Quotes from Jeff Reed

Like Bitcoin, there is little stopping Ethereum from being an alternative currency to fiat and commodity currencies. You can conceivably trade anything using Ethereum, but this is not Ethereum's strength in comparison to other cryptocurrencies (CCs) – they can all do this. It's rather the computing language that allows the smart contracts to exist that makes Ethereum more valuable than BTC (in my opinion). The

In essence, the fundamental benefits of investing into Ethereum is the cryptographic nature, it's anonymity, it's universality, it's divisibility, and most specifically, it's coding language which specifically targets it for automated transactions and contracts. The

Augur may be destined to become the web's answer to gambling prohibition—it will do to the betting man what the silk road did to the drug user—but you'd never know it from talking to the developers of the system.

With that said, if you were to be a long-term investor in Ethereum, you have to focus on the long-term timeline, with short-term volatility being a necessary even to find traction within the market, and for value to solidify. Thus, if you believe that the demand for Ethereum will be higher in one, two, five, or ten years (your duration in which you plan to hold), then you need not worry about the fluctuations that occur in the interim. Let's