Terra is a price-stable cryptocurrency that’s aiming for worldwide mainstream adoption via its mobile payments dApp, CHAI. Recently, during the Korea Blockchain Week, CHAI and Terra announced four game-changing partnerships: With BC Card – the largest payment processor in Korea – to launch a debit card called “CHAI card.” With CU – Korea’s largest convenience...
Monero is a blockchain project that solely focuses on privacy and anonymity. To enhance anonymity, the Monero network uses cryptography to shield sending and receiving addresses, as well as transaction amounts. In terms of privacy, Monero uses the ring signature concept and stealth addresses. Ring signatures enable cryptocurrency senders to shield their identity from other...
If you’ve been paying attention to cryptocurrency news, you definitely should have noticed that almost every day there’s a news piece about a hack or some kind of cryptocurrency scam. The weird part about it is that a huge majority of these cryptocurrency crimes happen in developed countries where crime rates are rather low while...
The financial community has matured in its securities trade. This has allowed programmers to laisse with professional investors to develop security exchange terminals with all the useful advanced features needed to succeed in this trade. The cryptocurrency trade borrowed much of its basics from conventional securities trading. However, most of the cryptocurrency exchanges available today...
Litecoin is one of the leading cryptocurrencies. Technically, Litecoin has some similarities to Bitcoin. By press time, Litecoin as trading at $70.03 with a market capitalization of $4,425,385,508 and ranked in the fifth position. You can own Litecoin through buying it on an exchange or mining. Litecoin mining is the process by which Litecoin blockchain...
When cryptocurrencies first hit the market, many people were skeptical about its longevity and credibility. However, as time went by, investors started streaming in in their thousands, investing millions in the technology, hoping to land massive returns. While it’s not a bad idea to invest in cryptocurrencies, there are better investments to consider. Besides, the...
Since the internet appeared, gambling games evolved massively. We now have online casinos with slots, blackjack, roulette and many other games. But a major problem that there is in the gambling industry is that the results cannot be tested. You just take each casino for granted or for the image that the casino has. You...
The esports sector has enjoyed a remarkable rise to prominence over the past decade and it has turned many professional gamers into millionaire superstars. Media rights deals are soaring, commercial sponsorships are on the rise, prize money is spiralling and the entire industry is an economic juggernaut. People pack into stadiums to watch teams of...
Shorting bitcoin is an investment strategy that allows traders to gain from price drops. This concept works well for investors who are skeptical about Bitcoin’s future. When shorting, an investor borrows Bitcoin and sells it at the current market price. Later, you buy it back. This is done with the hope that by the time...
When dealing with money, especially when dealing with a large amount of money involving a large number of transactions, that equals large amounts of processing power. How many large banks do you know of that have only one teller (physical person handling a physical transaction)? I can’t think of any. Can you? It does not...