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Cryptocurrency is Changing the Real Estate Landscape In the past few years, cryptocurrency has become increasingly popular, with various investors playing the markets, hoping to make a profit. While digital currency has gained popularity, blockchain technology, the driving force behind it, has only recently captured the attention of different industries. In blockchain technology, each member holds a copy of the blockchain, which automatically updates when information is…
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CryptoSmarts 2: Best Encrypted Messaging Apps CryptoSmarts 2 MintDice is proud to bring you the second part of the CryptoSmarts series, a 100% unbiased/non-affiliate paid article set that will focus on relatively simple ways you can boost your privacy, take power away from overbearing governments and corporations while also doing relative good for society all at the same time with minimal effort. Rest assured that anything suggested here is solely for your own benefit.…
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A 101 Guide to OmiseGO (OMG) When Bitcoin emerged onto the scene a number of years ago, proponents claimed it was a revolutionary way for the global society to quickly and cheaply transact money or value from anywhere in the world. The decentralized nature of the blockchain meant that people didn’t have to rely on banks or payment processors anymore to send money or receive money and payments. https://www.mintdice.com/blog/bitcoin-101-a-beginners-guide This is a massive step…
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CryptoSmarts 3: Best Secure Web Browsers & Add-Ons CryptoSmarts 3 MintDice is proud to bring you the third part of the CryptoSmarts series, a 100% unbiased/non-affiliate paid article set that will focus on relatively simple ways you can boost your privacy, take power away from overbearing governments and corporations while also doing relative good for society all at the same time with minimal effort. Rest assured that anything suggested here is solely for your own benefit.…
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AION Project: A Multi-Tier Blockchain Network The world of blockchain is rapidly evolving, and there are many people and startups with innovative ideas to bring blockchain technology into our everyday lives. One aspect of the early days of blockchain and cryptocurrency is that there was a high technological barrier to entry. If you weren’t savvy enough to navigate the web, set up a crypto wallet, and purchase Bitcoin on the available exchanges, you were simply out of luck.…
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OpenBazaar: The Decentralized Marketplace Plans For 2020-2021 OpenBazaar For those coin enthusiasts deeply entrenched in the cryptocurrency world, you’re probably extremely familiar with the fees associated with buying products or services with any sort of coin. Almost every exchange available has some sort of price for the cost of using their platform to either buy or sell, especially if it involves cryptocurrency—except for one platform known as OpenBazaar.…
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How to Defend Against a Pump and Dump The world of finance is riddled with illegal schemes and always has been, designed to separate investors from their money. The earliest money scams date back as far as 300 BC and with time, these scams have gotten more complicated. One of the most popular of these scams is the pump and dump. https://www.investopedia.com/articles/financial-theory/09/history-of-fraud.asp **What is a pump and dump?** A pump and dump (P&D) is a type of…
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BitMex Exchange Trading Indictment With The US CFTC In the cryptocurrency world there are a number of exchange platforms individuals can use to trade USD to cryptocurrency, as well as trading coins of one type for another. Recently, a large platform known has BitMex has come to the spotlight thanks to the involvement of the US Commodities Futures Trading Commission, a US government agency. https://mintdice.com/blog/a-guide-to-cryptocurrency-exchanges http://bit.ly/2PdzBl5…
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Polymath: A New Phase for Blockchain The past 42 months have seen a significant boom in the cryptocurrency market with Bitcoin skyrocketing from under $1,000 to around $10,000 today. Along with the rise in price and popularity of Bitcoin, many other altcoins have seen incredible gains, and a large number of Initial Coin Offerings (ICO) have popped up to take advantage of the rise in crypto. https://www.mintdice.com/blog/want-to-join-an-ico-heres-what-you-need-to-know The…
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How To Become A Professional Poker Player Poker Pro Basics As an actual former professional poker player of over five years consistently earning six-figure annual incomes from the game, I have genuine insight into what it takes to be successful and to make it out there in the wild and I hope to impart some of this knowledge onto you. It can be a very fun and relaxing lifestyle in some respects but it also requires a lot of self-control, self-discipline, ongoing education and…
