Bitcoin with its outdated tech and development ideology is overrated. Beginning in this space in 2013 I was once a Bitcoin Maximalist. Learning from the mistakes of the past, certain alt coins are in prime position to gain mass adoption before Bitcoin will. Bitcoin's not going away but will be super seeded by Ethereum later this year most likely. While Lightening Network has been promoted as the great saver of BTC its still many years before its going to be easy use for the average person. Most users and exchanges will not see much of a benefit from it any time soon just like Segwit has been live for 6 months with only 20% adoption, thus far. Still easier and more useful to scale on chain and off. LN is for special use cases only. Too much hope has been place on Lightening Network, which has been exactly Bitcoin's Core plan from day one.
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Bitcoin may have a number of problems, but Ethereum has One Big Problem, namely that it is an inflationary currency.
It also suffers from the lack of a unique use case. It's little more than a digital fiat currency, where the central governing body may legislate coins from one user's wallet into another. It may be the darling of traditional dinosaur financiers, but it's not so much a new and better system as it is a way for the old system to try prolonging itself.
I could not disagree more. ETH has a very finite supply. Once Casper is live this misconception will clear up. Also, there's nothing keeping the 21 million limit in BTC, if miners decided to increase it. Ethereum is designed to be a utility token and currency to power the ETH Dapp eco-system. Meaning the more popular the ERC-20 tokens are and apps the more valuable the ETH currency should be. Store of value is just one use case in ETH but over time there's likely to be millions. Also, ETH is decentralized, meaning it works on consensus based mechanics where no one person can control it.