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Staking and ETH 2.0 will make or break it. Validator adoption rate will be slow on the beacon chain because of the hurdles to stake (outside of joining a pool), just like mining was in the early days of Bitcoin itself. Once issues are ironed out I think real, working Proof of Stake (unlike Peercoin) can be demonstrated here, which is key. If that is successful and ETH moves towards fully stake instead of work (already in the multiyear roadmap), that will be revolutionary, and ETH's market cap may well be equal or near BTC's. We're talking about eliminating one of the last bastions of crypto-critics' complaints: muh environmental footprint