Ethereum breaks $3,400 – what’s driving the surge?: Throughout the week, as Bitcoin continued struggling to regain recent all-time highs, Ethereum went on a record-breaking tear, hitting a new peak price earlier today of just over $3,400. At the beginning of the year, the second-biggest cryptocurrency by market cap had yet to break $500 — and as Ethereum has spiked, it’s driven the value of 27-year-old co-creator Vitalik Buterin’s personal holdings to more than $1 billion. (Ethereum is also now worth more than corporations including Disney and Bank of America; learn how to buy ETH, how it works, and much more in our ... (full story)