Medium “Cryptocurrency” tag statistics
How busy the Cryptocurrency tag is, how stories perform there and where they get published. Competition is moderate, and the tag is mixed for new writers.
Updated Oct 20, 2026 · based on 700 stories from the last 14.1 days
Busier than 30% of 73 tracked tags
30% of top stories are by writers with <100 followers
Competition and chances for new writers
With roughly 50 stories a day, Cryptocurrency is busier than 30% of the 73 tags we track. Its reader-to-story ratio (122,619 followers per daily story) is higher than 95% of tags — more readers per story than average.
56% of stories here come from writers with fewer than 100 followers, and they account for 30% of the best-performing quarter of stories. 21% of stories are behind the paywall (Partner Program), and the average story takes 6 minutes to read.
Publications that publish Cryptocurrency stories
| Publication | Followers | Cryptocurrency stories (last 14.1d) |
|---|---|---|
| Coinmonks | 145K | 60 |
| The Crypto Kiosk | 4.5K | 36 |
| StartupInsider | 8.8K | 10 |
| The Gravity | 2.1K | 10 |
| The Well-Lit Cryptocurrency Market | 666 | 10 |
| The Podcast | 1 | 4 |
| DataDrivenInvestor | 110K | 4 |
| Inoru | 4 | 4 |
| Stock Moe | 2 | 3 |
| Digital Currency Traders | 9.1K | 3 |
Top Cryptocurrency stories right now
- The Automatic Rally: What Happens When Sellers Start Losing Control?
- Wyckoff Distribution Method: Understanding How Smart Money Exit
- AI Is My Trading Assistant, Not My Signal Provider
- Who Actually Controls the Price of Bitcoin?
- Why Every Crypto Asset You Buy Needs an Exact Mission
- How Much Bitcoin Does the US Government Hold? The Numbers Explained
- The Bitcoin Chart Lies. The Blockchain Doesn’t.
- A Marketer’s Observations While Traveling the World. Episode 3: Turkey & Georgia
- TOKEN2049 Left My Notes App Full of Half-Sentences. Here Are the Best Ones
- Crypto Can’t Wait for Washington
FAQ
- How many stories are published in the Cryptocurrency tag on Medium?
- About 50 per day (348 per week), based on 700 stories published in the 14.1-day window before our last scan. The tag has 511,886 stories in total.
- Is the Cryptocurrency tag competitive?
- Competition is moderate: it is busier than 30% of the 73 tags we track. There are about 122,619 tag followers per new daily story.
- Can new writers succeed in Cryptocurrency?
- 30% of the top-performing stories (top 25% by claps) came from writers with fewer than 100 followers, so the tag is mixed for newcomers. 56% of all stories in the tag come from such writers.