Bitcoin is having a run now, but it will be Ethereum's turn in a bit. For the past 24 hours BTC is up around 7% and ETH 6.5%. However, 7 days and 30 days out is more favorable to BTC. ETH and BTC have lost about the same in 1 year, with BTC edging it out by 2%. In the past 3 years ETH is up 1,490% vs 424% for BTC. ETH outperformed BTC by an order of 3.5X the past 3 years.
Obsidian - you are smart, and what you said here is not false, but it is misguided. Let me explain...
I could create an "alt" today, for $1 and sell it for $1000 (to myself or a friend) and then claim a 1000% return in a day (or an annualized return of 3,650,000. Do you see where I am going with this...?
Eth, with a smaller market cap and a more recent creation than Bitcoin, will for a period of time of course rise faster than Bitcoin. Any shit coin will. That is why people create them. And the number of shit coins which can be created is infinite, which is also why they will all eventually fail to compete with Bitcoin.
Rather than look at %rises over periods shorter than the life of Bitcoin, I suggest you look at how much funds have flowed into Bitcoin (given its larger market cap) vs the amount of funds which have flowed into [name your favorite alt]. Indeed, given BTC's much larger market cap, the recent outperformance of BTC over ETH is even more impressive.
We need people like you on-side. United we will all benefit and succeed. Divided (with shit coins) and we collectively fail. Lets not give money to alt scammers promoting new "projects". Believe me- I know this scene intimately well, and have friends and associates who are deeply involved. Despite offers (and despite contemplating) I have always turned down offers to participate as a founder, both because I simply can't feel comfortable with scamming bright eyed crypto novices, and also because I do worry about the legal and reputational implications.