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NEM - The Journey So Far

A currency which has been in the markets for almost three years now, NEM suddenly shot into prominence from June 2017 onwards when the currency's price received a major boost. NEM prices went from $0.2 in early December to $2.03 in early January - this is when the currency shot to prominence and suddenly caught the eye of a number of investors. However, the markets have since slowed down, but the interest in NEM continues. NEM prices have dropped down to a low of $0.34 - a three-month low, but the currency continues to fight back. NEM, with a market cap of $3.0 Billion is currently ranked #13 in the list of cryptocurrencies by market cap. While the currency continues to be among the top names, there are many who speculate about the long term future and practical use case of NEM. In order to showcase their practical use cases, NEM has shared a large list of projects on their Github page. Here's a list of all the NEM blockchain based projects being used to solve real-life ch

Ripple (XRP) 2018 1st Quarter Corporate Partnerships

Ripple, XRP, has shown multiple times that you don’t get to be ranked as the third best coin over nothing. So, once again this currency with its blockchain ecosystem is showing supremacy and numerous technological capabilities by having sealed amazingly promising partnerships already at the beginning of 2018. Let’s see who partnered up with Ripple and how can this case affect XRP’s status and price Monygram partnered up with Ripple Moneygram is one of the top global payment services and the fact that this service provider partnered up with XRP, tells us a lot about this currency’s potential in form of the technological abilities its ecosystem has. Moneygram has managed to see a massive potential Ripple is holding, not only within the world of cryptocurrencies but wider into the mainstream banking systems. Moneygram and Ripple have announced their partnership weeks ago on January 11th, 2018. This way, Moneygram is working on solving the issue that

What is a Blockchain? - A study case of NEMCOIN.

A ‘Blockchain’ is sort of like that piece of paper in a checkbook that allows you to keep track of everything. The NEM ‘Blockchain’ keeps track of how much was spent, with whom, on what day, and even keeps track of the exact time. Now imagine if everyone in the world shared a piece of paper like this. It has everyone's spending on it. If you make changes everyone can see it, but you can only make changes if everyone agrees that this change actually happened. Everyone, at any time, can look at it and check to make sure it's right. Now, we all agree that this piece of paper is right. Usually, 'Blockchains' keep track   of who owns what money and when it is moved around. In NEM, this is still true - but NEM also keeps track of other kinds of things. NEM