Why some people want the Ethereum to over come Bitcoin in the near future? Is it because they make profit from ETH or what?
I do not know what others want, but I would not mind ethereum taking the first place in the CoinMarketCap table, because in this case bitcoin will lose its price dominance over other types of crypto currency. In turn, ethereum is unlikely to be able to exercise such a dominance, because the level of its capitalization will not be so different from the capitalization of other coins, for example, ripple, ranked third in terms of capitalization. Bitcoin, with its 122 billion dollars of capitalization, is too big for it compared to ethereum, which is second only to 24 billion dollars of capitalization. This allows him to strictly control the price of each crypto currency. If there is no such dominance, each crypto currency will have its own price, which will not depend on the price of the leader of the crypto currency.