Today, the bitcoin is for many investors a fairly attractive investment object, ‘cause it offers a high tolerance for risk and many others, people believe that this digital currency could become one day in a reserve of stable value and competitive financial lane in world trade. Although often cited as volatile, Bitcoin market remains one of the most stable between digital currencies, with a market capitalization that today exceeds to 7 billion dollars.

However, many digital currencies have tried to follow the steps of the Bitcoin, stressing some crypto-currencies with good potential and others that have turned out to be scams. The Ether, a digital currency that is processed through the Ethereum platform, has shown to be a target for more adventurous investors. And it is that, the total market capitalization of Ether to date is around 190 million dollars, which is a great vote of confidence given to the platform.

This is probably because the Ether provides unique benefits that do not offer alternative digital currencies, including the bitcoin, but also comes with its own set of risks and considerations.

According to experts, this market capitalization is more than enough to keep it running for several years without any obstacles. While the capitalization is high enough, is very likely a trivial decrease in the future. However it is expected not have a significant impact on the value of the ETH.

Otherwise, the big news from Ethereum is that running smart contracts, which in short are applications which sets out scenarios that depend on the conditional “if-then” to run the specific terms of an agreement. Basically, smart contracts ensure that once a default condition is true, executes the corresponding clause contained in the contract.

Smart contracts that run on the Ethereum blockchain could have broad applications, because developers can use it to create markets, run created agreements-based transactions and keep track of the promises made by the different partners.

It is important to remember that Ethereum is a relatively new platform compared to the Bitcoin and also Ethereum has not yet reached its full potential, it is believed there are many achievements that have not been added to their progress. As time passes, it is very likely that we see many other improvements. For this reason, Ethereum seems to be an interesting investment option.

In a next article we’ll be trying the possible risks of investing in Ethereum.

Image: Ethereum Logo.

Source: coindesk

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