Not exact matches
Altcoins began life
as little more than bitcoin copies attempting to mimic bitcoin's successful run, but they quickly became much more than their
name suggests.
These are known
as «
altcoins,» or alternatives to bitcoin; for example, ether, ripple, zcash, monero and dash, to
name just a few.
Bitcoin Cash «Jesus» Roger Ver may have to concede defeat on the
altcoin's
name as cryptocurrency businesses are increasingly adopting the term «BCash.»
Altcoins began life
as little more than bitcoin copies attempting to mimic bitcoin's successful run, but they quickly became much more than their
name suggests.
Fun Fact: The first
Altcoin was Namecoin, which, in addition to being a currency, acted
as a distributed domain
name registrar free from the control of any government, individual or group.
Being first, it seems to have no need for patriotic sentiment, presenting itself merely
as a sturdy
altcoin bearing the
name of one of the latter 20th century's most favored fiat currencies.
Other Bitcoin exchanges are now preparing for the highly anticipated hard fork of Bitcoin into two coins, with the original to remain
named as Bitcoin symbol BTC and the forked coin
as an
altcoin to be
named Bitcoin Unlimited, symbol BTU.
Articles in discussion
as follows: - Bitcoin outperformed the
altcoin portfolio by 3.8 x over the past three years; Fiat currency devaluing at alarming rate in Bangladesh; Hackenergy 2016 was a two - day Dutch hackathon sponsored by ENGIE Nederland; Investor cash levels jumping to levels not seen since 9/11; monthly volume of cross-border payments settled via Bitcoin is increasing at an exponential rate; Pentagon $ 1.8 M Deal to Use Blockchain for Data Security; Swiss banking giant UBS has
named a new head of blockchain; Visa has announced new details about a forthcoming business - to - business payments service developed in partnership with blockchain startup Chain... MasterCard next?