Cryptocurrency markets have attracted many interest for global investors
because of their novelty, wide online availability, increasing capitalization
and potential profits. In the econophysics tradition we show that many of the
most available cryptocurrencies have return statistics that do not follow
Gaussian distributions but heavy--tailed distributions instead. Entropy
measures are also applied showing that portfolio diversification is a
reasonable practice for decreasing return uncertainty.Comment: 14 pages, 5 figures, submitted to Entrop