While bitcoin is slowly recovering from its emotions, an alternative virtual currency, the Ripple, has reached a new record and has allowed itself the luxury of becoming the second cryptocurrency on the market, ahead of the ethereum.
Behind Bitcoin, a host of cryptocurrencies exist and see their value grow at a rate sometimes higher than that of the most prominent virtual currency, while representing only a small proportion of all these unregulated currencies.
As Bitcoin slowly climbs the slope of a sharp drop last week that has gone from nearly $ 20,000 to less than $ 12,000 in a few hours, there is movement on the side of alternative virtual currencies.
One of them, the Ripple, even managed to become for a little while the second cryptocurrency of the market, supplanting in value the ethereum, traditional number two, with a market cap of 73.65 billion dollars, against 70.51 billion dollars for the ethereum, before repositioning itself in third place.
The value of cryptocurrency has increased by 61% in one week, recalls Business Insider, and has grown by more than 5000% in one year, taking advantage of the growing interest of the industry for blockchains.