Ripple briefly passes Ethereum for second largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization

Another Cryptocurrency doubles in one week. This time it was Ripple. Ripple is used for transactions on Ripple’s open-source RippleNet cryptocurrency network, reached $1.82. The price rally arrived after a long period of inactivity in the market, which had held steady at $0.20 over the past six months. As a result, the market capitalization of …

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Ethereum scaling to a lot more transactions

Vitalik Buterin created Ethereum. He projects that Ethereum will have Visa scale transaction per second in a couple of years. Currently Bitcoin is processing a bit less than 3 transactions per second and Ethereum is doing five a second. Uber gives 12 rides a second. VISA handles on average around 2,000 transactions per second (tps), …

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