Bitcoin vs Ethereum
The past year, from the same start
Side by side
Price, size and supply, then returns, volatility and the deepest fall, each on the coin’s own daily closes.
| Bitcoin | Ethereum | Note | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | $74,559 | $2,127 | hourly close, 00:00 UTC |
| Market cap | $1.499 trillion | $259.98 billion | price × circulating supply |
| Fully diluted value | $1.566 trillion | $259.98 billion | price × maximum (or total) supply |
| Circulating supply | 20.11 million BTC | 122.2 million ETH | |
| Maximum supply | 21.00 million BTC | None fixed | |
| All-time high | $124,766 6 Oct 2025 | $4,832 22 Aug 2025 | daily close |
| From the all-time high | −40.2% | −56.0% | |
| Return, 7 days | −4.7% | −6.5% | |
| Return, 30 days | −9.7% | −14.5% | |
| Return, 90 days | +16.6% | +13.6% | |
| Return, 1 year | −27.1% | −37.5% | |
| Return, 3 years | +103.1% | +0.3% | |
| Volatility, 1 year | 44% | 60% | annualised, daily log returns |
| Deepest fall from a peak, 1 year | −44.8% | −56.2% | daily closes |
How they move together
Whether one coin’s good and bad days are the other’s too, measured on the days both have a close.
- Correlation, 1 year
- 0.911 moves in lockstep, 0 unrelated, −1 opposite; daily log returns
- Correlation, 90 days
- 0.90the same over the last 90 days
- Beta of ETH to BTC
- 1.24a 1% move in BTC came with 1.24% in ETH on average, 1 year
If Ethereum had Bitcoin's market cap
$12,269 per ETH, 5.77x today's price
Bitcoin's market cap of $1.499 trillion divided by Ethereum's circulating supply of 122.2 million ETH. A thought experiment, not a forecast: supply and demand would not stay the same.
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Questions
Which has done better over the past year, Bitcoin or Ethereum?
Bitcoin: −27.1% against −37.5% for Ethereum, on daily closes to 8 Nov 2026.
Is Ethereum more volatile than Bitcoin?
Ethereum's annualised volatility over the past year was 60%, against 44% for Bitcoin.
Do Bitcoin and Ethereum move together?
Their daily returns had a correlation of 0.91 over the past year and 0.90 over the last 90 days. A correlation near 1 means they mostly rise and fall on the same days; near 0 means their moves are unrelated.
How much bigger is Bitcoin than Ethereum?
Bitcoin's market cap of $1.499 trillion is 5.77x Ethereum's $259.98 billion.
Where do these figures come from?
From CryptoKeyhole’s own US dollar price indexes of public exchange markets (daily closes at 00:00 UTC) and the supply our nodes count or, for coins whose chain we do not run, the project’s own published supply. Returns use each coin’s own closes; volatility, falls and correlation use the days both coins have a close.
Daily statistics as of the latest closed UTC day; prices are hourly closes. Last update