Auroracoin's Market Cap is Highly Inflated
Icelanders will be lining up to sell their auroracoins. Photo via Matt Shalvatis. Many people are pointing to Auroracoin's position at third place on CoinMarketCap.com as proof of this new coin's success, but the reality is that it could be setting itself up for disaster. The coin made headlines when it surpassed Litecoin's market cap, but Auroracoin is not actually closing in on a $1 billion market cap. In fact, the real value of all the auroracoins currently on the market could be lower than $10 million. This would still put it in the top 25, but we could see it drop even lower after the....
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Auroracoin, which we covered previously, just hit 3rd place in terms of market capitalization. It's up over 300% in the last 24 hours, a phenomenal leap even for the famously volatile cryptosphere. With a price of $15 per coin, its market cap of nearly $160 million gives it a total value of just under half that of Litecoin and over twice that of its nearest rival, Peercoin: Market Cap rankings. Auroracoin will have a total issuance of 21 million coins, half of which will be evenly distributed to every Icelandic citizen on the 25th of March. As Iceland's population is around 320k people,....
Auracoin Airdrop. The Auroracoin Airdrop took place on March 25th with the result in line with what was predicted byCryptoCoinsNews - A dramatic price drop. The Auroracoin Airdrop was a method of distributing 10.5 million Auroracoins to about 330,000 Icelanders or 31.8 Aurorcoins each. In some ways, the idea is quite good. Crypto coins could operate as a national currency. If they did, we would see how adoption by a nation could cause greater stability in price and also greatly increase the value of the coins. As such Auroracoin gained much popularity, and at one point its' market cap was....