Need ETH hopium. Running on fumes here. Always falling parity with btc, little hope in short term performance, no catalysts soon, just a future promise of some sort of upgrade and then pos (which is a meme). Nobody cares about defi or dapps or any of that shit what it is actually used for.
Basically, tell me why I shouldn't dump my ETH right now?
You honestly probably should dump it. People look at ETH and think that the space is the same as it was from 2015 to 2017. ETH devs take forever to do anything, and the code is a fucking nightmare to try and upgrade without breaking anything. Meanwhile shit like TRX has already become the most popular platform for dapps, with someone actually making aggressive moves to market it. Stop holding based on promises and look at actual achievements and popularity.
>phase 0 specification is about to be frozen on June 30th. nice
Cooper Edwards
ETH will never have value like bitcoin Dapp platforms come and go
Caleb Richardson
but ETH didn't go anywhere yet
Luis Diaz
but wait a minute, it engendered the hottest smart contract token of the moment; LINK. so maybe you need to re-examine your ability to assess value in things?
Isaiah Morris
ETH token has no value and dapps will migrate as it becomes more shit
Oliver Wood
>BTC has no value and people will migrate as it becomes slower
ETH is #2 forever deal with it
Josiah Anderson
ETH will pump sooner or later. BTC remains virtually unchanged since its inception, but that hasn't made it any less relevant. It's still ranked #1 because of its first mover advantage.
Isaac Watson
I know what you mean by this, but it is not correct.
BTC has been "upgraded" several times, segwit most notably. Lightning network is also a thing, and heavily developed.
ETH is something else entirely, but its becoming so convoluted.
Mason Foster
Segwit was a small incremental change in the grand scheme if things. BTC still suffers from the same problems that were predicted years ago like the high transaction fees and TPS backlogs. You would think this would make it unusable but it still continues to be #1.
Lucas Price
point, set, match
Robert Clark
Institutional investment. They won't buy shit coins.
Charles Martinez
>convoluted says who
Juan Johnson
ETH has first mover advantage in terms of dapps smart contracts etc.
Nathan Barnes
that is my impression from the discussion surrounding the impending upgrade and switch to POS, miners are not on-board (of course), and the methodology by which the switch to pos will be implemented is contentious
pos implementation is also contentious, because there are several different camps when it comes to how pos should be for ethereum
I think we are going to see a fork or two come out of this, and this time I don't think its going to be a shitfork, but rather represent a significant fraction of the development and mining community
Jason Howard
At this point, your best bet is to hope that Ethereum can ride Link's coattails to relevance.
Luke Sanders
read this if you don't see what a revolution ETH 2 is going to be after reading that, then god help you and remain poor
Logan Davis
Sharding is going to be capable of at least 1B transactions daily. Assuming $0.01 average fee after adoption picks up, that means $10M in fees daily. Assuming 10M eth staked, that means one eth earns $365/year in fees alone. Given crypto valuations, the likely price at this moment is >$10k.
You can change the variables here to be more optimistic or pessimistic. Personally I think even 10B transactions daily are possible with a bit higher fees. This can lead to seemingly insane valuations like $100k/eth, but they are insane only relatively to the current price, not for the platform the global economy relies on.
At some point the market is going to realize all this is happening. Maybe after the beacon chain is on, maybe after sharding is on, or maybe even later, when adoption on eth2.0 is increasing exponentially. At that point, the price is going to explode rapidly. You can't expect to make a big profit investing with the herd. When something is obvious it's already priced fairly, or more likely in crypto, overpriced. >pos implementation is also contentious, because there are several different camps when it comes to how pos should be for ethereum PoS spec is done, the only discussion remaining is about sharding.
Kevin Moore
I think that's exactly what will happen. ETH will become industry standard because LINK is.
Chase Clark
>remain poor you're either stupid or poor yourself
>pos implementation is also contentious I would really appreciate if you could point me to something where it's evident, the notes page posted above would imply everything is dandy at eth&co. I don't think you're implying to the 8 different clients being developed, because that is a good thing.
Jose Myers
I did read it, and it sounds like they are talking about technical upgrades. The most interest part was the execution environments and how they intend to monetize them. I am not a programmer or technician so I can't determine the validity of anything in this page, basically it says to me: >we are working on all this stuff and getting it done slowly but surely, it remains to be seen if anyone else finds it valuable
Would you care to give me a basic rundown of why you think its going to be huge?
