Most Things in Life Are an Experiment: an Interview with Zippcoin Co-Founder Ivan Sucharski
Zippcoin is an experiment in digital currency, rather than a full-blown cryptocurrency with the security of a blockchain or the perils of mining costs. It bills itself as transparent, utilitarian, and egalitarian, with those registered as female receiving a larger weekly base allowance than those registering as men. Yes, that's right: allowance. Like MiracleCoin, the cryptocurrency that is distributed directly to wallets rather than miners and relies on proof-of-stake to secure its network, everyone with a Zippcoin account receives an allowance every single week. CCN couldn't help but get....
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Many are losing track of all the up-and-coming digital currencies making their way into the online payments market. Between Bitcoin, Litecoin, Altcoin, Darkcoin and Dogecoin, we already have quite a few to remember. Then, some others began popping up... Swiftcoin, PayCoin, Bytecent, Ultracoin, Feathercoin, MiracleCoin... Have we left any out yet? Is your brain beginning to hurt? Well, here's one for you... It's called Zippcoin, and it's doing a few interesting things to earn itself some necessary attention. For example, its users receive a weekly "allowance," and men receive a smaller....
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Sometimes only brutal hacking attacks leads us to think about the security of our private information and virtual life. Last week email addresses and related the passwords of 4,929,090 users of Gmail, Yandex and some other services were published on one of the most trusted Russian cryptocurrency security forums – BTCsec.com. On September 9, user tvskit from Russian Bitcoin security forum BTCSec.com, first reported the dump of the 28.7 MB file containing more than 4.92 million of Gmail accounts and passwords, as well as several thousands of credentials from Russia's largest email service....
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