Category: Opinion

  • How Blockchain Affects The Videogame Industry

    How Blockchain Affects The Videogame Industry

    While Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT) are mostly used to create alternative monetary systems like Bitcoin (BTC), the commonly referred to as blockchain technology underlying these systems could and is being used to modernize other industries at a significant scale. Take IBM’s Hyperledger for example, which allows supermarkets like Walmart to accurately track and authenticate physical…

  • How Regulators Treat Cryptocurrencies in 2018

    How Regulators Treat Cryptocurrencies in 2018

    Ever since cryptocurrencies and other blockchain-based projects become not just a dark web twist, but a concern to governmental organizations, banking institutions, and regulatory authorities, things in the transparent DLT market have become more complex, unpredictable, and even controllable in some cases. If you’d go back to the years 2016, and 2017 and observe the…

  • Are Stock or Currency Markets the Place to Be for Traders?

    Are Stock or Currency Markets the Place to Be for Traders?

    Stock market brokers had their biggest surprise on Thursday (or the biggest in the latest eight or so months): the Dow Jones plummeted with over 800 points, and few people know or fully understand why. The massive Wall Street drop rippled over the Forex market as well. As previously reported, most regular and cryptocurrencies behaved…

  • Finding Practical Applications of Cryptocurrencies

    Finding Practical Applications of Cryptocurrencies

    Practical applications and sustainable use cases of specific cryptocurrencies are increasingly difficult to identify, a notion that is reflected in the extended bear market. Established cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum have clear-cut cases for their application, despite having problems grappling with scalability. Other cryptocurrencies — as part of the more than 2,000 currently in existence —…

  • Monero (XMR) Remains The Best Privacy Coin In The Market, Despite Its Recent Problems

    Monero (XMR) Remains The Best Privacy Coin In The Market, Despite Its Recent Problems

    Online privacy has always been a crucial factor in our security. Now it’s more important than ever as we frequently use the Internet for financial services, online shopping, and so on. And the problem is the cybercriminals who can easily hack systems and put their hand on sensitive information. That’s where decentralized privacy coins came into…

  • Changenow.io is Requiring KYC/AML just like Changelly did holding user funds hostage

    Changenow.io is Requiring KYC/AML just like Changelly did holding user funds hostage

    About a month ago, a Reddit and BitcoinTalk user, dubbed as ni23457, generated some buzz when he accused ChangeNow cryptocurrency exchange platform of stealing 100 Bitcoin Cash (BCH), about 11 Bitcoin (BTC), at that moment, after the company asked him to provide ID documents to fulfill KYC/AML verification. The respective user described the whole situation…

  • Why it is necessary to use the Virtual Private Network when trading cryptocurrency online

    Why it is necessary to use the Virtual Private Network when trading cryptocurrency online

    Cryptocurrency is relatively on a financial market. The people were quite a skeptic about it. They did not want to risk and invested little in the digital money. Though, the situation changed lately. Today more and more people buy many cryptocurrencies. If you are new to the business, cryptocurrency for beginners guides are available online.…

  • Is EOS (EOS) Dumping Ethereum (ETH) And Causing A Market Crash?

    Is EOS (EOS) Dumping Ethereum (ETH) And Causing A Market Crash?

    Left with a day and few hours, the mainnet launch of EOS will soon be fully actualized, and by this time, EOS will be migrating completely from ERC20 network, an ecosystem that belongs to Ethereum. Surely, we need no soothsayer to aver to us that there will surely be a modification on Ethereum and such…

  • Main Features of a Profitable Cryptocurrency to Consider Before Investing

    Main Features of a Profitable Cryptocurrency to Consider Before Investing

    The crypto space is filled with so many tokens and coins that choosing the best one to invest in can become quite a challenging decision. There are thousands of cryptos available on the market, and new ones are being created every week. To make things easier when you are deciding in which cryptos is worth…