Previous discussion <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=9987142" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=9987142</a><p>Give me any ethereum use-case &amp; I&#x27;ll tell you how to do it with bitcoin.<p>Is it advantageous if a DSL is turing complete? It is not that bitcoin &#x27;cannot have&#x27; a turing complete script but that it is unsafe &amp; there is no need to do so. Turing completeness can be applied on an upper abstraction.<p>There is nothing that ethereum can do that bitcoin cannot! The proof of it is RootStock which is ethereum implementation using bitcoin.<p>Ethereum is full of buzzwords and the key one of them is DApps. Here [0] is how to build a dapp using bitcoin. Basically you can tell me any application of ethereum and I&#x27;ll tell you how you can do it with bitcoin. Skynet type input requiring applications can&#x27;t be done inherently by either ether or bitcoin but can be done by both using third-party oracles.<p>Then are bitcoin &amp; ethereum equivalent. No, they key is origin of money. Bitcoin is mined, ether was sold.<p>The recent rise in price has attracted all kinds of attention but talk to any of the core-devs and they&#x27;ll tell you that Vitalik used to come up with complicated explanations which they spent time studying and responding &amp; then he&#x27;d come back with something even more complicated until they stopped caring.<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;startupboy.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;03&#x2F;09&#x2F;the-bitcoin-model-for-crowdfunding&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;startupboy.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;03&#x2F;09&#x2F;the-bitcoin-model-for-crowd...</a>