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A Guide: ChainLink (LINK) There are a ton of cryptocurrencies circulating the markets nowadays, and it’s hard to keep tabs on each and how they solve unique problems. Many people are familiar with the Ethereum blockchain network and how it uses smart contracts to bring legal agreements to the reliability and decentralized nature of the blockchain. https://www.mintdice.com/blog/ethereum-a-comprehensive-guide However, there are still issues that exist with smart contracts and…
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Bitcoin And California's Independence With "CalExit" On September 29th, 2020, the California governor signed a bill which will change the way the state, and businesses within the state view and manage Bitcoin. California has always been a bit ahead of the game, as many businesses in the state already accept Bitcoin as terms for payment and the cryptocurrency has long been accepted as legal tender. However, cryptocurrencies as an asset, remained something of wishful thinking,…
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Vitalik Buterin: Why You Should Know This Influencer Cryptocurrencies and blockchain are like many other industries where there is a number of influential people that hold a lot of weight. The cryptocurrency world has seen these influencers sprout up and blossom from unconventional ways as the industry is still being built and shaped by new entrepreneurs, investors, and enthusiasts. One individual that is especially prominent in the blockchain industry is Vitalik Buterin.…
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CBDC: The Government Of China’s New Digital Currency In August 2020, the People’s Republic of China released an app provided by ABChina for its countrywide digital currency, CBDC (Central Bank Digital Currency). In the months since, the currency has already been used for 1.1 billion yuan worth of transactions. And on Monday, October 12th, the program received another boost as the Chinese government held a lottery to hand out an additional 10 million yuan’s worth of the…
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How is Crypto Regulation Going to Change the Scene The cryptocurrency market and applications for blockchain technology are gaining momentum, and global regulators are struggling to keep up with a legislative approach. Many people have found themselves caught in an ICO scam or pump and dump scheme, leading to regulators sounding the alarms in the spirit of investor safety. https://mintdice.com/blog/a-guide-to-blockchain-technology There are plenty of cryptocurrency…
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CryptoSmarts 4: The Best Free Password Managers CryptoSmarts 4 MintDice is proud to bring you the fourth part of the CryptoSmarts series, a 100% unbiased/non-affiliate paid article set that will focus on relatively simple ways you can boost your privacy, take power away from overbearing governments and corporations while also doing relative good for society all at the same time with minimal effort. Rest assured that anything suggested here is solely for your own benefit.…
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Brock Pierce: Why You Should Know This Influencer Social media has opened the door for a new wave of influencers to emerge that attract thousands or even millions of followers. Some social media influencers have even gathered a cult-like following. Nowhere does that seem truer these days than the cryptocurrency space. https://mintdice.com/blog/vitalik-buterin-what-you-need-to-know-about-this-blockchain-influencer Cryptocurrency influencers have popped up out of the woodworks…
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CryptoSmarts 5: Best Miscellaneous Internet Privacy Tools CryptoSmarts 5 MintDice is proud to bring you the fifth part of the CryptoSmarts series, a 100% unbiased/non-affiliate paid article set that will focus on relatively simple ways you can boost your privacy, take power away from overbearing governments and corporations while also doing relative good for society all at the same time with minimal effort. Rest assured that anything suggested here is solely for your own…
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A Guide to Blocknet (BLOCK) In April 2018, a Senate congressional committee grilled Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg over privacy concerns on his platform. One of the questions that caught the attention of many came from Senator Brian Schatz. https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/mark-zuckerberg-acknowledges-mistakes-made-privacy-scandal/story?id=53914280 He asked whether the company’s systems could talk to each other without needing any human intervention. The majority of…
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What's Behind The Rise of the Crypto Digital Nomad? In the light of the recent COVID pandemic many people have come to be aware of a recent movement known as becoming a digital nomad. A digital nomad is someone who is tied to work only through their computer and internet access, and thus can work from anywhere in the world. Many of these individuals switch countries frequently, or choose settle down in a country with a lower cost of living where they live a better quality of…
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A Guide to Decred (DCR) As cryptocurrency continues to become popular, people are learning about the need to take control of the Blockchain. Well, there are benefits of having a cryptocurrency that does not have a central authority, but there are cons for that as well. Decred was launched to fix the issues that many enthusiasts face while using bitcoin or Ethereum, which is providing a secure currency that has "decentralized governance."…
