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A whirlwind tour Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ripple and more.
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The Paxos Standard Token (PAX) is a stablecoin managed by the Paxos Trust Company. PAX is directly tied to the US dollar in order to keep its price steady and consistent instead of highly volatile like most crypto assets.
The Coins
Introduction
5 min read
Spankchain is a platform for adult entertainers, which cuts out the middle-man, protecting users from the hefty fees they usually face and from the discrimination that exists in the traditional banking sector.
4 min read
A super speedy walkthrough the grandfather of cryptocurrencies.
Dogecoin is a peer-to-peer cryptocurrency that gets its name from a popular internet meme. The token started off as a joke, but is rapidly becoming serious.
Beginner
Lisk is a blockchain that aims to be the most developer-friendly on the planet. By using the ever-popular JavaScript, it is seeking mass adoption.
Intermediate
Gemini is a cryptocurrency that is pegged at the value of the US dollar. It gives people an easier way to receive and send US dollars across the world with low fees. Similar US dollar-linked cryptocurrencies already exist, but Gemini stands out because it
Electroneum wants to make it super easy to send money across borders. That’s hardly a unique goal in the cryptocurrency space. But it is unique in the way it’s focusing on digital payments through smartphones for people without access to bank accounts. Every crypto player talks about mass adoption, but Electroneum’s model may actually make it possible
Cardano is a cryptocurrency that uses peer-reviewed research to develop a network that avoids the pitfalls of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum. The network is split into three parts: a Foundation that develops the network, IOHK which works with universities on research and Emurgo, which creates business applications on Cardano.
Tether is a cryptocurrency pegged to the price of the US dollar. People use it as a stable store of value instead of more volatile coins like Bitcoin.
Tezos is a crypto platform that supports smart contracts and Dapps. It also looks to evolve faster than other blockchains.
3 min read
EOS is a cryptocurrency that wants to be a direct competitor to Ethereum. It raised more than $4 billion in a year-long ICO, and was designed to run Dapps on a blockchain without having to worry about speed or expending vast amounts of electricity. But as yet it’s untested as a network and has run into a number of problems.
Stellar is a cryptocurrency designed to help the world’s unbanked have access to financial services. At its heart is a payment system that allows money to move across borders more cheaply and quickly than existing systems.
6 min read
Tron is a blockchain designed to help people take control of the data they create online, and make money out of it. Based in Singapore, it uses a voting system to elect people to maintain the network and raised $70 million in its ICO
Ripple is a type of cryptocurrency designed to help banks move money more quickly, and cheaply than existing methods. It’s a centralised type of cryptocurrency that makes it different from currencies like Bitcoin.
Dash is a privacy focused cryptocurrency that can process transactions more quickly and cheaply than Bitcoin. It’s become popular in countries like Venezuela and Zimbabwe, where fiat currencies are experiencing extreme inflation.
Monero is a cryptocurrency designed to keep transactions hidden from prying eyes. It uses a number of sophisticated techniques to prevent people tracking how money is spent. As a result it has become increasingly popular with users of the dark net.
Advanced
NEO is an Ethereum equivalent created in China. It doesn’t use mining to generate currency and it allows developers to create contracts and Dapps in common coding languages.
Crypto exchange Binance has its own coin. Want to know why traders use it? It’s cheaper and doesn’t produce dust.
US Dollar Coin is cryptocurrency token designed to be worth the same amount as the US Dollar. The idea is that you can move US Dollars around without the delay and costly fees that are usually associated with bank transfers.
Bitcoin Cash was a hard fork of Bitcoin. The split took place in 2017 and since then, Bitcoin Cash has become one of the largest cryptocurrencies to emerge from Bitcoin. It has made a number of subtle but significant changes to distinguish itself from Bitcoin, namely larger block size and faster transaction times.
Litecoin is a peer-to-peer cryptocurrency that’s designed to be quicker at processing transactions than Bitcoin. It was created by a former Google employee called Charlie Lee and uses a different consensus algorithm to process transactions that allow more people to become miners.
Zcash is touted as the next best privacy coin. It offers completely hidden transactions that could make crypto as anonymous as cash.
Ethereum is a cryptocurrency that allows smart contracts and Dapps to operate on its network. It was created by Vitalik Buterin, a Russian/Canadian software developer and is regarded as an evolution of Bitcoin.
IOTA is a new type of distributed network. It uses a unique approach to verifying transactions that makes it ideal for the huge amounts of data required to power the internet of things. It’s widely considered to be an evolution of both Bitcoin and Ethereum.
Bitcoin is the world’s first peer-to-peer cryptocurrency. It was invented by a mysterious inventor Satoshi Nakamoto in 2009 and is regarded as the first digital currency to fix the double spend problem.
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