✅ ETH had the highest percentage appreciation in the bull market of 2020–2✅ BTC showed more resilience in times of crisis.
📰 2. What Was Being Said at the Time?
🔷 Bitcoin
"Digital gold"
"Store of value against inflation"
"Growing institutional adoption"
Highlights:
Elon Musk buys BTC with Tesla 🚗
El Salvador makes it official currency 🇸🇻
BTC-based ETFs start getting approved
🔶 Ethereum
"Ethereum 2.0 will revolutionize the market"
"Base of all NFTs and DeFi"
"The future of Web3 is here"
Highlights:
Explosion of NFTs (OpenSea, BAYC)
Ethereum Merge → transition to Proof-of-Stake (2022)
Increase in adoption in real applications
🔧 3. Technology and Use
Feature Bitcoin Ethereum
Consensus Proof-of-Work Proof-of-Stake (since 2022)
Transaction speed ~7 TPS (with Lightning) ~30 TPS (L2s exceed 2,000)
Usability Store of value Execution of contracts and DApps
Ecosystem Conservative Highly innovative
Dev Community Smaller Largest in Web3
📌 Ethereum is much more technologically flexible, but Bitcoin is extremely robust and secure.
🧠 4. Investment Strategy
✔️ Bitcoin:
For those seeking stability, security, and protection against inflation.
Lower risk, lower volatility, slower growth — but solid.
✔️ Ethereum:
For those seeking accelerated growth, real use, Web3 projects, staking, and innovation.
Higher risk, but with potential for higher returns.
🔮 5. And the Future?
Bitcoin will continue as a store of value and market benchmark.
Ethereum will continue to lead in smart contracts, DeFi, NFTs, metaverse, and Web3.
The arrival of improvements like sharding and more Layer 2s could make ETH even more scalable and cheaper, while BTC may gain new utilities with Runes, Ordinals, and integration with stablecoins.
🟩 Bitcoin = Trust, reserve, stability
🟨 Ethereum = Innovation, utility, growth
👀 And you? Which one are you holding? ETH or BTC?
👇 Leave your opinion in the comments
