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,…
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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…
What is Cardano? Cardano is a Blockchain project, also called 3rd generation Blockchain because of its scientific philosophy, designed and developed by a team of worldwide scientists and engineers. The…
What’s Tether? Tether, abbreviated USDT, is a cryptocurrency whose value is linked to the US dollar. Put simply, you could say that USDT is a cryptocurrency version of the US…
The cryptocurrency exchange Binance was founded in mid-July 2017. At the same time, Binance also held its ICO for the Binance Coin (BNB) to finance the successful launch of the…
Ethereum Classic is a hard fork from Ethereum that took place in summer 2016 after the DAO hack. Thus Ethereum Classic shares a lot of similarities with Ethereum. But where…
What is IOTA? IOTA is a crypto currency which differs significantly from other crypto currencies due to its technology. In contrast to Bitcoin or Ethereum, IOTA does not use the…
The history of Bitcoin Cash The origin of Bitcoin Cash can be found in the blocksize debate, which some even call the “blocksize war”. Basically, this war is only about…
What’s Ripple? Ripple is an American technology company founded in 2012 with the aim of revolutionizing the global banking system. It is important to note that Ripple should not be…
What is EOS? EOS is a blockchain-based technology that pursues similar goals to Ethereum. Both projects are aimed at providing decentralized open source software with which high-performance, decentralized applications and…
What is Ethereum (ETH)? While Bitcoin led the first generation of cryptocurrencies, the Ethereum platform with its currency, the Ether (ETH), represents the second generation of blockchains. In contrast to…