The drop in the value of the main cryptocurrency Bitcoin has also pushed down the transfer fee in the Bitcoin network. Today, bitcoin transfer fees have reached their lowest level in the last three years — 2.5 cents...

Today Bitcoin celebrates its first 10-year anniversary. On January 3, 2009, a person or group of people under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto launched the main network of the first cryptocurrency, mining the genesis block with 50 bitcoins. This marked the beginning of a new history of finance, with the decentralization and globalization of an independent monetary unit...

On the night of January 1, the mining difficulty of Bitcoin rose by about 10 percent. At block 556416 it stood at 5.62 T. Similar figures were last recorded in October 2018...

Mining Bitcoin is unprofitable as of today, since the costs of mining this cryptocurrency have begun to exceed its exchange rate. Mining companies are reporting bankruptcy.

Despite skeptics' claims that Bitcoin is "dead" or "has become useless" in 2018, the reality is that this year Bitcoin has become a genuine cultural phenomenon, gaining momentum and capturing the minds of millions of people around the world. On December 20, the Bitcoin network recorded the largest trading volume in the entire history of the cryptocurrency...