For the past two years, Bitcoin has come roaring back from 2022\u2019s crypto winter. It was a tough one-year correction cycle, complete with a rash of cash crunches and liquidations of some big names in blockchain.<\/p>\n
The crash was so devastating that a few Web3 founders who broke the law even went to jail in the aftermath of that broad market correction.<\/p>\n
But BTC \u2013 the oldest, longest, most secured Satoshi chain, steadily ratcheted support levels upward over 2023 before melting up this year.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Ethereum and altcoin prices have tracked along with Bitcoin\u2019s rise. The second-largest cryptocurrency by market cap, however, has failed to move with the same gusto, pushing the little orange coin\u2019s fortunes higher.<\/p>\n
What characterizes Bitcoin is its avowed simplicity as a global calculator for small sums representing vast amounts of value locked in by a secure computer hash protocol and market forces.<\/p>\n
By comparison, Ethereum is built to handle more complexity as a global computer for anything you want. The market appreciates its potential to reliably host powerful smart contracts on a network governed by rules enforced by computer programming rather than trusted rulers policed by civil authorities.<\/p>\n
Ethereum\u2019s biggest challenge at the moment is simplifying complexity rather than getting bogged down while remaining a truly automated protocol and round table for its users.<\/p>\n
The smart contract platform\u2019s co-founder, Vitalik Buterin, highlighted this challenge in a Dec. 7 post on X. \u201cIf Ethereum gave up on verifiability and accepted committees and centralized intermediaries for everything, I would consider it no longer Ethereum,\u201d he wrote<\/a>.<\/p>\n While Ethereum\u2019s lead team guides its development, here are five reasons crypto exchange values for its ETH tokens<\/a> could eclipse BTC\u2019s percentage growth over the next 60 days.<\/p>\n As popular analyst Cryptos Batman recently told followers in a post on X, Ethereum\u2019s price recently broke a 3-year bearish trend line. That could indicate a bullish trend reversal, with Ether taking flight like Bitcoin has in recent months.<\/p>\n Ethereum Breaks 3-Year Bearish Trendline<\/p>\n For the first time in 3 years, $ETH<\/a> has closed a candle body above its upper bearish trendline.<\/p>\n This week\u2019s retest is a healthy sign, setting the stage for a sustainable rally. Opportunities like this don\u2019t come often. Don\u2019t miss it! pic.twitter.com\/9iJe3PhXbL<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 BATMAN (@CryptosBatman) December 9, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n\n \u201cFor the first time in 3 years, $ETH has closed a candle body above its upper bearish trendline,\u201d Cryptos Batman wrote. \u201cThis week\u2019s retest is a healthy sign, setting the stage for a sustainable rally. Opportunities like this don\u2019t come often. Don\u2019t miss it!\u201d<\/p>\n In addition to a strong technical backdrop for an Ether bull run, the political\/regulatory situation for the asset could hardly be more favorable.<\/p>\n A pro-growth crypto policy was a<\/a> signature promise of Trump\u2019s campaign. That\u2019s great for the blockchain industry overall but could be especially auspicious for Ethereum prices at exchange.<\/p>\n Ethereum and its ERC20s were always less safe than Bitcoin from regulatory uncertainty, so its price stands more to gain from a pro-growth administration that\u2019s friendly to the decentralized finance business.<\/p>\n In the history of liquid financial markets for tradable assets like stocks and cryptocurrencies, there is usually a \u201cSanta Claus\u201d or year-end price rally that extends into January. Often this is the most profitable part of the calendar when these assets make their greatest gains on exchange markets.<\/p>\n So far, this pattern has held up in the experience of Bitcoin and altcoin markets, with BTC and alts like Ethereum making big leaps up the chart in December and January.<\/p>\n During the most recent Santa Claus rally immediately following a Bitcoin halving in 2020-21, like the current December to January period for 2024-2025, ETH\u2019s price performance far surpassed that of BTC.<\/p>\n Here are the figures for that cycle:<\/p>\n Bitcoin\u2019s high price on Dec. 21, 2022 was $24,059<\/a>. But by Jan. 18, 2023, its top was $37,299. Meanwhile, Ethereum\u2019s high price on Dec. 21, 2022 was $646<\/a>. By Jan. 18, 2023, however, Ether traded at a high of $1,259. So BTC rallied by 55% while ETH jumped by 95%.<\/p>\n As long as the fundamentals of value proposition and market conditions remain in line, the tendency of \u201cmean reversion\u201d or a return to the average trend line remains an important factor to consider in a cryptocurrency\u2019s price.<\/p>\n What goes up must come<\/a> down and what stays down has no where to go but back up again. Accordingly, average Ethereum prices on crypto exchanges look like they\u2019re fixing to<\/a> do just that in the markets up ahead.<\/p>\n Bitcoin has already melted up the chart in a way that Ether hasn\u2019t so far on this macro market halving cycle. Remember, Bitcoin has already blown past its previous all-time high prices. Ethereum has yet to mark its past record high on this cycle. That means alt season is still ahead of us if markets retrace past crypto trends.<\/p>\n While Bitcoin is firmly in the regulated and safe column for institutional investors on Wall Street, altcoins have yet to reach this \u201cmost favored nation\u201d status with US financial and commodities regulators.<\/p>\n Ethereum stands out from the rest of the altcoins in that it appears to be well on its way to Bitcoin\u2019s level of mainstream acceptance. At least it has spot ETF products for regulated investors like Bitcoin.<\/p>\n However, the trend\u00a0toward increased<\/a> institutional adoption of Ethereum is a tailwind for its price, which markets are\u00a0counting on<\/a> as the exchanges continuously revise the valuation for Ether.<\/span><\/p>\n The post 5 Reasons Ethereum Could Outperform Bitcoin in Dec and Jan<\/a> appeared first on CryptoPotato<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For the past two years, Bitcoin has come roaring back from 2022\u2019s crypto winter. It was a tough one-year correction cycle, complete with a rash of cash crunches and liquidations of some big names in blockchain. 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