Quote from: dfd1 on June 13, 2017, 01:30:38 PM

Before investing in ethereum you should understand its price based on agressive media campaign, advertising to people who not familiar with cryptocurrencies and major stake of pre-mined coins what never reached the exchange. There is barely 100000 eth on exchanges despite ethereum have almost 100 million supply. Still, that doesn't mean ethereum will not go up. There is big money involved and some whale(s) who control like 99% of eth at the moment will try to increase its capitalization as high as possible.

There's definitely more than 100000 eth on exchanges. Poloniex Cold Wallet + Hot wallet together already have over 4.5 million ethers.
https://etherscan.io/address/0xb794f5ea0ba39494ce839613fffba74279579268
https://etherscan.io/address/0x32be343b94f860124dc4fee278fdcbd38c102d88

That's excluding the amount held by services like Coinbase, Gemini or other exchanges like Kraken, Bitrexx etc.

Additionally, people usually withdraw ethers into their own wallets for safekeeping. Exchanges are not 100% secure as we have seen in the MtGox episode.

Ether is one of the most traded cryptos second to only bitcoin. I would definitely recommend not missing out on it in your portfolio.