When will the marketcap of Ethereum surpass Bitcoin?

[xux99]

Bitcoin currently suffers from a serious scalability issue with no solution on the horizon. Ethereum constantly gains greater acceptance and hosts an increasing number of projects on its blockchain. When will the inevitable occur? My opinion is that in about one year the marketcap of Ethereum will be greater than that of Bitcoin.

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[bathrobehero]

Yeah, no. It will never happen.

Ethereum doesn't even intended to repalce BTC, it fills a completely different role.

[emeraldforce]

Eth MOON though.

[Minecache]

Bitcoin currently suffers from a serious scalability issue with no solution on the horizon. Ethereum constantly gains greater acceptance and hosts an increasing number of projects on its blockchain. When will the inevitable occur? My opinion is that in about one year the marketcap of Ethereum will be greater than that of Bitcoin.

Stupid thread can only be posted by stupid. I have said this from the start ETH <> BTC. They are different beasts. You new ETH heads are the worst.

[mining1]

Yeah, no. It will never happen.

Ethereum doesn't even intended to repalce BTC, it fills a completely different role.

Ethereum doesn't aim to be a currency but do you really believe speculators care about that ? Maybe 1% of btc usage is real usage, so if speculators panic about flippening it will only be accelerated.

[misterbigg]

When will the marketcap of Ethereum surpass Bitcoin?

Never.

[mining1]

Normally i would agree about that, well not with the "never" term, but not in the next year. Thing is, things changed. Ethereum gained backing and usage, btc is in civil war.

[r0ach]

Ethereum is a scamcoin where banks in R3 group were upset they didn't get any early distribution of bitcoin so they just bought the Ethereum premine and tried to pump and dump it while hoisting it into morons at elevated prices.  It's been a scam from day one just like every premine coin before it.

[mining1]

Going to 0 ? Never, unless the project is deliberately abandoned.

[shyliar]

Ethereum is a scamcoin where banks in R3 group were upset they didn't get any early distribution of bitcoin so they just bought the Ethereum premine and tried to pump and dump it while hoisting it into morons at elevated prices.  It's been a scam from day one just like every premine coin before it.

R3 long ago abandon Ethereum after an initial test involving 11 banks. The second test involving 40 banks they utilized blockchain solutions offered by Eris Industries, IBM, Intel and Chain, a handful of Ethereums many competitors. That didn't stop the ETH community from claiming the second test with 40 banks involved ETH. You can read about it here under the history section.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R3_(company)

Additionally, R3 has abandoned all the above platforms, developed and released their own platform called Corda. Here was the announcement last April.

http://www.r3cev.com/blog/2016/4/4/introducing-r3-corda-a-distributed-ledger-designed-for-financial-services

Currently there are numerous blockchain platforms available, and it seems like new ones appear monthly. Ethereum is not nearly as unique as proponents pretend. They continue maintaining this facade for price manipulation purposes. Here is an article discussing some of the other platforms that are available.

https://lightrains.com/blogs/opensource-blockchain-platforms

and

http://radiostud.io/eight-blockchain-platforms-comparison/

[misterbigg]

btc is in civil war.

There's no civil war it's just two assholes Roger Ver and Jihan Wu stirring shit.

[mining1]

Nope, you're wrong. It's not just them otherwise there wouldn't be people dumping btc for eth. People are starting to lose confidence in bitcoin. Remember, what keeps bitcoin together is people's faith that bitcoin will make them profit. And network effect only follows the price. Nothing else backs bitcoin beside faith. No usage, no projects, nothing.

So, ETH can only replace bitcoin in few of these cases:

1. BTC civil war continues, BU forcefully takes over or for some reason it splits in two; even if it doesn't split, this war will crash the price alot. Now, it depends how it crashes. If it crashes by moving the value into other projects, then bitcoin will be replaced. If it crashes and burns as in people stop buying bitcoins at any price, then the whole cryptocurrency scene will crash.
2. ETH manages to increase the market cap to 50% of bitcoin's value. At that point there will be FOMO for missing out and panic with bitcoin holders, many will switch sides in an uncontrollable spiral.
3. ETH succesfully manages the transition to POS and scales, that alone is enough to easily takeover bitcoin.

