Why Solana is Better Than Ethereum

About to piss a few people off with this one

Isaiah McCall
Yard Couch
Published in
5 min readApr 1, 2024

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Ethereum changed my life. More than my college degree, winning the flag football regional championship, or my managerial position at Denny's combined.

In 2020 I put all of my money into Ethereum — maybe $2,000 at the time — when it was $300 or so. I had read the Bitcoin whitepaper and Gigi’s “21 Lessons Falling Down the Bitcoin Rabbit Hole,” but Bloomberg writer Matthew Leising’s book “Out of the Ether” sold me on crypto.

“The future was broken. Every person in this story knew this. Felt in their bones. Their views were well known and widely shared, yet nothing ever seemed to change. Capitalism was destroying the planet.”

— Matthew Leising on the creation of Ethereum

I still love Ethereum.

But there’s a better investment. That’s Solana.

Ethereum Vs. Solana

Very quickly. If you’re new:

What the hell are Ethereum and Solana?

Ethereum promises decentralized applications on distributed blockchain code that enables you to do more than buy and sell digital money, but also foster an ecosystem for decentralized finance, NFTs, and the metaverse.

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Isaiah McCall
Yard Couch

Journalist for 99Bitcoins and former USA Today, also Ultramarathoner | On Substack: https://isaiahmccall.substack.com/ mccallisaiah@gmail.com