An ICO (Initial Coin Offerings) is when a new crypto currency token is offered for sale to the public. ICOs can be compared to the Initial Public Offering (IPO) in the stock market.
ICOs were often referred to as the ‘Wild West’ due to their utter lack of regulation. But the crackdown has finally begun! Everything seems to be changing,...
The price of Bitcoin has been surging to new highs in recent times. The #1 crypto currency is now keenly watched by everyone across the globe. Bloomberg Daybreak Asia recently interviewed Aurélien Menant, the CEO and founder of Gatecoin Limited, a popular Bitcoin and Ethereum token exchange based in Hong-Kong. The discussion was mainly centered on the future of...
Google has become the go-to search engine for most users. Nearly 71% of the searches happen through Google currently. What this also means is that Google acts as a primary keeper for the internet. From the ads you see to the search results displayed on the first page, Google presently has the capability to influence user-spending that is literally...
Currently, the cryptocurrency mining market is heavily dominated by large industrial-scale mining pools mainly located in Asia (China - 70%, India – 2%). In China, the access to the hardware is the most direct, because it is manufactured locally, which means it is easy and less costly to acquire. The above factors plus the world’s lowest prices for electricity...
On August 15, the value of Bitcoin hit an all-time high of $4,300, according to CoinMarketCap, indicating a rise of more than 25% in just the last week. The digital currency’s price has more than quadrupled in value this year, from a start of around $990 in January.
The recent surge in Bitcoin’s price past the $4,000 mark can...
Bitcoin has been hogging the limelight for a quite a while now, and rightly so. With prices hovering around $4300, the number one crypto currency shows no signs of slowing anytime soon. Bitcoin presently has a whopping $71 Billion market cap. This is nearly half the market cap of the entire crypto currencies.
Japan’s Bitcoin Connection
Japan had always been...
Crypto currency mining has now become quite lucrative, thanks to the exploding crypto prices. In fact, the overall market cap has already exceeded $154 billion . The increasing popularity of cryptocurrencies is due to their unique features like anonymity, convenience, speed, and profitability.
Cryptocurrency Mining Process: Not Quite Easy
Mining cryptocurrencies is much more difficult than is let on, as they...
Bitcoin Cash, also known as BCC or BCH, is a twin brother of Bitcoin that claims to be peer-to-peer electronic cash aiming to outdo BTC with several improved characteristics embedded into its code. The forking of the two cryptocurrencies took place in the beginning of August and has been one of the most discussed events in the entire history...
Each day of a cryptocurrency user is full of unexpected events and mysteries, especially when it comes to the blockchain applications that are on the verge of hype these days and beyond any imaginable scales. While developers were trying to think of the new use-cases for the blockchain, that are justifiable in terms of operability and implementation costs, we were...
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