What would you rather buy for the long term right now...BTC or ETH?

[mk4]

Ethereum is preferred over bitcoin. The price of bitcoin have gone high, and I find the price of ethereum to be affordable to buy it as a whole.

Wait. Are you saying that you think Ethereum is more "affordable" because it's unit price is lower? That buying one "whole" Ethereum is cheaper?

Also from various predictions ethereum is said to touch atleast $17800 within the next five years time.

Oh yea, "price predictions" surely ends well most of the time.

[tokeweed]

I’d take both but I like the chances of ETH have more upside than BTC and lower the gap between them in CMC.  And I wish ETH would start decoupling from BTC and just hold out on its own and take most of the alts with it to the moon tbh.  BTC has a tendency to spoil everything cos of its own issues.

[thecodebear]

Personally I'd go with ETH, but that's because I already have a lot more Bitcoin than ETH.

Your reason is not making any sense; what you are already having cannot be a criteria to decide where you will invest further. If are investing into something else for the reason of diversification then that could be a different case but ignoring the growth rate and investing into other things just because of already holding in more number definitely a naive decision.

You sound like you are speculating both BTC and ETH are having same level of ROI in coming times but I expect ETH may become like how litecoin is doing right now due to evaluation of another coin. So, having BTC in more number is always recommended.

Of course it makes sense, it's not naive, the naive decision would be to not take into account what I already own. If I had 100 Bitcoin and 1 Ether obviously that would play into my calculations differently than if I had 500 Ether and 1 Bitcoin. What you are saying only makes sense if you know the future and know which could will grow the most, and obviously nobody knows that. I have no idea which will grow more from here on out. I know my portfolio is significantly skewed toward Bitcoin (which is perfectly fine), and I can have extremely high confidence that both will grow immensely in the future, thus I can make a decision from those two things.

I have a good amount of ETH but I have a ton of Bitcoin. So if I could only chose one I would pad out my Ethereum holdings because they are significantly less than what I have in Bitcoin (in dollar value at the moment my BTC:ETH ratio is just under 8:1), so I could better take advantage of the growth of the smart contract world. Right now I'm already very strongly taking advantage of the growth of Bitcoin as a global store of value but taking less advantage of the growth of the smart contract world, so if I could only choose one I'd go with increasing my ability to take advantage of the smart contract world because that is where my portfolio is lacking right now.

[thecodebear]

I’d take both but I like the chances of ETH have more upside than BTC and lower the gap between them in CMC.  And I wish ETH would start decoupling from BTC and just hold out on its own and take most of the alts with it to the moon tbh.  BTC has a tendency to spoil everything cos of its own issues.

If you're hoping alts all go to the moon you've got stuff to figure out haha. 99%+ of alts are shitcoins that will never have any use besides trading, or are experimental coins in a sea of experimental coins that may never amount to anything or may get a year in the sun and then be overtaken by newer coins. Bitcoin is the base money of crypto, there is a reason everything follows Bitcoin. Bitcoin doesn't spoil the rallies of the rest of the market, it literally creates the rally in the first place.

Bitcoin brings in the people and the money, and to a far lesser extend Ethereum does so as well now, and then once people get into Bitcoin and Ethereum they decide to spread their money around so tiny alts get pumped to high heaven with a little bit of inflowing money. Bitcoin doesn't spoil their rallies, it literally creates their rallies. Most alts are in the long term worthless and heading towards zero against Bitcoin. "take most alts with it to the moon" is not something you should ever be counting on or hoping for. If you are that means you are way over exposed on shitcoins.

[tokeweed]

^  I’m talking about the recent run of the market as of late.  Check out BTC’s chart with ETH’s chart.  It’s pretty obvious ETH is breaking out while BTC is being sold down by who knows who taking everything down with it.  

But it looks like ETH is having a good run rn after the hard fork and it seems to be somehwhat carrying BTC with it too.  But really..  I still want to see a decoupling with the whole market rallying behind ETH.  And BTC can be in red for as long as it wants.  Lol.

[sirminesalot]

Currently bitcoin is gold, and ETH is a platform. For long time investing i think bitcoin is still gonna be strong because many people are hold it and the supply is limited. But investing on ETH is quite not bad also, as long as we watch the news of cryptocurrency and always keep up to date with any ETH information from their official, so we could make some decision if something bad happen

[Macadonian]

The answer will always be Bitcoin there will be no time that Ethereum will be worth holding for a longer time than Bitcoin. Bitcoin is the best reserve currency and gives the best prospects of holding it for longer. I am not sure if Ethereum will be worth anything in 10 years but Bitcoin I expect to be worth at least double the amount it is today.

[BIT-BENDER]

Thought question? C'mon no, I will not disrespect ethereum, this is mitochondria of alt-coins cells, one of the alt-coin I first get before any out there, but the question placed them side by side is a selection pick, I know this won't come to reality, but it would be Bitcoin if it was between Bitcoin and ethereum, crypto-currency has hall of fame slots for the two, now and in the future, so I do not think any of them won't be on the roaster when calling digital asset coins in crypto-currency.

