Stories tagged with: Cryptocurrency

Rumours of merchants accepting Bitcoin have been circulating for years. After all, everyone knows at least one-foot soldier who spreads the good word of Satoshi wherever they can find a listening ear. So then, what can you actually buy with cryptocurrency, right here, right now in 2018? If you’re not counting on holding for that […]

A cryptocurrency wallet is a software program that stores private and public keys and interacts with various blockchain to enable users to send and receive digital currency and monitor their balance. If you want to use Bitcoin or any other cryptocurrency, you will need to have a digital wallet. What you need to remember is that all transactions are recorded […]

You can classify every digital currency in existence as one of these types of cryptocurrency. These distinctions determine what exactly you’re investing in, and who can invest in the first place. From coins to tokens, stablecoins to utility and security tokens, here are the main types of cryptocurrency you need to know about. So, what is the difference between […]

At the beginning of 2018, bitcoin was traded for about $13,500 after reaching an all-time high of $19,783.06 in December of 2017. After that, bitcoin’s price fell to about three-quarters of its peak value — and this cause other digital currencies to follow the trend. Ethereum, for example, fell from an early-year high of $1,300 […]

Wallet hacks, exit scams, ICO bans In January, attackers stole roughly $400,000 in Stellar Lumen (XLM) coins. In the same month, a software developer revealed the CoffeeMiner attack, a means to use public Wi-Fi networks to perform cryptojacking – the covert mining of cryptocurrency without user consent. Facebook decided to ban the advertising of ICOs, cryptocurrencies, and binary options on […]

Cryptocurrencies are numerous and versatile and can be utilized as entirely private bank accounts and payment cards for almost any occasion. They offer a multitude of ways to earn a form of interest with little or no effort and help users protect sensitive data and holdings on the go 24/7. It is obvious that the […]

There are more than 1,000 cryptocurrencies in existence, but almost all of them are held for speculation. How do we get people to spend these currencies? And, more importantly, how do we make them a medium of exchange that consumers can use in everyday life? According to the paper — entitled “Cryptocurrencies: Overcoming Barriers to […]

A smart contract is a computer protocol intended to digitally facilitate, verify, or enforce the negotiation or performance of a contract. Smart contracts allow the performance of credible transactions without third parties. These transactions are trackable and irreversible. Proponents of smart contracts claim that many kinds of contractual clauses may be made partially or fully self-executing, self-enforcing, or […]

The blockchain technology has been in involved in the most important news worldwide for the last 2 years. Even if some people haven’t heard of digital currencies or cryptocurrency yet, they sure have heard of Bitcoin. Not so many of them have heard about Etherium. With massive trading volumes and market capitalizations for some of […]

What does Cryptocurrency Exchange mean? A cryptocurrency exchange is any system that operates on the basis of trading cryptocurrencies with other assets. Like a traditional financial exchange, the cryptocurrency exchange’s core operation is to allow for the buying and selling of these digital assets, as well as others. A cryptocurrency exchange is also known as […]