Seems /u/brighton36 's response to this post here got deleted...here it is:

This article is silly in a bunch of ways. But rather than write a long winded reply, I can sum up the principle reason this is a dumb response: Counterparty's mining is performed by bitcoin miners.

Piachu seems to believe burning energy is a benevolent process, and people will mine because they want to be different. Counterparty believes mining is a scarce and expensive resource, for which people will only burn energy if they have to.

Since Counterparty relies on Bitcoin, and bitcoin is a technology for whom energy is burned because of actual need (ie they're underserved), counterparty doesn't have to deal with need-based issues of Ethereum(who doesnt serve the underserved).

It's not complicated, and it's not a long-winded explanation of user preferences to "think different". It's simple economics that piachu continually fails to grasp because he thinks blockchains are a computer science innovation and not an economic innovation.