[ice18]

No, etherium IMHO will never surpass bitcoin at this moment or even years to come no other cryptocurrency can surpass bitcoin today because bitcoin has proven its stability through the years I have still very high trust on btc, maybe etherium at the moment is dominant but it will not last long. 

[fortunecrypto]

btc is in civil war.

There's no civil war it's just two assholes Roger Ver and Jihan Wu stirring shit.

I don't know why people wants Bitcoin to be beaten,just like the old rimbit,Bitcoin will still be the number one coin in the market for the next ten years or so,I believe people in the board will a way to solve the current issues and those that are making .

[mining1]

How are they going to find a way ? For 3 years now there's literally only stagnation, only talk, insulting, divided community. Miners are oligarchs in bitcoin because of the POW only system, they didn't wanna activate segwit so they get more fees. It will be too late for change when ethereum will pass 50% of it's market cap and there will be fomo to change the boat.
Smartest people already changed the boat, no point in risking your wealth for a most likely negative scenario, bitcoin devs and community haven't found a way in 3 years to change things, won't find a way in the coming months.

[Pursuer]

When will the marketcap of Ethereum surpass Bitcoin?

Never.

never say never!
of course with price and with usability and real adoption, ethereum can never surpass bitcoin's marketcap but ethereum is not known to be an honest coins and market cap is a useless number that can easily be manipulated!

for all we know Vitalik is going to fork ethereum another time in the near future and change the available supply from current 90 million to 400 million and easily surpass bitcoin's marketcap.
it is a very simple math 400,000,000 * $47 = $18,800,000,000 marketcap > bitcoin's $18,518,449,188 and when ETH price was dumped back down to $10 he can fork it again and increase the 400 million to 10,000 million

[Minecache]

btc is in civil war.

There's no civil war it's just two assholes Roger Ver and Jihan Wu stirring shit.

There IS civil war and it is killing BTC. Open your eyes.

[Minecache]

When will the marketcap of Ethereum surpass Bitcoin?

Never.

never say never!
of course with price and with usability and real adoption, ethereum can never surpass bitcoin's marketcap but ethereum is not known to be an honest coins and market cap is a useless number that can easily be manipulated!

for all we know Vitalik is going to fork ethereum another time in the near future and change the available supply from current 90 million to 400 million and easily surpass bitcoin's marketcap.
it is a very simple math 400,000,000 * $47 = $18,800,000,000 marketcap > bitcoin's $18,518,449,188 and when ETH price was dumped back down to $10 he can fork it again and increase the 400 million to 10,000 million

Oh shut up.

[btbrae]

There's not really any civil war with Bitcoin. There are different takes on the blockchain size issue and it will be resolved with time. This is a better way forward. Wise hands move slower.

Ethereum on the other hand, is controlled by a few who make decisions for the many, like the DAO, and can do so on a whim.

They are different beasts as some here have said, but the reason I got into Bitcoin was to get away from centralized decision makers and cartels.

I am happy to see ETH rise and hope it brings crypto along, but would urge caution to new investors to not go in too deep right now.

[mining1]

There's not really any civil war with Bitcoin. There are different takes on the blockchain size issue and it will be resolved with time. This is a better way forward. Wise hands move slower.

What ? Read bitcoin's reddit. Panic all over, people in dissagreement, bitcoin core threatened to 51% atack nodes that don't signal segwit and so on. Read bitcoin reddit and latest bitcoin news.
What do you think it's changing this time for problems to be solved ? BTC dev team is incapable and inexperienced, they haven't gone through much because nothing can be actually developed and implemented because of the dissagreements. Miners went greedy, liked high fees, untill they will agree for forks / changes it will be too late. Bitcoin is there because it's a brand. I also like coca cola and i drink it alot, but mostly because it's much better than pepsi and other similar drinks, not because of the brand.

Ethereum on the other hand, is controlled by a few who make decisions for the many, like the DAO, and can do so on a whim.

And who controlled what happen to dao ? Those that voted 95% in favor of the fork ? This is true democracy. Those 5% who didn't agree have their own failing chain. But weren't even 5%, because only 2 people really matter in ETC. Barry as a pumper and chandler as a pumper and sole miner of the network.