Ethereum Watch

Advertisements Ethereum News Update Given the ongoing slide in cryptocurrencies, it seems a terrible time for optimism. But I can’t help it. Ethereum prices are holding up better than some of the others, making it a safe-haven crypto asset during these troubled times. This could lead to the fabled “flippening,” whereby Ethereum replaces Bitcoin as […]

Advertisements Credits: istock.com/lightboxx Ethereum News Update Ethereum prices are proving more resilient than BTC or BCH, but that doesn’t mean they are untouched by this week’s crypto market crash. Ethereum too was affected by the tidal wave of pessimism. As a result, ETH is trading 4.66% lower against the U.S. dollar. Advertisements This puts the […]

Advertisements Ethereum News Update Yesterday, I said Ethereum is starting to front-run Bitcoin in terms of institutional support. And what happened the same day? A major pension fund launched a $50.0-million cryptocurrency investment fund—and it is based around Ethereum. The new fund comes courtesy of OMERS, one of Canada’s biggest pension funds. (Source: “Ethereum Capital […]

Advertisements Ethereum News Update Last week didn’t feel bullish for Ethereum. Nonetheless, ETH prices advanced nearly 16% in the past seven days. The lesson? Markets don’t care what we feel. Sentiment only matters insofar as it reveals the buying intentions of other investors. Look at the numbers instead. They show that Ethereum is outperforming other […]

Advertisements Credits: istock.com/BackyardProduction Ethereum News Update As predicted, the folks at this year’s World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland hedged their bets on cryptocurrencies. On one hand, they don’t think Bitcoin is a stable currency; on the other, blockchain is a super-useful technology…for anything other than money. If you’re wondering why this matters, remember that […]

Advertisements Ethereum News Update In 2017, investors treated Ethereum and Bitcoin as if they were identical. They painted both with the same brush, meaning that when Bitcoin did well, so did Ethereum. But this relationship is starting to fray… Advertisements In an excellent post for Bloomberg View, Leonid Bershidsky shows that “It’s not just mindless […]

On the Weiss Ratings homepage, there is a live countdown to its upcoming release of “…the First Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Grades by Any Rating Agency in the World.” Dramatic, much? Advertisements Although impartial ratings are a crucial step for investment credibility, I want to remind readers that it is incredibly hard to price cryptocurrencies, much less assign […]

Advertisements Credits:iStock.com/BackyardProduction Ethereum News Update On Tuesday, Ethereum prices continued to falter as investors rotated funds out toward fiat currency. ETH prices dropped 11.4% against the U.S. dollar, bringing the ETH to USD rate down to $947.05. It wasn’t pretty. But there’s some hope on the horizon because…it’s Davos time again. Advertisements Every year, the […]

From the outside, all digital assets look the same. A lot of volatility. A lot of upside potential. Not a lot of variety. Advertisements This two-dimensional view of cryptocurrencies is pretty common among newbie investors, but experienced hands know it’s not true. There’s a world of difference between Monero and XRP, or between NEM and […]

Given the recent rollercoaster in Ethereum prices, it’s time to consider what makes ETH more valuable than the 1,400 other cryptocurrencies on the market. I call this theory “trickle-down cryptonomics”—others call it “fat protocol theory.” Advertisements What am I talking about? To put it simply, Ethereum’s greatest strength is that it serves as a launching […]