What are Altcoins? [Episode 6]
Bottomshelf Bitcoin24 Helmi 2018

What are Altcoins? [Episode 6]

In this episode I talked about altcoins. I discussed the prominent altcoins and the issues in Bitcoin, real or imagined, that they attempt to solve.
Market Minute:
BTC price: $9,728

Finney(0.00001 BTC): $0.97

24 hour volume: $7.2B / 752k BTC

Market cap: $164 billion

@tipmayermultiple: 200dma – $8510, mayer multiple=1.14x

Transaction fees: 57.86 sats/Byte(24) 36.5 sats/Byte(7d)

Suggested fees (sats/B): 106 next block, 101 next hour, 2.4 same day

Coin.Dance was running maintenance and I was unable to get info on Bisq or Localbitcoins
AltCoins:
LiteCoin

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h4Ethereum/h4
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li* a href="https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/d3djwj/ethereum-wallet-parity-knew-about-critical-flaw-that-let-user-devops199-lock-up-millions"Parity Wallet hack/a – Turns out it was worse than what I said in the episode, $150M!/li
li* a href=https://medium.com/@tuurdemeester/critique-of-buterins-a-proof-of-stake-design-philosophy-49fc9ebb36c6">Critique of Ethereum’s Proof of Stake Model

Doge

* Main site
* Wiki

Monero

* Main site
* Ring Signatures

Zcash

* Main site
* Technical Paper for zkSNARKS

DASH

* Main Site

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