Thank you, this gives me a better picture and is the hopium I am looking for. Obviously I don't know the whole story and have been just trying to get a feel for what is going on through browsing through various eth communities.
No need to get hostile, like I said that was my impression. It could be wrong, since I am only scraping the surface of eth communities. I posted this thread so that people could correct my possible misunderstanding and I am getting good info so far.
Elijah Martin
vitalik is a hyperautist and one of the few people in crypto that arent doing technobabble keynotes
Christian Jackson
>BTC is slow Newfag
Xavier Williams
What are all the miners going to do when eth flips to POS? How are they going to sustain mining with the looming promise to turn the money faucet off unless you happened to have been stacking instead of selling?
they will switch to mining 0xbitcoin which will become the only POW token with value on the Ethereum blockchain.
if you look beyond the FUD and check the Dev work around 0xbitcoin and lava relay you will se 0xbitcoin is much much much more than a meme.
if you're not stacking some 0xbtc then you deserve to be poor
Jacob Wright
demented
Nolan Richardson
ETH is a mess LINK is going to flip ETH this year
Elijah Rogers
>Would you care to give me a basic rundown of why you think its going to be huge? Fundamentally, all blockchains are about ordering. You want to see that X came before Y. Everything else is a protocol detail. Currently, these details are hard backed into code. Possible things that can be done without changing that code - a hard fork or a soft fork - is limited. On bitcoin, it's almost nothing, with practical use cases limited to multisig and payment channels (esoteric and too complex to actually use scripts notwithstanding).
On the current ethereum, you have turing complete smart contracts, which allow much, much more, but the base protocol is hardcoded too: you have accounts with nonces that have balances you have to use EVM So while theoretically everything is possible, in practice implementing eg. zcash (full zk-snark based privacy/anonymity with a utxo system) is not possible, because implementing all that on top of the current system would be very expensive and unwieldy. Some things like the equivalent of P2SH from bitcoin had to be implemented as a hardfork (CREATE2) - there's no way to emulate them, short of interpreting another language on top of evm, which would be ridiculously expensive.
Execution environments change that. Now the base protocol only cares about ordering, eth balances of validators and total eth balance of any particular shard. Everything else is implemented as a special smart contract on the beacon chain (I'm sort of simplifying things here). It's going to be jitted ewasm which makes it almost as fast as native code. This means if you want to change something in the base layer itself - how accounts behave, maybe the utxo model, or maybe something different, you can implement your own completely new blockchain inside ethereum. This makes literally everything else obsolete-you can even have a DPoS EE if you want. One thing allowed by this is easy incorpotation of eth1 - you only have to implement the current evm logic as an EE.
Hudson Johnson
they said the same about the stinkies
Wyatt Thompson
>What are all the miners going to do when eth flips to POS? shut down their miners. There's nothing else that can absorb the amount of gpus mining ethash. I think the current plan is to soft-fork eth1 after the beacon chain is live for some time to follow blocks finalized on the beacon chain. After that happens, miners lose all power, block rewards can be reduced by 80% until full PoS - the state of eth1 is cloned onto a shard and restarted there while the PoW network dies. Note that the soft-fork part isn't anything certain.
Kevin Williams
Low IQ Low information individual
Easton Price
jesus
Christian Martin
I did and I have no regrets, you already know what I bought instead
Robert Nelson
Buy low sell high. Relative to 2017, we are very low with ETH.
Daniel King
thank you, that puts some things into perspective
Owen Brooks
ETH is coming back on BTC right now.
The last pump was to BTC, this pump will be to ETH. It's been a bit of a painful hold, but right now is the best time to be in it.
Owen Roberts
Why would he do this
Nathan Howard
ETH is going to go to 50k within 5 years, stable hold.
Henry Morris
Redpill me on execution environments
Aaron Butler
>you can implement your own completely new blockchain inside ethereum
It just now sunk in what this means. Welp...guess I will hold my eth and continue to dca in.
Its the only thing thats useful Utility approximates price Over time
Isaac Flores
TRX faggot has done nothing but stayed with 2 cents for the past 2 years. Im looking to sell all of my shit trx the first chance i get... ETH has a future obviously. Trx is proving not so... just look at the past 2 years. Its a freaking big nothing burger...
Owen Perry
ETH and LINK. Enough said if you want to retire in 3 to 4 years...