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Iam not opposed to etherum I just cant decide if the market likes it because its on all the major exchanges and a cheep alternative to bitcoin or it finds value in it's "smart contracts". Just being objective.

its nothing like bitcoin, its not a bitcoin alternative. It offers an open source blockchain to write decentrlized apps on, one of which is smart contracts, but thats only one of the dapps. There are thousands now beng written on ethereum.