Crypto Winter

What is Crypto Winter?

The first cryptocurrency was bitcoin, which was first released as open-source software in 2009. As of June 2023, there were more than 25,000 other cryptocurrencies in the marketplace, of which more than 40 had a market capitalization exceeding $1 billion. In 1983, American cryptographer David Chaum conceived of a type of cryptographic electronic money called ecash. As of April 2025, […]