There are over 13,506 cryptocurrencies listed on coinmarketcap.com. There are 180 fiat currencies in the world issued by governments and recognized by the United Nations. Thirteen years ago there was only Bitcoin that had the purpose of decentralizing money out of the hands of central banks and creating a public accounting system for exchange. Bitcoin …
The new blockchain economy is being created online through the utility of both fungible tokens (cryptocurrencies) and non-fungible tokens (NFTs). A token is a digital unit of a cryptocurrency or NFT that are used as an asset or to represent a particular use on the blockchain. Tokens have many types of uses, but the most …
The co-founder of the Ethereum blockchain, Charles Hoskinson, understood the limitations and challenges to the proof-of-work (PoW) blockchain networks over the long-term and decided to build an alternative. The problem with the first generation blockchains that require proof-of-work is the ability to scale, the interoperability between blockchains, and the sustainability with energy consumption as the …
Solana is a blockchain platform created and designed to host decentralized and scalable applications/smart contracts. Solana started with the publishing of a whitepaper in November 2017 by co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko describing the Proof of History (PoH) concept as a new way to verify blockchain transactions. PoH is a verifying order using the passage of time …
Cardano and Ethereum are both cryptocurrencies and also blockchain ecosystems that other things can be built on. The Cardano network is very similiar to the Ethereum network. The primary creator of Ethereum is Vitalik Buterin. Cardano was created by Charles Hoskinson, who was also a co-founder of Ethereum. The cryptocurrency of the Ethereum blockchain is …
People new to the cryptocurrency online world and Fintwit may wonder what the word “HODL” means after hearing it all the time in the context of investing and trading especially with bitcoin. What does HODL mean? “HODL” originally came from a typo in the title of a post from a BitcoinTalk.org forum in 2013. The …
Here are two of the best crypto trading signals using moving average crossovers to swing trade and trend trade the ^BTCUSD and ^ETHUSD pair. These are examples of trading signals for capturing moves to the upside and going to cash if price starts moving down. 5 day / 10 day ema crossover: Laser Hands signal. …
Stablecoins are cryptocurrencies that have price designed to be pegged to another currency, commodity, or asset. This is most commonly the U.S. dollar but it can be another fiat currency, a different cryptocurrency, or a physical commodity. These are designed to give a cryptocurrency trader an option to go to cash, get out of a …
Here are three Blockchain ETFs that have outperformed the stock market indexes year to date. Amplify Transformational Data Sharing ETF (BLOK:NYSE): This ETF seeks to provide investors with total return. The fund is actively managed to provide total return by investing at least 80% of its net assets in the stocks of companies actively involved …
The Bitcoin Fear and Greed Index tries to quantify the strength of current emotions and overall sentiment on the Bitcoin chart by using different sources and calculate them into one number. The Bitcoin Fear & Greed Index is bound between the values of 0 and 100 on its reading. A value of 0 means the chart …
