By Darren Parkin Data from CryptoCompare shows that the price of the flagship cryptocurrency, Bitcoin (BTC), moved up steadily throughout last week, starting it at around $27,500 and breaking through the psychological $30,000 barrier to now trade above $30,500. Ethereum’s Ether, the second-largest digital asset by market capitalisation, failed to perform as well as BTC. It started the week off with a drop from $1,575 to $1,550 before surging to test the $1,700 and failed to break through it, now trading at $1,675. The past week started with positive headlines after the US Securities and Exchan…