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[CriminologyProf]

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[AT101ET]

Since you brought up the Coke/Pepsi example ill stick with that too.
Coke has always been more successful than Pepsi although there was a time when Pepsi had a lot of great ads. The same is true with BTC and ETH.
Currently ETH is having a good spree given recent events regarding BTC, but expect that only in the short term. ETH will have its supporters just like Pepsi does, but it will never be near as much as BTC (in this case, coke).

[xuan87]

If the fork happened many people will start to think to replace bitcoin place, Ether is not really suitable for replacing bitcoin because ether itself got a lot of problem and been forked before so most of the people not really trust eth, but once it is replace by other alt coin bitcoin will be really difficult to become the main crypto currencies, at that time we will labeled bitcoin as an alt coin

[n0ne]

Since you brought up the Coke/Pepsi example ill stick with that too.
Coke has always been more successful than Pepsi although there was a time when Pepsi had a lot of great ads. The same is true with BTC and ETH.
Currently ETH is having a good spree given recent events regarding BTC, but expect that only in the short term. ETH will have its supporters just like Pepsi does, but it will never be near as much as BTC (in this case, coke).

As stated eth has gained a big user base due to the ongoing price drop with bitcoin as well the rise in the capital and price of ethereum along with few other altcoins. This time the price increase is simply enormous and it is suggested by experts as the temporary surge and so anytime the price could fall.

[Gaaara]

With the coming fork, and the eventual fork itself, do any of you think that at least for a short time, that Bitcoin could crash and be replaced by Ether; with Ether exploding in price as people jump to something they see as more stable in the short term?

I could also see this having a longterm effect, since so many more will be familiar with Ether, it will eventually fall back and remain a close second to Bitcoin. Ether being Pepsi, and Bitcoin being Coke.

Hahahaha I like the way you used cola brands, but do pepsi ever overcome coke? As always coke has more demand than pepsi and like in bitcoin and eth bitcoin is way further than eth, let us say that the price of eth is increasing while bitcoin is in reverse way bitcoin has more features than eth, like for example in my country we can easily convert bticoin into fiat, thats why we will stick with bitcoin no matter what.

[ekoice]

With the coming fork, and the eventual fork itself, do any of you think that at least for a short time, that Bitcoin could crash and be replaced by Ether; with Ether exploding in price as people jump to something they see as more stable in the short term?

I could also see this having a longterm effect, since so many more will be familiar with Ether, it will eventually fall back and remain a close second to Bitcoin. Ether being Pepsi, and Bitcoin being Coke.

No way,Ethereum couldnot replace bitcoin even temporarily.ETH is increasing in volume considerably,but it will last only till the bitcoin dispute settles down and then it would go back to its former place.

[dothebeats]

Temporarily, yes, since many people including myself is seeing instability in bitcoin as to what should we do moving forward to 'scale.' Also, aside from Ether there are also other coins out there that could be a failsafe if in case bitcoin really falls so hard.

[Amph]

that's my worry, that another shitcoin replace bitcoin because of this no-sense debate that have the potential to wreck bitcoin

but a pos coin, like ethereum, well not now but in the future ethereum will be pure pos, will never replace bitcoin, better chance can have monero or zcash, but they are more tiny in market cap

if you remove etheruem the only other candidate remain dash as a strong marketcap, all the other are simply too small to be taken seriously

[Yanisumin]

Etherium competitiveness make the price of Bitcoin to drop to several percent. But don't worry bitcoins popularity and users still outnumbering ether. Replaced? Theres a possibility but if you think it throughly the popularity of ether will only make the popularity of Bitcoin to grow. If they research about ether they will also let Bitcoin and since Bitcoin has the largest market cap you will fall for Bitcoin instead.

[layoutph]

Just incase Bitcoin crashed to whatever reason, the only possible replacement for bitcoin I can see is ETH and not BTU.
Your assuming is right OP.

