A year later, Vitalik would regret that decision. Bitcoin continued to fall through 2014 and dropped below $200 at the start of 2015, which meant that the $18 million in bitcoin that Ethereum raised was worth about half as much when the platform launched. Ether was also falling. It traded at just under $3 when it first got listed on Kraken and Poloniex, some of the first exchanges to support ether
