Here’s Why Bitcoin’s Upside May Be “Capped” Relative to Ethereum
Ethereum has been able to catch up to some of the gains posted by Bitcoin as of late, but it still has a long way to go before it breaks its trend of underperformance Yesterday, the cryptocurrency saw a swift rally past $460 that came about in the absence of any BTC movement This was a promising push higher, and it has yet to surrender much of these gains One analyst is now looking towards […]
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Ethereum has underperformed Bitcoin as BTC has pushed past $33,000 today. ETH is up 8% in the past 24 hours while BTC has gained over 11%. Despite the relative underperformance, analysts soon think that Ethereum will catch up to the leading cryptocurrency. Analysts are targeting $800 in the short term as Ethereum moves past key […]
Ethereum now accounts for 19.2% of the overall cryptocurrency market whereas Bitcoin dominance has fallen to 40.7%. The market capitalization of Ether (ETH) has increased at a much faster rate than Bitcoin’s (BTC) over the past year, highlighting the relative outperformance of ETH versus BTC over that period. In its latest Blockchain Letter, cryptocurrency investment manager Pantera Capital charted Ethereum’s growth trajectory. “The ratio of [E]thereum’s market cap to Bitcoin’s market cap has doubled in the last year,” the investment manager said, adding:“We think this is the beginning of....
A surge of validators awaiting Eth2 staking has pushed Ethereum’s node count to 11,259 — surpassing Bitcoin by more than 100. Ethereum 2.0 genesis stakers have pushed the total number of Ethereum nodes past the number of Bitcoin nodes for the second time this year.According to Ethernodes.org, 11,259 Ethereum nodes are currently active, giving it a roughly 1% lead over Bitcoin’s 11,136. Ethereum’s node count last surpassed Bitcoin’s in early September.The number of Ethereum nodes has increased by more than 50% in the past two weeks or so, spiking from 8,086 on Nov. 15 — 11 days after the....
The two largest cryptocurrencies by market cap, Bitcoin and Ethereum, have seen a significant rise in their open interest in the last couple of weeks. This comes even when the market is seeing struggling prices and investors have begun to take more conservative positions in the market. The drastic increase in the open interest across these two cryptocurrencies could have some significant implications for the crypto market as a whole. Ethereum Spikes With Bitcoin Bitcoin open interest has been on the rise over the last couple of weeks, which has led to some interesting forecasts for the....
A potential bounce in the BTC/ETH pair suggests Bitcoin will sprint past Ether in the next market rally. In terms of price potential, Bitcoin (BTC) is staring at the possibility of outperforming Ether (ETH) in the short term.So believes David Lifshitz, chief investment officer at ExoAlpha — a Paris-based investment management service — who noted that Bitcoin’s upside potential in the near term is higher than that of Ether’s. He said so after spotting a recent shift in the BTC/ETH ratio.In detail, BTC/ETH compares the trend momentum of Bitcoin and Ether. A lower reading suggests that....