Ethereum Price Rises in Anticipation of Devcon2
Ethereum’s price has been slowly increasing for the past ten days as the highly anticipated International Blockchain Week opens this evening around 2AM European time and around 10PM USA. Price reached a low of 0.018 on September the 8th. Since then it has been on the increase, reaching today a high of 0.0214, around $13, with a market cap of almost $1.1 billion. The main reason is likely to be the International Blockchain Week, the biggest blockchain event ever. It opens late evening today with Devcon2, where numerous talks and presentations are to be given by leading ethereum and other....
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