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What's the Difference Between Ethereum and Ethereum Classic?
Discovering the difference between Ethereum and Ethereum Classic will better allow investors to choose the correct platform for their preferences and needs.
By Kelsey Lange8 years ago in The Chain
How To Buy Your First Cryptocurrency Coins
Cryptocurrency is a digital asset that’s designed to work like a medium of exchange that uses cryptography in order to secure its transactions, control the creation of additional units, and even verify the transfer assets. Digital currencies, alternative currencies, and virtual currencies are just types of cryptocurrencies. They’re also used as decentralized control while opposed to centralized electron money and central banking systems. And it all works through Blockchain, which is a public transaction database that functions just like a distributed ledger.
By Greg Bond8 years ago in The Chain
Top Women in Cryptocurrency You Should Know About. Top Story - February 2018.
Most people who are influencers in the cryptocurrency world are men—or so it seems, anyway. With the struggle to keep women in STEM, it's to be expected that seeing female thought leaders in the cryptocurrency industry will be somewhat uncommon.
By Rowan Marley8 years ago in The Chain
How To Know When to HODL or Sell
If you invest in the stock market, then you probably already know that there are plenty of parallels between the cryptocurrency boom and standard stock trading. With cryptocurrency investing, you can buy currencies, hold on to them, or sell them—just like stocks.
By Riley Raul Reese8 years ago in The Chain
Industries That Are Nailing Blockchain Already. Top Story - February 2018.
From the retail industry to healthcare, each of these industries are catching on to the incredible advancements that blockchain has to offer to our industries as a digital ledger, or record keeper, for transactions. From improving transparency to reducing costs, blockchain will open opportunities to some of the most powerful industries in the world.
By April Demarco8 years ago in The Chain
Applications of Blockchain Outside of Financial Services
While it may thus far be a record breaking tool in the world of digital currencies and online exchange platforms, but blockchain could fundamentally alter the world in a variety of aspects. This technology can greatly benefit a range of concepts, not solely based on economics, banking, or finance in general. These capabilities can range in verifying online identities, to industry enhancing features of data encryption. The most avid tools for remaining informed on leading tech and blockchain realities, is through these blockchain influencers; these individuals either helped build the foundation of blockchain in its early stages, or were there to upgrade the underlying technology, for which eventually made cryptocurrencies into cultural edifices.
By Salvador Lorenz8 years ago in The Chain
Coinbase Alternatives You Should Know About
The cryptocurrency exchange community is expanding rapidly, and discovering the platform that is best suited for your needs is something that will make a huge difference in your process and investments.
By April Demarco8 years ago in The Chain
Why Ethereum May Overtake Bitcoin In 2018
Bitcoin has always been the gold standard when it came to cryptocurrency. That's why so many businesses tried to accept Bitcoin, why people want to invest in the next cryptocurrency to boom like Bitcoin, and why Bitcoin mining rigs are selling out online. Bitcoin is the reigning king of crypto.
By Cato Conroy8 years ago in The Chain
How to Calculate Mining Profitability
Once upon a time, Bitcoin mining was something that anyone could do—even if they had a relatively old computer. Mining Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies used to be a very lucrative field. It didn't matter how much startup capital you had; you could mine it regardless of what equipment you had on hand.
By Riley Raul Reese8 years ago in The Chain
How Blockchain Could Give Us a Smarter Energy Grid
Right now, blockchain technology has become the foundation of one of the biggest paradigm shifts imaginable. It has become the foundation of the world's first entirely digital currency. Smart contracts, too, have been hailed as one of the most promising routes to skip lawyer fees in recent years.
By Rowan Marley8 years ago in The Chain
Initial Coin Offerings to Watch in 2018
It's not so much how to invest in Bitcoin to succeed anymore, it's more likely and probable that timing is the true key to success when delving into the trading and investing worlds of cryptocurrency. We've seen Bitcoin alone steal the market away like a runaway locomotive, but that's not to say returns are most profitable through them — not in the least. Traders and speculative investors know just what to look for when digging into the market of digital currencies. Following what's called Initial Coin Offerings (ICO), industry experts can easily find the best forms of monetizing assets and creating higher profit margins, simply by way of buying and trading in cryptocurrency trades.
By Salvador Lorenz8 years ago in The Chain
How Does Bitcoin Compare Versus Gold and Fiat Money?
Throughout most of history, there has been only two real standards of money: gold and fiat money. Fiat money, for those that don't know, are monies backed by the government that issues it. Gold, or these days, gold standard money, is backed by actual gold.
By Iggy Paulsen8 years ago in The Chain