IF ethereum dies...

[Tolrem]

... what would/will be the next most promising smart contract platform for the eth-based projects to migrate to?

AntShares. Stratis. /thread. ETH is on it's way out.

[Tolrem]

If Ether dies, money will move back into bitcoin. Bitcoin and Ether have a mirror relationship in that when one is rising the other falls.

As to which alt will replace eth if it does - oldies like Litecoin and doge will have a chance, after all they've been tried and tested and are still here.

Doge? Come on. LTC may replace BTC but it CANNOT replace ETH. Ridiculous.

[shimbark123]

If etherium dies many alternative cryptocurrency  will rise for sure. And the race as the first cryptocurrency will probably change. And if the number one contender of bitcoin as the first crypto will die. Everything we know in the race will change also.

[flocoin]

Ethereum will not die, now is the time to buy!

[hisuka]

If etherium dies many altcoins will be affected for those who is under on his side. I hope it will continue living like a bitcoin.

I agree with you, other altcoins will be affected once this Ethereum will dies. Actually ethereum has been continuosly adapts by other bitcoin users. So in my own point of view it will still in demand in the market.

[coinmore_org]

Ethereum is backed by the "big boys" so it wont be allowed to "die" just yet..

[medsi2]

Ethereum will not die. It will only lose value and another one will replace it.
Think about it for a while: ETH is increasing value because of its over-valued ICO and everytime some of those ICO starts, the ETH network is congestioned and slow.

I'm not saying that we won't see ETH at 1000$+, but it will lose value when some alternative will take place.

Ethereum will not die, it will survive used by those companies that are starting their business on it.

Now I'm looking for some Ethereum alternative Let's see what Rootstock will bring..

[Hafas Rama]

Ethereum will not die but will lose the value of the sale price ..
But for now etherum is very valuable, if etherum really is not valuable it may take a very long time.

[sammart57]

ether won't die, but it can be knocked down a few pegs.
If ether's failure is a big reason for their large decline, due to smart contract issues, bloated blockchains, and other crap (dao hack, etc)

then the only smart replacement would be NEM. That doesn't mean that the market would see it that way, because NEM's marketing team sucks.. but it can do smart contracts, namespaces, mosaics, public and private blockchains, and soon will be re-released in C++ (catapult) Not to mention that once catapult is released, it will be thoroughly tested and vetted. It will be released for the private blockchains first, then public later.. I'm excited because it really can/will be able to do soo much. But it all hinges on IF it can manage to catch on, which is no sure thing.

[Paquarium ICO]

It is too early to speak about ethereum death...

[patroncito]

price is testing the 50% fibonnacci retracement level. I wont be surprised of a HUUUGE run up. Fasten your seat belts

[shifty30]

price is testing the 50% fibonnacci retracement level. I wont be surprised of a HUUUGE run up. Fasten your seat belts

keep dreaming

[patroncito]

price is testing the 50% fibonnacci retracement level. I wont be surprised of a HUUUGE run up. Fasten your seat belts

keep dreaming

STFU

[makeba]

Meanwhile here I am, waiting on the fence if I should buy or not...definitely a good price to buy at but I'm worried of all the security flaws. 

[stupid_seb]

NXT, BAY and ARK will raise

[~Bitcoin~]

... what would/will be the next most promising smart contract platform for the eth-based projects to migrate to?

I think waves because it have already hosted few ICO without any problem but it still needs to be tested with high volume of funding in fraction of seconds like some ICO are having with ETH based ERC20 tokens which have fu**ed up ETH network. 

[headachy]

Waves should be among top 3 players in crypto future...If market doesn't burn to the ground.

[Clark05]

If ethereum die, for sure etc willbe next number 1 altcoin and for ETC will become high price. But i think it is affected alsp because they also ethereum partner. But as of now i dont think will ethereum will die because even the price of ethereum dump today it will increase again next week and it will back to 350 dollars each and for sure after few months the price will become $1000. Buy ethereum now.

[hubballi]

... what would/will be the next most promising smart contract platform for the eth-based projects to migrate to?

If i am not wrong WAVES is the next platform which is going to get benefited if eth is dead as waves platform is also good to take over the eth platform based projects.

[singularityisnear]

Then it would be the millennials nightmare. But if you stay in Bitcoin I think you would be fine.