Ethereum has seen a huge rise in its adoption as the platform new startups use in implementing their projects.
However, there are other platforms such as Waves that can do the same things Ethereum does ( even easily as Waves does not require any programming skills). Why can't new startups use the Ethereum alternatives? Is there any uniqueness in Ethereum that other platforms don't have? What makes Ethereum the in-thing?
Ethereum is very special, because in reality it is not even an altcoin. It was created separately and this is a huge project. ETH is faster than Bitcoin and it is safer. The time of the block generation in Ethereum is 14-15 seconds, while for Bitcoin it is 10 minutes