Really interesting read, still my biggest fear about Ethereum is if their scaling plans fails, then we will have just another fancy "dead horse".
However if ETH will succeed in its scaling plans(which I am sure it will) then we will end up having an even bigger corpse than a "dead horse" in the crypto-universe: a dead dinosaur called BTC....
Don't forget BTC has a reasonable network effect at its advantage and can incorporate ethereum features through merge-mined sidechains. I bet that this will be the outcome:
Bitcoin used for monetary transactions and a sidechain used for smart-contracts/bots.
Best regards,
ilpirata79
Sorry no offense, but ETH is better in every possible regard: speed, scalability, encryption, smart contracts etc. ETH will encorporate BTC ultimately as a side-chain out of respect for historical purposes.