Once again, Ethereum (ETH) has reclaimed its position as the cryptocurrency with the second highest market cap. We know that in the later months of 2018, we had seen the struggle for the second spot play out between Ethereum and Ripple. After Ripple had toppled Ethereum from its long-standing position initially, Ethereum did attempt brief comebacks.

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Is this rise also just a temporary comeback? Although of course there is no way to be sure, experts feel that it may not be just that. Instead, it seems to be coming at a time when the market seems stable and well-positioned for a bullish upswing.

As Alex Melen wrote on Twitter on the 10th of February:

“#cryptocurrency Saturday positivity. #Bitcoin, and the entire #crypto market officially broke the falling wedge to the upside. Welcome to the bull market.”

Although Ethereum has successfully taken the second spot from Ripple, Ripple is tailing it quite closely behind. While Ethereum’s market cap is currenty 12.72 billion dollars, Ripple is trailing behind with 12.53 billion dollars. At the time of writing, with data being sourced from Coinmarketcap, Ethereum has also registered a surge in its price. A rise by 1.78 per cent has placed its price in a decent position and it currently stands at $121.41. Given it has a recorded supply of 104.81 million and a volume of 3.18 billion dollars, it is no wonder that its market cap has breached the 12.5 billion dollar market cap and then some.

Over the same period, at the time of writing, Ripple has registered a fall in its price. It fell by 1.69 per cent. Its price currently stands at $0.304236. The market supply of Ripple, which had been the subject of a major controversy recently.

This cryptocurrency, that cannot be mined, has a supply that is controlled by a certain extent of centralization. Last month, Messari, an analytics firm accused the Ripple Foundation of taking advantage of its centralized control and falsely inflating the market supply. Although that is an accusation has been vehemently denied by Ripple, we wonder if we have truly seen the end of this controversy.

Currently, Ripple’s market capitalization is 12.53 billion with 41.17 B being the supply. Clearly, it does owe its market cap to its extremely high market supply. While that is not unlikely for a pre-mined coin like Ripple, Messari’s allegation is still something to be mindful about.

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Alex Melen, the co-Founder and Co-CEO of SmartSites, grew his company’s revenue from $1.7m in 2014 to $3.5m in 2017, a 110% increase, and now they are on track to hit $5m this year.

SmartSites is a full service digital agency that provides website design and development, SEO, and PPC.

In this interview with Eversprint’s Malcolm Lui, Alex shares how he and his team accelerated their high value sales by:

Focusing on their clients and providing a five star experience while helping small businesses get into the digital world.
Keeping their employees happy so that they’d be excited to come to work and provide results for clients.
Maintaining their culture as they add more staff. When combined with the above, this allows them to provide quality service to customers and maintain their reputation.
Spending $40K-$45K a month on PPC ads to generate new leads for themselves. Currently every dollar they spend on PPC returns around $4.50 of lifetime client revenue.
Offering clients a full suite of services, which in turn allows for higher revenue per client.

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Although we have been in a bear rend during the last year, there are several traders and analysts that are expecting Bitcoin (BTC) to start growing once again.

According to the entrepreneur and CEO of T35Hosting and SmartSitesNJ, Alex Melen, the last time the 50 and 200 average crossed on the 4 day chart was at the bottom of the last bear market.

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https://bitcoinexchangeguide.com/cryptocurrency-community-collection-of-traders-remain-bullish-about-bitcoin-and-its-future-price/

The 2019 NamesCon Global conference got underway Sunday morning (January 27) in Las Vegas. Domain investors, developers and service providers from around the world have converged at the Tropicana Hotel for the 6th annual event. All six shows have been held at the Trop but on Sunday it was announced that the conference will move to Austin, Texas next year with the dates and venue still to be determined.

Below: At the same time on the Registry Office Breakout Stage Alex Melen (SmartSites.com) discussed The 3 B’s of Developing Domains: Buy, Build, Benefit.

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After opening Thursday at the Sercotel Sorolla Palace Hotel in Valencia, Spain, the 10th anniversary edition of the Domaining Europe conference (that transitioned to its new NamesCon Europe name this week) continued with another full business day Friday (June 8, 2018) and closed today, Saturday, June 9, with a Tour of Valencia.

We ended our Day 1 post Thursday by noting that attendees were on their way to a gala evening dinner at the Marina Beach Club in Valencia. NamesCon has since posted some photos from that event (the photos in this article are all from NamesCon’s Twitter feed or Facebook posts unless noted otherwise).

Below: SmartSites.com Co-Founder and CEO Alex Melen followed with The 3 B’s of Developing Domains: Buy, Build, Benefit. This session provided advice on how to develop your domain to create recurring revenue while also increasing the domain value.  Melen also covered domain development, SEO, PPC, SMM and ran through a real-life example of the revenue and value-creating potential of developing your domains. The photo is a screenshot from a YouTube video of Alex’s talk.

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