2017 was the year of bitcoin, however once 2018 began it appeared like it had been attending to be the year for ethereum to take off.

With a promising start, the second-largest digital currency by market cap magnified by roughly 74.7 % from January to April. It in brief hit $1,369.78 on January ten, however had fallen to $274 on August 23.

Those riding this wave are white-knuckling it since then, hoping ethereum can rise from the ashes.

Bitcoin has trended downward overall this year also. It reached a year-to-date high of $17,627.40 on Jan five, however has since tumbled all the manner right down to $6,463 as of August 23.

As a result, speculation has been circling on whether or not one ought to invest in bitcoin or ethereum this year. Here we glance at the choices.

Invest in ethereum?

Ethereum

With values for each bitcoin and ethereum so low, is one  better than the other? Let’s take a glance at the basics. in line with Investopedia, compared with bitcoin, ethereum’s language is Turing complete, and its blocktime — however long it takes to complete a dealing — is additionally quicker.

David Mondrus, CEO of Trive, has same that “bitcoin has its scaling issues.” Mondrus continuing, stating that bitcoin has had scaling problems for many years currently, which its blocks presently have a 1-megabyte (MB) limit, which suggests that blocks on the bitcoin blockchain area unit solely ready to contain one MB of knowledge.

“Ethereum has its scaling issues [as well], however in ethereum’s case, the move towards a scalable  answer — like sharding — is well current,” he said.

Also, as a Quartz article touches on, ethereum can still grow within the variety of Dapps that area unit engineered on its platform. “In 2018, it'll move from proof of labor to proof of stake,” the article states.

Other reasons to be optimistic concerning ethereum over bitcoin embrace the actual fact that it's the “most wide used” and “most stable network,” Mati Greenspan, senior analyst at eToro, told Forbes.