Since the beginning of 2019, the majority of the cryptocurrency market has been on an upward trend. However, the period of rapid gains for alternate coins, otherwise known as alt season has yet to begin. Besides Bitcoin, one of the biggest risers has been XRP.

French Bitcoin (BTC) Lightning Network (LN) implementation developer ACINQ introduced its second-generation Lightning Network wallet, Phoenix, via Twitter, on Oct. 18. A video accompanying the post demonstrates a number of wallet functions, all accessed via a user-friendly interface.

A German law professor has argued that permissionless networks such as Bitcoin (BTC) pose the greatest challenge when it comes to applying private law to the blockchain.

Bitcoin and cryptocurrency exchanges mostly make money from the fees they charge to users making trades (though that's beginning to change).

Bitcoin and other major cryptocurrencies have become a favorite target of hackers and scammers in recent years, spurred by the bitcoin price explosion.

Price predictions for a date in the future are ever-present in the cryptocurrency sphere. Since some individuals are interested in cryptocurrency purely for speculative purposes, following a correct prediction can attain significant amounts of profit.

The bitcoin market isn’t yet mature enough to support an exchange-traded fund (ETF). So said the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) last week when it rejected Bitwise’s bitcoin ETF proposal in a mammoth 112-page order that included more than 500 footnotes. Legal experts said the decision suggests that a bitcoin ETF may still be years away. But Matt Hougan, Bitwise’s global head of research, sees positives in the decision. The SEC has at least shown it’s willing to raise addressable concerns, rather than rejecting a product out-of-hand with little explanation.

Ripple seems to be making waves in the cryptocurrency space again as Whale Alert; the popular cryptocurrency data aggregator revealed that over 30 million XRP was transferred from Ripple to Ripple OTC distribution wallet.

Bitcoin believers are psyched for the imminent mining of the “18 millionth Bitcoin”. The reason probably won’t surprise you. By Ben Munste

Karma Automotive, a luxury car manufacturer based in California, has just announced its intentions to explore blockchain technology with its shareholders. The means by which the firm intends to this is by accepting Bitcoin.

Binance’s futures exchange is raising leverage to 125x with the launch of bitcoin (BTC)/tether (USDT) contracts today. The cryptocurrency exchange first announced its futures platform in early July, at the time hinting it would allow 20x leverage. Now, futures traders can now choose leveraged positions between 1x and 125x, it said Friday.

Bitcoin may be close to bottoming out, as a popular contrary indicator is teasing a bearish turn for the first time since March 2018. Potentially producing a so-called death

The CEO of one of the top three Bitcoin mining pools recently stated that Bitcoin needs better privacy in order to avoid a potential regulatory clampdown. The comments were made by Poolin CEO Kevin Pan in an interview with Bitcoin Magazine.

Now that Bitcoin has broken down from the triangle formation it was trading in, putting an end to months of consolidation, crypto analysts are sifting through Bitcoin price charts hoping to find clues as to what might happen next.

On Sept 24 the Bitcoin price suffered a flash crash of roughly 18% in a day. Since then, it has been trading inside a range of $7,800-$8,800, creating a strong support area.

Leaks within the Bank of Canada show officials are considering the development of a national cryptocurrency. As such, with interest in central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) on the rise, could it threaten bitcoin?

The largest dark web child pornography site in the world has been taken down. That was the word today from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, the IRS Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), together with the National Crime Agency of the United Kingdom and Republic of Korea at a joint press conference announcing arrests and forfeitures.

Cameron Winklevoss, the co-founder of cryptocurrency exchange Gemini, sees the growing load of negative yield government debt as more than enough reason to own Bitcoin (BTC).

Notwithstanding the Friday dump which has just sent bitcoin price back below $8k, the global economy is in a bigger mess and is set to deteriorate even further. Central banks are pumping cash back into their systems, interest rates are going negative, and GDP figures are falling. Is BTC still a safe haven in times of financial turmoil?

Bitcoin (BTC) needs to become more resistant to governments as a priority, the CEO of one of its biggest mining pools has said.