Is Now The Time To Buy Ethereum (ETH) Cryptocurrency? – Benzinga – Benzinga

Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) is trading in the green on Wednesday, outperforming the wider cryptocurrency market, amid a couple of bullish stances taken by analysts.

What Happened: Ethereumcould shoot past Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) to emerge as the dominant store of value in the cryptocurrency sphere, according to a Goldman Sachs note, reported Business Insider.

The global investment bank said in its note that ETH currently looks like the cryptocurrency with the highest real use potential as Ethereum, the platform on which it is the native digital currency, is the most popular development platform for smart contract applications.

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The view that ETH could gain ground against BTC was also held by market analyst Michal van de Poppe, who theorized on Twitter that ETH/BTC rate will rise from the present 0.05-0.06 BTC levels to 0.07 levels.

Poppe is basing his thesis on ETH/BTC support level at 0.063 BTC. The analyst expected that if the floor held, 0.075 could be achieved.

ETH traded 2.63% higher at $2,385.78 at press time over 24 hours. The second-largest cryptocurrency by market cap is up 11.31% over a seven-day trailing period. Against BTC, ETH rose 2.4% over 24 hours.

Ethereum is showing strong technicals against Bitcoin as of press time, with an RSI of 61.46, as per Trading View data. The ETH/BTC pair is trading above the simple and exponential 30-day and 200-day moving averages.

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