The Bitcoin Secret Project Reveals Stellar
Jed McCaleb, the founder of MT Gox, Ripple and e-Donkey, has finally revealed his much anticipated Secret Bitcoin Project. Stellar, a new payment protocol and currency, aims to bridge the gap between cryptocurrencies and fiat by allowing easy and instant exchanges between currencies. The payment protocol, much like Ripple, is based on gateways, which act as banks, holding their user's currency in return for an IOU. An IOU, of say Bitcoin, can then easily be exchanged for an IOU of say USD, via Stellar's inbuilt decentralized exchange and without the gateway taking part. The holder of the....
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Remember Jed McCaleb's Secret Bitcoin Project we wrote about in early February? We're finally getting some more information about it via a Wall Street Journal report. Before we get in to it, you should probably know who Jed McCaleb is by now. If not, he's the original founder of Mt. Gox (which he subsequently sold to Mark Karpeles in 2011) and Ripple. McCaleb's project - which isn't quite so secret anymore - is called Stellar, located at Stellar.org. Stellar is more of a protocol than anything else, allowing consumers to easily send money in different currencies. Description from the....
Stellar, the long-secret digital currency project helmed by industry entrepreneur Jed McCaleb, has officially launched. McCaleb is the original founder of defunct Japanese bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox and a co-founder of digital currency-focused payment network Ripple Labs. The new platform is a decentralized gateway for digital currency to fiat currency transfers, The Wall Street Journal reports. Like Ripple and bitcoin, Stellar will act as a public transaction authenticator and feature its own in-house digital currency called 'stellar'. McCaleb's announcement follows months of rumors about....
Although it has yet to overtake Ripple, Jed McCaleb's Stellar has performed respectably in its first several months. The payment gateway's native currency has consistently remained in the top-twenty on the market cap charts. However, the stellar price has not been living up to its name over the past couple weeks. Also read: Stellar Price Rises Despite Bitcion Price Drop. Stellar Price Reaches Three-Week Low. On October 9, the stellar price fell to 662 satoshis, which marked a three-week low for Ripple co-founder Jed McCaleb's latest altcoin project. As recently as September 29, the stellar....
The bitcoin price has been in decline recently, and many altcoin prices have fallen in its wake. However, the bitcoin price decline has not affected the stellar price. In fact, while the bitcoin price fell 15% during the past week, the stellar price increased nearly 40%. CCN examines the stellar price increase to help traders make informed investing decisions. Stellar Price Rising Despite Bitcoin Price Decline. The stellar price has increased more than 35% over the past seven days. The bitcoin price has been falling over the past couple weeks, potentially due to the much-hyped Alibaba IPO.....
Welcome to the CCN weekly altcoin news update, where we profile newsworthy altcoin stories that have flown under the radar. This week's update includes an analysis of the Stellar price's early volatility, information about Darkcoin's latest update to DarkSend, its anonymous transaction protocol, and Viacoin's smart-contract ClearingHouse announcement and presale. Stellar Price Volatility. Stellar, the new Ripple-esque payment protocol from Mt. Gox and Ripple co-founder Jed McCaleb, has quickly gained adoption due to the project's aggressive distribution strategy, which includes giving away....