ViaCoin: Explosive Market Cap Growth Surpasses US$1 Million
One of the important factors of cryptocurrency is whether or not they can achieve a meaningful market capitalization or not. It even took Bitcoin a long time to get to the US$1 million market cap. However, some of the altcoins are getting close to, or even above, the US$1 million mark. ViaCoin is one of the coins reaching this milestone, but there is a twist: it only took them a handful of days in order to do so. So let’s take a look at why ViaCoin is so incredibly popular and valuable. “At this stage, you may ask the obvious question of “why not just build services on top of the Bitcoin....
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