Trading and investment
Ether is available at various exchanges for buying and selling. The current market cap of Ethereum is £680,277,967 at the time of writing this, and an Ether is worth £7.89. Recently, the price has been very volatile and has dropped down significantly due to recent Ethereum attacks and subsequent forks on the Ethereum network.
The following chart shows the historical market capitalization details:
Ether historical market capitalization (source Etherscan.io)
Ether can either be purchased on various exchanges, or it can be mined. There are online services available, such as shapeshift.io, that allow conversion from one currency ...
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