In the Bitcoin standard, there is no place for Ethereum: Samson Mow

Bitcoin’s businessman and defender (BTC), Samson Mow, returned to take distance from Ether (ETH) and other cryptocurrencies. In a series of publications on social networks, he said that in a financial system based on the creation of Satoshi Nakamoto – what he calls a “Bitcoin standard” -, there is no place for projects such as Ethereum.

According to Mow, Companies that have BTC in their balances must show a total conviction in that strategy; Otherwise, investors will assume that they will eventually choose to diversify.

For Jan3 CEO, maximalism is not only an ideological position, but also an effective communicational approach. He states that simple and forceful messages such as “there is no better second” have much more impact than ambiguous statements such as “there are many viable alternatives.”

From his point of view, the latter is key to position Bitcoin before the general public.

These statements generated reactions between Mow’s followers, some of whom affirmed that, taking into consideration their opinion, many of the functionalities developed in Ethereum They should also be implemented in Bitcoin.

Given this planting, the businessman clarified that it is not about replicating everything ethhereum does, but also building only what is useful. In addition, he criticized that much of the project cooked by Vitalik Buterin focuses on the speculative exchange of tokens without real utility.

However, when asked who decides what is really useful for the ecosystem, given the suggestion that some seemingly insignificant tokens could acquire value in the future, Mow replied that is not in favor of modifying the bitcoin protocol to facilitate spam.

Thus, he said that for these types of cases, alternative solutions such as Sidechains – parallel blocks can be created to handle different types of transactions without affecting their main network -, without altering the integrity of the project that is already considered as solid money by many.

As Cryptonoticias reported, this vision coincides with the opinion of Scott Melker, a renowned ecosystem analyst, who ensures that the debate between Bitcoin and the Altcoins is practically resolved. According to the commentator, Bitcoin was already consolidated as hard money, globally recognized as a value reserve.

Therefore, Melker believes that maximalists should not worry about Ether or other cryptocurrencies, since they operate in different niches and do not compete with BTC as a monetary reference.

The truth is that while Bitcoin is distinguished by its limited supply and its resistance to censorshipother projects could grow in areas such as the development of applications and decentralized models.

Meanwhile, in 2025 the institutional adoption of Bitcoin continues to increase, consolidating its position as a strategic asset for companies and governments. In the United States, Donald Trump signed an executive order authorizing the creation of a BTC reserve, while Strategy, the public company led by Michael Saylor, already has a treasury of 628,791 BTC, according to Bitcoin Treasuries data.