Dash, like its name, is a fast cryptocurrency. Dash is an open source peer-to-peer cryptocurrency with a particularly strong focus on the payments industry and has the goal of being the most user friendly payments system on the globe. Dash is one of the few currencies that offer instantaneous transfer of funds from one wallet …
According to Monero’s site Monero is a secure, private and untraceable currency system using a special kind of cryptography that ensures all transactions remain 100% unlinkable and untraceable. In this world of increasing transparency this makes Monero a very desirable currency if one believes in complete privacy. The original CryptoNote protocol that Monero is based …
Stellar (XLM) is an open-source protocol for value exchange founded in early 2014 by Jed McCaleb and Joyce Kim of the Stellar Development Foundation. According to Wikipedia, “Jed McCaleb is an American programmer and entrepreneur. And the co-founder and the CTO of Stellar.org. Prior to co-founding Stellar, he founded and served as the CTO of …
NEO is not named after the hero in the movie Matrix but simply means New or Revived per the dictionary. NEO however is a currency based on a blockchain and designed to build a scalable network of decentralised applications, not just digital currency. The basic asset is the NEO, indivisible (unlike Bitcoin which can be …
Litecoin is a cryptocurrency similar to Bitcoin with a few differences. If Bitcoin was the gold of cryptocurrencies, Litecoin would be the silver. Unlike some other coins, it uses ther same encryption to create and transfer value and to confirm transactions in the block. One of the main differences is that it has vastly more …
Ripple, a digital or crypto curtrency similar to Bitcoin, originated in 2012 and was built on a distributed open sourced consensual protocol. Its abbreviation is XRP and it was designed to “secure, instantly and nearly free global financial transactions of any size with no chargebacks.” The currency was designed to be used as a transactional …
Ethereum is a cryptocurrency similar to Bitcoin but with some important differences. Origin of Ethereum Ethereum was created by one Vitalik Buterin in 2013 and his concept was outlined in a white paper distributed to a few friends initially and then spread from there. It was announced in 2014 as a core project with a …
