What is an ICO? An ICO, or Initial Coin Offering, is a method of crowd funding which relies on upfront crypto investment in exchange for tokens which can be exchanged for the new coin upon release, as

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Phones and blockchain technology Recently, I have been considering what the future may look like, with cryptocurrencies becoming so common and the popularity of decentralised networks. We are excited at

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Criteria In this list, I will be discussing some of the sub-one dollar coins that I feel have a great future. The criteria for my choices are as follows: The coin must be in the top 100 on coinmarketcap

Mining BCC I have been doing an experiment these last couple days on my CPU because I feel like most people aren't going to bother converting or buying a GPU rig for BCC. I wanted to test out how effective

I want to thank you! I want to thank the Steemit community, I have only been here for a little over a week, but in that short time I have gained over 50 followers and am now up to 40 steempower. I realise

Steemit to the moon! We all say that, and we probably say that about several other cryptocurrencies too. But is this just wishful thinking? Are we hoping for too much with Steemit? What chances does Steemit

What is a faucet? For those of you who do not know, a faucet is a website that will give you a small amount of cryptocurrency in exchange for visiting their website. They are typically funded by advertisements

Avoid the Xapo wallet! Xapo wallet's claim to fame is their instant transactions to other Xapo wallets. This feature does work, however the trouble only starts when you intend use the other services by

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Security and Privacy: what are my options? Everybody cares about security on one level or another, be it from stopping hackers from finding sensitive information, giving advertisement companies clues as

What is ProtonMail? ProtonMail is an email service, it functions in much the same way that gmail and hotmail do, with a key difference: ProtonMail offers true end to end encryption! ProtonMail themselves

Bitcoin returns for Genesis Mining! Hello fellow steemit fans! This is just a quick update to let you know that Genesis Mining is selling Bitcoin hashpower again! As a fan of Genesis Mining I just had

I am sure most of you remember when youtube started becoming monetized, people from all around the world started to think about youtube as a primary source of income. I remember people mocking them, saying

What is the TOR Network? Following on from yesterday's article about VPNs, The Onion Router, or TOR for short is a volunteer network of over 7000 relays that are linked together to reroute encrypted internet

What is a VPN? A VPN, or Virtual Private Network, is an additional layer of protection against monitoring of internet traffic. It does this by changing your IP and encrypting your internet traffic so that

Introduction to Polybius Polybius is a project currently in development by Hashcoins which has the aspirations of being the first ever fully functioning crytocurrency digital bank, with all the utilities