Author: Steve Walters

Beginner’s Guide to Paxful: Complete Review

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Paxful is a global, peer-to-peer marketplace used to buy and sell Bitcoin easily, without the use of a third party intermediary, such as an exchange. Think of it as the eBay of Bitcoin as it connects buyers and sellers, and lets them set their own price.

Paxful was started in 2015 by Ray Youssef and Artur Schaback and is incorporated in Wilmington, Delaware, USA. While it is a U.S. corporation, it faciliatates trades on a global basis, and can be used in most any country in the world. The exceptions are those countries that have an outright ban on Bitcoin, and some countries that are under trade embargos by the U.S. These unsupported coutries at the time of writing are: Balkans, Belarus, Burma, Cote D’Ivoire, Cuba, Congo, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Liberia, North Korea, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Zimbabwe.

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Beginner’s Guide to Coinmama: Complete Review

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One of the oldest cryptocurrency exchanges is Coinmama. This exchange was created in 2013, and is registered in Slovakia, although the parent company is New Bit Ventures, which has its headquarters in Israel.

Since its inception in 2013 it has spread its wings quite a bit and now offers its services in 217 countries, including Canada, Australia, the U.K. and the U.S., however it is only available in 24 of the 50 U.S. states.

You can also use Coinmama in many European countries as well as across Asia and in Central and South American countries. You can see a complete list of supported countries here to find out if Coinmama works in your country.

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A Beginner’s Guide to Kraken: Complete Review

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Kraken is a cryptocurrency exchange with headquarters in San Francisco, California, United States that was launched in July 2011, making it one of the oldest existing cryptocurrency exchanges. It was founded by Jesse Powell, who remains the CEO of Kraken, but the exchange is now owned by Payward Inc.

Despite its location in the U.S. it bills itself as “the world’s largest Bitcoin exchange in euro volume and liquidity”, and it serves clients in Europe, the U.K., the U.S., Japan and other countries across the globe.

It is also noteworthy that Kraken is the exchange providing pricing data to the Bloomberg Terminal, as well as being the exchange chosen to provide Mt. Gox creditors with claim support following the catastrophic 2014 hack that saw 650,000 Bitcoin go missing.

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Beginner’s Guide to Gemini: Complete Review

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If you only want to buy and sell Bitcoin and Ethereum, and you’re willing to use only U.S. dollars, you might want to have a look at the Gemini exchange. Despite its limitations, Gemini is rapidly becoming known as a good exchange for serious traders, thanks to a clean, robust, and easy to use interface, combined with enterprise level security.

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How to be Mindful while Trading, Minting or Learning about Crypto

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This is a guest post by Kaira Jewel Lingo, a mindfulness teacher and spiritual mentor I’ve met a few years ago at a wonderful retreat in Devon, UK. I have been using her guided meditations for many years in order to get some calm and ease in the middle of a busy day, or at the end of it. So it’s a great pleasure to invite Kaira Jewel to teach us how to slow down and enjoy life around our screens:

Many of us spend much of our day on the Internet, focused on things like web development, design, trading, mining, or learning about the ever-fascinating world of cryptocurrencies. Already surfing the Internet in our downtime for pleasure, shopping, or to read up on news can be quite addictive, all the more so when we must be online all day for our jobs and our income depends on rapid responses and quick decisions to market trends. It’s so easy to get sucked down the rabbit hole and lose ourselves.

There are practices we can learn to help us to regain perspective, maintain our balance, joy, relaxation and ease and engage mindfully with technology. It’s not easy, but it’s extremely worthwhile.

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Beginner’s Guide to Kucoin: Complete Review

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With the huge growth in the cryptocurrency world through 2017 it should come as no surprise to anyone that cryptocurrency exchanges have been sprouting like mushrooms after a spring rain.

Whether all these new exchanges are worth trading with is another question entirely, which is why we need to take a closer look at the development of the exchange, its safety features, its customer service, and potential growth prospects for the long term.

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100 Companies That Accept Bitcoin Payments

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Have you wondered how easy it would have been if you could book a flight with just a few clicks? I’m not talking about an online booking feature which directs you to a payment gateway. It’s 2018 and the Internet is ever expanding.

Super responsive designs, AI, and virtual reality have made a mark and many websites are adapting to these technologies. But one major phenomenon that jolted the whole world was cryptocurrencies and more importantly, the most famous one – Bitcoin.

Did you know that hundreds of famous or companies accept Bitcoin payments, either as one of the different forms of payment or as the only way to exchange goods? And the fact is some of these websites have been doing so for quite a while.

Whether they be non-profit or profit generating, these institutions still view Bitcoin as legitimate legal tender and show no signs of stopping.

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Five Investments Guaranteed to Be Better Than ETH, BTC or SOL!

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One of my friends went to church recently, and the priest talked about Bitcoin during the Sermon. It can’t get any more mainstream than that, right? The incredible popularity of cryptocurrencies is of course, directly tied to its rapid increase in price and its success as the asset, currency, or investment to beat. With this type of gains, no other investment comes close. What more the gains of the last 2 or 3 years? Heck, if you bought $100 worth of Bitcoin in 2010, you would be a billionaire! So what are these better investments I am talking about?

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What Is a Hard Fork : An Introductory Guide

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A hard fork is used to describe a radical change in the Blockchain that leads to the replacement of an existing protocol, that invalidates or validates existing transactions or blocks.

This necessitates that all the parties to the specific Blockchain enforce a system upgrade to accommodate the new software protocol. So without any further ado, let’s delve into what a hard fork is.

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