{"id":126769,"date":"2025-04-09T06:16:13","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T06:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=126769"},"modified":"2025-04-09T06:16:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T06:16:13","slug":"ethereum-has-outperformed-bitcoin-just-15-of-the-time-since-its-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=126769","title":{"rendered":"Ethereum has outperformed Bitcoin just 15% of the time since its launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Cointelegraph.com NewsEthereum has only outperformed Bitcoin for 15% of all trading days since its launch almost a decade ago, according to analysts.<br \/>\nSince Ether (ETH) began trading in mid-2015, it has underperformed against Bitcoin (BTC) 85% of the time, analyst James Check said in an April 8 X post.<br \/>\nData shared by Check shows that Ether significantly outperformed Bitcoin in its early years from mid-2015 to around mid-2017, and it had two short periods in late 2019 and early 2020 when the ETH to BTC ratio was in Ether\u2019s favor.<br \/>\nHowever, Bitcoin has outperformed Ether for the past five years.<br \/>\nETH\/BTC profitable days. Source: James CheckThe ETH\/BTC ratio, which shows the price of Ether in terms of Bitcoin, fell to a five-year low of 0.018 on April 9, according to TradingView.\u00a0<br \/>\nThe last time the ratio fell below its current level was December 2019, when ETH crashed to $125 while Bitcoin was trading at around $7,000.\u00a0<br \/>\nEther has wiped out seven years of gains, plummeting a further 10% over the past 24 hours to under $1,450, below its 2018 market cycle peak.<br \/>\nETH fell to $1,400 in early trading on April 9, according to CoinGecko. Comparatively, Bitcoin lost 6% on the day in a fall to $75,000, which is still 275% higher than its peak during the bull market seven years ago.<br \/>\nEthereum backers air concern of \u201cstagnation\u201d<br \/>\nEthereum advocates have aired concerns about the network\u2019s growth as the token struggled to gain traction earlier this year when Bitcoin hit a new price peak.<br \/>\n\u201cI love Ethereum. However, it\u2019s time to face reality: Ethereum has had [around] the same number of active addresses for the past 4 years.\u201d Web3 researcher Stacy Muur posted to X on April 8.<br \/>\nRelated: Ethereum price falls to 2-year low, but pro traders still have hope<br \/>\nHowever, other researchers noted that most of the new addresses are on Ethereum layer-2 scaling networks, which have surged in terms of value locked onchain over the past couple of years, according to L2beat.\u00a0<br \/>\nWhile most long-term ETH investors are now holding at a loss, technical indicators such as fractal patterns seen in 2018 and 2022 suggest that the asset is approaching oversold levels and a bottom could be near the $1,000 level, according to Cointelegraph analysis.\u00a0<br \/>\nMagazine: 3 reasons Ethereum could turn a corner: Kain Warwick, X Hall of Flame<a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/eth-outperforms-btc-just-15-percent-of-time-since-launch?utm_source=rss_feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Cointelegraph.com NewsEthereum has only outperformed Bitcoin for 15% of all trading days since its launch almost a decade ago, according to analysts. Since Ether (ETH) began trading in mid-2015,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126769"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=126769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}