Ethereum’s Ether to Become World’s Best-Performing Currency in 2016, Bitcoin Second
People on the outside of Bitcoin, looking in, tend to have a distorted view of Bitcoin’s merit and value as an investment. Earlier this year, some complained that Bitcoin’s price had become too stagnant, probably after being conditioned to think of it as some form of monetary nitroglycerin. Mt. Gox’s collapse and corresponding market correction ended almost two years ago. Mike Hearn’s effect on the market hasn’t been felt in several months. It is time to let all of that anomaly go. Furthermore, it is time to look at a new champion that no one saw coming in 2016. Digital currencies are....
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Ether steps into the spotlight; Lisk, the first “modular” cryptocurrency is born; and Ireland serves up a side of Bitcoin. Want to see what you’ve missed in digital currency news? Take a look below: ETHER. For a while, it appeared as though Bitcoin was on the losing team in the digital currency arena. Ether dished out a hard right to knock bitcoin to the mat for a few rounds through what has been labeled the largest crowdsale in history. Nearly $200 million USD was raised for Ethereum’s new DAO project, allegedly the “best” new way to allocate capital. In the meantime, bitcoin’s price....
Zcash trading goes through the roof; ether is the highest-performing cryptocurrency of 2016, and cross-border payments are possible through Ripple. Want to catch up on your latest altcoin news? Read the stories below. ZCASH. The recent launch of Zcash created a trading frenzy on Poloniex the other day, causing the price to reach an impressive $2 million per coin. It appears the currency’s status changed within a mere matter of seconds, although some attribute the high-level price hike to a potential error which may have added a few zeros to Zcash’s end. Presently, Zcash is in incredibly....
Following Ethereum’s production-ready software release earlier this month, digital currency exchanges are now adding support for the native token that powers its blockchain, ether (ETH). In recent weeks, the majority of announcements have come from Asia, where exchanges in China, Japan and South Korea have all added support for ETH trading. Such actions follow the news that Bitfinex, one of the world’s largest digital currency exchanges, had added support for the digital currency on 12th March. Regional exchanges that have since announced support for ETH trading including Coincheck, CHBTC,....
Jaxx, the combination bitcoin/ether wallet from the KryptoKit team, has been approved by Apple and is now available for download on the iOS App Store. Jaxx: First Ether Wallet on iOS. It is the first iOS wallet to transact in ether, the native currency of Ethereum’s smart contract platform. Despite not being intended for use as a spending currency, ether....
Bitcoin, despite an upward dash, was behind its fiat counterparts by volume. Bitcoin is to end 2016 on a high note as it will probably finish as the top performing currency of the year. A title that it will retain from the previous year. The Bank of International Settlements (BIS), which is an international financial institution that is owned by the world’s central banks, does not consider something like bitcoin in its triennial reports. According to the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) survey, U.S. Dollar was the most traded currency by value in 2016. The US Dollar was followed by....