Analysts see speculative fever rather than informed bets on the blockchain’s future technological potential.
BTC buyers continue to take profits on recoveries.
Gold is outperforming bitcoin amid a renewed drop in inflation-adjusted bond yields.
The Fed's own staffers didn't mention cryptocurrencies as a risk to financial stability, but market participants did.
Atcoins are rising, ether hits another all-time high and bitcoin’s correlation to gold drops to zero.
Bitcoin's price recovery fails to subdue fears of a deeper bull market pullback.
BTC could face resistance near the all-time high on improving trend strength.
Ethereum Classic pops 53%, while bitcoin recovers and ether pushes back toward its all-time high.
Bull frenzy grips crypto markets as the hunt for yield goes beyond bitcoin and ether.
Bitcoin has retraced roughly 38% of the sell-off from May 3 as the short-term trend improves.
"Rate hikes are not something I'm predicting or recommending," Yellen later said.
Some see ether and bitcoin now behaving as very separate assets, which normally isn’t the case.
Ether attracted $30 million of inflows during the seven days through April 30.
Cryptocurrencies fall along with other risky assets on hint of higher interest rates.
Ether's options market saw record trading volume of $1.32 billion on Monday, far above bitcoin's $879 million.