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Ethereum Price Forecast: ETH could see new all-time high in 2025 as blobs top burn leaderboard

Ethereum Price Forecast: ETH could see new all-time high in 2025 as blobs top burn leaderboard

Ethereum is down 1% on Tuesday following a weeklong consolidation of the general crypto market. The top altcoin could be set for a bullish 2025 if blobs continue their recent trend of burning high amounts of ETH.

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PEPE Price Prediction: Last-minute $121M whale demand sparks 1,500% 2024 rally

PEPE Price Prediction: Last-minute $121M whale demand sparks 1,500% 2024 rally

PEPE price surged 25% within the last 24 hours, decoupling from the broader crypto market’s year-end volatility. With whales spotted entering last-minute buying frenzy, can PEPE breach the $0.000025 resistance?  

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XRP volumes zoom ahead of Bitcoin, Dogecoin in South Korea, what’s next?

XRP volumes zoom ahead of Bitcoin, Dogecoin in South Korea, what’s next?

XRP trading volumes on South Korea's biggest crypto exchanges have overtaken those of Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH) in a sign of flurried interest that often precedes price volatility.

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Only three out of ten top altcoins grew in December

Only three out of ten top altcoins grew in December

The cryptocurrency market continues to fall, losing some of its significant growth since the beginning of the year. Its capitalisation fell a further 1.4% to $3.23 trillion, matching the lows of the last week and a half.

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Bitcoin: 2025 outlook brightens on expectations of US pro-crypto policy

Bitcoin: 2025 outlook brightens on expectations of US pro-crypto policy

Bitcoin price has surged more than 140% in 2024, reaching the $100K milestone in early December. The rally was driven by the launch of Bitcoin Spot ETFs in January and the reduced supply following the fourth halving event in April.

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WHAT IS ETHEREUM?

Ethereum (ETH) is an open-source cryptocurrency created by Vitalik Buterin, Garvin Wood, and Joseph Lubin. Launched in 2015, it is currently the second largest cryptocurrency in terms of market capitalization. Among the functions that drove this cryptocurrency to that position is its technology, specifically the GAS. This system prevents errors and accidents during the different processes to occur in the Ethereum network. In addition, it serves to measure the effort and steps required by each computational process.

The cryptocurrency is called Ether, while the blockchain enabling its operation is called Ethereum. It is based on a decentralized system called Turing machine and its operation has a technology not seen in cryptocurrencies until now, the so-called intelligent contracts. Its objective is to avoid accidents and verify that the agreed transactions are carried out as planned.

Best cryptocurrency exchanges to buy Bitcoin, Ethereum and Ripple

If you want to trade Bitcoin or Ethereum, the choices are endless. Yet when you begin going down the list of market capitalization, the options narrow. Even Ripple is not present on all exchanges. So, if you are interested in trade a specific coin, an easy way to eliminate potential candidates would be to check if they offer to trade in your desired one. If you are not sure which cryptocurrencies you want to trade, perhaps it is better starting from the most popular ones, but at an exchange that offers a relatively wide variety of coins, so you can change your mind easily before changing the exchange.

Every exchange uses a different interface and different charting tools. You obviously cannot get familiar with every option available as it would take too much time. Reviews with screenshots may become handy in getting the look and feel of the platform. If you prefer advanced trading tools, there is a good chance that a broker might have more sophisticated tools. However, if you want a clean and simple one, most exchanges will have such an option. In addition to the ease of use, speed matters. If you are trading at a rapid clip or if you just need to have the system working properly without causing nervous breakdowns, watch out for reviews that complain about slow performance. Such exchanges could also have other issues.

Ethereum vs Bitcoin

  • While Bitcoin will have a total volume of 21 million somewhere in 2140, the Ether has no supply limits.
  • Thanks to the lack of a maximum of Ether units, the Ethereum is not considered to be a deflationary cryptocurrency, which is the case of Bitcoin.
  • The time of creation of a block and its subsequent union to the Bitcoin chain is 10 minutes, while that of Ether varies between 12 and 18 seconds.
  • The Bitcoin security algorithm is the SHA256 while that of the Ethereum is the Ethash, similar to the SHA3.
  • The programming language of Bitcoin is C ++ while that of Ethereum is Turing complete.
  • The reward for mining Ethers recently dropped from 5 to 3 units per block, while for mining Bitcoin it remains constant at 12.5 units per block.
  • Bitcoin has 8 decimals in the division of its entire part while Ether has 18.