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Less not forget the competitors to Ethereum too, such as EOS or Cardano. These should provide better scalability.

There is a bunch of work happening with Ethereum to address the scalability problem, namely Proof of Stake and Sharding as well as complimentary systems like Raiden that use the main blockchain for dispute resolution and not every payment. I expect 2018 to be a busy year for Ethereum development!

Indeed. Same here. Either way competition will only make the cryptoassets and tools better.

As soon as I can experiment with programming an EOS or Cardano smart contract I'll be happy to comment on their viability, but as far as I can figure out you can't, or at least no one is doing it.

Ethereum has a working smart contract on the foundation website, as well as an online compiler to test with.

The EOS testnet launched last week. You can play with it using eos.js: https://github.com/eosio/eosjs

EOS looks like the most developer-friendly crypto I've seen. If you can write in a language that can compile to WebAssembly, then you can create a DApp on EOS.

No doubt about. Either way, the newcomers are bringing new ideas that can also make Ethereum improve.

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