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Online Casinos Vs Bitcoin Gambling: Which Is Best? Online casinos have been around for quite some time now, pretty much since the internet took off back in the 1990s. Interestingly, however, the online casino industry didn't really do much in the way of gambling innovation as one might have otherwise expected. https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/288918 Given that online gambling has frequently been enveloped inside of grey market industries across the globe it is frequently…
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A Guide to Bitcoin Cash (BCH) If you’re new to the cryptocurrency market, chances are your first purchase or investment was an initial stake in Bitcoin, the largest cryptocurrency. Past that, there are several other top names you might be familiar with when you check the list of top cryptocurrencies. But you might be wondering why there is a Bitcoin Cash up there on the list under Bitcoin. https://coinmarketcap.com/ What is the difference between Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash?…
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The Best Bitcoin Wallets for iOS / iPhone Whether you are new to the cryptocurrency world, or a seasoned participant, you’re always going to need a wallet where you can safely store your coins. When Bitcoin was first released, there were very few wallet options, and none of them involved the cellular phone. However, as the technologies have been more widely adapted, and more often accepted, some of you are probably now looking for a wallet that’s more accessible and…
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A Guide to SegWit (Segregated Witness) Learning about cryptocurrencies can be frustrating when things start getting technical and hard to understand. It doesn’t help when you have to learn a whole new lingo, and most of it is niche acronyms and words made up by techies. If you’ve been researching Bitcoin, the largest cryptocurrency, chances are you’ve come across the term SegWit, which is a short way of referring to Segregated Witness. Many people are talking about SegWit…
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Paypal & Venmo To Accept Bitcoin, Crypto Payments Its October 2020 and the price of Bitcoin is once again beginning to surge. How high will it get this time? It’s hard to say, but a number of hard-core cryptocurrency supporters will tell you it’s headed “for the moon” or to the point where each coin is worth millions. Why did this happen? And what does it have to do with the PayPal processing system?…
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What is the Lightning Network & How Does it Work? Digital currency is something that can have dramatic implications on how the world economies function and how money is transferred between parties. Mobile banking has already opened new doors where people can instantly withdraw money from the ATM or send it to someone through an app. https://www.history.com/topics/inventions/automated-teller-machines Long gone are the days where transacting money was a drawn-out manual…
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Rise Of Mobile Gaming, Bitcoin & Microtransactions It's no secret that over the last decade that mobile phones have really started to take over the internet space completely. 2016 was the first where where mobile users overtook desktop users for web browsing for the first time in history and it's only continued to claw more space since then. Presently, as of October 2020, this number has climbed to 58% and doesn't seem to be slowing down any time soon either.…
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Filecoin (FIL) Basics 101 & Release Drama Ever wish there was a decentralized way to store data without having to rely on a company such as Google, Amazon, or Apple? Well that dream became more of a reality in 2017 when Protocol Labs announced the release of Filecoin, a manner of renting space on unused hard drives with a cryptocurrency being used to measure these transactions. The ICO launched in August of the same year, and raised the needed $200 million dollars of funding…
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CryptoSmarts 6: Best PC & Linux Operating Systems For Privacy CryptoSmarts 6 MintDice is proud to bring you the sixth part of the CryptoSmarts series, a 100% unbiased/non-affiliate paid article set that will focus on relatively simple ways you can boost your privacy, take power away from overbearing governments and corporations while also doing relative good for society all at the same time with minimal effort. Rest assured that anything suggested here is solely for your own…
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Crypto Market vs. Traditional Stock Market In the last few years, the cryptocurrency industry has managed to record tremendous success across its markets, thanks to the emergence of bitcoin and other vast range of altcoins. https://www.mintdice.com/blog/coins-tokens-and-altcoins-whats-the-difference This has forced investors to conduct heated debates on dealing in the cryptocurrency markets. Though these two markets have significant similarities; there are still entirely…