Ethereum was also originally funded through an ICO, which took place in 2014 . Buyers received ether (ETH) in exchange for bitcoin, and more than 7 million ether was sold in the first 12 hours of the sale, worth approximately $2.2 million.
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They allow other cryptocurrencies to be built on top of their networks. The best example is Ethereum with its Ethereum Virtual Machine, which has allowed the creation of several token coins on its network . … That explains why there are so many cryptocurrencies.
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