[cjmoles]

I guess I see things differently because I don't see it as one replacing the other....I've been playing with the altcoins for awhile and I move between them for various reasons....There's really no replacement for bitcoin but other altcoins have their qualities that make them better at some things than others....mixing, dark sending, D'Apps, pv messaging, passive incomes....it all comes right back to bitcoin because bitcoin has the backbone that makes it all work.

[Spoetnik]

Why the hell in gods name is there soooooo many Noobs showing up asking this last couple days ?

Seriously WTF is this shit ?

Is this some coy little game to try and spam about it ?

[dfd1]

1) Etherium is a botnet
2) There is no any real adoption, etherium holders keep their coins on exchanges and never download a wallet, since they don't want to participiate in a botnet.
3) 3/4 of all etherium clones died after horrible fork, etherium testnets regularly die in horrible fork, this shit generate too many orphans.  There is no way 15 second blocks can exist on decentralized network, so etherium mining probably highly centralized.
4) Massive spam campaign on fake news websites and forums going on.

[Ayers]

Why the hell in gods name is there soooooo many Noobs showing up asking this last couple days ?

Seriously WTF is this shit ?

Is this some coy little game to try and spam about it ?

many newbie come with the new wave of money injection that is affecting crypto right now, you see all the cryptocoin increased like crazy?,those newbie are the one opening those thread an maybe promoting their scam coin in disguise, i don't trust them, everytime i see someone sayign that X coin will replace bitcoin, i know he is just a bagholder

[madwica]

I dont think so, and i think theres no other coin will replace bitcoin on the top of crypto currency becuase they only depend on the value of bitcoin and also only bitcoin is adopted by more people also in the market.

[judeafante]

It's possible but not in a long term,people have trusted bitcoin for very long time everytime it went down it always bounce back.ether is a good alternative.but any amount of development will not suffice to take over bitcoin..

[Spoetnik]

Why the hell in gods name is there soooooo many Noobs showing up asking this last couple days ?

Seriously WTF is this shit ?

Is this some coy little game to try and spam about it ?

many newbie come with the new wave of money injection that is affecting crypto right now, you see all the cryptocoin increased like crazy?,those newbie are the one opening those thread an maybe promoting their scam coin in disguise, i don't trust them, everytime i see someone sayign that X coin will replace bitcoin, i know he is just a bagholder

Nope.. try again. 

[Iktis]

If the fork happened many people will start to think to replace bitcoin place, Ether is not really suitable for replacing bitcoin because ether itself got a lot of problem and been forked before so most of the people not really trust eth, but once it is replace by other alt coin bitcoin will be really difficult to become the main crypto currencies, at that time we will labeled bitcoin as an alt coin

Altcoins people will think about it, but that will never be possible. The main candidates are all corrupted, broken, involved in shady business or crappy. Bitcoin really stand out of the crowd.

[Pursuer]

many newbie come with the new wave of money injection that is affecting crypto right now, you see all the cryptocoin increased like crazy

you are wrong and to prove it to yourself I propose a simple test.
go somewhere else other than bitcointalk, reddit/r/bitcoin or /r/crypto... or generally any crypto related social media. and then ask people what they know and have heard about cryptocurrencies.

first of all, altcoin is a term that nobody outside these circles have even heard.
secondly if anyone wants to invest, they are definitely going to bitcoin and with a simple quick look at altcoin prices they can see the pump and dumps and most people (newbies that you are talking about) run away scared if they see it.

we are talking about people who are scared to invest in bitcoin, a well established cryptocurrency that we know what it is and what it does and it has been around for 8 years. they won't trust an altcoin that has been around for a short time, is being manipulated and looks shady.

[NUFCrichard]

I think that if Bitcoin fails, then in the short term crypto will fail.
If Bitcoin has a messy fork, and trust is lost and the prices fall, ETH could overtake Bitcoin yes, but I doubt it will overtake Bitcoin at $15bil+ market cap.

It could fall less than Bitcoin and overtake it like that, but I hope it doesn't!