Former Steem devs believe CPU mining is the key to a fair launch for their ‘b...
Steemit veterans vow to improve blockchain upgradeability and avoid damaging hard forks In March, the crypto world saw the first instance of what many saw as a hostile takeover attempt of another blockchain. Justin Sun, the founder of Tron, had acquired Steemit, Inc. and the Steem blockchain with it — or so he thought.A complex battle of hard forks, block production takeover, alleged bribes and misdirection ultimately resulted in most of the Steem community migrating to Hive, a completely grassroots version of the previous platform.Meanwhile, the original employees and developers of....
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Beyond DeFi, NFTs, and Bitcoin’s recent breakout, everyone has been talking about “Fair Launch” lately. But what exactly is it and what are its implications for cryptocurrency projects? A fair launch offers participants the opportunity to acquire a token usually over a long period of time at a relatively equal price. A stated goal of […]
While steem recently became the third-largest digital currency as measured by market capitalization, surpassing $400 million this month, some market experts are skeptical of steem and have expressed doubts about its economics. The digital currency’s market capitalization surged in July, rising more than 2,000% from $17.9M to $411.9M between 04:14 UTC on 6th July and the same time on 20th July, CoinMarketCap figures reveal. The digital currency’s price climbed more than 1,800% during this period, increasing from $0.24 to $4.63. For those new to the digital currency, users can obtain steem....
Data from Messari shows the top 20 “Fair Launch tokens” are outperforming both the top 1,000 crypto assets and Ethereum-based assets on average this year s far. So-called ‘Fair Launch’ tokens are outperforming most projects released via centralized token distribution events, according to crypto market data aggregator Messari, Messari defines Fair Launch tokens as having a publicly announced launch without any form of pre-mine. These include older top 10 crypto assets Bitcoin and Litecoin, newer DeFi projects such as Yearn.Finance and SushiSwap, and veteran 2013 altcoin Peercoin.Fair Launch....
As those who caught the 555th episode of his show on RT will know, Max Keiser is about to launch a new altcoin. The official launch of Maxcoin will be this Wednesay (the 5th) at 19:30 GMT. Technical Details. Maxcoin will employ SHA-3 hashing, known as Keccak (“ketch-ack”). As no GPU mining software and certainly no ASIC hardware is currently configured for SHA-3, MAX will hit the scene as a CPU-minable coin. If MAX is successful, it probably won’t take long for someone to figure out the implementation of GPU mining. Difficulty retargeting via Kimoto Gravity Well will limit pool-hopping and....
STEEM, SWAP and ZRX prices surged shortly after a round of listings at major crypto exchanges. Sentiment in the cryptocurrency market is on the upswing after small gains from Bitcoin (BTC) and altcoins hint that the market could be in the process of a bullish breakout.A handful of altcoins are also finding momentum and a round of fresh partnership announcements appear to back the 40% gains seen in select assets on April 21.Top 7 coins with the highest 24-hour price change. Source: Cointelegraph Markets ProData from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView shows that the biggest gainers....