I lost more, than won, because my eth was stolen (ethereumwallet.net hacked) and so far I got only third of it back. That eth was great, bought for $16! Well, anyway, I hope nothing like that happens to you and just choose something you want to buy, define the wanted price and check the prices every day.
http://imgur.com/a/Ot3HS

Kraken may also turn up to be good to you because there was this moment about a month ago when eth cost $90 but on Kraken everyone started panic selling, so the price on the chart went straight down then. Kraken's price depends on Kraken's users only and so such kinds of local trading sites might have the prices you won't see anywhere else. But for such a good time one needs to wait, so good luck and be patient.

Well, actually the eth price has nothing strict to do with bitcoin. It is just our idea that ethereum can't surpass bitcoin in market capitalization for eth reaching $450 right now would mean it beating btc. I also find it hard to believe that eth can win even in this small aspect so fast and that's why I suppose that bitcoin will grow in price along with eth not letting be moved from the throne. And yet I don't see any big rational reasons under such a view.

Shit! I just wanted to say that I use https://ethereum-wallet.net/ and am happy for it but now on the front page we can see it has been attacked! Does it mean I am losing my $240 dollars? I hope they will deal with the problem and return everything to us. I can see now they are doing reinbursements which are partial. I guess now I need to get another wallet to store ethereum.

I think that this point has to be detalized. At first, speculation doesn't influence the price directly but only through influencing traders and other investors. Traders see people speculating about prices and buy some coins which then makes the price grow. As for ethereum, I think that yes, mostly its price comes from people and companies investing in it but there are people who really use it at least somehow (perform smart contracts, for instance).

50 satoshi is an extremely small amount of money even for fiat, I am not even talking about cryptos. I think that an okay coin is definitely worth more than 1$ and closer to $15. Nevertheless, if we increase your 50 satoshi to 150, there is quite a good coin around. The famous dogecoin. At least, doge is (was) used in some casinos and people talk about it. It is based o litecoin but unfortunately the total supply is potentially infinite. Nevertheless, Doge already participated in charity programs and sponsored Josh Wise's ride. And, as stated on coindesk: "dogecoin likely won’t see a technological death".

Okay, there are a few problems I can see here. #1 is that fiat is also quite worthless, it is definitely not backed up by gold anymore and it is printed in expectation that in the future it will obtain the price, because people will use it. Cryptocurrencies are even more like that. Their 'real' price might be calculated by counting the sums of money spent on electricity to mine the coins (if we deal with Pow), to store coins (PoS) or to run some code which regularly throws some amount into circulating supply. However, it doesn't really work like it, for we can see that coins are actually worth more and if they weren't, they wouldn't exist, for nobody would've mined/stored/produced them without profit. Demand and offer system owrks with cryptos perfectly and allows us to say they do have a price.
I agree with you on some points, though. For instance, I also think it is possible that people will realize there is no real value under these currencies and they will become worthless. But for that the world needs something like World War 3 when nothing except food and shelter will have price.

Yes, if we consider current btc marketcap and eth circulating supply, eth has to reach $444 to beat btc and it is quite unbelievable. However, I think that eth may reach something like $400 in 4 months but btc will grow a lot in price at that time as well, so won't be beaten. Nevertheless, currency having the biggest marketcap is not for sure the best/most popular/influential currency. I've seen a nice analogy of it with people being dominant on earth whereas they are totally not even in the top on 'market capitalization' (biomass).

I think this is not quite true. Investing in altcoins is a lot like gambling but only with some small part of experience needed. One can be very good at programming and define the best currency ever, invest lots of money in it. Nut eventually this programmer might lose just because currencies people use do not solely depend on code. Moreover, most of users don't understand how something works and what potential issues there are. That is why investing in something you don't know how works but have some sort of feeling that it will be popular does make sense and is IMO likely to be more profitable than something one calculated and defined as the best thing.

I think people out here are talking about the problem you faced:https://forum.daohub.org/t/error-occurred-out-of-gas/723/4.
They say that the transaction fee will not be sent back but everything will be pkay with your eth. I think it is something similar to unconfirmed transaction with bitcoin when everything returns back to the wallet. If it didn't I guess you should just wait. As far as I understand, gas is the needed fee to perform transaction of smart contract. People advice to choose adding more gas than you think is needed in every situation. Anyway, I hope this helped.

Well, at first, I think ltc is still really cheap although its price is 5 times as big as it used to be for a long time. This is still a good investment, still a great chance. And don't forget that there are many really cheap coins right now about which we mostly don't even talk but one of them might appear to be the one and the price will become sky high. A very easy example is ripple about which we do talk but the price is a lot less than 1 dollar. There are also other coins about which people who studied them more attentively say that they have really big potential. I am talking about coins like Waves or Digitalcoin.
I'm saying that now might be a great time for investments but the problem is that it is hard to understand in what to invest from all these now worthless coins.