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Board Altcoin Discussion
Re: Is the price of ethereum dependent on bitcoin?
by
klasik1980
on 15/08/2018, 18:20:30 UTC
Most people have the mindset that the price of ethereum rises with bitcoin and vice versa. How true is this?
It’s because most exchanges don’t offer a FIAT-ETH exchange. This means, you cannot buy ETH with your local FIAT currency like USD or Yuan. Instead, you have to first buy Bitcoin with USD or Yuan and then exchange Bitcoin for ETH, which is why ETH price is still somewhat tied to BTC.