Ether is a cryptocurrency run on the Ethereum blockchain platform and was launched in July 2015. It has the second largest market share, despite being the newest of the three discussed in this article. Ether's closing price fell below $3,000 for the first time in two weeks. ETH is now down ~12% year-to-date and is ~39% below its record close from August 2025. XRP Bitcoin Bitcoin was the world's first cryptocurrency and decentralized digital currency. The first bitcoin transaction occurred in early 2009 and ...

RT Brian Cohen (@inthepixels)Nick Szabo’s @NickSzabo4 blog post on Bit Gold (https://t.co/qMplAcMQCf) is widely recognized as a foundational precursor to Bitcoin, introducing key concepts like decentralized digital currency, proof-of-work, and timestamped ledgers. Its influence is well-documented in crypto circles, with Bitcoin’s pseudonymous creator, Satoshi Nakamoto, likely drawing inspiration from Bit Gold’s architecture, as evidenced by similarities in their mechanisms for achieving trustless, scarce di ...