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Bitcoin What is Bitcoin? Bitcoin is a Digital currency created in 2009 by an anonymous person who goes by the name of Satoshi Nakamoto, it is used to make payments of any value without fees. It uses decentralized technology for secure payments and storing money that doesn’t require people’s names or a bank. It is kept running by “miners”, whose powerful computers preform and process…
Bitcoin Cash On the 1st of August 2017 Bitcoin’s blockchain forked, meaning that a separate cryptocurrency was created which is Bitcoin Cash. The way this fork works is that instead of creating an entirely new cryptocurrency (and blockchain) starting at block 0, the fork just creates a duplicate of the current version and shares the same history. So now all the past transactions of bitcoin…
Ethereum Ethereum is an open-source, public, blockchain-based distributed computing platform and operating system featuring smart contract (scripting) functionality. Along with Bitcoin, Ethereum is considered to be one of the pioneer platforms in distributed ledger and blockchain technology. baseUrl = "https://widgets.cryptocompare.com/"; var scripts = document.getElementsByTagName("script"); var embedder = scripts[ scripts.length - 1 ]; (function (){ var appName = encodeURIComponent(window.location.hostname); if(appName==""){appName="local";} var s = document.createElement("script"); s.type =…
ZCash Zcash is a cryptocurrency that was released in 2016, it is a more secure and anonymous version of bitcoin. It allows its users the choice of being able to do “shielded” transaction, which allow for the content to be encrypted using a cryptographic technique called zk-SNARK developed by the creators of Zcash. This feature ensures that the validity of the transactions as well as…
Litecoin Licoin is a p2p (peer-to-peer) cryptocurrency and open source software project, that was created by Charlie Lee, a former Google employee. It was also one of the first bitcoin forks, but it has a decreased block generation time, increased number of maximum coins, slightly modified GUI and a different hashing algorithm. baseUrl = "https://widgets.cryptocompare.com/"; var scripts = document.getElementsByTagName("script"); var embedder = scripts[ scripts.length - 1 ];…
DASH DASH is a privacy-centric cryptocurrency that does instant transactions. It is based off of the Bitcoin software, but it uses a two tier network which improves it. DASH also allows you to stay anonymous while you are making transactions. baseUrl = "https://widgets.cryptocompare.com/"; var scripts = document.getElementsByTagName("script"); var embedder = scripts[ scripts.length - 1 ]; (function (){ var appName = encodeURIComponent(window.location.hostname); if(appName==""){appName="local";} var s =…
Bitcoin Gold Bitcoin Gold aims to decentralize Bitcoin again by adopting a PoW algorithm, Equihash, which cannot run faster on specialized equipment such as ASIC miners. Just like the previous fork in the Bitcoin blockchain Bitcoin Gold has the exact same transaction history so at the time of the fork you would have received an equivalent amount of Bitcoin Gold of what bitcoins you had.…
Monero Monero is a decentralized cryptocurrency, so it is a secure digital currency that is operated by a network of users. All transactions are confirmed by distributed consensus and then are immutably recorded on the blockchain. Unlike other decentralized cryptocurrencies Monero uses ring signatures, ring confidential transactions and stealth addresses to obfuscate the details of all the transactions. baseUrl = "https://widgets.cryptocompare.com/"; var scripts = document.getElementsByTagName("script");…
Electroneum Electroneum is a simple coin in terms of mining but it is also very complex when it comes to its security. The cryptocurrency is used for quick and easy mobile transaction. Electroneum promotes its users to take advantage of the simple mining and to use their mobile phones to mine the coin. baseUrl = "https://widgets.cryptocompare.com/"; var scripts = document.getElementsByTagName("script"); var embedder = scripts[ scripts.length…
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