Ethereum

“It's programmable, so you're not just running useless hashes.”

“IMO, they shouldn't have made an exception, as it set a bad example.”

“the chain that they reorganized when the wrong people lost money in the DAO hack”

“continuously evolving Ethereum for modern all-around-good experience”

“Ethereum, for all its other faults, has shown that burning lots of electricity is not necessary for cryptocurrencies.”

“When a major incident happens on Bitcoin or Ethereum – for example, the DAO hack – they had to resort to a hard fork.”

“was designed to allow anybody to run a validator or even a full node out of modest hardware”

“ethereum wants to build a global root of trust (like iana but decentralized)”

“Smart-contracts and NFTs failed to create any meaningful value or have any lasting economic impact”

“the defining property of public blockchains is they are designed to never go down”

“ethereum created a neutral, stable, secure cheap and transparent programmable financial platform”

“rewrote the rules of their system when a bug was found in the first popular smart contract, the DAO”

“they are at the forefront of the use zero-knowledge proofs”

“Ethereum has been doing real proof of stake ... it's seemingly cheap, effective, and robust.”

“Unlike Ethereum, it has no utility for decentralized applications.”

“Ethereum is not decentralzied at all, because that is a core property of proof-of-stake”

“Ethereum's blockchain consumes less energy, is more decentralized, it's a lot more resistent to any form of attack”

“still believe in it even after the crypto bros took the name”

“Their continued execution, including successfully switching engines mid-flight (The Merge), has earned them a bit of reprieve”

“Ethereum lost all credibility with that fork. You can't trust a system/currency that changes the rules like that.”

“ETH is not afraid of doing hard forks, so I'm expecting that they will lead in adopting post quantum cryptography.”

“It had a massive premine, there's no supply cap, it's subject to OFAC censorship”

“BTC and ETH have just chugged along as they actually have an underlying use case”

“proof of stake rather than proof of work has none of these issues”

“Ethereum does it just fine”

“Proof of stake such as Ethereum is a lot less energy intensive”

“Ethereum is extremely energy efficient after the switch to proof of stake”

“there's a lot of stuff I've wanted to try building on Ethereum et al that I just haven't done because I can't get over the hurdle of paying transaction costs”

“the core work is done by the Bitcoin and Ethereum teams and it is pretty admirable”

“Ethereum is so good at being distributed than it's decentralized.”

“transactions are cheaper, more reliable and anybody can still participate and build on it”

“the gas fees made cost of doing anything real too costly”

“If I can solve that problem with another simpler, older technology it doesn't count as useful.”

“Ethereum is a decentralized programmable chain, a new kind global public institution.”

“It is a global decentralized computer, albeit a rather limited one.”

“doesn't burn energy anymore and you can actually do programming on it”

“Neither ETH nor BTC are being utilised for anything other than "Money goes in, price goes up"”

“With etherium, you inherit even more centralization due to the nature of the scripting system and PoS.”

“Decentralized public chains, especially Ethereum, offer new kinds of credible commitments that are strong enough to bind corporations and governments”

“globally systemically important public blockchains are on track to become, especially Ethereum”