Latest Ethereum price and commentary

Ethereum has continued to look strong overnight, rising through the $150 and $160 levels of resistance with relative ease before being halted just below $170.

It is currently being held by the 200 exponential moving average on the daily chart, however a break above $170 could signal tremendous upside potential in the coming weeks and months.

Daily trade volume is more than $10 billion, which is double the amount we saw last week. Ethereum’s market cap stands at around $17.6 billion, making it the second largest cryptocurrency in terms of market cap.

Current live Ethereum pricing information and interactive charts are available on our site 24 hours a day. The ticker bar at the bottom of every page on our site has the latest Ethereum price. Pricing is also available in a range of different currency equivalents:

US Dollar – ETHtoUSD

British Pound Sterling – ETHtoGBP

Japanese Yen – ETHtoJPY

Euro – ETHtoEUR

Australian Dollar – ETHtoAUD

Russian Rouble – ETHtoRUB

Bitcoin – ETHtoBTC

About Ethereum

Ethereum was launched by Vitalik Buterin on 30th July 2015. He was a researcher and programmer working on Bitcoin Magazine and he initially wrote a white paper in 2013 describing Ethereum. Buterin had proposed that Bitcoin needed a scripting language. He decided to develop a new platform with a more general scripting language when he couldn’t get buy in to his proposal.

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