“What do you think about Ethereum?”
A question all Bitcoiners should have a good answer to when their friends and family ask them.
A few thoughts beyond the “shitcoin” meme...
The truth that ETH devs won’t admit is that they’re a bunch of tech nerds that want to hack on something exciting. Their priority isn’t to move humanity to sound money. They want to build the next big thing and feel like they’re on the cutting edge. Typical developer / SV mindset
Bitcoin is a binary bet on the whole market. There are two possibilities:
1. Bitcoin survives and goes to $10MM a coin because it is humanity’s first perfect money
2. Bitcoin is destroyed by central bankers / governments in which case ETH will certainly meet the same fate.
We know exactly what Bitcoin is.
Perfect money: Scarce. Transferable. Divisible. It’s doing one thing, and doing it well. And that one thing has enormous upside potential. Buy it, hold it, and don’t worry about it changing.
Ethereum on the other hand…
I’ve seen Ethereum change from:
- The new Internet infrastructure (lol at Blockchain replacing relational databases)
- Crypto Kitties with massive gas fees
- ICO scam platform
- “Eth is money”
- “Eth is bonds”
- DeFi platform for a bunch of two-bit startups relying on AWS