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[addias]

Honestly, I don’t think so in the short term. Add Coke has always tasted better to me. If there is a BTC fork, one coin will be the dominate one, and that coin should continue to lead the crypto space.

[edgar]

ETH =/= HSBC/CITIBANK/ETC

SHIT promoted by wealthy charlatanswho;

A - want your wealth despite not needing it

B - want to shit on everything so they can buy it for less than its value

C - invented pepsi to ruin coke, 120 years later its still shit and only drunk by idiots/sugar junkies #marketing

[tiggytomb]

I think there is far too much invested in bitcoin for it to be tossed aside for whatever reason, if it does suffer a setback it will work it's way back.  ETH will be a competitor to bitcoin and will always be the lesser of the two in my opinion.

[coinplus]

I think there is far too much invested in bitcoin for it to be tossed aside for whatever reason, if it does suffer a setback it will work it's way back.  ETH will be a competitor to bitcoin and will always be the lesser of the two in my opinion.

OP is not talking about tossed aside, he is asking if bitcoin could be passed by eth on the price probably. If we are talking about market-cap and the value than yeah maybe eth could pass bitcoins one day, maybe not that is to see, if we are talking about the PR and the userbase than I think it won’t be even remotely close to getting passed, bitcoin won’t be passed on by eth or any other coin in the near or I personally believe in the far future ever.

[iamnotback]

Re: Alt shilling increase when Bitcoin is under attack

Not everything is a conspiracy. In case you haven't noticed, there has been a very broad-based rise in the entire altcoin market.

Yeah because the % of the total crypto marketcap in Bitcoin dropped precipitously from the 80s to the 60s.

Although it will bounce back somewhat if the Scalepocalypse crisis is ever resolved (and it won't be any time soon!), this poll will tell you (and even explain to you why if you bother to read it) that something has fundamentally changed.

You Bitcoin maximalists are going to become minority owners of the crypto and blockchain ecosystem. Lol.  

What this BU vs. Core fuckup did was cause many users which had never installed an altcoin wallet to do so.

BU opened the floodgates to altcoin dominance. Now once these guys get a taste of the freedom-of-choice and higher ROI from altcoins, they won't be coming back. They'll be converting more and more BTC to alts over time.

BU slayed Bitcoin. Or Core did. Depending who you want to blame for the Scalepocalypse.

Well I think Bitcoin will come back up and still $2000+ eventually, but the long-term outlook for Bitcoin has become less certain.

[kryptqnick]

Honestly, I don’t think so in the short term. Add Coke has always tasted better to me. If there is a BTC fork, one coin will be the dominate one, and that coin should continue to lead the crypto space.

Well, as for me, bitcoin could become equal with eth in case of the fork, because the btc price would drop and eth's might grow a lot. However, I guess now there is no threat of hard fork, is it? People have been discussing the danger for about a week but nothing happened. Is there some time that has to pass before we can say that the expectations failed? How does it work, really?

[TravelMug]

As for me, ETH could not replace bitcoin yet, it needed more pump but I doubt if investors will still buy ETH right now. They are all moving back to bitcoins because hardfork will not be implemented now. Although ETH experience ATH because of the BU and Core drama, it cannot sustained it. And they already made huge amount of money on ETH already.

[maku]

Stick to the bitcoin and collect your money in the future. Altcoins comes and goes, Ethereum is like flavour of the month, move on.
All it takes for flock to panic is little bit of FUD. LISTEN! Community needs to understand it is being manipulated... once again.
Bitcoin Unlimited soon will be gone like Bitcoin Classic and XT before it.

[robelneo]

It could but not permanently,if bitcoin falls down people of course not permanently people could look for eth but with so many people working in the betterment of bitcoin it will eventually recover and gain their supremacy back again like they always do.

[alyssa85]

It could be Coke v Pepsi, or it could be MySpace v Facebook.

With MySpace, the users just got fed-up and migrated over. There is some indication that users are getting tired of waiting over an hour for their six confirmations on bitcoin, especially as confirmations afre quicker on Ether (and most alts).

So Bitcoin has a usability issue, which is masked at the moment because speculators outnumber users.

[Yanisumin]

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.

Bitcoin is a very complex system, it is hard to crash but it's possible, it is not perfect that's why alternatives cryptocurrencies are created, we must accept the fact that if something goes wrong with it, there no other way but to turn to alternatives and I'm hoping BTC will remain strong and will stand into the top.

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.

Let's take this scenario:
Even if the individual know first about alternatives cryptocurrencies, they will have no choice but to research more on how cryptocurrencies began and for sure he will know about BTC too, when that happens he will realize that BTC is the root of it and has the largest markep cap and he will fall for BTC, resulting in a way that he will be a bitcoiner and alts are just backup coins.

Honestly, I don’t think so in the short term. Add Coke has always tasted better to me. If there is a BTC fork, one coin will be the dominate one, and that coin should continue to lead the crypto space.

When we had our seminar in coca cola factory, they let us watched the history and yes. There are many companies that try to mimic coca cola but failed, even tried to steal the recipe. The thing here is the foundation is solid, BTC can be replace but it will be hard.

[hase0278]

I don't think that ethereum can replace bitcoin even if it is short term. Even in the future, I don't think that it would replace ethereum even if there is a new good ETH based token because bitcoin still got more usage than it unless they will add more feature to ethereum besides the ones it has now or bitcoin will crash which is unlikely to happen ever in the near and maybe in the far future.

[Viper1]

Bitcoin will be replaced by whatever "crypto" (and I use that term extremely loosely in this case), is in bed with the financial system and so all the wall street money etc flows into it. They'll be the ones to truly bring that sort of "coin" to the masses. It should be apparent by now that no one in the current system has any bloody clue how to make it happen. They're all too focused on tech, gimmicky features and making money from what exists. Not many people these days actually "care" about bitcoin. They're only here to make money and that's it. I don't even know why these questions keep coming up. Of course some day some other "coin" will come along and surpass bitcoin on marketcap charts.