| > - cryptokitties colored coins existed on bitcoin before ethereum was a thing > NFTs colored coins existed on bitcoin before ethereum was a thing > DeFi meaningless buzzword that vaguely gestures at scripting possibilities, which again, were in bitcoin before ethereum was a thing > scalability via layer 2 solutions was on bitcoin before ethereum was a thing > scalability via sharding not a thing for at least few years and will be either a spectacular failure or multiple separate chains with atomic swaps between them > actually working smart contracts instead of a vague promise of their eventual feasibility based on a yet-to-be-deployed piece of infrastructure smart contracts were a thing on bitcoin before ethereum existed > a concerted effort to move to PoS a gigantic failure that undermines security of ethereum and market will not be merciful > ongoing work on integrating ZK (zcash, beam, grin, monero)-type transactions. happened on non-ethereum ecosystem there's really not a lot to be excited about ethereum these days. years and years of promises of global scalable computer, finally an admission that it was all a giant lie and now again years and years of promises of ethereum 2.0 that will not actually for real be global scalable computer, except there's no proposed solutions for any problems because it's easier to part fools from their money with empty promises than with serious discussion about tradeoffs. |