Ethereum Price Hits $116.15 (ETH)

Ethereum (CURRENCY:ETH) traded 0.1% lower against the US dollar during the 24 hour period ending at 20:00 PM Eastern on January 26th. One Ethereum coin can now be bought for about $116.15 or 0.03227564 BTC on popular exchanges including BCEX, Bitlish, BX Thailand and Bit-Z. Ethereum has a total market cap of $12.15 billion and $2.41 billion worth of Ethereum was traded on exchanges in the last 24 hours. During the last week, Ethereum has traded 6.8% lower against the US dollar.

Here’s how other cryptocurrencies have performed during the last 24 hours:

• Ethereum Classic (ETC) traded down 0.3% against the dollar and now trades at $4.33 or 0.00120464 BTC.
• Callisto Network (CLO) traded 0.8% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.0034 or 0.00000095 BTC.
• Musicoin (MUSIC) traded 2.8% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.0009 or 0.00000026 BTC.
• Bitcoiin (B2G) traded 7% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.0184 or 0.00000510 BTC.
• Akroma (AKA) traded 0.8% lower against the dollar and now trades at $0.0111 or 0.00000308 BTC.
• Ellaism (ELLA) traded 58.8% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.0130 or 0.00000360 BTC.
• Bowhead (AHT) traded flat against the dollar and now trades at $0.0244 or 0.00000377 BTC.
• Elementrem (ELE) traded flat against the dollar and now trades at $0.0047 or 0.00000120 BTC.
• DaxxCoin (DAXX) traded flat against the dollar and now trades at $0.0001 or 0.00000003 BTC.
• WhaleCoin (WHL) traded flat against the dollar and now trades at $0.0007 or 0.00000019 BTC.

Ethereum Coin Profile

Ethereum (CRYPTO:ETH) is a proof-of-work (PoW) coin that uses the Ethash hashing algorithm. Its genesis date was July 30th, 2015. Ethereum’s total supply is 104,580,419 coins. The Reddit community for Ethereum is /r/ethereum and the currency’s Github account can be viewed here. Ethereum’s official Twitter account is @ethereumproject and its Facebook page is accessible here. The official website for Ethereum is www.ethereum.org. Ethereum’s official message board is forum.ethereum.org.

According to CryptoCompare, “Sandwich complexity model: the bottom level architecture of Ethereum should be as simple as possible, and the interfaces to Ethereum (including high level programming languages for developers and the user interface for users) should be as easy to understand as possible. Where complexity is inevitable, it should be pushed into the “middle layers” of the protocol, that are not part of the core consensus but are also not seen by end users – high-level-language compilers, argument serialization and deserialization scripts, storage data structure models, the leveldb storage interface and the wire protocol, etc. However, this preference is not absolute. Freedom: users should not be restricted in what they use the Ethereum protocol for, and we should not attempt to preferentially favor or disfavor certain kinds of Ethereum contracts or transactions based on the nature of their purpose. This is similar to the guiding principle behind the concept of “net neutrality”. One example of this principle not being followed is the situation in the Bitcoin transaction protocol where use of the blockchain for “off-label” purposes (eg. data storage, meta-protocols) is discouraged, and in some cases explicit quasi-protocol changes (eg. OP_RETURN restriction to 40 bytes) are made to attempt to attack applications using the blockchain in “unauthorized” ways. In Ethereum, we instead strongly favor the approach of setting up transaction fees in such a way as to be roughly incentive-compatible, such that users that use the blockchain in bloat-producing ways internalize the cost of their activities (ie. Pigovian taxation). Generalization: protocol features and opcodes in Ethereum should embody maximally low-level concepts, so that they can be combined in arbitrary ways including ways that may not seem useful today but which may become useful later, and so that a bundle of low-level concepts can be made more efficient by stripping out some of its functionality when it is not necessary. An example of this principle being followed is our choice of a LOG opcode as a way of feeding information to (particularly light client) dapps, as opposed to simply logging all transactions and messages as was internally suggested earlier – the concept of “message” is really the agglomeration of multiple concepts, including “function call” and “event interesting to outside watchers”, and it is worth separating the two. Have No Features: as a corollary to generalization, the dev team often refuses to build in even very common high-level use cases as intrinsic parts of the protocol, with the understanding that if people really want to do it they can always create a sub-protocol (eg. ether-backed subcurrency, bitcoin/litecoin/dogecoin sidechain, etc) inside of a contract. An example of this is the lack of a Bitcoin-like “locktime” feature in Ethereum, as such a feature can be simulated via a protocol where users send “signed data packets” and those data packets can be fed into a specialized contract that processes them and performs some corresponding function if the data packet is in some contract-specific sense valid. Non-risk-aversion: the dev team is okay with higher degrees of risk if a risk-increasing change provides very substantial benefits (eg. generalized state transitions, 50x faster block times, consensus efficiency, etc)”

Buying and Selling Ethereum

Ethereum can be bought or sold on these cryptocurrency exchanges: BCEX, LocalTrade, Neraex, BiteBTC, Vebitcoin, Simex, Sistemkoin, Bitlish, BTC-Alpha, Bit-Z, Liquid, Kraken, Covesting, Rfinex, Coinsquare, Binance, BtcTurk, Cobinhood, RightBTC, Bitstamp, UEX, Kucoin, Bancor Network, BX Thailand, ChaoEX, Coinsuper, Coinbase Pro, CEX.IO, Instant Bitex, OasisDEX, Cryptonex, MBAex, OOOBTC, BitForex, YoBit, Bithumb, TOPBTC, Hotbit, BitMart, Allcoin, C2CX, TDAX, Livecoin, LBank, BigONE, Upbit, Mercatox, ZB.COM, ABCC, Indodax, CoinEx, Allbit, Bittrex, DigiFinex, CoinEgg, Poloniex, xBTCe, Exrates, FCoin, Exmo, Bitbank, IDEX, IDCM, Coindeal, CoinTiger, IDAX, Liqui, CPDAX, DOBI trade, Kryptono, HitBTC, HADAX, OEX, CoinBene, Gate.io, OKEx, DragonEX, GOPAX, BTC Markets, DDEX, Bibox, Coinone, Gemini, Huobi, BtcTrade.im, Coinhub, Korbit, EXX, B2BX, Fatbtc, Bitsane, Bitfinex and LATOKEN. Investors seeking to acquire Ethereum using U.S. dollars directly can do so using GDAX, Changelly or Gemini.

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