Bitcoin Gold is another community driven hard fork of the Bitcoin blockchain that occurred shortly after the contentious fork that created Bitcoin Cash.
The creators of Bitcoin Gold are hoping to decentralize the mining that occurs on the Bitcoin blockchain. They contend that mining has become far too centralized on Bitcoin’s blockchain. And they intend to fix that.
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If you’re living in Europe, and especially in Poland, then you might want to take a look at the exchange services being offered by BitMarket. It’s an established cryptocurrency exchange operating out of Poland since 2014, and serving cryptocurrency traders across Europe.
It provides fiat to crypto trades as well as crypto to crypto trades and is most popular in Poland, Austria, Finland, Germany and Estonia. While it isn’t the largest exchange, it provides traders with all the tools and features needed to make successful trades.
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LAToken was created to be a decentralized trading platform for a wide variety of assets. Currently you can trade a number of crypto-pairs and several ICO tokens with your LAToken account. The exchange differs somewhat from other decentralized exchanges since it has chosen directed acyclic graph (DAG) technology over the more common blockchain technology. The choice was made to use DAG for speed and volume, with an exchange expected to be able to handle massive volumes of transactions without delays.
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Newton is an exciting new mobile cryptocurrency exchange start-up being launched specifically for Canadian traders. It promises instant approval for trading, and no commissions. Currently it is in development for iOS mobile devices, but Android and web support will soon be offered as well.
Cryptocurrency enthusiasts will be able to link the app directly to their bank accounts and then trade Bitcoin, Ethereum and Litecoin fee-free. The cryptocurrencies can remain within the native Newton wallet, or can be moved to a wallet of the users choice. And Newton will convert these three cryptocurrencies back to Canadian dollars at any time.
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Monaco has been tackling the area of online banking with a cryptocurrency solution. It’s an incredibly useful project that allows users to hold their cryptocurrencies alongside fiat currencies.
Each user gets a free account and a Visa card to spend crypto and fiat in their account at any location accepting Visa debit cards. And that’s not all.
Currency conversions are made in real-time, so you can use the card in any country. Payments will be made in the appropriate currency, and the user doesn’t lose anything in the conversion. It gets better!
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A blockchain oracle is designed to provide smart contracts on blockchains with data from an outside, or third-party source. Because smart contracts are simply self-executing code they take the data from the oracle and evaluate it before adding it to their execution flow where appropriate. This is intended to give smart contracts an increased flexibility and utility as they will be able to use third-party data seamlessly.
Exmo is a smaller cryptocurrency exchange that was founded in 2013, and is based in the U.K., but has additional offices in Kiev and Moscow, as well as team members located all around the world. When compared with major exchanges like Binance and Huobi it has a small trading volume, but as of July 2018 that’s $34 million per day, making it the 38th largest exchange.
That volume comes because Exmo is worthwhile for some traders as it has certain advantages over other cryptocurrency exchanges. One particular advantage is its fiat currency support, with the exchange accepting EUR, USD, UAH, PLN and RUB. It also has support for Bitcoin, Ethereum and over a dozen other altcoins.
There are a variety of different tokens or coins in the cryptocurrency ecosystem. Probably the most well-known are what are known as currency tokens, which act as a store of value and a means of payment. Bitcoin is the most well known of the currency type coins.
The second most used and known token type are the utility tokens. These differ from currency tokens in that they are used to grant holders access to the services or products in a particular network or platform. They are typically multi-functional and work as part of a blockchain. The most well known utility token by far is Ethereum.
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The increased growth of cryptocurrency market has seen many new entries into the exchange arena, but one of the oldest cryptocurrency exchanges is also one of the most popular.
I’m talking about Huobi, a Singapore based cryptocurrency exchange that’s been in operation since 2013. It’s well known for its focus on its clients, and for its independent cryptocurrency analysis. With its global headquarters in Singapore and additional offices in South Korea, Japan and Hong Kong it has a focus on Asian investors. There is a U.S. office in San Francisco, however as of July 2018 Huobi does not accept U.S. customers. Huobi has stated that it is working on offering its services to U.S. clients as quickly as possible.
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Ethereum is the popular blockchain network that has been designed to allow any developer to code any decentralized application and launch it on the blockchain. Underlying the system is the use of tokens, also known as cryptocurrencies, which can be traded, bought and sold. The entire thing is powered by Ether, the native Ethereum token, and this token is used to pay for miner rewards, transaction fees and many other network services, such as powering smart contracts.
