Written by Frisco d'AnconiacontributorReviewed by Igor Belkinformer editorEthereum Price Hits All Time High of $750 Following Speed Boost
MarketsPublishedDec 15, 2017
Ethereum’s price crossed $700 after normalisation of processing fees and transaction speed.
Ethereum’s price surge continued into today as the digital currency topped $700 to reach a high of $750 according to coinmarketcap.com. This brought Ethereum’s market capitalization to an astonishing $72.5 bln. However, as Bitcoin mounted a comeback, returning to near-record highs, Ethereum slipped. At press time, Ethereum was trading for $640.
Transaction throughput
The network’s transaction speed and fee normalisation seem to have influenced the price increase. Co-founder Vitalik Buterin posted on Twitter Wednesday that the Ethereum network surpassed 10 transactions per second for an entire day on Tuesday.
Good news: we just surpassed 10 tx/sec for an entire day yesterday.https://t.co/axOWBAvO1x pic.twitter.com/xQBA2s1XOh — Vitalik Buterin (@VitalikButerin) December 13, 2017
This has brought down unconfirmed, pending transactions considerably. Ethereum and Bitcoin in recent times have been experiencing huge numbers of pending transactions. According to Etherscan.io, Ethereum processed a record 828899 Transactions on Tuesday.
Praise
In a related development, Donald McIntyre, founder of Etherplan, has congratulated Vitalik Buterin and the entire Ethereum team on the normalisation of Ethereum’s processing speed. In a post on Twitter, he wrote:
Hi @VitalikButerin @gavofyork @VladZamfir @nicksdjohnson and Ethereum team at large:
Although I give you hell for the social side and policies, the last few days were a big test for the network and it is proving to be a very sound design. Congrats! ????? https://t.co/zoBLBv8JJj — Donald McIntyre (@TokenHash) December 12, 2017
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