[alpamar99]

why should you choose one when you can get both. both bitcoin and eth I think will dominate in the future, because as we all know that bitcoin even has a lot of fud and that causes the bitcoin price to be not good to see for the past few weeks but no one doubts the volatility of this coin and more and more news negative consciously or not bitcoin will become more and more famous.
On the other hand, eth is now starting with eth 2.0 and is now a hardfork that is being discussed among altcoin lovers who are predicted to reduce gas emissions. I don't think this can be seen with one eye because with this I believe it will be a turning point for eth to climb up and there is no doubt that eth in the future will definitely have more fans.
if we look at this as long as we can adopt both why do we bother to choose one because I really believe in the future eth and btc will be very good coinsw

[dotcoin.info]

I vote for Ethereum, but in general it's pretty silly to split the portfolio into one coin.
Bitcoin is the flagship and Ethereum is also, both of which show great profit in the distance. In addition, Ethereum can now greatly change and increase its performance in value.
Diversify your portfolio, don't bet on one coin.

[2double0]

Eth is going to produce short term gains but btc will remain the king of the markets by getting more and more dominant once it reaches $42k and stabilizes there for some time. I believed that bears took control of the markets but this rebound has changed my mind and I am again bullish, highly bullish on btc than ever. Eth will be left behind once btc begins its run up.

[wxa7115]

Simple question. Between BTC and ETH what would you want to load up on right now if you could only choose one?

Personally I'd go with ETH, but that's because I already have a lot more Bitcoin than ETH.

Everything depends on your personal circumstances, without taking into account those circumstances then it is very easy for me to say that we should always get more bitcoin as it is without a doubt the best coin out of the two and the one that has a higher potential to keep growing as institutional investors are very interested in it.

However as it is in your case you already have enough bitcoin then it is not a bad idea to get some more ethereum, you just need to be careful because if the price goes down again then ethereum is going to crash way harder than bitcoin producing more losses for you, and that is something that no one wants.

[Handsome Boy]

Simple question. Between BTC and ETH what would you want to load up on right now if you could only choose one?

Personally I'd go with ETH, but that's because I already have a lot more Bitcoin than ETH.

if I personally would definitely choose Bitcoin, because Bitcoin is the king of all cryptocurrencies, so it is definitely safe to be used as a long-term investment and of course the price will definitely continue to increase very high (create a new ATH price), then of course Bitcoin will definitely still be ranked 1 on coinmarketcap and will become the most popular of all cryptocurrencies, therefore I believe to invest in Bitcoin for the long term, because I will definitely be able to get a lot of profit from investing in Bitcoin.

[Hobo66]

Eth is Good move man , during the last run , I had put 100$ in each and the 100$ in Bitcoin would move so slow BECAUSE of how massive it’s already been, so I’d make a 35$ profit because BTC was already too huge , 
Meanwhile,
The same 100$ from ETH was giving me 80$ , because of how smaller it is , so in my opinion you’ll make more money watching ETH grow than from BTC ,

[Marvell1]

Bitcoin and ethereum are the top two coins in the market.It's sad if you are an investor with cryptocurrencies without holding these two coins.But if I had to choose between the two, bitcoin would be my choice.

[pealr12]

I will buy both of them but only make one have higher percentage than the other, since eth market cap not as high as btc and the price is much cheaper compare to btc, I will buy 60% eth and 40% btc, eth will give higher returns more than what btc will give, if there is a possibility eth can grow to $10,000 each that will be a very reasonable price as against it's current price, between eth has lots of room to grow in future.

[cabron]

The update of ETH definitely made a lot of users buy it and especially institutions. Many are saying that Vitalik will have less influence on ETh after this but it's really unsure whether the update made ETH decentralized. I'm still going to choose BTC because we all know this is more censorship-resistant.  ETH having a deflationary monetary policy is certainly attractive though.

[Ozero]

I’d take both but I like the chances of ETH have more upside than BTC and lower the gap between them in CMC.  And I wish ETH would start decoupling from BTC and just hold out on its own and take most of the alts with it to the moon tbh.  BTC has a tendency to spoil everything cos of its own issues.

It's right. Bitcoin already has a high price and each next doubling in price will be more problematic than the previous ones. Therefore, I believe that the risk of investing in it is increasing.
On the other hand, the ethereum network is currently being updated and soon this coin will be much more efficient than before in every respect. Therefore, I am choosing ethereum now. This coin is expected to rise in value several times soon. For Bitcoin, this is already much more difficult to do.

[FinneysTrueVision]

Either choice is a good investment. I prefer BTC because it is what I earn the most and I would not like to be constantly exchanging to ETH and every time I want to make a transfer I would lose a lot in fees. I'd rather just accumulate as much BTC as possible and hodl it.

[fullhdpixel]

Personally I would choose Bitcoin. As it is the currency with the biggest market cap and the most reliable to my mind.

Biggest marketcap could be the external measurement what most people usually do bother but I suggest to look into ROI and how consistently we could make that. Bitcoin must be continuously performing asset hence choosing it over all other coins and tokens will definitely disappoint any investor in long run.

Either choice is a good investment. I prefer BTC because it is what I earn the most and I would not like to be constantly exchanging to ETH and every time I want to make a transfer I would lose a lot in fees. I'd rather just accumulate as much BTC as possible and hodl it.

You are contradicting yourself or you are not having one proper goal. I guess you must alter your investment approach like 60-80% in bitcoin and the rest for ethereum. This way you may have both but the highly performing one in more percentage.