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EXITSWINGLEVERAGECARRYFRAUDNO RECOURSEBARRIEREXPERTISE
  • Bitcoin 56 Tough Extreme on fraud, protection and volatility, and trivial to enter — most crypto losses explained in a single picture.
  • Ether 59 Tough Bitcoin's outline with more expertise demanded: every contract you sign is another way to lose it.
  Bitcoin Ether
Exit difficulty 2 2
Volatility 5 5
Leverage 3 3
Carry cost 1 1
Fraud risk 5 5
Protection gap 5 5
Barrier to entry 1 1
Expertise needed 4 5
Difficulty 56 Tough 59 Tough
In a sentence A fixed-supply digital bearer asset with no cash flow, no issuer and no closing bell — the first thing to demonstrate that money could be a protocol.The fuel for a programmable settlement network — closer to a claim on the usage of a platform than to a currency.
Unit 1 BTC = 100,000,000 satoshis 1 ETH = 10^18 wei
Smallest realistic trade A few pounds’ worth A few pounds’ worth
Settlement On-chain, roughly every ten minutes, irreversibly On-chain, around 12 seconds per block

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