BTC and Ripple
In the current bear market, BTC lost more than 84% of its value, reaching the lowest level for the year of $ 3,200. The rapid sinking of Bitcoin was not the largest in the Crypto. XRP, for example, lost about 93% of its value in 2018.
After a lot of Internet excitement, multiple TV appearances and abundant rumors of partnerships, both confirmed and unverified, the digital asset reached incredibly high levels of $ 3.38 in 2018. Since then XRP dropped to $ 0.26.
Ethereum
Eterium, once was about to outpace bitcoin in the overall market capitalization but went in the opposite direction. After reaching its highest level of just under $ 1400 on January 13, 11 months later, Eterium lost 94 percent of its value, touching a new annual minimum of less than $ 84 on December 15. Since then he has risen to about $ 130. The information from CoinMarketCap shows that BTC this year performed better than 40 other cryptoLooks in the top 50.
Bitcoin performed better than the following cryptocurrencies:
- Chainlink
- Basic Attention Token
- Dogecoin
- Factom
- Decred
- 0x
- Stellar
- EOS
- Litecoin
- XRP
- Monero
- Waves
- Ethereum Classic
- Digibyte
- Aeternity
- Zilliqa
- Ethereum
- Tron
- Zcash
- Iota
- Tezos
- Ontology
- Dash
- Omisego
- Revain
- BitShares
- Bitcoin Gold
- Lisk
- Nem
- Neo
- Verge
- Bitcoin Cash
- Cardano
- Siacoin
- Nano
- Qtum
- Bytecoin
- Icon
- Bitcoin Diamond
10 cryptocurrencies that performed better than BTC in 2018
- BTC SV
- Maker
- Binance Coin
- Aurora
- VeChain
- Gemini Dollar
- Paxos
- Tether
- USD Coin
- TrueUS