Ethereum’s Cryptocurrency Price Shoots Up, Market Cap Tops $90M
- Soon after the official launch of its protocol, Ether's market cap reached $39 million. Today it stands not that far from Litecoin.
Ethereum’s cryptocurrency, Ether, is once again the hottest asset in the crypto trading markets. The price of Ether jumped about 15% in the last 24 hours to over 0.002625 BTC, strengthening its position as the fourth biggest cryptocurrency by market capitalization.
Sometimes called Bitcoin Bitcoin While some may still be wondering what is Bitcoin, who created Bitcoin, or how does Bitcoin work, one thing is certain: Bitcoin has changed the world.No one can remain indifferent to this revolutionary, decentralized, digital asset nor to its blockchain technology.In fact, we’ve gone a long way ever since a Florida resident Laszlo Hanyecz made BTC’s first official commercial transaction with a real company by trading 10,000 Bitcoins for 2 pizzas at his local Papa John’s.One could now argue that While some may still be wondering what is Bitcoin, who created Bitcoin, or how does Bitcoin work, one thing is certain: Bitcoin has changed the world.No one can remain indifferent to this revolutionary, decentralized, digital asset nor to its blockchain technology.In fact, we’ve gone a long way ever since a Florida resident Laszlo Hanyecz made BTC’s first official commercial transaction with a real company by trading 10,000 Bitcoins for 2 pizzas at his local Papa John’s.One could now argue that Read this Term 2.0 or Bitcoin 3.0, Ethereum proponents see it as much more than just a cryptocurrency system as per the original idea of Satoshi Nakamoto Satoshi Nakamoto “Satoshi Nakamoto” is the alias of the mysterious person (or group of people) that are responsible for the creation and launch of Bitcoin back in 2009 and the authorship of the Bitcoin whitepaper, published in 2008. As such, Satoshi Nakamoto is also the entity who conceptualized and created the first-ever blockchain network. Nakamoto was the first to effectively solve the double-spending problem for digital currency using a Peer-to-Peer (P2P) network. Nakamoto was active in the development of bi “Satoshi Nakamoto” is the alias of the mysterious person (or group of people) that are responsible for the creation and launch of Bitcoin back in 2009 and the authorship of the Bitcoin whitepaper, published in 2008. As such, Satoshi Nakamoto is also the entity who conceptualized and created the first-ever blockchain network. Nakamoto was the first to effectively solve the double-spending problem for digital currency using a Peer-to-Peer (P2P) network. Nakamoto was active in the development of bi Read this Term. It is instead referred to as a "planetary scale computer" that can handle everything from secure communication and e-commerce, to digital governance, the internet of things and much more.
The move made waves in crypto circles:
Don't look now, but your precious Ethereum Skynet just rocketed up 14% ?
— D.G. Seaman (@d_seaman) ינואר 12, 2016Back in August 2015, soon after the official launch of its protocol, Ether's market cap reached $39 million as it traded at around 0.0025 BTC. Today it stands at just above $90 million, not that far from Litecoin at $155 million - the third biggest crypto by market capitalization behind Bitcoin and Ripple .
Ether could have become more attractive in the eyes of investors thanks to the continued focus of Microsoft on its Ethereum-powered blockchain tool on its Azure platform. The tool allows banks, insurance companies and other institutions to easily experiment with smart contracts, without them having to build the infrastructure from scratch or requiring an in-depth knowledge of cryptocurrency.
Ethereum’s cryptocurrency, Ether, is once again the hottest asset in the crypto trading markets. The price of Ether jumped about 15% in the last 24 hours to over 0.002625 BTC, strengthening its position as the fourth biggest cryptocurrency by market capitalization.
Sometimes called Bitcoin Bitcoin While some may still be wondering what is Bitcoin, who created Bitcoin, or how does Bitcoin work, one thing is certain: Bitcoin has changed the world.No one can remain indifferent to this revolutionary, decentralized, digital asset nor to its blockchain technology.In fact, we’ve gone a long way ever since a Florida resident Laszlo Hanyecz made BTC’s first official commercial transaction with a real company by trading 10,000 Bitcoins for 2 pizzas at his local Papa John’s.One could now argue that While some may still be wondering what is Bitcoin, who created Bitcoin, or how does Bitcoin work, one thing is certain: Bitcoin has changed the world.No one can remain indifferent to this revolutionary, decentralized, digital asset nor to its blockchain technology.In fact, we’ve gone a long way ever since a Florida resident Laszlo Hanyecz made BTC’s first official commercial transaction with a real company by trading 10,000 Bitcoins for 2 pizzas at his local Papa John’s.One could now argue that Read this Term 2.0 or Bitcoin 3.0, Ethereum proponents see it as much more than just a cryptocurrency system as per the original idea of Satoshi Nakamoto Satoshi Nakamoto “Satoshi Nakamoto” is the alias of the mysterious person (or group of people) that are responsible for the creation and launch of Bitcoin back in 2009 and the authorship of the Bitcoin whitepaper, published in 2008. As such, Satoshi Nakamoto is also the entity who conceptualized and created the first-ever blockchain network. Nakamoto was the first to effectively solve the double-spending problem for digital currency using a Peer-to-Peer (P2P) network. Nakamoto was active in the development of bi “Satoshi Nakamoto” is the alias of the mysterious person (or group of people) that are responsible for the creation and launch of Bitcoin back in 2009 and the authorship of the Bitcoin whitepaper, published in 2008. As such, Satoshi Nakamoto is also the entity who conceptualized and created the first-ever blockchain network. Nakamoto was the first to effectively solve the double-spending problem for digital currency using a Peer-to-Peer (P2P) network. Nakamoto was active in the development of bi Read this Term. It is instead referred to as a "planetary scale computer" that can handle everything from secure communication and e-commerce, to digital governance, the internet of things and much more.
The move made waves in crypto circles:
Don't look now, but your precious Ethereum Skynet just rocketed up 14% ?
— D.G. Seaman (@d_seaman) ינואר 12, 2016Back in August 2015, soon after the official launch of its protocol, Ether's market cap reached $39 million as it traded at around 0.0025 BTC. Today it stands at just above $90 million, not that far from Litecoin at $155 million - the third biggest crypto by market capitalization behind Bitcoin and Ripple .
Ether could have become more attractive in the eyes of investors thanks to the continued focus of Microsoft on its Ethereum-powered blockchain tool on its Azure platform. The tool allows banks, insurance companies and other institutions to easily experiment with smart contracts, without them having to build the infrastructure from scratch or requiring an in-depth knowledge of cryptocurrency.