Several factors within the cryptocurrency market are essential determinants of their outcome. Some of them are volatility, demand, regulations, media presence, listings, technological advancements, etc. One that most people do not account for is the crypto whales. Over the past couple of months, the number of crypto whales has been rising as more people get into cryptocurrency trading. Due to the availability of more cryptocurrencies, professional traders can earn more coins presenting the opportunity to become whales.

Payments provider Mastercard has launched a digital currency testing kit to help central banks trial their own coins.

The agency is offering up to $1 million dollars for developers who can create technologies to track Monero and Bitcoin Lightning Network transactions.

EFF has become increasingly concerned that payment processors are being asked to turn over information on their customers, without any mechanism for the public to know who is making those requests, or how often. That’s why we are calling on Coinbase—one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in...

The business intelligence company told the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday it "may increase" its bitcoin (BTC) holdings beyond the $250 million haul purchased in August.

The founder and CEO of Blockware Solutions battled leukemia for seven years. He’ll be remembered for his leadership and generosity.

Bitcoin doesn’t need “smart contracts” for the same reason your bathroom scale doesn’t need to exercise. Both are there to provide you with an objective standard. If you are having difficulty with that standard, it is you that needs to change, not the standard.

Cryptocurrencies appear to be emerging as the latest means for Chinese citizens to move their assets overseas and evade the nation’s strict capital controls amid escalating tensions in US-China relations. The Chinese government allows its citizens to transfer the equivalent of only US$50,000 or less out of the country each year.

To measure bitcoin's contribution to global warming, you need to know where it is mined, and where those computers get their electricity.

The pseudonymous owner of Bitcoin’s oldest website—created by Satoshi Nakamoto himself—has fired its maintainer after a verbal dispute.

The scammers have raised $20,000 — and rising — in less than an hour.

The suit accuses YouTube of knowingly making money off the videos as users fell victim, and comes days after a similar bitcoin scam took over Twitter.

Bitcoin is a form of "money", a Washington, D.C. federal court said on Friday.

According to the company, a small number of employees were targeted in a "phone spear phishing attack," suggesting that hackers called some of its staff and duped them into thinking they were speaking with fellow Twitter employees, leading them to reveal the credentials the hackers needed to access internal account support tools.

US-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase will soon be offering its customers a fiat currency loan facility that is backed by a portion of their own Bitcoin holdings. In one of its latest blog posts published on August 13, Coinbase confirmed that users in select states within America have been invited to sign up for a waiting list in order to borrow up to 30 percent of their Bitcoin holdings.

Often seen at public events in a full-length ballgown, diamond earrings and a slash of trademark red lipstick, Dr Ruja Ignatova has been described as "a cross between Belle from Beauty and the Beast and Steve Jobs". Her unbridled glamour certainly belied her on-paper credentials: as one of the richest women in Europe, the consultant working in international finance had a degree from Oxford University, a PhD in law and a stint with the hallowed management consultancy McKinsey. If you were going to trust someone launching a cryptocurrency, it would be her.

Fed Chair Jerome Powell acknowledged that Facebook's Libra project was a "wake-up call" but said there are still "many questions that need to be answered around digital currency for the United States."

Norwegian Air would accept cryptocurrency payments via crypto exchange NBX.

Facebook won’t push its own currency and will focus instead on its digital wallet.

Famous whistleblower Edward Snowden has come out and said that he is thinking about buying Bitcoin for the first time in a long time. Bitcoin is currently down some 15.56% on the daily and is trading for around $5,600 after a record-breaking drop Thursday. Some Bitcoin believers are not deterred, however, like Edward Snowden.