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Weiss Ratings, a provider of market research and stock analysis on ETFs, mutual funds, cryptocurrency, banks, and insurance companies, made a bold move saying that Ethereum will overtake 50% of Bitcoinâs market share in the next 5 years.
Bitcoin a âOne Trick Ponyâ
Weiss Ratings came out swinging September 18, making a bold prediction that Bitcoin (BTC) 00 will lose half of its market share to Ethereum (ETH) 00 within five years.
Furthermore, the research provider referred to the worldâs first and foremost cryptocurrency as a âone-trick ponyâ, arguing that Ethereum has superior blockchain technology and that the limit of its application is âsky itself.â
#Bitcoin will lose 50% of its #cryptocurrency market share to #ETH within 5 years, due to it offering more uses and being backed with superior #blockchain technology. We completely agree â unlike #BTC, which is a one-trick pony, the limit of ETHâs application is sky itself.
â Weiss Ratings (@WeissRatings) September 18, 2018
ETH currently stands at a market cap slightly upwards of $25 billion. It has lost over 82 percent of its value since January 2018. Bitcoin, on the other hand, stands at a market cap of $116 billion, which is roughly around 61 percent below Januaryâs numbers.
Furthermore, Bitcoin has been single-handedly dominating the market, accounting for more than half of its entire capitalization. Bitcoin dominance is currently at 51 percent according to data from CoinMarketCap.
Apples and Oranges
Prices aside, comparing Bitcoin and Ethereum does seem rather questionable at best. As simple as it may be, looking at the very first sentence of both whitepapers reveals fundamental differences making them completely incomparable.
According to Bitcoinâs whitepaper, its concept is to be âA purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution.â
Ethereum, on the other hand, aims âto create an alternative protocol for building decentralized applications, providing a different set of tradeoffs that we believe will be very useful for a large class of decentralized applications, with particular emphasis on situations where rapid development time, security for small and rarely used applications, and the ability of different applications to very efficiently interact, are important.â
Naturally, Weiss Ratingsâ tweet caused a reaction on behalf of the community, with advocates of both cryptocurrencies flooding the comments.
Remember when @WeissRatings was relevant? Neither do I. https://t.co/rGYxfT4hwt
â WhalePanda (@WhalePanda) September 19, 2018
Quickly after the first tweet, though, the research provider took a far softer approach, seemingly acknowledging the inappropriateness of its initial statement.
In 5 yrs we see #ETH-LIKE platform dominating the market â not necessarily ETH. Hard to predict which project dominates, but we feel usefulness and flexibility of ETH will be the standard. We apologize for not being clear. Our earlier tweet was a comment on an article (below).
â Weiss Ratings (@WeissRatings) September 19, 2018
Painful Contradictions
Whatâs peculiar, though, is that Weiss Ratings is describing itself as the ânationâs leading provider of independent, unbiased, trusted ratings of stocks, mutual funds, cryptocurrencies, ETFs, and financial institutions.â
Not only are the above tweets painfully biased, but they are also in direct contradiction to the companyâs previous position. Just a few days ago, on September 12, Weiss Ratings tweeted the following:
For Joseph Lubin, a co-founder of #Ethereum, the price of digital currencies isnât something he spends a lot of time worrying about. Heâs more concerned with practical applications of the technology. And so should be everyone else. Too bad Etherum doesnât work. #btc #bitcoin
â Weiss Ratings (@WeissRatings) September 12, 2018
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