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Ethereum (ETH) Continues to Hold Distance from Ripple’s XRP by Market Cap

Ethereum (eth) continues to hold distance from ripple’s xrp by market cap

Ethereum (ETH) Continues to Hold Distance from Ripple’s XRP by Market Cap

Ethereum (eth) continues to hold distance from ripple’s xrp by market cap

January 5th, 2018 – Ethereum (ETH), the second largest digital coin by market capitalization continues to showcase strong community support for the upcoming hard fork as its value presents staying in the green for a longer period of time comparing to the other leading cryptocurrencies.

Source: coinmarketcap

The being tested $160.00 level has not been touched by the pair ETH/USD since mid-November when the violent market sell-off took place during the infamous hashwars.

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Together with Litecoin’s LTC/USD  10.15% gain, TRON TRX/USD  4.94% – ETH/USD 3.58% is leading the recovery momentum which failed two-three days ago when Bitcoin BTC could not make it above $4000.00.

Its two billion market cap difference with the speedy and 2018 rival XRP stays put as the third largest cryptocoin battles sellers to not drop below $0.3500.

The Constantinople hard fork is a blockchain upgrade that will implement five improvement protocols into Ethereum’s blockchain. Four are focusing on short-term scaling, while the other is centered around reducing Ether issuance from three ETH to two ETH a block. [Read]

According to a video posted online by the Ethereum foundation, the ETH dev team has seemingly come to a consensus in regards to the implementation of its new proof-of-work (PoW) algorithm.

Martin Holst Swende – top of Security:

“Our Current PoW algorithm, Ethash, has flaws which are currently being targeted, that’s why I would like to switch as soon as possible to give us time to move to proof-of-stake.”

Published at Sat, 05 Jan 2019 23:14:49 +0000

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