Ether “is already years ahead of bitcoin in everything but price and fame,” according to deVere’s Green. “There’s a real sense that 2021 is the year for Ether. Its time has come.”
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This year has been a great year for crypto especially for altcoins like ETH,BNB,Dogecoin which have pumped insanely this year.This pandemic has pushed huge investment in crypto sector as people were in search of high returns and looking for some better options than stocks,gold,and other financial assets.This proves to be best time for crypto investments and prices went skyrocket of top coins.With Ether Berlin hard fork on 15 April at block 12,244,000 the prices were rising constantly and then sparked at once taking prices to $3400 approximately.There are many useful EIP suggested in this hard fork which can reduce the technical problems of Ethereum blockchain at current like gas,network congestion and some others.