contract platform with own cryptocurrency Liquidity decent decent currency code Bitcoin/฿/BTC Ether/Ξ/ETH Public/Private blockchain public public User identity pseudonymous pseudonymous Consensus algorithm PoW PoW/PoS/Casper Scripting language Bitcoin Script Language Solidity Smart contracts yes (limited) yes Turing completeness no yes Governance (development decisions, etc) Core team Ethereum Foundation Transaction speed >10.0m 14s Rapid payments Lightning Network Raiden Network Processing cost (CPU,GPU,ASIC) high high Other features UTXO GHOST 32