bch: ETH vs. BTC: Is the Flippening possible? (EIP-1559 impact)
IT Consultant / Certified Crypto Trader
Will Ethereum develop a strong monetary advantage as ETH supply starts being burned? Would this be a threat to Bitcoin?
We have seen several projects to be targeting both BTC (such as BTG, BCH, BSV) and ETH (EOS, QCK, BNB, eGLD, ZIL etc) with new innovations such as speed, scalability, and user's experience but none is really coming close except BNB which is widely adopted when developer want to sacrifice cost as against seamless user experience and ETH is about to get that resolved. I cannot see ETH threatening on BTC to have a huge impact both now and in the near future. BTC is limited in supply and it is argued severally that BTC might not be more than 16 Million as against 21 Million of total supply as many has been lost during the early stage when BTC worth less than a penny to addresses that private keys was not properly kept. Additionally, the deceased person that got in early and did not pass the private key to anybody is also inclusive, such addresses have no transaction for over a decade. ETH was not created to compete with BTC but as a platform for dApp. BTC is a store of value and poss to replace the traditional mode of currencies. When any thought comes about cryptocurrency, Bitcoin is the first to reckon with, the dominance is huge and most investors feel comfortable with BTC despite its volatility. While ETH keeps on to evolve is the platform that many people see as the future of blockchain, as of now, the platform holds over 70% of DeFi (Decentralized Finance) projects and the ETH 2.0 and EIP-1559 that may likely happen in this quarter, a lot of issues will be addressed which will make it retain its relevancy and gain more dominance in the crypto market share index but I don't see it competing with BTC anytime soon with the huge supply despite the approach of strategically burning the total supply.
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