Cryptocurrency investor and Placeholder partner Chris Burniske has argued that Ether is enduring its first mainstream bear market, just as Bitcoin did back in 2014-15.
In a tweet posted on Aug. 20, Burniske noted that in retrospect, 2014-15 revealed itself as having been the best risk/reward period for investors to get Bitcoin exposure.
Parallel to Burniske's comments on Ether's price action, the founder of top crypto exchange Binance, Changpeng Zhao, also known as CZ, picked up on the ongoing debate sparked by Vitalik Buterin's statement this week that the Ethereum blockchain is almost full.
"I like Vitalik & ETH, but speed & capacity was a problem a year ago, but now a largely solved problem for newer blockchains. We need to increase real applications that people actually use, so that we hit the new capacity issues/limits again. Focus on applications."
In response, Buterin said that scalability issues are "Not solved at all," noting that even the newer semi-centralized blockchains can only process transactions p/second in the hundreds.
EOS, for example - he claimed - has already faced scalability bottleneck issues.
The Ethereum co-founder also conceded he was becoming more and more pessimistic about off-chain second layer solutions such as Lightning Network - a scalability solution for Bitcoin which opens payment channels directly between users that keep the majority of transactions off-chain.
Despite Ether's latterly bearish fortunes, the results of a recent survey of the global crypto Twitter community indicated that 54% of respondents believe Ether will see $1,000 again.
Buterin's recent remarks indicated that with scalability still as thorny an issue as ever, the pressure of high transaction costs and the squeeze for transaction space is keeping new partners from joining the network.
To press time, Ether is trading at $188, down 4.8% on the day, according to Cointelegraph's Ether Price Index.
Ethereum in Its First Big Bear Market Like Bitcoin in 2015, Analyst Says
Publié le Aug 21, 2019
by Cointele | Publié le Coinage
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