One of the ongoing narratives for cryptocurrencies is that there is no practical use for them in the retail sector, citing slow transaction confirmation times at checkout and price volatility risk for merchants as primary factors. While this may have held true during the early days of cryptocurrency adoption, many of these issues have been resolved with the creation of tokens with near-instant confirmation times, or tokens that are pegged 1:1 to fiat currencies. Nonetheless, the status quo still believe there is inherent risks in paying with and/or accepting cryptocurrencies…
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Unikoin Gold (UKG)
UnikoinGold (UKG): The e-sports & Gaming Token UnikoinGold Quick Stats The world of esports has been growing at a remarkable rate in the last few years, much the same way as cryptocurrency has since 2009. The two industries embrace digital alternatives to traditional markets, that of sports and cold hard cash, and transform them into assets and activities on the internet comprised of 1s and 0s. UnikoinGold is a digital currency that has found a niche in between the two markets by implementing the platform Unikrn which offers esports betting…
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BitTorrent, founded in 2004 and headquartered in San Francisco, was one of the first internet peer-to-peer file sharing sites and has continued to evolve as the internet has become more adopted and available globally. Its mission is to build a better internet, one that is full of options and not rules. To get a sense of how important BitTorrent is, you can just look at the numbers that it handles: 170 million people use BitTorrent clients every month, and the BitTorrent protocols move as much as 40% of the world’s…
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OKB – The Global Utility Token OKB is a global utility token issued by OK Blockchain Foundation. The token economy system was designed and launched by a world-class development team based on blockchain technology. OKB is set to connect prospective digital asset projects to OKEx users as well as professional investors, creating an OKEx ecosystem that helps to advance the development of blockchain technology and the digital asset industry. Why OKB? OKEx claims to be a world-leading digital asset exchange, providing advanced financial services to traders globally by using blockchain…
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VPN services are becoming more and more popular as the world globalizes and regulations blocking content and communication prevent connections from happening cross-border. Having a reliable and high-quality VPN service is the difference between being safe in this borderless environment and being exposed. VPNShazam has engineered and customized its servers to become one of the fastest and widely spread VPN providers on the market by providing highly secure and fast VPN servers from 6 continents. Over 2000 VPN servers from 140 countries make VPNShazam one of the top options for…
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Despite the popularity of social media and the internet, there’s still plenty of activity in more traditional communication mediums such as text messaging (SMS). Even today, in 2019, there are 23 billion text messages sent daily around the world. Most people will think of texting as a way to communicate with friends and family, but there is a whole side of marketing to it that has proven to be popular and highly effective in communicating your message as a business. The effectiveness can be see in the numbers, which show…
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At this point, most people have heard of Wikileaks and its polarizing founder, Julian Assange. The hype around this notorious platform centers on its mission to uncover hidden government secrets and publish them to the world as they relate to war, spying, and corruption. Since 2006, it has published over 10 million documents, and continues to do so even with Mr. Assange in prison. According to Mr. Assange, “WikiLeaks is a giant library of the world’s most persecuted documents. We give asylum to these documents, we analyze them, we promote…
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Dedicated and Virtual Hosting With a cute mascot and a great product, Snel.com has been a strong player in the web hosting community since its founding in 2010 in the Netherlands. Its name, in fact, is a play on words. The word ‘snel’ means ‘fast’ in Dutch, and that’s exactly the kind of speed that the company promises its customers. In a world where time is literally money, we wanted our customers to save on both by providing them a fast Dedicated and Cloud hosting platform with enough features to…
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DAI (DAIJ): Decentralized Stable Coin DAI Quick Stats As the cryptocurrency market has matured, there has been a push to solving the volatility issue that hampers wider adoption of the technology. To help cryptocurrencies move past investments and into consumption the incentives to buy and hold must be resolved through this stabilization. The “stablecoin” was made to solve this. A few have been created which utilize Bitcoin technology, however, DAI was created on the Ethereum blockchain, the first stablecoin to do so. CoinPayments now provides and integrations so merchants can…
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