Winner of this year, ETH or BTC?

[tadpole_bitfrog]

Hello everyone!

Recently, I was thinkig. Is there really any reason for the BTC to be the market leader? The only thing that is giving the value to BTC is pretty much the fact, that it was the first crypto currency. It is the grandfather of all cryptos. But we know it has its flaws... It was never designed for broad usage, it has scaling issues and so on.

On the other hand, we were given ETH. The Crypto Kitties or w/e the awesome internet meme ETH appliction is called showed us, that ETH network has issues with high amounts of usage. BUT, 90% of all altcoins are based on the ERC-20 standard, brought to us by ETH. The smart contracts using the Solidity are extremly good piece of technolgy.

So my question is. Do you think, that BTC will keep its leadership, or will ETH be the winner of this year and surpass its ancestor?

My answer would be BTC. Although BTC has not improved much, they still run it. In addition, investors and whales often target BTC more and ETH is just altcoin forever in second place.
I still invest in Bitcoin and hopefully by the end of the year, its price will increase to $ 9k.

[adam1230]

For now there is no winner for me.
Everyone is losing in crypto investments.
Maybe BNB is the only one winner cause its still holding the value and looks very powerfull.

[AgatioX]

Start of 2018 year:
Btc price: 19 500$
Eth price: 1400$

Middle of year 2018:
Btc price: 6200$
Eth price: 350$

It is difficult to answer your question, while both Crypto-currencies fall proportionally, you can not single out the leader

[philad220]

This is of no doubt, bitcoin will forever take its leadership in the crypto market. So bitcoin will be the winner of this year over ethereum. The market is going down and down everyday ,leading to drop in the prices of all coins; same as bitcoin and ethereum. If you look the rate at which ethereum is dropping g in price, you will see that it will be hard for it to reach bitcoin price level again this year. Bitcoin price too is going down but it has a price dropping stability more than ethereum. Bitcoin is around $6,300 now while ethereum is around $374 , you can see that ethereum is very cheap to it. Bitcoin will still surely reach $30,000 before the year ends, whereas ethereum cannot reach more than $15,000 by then. So bitcoin will surely be the winner of this year, it will maintain its leadership in the crypto market.

[ggod5]

The winner forever is Bitcoin, and the market has fallen all the way this year. Bit still maintains the highest value. After this bear market, the first thing that must rise is bitcoin. Let us wait patiently.

[agnostos]

Bitcoin is the leader of the altcoins, I wouldn't think ethereum will overpass bitcoin. When the bitcoin price suddenly falls the ethereum and other coins do the same but not always. I think they all depends entirely on bitcoin.

[toddmichael]

Hello everyone!

Recently, I was thinkig. Is there really any reason for the BTC to be the market leader? The only thing that is giving the value to BTC is pretty much the fact, that it was the first crypto currency. It is the grandfather of all cryptos. But we know it has its flaws... It was never designed for broad usage, it has scaling issues and so on.

On the other hand, we were given ETH. The Crypto Kitties or w/e the awesome internet meme ETH appliction is called showed us, that ETH network has issues with high amounts of usage. BUT, 90% of all altcoins are based on the ERC-20 standard, brought to us by ETH. The smart contracts using the Solidity are extremly good piece of technolgy.

So my question is. Do you think, that BTC will keep its leadership, or will ETH be the winner of this year and surpass its ancestor?

Technology and cryptocurrencies as a whole are the winners because we are now one step closer to the mainstream adoption.

[gunbars]

BTC is the first succesful cryptocurrency so it will taking the 1st place until altcoins become more useful

[velona2589]

It is easy to make a choice - Bitcoin is a leader now

[MetalEngine]

This year, Ethererum has become even more popular. I think that in a couple of years he will take the first place, if bitcoin does not get support  smart contracts.

[vova.andreyan.94]

It's not the end of the year, and therefore it's too early to talk about the winner, but even by the end of the year, bitcoin will not be defeated!

[ambeo]

Hello everyone!

Recently, I was thinkig. Is there really any reason for the BTC to be the market leader? The only thing that is giving the value to BTC is pretty much the fact, that it was the first crypto currency. It is the grandfather of all cryptos. But we know it has its flaws... It was never designed for broad usage, it has scaling issues and so on.

On the other hand, we were given ETH. The Crypto Kitties or w/e the awesome internet meme ETH appliction is called showed us, that ETH network has issues with high amounts of usage. BUT, 90% of all altcoins are based on the ERC-20 standard, brought to us by ETH. The smart contracts using the Solidity are extremly good piece of technolgy.

So my question is. Do you think, that BTC will keep its leadership, or will ETH be the winner of this year and surpass its ancestor?

i think if we compare these currencies with theit own previous results, eth made more progress. it's difficult to compete against btc though

[Matdog]

This year, Ethererum has become even more popular. I think that in a couple of years he will take the first place, if bitcoin does not get support  smart contracts.

Indeed, ethereum is now very popular and certainly there are opportunities to beat bitcoin,
but if for now it's still difficult for ethereum to be able to beat bitcoin,
the most important thing is to follow the developments in the future

[Eric Costaa]

I think Bitcoin will continue to hold the throne until the end of 2018. Although the growth of Ethereum is many times higher than that of Bitcoin, but despite its high growth rate, it is still difficult to catch up and Market capitalization of Bitcoin

[PeaceOfMind58]

I will go with the btc.

[CarpeDiem79]

ETH has gained lots of popularity but the winner is btc.

[Seamless589]

Btc of course. But ETH will give a tough competition in future.

[armeniimu]

In terms of returns, ETH may be more profitable. But this year, both of these have performed bad.

[Moshi Moshi]

This year, Ethererum has become even more popular. I think that in a couple of years he will take the first place, if bitcoin does not get support  smart contracts.

Indeed, ethereum is now very popular and certainly there are opportunities to beat bitcoin,
but if for now it's still difficult for ethereum to be able to beat bitcoin,
the most important thing is to follow the developments in the future

in my opinion, if in the sales volume category, there is still a possibility for ethereum to beat bitcoin, but if it is in the price and interest category it is very far to beat bitcoin, and almost all aspects of bitcoin are invincible.

[Cristopherus]

This post is wrong on so many levels. ETH and BTC differ in their use-cases, BTC is currently leading when it comes to scaling and microtransaction innovation,
ETH is the dapp/smart contract leader, although scaling will come to it too with plasma/casper. Both are the must haves atm.