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Re:Flippening Watch (Ethereum has almost overtaken Bitcoin i... by nugget on Tuesday June 13, 2017 @11:46AM (#14545665)
Once ETH overtakes BTC I think BTC will start to crash and the resulting panic will (ironically) take down ETH and most other coins and tokens as well, starting the third great crypto bear market. Keep in mind trading volume is heavily manipulated by insiders (especially for ETH) but price is what the public watches. Now let's wait and see what happens.
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Re:Flippening Watch (Ethereum has almost overtaken Bitcoin i... by serhei on Tuesday June 13, 2017 @01:19PM (#14546524)
The real metric to watch (but the hardest to get) is "number of users" and particularly "number of users doing things other than buying coins/tokens in hope of capital gains".
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Re:Flippening Watch (Ethereum has almost overtaken Bitcoin i... by modo_ on Tuesday June 13, 2017 @05:25PM (#14548789)
I've had the same thought. The best analog I've come up with is searching Github for Ethereum vs. Bitcoin. The numbers (repos / loc / wikis ) are pretty strong for Ethereum compared to other coins excluding Bitcoin -- it would be interesting to plot them over time.

Have you found any other ways to watch this metric?

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Re:Flippening Watch (Ethereum has almost overtaken Bitcoin i... by someSven on Tuesday June 13, 2017 @06:48PM (#14549320)
The whole approach is biased in favor of etherum from the start, since bitcoin is not a smart contract system.
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