Bitcoin is a pocket calculator, Ethereum is a general purpose computer. - NickSzabo
This. ETH > BTC no discussion. 10$ ain't NOTHING yet people dumbing at these prices will be VERY short-sighted.
I agree with you mate. Given the fact that Ethereum's price has been increasing very fast over the last month, I would say that we could reach $20+ in the next days or month. Maybe by the end of 2016, ETH would be at $50+ don't you think?
1. Price will be around 90$ per ETH by end of 2016 mostly due to the difficulty adjustment scheme
2. In 2017 POS is introduced and Dapps starting to run on the network in mass lots of GAS=ETH will be consumed which drives the price even higher 200-300$ per ETH range
3. In 3-5 Years Ethereum finally scales past 100000 Transactions per second towards infinite and goes mainstream there will be services like Youtube, Facebook, Amazon, News medias, Finance industry and also lots of even unthinkable services... with Billion+ users on the network GAS=ETH price explodes, USD is dead/gone and you will be rich even if you only hold 10 ETH.
Difficulty adjustment scheme started in October 2015 (block 200000)Diff after 0.858447488584475 month is: 6232936262127 and avg block time is: 15.5823406553175
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Diff after 11.8584474885845 month is: 6605394050023 and avg block time is: 16.5134851250575 <--- Here is roughly October 2016
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