 The cryptocurrency market has been rapidly growing over the past decade, and its characteristics have been compared to those of more established financial markets. It was found that the return distributions, volatility clustering effects, and even temporal multi-fractal correlations for some of the largest cryptocurrencies closely resemble those of the well-established financial markets. However, smaller cryptocurrencies exhibited less correlation with other financial markets and had lower returns. Additionally, the volume of transactions appeared to have a greater effect on price changes than in the mature stock markets, scaling as R, V, tilde operator V-alpha with alpha 1. This article was authored by Stanislav Drozd, Yaroslav Kvapian, and Marcin Waterik.