Tang: Bitcoin and Ethereum will coexist and serve distinct use cases
Eric Tang · 759: He Shares How He Built His Company On Top of Cryptocurrency Ethereum and Why · Aug 22, 2017 · at 10:14
Livepeer co-founder Eric Tang discusses whether new smart-contract blockchains will render earlier networks obsolete.
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“I think all of these blockchains will exist, will coexist. So it's not like Ethereum is going to exist and Bitcoin is going to go away. My personal belief is that Bitcoin has its use case, and so does Ethereum.”
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