For over a year I have been anticipating a convergence of chat and crypto wallet technologies. Dark Wallet has achieved this in a spectacular manner and I have reviewed it previously. Now, the CannaCoin developers have released a new version of their #cannacoin channel freenode IRC tipbot that functions to integrate chat, tipping, accessing and analyzing live market data and conducting ...

I first discovered Bitcoin when Wired.com announced it way back in 2009. Being a futurist, I saw the value of it and kept my eye on it. When Laszlo Hanyecz bought 2 pizzas for 10,000 btc back in 2010 I knew what an important event that was: bitcoin had just been assigned a dollar value. And when the Silk Road ...

My original intent was to write a simple piece about mining cryptocurrency with leased rigs.  Along the way, I uncovered some things that I felt were more important to communicate than how to find the best deal on a rig. The same, seemingly endless, arms-race that the Bitcoin community has been living with is inevitable for altcoins too.  It is ...

If you’ve ever used a cryptocurrency, chances are you’ve had to use a bland, grey QT-based wallet application. There’s a plethora of altcoins on the market, with more launching by the day, and barely any are innovating on their wallet design and development. This is a thought that has run through my mind on many occasions. Every single person that uses ...

Everybody is looking for the next cryptocurrency that’s going to take off. There are plenty to choose from already, and new coins are releasing almost daily. So what makes for a good altcoin? It’s a question that’s very difficult to answer in any certain terms. When we look at success stories such as Dogecoin, it really demonstrates that most any ...

Each week here on Coin Joint we’ll try our best to bring you a list of the week’s altcoin releases, here’s what’s coming up over the next 7 days. Do any of them take your fancy? Coin Name Day Date Time Green Coin [ZRO] Tuesday March 18th 3:00am GMT Cable Coin [CAB] Wednesday March 19th 4:00pm GMT WOTcoin [WOT] Wednesday ...