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The Ultimate Guide to Poloniex: Complete Review

While cryptocurrency exchanges seem to be an overpopulated sub industry all over the world, they seem to be scarce in the U.S. market, where it gets difficult to find companies that are trustworthy, efficient and not intending to break the bank for their customers when it comes to using their services.

However, even with the increasing talks of regulations within the country over the past few years, there are exchanges that have not only been operating within the territory, but which were born in the midst of uncertainty to go on and achieve new heights of success.

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Beginners Guide to CEX.IO: Complete Review

Steve Walters

CEX.IO is one of the oldest cryptocurrency exchanges, having been launched in 2013. At that time the company also ran the cloud mining service GHash.io, which at its height controlled 42% of the Bitcoin hashing power. However, by 2015 the price of Bitcoin had declined to the point where the company was not finding mining to be profitable and they shut down the cloud mining operations.

CEX.IO is currently based out of London, and has build up a registered user base of more than 2 million customers, thanks to a good reputation and a focus on security. In April 2018, CEX.IO has an exchange as well as simple buy/sell methods for Bitcoin, Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash, Bitcoin Gold, DASH, Ripple, Stellar Lumens, and Zcash. Users can deposit to the exchange using both bank transfers and credit cards.

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Ripple vs. Stellar – A Comprehensive Guide

Alan Daniel

Competition seems to be an integral part of any industry.

Whether it is between products, services, or the very providers behind them, it seems that the sense of rivalry is ubiquitous among any entities that are vying for the same stature in a respective segment.

Therefore, it is no surprise to read or hear arguments when it comes to cryptocurrency networks.

For instance, when it comes to development, people argue whether Ethereum will be killed by EOS; or when it comes to privacy based cryptocurrency transactions, whether Monero would be able to maintain its superiority over Zcash.

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How to Use Bitcoin Anonymously

Stefan Stankovic

Bitcoin is often regarded as an anonymous cryptocurrency because it is possible to transmit and accept bitcoins without giving anyone your personally identifying information. While this is true, the current version of the protocol is not exactly anonymous.

When Bitcoin was first introduced in 2009, its creator Satoshi Nakamoto envisioned it to be a private and secure protocol for transfer of value over the Internet. Before 2014, the general public didn’t really understand how the blockchain technology operates; there was very little information on the Internet and the limited info that was available was usually catered to developers/cryptographers who already knew a lot about the technology.

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Bread Bitcoin Wallet Review

Steve Walters

If you have experience with Bitcoin, and even if you’re just starting out, you probably know that there are a variety of Bitcoin wallets available. There are web based wallets such as Mycelium and AirBitz, and there are desktop wallets like Electrum and MultiBit, and finally there are hardware wallets like the Trezor and Ledger Nano S. And they all serve the purpose of storing your Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies.

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The Ultimate KeepKey Wallet Review

Steve Walters

The KeepKey hardware cryptocurrency wallet is one of the newer additions to the world of hardware wallets for storing Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Currently the wallet can be used to store Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum, Litecoin, Dogecoin, Testnet, DASH, and Namecoin. This isn’t a huge list of coins, and other hardware wallets can support a broader variety of altcoins, but it is a good selection of the most heavily traded coins. Note too that in February 2018 KeepKey announced support for ERC-20 tokens in the beta version of its client. The first coins being supported are SALT, Aragon, Augur, BAT, Civic, Golem, Gnosis, OmiseGO, District0x and FunFair.

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A Beginner’s Guide to EOS (EOS): Complete Review

Alan Daniel

When Bitcoin debuted in 2009 as the world’s first cryptocurrency, it was deemed to be a technological marvel due to its usage of blockchain technology.

Being the first in utilizing blockchain and thus establishing itself as being profoundly unique for its time, Bitcoin maintained its status as the standard in decentralized blockchains for years to come.

However, a few years down the road, we have reached a point where decentralized blockchains centered on cryptocurrencies do not seem to be enough of a use case to leverage the full potential of blockchain technology.

Projects such as Ethereum and NEO have come to light in the past few years, and have pushed the envelope. These projects have established themselves as fully-fledged developmental machines, allowing for more use cases and potential.

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The Ultimate Guide to OKEx: Complete Review

Steve Walters

OKEx is a relatively new cryptocurrency exchange platform, having been split off from the well established OKCoin exchange in May 2017. As with any cryptocurrency platform there are certainly things to look at to decide if you can trust your coins to them, and with that in mind I’ve put together a review of OKEx to show you what benefits you might get from trading through them, and what problems you might run into as well.

Note that as of May 2018 OKEx is the second largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume. Only Binance has more than the over $2 billion in trade volume seen at OKEx.

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Mycelium Mobile Wallet Review

Steve Walters

Mycelium was created in 2008 by a group of hardware engineers, and soon after Bitcoin was released to the world. The founders saw the potential of Bitcoin and switched their focus to create the Mycelium Bitcoin Wallet. Since then it has become one of the top Bitcoin mobile wallets available for Android (sorry iOS and Windows users).

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