Third largest cryptocurrency peercoin moves into spotlight with Vault of Satoshi deal

Third largest cryptocurrency peercoin moves into spotlight with Vault of Satoshi deal

Everyone knows the first person who walked on the moon. Lots of people know the second. But whoever remembers the third? As the third largest cryptocurrency in the world, peercoin (also know as Peer-to-Peer Coin or PPCoin) is trying to bolster its reputation. It isn't doing too badly having just been accepted as an official currency by new Canadian exchange Vault of Satoshi. A local face-to-face peercoin exchange is also launching, and efforts are been made to get specialist event organizers to use peercoin as their official currency. Market cap. Peercoin may be 'the little altcoin that....


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