Monero is the most popular coin among cryptojackers, who mine cryptocurrencies using hidden mining viruses. Scientists from the Carlos III University of Madrid and King's College London reached this conclusion after conducting a study. The next most popular cryptocurrency among cryptojackers is Bitcoin...

The altcoin Waves has been added to the instant conversion service of the British startup Wirex. The company's crypto wallet is linked to a Visa debit card, so users who have a balance in any of the cryptocurrencies BTC, LTC, XRP, ETH and Waves can make any purchases and withdraw cash from an ATM with the Wirex Visa card...

Over the past 20 years the system of traditional currencies has undergone many changes, however none of them proved as significant as the appearance of bitcoin on January 3, 2009. And that is why advocates of digital currencies firmly believe that bitcoin will one day displace traditional money and become the world's means of payment...

Fraudulent schemes in the cryptocurrency world are no news at all. But recognizing them is sometimes not at all easy. Thus, Ethereum scam forks are in fact engaged in phishing private keys from users, offering the latter to take part in a free coin giveaway....

Despite the fact that the ProgPoW (Programmatic Proof-of-Work) algorithm existed earlier as well, until recently it did not generate such a buzz around itself. However, after Ethereum's (ETH) decision to switch from Ethash to ProgPoW in the near future, interest in this algorithm is beginning to grow...