I'm pretty new to this, and after researching a bit, I feel like ETH is going places and has far fewer barriers to expansion that BTC. I want to buy and hold some coins, and as of now i'm leaning towards ETH. but I can't ignore the fact that bitcoin seems like top dog still... so convince me to buy BTC instead of eth. Give a reason besides "first movers advantage" 
Bitcoin was serves as a mother of all crypto currency now. Its popularity now was continuously spreading all over the world. And when you look on its value it was far from the other coins. You can get more benefits in bitcoin than ETH. Bitcoin can more to many thing and can directly converted into fiat.