The ups and downs of BTC, ETH, and other token prices may grab all the media coverage, but the real action in the cryptocurrency industry has always taken place on the mining side of business. Cryptocurrency miners play a high-risk game of balancing investments and energy costs against the probability of beating the algorithm and […]

As with most investments, the biggest names in cryptocurrency tend to dominate the media cycle. Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Ripple may get most of the attention, but many of the most interesting stories are happening in the lesser-known corners of the crypto industry. If you really want to understand what’s happening in the world of virtual […]

Thanks to the ongoing revolution in financial technology, the once stark line separating the banking and cryptocurrency industries is becoming increasingly blurry. The world’s biggest banks are creating their own payment tokens and building blockchains, while bitcoin-investment firms are steadily gaining regulatory recognition. Unfortunately, most banking news tends to fall outside of mainstream coverage, making […]

On a purely conceptual level, the basic ideas behind cryptocurrency aren’t that hard to understand. It’s when you start digging into the technical stuff that things start to get complicated. If you don’t fully understand one of the many unique technical terms or distinctions that cryptocurrency is known for, it can also be a little […]

For understandable reasons, bitcoin tends to get the lion’s share of attention in “Cryptocurrency for Beginners” videos. After all, it’s not only the first crypto, it’s also the largest and most successful by any metric. But there are hundreds of other crypto tokens out there, and if you’re new to cryptocurrency you might not understand […]

It’s not an accident that bitcoin has become the go-to pop-culture reference point for a complicated technology that normal, everyday people just don’t understand. Conceptually speaking, there’s nothing all that complicated about cryptocurrency and blockchain technology, but the community around it hasn’t always had the most newcomer-friendly attitude. It’s easy to forget that everyone has […]

Every day, the cryptocurrency business becomes more mainstream. What began as a cypherpunk whitepaper back in 2008 is now a $200 billion global business with ties to institutional investment, technology infrastructure, and even central bank monetary policy. While bitcoin and ether’s daily price movement still dominates the crypto conversation, there’s a huge amount of cryptocurrency […]

Even though cryptocurrency is a truly global phenomenon, much of the real action takes place in the U.S. Cryptocurrency developments in U.S. tend to have a significant influence on the rest of the world, with both government policy and private investments having immediate impacts all over the world. There’s also a lot happening in the […]

One of the most fascinating things about the cryptocurrency revolution is that it is a truly global phenomenon. Lawmakers all around the world are still trying to determine how cryptocurrency and blockchain technology should be governed. Courts and regulators are trying to establish how crypto fits into existing laws and banking rules. Businesses are trying […]

Every day, the cryptocurrency industry makes headlines in the financial press. As the business side if the crypto world continues to disrupt the financial technology status quo, even stories that don’t have a direct relationship to bitcoin, ether, or other major tokens often end up having an indirect connection to the growing cryptocurrency payments industry. […]