altcoins

Permacoin as a cryptocurrency has long been a mere concept in a white paper. It might be considered a ‘useful’ cryptocurrency, as mining capacities in Permacoin network are utilized not only in issuance of new coins, but in data storage. Initially, the permacoin concept was conceived by five specialists from Microsoft Research, University of Maryland, […]

During the launch of financial platform Elephant, quantity of transactions in the Ethereum network tripled, and comprised 21,000 at the moment of the release. As of today, Elephant services over 30,000. It is considered one of the biggest Ethereum-based projects.

In his recent discussion on Reddit, Vitalik Buterin stated that cryptocurrency Dogecoin will be transfered onto the Ethereum network. In particular, it covers usage of DOGE coins in Ethereum’s smart contracts.

Several bitcoin developers announced they were going to develop yet another altcoin dubbed Decred in order to address the centralization issues they believe are inherent in bitcoin. Their concerns may seem justified, as the community recently started discussing the probability of bitcoin’s centralization due to concentration of mining capacity in the hands of a small […]

Elephant has announced official launching of its elcoin network. As of today, exchange services commence their operations, and users may redeem pre-mines directly from their wallets. Also, an Android app is available. According to the project managers, release of an iOS app is expected next week.

CEX.io will cease supporting a vast majority of altcoins at its platform. According to the announcement at the service’s website, the process will be multistaged and prolonged. The exchange justified the move with willing to provide ‘a better exchange service and trade opportunities’. Another move announced in the same post is suspension of GHash.io. The […]

Recently it was announced that a multifunctional economic Ethereum-based platform dubbed Elephant is about to be launched. The platform includes a set of financial and investment tools. It incorporates 12 internal projects oriented towards various user groups. Elephant’s native settlement token is called elCoin, which allows for smart contracts and colored coins, which is an […]

Second generation crypto-platforms keeps drawing user attention. Even though the hullabaloo around NXT has slightly reduced in the course of time, the community still produces new projects and platforms for development of decentralized apps.