All That Glitters Is Gulden: Dutch Cryptocurrency Boasts Impressive Adoption
Gulden, a Netherlands-based cryptocurrency named after the now-defunct Dutch currency, has thrived by prioritizing user experience. Now it is way ahead of its category in terms of merchant adoption, thanks to an aggressively development strategy. As a result, the relatively unknown cryptocurrency, ranked #76 on coinmarketcap.com, is able to claim an impressive 55 merchants that accept it as payment. Additionally, because of the Nocks mobile payment system’s seamless transfers, users are able to spend Gulden anywhere Bitcoin is accepted. CoinTelegraph spoke to Rijk Plasman, founder of....
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While Bitcoin seems content to remain the plaything of speculators and the tech sector, Gulden,a Netherlands-based cryptocurrency, is taking digital currency to the people. Rijk Plasman, founder of Gulden, tells Cointelegraph about the currency’s rise: “We make stuff that people can and want to use. At the moment word-of-mouth is what gets us new users”. Opposite approach of Bitcoin. Bitcoin’s impressive Blockchain distributed ledger technology has reshaped the financial world, as well as provoked a new rush of applications for the technology. As successful as the currency itself is, it....
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Bitcoin is still seen as the tech nerd’s plaything rather than the everyman’s money. Four cryptocurrency adoption experts share their tips and tricks for how to bring crypto to the average Joe. A 2013 report found that the vast majority of Bitcoin users were male, libertarian, non-religious, and used their coins for donations rather than illegal activity. While these demographics have certainly shifted over time, cryptocurrency far and away remains the domain of the coder nerds. “Main street” adoption among the average citizens could be higher. CoinTelegraph spoke to several cryptocurrency....
Gulden continues its meteoric rise, multiplying its market cap tenfold over the last month alone and rising into the top 25 cryptocurrency charts. The Dutch cryptocurrency has had a good year overall, growing from a market cap of about $400,000 at the beginning of the year, and rising to the $1 mln mark in early September. Since then, the currency has taken off, growing over tenfold in the month and a half since then to $10.5 mln at time of writing, almost $7 mln of that over the last week alone. According to Rijk Plasman, this growth has come mainly from users new to the cryptocurrency....