There are many things I love about Ethereum but I am still hesitant to invest in ETH.  98% of volume went through Poloniex on the initial pump.  Has anyone been watching Poloniex lately? It resembles more of a crypto gambling site than an exchange.  Pretty much all coins with little outside volume have been pumped and dumped multiple times and no one finds that odd???

The most frustrating thing about this whole ETH craze... just because the ETH hype has raised it's market cap ahead of Ripple XRP and closer to BTC people seem to think Ripple and Bitcoin are dying and Ethereum is going to take over the world. This is not true because they have totally different utilities.

BTC had the best initial distribution - I would say it's use in the future is limited to large purchases or investors looking to hold something other than their fiat very similar to gold.

XRP is taking the top down approach and will be the best bridge currency for cross-boarder transactions and banks trading outside of their permissioned networks.

Ethereum is smart contracts...