News

GPUcoin official store front now open

sapphire-gpucoin

One of the main points of GPUcoin was that there would be an official store front to buy GPUs (graphics processing unit/computer graphics cards) using the coin itself. Now the official store front has been launched on the GPUcoin website, currently offering three different cards from AMD; a Sapphire R7 240 and Toxic R9 280x, as well as a Gigabyte ...

Read More »

Blackcoin price continues upward trend, community stays the course

blackcoin

Blackcoin (BC) is a PoW/PoS hybrid that was PoW mined up to about 74 million coins, and is now a purely PoS coin. The Blackcoin community continues to grow and multipools are springing up when others close down. UK-based Moolah.io has added Blackcoin recently to his the of supported payment methods, which is encouraging as they build their FIAT to crypto gateway, as well ...

Read More »

Moolah looking for additional 250 BTC investment

moolah

Cryptocurrency payment platform Moolah has announced that it’s looking for a second 250 Bitcoin (worth around $140,500 USD at time of writing) investement as it sets to launch its Prelude exchange, complete with FIAT markets. Legal fees for compliance in various countries, as well as liquidity, are stated as reasons for this new round of investments — which is coming ...

Read More »

TAKcoin reveals three month plan for coin, halvings coming soon

TAKcoin have released their plans for the coin over the next three months, including halving the coin and launching the recently announced TAKHub social media site. They state that their goals for this period are to differentiate from other altcoins, launch the TAKHub site, and to acquire more high profile Twitter accounts relating to human rights — listed in their ...

Read More »

All eyes on Auroracoin as March 25th Airdrop nears

Enthusiasts are watching Auroracoin as the debut of the first nationwide cryptocurrency distribution nears. Auroracoin developer “Baldur Friggjar Odinsson” plans to give Auroracoins to the population of Iceland: The Airdrop will start to take place on March 25th 2014. A national ID database, created by the government will be used for this purpose…. About 330,000 Icelanders will be made able to ...

Read More »

Particle: Advanced beta wallet now available

prt_dot_256x256

Particle’s developers are the first to release a cryptocurrency wallet that is not based upon the bitcoin-qt client.  The new Particle wallet is codenamed “BitFreezer” and developers claim this will offer “an incredible user experience” through the use of it’s improved design and user interface. This advanced wallet brings is the ability to add plugins so that anyone can add ...

Read More »

PotCoin growing, reps to speak at NYC Cryptocurrency Convention

potcoin

Cannabis legalization is high on the agenda for many Americans this year, after watching Colorado and Washington voters legalize recreational Cannabis in one form or another, and Colorado expecting revenues of more than $25 million in taxes for the first year of new regulations. PotCoin, a Bitcoin like cryptocurrency which is based on Litecoin, has been seeing increased growth in ...

Read More »

EZDOGE: Buy Dogecoin direct with US Dollars

ezdoge

Dogecoin fans appear to have a new direct USD to Doge gateway through the recently launched EZDOGE service. The new service offers a nice website, with a simple design and easy-to-view current price per DOGE. It’s usable by anybody in the US who has a  Bank of America, Chase, Citi, or Wells Fargo bank account (with more to come). They say that ...

Read More »

Einsteinium: Funding science with cryptocurrency

Coin-with-shadow

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 ...

Read More »