Auroracoin Airdrop: Flop?
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....
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After weeks of anticipation, Iceland's attempted national digital currency auroracoin commenced its Airdrop - the distribution of 31.8 AUR to interested citizens - at midnight local time on 25th March as part of stage one of its three-part launch. With experts weighing in on auroracoin's novel marketing approach, successors adopting its distribution model and speculators hovering for quick gains, auroracoin's moment of truth had seemingly arrived. Opinions were varied as to what the response to its ambitious launch would be, whether Icelanders would embrace the currency, ignore it or....
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....
Vice Motherboard released a short documentary and accompanying article on Icelandic cryptocurrency Auroracoin. The film, titled The New Currency at the End of the World, runs about 15 minutes, and follows cryptocurrency advocate Mikjall Hannes as he investigates Auroracoin in Iceland. It includes Pétur Árnason, chairman of the Auroracoin Foundation, outlining his vision for spreading the currency to the people, as well as its main reason for existing: to give the people of Iceland an escape from their current wealth-bleeding financial system. First major coverage outside of Iceland since....
Auroracoin, the “cryptocurrency for Iceland”, will begin distributing auroracoins to the country's citizens this week, starting tomorrow, 25th March. The distribution, which is being called Airdrop, will send 50% of the total auroracoins in circulation to the country's populace. Icelandic residents that enter their permanent resident ID on auroracoin's official website will receive 31.8 AUR (roughly $385 at press time). The fourth-place digital currency in terms of overall market cap, Auroracoin quickly rose to prominence amongst the myriad new digital currencies for its unique approach to....
People at the center of Iceland's tiny cryptocurrency, cryptography, and tech scenes are questioning the good intentions of Baldur Friggjar Odinsson, the pseudonymous creator of Auroracoin. The Litecoin-based coin has become the darling of Western media in recent days thanks to its free "Airdrop" distribution to Icelandic citizens on March 25th, and has been met with great enough demand that Coinmarketcap.com now ranks Auroracoin as the fourth largest cryptocurrency by capital volume. But Brennan Novak and Bjarni Einarsson, members of the Icelandic Pirate Party and developers of an....