The Alt-Cracks: Ghostcoin Gets Some Ghost Coins, Sterlingcoin Continues Its March, Bittrex Updates Policy & More
This column will be moving to Thursday starting next week. With that out of the way, these are some of the most interesting Altcoin stories that didn't quite make it onto CoinTelegraph's front page. As always, no coin, community or anyone else paid to be featured in this article. Sterlingcoin Adds More Features, Merchants. I should clarify, for those wishing to be featured in the article. I am only interested in NEW news. This is about stories that have “fallen through the cracks” so leads don't have to be breaking, but they have to still be news. Sending me a link to your coin's website....
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The world of Bitcoin and digital currencies has often been described by many critics as the “new Wild West”. In fact, this year we have seen a growing number of new scam coins being introduced, many of them designed by the same scammers. The crypto currency community is tired of all this fraud schemes and is starting to demand a lot more proof from coin Devs and the number of launches and scams has been slowing down ever since. Just as legitimate consumers and companies are exploring and adopting new uses for cryptocurrencies, so, too, are hackers and fraudsters. This time Bittrex exchange....
Today we are starting a new feature, The Alt-Cracks. With a near endless stream of altcoins on the market, altcoin related stories are similarly endless. The Alt-Cracks, and yes, we realize the name is a little funny, will be an attempt to pick up all the stories in the altcoin space that either didn't necessitate their own story or for another reason, fell through the cracks. By no means is it intended as a comprehensive list. The altcoin space is endless. We will miss some stories, and we welcome any leads by altcoin devs, community leaders or users. Likewise, stories covered in their....
Sterlingcoin is a cryptocurrency designed for use in the United Kingdom and the British Isles. After an initial high price and flurry of trading activity provoked by a strong and fast implementation debut, Sterlingcoin has leveled off and maintained a fairly consistent value and market cap for most of its history over the past two years. It received a significant bump in both during a resurgence at the beginning of 2016. CoinTelegraph spoke with Steven Saxton, a developer for Sterlingcoin, about the cryptocurrency’s path forward. CoinTelegraph: What prompted the creation of Sterlingcoin?....
Bittrex, a notable Bitcoin exchange, removed 36 crypto-currencies from its listings on February 15th. Stating that they have been “flagged and warned on these wallets for at least 30 days,” Bittrex will no longer allow users to withdraw any of these coins if they were left in accounts. Given that most of the coins being delisted on the exchange had broken blockchains, refunds would be impossible. While many of the coins being delisted brought little to no innovation to the table, AnonCoin and Netcoin both had functioning blockchains, some form of innovation, and an active community and....
Digital currency exchange, Bittrex, has added 12 new coins in the second quarter of 2016, making it the only exchange listing all of the CoinMarketCap top 20 coins. The coins added in order of most recent are: Rise, Waves, DigixDAO, Breakout, Project Decorum, The DAO, Krypton, Lisk, SARCoin, STEEM, Destiny, Memetic. Consistency of new coins. Both Waves, which was added in June, and Lisk, which was added in late May, were listed first on Bittrex and debuted as top-ten coins. They have steadily remained among the top dozen coins since their introduction. More than 95 percent of Steem and....