I agree with the author of the topic in the first message. ETH is a really strong opponent for bitcoin, and there's an explanation for that. Bitcoin-no matter how it sounds the most useless coin, but because it first appeared on the market, it has such a value. What we don't say about ETH. On the basis of Ethereum constantly there are projects that contribute to the growth of its popularity. And the developers are doing everything right. Solve all emerging tasks, very of well-and quickly.
I think many of you have heard Vitaly Buterin address the issue of scaling. He presented THE plasma system to the public.
This solution is an external level of smart contracts and will help improve the network bandwidth of the ether.
So far, all representatives of the ethereum community have to download and confirm each smart contract in the Plasma system. But soon the developers promise to reduce the amount of necessary data.
When the internal transactions are used in the system — "Plasma coins". Tokens are generated when a user submits funds to a contract. So, instead of downloading and verifying all the data, you can simply keep track of the internal coins.
Plasma acts similar to the Lightning Network of bitcoin: transactions are off-chain and are recorded in the blockchain when the channel is closed.
Generally I will not go into details. Invest and you will not regret!