Decoded: Here's how to tell the difference between Bitcoin and Ethereum

The prices of both Bitcoin and Ether were relatively flat from early 2018 to the fall of 2020, a period known as the 'crypto winter' by oldtimers

The two big names in the $2.2 trillion cryptocurrency market remain Bitcoin and Ether, the coin that fuels the Ethereum network. Bitcoin, the pioneer, has been on a tear, its value up about 500 per cent in the past year. Yet it’s Ether that has been showing its older brother a thing or two, with a price jump of around 1,500 per cent over the same period. While the top two digital coins share some attributes, they are different in many ways. Here’s the breakdown.
 
What’s Bitcoin?
 
Bitcoin was the first digital currency to successfully create a way