As we all know, the exchange rate of Ethereum has fallen during the past few months (vs BTC). From around 0.035 BTC per coin six months back, the prices have fallen to 0.0205 BTC as of now.
If you compare the price in regards to bitcoin then there is no way any coin will catch up with bitcoin, the main difference in the past six months is that the price of bitcoin has increased its valuation three folds and the price of ETH also doubled from those situation, just take the dollar valuation and ETH will survive if they are able to come up with solutions for their flaws.More developers to continue using this chain for their projects the more potentials that the value will rise high again
Many projects used ETH for their initial collection and majority of the successful projects migrated to their own chain and all the scam projects died off leaving behind the coins in the blockchain 
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