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Companies Are Buying a Crypto That’s Not Bitcoin — Should You Invest Too?
The race for global cryptocurrency supremacy is hardly a race at all. The top player when it comes to investing is bitcoin, which is so big that its market capitalization is worth more than the combined market caps of the next 10 crypto assets. That doesn’t mean bitcoin is the only crypto worth investing in, though. Another name getting a lot of attention lately is ethereum, the No. 2 crypto with a price of about $4,333 and a market cap of roughly $523 billion. Although those numbers don’t come close to bitcoin’s — which boasts a price of $117,900 and a market cap above $2.3 trillion — ethereum still stands ... (full story)
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