Unlike Bitcoin that has yet to set a higher high in 2020 over the previous year’s peak, Ethereum’s higher high is a very important sign that a new uptrend is brewing in the crypto market.
In fact, a crypto analyst has superimposed the well-known “psychology of a market cycle” chart over ETHUSD price action from the last several years, and the top-ranked Advertisements
Ethereum Marches Along Perfectly To Market Cycle Psychology Chart
During Bitcoin’s meteoric rise to $20,000 in late 2017, the number two crypto asset, Ethereum, ran up right behind it but for very different reasons.
Bitcoin blew up because of its enormous price tag, combined with it being a new, unheard of technology created by a mysterious person that to this day is still not known. Ethereum, however, was the blockchain on which the crypto industry as we know it today was built on.
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Ethereum is a platform for smart contracts, which can be used to launch new cryptocurrency tokens with a variety of use cases. From this, thousands of new tokens were coined, and as investors bought ETH to exchange for ICOs they hoped would be the next Bitcoin, it, in turn, drove demand for Ethereum – much like we’ve seen recently with DeFi.
When that demand vanished in early 2018 due to ICOs suddenly being targeted by the SEC, Ethereum prices fell to Advertisements