Community Discussion - If BTC gets Smart Contracts WIll ETH die ?

in #bitcoin6 years ago

Lets try something different.

I will upvote all cool replies to this post.

Lets say BItcoin finally gets RSK - smart contracts.
ETH has em already and its main reason why its so high and used so much.

What do you think will BTC kill ETH then or people will still use ETH ?

By Kill i don't mean ETH will stop existing, i just mean if its gonna lose its portion of marketcap as it wont be needed as much.


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BTC is too expensive and takes long time to transfer (not to mention transaction fee). ETH should be a good alternative.

well it won't really die, the same way litecoin, dash, ethereum classic are still rolling along... I noticed an ATM company around my area is now letting you buy and sell altcoins along with bitcoin....amazing times ahead

hope so ;)

ETH has first mover on all the ICO tokens, so even if they can't get sharding etc working, they will still be relevant and ahead of BTC on that front.

BTC has already got Tether....but what has that done for them?

I have been hearing about Root Stock and Lightening since early 2015.

In fact, it kept me from buying ETH ICO. I made the mistake like many are doing today thinking Bitcoin would do it all but it has not.

This stuff is nothing more than vaporware but if it does finally launch it will take long time to catch up with ETH smart contracts.

ETH has issues scaling but I believe they will solve it with Casper release & sharding into late 2019 & 2020.

Coins w/ DPOS like EOS & STEEM seem much better for high speed dapps.

Where ETH is becoming backbone of decentralized finance.

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It not vaporware(it out now), but agree on the fact like other platforms Eth got the first mover advantage hence getting hold of it would take a long time.
RSK pretty scalable actually:
https://steemit.com/bitcoin/@sames/understanding-rsk-bitcoin-s-smart-contract-platform
Only time can tell who comes out on top...

If rsk works as good as lightning it wont kill it.

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Dogecoin will kill them all .

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I hope so :/

No. Easier to mine.

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BTC > ETH

The answer is yes... but the path is not straight forward.

Blockchain is a world-wide, slow ass, ledger.
Ethereum is a world-wide consensus computer, but if it doesn't store something, all the computation in the world is useless. So, it ends up being a ledger.

Although we can think of millions of applications for smart contracts, they really boil down to only a few.

So, it will come to pass, that all coins/tokens will have all the standard smart contracts (just like every programming language has printf).
And all the chains will have automic swaps.

After that, ethereum will become nothing more than a test platform and will be forgotten just like Forth and Fortran.

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