The Bitcoin halving in 2020, we are getting closer and closer towards it. Much has been said and written about it. There is a lot of speculation in the background about the effect the halving will have. Not only on the Bitcoin price but also on the reputation of the most famous cryptocurrency in the …
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Recap: what is a cryptocurrency exchange? A Cryptocurrency exchange is a platform on which you can trade cryptocurrencies. It depends on the platform in which coins can be traded, so there can still be a reasonable difference between the exchanges. But you can assume that you can trade in Bitcoin on every Bitcoin exchange. On …
A cryptocurrency exchange can be seen as a type of marketplace that you can visit to purchase various types of cryptocurrencies. There are now hundreds of exchanges worldwide and we can imagine that you can no longer see which one you should choose. Exchanges can be quite different from each other. This difference lies in …
The BAT token is the exchange unit between advertisers, publishers and users of the Basic Attention Token network. The BAT platform offers blockchain-based digital advertisements and services. Users can use the BAT token as a payment method for services on the network. BAT uses the specialized web browser Brave, which by the way has already …
Monero, launched in 2014, is outside of being a cryptocurrency, also a digital payment system that runs on blockchain technology. Since the launch, Monero has taken a strong position in the crypto market. Unlike for example Bitcoin, transactions from XMR, the cryptocurrency of Monero, are completely irreducible and 100% anonymous. The Monero developers strive for …
Just like Bitcoin, Ethereum is based on blockchain technology. Ethereum transactions also travel via a decentralized network from sender to receiver. The essential difference is that Bitcoin aims to act as a digital means of payment, while Ethereum has been developed as a decentralized programming platform. Every user can write decentralized applications (DApps) using the …
Most of the nerds around you are all into bitcoin while you have a big question mark in your mind… What is bitcoin and why do these people keep obsessing about this piece of code? Luckily, we from CoinGawk, are going to explain to you in one short article how Bitcoin works. The Problem We …
At the end of 2017, I told myself winter will be coming. We were witnessing one of the biggest bubbles in human history and it diminished in just a couple of weeks. The cold hard facts were real: we reached 20k US dollars in December 2017 and a year later it was merely at 3k. …