Wednesday, Jan. 2 — The main cryptocurrencies have mostly been in the green for two days now, according to data from Coin360. Bitcoin (BTC) is still over $3,800 mark, while Ethereum (ETH) has regained the top altcoin position. Market visualization from Coin360 Proof of Keys — a celebration when BTC holders temporarily withdraw their funds from all exchanges and mediators — is coming in just a few hours, and BTC has gained about 3 percent in price since the beginning of Jan. 2. The coin is traded at approximately $3,900 as of press time. Bitcoin 7-day price chart. Source: CoinMarketCap …

Retail Row, the merchandise store for the online video game Fortnite, has started “exclusively” accepting Monero (XMR) as a cryptocurrency payment option, Monero tweeted Jan. 1. Fortnite is an online video game released in July 2017 and developed by Epic Games, which reportedly accounts for more than 125 million players worldwide. In October 2018, Epic Games was valued at over $15 billion in its latest funding round. Retail Row supports crypto payments service GloBee, which allows retailers to accept cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin (BTC), Litecoin (LTC) and Ripple (XRP), while XMR is the only digital currency supported by the store. Customers …

Friday, Dec. 28 — markets have taken a renewed plunge, with virtually all of the top 100 cryptocurrencies in the red and many high market cap alts seeing losses of between 5 and 12 percent, as data from Coin360 shows. Market visualization by Coin360 Fourth-largest cryptocurrency Bitcoin Cash (BCH) has led the downturn, seeing a steep 12.15 percent loss on the day to trade at $126. Today marks a low-point on the alt’s 7-day chart, at the start of which it was trading over $220. Bitcoin Cash 7-day price chart. Source: Cointelegraph’s Bitcoin Cash Price Index Bitcoin (BTC) has seen …

Dec. 27: Bitcoin (BTC) is staying stable while major altcoin markets are showing signs of a fresh downward trend, led by Bitcoin Cash (BCH). Market visualization from Coin360 Data from Cointelegraph’s price tracker and Coin360 showed a mixed but broadly calmer top twenty assets by market cap, compared to last week’s volatile activity. BTC/USD, which had gained over $1,000 to hit intra-week highs around $4,230 Dec. 23, has since begun a U-turn, hovering around $3,800 since Christmas Eve while trading in a narrow corridor. At press time, the pair traded around $3,806 and down just a fraction of a percent, …

Wednesday, Dec. 26 — crypto markets are tentatively recovering after hefty losses hit all major cryptocurrencies yesterday on Christmas Day. All of the top 10 coins by market cap are seeing mild losses or gains of within a three percent range both red and green, as data from Coin360 shows. Market visualization by Coin360 Bitcoin (BTC) has seen negligible price change over the 24 hours before press time, and is currently trading around $3,804. After a steep price dip yesterday, the coin is stemming further losses and is holding at a price change close to the start of its weekly …

Friday, Dec. 25 — crypto markets are lacking in Christmas cheer, with many major crypto assets hit with double-digit losses. Virtually all of the top 100 coins by market cap are in the red, as data from Coin360 shows. Market visualization by Coin360 Largest cryptocurrency Bitcoin (BTC) has plummeted over 9 percent on the day, and is trading at $3,812 as of press time, according to Cointelegraph’s Bitcoin Price Index. After bullish growth yesterday, Christmas eve, to break over $4,236, the top coin has been trading as low as $3,755 in the trading hours before press time — an around …

Friday, Dec. 21 — crypto markets have broken their five-day streak of green, with many of the major crypto assets seeing mild corrections at press time, as data from Coin360 shows. Market visualization by Coin360 Largest cryptocurrency Bitcoin (BTC) is only just below the $4,000 mark, which it reclaimed yesterday, Dec. 20, capping a five-day streak of solid growth. At $3,971 at press time, and down around 2 percent on the day, the coin is trading around $800 higher than its intraweek low at $3,185 on Dec. 14. Bitcoin’s recent uptick has sealed an almost 16 percent gain on the …

Miners have now extracted 90 percent of privacy-focused cryptocurrency Monero (XMR) and will net the remainder by May 2022, data from monitoring resource Monero Blocks confirmed Dec. 20. Monero — whose developers place anonymity and untethered usage of coins as a priorities — will have an ultimate supply of 18.4 million XMR. So far, a total of 16,659,407 XMR is available. Unlike Bitcoin (BTC) — which has a fixed supply once all coins are mined — Monero will continue generating tiny 0.6 XMR block rewards infinitely after 2022, a feature known as “tail emission.” This is to ensure miners have …

Thursday, Dec. 20 — crypto markets are seeing their fifth day of green, with virtually all of the top 20 cryptocurrencies showing a strong burst of growth, as data from Coin360 shows. Market visualization by Coin360 In terms of 24-hour growth, fourth-largest cryptocurrency Bitcoin Cash (BCH) has soared ahead of other assets, seeing an astonishing 36 percent spike to hit $165 as of press time. Today marks the coin’s third day of double-digit growth, and fifth day in the green. With 7-day growth over 80 percent, the coin still remains close to 50 percent down on its monthly chart. Bitcoin …

Friday, Dec. 7 — Crypto markets have today again taken a major downturn, with virtually all of the major coins by market cap seeing double digit losses. Some coins are down by over 20 percent, as data from Coin360 shows. Market visualization by Coin360 Bitcoin (BTC) has taken a steep hit of over 11 percent on its 24-hour chart, and is trading at $3,400 as of press time. Having attempted to reclaim ground above the $4,000 price point in early December — to briefly trade close to $4,300 — the top coin’s recovery has failed to hold, and the asset …

The number of MikroTik routers affected by cryptojacking malware has repotedly doubled since summer 2018, reaching 415,000, security researcher VriesHd tweeted Sunday, Dec. 2. Since August, VriesHd has been reporting on crypto malware that targets routers and forces them to mine cryptocurrencies along with the researchers from Bad Packets Report. They revealed that routers by Mikrotik, a Latvian manufacturer of network equipment, were compromised by at least 16 different types of malware including Coinhive, a cryptojacking software mining privacy-oriented cryptocurrency Monero (XMR). By September the estimated number of compromised routers surpassed 280,000, according to Bad Packets. In the recent tweet …

The views and opinions expressed here are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Cointelegraph. Every investment and trading move involves risk, you should conduct your own research when making a decision. Market data is provided by the HitBTC exchange. Experts are divided over the future behavior of the crypto markets. Mike Kayamori, CEO of Quoine, expects Bitcoin to make new lifetime highs by the end of next year, and believes that the bottom is close to current levels. On the other hand, Malachi Salcido, head of Wenatchee, Washington-based Salcido Enterprises, expects the situation …