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Recently the Einsteinium foundation concluded voting for it’s second epoch, an event that raises money for scientific research and innovation. Voting results narrowly resulted in a victory for Dr. Theresa O’Keefe, who is raising money for Mend Therapeutics, a non-profit with the goal of developing a protein for diabetic wounds that can be manufactured at low cost.   100% of our ...

Phil Parsons took to twitter this morning to unveil the much anticipated Dogecar.  The design for the car went from a concept and into reality in under 3 weeks after the Dogecoin community on reddit made the final design decision.   There she is, Shibes, in all her glory.  I know we at Coin Joint are very much looking forward ...

Citing lack of volume, the exchange Cryptx.io will be shutting its doors on May 7. The company sent an email to members later this afternoon instructing them of the closure. The developer added that he will instead dedicate his time to two other projects. It will also allow me to focus time on other projects such as Prove It (https://github.com/ConceptPending/proveit) ...

We here at CoinJoint pride ourselves on the fact that we support the site on nothing but cryptocurrency.  Our servers were paid for using crypto, our writers are paid in crypto, and we accept only crypto for our advertising.   While most companies who take Bitcoin or other coins immediately transfer those into fiat, it is rare for a company to ...

Alexis Ohanian and Joe Rogan discuss the demise of Mt. Gox, how to keep your wallet secure, and why Bitcoin is here to stay.

Youtube link. Joe Rogan recently hosted Reddit Co-founder Alexis Ohanian to discuss a variety of topics in a 3 hour podcast including the future of cryptocurrencies.  Alexis had many thoughts on Dogecoin in particular, and why the community behind Dogecoin has gained his support.  

The Einsteinium Foundation recently concluded voting for the first Epoch, an event that selects the recipient for funding advanced science with the cryptocurrency. Epoch 1 voting resulted in Dr. Walter Moss winning for his research titled: Can viral molecular structures cause cancer?  The winner receives approximately 2% of all mined Einsteinium (or EMC2) which is set aside for scientific research. Dr. Moss ...

I caught up with ‘DogeyMcDoge’ in the #Potcoin IRC channel earlier tonight.  He agreed to chat with Coin Joint about the his recent leaking of information on the Cryptorush hack, the security of exchanges, and the future of cryptocoins. <hybridsole> First of all, regarding the Cryptorush hack, do they have any indication how the coins were actually stolen? Was it ...

Yesterday the PotCoin community on Reddit were talking about there possibly being missing PotCoins from CryptoRush, leaked by an ex employee. Now the same user ‘DogeyMcDoge’, who is said to be an ex-employee of CryptoRush, has dug deeper into the PotCoin scenario and released a chat-log that claims Auroracoin, Mazacoin, and Potcoin were sold in order to recover the stolen Bitcoin. The leak ...

Einsteinum, or EMC2 is a new altcoin announced earlier this month.  It’s a scrypt based coin with with no pre-mine and common features like the KGW, but it also has a purpose behind it.  2% of all block rewards go to support the Einsteinium Fund, a foundation setup to support cutting edge scientific research. In addition to supporting research, Einsteinium is ...