A Look at Venezuela’s Other Cryptocurrencies, While the Petro Takes Center Stage

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Financially troubled Venezuela, which is introducing the new, denominated, crypto-anchored “sovereign bolivar” this week, is also the birthplace of a number of alternative coins beside the state-issued, oil-backed national cryptocurrency, El Petro. Crisis-hit Venezuelans are actually using some of them in real life, according to the local crypto community.      Also read: Coinhive Mints Quarter … Read more

Renowned Investor Tom Lee Optimistic on Blockchain, Particularly for Finance and Gaming

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Tom Lee is the co-founder and managing partner at Fundstrat Global Advisors. A highly successful research analyst, he often appears on CNBC as an expert on cryptocurrency. Prior to Fundstrat, Lee served as Chief Equity Strategist at JP Morgan. Lee has been ranked #1, #2, or #3 in Institutional Investor magazine’s analyst rankings every year from 1998 … Read more

The 2018 Year of Cryptocurrency Challenge – Week 28 & 29

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At the beginning of 2018, I wrote an article outlining a New Year’s resolution that I thought could help boost cryptocurrency adoption and awareness in 2018, as long as enough people were doing it. Two weeks ago was the twenty-seventh installment of my challenge. Last week, I was busy with a few items and was … Read more

CryptoAdSolution Launches Coin and Platform to Make Crypto Advertising Great Again

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(August 21, 2018) — CryptoAdSolution has launched a new cryptocurrency and ecosystem to bring the advantage of smart contracts and masternodes to marketing, advertising and traffic frequency. The new coin, CADS, has a total supply of 100 million, and will soon be available from pre-sale. Disclosure: This is a Sponsored Article CryptoAdSolution wants to bring … Read more

The Daily: Crypto Self-Regulatory Organization, 100 BTC Whistleblower Reward

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In today’s edition of Bitcoin in Brief we cover a couple of stories that show how the cryptocurrency industry is trying to police itself. One group of companies has begun working on the formation of a self-regulatory organization and another has created a 100 BTC whistleblower reward pool. Also Read: 44% of American Executives Think … Read more

What Are Crypto Exchanges and Why Do We Need Them?

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The fundamental idea behind Bitcoin was to create a peer-to-peer system for money transfer, without any third parties involved. While Bitcoin managed to technically solve that problem, the real world has presented a number of other challenges, the first being acceptance. Say you want to pay for pizza in Bitcoin: the receiving party must be … Read more