The altcoin asset has been buoyed by a merchant acceptance release and a controversial hard fork promising
holders free coins ten times their corresponding number of litecoins.
Not exact matches
The company also announced support for withdrawal of bitcoin «forks,» which are a method of giving
holders of a certain
coin free access to newly created
coins.
They often offer an opportunity for
coin holders to get a
free airdrop which increases the value and investment levels in the original
coin leading up to the fork.
Any bitcoin
holder is eligible to receive any bitcoin fork, but these «
free»
coins come at a price.
Bitcoin Cash, the first major hard fork of the Bitcoin network, was swiftly followed by various other hard forks which issued «
free»
coins to
holders who held BTC on the date the fork was created.
These are viewed as
free giveaways and are often viewed as a bonus for the
coin holder.
In order to implement an airdrop, the maker of a new
coin can offer all of the
holders of one cryptocurrency, like NEO, a chance to receive the up - and - coming token for
free.
Airdropping is done by developers of newly minted cryptocurrencies who decide to give these new
coins — for
free — to
holders of an existing cryptocurrencies.
Even litecoin benefited from the move, surging as investors sought to lock in holdings before litecoin cash cloned its blockchain and offered
free coins to litecoin
holders.