Smart Contracts: Separating Ethereum from Bitcoin
One question that a substantial portion of people asked when Ethereum was launched was “Why to develop Ethereum when we already had Bitcoin for the transfer of payments?”
Well, Blockchain is a powerful technology and it is true that we haven’t fully utilized it to its potential. Bitcoin only makes use of one of the many possible applications of the Blockchain technology i.e. peer-to-peer transfer of funds.
Ethereum is a platform based on the Blockchain technology used for developing decentralized applications. It has a few benefits over Bitcoin such as the feature of coding Smart Contracts and the Ethereum Virtual Machine.
https://cointelegraph.com/news/smart-contracts-separating-ethereum-from-bitcoinEthereum started out as a technology that was focused on Smart contracts, but then Bitcoin started to stagnate with the SegWit vs BU battle and ETH
saw a gap and started marketing itself as a currency. They will grow as a currency, if people start using it as a alternative to a slow Bitcoin. We do not
know who is behind these spam attacks, but my suspicion is that a competitive Alt coin... might be behind this.