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In true Dogecoin spirit, another fun story has arisen from its community. A user who bought his first Dogecoin a few weeks ago decided to attempted to put Dogecoin higher than it had been before… with helium filled ballons, carrying a balloon-modelled Dogecoin. The person behind this idea writes in a post on ICanDoItLater: If “shibes” are always repeating the phrase ...

As a parent who is involved in the cryptocurrency scene myself, Piggycoin is something I’ve been watching. They aim to become an introductory coin for the younger ones out there — who might one day be using cryptocurrency as part of their daily routine. I spoke with João, who is the founder of Piggycoin, to find out more about what they’re ...

The Mintcoin team has today released a mandatory wallet update which removes proof-of-work from the coin entirely, meaning Mintcoin is now 100% proof-of-stake. The 1.7 wallet update needs to be installed before the block 220,000, and was pushed out as a means to protect against a potential security flaw that was pointed out on the BitcoinTalk forums recently. Due to ...

I want to start this by saying a big thank you to everybody who has read the site since we launched two weeks ago. The four of us dove into this project with only a hope that somebody might wish to read it. In the last two weeks, we’ve had great support from readers of various coins’ communities, as well ...

With dedicated Scrypt ASICs on the horizon, many of the Scrypt coins out there are calling for changes in their chosen coins’ algorithms. It’s a bid for mining with a GPU to remain feasible. Earlier today two members of the Litecoin development team took to the LitecoinTalk forums to express their reasoning behind not changing the coin’s algorithm. The main ...

The cannabis market is becoming a hotly contended one when it comes to industry-specific cryptocurrencies. The latest is Cannacoin (CCN), and I was eager to find out more about the new altcoin when I got the chance to speak with Cannacoin’s creator and lead developer. Could you start by introducing yourself and what your role is in Cannacoin? My name ...

If there’s been a time when you’re browsing the web and you’ve seen a number of a certain cryptocurrency mentioned. You wonder how much that would be in FIAT. Cryptonator is a website that allows you to easily calculate conversions between Crypto/FIAT, FIAT/Crypto and even Crypto/Crypto — with over 300 cryptocurrencies included. And now they’ve released a Chrome plugin, so ...

Multipools that switch between mining the most profitable coins are fairly common, trading these coins and paying miners the proportionate amount of Bitcoin. Just recently, a few Proof-of-Stake coin have started doing the same thing in order to offer miners a way to still mine their coin. It also means there are repeated large buys of coins that can help ...

Tipping content creators is something that I believe can change the internet. That’s why PODCOIN is of interest to me, it aims to become the “unofficial currency of the digital broadcast community”. That’s not all it can be used for though, of course — as PODCOIN Co-creator Brian Schmidt pointed out when I spoke with him earlier to learn a ...

We’re partnering up with the Appcoin development team in order to giveaway a whole bunch of Appcoins. There’s a total of 500,000 APP to be won, split into 500 prizes of 1,000 APP each. Appcoin is a recently launched cryptocurrency that aims to provide payment options for mobile applications. We did an interview with CEO Peter, check it out for ...