What is a rating agency? Well these credit rating agencies are exactly what they sound like they evaluate the ability of companies to be able to pay back their debtors by making timely interest payments and the likelihood of a company’s default risk. This would be similar to your credit scores. They are in effect the …
History: There are many people within the cryptocurrency space who think blockchain is a completely new concept created by Satoshi Nakamoto (Bitcoin’s creator), unfortunately, they would be wrong. The concept and theory of the blockchain, as a database, has been around for 27 years with the theory being developed by some cryptographers named Haber and …
I’ve been trying to find out the real value of cryptocurrencies. And the real value for such a new asset class is difficult to find. Sometimes the only true way to rate cryptos is to compare them against each other. The assumption is the cryptocurrency that is in the use the most will out preform …
There has been a ton of hype around ICOs last year. In 2017 alone startups raised $5.6 billion using ICOs as a funding method. There were 435 successful ICOs launched raising an average of $12.7 million. However, a common problem with the ICOs is the returns to investors are mainly available to early investors. But …
Introduction: There are many good cryptocurrency referral programs out there. These are just a few that I’ve found out about and seem like a decent deal. Check them out. Cryptocurrency referral programs: Coinbase – Coinbase gives 10 dollars of Bitcoin to you for any new user who signs up through your link. The catch is …
Introduction: EOS is a looking to become a major platform for decentralized apps, like Ethereum and Carando. But EOS is looking to take out the major platform coins by tackling problems that Neo, Ethereum, and Cardano have yet to address. For this reason, many in the crypto-space are calling it the “Ethereum killer.” And Ethereum …
There has been a lot of controversy in the privacy coin space over the MoneroV hard fork of Monero. The MoneroV hard fork says that it’s trying to make a better Monero. The way they are trying to improve Monero is though some very small tweaks in the code base. First, they are reducing Monero’s …
Stellar Lumens (XLM) is perhaps one of the most controversial coins out there. For one main reason that the founder of Stellar Lumens is the famous/infamous founder of Mt.Gox. And not only that he founded Ripple (XRP). Then he decided to leave that platform to start Stellar Lumens – a near competitor with Ripple. But …
At the time of writing there are 1378 currencies and counting. That’s an insane amount of currencies that all want your money to drive their success and adoption. But lots of them are either outright scams or are just plain useless. Most are looking to be some sort of replacement for the banking system – …
For now Bitcoin remains the dominant coin in the cryptocurrency market place. While Litecoin is no longer number two or even number three – those spots have been taken by Ethereum and Bitcoin Cash – but it still remains in the top ten. Even with Litecoin losing it’s status as one of the top three …
