Bitcoin has jumped back above $19,000, while large-cap altcoins have remained mostly stable. Double-digit pumps are evident from lower-cap alts.

Hackers have requested up to $4 million in bitcoin to be paid as ransom after compromising a large Israeli insurance company called Shirbit.

Respondents in the latest edition of Kraken's Crypto Sentiment Survey have called for an average bitcoin price of around $36,000 in 2021.

Bitcoin price is recovering from yet another heavy sell-off this week after prices fell $1,600 on December 1 to a low of $18,100. Despite fears of BTC

The Bluzelle distributed database project has launched its second and expectedly final incentivized testnet before the launch of its mainnet.

Index provider S&P Dow Jones Indices has partnered with crypto-based Lukka to launch cryptocurrency indexes following 550 of the leading coins.

Investors who bought bitcoin this year on the basis of this rare indicator have logged serious gains. And after 5 months it has flashed again.

Audio streaming giant Spotify wants to integrate bitcoin, stablecoins, and other cryptocurrency assets as a means of payment for users.

Bitcoin was stopped at $19,600 but still trades above $19,000. Untypical stagnation among the alts raises speculations if this is the calm before the storm.

Bitcoin holds the potential to be a store of value but is not there yet because of its explosive volatility, feels the head of Fidelity Digital Assets.

The AAVE token price jumped by nearly 15% shortly after the project announced that Aave V2 is live on the protocol's mainnet.

Indian traders may soon be required to pay taxes on their crypto gains as new reports claim that the country's tax authority is in possession of investors' data.

Ethereum dropped by almost 5% over the past 24 hours as it falls to $585. Against Bitcoin, ETH has been rangebound between 0.0318 BTC and 0.031 BTC in the first few days of December.

The OMG token surged by 20% as Genesis Block Ventures announced it had acquired the Ethereum layer-2 scaling solution.

In response to recently emerged rumors of crypto regulations, the OCC chief said good things are coming by the end of the Trump administration.

Bitcoin Bitcoin witnessed a strong 10.6% price surge this past week as the cryptocurrency is trading at $19,000. It had recovered from the $17,186 level

To say that this week was interesting would be an understatement. It had a little bit of everything. Starting off, towards the beginning of the week,

MicroStrategy wasn't happy with "only" $425 Million in Bitcoin, it wanted more. And just when its price fell below $19000 it bought $50 more millions in BTC

Bitcoin's inability to break into uncharted territory above $20,000 has driven most of the market down, despite a decent recovery. Major altcoins in the red.

Bitcoin's fundamentals are significantly stronger during the 2020 rally compared to 2017 and BTC could surge to $50k next year, argued Bloomberg analysts.

Bitcoin's growing value combined with depreciating fiat currencies will make BTC a target for malicious actors in 2021, said a Kaspersky report.