Author: Jake Simmons

Decred (DCR) is a blockchain-based crypto currency that seeks to differentiate itself from numerous other competitors in the crypto currency market by focusing on community input, open governance and sustainable…

Given the large number of blockchain projects that exist today, it can be difficult for young projects to stand out from their competitors. Ethereum wants to challenge a variety of…

DigiByte (DGB) belongs to the veterans among the cryptocurrencies. The project was founded in 2014 and, like many crypto currencies from this period, aims to solve Bitcoin’s problems (slow transactions,…

Nano is a cryptocurrency developed to solve two core problems of cryptocurrencies: long transaction times and high transaction costs. Nano solves both problems by using a novel block-lattice architecture where…

What is Zilliqa? Zilliqa is a relatively young blockchain platform that was only launched in June 2017 and is already capable of processing thousands of transactions per second. Zilliqa’s goal…

What is STEEM? Steem (STEEM) is a crypto currency that should always be considered in connection with the Steemit platform. Steemit is a blogging and social networking website that looks…

What is BitShares? According to the website, BitShares aims to to extend the innovation of the blockchain to all industries that rely upon the internet to provide their services. Whether…

What is Lisk? Lisk is a decentralized blockchain platform designed to run decentralized applications (dApps) on sidechains. In contrast to Ethereum, with which Lisk is often compared, the dApps do…

What is Verge? According to the FAQ of the project website Verge is a cryptocurrency designed for people and for everyday use. It improves upon the original Bitcoin blockchain and…

What is Bytecoin? Bytecoin (BCN) is a crypto currency focused on privacy and anonymity that was developed by an anonymous team of founders in 2012. This makes Bytecoin, after Bitcoin,…

Comparison: Bitcoin vs. Monero Anonymity was not a major concern for the inventor of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto. In Bitcoin’s whitepaper Satoshi wrote that there are ways to preserve anonymity: The…

What’s Tezos? Tezos is a distributed blockchain platform for smart contracts and distributed applications (dApps) that calls itself a 3rd generation blockchain and competes with Ethereum. Conceptually, Tezos is very…

What’s Dogcoin? According to Dogecoin’s website it is … a decentralized peer-to-peer digital currency that allows you to send money conveniently online. “Doge” is our fun, friendly mascot! The Shiba…

The year 2017 was the year of hard forks for Bitcoin. When the Blocksize War culminated in August 2017 with the Bitcoin Cash Hard Fork, this triggered a wave of…

What is Siacoin? Sia is a distributed, blockchain-based cloud storage platform designed to compete with traditional cloud storage solutions from Microsoft, Amazon and Google. In line with the blockchain paradigm,…

0x is “a protocol for decentralized exchange on the Ethereum blockchain”. At least that’s how the 0x team describes its own platform. But what does this mean in detail? To…

Within the Bitcoin developer community it has been difficult for many years to find a common consensus on the further development of Bitcoin. These disputes culminated with the Bitcoin Cash…

What is OmiseGo? OmiseGo’s slogan “Unbank the Banked” describes very well in a few words the goal of the OmiseGo project. Centralized systems, such as the traditional banking system, are…

What is Litecoin? Litecoin.info describes the crypto currency Litecoin as a peer-to-peer Internet currency that enables instant, near-zero cost payments to anyone in the world. Litecoin is an open source,…

What is Tron? According to the whitepaper, Tron is an open source blockchain-based protocol that aims to create a distributed content sharing system for the entertainment industry and the future…