Yet it’s Ether that has been showing its older brother a thing or two, with a price jump of around 1,500 per cent over the same period.
Its pseudonymous and still-unknown creator, or creators, Satoshi Nakamoto made a crucial breakthrough by creating a digital, time-ordered ledger, called a blockchain, to record every Bitcoin transaction.
But it interests some investors as a hedge against inflation, since its supply is limited by its founding algorithm, and others as an asset that’s useful for diversification because it’s not correlated to stocks and bonds.
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