(Fuente: semana.com; edición 1833)
Ether is a class of cryptocurrency (cryptocurrency) is a digital means of exchange that allow transactions to leave fewer footprints and can be exchanged for money in the real world.
Although bitcoin, has become par excellence in the currency to conduct virtual transactions, today, the ether has begun to gain ground
Since the beginning of the year, its value has increased by 4.250% and has become the second most valued virtual currency, according to the digital currency comparison portal CryptoCurrency Market Capitalizations(semana.com; edición 1833)
The limiting of the ether is that it can only be used on the ethereum platform. This platform began in 2014, consists of software that has to be downloaded and that allows the construction of decentralized applications or dapps (semana.com; edición 1833).
It is said that the ether is a criterion that is booming because, during almost all of 2015 its price was almost US $ 1. By this time the domain of bitcoin in the market was of 91.3%. But, things have changed, the ether, is at 28.5% while bitcoin accounts for 39.8%.
According to economic historian at the University of Cambridge and London School of Economics, Garrick Hileman, believes that there are three reasons, then two are mentioned: "The first is that bitcoin has stopped innovating. Reaching full capacity and a political debate and bottleneck is being generated in the debate on how to increase this capacity, "the BBC explained. The second relies on the "sophisticated" features of Ethereum, which allow designing these dapps (semana.com; edición 1833).
