The second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization has seen prices plummet today, following the collapse of No.1. Ethereum has dropped by about 10% in just a few minutes.
Chainalysis has stated that PlusToken, a Chinese billion-dollar Ponzi scheme, has been selling off a large number of different digital assets on the market and there will be further landfills.
AZCoin News reported on the sudden collapse of the Bitcoin market that brought the price below the psychological support of $ 7,000 for the first time in weeks.
Trader “Hsaka” pointed out that ETH dip took place just about two minutes before Bitcoin.
$ETH with the two minute headstart.
Bless you vitalik. pic.twitter.com/sJ3Q9hVn4A— Hsaka (@HsakaTrades) December 16, 2019
Ether is trading at a high of $ 142.5 today and a low of $ 128. This represents a total reduction of more than 10%. The drop only takes a few minutes. ETH is trading at around $ 130 at the time of writing, according to TradingView.
Daily Ethereum price chart. Source: TradingView
Analyst “Light” believed that Ethereum has led the decline due to Chainalysis’s sloppy report. The company’s latest report states that PlusToken still has 6.4 million more ETH. However, the trader said that the real number was nearly 789,000.
Ethereum will struggle in 2020
Research firm Messari made their contributions in the ‘Crypto Thesis for 2020’ report, showing a gloomy future of ETH but this is not an objective analysis. The report was accepted by founder Ryan Selkis.
WOAH (as @APompliano would say)
I just published my most ambitious piece in the ~7 years I’ve been studying crypto full-time:
“Crypto Theses for 2020”
Over the past eight days, I compiled 120 nuggets of my clearest thoughts into one 70 page report.https://t.co/dMSafdfW5k
— Ryan Selkis (@twobitidiot) December 16, 2019
The report states that there will be no ETH 2.0 until 2022 because Serenity consists of seven phases.
- Phase 0 or the Beacon Chain, likely to be launched around 2020.
- Phase 1 will introduce 64 shard chains expected until 2021. Upgrading this parallel processing will be the key to replication but the report goes on to add that no network has successfully sharded its blockchain.
- Phase 2 is the full launch comprising a new eWASM virtual machine and moving large dApps through smart contracts. Naturally, this will not be rushed and likely by the end of 2021.
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