Ethereum Moving Upwards on the Cryptocurrency Market

2019 starts positive for the crypto industry. Today the crypto markets begin moving forward, and Ethereum is back on its previous second place, passing XRP.

Good news for the crypto investors – markets are slowly starting to recover, and total capitalization reaches $130 billion – confirmed today. The market predictions turn out to be correct, giving hope to crypto organizations that they may regain the lost funds.

A few hours ago Bitcoin (BTC) started going upwards too, reaching the price of $3,850 and is currently trading on $3.839.

Compared to Bitcoin which advanced only 1.93%, Ethereum (ETH) is performing better by gaining 8.3% over the past 24 hours. Retaking second place of the market which was previously held by XRP, Ethereum reaches $149 again. The current market cap of Ethereum is over $15.5 billion beating Ripple (XRP) which has $14.8 billion.

ETH price (source: https://cryptobrowser.io/coins/ethereum-eth/ )

Today all charts on the top ten list are in green. The leading currency is Ethereum and on second place is Litecoin (LTC) which has advanced 4.33% with current price $32.3. The other currencies on the list have moved upwards with gain between 1% and 3% excluding Bitcoin Cash (BCH) and Bitcoin SV (BSV).

The best climber on the top twenty list is Monero (XMR) which advanced 5.33% and jumped to $49. Zcash, Maker, and Neo are also gaining up to 4%.

Over the past 24 hours, the total crypto market capitalization has gained 2.4% and reached $129 billion. The markets are slowly going back to the same price they were during the last week of 2018, and the consolidation continues.

Can we have hope in the cryptocurrency industry? Today’s facts are leading to a definite answer.