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Bitcoin is among today’s most discussed and controversial topics. Ever since Satoshi’s seminal paper [9] in 2008, Bitcoin has evolved from a technological experiment embraced by a small group of computer enthusiasts to what some todayconsider to be the most important innovation since Internet. Most recently, there are new variants of Bitcoin, called altcoins, created everyday and a whole new industry of altcoin trading exchanges, mining pools, gaming websites emerged. Few topics today are more polarising than cryptocurrency. Some merits of cryptocurrency touted by technologists are considered sins by economists. Cryptocurrency is considered a movement by believers and a fad by disbelievers. Instead of an open and honest discussion involving all sides, what we have witnessed is a dialogue of the deaf, in which each camp justifies its own intellectual laziness by pointing to the intellectual laziness of the other camps. This is one of the main obstacles that prevent cryptocurrency ...

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, 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 ...