According to the industry analytical agency CoinMarketCap, the market capitalization of the Ethereum block-platform for the first time exceeded $ 20 billion. For comparison: Bitcoin's market capitalization is about $ 36 billion, and for Twitter social service, according to the New York Stock Exchange, this figure is $ 13.68 billion. It should be noted that the market value of Ethereum for the first time accounted for more than half of the cost of the bitcoin platform.

The cost of Bitcoin's crypto currency has grown significantly recently and is about $ 2,200 per unit, while the cost of one "ether" (exchange unit Ethereum, from the English. Ether) is equal to $ 224. At the same time, it should be taken into account that currently there are about 16.3 million bitcoins in circulation, while the "ether" crypto currency accounts for about 92 million units. That is, to make a fair comparison, you need to multiply the price of "ether" by 5.5.

The Ethereum platform was created by the programmer of Russian origin Vitalik Buterin, who has lived since six years in Canada, where his parents emigrated. If bitcoin is simply a digital currency, then Ethereum is a platform based on block-system technology, which includes crypto currency. The platform was launched on July 30, 2015, although the idea of ??its creation appeared in Buterina in 2013. In mid-2014, Vitalik Buterin with like-minded people registered a non-profit foundation in Switzerland. The capitalization of Ethereum exceeded $ 1 billion in the spring of 2016, and in March 2017 this figure reached $ 4 billion.

Ethereum is an open platform for creating decentralized blocking services and applications, through which you can create your own crypto currency, identification system, crowd-framing platform and t. In February 2017, a global blocking alliance Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA) was created to develop solutions for the enterprise segment based on the Ethereum blockbuster platform. The EEA includes the largest technology and financial companies such as Microsoft, Intel, JP Morgan, ING Group, Banco Santander, Credit Suisse Group, UBS Group, as well as block-start-ups, including AlphPoint, BigchainDB, BlockCypher, Datarella, DigixGlobal, Gem, Hashed Health, Hijro, Libra, Melonport, Wall Street Blockchain Alliance and Zerocoin Electric Coin Company.