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After beginning the year at a $17 billion market cap, cryptocurrency has had an absolutely monstrous year of growth, reaching far over $650bn in aggregate market cap. Today, however, shows the flip side of such growth, with a market pullback of 25%. A nearly unanimous pull back from cryptocurrency investment has shrunk their total market […]

LISK (LSK) is up 45% over the past 24 hours on a strong cryptocurrency market and the news of the official 0.91 Lisk Core application release. Lisk has been gaining notoriety the entire year, not only because of its early valuations but because of the ecosystem that it’s developing alongside its currency. In many ways, Lisk […]

Dash (DASH) is having a phenomenal year — just one year ago, Dash was worth about $10 per coin. This past week, Dash broke the $1000 barrier and at press time is trading for $1531. A portmanteau of “Digital Cash,” Dash aims to be just that: a realistic, reliable digital cash solution for the global […]

MakerDAO announced the launch of their Dai stablecoin on the 18th of December after over two and a half years of development. What is the Dai? Dai is a new stablecoin that was developed to help design a new decentralised digital global economy. For those who are unfamiliar with the concept of stablecoins, a stablecoin is […]

John McAfee, founder of McAfee Antivirus and an outspoken crypto advocate, recently made this assertion: Privacy coins, otherwise known as coins that allow anonymous transactions, will be the future of cryptocurrency. I am inundated by people asking me for recommendations on cryptocurrencies. If you would use your heads you would figure out that the privacy coins (anonymous […]

In an interview with CNBC, Ronnie Moas predicts that Bitcoin will rise by another 500% and be worth up to $400,000 within two years. In July of this year, Moas, a cryptocurrency researcher and founder of Standpoint Research, predicted that Bitcoin would reach $5,000 when it was $2,600. Moas’ earlier prediction in July has been already […]

Airdrops have become an increasingly popular method to distribute coins in a fair and decentralized way. On December 28, 2017, Ignis will drop 0.5 IGNIS for every 1 Nxt token that is held by the user. Upon the launch of Ardor on January 1st, 2018, the Ignis token will be made available for use within […]

In July, The Wall Street Journal declared Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) to be the “new road to startup riches.” So far, ICOs certainly have been. In 2017 more than 100 ICOs have raised close to $3 billion, and they’ve almost doubled venture capital contributions during that same period. An ICO launch is a surprisingly simple […]

Virtual-gifting platform Gifto has recently partnered with TRON, the decentralized entertainment framework on the Ethereum blockchain. The partnership aims to leverage the technology behind TRON to allow for effective transaction facilitation. Monetizing Content Creation Gifto, a product of Asia Innovation Group, is still in the early stages but seems set for an impressive future. Its […]

After spending the first ten months of 2017 climbing toward the unprecedented $10,000 mark, Bitcoin took a mere four weeks to achieve $15,000. Gains of $1,000 or more per day have not been uncommon, and the digital currency appears to be headed straight toward $20,000. However, it should come as no surprise that banks are worried […]