Meanwhile, ether has followed bitcoin’s lead, holding its recent support comfortably above $1,600, although it recently fell more than 2% from Tuesday, at the same time. But as CoinDesk markets analyst Glenn Williams pointed out Wednesday in a column, the second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization has regained its peg to BTC after lagging so far this year. Both types of cryptocurrencies are up 38% since January 1st. 1.