Bitcoin (CRYPTO:BTC), the biggest cryptocurrency on the market, has bitten the dust so far in the new year. So has the best-performing digital token in 2021, Shiba Inu (CRYPTO:SHIB).  It’s not their fault. Cryptocurrency prices, in general, have fallen significantly in recent days. But not all of them. Here are two cryptocurrencies that have trounced Bitcoin…

The pandemic upped demand for digital currency in China, as elsewhere. But in June, authorities banned crypto mining. This has put China firmly into the camp of using digital currency to increase government monitoring. Are crypto and digital in competition? No. China dislikes the energy consumption and greenhouse gases associated with crypto-currency mining. Regulators also…

Flash crashes can occur beyond the immediate control of human beings. They may be produced by algorithmic trading programs, triggering one another to sell in a feedback loop. When such programs are managing large volumes of assets, the consequences of such a loop can be dramatic. This can then spill over into the futures market…

While ether, the native asset of the Ethereum blockchain, still has a way to go before traditional investors begin to form their investment thesis, bitcoin cemented itself in the minds of all professional investors, as it eclipsed $1 trillion in market capitalization in 2021. What’s more, bitcoin also remained uncorrelated with all macro assets, which…

Major cryptocurrencies are currently enduring price declines from already depressed levels. It’s a selloff, though likely not one large enough to shake the confidence of the crypto faithful. Still, the impact of falling crypto prices on assets priced in crypto should prove interesting. The NFT market, largely built on the Ethereum blockchain, has seen a…

Mozilla, the nonprofit organization that makes the Firefox web browser, announced Thursday that it would be pausing the ability to accept cryptocurrency donations following significant backlash spurred in part by a Mozilla founder, Jamie Zawinski (via Business Insider). Zawinski, who stopped working for mozilla.org in 1999, tweeted scathing criticism to a December 31st Mozilla tweet…