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New Economy Movement, also known as NEM is a blockchain which functions similar to Ethereum, built to service business enterprises. Originally envisioned to be a fork of NXT, the community decided to write the code from scratch with an alpha version released June 25, 2014 by a Singapore-based non-profit company, NEM foundation. The blockchain's first [...]
This is a follow up of the previous articles (Part I) How and Where to Buy Bitcoin (BTC) and (Part II) How and Where to Buy Ripple (XRP). TRON is one of the many cryptocurrencies that saw an immense growth on December 2017 increasing in value by more than 30 times that the previous month. Nowadays, TRON is [...]
What Is VET Coin and VTHO? The VET coin is the VeChain token used to carry value from smart contracts. The VTHO coin stands for VeChainThor Energy. About VeChain: What Is VET Coin and VTHO Currently ranked 24nd on CoinMarketCap (by market cap), VeChain has experienced a very powerful growth throughout its short life. Over the [...]
Cryptocurrencies and their underlying technology, the blockchain, are without a doubt one of the most important inventions/concepts of the past few years. Another very exciting technology that promises to become a very big part of our daily lives is called IoT, short for the Internet of Things. According to the basic principles of IoT, we [...]
Introduction to Ethereum Mining Cryptocurrency mining is a very important aspect of any cryptocurrency network, and if done properly, can wield satisfactory rewards. It's almost common knowledge that Bitcoin mining is no longer profitable, especially since the increasing centralization and ASIC mining domination. This leaves anyone looking to get into mining with a lot of [...]
There are two types of Ethereum on the market: Ethereum and Ethereum Classic. Ethereum was proposed in late 2013 by Vitalik Buterin, and the system went live on July 2015. Due to a hack, the community split into two distinct camps which led to the formation of the two separate blockchains. What Is Ethereum? Ethereum is [...]
Since the birth of the first cryptocurrency and blockchain, the crypto sphere proved that it can easily act as a breeding ground for new and exciting technology. Among many other things, cryptocurrencies have proved that storing vast quantities of sensitive information in a centralized way (as well as without any type of cryptography behind it) [...]
The Swiss Federal Railway (SBB) has announced that it has finished exploring a blockchain-based worker's identity solution to address safety issues in railway tracks, according to a press release. A blockchain company Linum Labs developed the solution using an Uport technology. A US-based software development studio Consensys is also part of the project. From the [...]
What is Zcash? Zcash is a privacy-focused crypto which was launched in October 2016 by a team of notable developers, including the prominent cryptographer Zooko Wilcox (Founder and CEO) and many of the original developers of the Zerocoin and Zerocash protocols. Zooko Wilcox has over 20 years of working in the field of cryptography, startups [...]
Blockchain has been touted as the next big thing after the internet. The technology that underpins bitcoin has been praised by big players including MasterCard, IBM and Bank of America as one of the best technological breakthroughs the world has ever seen. However, payment startup that processes transactions in over 70 countries thinks the blockchain [...]
The story of cryptocurrencies and their underlying technology, the blockchain, started not too long ago when a mysterious man (or group of people) under the name of Satoshi Nakamoto published the famous Bitcoin whitepaper. Since then, Bitcoin has remained the most important cryptocurrency in the world. After Bitcoin, the second most valuable cryptocurrency is Ethereum. [...]
The cryptosphere is highly competitive and, most of the time, a very ruthless environment. It's an environment in which every altcoin tries to steal the crown that has been over Bitcoin's head ever since it was launched by Satoshi Nakamoto on 9 January 2009. Be that as it may, there are still various other internal [...]