Except for faster transaction confirmations, and lower fees. That may well turn out to be a temporary feature. Until 2015 (its sixth year of existence), Bitcoi

Except for faster transaction confirmations, and lower fees. That may well turn out to be a temporary feature. Until 2015 (its sixth year of existence), Bitcoin had negligible transaction fees. Ethereum and Bitcoin are subject to the same limitations: namely that every node requires every transaction to fully validate the chain. Both systems are also subject to the same limitations that will throttle "mass adoption:" the need to secure cryptographic material from network-based attacks.