Cardano is probably going to be another shitcoin which isn't going to have any kind of real value in a few weeks time. I would have more confidence in Ripple since that is at least used for something that has support from fiat sources. Cardano looks like it's trying to be Ethereum 2.0 and I'm going to answer your question the same way that I answered everyone else when they were all asking if Ethereum was going to replace Bitcoin: No.

I'm going to go back to sleeping on ADA and looking at XRP.

Guys. Cardano is in a league of its own; there is no other project in the space that even comes close to what Cardano will achieve; NOT EVEN CLOSE. ETH is and always will be a bunch of coders in a room hacking stuff together, and because of that, there are going to be huge flaws and vulnerabilities in the code that are going to continually pop up... think DAO.

It's inevitable because of how complex smart contracts are; no human being is capable of perfectly coding anything, especially something as complex as smart contracts. Charles and Cardano understand this, so they used the waterfall, high-assurance, development model to build the Cardano SL mainnet, the foundational layer of the Cardano project. This alone, sets Cardano apart from all other projects, but they went even further; Cardano has academically vetted and conference approved research papers that underly all of its code; no other project that i know of has done this.

Furthermore, Cardano is using a functional programming language (Haskell) and psi-calculus to bring together the fundamental concepts of the research papers, directly and PROVABLY, into the code; this is the first time I have ever heard of a large commercial project doing this.

Seriously, it's not even a competition; it's only a matter of time before Cardano overtakes Ethereum... bitcoin will always be bitcoin (digital gold), but Cardano is the future of blockchain technology. Hands down.

Satoshi Nakamato started the CPU war with miners and works for the bankers and big oil with his PoW
bullshit plus more and now people are learning that BTC won't scale using the current design but he is
smarter than Madoff because he has already "Made off"

IOTA has a better design using Tangle but that nothing to write home about and did you like the
clap trap about "No inflation" if you ignore the doubling of the money supply on each fork.

Lightning is just a sticking but if your not a software engineer and want to understand why i
say this then see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYHFrf5ci_g and then feel free to
debate the issue because i am telling you that the king has no clothes on but many here will
refuse to see it until the price starts to pop and what was it our great leader said about transaction
fees again "Virtually free" in the white-paper or was that toilet paper used by bankers.

Everyone, I think we all need to understand that certain individuals/groups will be trying to hamper ETN's birth.  For example, I quite expect that a certain volume of traffic, which is causing these issues, is contributed by DOS/DDOS attacks. So let be patient and supportive over these coming weeks! Enjoy the roller coaster ride and remember you can get off at any time!

Mining is doing really good!! Thanks for leaving me to mine all the coins to myself folks, I'd say no stop, bring all that absolutely massive amount of hashing power back but hey, um yeah... see ya!!