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Earlier this year, when bitcoin’s price fell by more than 60% from its record close, a less-noticed bitcoin figure also plunged: the number of daily transactions. There are many explanations for the fall-off in trading, from

Last spring, as cryptocurrencies seemed on the brink of a linkage with the traditional financial system, there were predictions of a price explosion along with institutional, regulatory and mainstream acceptance of the currencies

Bitcoin has quietly reached a major milestone in its quest to reach the masses. Segregated Witness, or SegWit, the software upgrade designed to speed up bitcoin transactions, is gaining traction. The number of transactions

Right now, it’s bitcoin. But in the past, we’ve had dot-com stocks, the 1929 crash, 19th century railways and the South Sea Bubble of 1720. All these were compared by contemporaries to “tulip mania”, the Dutch financial

What’s supposed to be the most volatile asset in the universe is proving to be a bastion of stability compared with wild swings and carnage in global equities this past week. Bitcoin clawed its way back from the four-month low

Cryptocurrencies continued their 2018 swoon as worries over escalating government scrutiny combined with a broader flight from riskier assets to send bitcoin to its lowest level since November. The biggest virtual currency sank as much as 16% to

Vakhtang Gogokhia’s plan to extract cryptocurrencies from the netherworld of cyberspace relies on a strategy familiar to many old-school manufacturers who use a lot of energy – the cheaper the fuel, the better. That’s