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Monero (CRYPTO: XMR) sold off over 60% on Wednesday in sympathy with Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) following an announcement from the Chinese government regarding its plan to crack down on Bitcoin mining and trading. On Thursday and Friday, Monero staged a big recovery and surged almost 150% from its...

The global cryptocurrency market has a 13.6% increase in market capitalization over 24 hours. It now stands at $1.82 trillion with large-cap coins such as Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) trading in the green at press time on Thursday night, yet these aren't the top gainers. What Happened...

The cryptocurrency market is in bullish territory, with Bitcoin (BTC) traded 0.2% higher at $59,911 at press time late Sunday, having earlier on Saturday crossed the psychologically important $60,000 mark. Yet, there are several cryptocurrencies outperforming the apex virtual asset and garnering...

Bitcoin (BTC) hit its all-time high of $41,941.56 just at the beginning of this year, but the apex cryptocurrency is not rising in isolation, the so-called altcoins are also experiencing new highs. Investors can wet their feet in cryptocurrencies by buying the coins directly from exchanges like...

Bitcoin Price Analysis: BTC/USD Capped By 1-hour SMA50 – Confluence Detector BTC/USD is changing hands at $8,820 as bullish attempts stop short of the local resistance created by the sloping 1-hour SMA50. The bulls forced this barrier during early Asian hours, but failed to hold the ground...

Cryptocurrencies were one of 2018's worst-performing investments, as most experienced steep declines for the year amid a government clampdown and a lack of large-scale institutional support. For instance, the widely traded bitcoin plummeted over 70 percent for the year. The new year,...

Online publication Salon announced in a blog post that the website will mine cryptocurrency with the unused processing power in a reader's computer when they turn on ad-blockers while reading the online magazine. A Revenue Model In Decline Salon said newspaper ad revenues fell...

Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOGL) removed its archive poster Chrome extension Tuesday after some of its 105,000 users reported the surreptitious deployment of an in-browser CoinHive miner. Early reports suggest the Monero mining script was present on at least four updates of the extension, which...

Cash was once the preferred form of currency for criminals, but the difficulty in tracing cryptocurrencies has many turning to them for underground activity.  The Currency Of The Dark Web  Bitcoin — encrypted data that's based on blockchain code and is transferrable between...

Maybe you’re a skeptic, or maybe you want in but don’t know how. But while you fail to benefit from the bitcoin boom, you may be an unwitting instrument in another’s cryptocurrency work. Cryptocurrency miners have been hijacking consumer central processing units to steal...