altcoins

Good news for Ethereum community and especially Indian traders: the bitcoin exchange BTCXIndia confirmed its plans to offer ETH/INR trading pair starting March 9. The official press release to be issued on March 5. The information went public with the Reddit rumor when user ethexindia stated in the post published this Monday: “S Capital Solutions […]

Syscoin developers have announced integration of bitcoin payments in their decentralized market. From now on, users won’t have to buy SYS tokens to make purchases, and some amount of coins would suffice to use additional functionality. Bitcoin payments will become available immediately upon release of Syscoin’s Shade wallet new version this March. Users will be […]

Cryptocurrency market is just a few years old, and still there are hunderds of altcoins of different fates and perspectives. There is excess of one hundred coins nowadays, which is comparable to securities market of a small country. Not all of them are developing projects; it’s only about 40% of altcoins that have market cap […]

Ethereum has become the world’s second capitalized cryptocurrency again, with only Bitcoin prevailing. The price of Ether, Ethereum’s native token, gained more than 22% during the last 24 hours, and reached $3.72 at the time of writing.

Lately Ripple wasn’t performing as good as some other cryptocurrencies on the market. Ethereum even briefly replaced it on the 2nd position of market cap rating. People expected it to get flattened out by Ethereum any moment. They were eating popcorn watching the company’s native token XRP sinking. However, as it turns out, Ripple had […]

Last week, Dash, previously known as Darkcoin, celebrated two years in existence. The project’s community celebrated the anniversary by voting aye on increasing Dash’s block size from 1 MB to 2 MB. Even though the developers never insisted on this kind of solution, 99% of voters agreed with the proposal. Notably, the voting process took […]

The recent surge in Bitcoin price amidst stock exchange turmoil and capital outflows from China has been brusquely interrupted by the new round of Bitcoin scalability dispute. Providing that neither the current Bitcoin Core team nor Bitcoin NXT can find a middle ground, the bullying of each opinion group finally resulted in a somewhat hysterical […]

ZCash issued an alpha-version for cryptocurrency Zcash previously known as Zerocoin or Zerocash. The cryptography underlying the altcoin, employs so-called proof of zero knowledge. As opposed to bitcoin, which provides for pseudonymity of transactions, Zcash, according to its developers, may guarantee complete anonymity while retaining all positive features of bitcoin, like transparency and prevention of […]