Mark Gill

NEO is an open source cryptocurrency and blockchain platform that was launched in 2014. The name comes from the Greek word for ‘youth’ and ‘innovation’. While NEO initially started out as Antshares, it was successfully rebranded in 2017 with great success.

A complete guide to everything you need to know about Ripple. Here, we explore the history of Ripple, top wallets, how to buy and sell XRP, and much more. Ripple was mainly launched in an attempt to substitute the SWIFT based transfer system, with a decentralized, blockchain based, global system for monetary transfers.

A complete guide to all you need to know about Zcash. Here, we explore the history of Zcash, the best wallets, how to buy and sell Zcash, and much more. Zcash is by far one of the cryptocurrencies that promote totally anonymous transactions.

Monero's transactions are totally anonymous, so it is impossible to track senders or receivers of payments across Monero's network, thanks to the CryptoNote algorithm that was used to code monero. Monero is the only altcoin that is accepted as a payment method on Darknet's marketplaces, due to the high levels of anonymity and privacy associated with its transactions.

DASH is one of the top cryptocurrencies promoting totally anonymous transactions. This open source, peer-to-peer cryptocurrency has a market capital that is among the top 10 cryptocurrencies. In contrast to Bitcoin's network where a block is created every ten minutes, a block is created every two and a half minute on DASH's blockchain. DASH solves many of Bitcoin's problems, especially slowness of confirmation of transactions.

One of the top five cryptocurrencies by market cap in December 2017, Litecoin (LTC) is well worth looking into. Litecoin is an open-source, peer-to-peer cryptocurrency that was first introduced in October 2011.

Based on blockchain technology, Ethereum (ETH) is a public, open-source software platform which allows for the creation of decentralized applications (Dapps). This is done through the use of digital code called smart contracts. With the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) often described as a "world computer," Ethereum is designed to offer the same functionality to everyone, anywhere in the world. Ethereum has its own form of currency called ether (ETH). Described as fuel, ether allows clients to request the platform to carry out a particular operation.

If you’ve heard of cryptocurrency, then you’ve almost certainly heard of Bitcoin. Founded in 2009,  Bitcoin was the very first decentralized cryptocurrency. A software developer, by the name of Satoshi Nakamoto, is said to be the creator of Bitcoin. Unlike fiat currency, bitcoin isn’t controlled by any central authority. Created and stored electronically, bitcoins are produced by computers around the world.