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Board Altcoin Discussion
Re: Could Ethereum takeover Bitcoin?
by
Sark
on 21/05/2016, 17:32:03 UTC
While it is technically possible for this to happen in the short term here, I would be very surprised. I'm a huge Ethereum bull, but it should *not* be the crypto leader at this point. Bitcoin has a very important roll to play - it is established, stable and secure. Its the honey badger and its not going anywhere.

Ethereum is planning on moving from PoW to PoS as well as trying to implement a variety of scaling improvements. Those are not "sure things" and if they fail to deliver on them, ETH will likely fall by the wayside. There is undeniable risk here that you should be taking into account. The fact that we are looking at "moon" situations here is premature. If you want to ride the wave, invest modestly and follow the development path to make sure we are on track before betting the farm. If we go through the next couple major development releases with no hiccups, then I think it will be fair to start the hype train up.