Weekly Altcoin Update: Stellar Price Volatility, Darkcoin's Major Anonymity Update, and Viacoin's ClearingHouse Launch
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....
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This week's altcoin news update discusses the Darkcoin price downtrend, Cloakcoin's PoSA, and Feathercoin's move to NeoScrypt. Welcome to the CCN weekly altcoin news update, where we profile newsworthy items that have flown under the mainstream radar. This week's edition features an exceptionally impressive lineup of stories. In the past week, the Darkcoin price fell below $5, which may be partly due to Cloakcoin's announcement that their unique Proof of Stake Anonymity algorithm entered public beta. Finally, Feathercoin is set to become the first noteworthy altcoin to adopt the NeoScrypt....
The first decentralized smart contracts protocol built on top of an altcoin block chain is now live. ClearingHouse, a descendent of Counterparty, was created by the team behind viacoin and has been in active development since the alt first launched last month. The team has attracted top talent in the bitcoin space, most notably Bitcoin Core developer and Coinkite advisor Peter Todd who has been hired to work on his Tree Chains concept. On 11th August, the viacoin development team announced new details regarding ClearingHouse's internal currency, XCH, and information on how users can....
Welcome to the CryptoCoinsNews weekly altcoin news update, where we examine important altcoin stories that have gone under-the-radar. This week's article examines Litecoin's recent price struggles, Darkcoin's recent progress toward anonymity, and QuarkBar's introduction of adaptive coin creation. Litecoin Price Struggles. Since its release in 2011, Litecoin has consistently remained cryptocurrency's silver standard. However, hundreds of new altcoins have followed in Litecoin's shadow over the past several years. While most of these altcoins are essentially worthless, more and more are....
After a low-volume summer in the community, we just might be seeing some activity that, fingers crossed, could kickstart the alternative digital currency marketplace. Although the risk of project collapse is still out there, as recent failures like ghostcoin have shown, recent developments in the space indicate that the altcoin story is far from over. Viacoin team implements block chain notary service. One of the next-generation use cases proposed for the block chain is that of a notary. Instead of relying on a central authority to certify the authenticity of a document, the block chain....
The Viacoin price is languishing. Viacoin is a crypto 2.0 platform built on an independent blockchain. Viacoin had a very successful presale, and the Viacoin price soared after the coin hired Bitcoin developer Peter Todd to assist with the project. However, the Viacoin price has endured a steady decline for the past month. CCN examines this altcoin price decline. Also Read: Bitcoin 2.0 Will be a Very Big Deal. Viacoin Price Sliding in the Wrong Direction. October has not been a pleasant month for Viacoin investors. After Viacoin obtained a $1 million market cap just days after its official....