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CryptoSmarts 7: Best Android Operating Systems & Router Software CryptoSmarts 7 MintDice is proud to bring you the seventh and final 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…
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Ethereum: A Comprehensive Guide By now Ethereum is the second largest name in cryptocurrency behind Bitcoin and has gained a lot of traction from the blockchain communities as an instrumental blockchain to support further development projects. Ethereum gained momentum in 2017, seeing its coin (ETH) price go up about 11,000% from $8 per ETH on January 1, 2017, to $900 by the end of the year. This has caused Ethereum to attract a lot of attention from new cryptocurrency buyers…
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MTI and Bitconnect Cryptocurrency Scandals Recently there has been a lot of news coverage on a specific cryptocurrency known as MTI. For those of you that aren’t familiar, MTI or Mirror Trading International, is a Bitcoin investment scheme or trading pool, which claims to help users grow their Bitcoin through trading with daily returns and is based out of the country of South Africa. https://mintdice.com/blog/bitcoin-101-a-beginners-guide **What is a Trading Pool?** A…
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How Does Crypto Mining Work? With all the chatter and buzz surrounding cryptocurrencies, many people have taken the first step and purchased some crypto, most likely Bitcoin. As you start to trade different cryptos and make transactions, it’s easy to start wondering how your cryptocurrency is getting from one account to the next. Therein lies the beauty of blockchain technology: there is a decentralized group of nodes or users that support each blockchain called miners. The…
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How To Earn Money With Bitcoin Games Of Skill Luck Vs. Skill Is it possible to earn Bitcoin by playing Bitcoin games, even in the long term as a potential job? The short answer is yes, the longer answer is that it's complicated. https://mintdice.com/blog/bitcoin-101-a-beginners-guide https://www.artofmanliness.com/articles/so-you-want-my-job-professional-gambler/ It's important to separate out two very distinct types of games, however. There are Bitcoin games that are based…
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Understanding Crypto White Papers One of the golden rules of investing is to understand the company, industry, and reason that you are investing. Educated investments are the ones where the investor thoroughly understands how they will make money from the investment. https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog/understanding-monetary-system However, that can be difficult when you’re dealing with new technologies like blockchain and cryptocurrency. Many people see the significant…
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How Can Bitcoin Penetrate Live Retail Marketplaces? It's late 2020 and the price of Bitcoin continues to soar to new heights that we haven't really seen any sustained price level on for most of Bitcoin's history. And both consumers and investors are extremely sensitive to the price of Bitcoin. When the price rises, interest spikes across news cycles, search interest on search engines and it also increases the propensity for new users to buy their first cryptocurrency. As…
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Coins, Tokens, and Altcoins: What’s the Difference? The different terms thrown around the cryptocurrency world have drummed up a lot of confusion. What’s the difference between a crypto coin and a crypto token? What is an altcoin and why are they referred to as cryptocurrencies? https://mintdice.com/blog/security-tokens-vs-utility-tokens-what-are-the-differences In many ways, the cryptocurrency industry is still in its infancy, and that’s led to terminology developing and…
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The Adoption of Blockchain Technology in Nigeria As a cryptocurrency fanatic, you’ve probably always tracked the legalities of Bitcoin as certain countries have declared it illegal, while others have taken steps to integrate it into society. Well you may be surprised to find out, the first country striving for full blockchain technology integration has actually been recently announced as the country of Nigeria.…
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Cryptocurrency Terms: What Are They Talking About? If you’re new to the expanding world of cryptocurrency, chances are you’ve gotten lost and confused with people telling you to ‘hodl’ or that people are just spreading ‘FUD.’ Cryptocurrencies are becoming like any industry that creates their own jargon and slang as it matures and a community forms around the sector. If you’ve ever been sailing, you probably thought they were speaking a different language when the captain was…
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Review Of Cryptocurrency Based Publishing Platforms Pros and Cons Of Crypto Publishing Platforms There's a number of ways to earn cryptocurrency out there on the internet. Other than Bitcoin faucets, one of the emerging crypto micropayment cases has been to try to create a system whereby users can be rewarded for their publishing efforts. Unlike Facebook, Twitter or some of the other major platforms that exist out there that simply mine all of your personal data and keep all…
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The 101 Guide to Dogecoin Dogecoin is one of the world’s fastest-growing and stable cryptocurrencies. It’s been around since 2013, making it the sixth oldest cryptocurrency. By January 2014, it had a market capitalization of more than $60 million and increased to $327.62 million by June 2018. This has given the coin the 46th highest rank among cryptocurrencies. http://dogecoin.com/ Such traction does not happen to many cryptos with many other coins falling even before we…
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Scam Coins: How to Avoid Them The cryptocurrency market has revolutionized the way people think about money and its utilization in technology. It’s the newest trend in the storage of digital wealth and value. Unfortunately, the vast part of society does not understand it well. Thus, malicious people are using new tactics, as well as those that were used in fiat currency, to steal from unknowing people. **Old Scams, New Tricks** As Lawrence Bradford wrote in her Forbes…
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Andreas Antonopoulos: The Cryptocurrency Legend Andreas Antonopoulos is arguably one of the biggest names in the cryptocurrency world after none other than the notorious Satoshi Nakamoto. Yet, unlike the mysterious Nakamoto, Antonopoulos has been identified, recognized, and continues to be actively involved in Bitcoin today. https://mintdice.com/blog/who-is-satoshi-nakamoto https://mintdice.com/blog/bitcoin-101-a-beginners-guide **History** With a last name like Antonopoulos…
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Trading GBTC: The Bitcoin Investment Trust Many people want to trade Bitcoin, but don’t want to go through the hassle of setting up a wallet, exchange accounts, and transferring money to make purchases. Most of these people qualify as traditional investors who simply use their traditional stock exchange accounts to trade investment assets. That’s where the Bitcoin Investment Trust comes into play. Trading under the symbol GBTC, this investment allows investors to speculate…
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The Cost of a Cryptocurrency Mining Setup in 2021 As the price of Bitcoin starts to soar once again, society has a renewed interest in getting involved in the mining of cryptocurrencies. However, starting out as a cryptocurrency miner is certainly not cheap, and you need to make sure you have all the proper information before you dive in. https://mintdice.com/blog/bitcoin-101-a-beginners-guide https://mintdice.com/blog/how-does-crypto-mining-work **What Do You Need to…
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The Ethereum 2.0 Protocol Basics Explained There has been a bunch of hype on online cryptocurrency forums in the recent days surrounding the pending launch of Ethereum 2.0. Ethereum 2.0 will introduce a number of changes to the current platform, replacing it as a whole, and users are both wary and excited. https://ethereum.org/en/eth2/ **eWASM** The biggest change coming with Ethereum 2.0 (also known as Eth2) is that Ethereum will no longer run on the EVM (Ethereum Virtual…
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Recognizing a Bitcoin Gambling Addiction & Getting Help Worried that someone close to you may be suffering from a Bitcoin gambling addiction? While it may not be as immediately fatal as a drug or alcohol addiction, being addicted to gambling can have serious implications that could eventually lead to a sad outcome. Gambling in moderation is an acceptable social behavior, so it’s important to learn to recognize the line where gambling surpasses a simple enjoyment and becomes…
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High Stakes Poker Battle: Doug Polk vs Daniel Negreanu Within the high stakes poker community, there has been a constant feud among two of the more well known players. Daniel "Dnegs" Negreanu has been a fan favorite having been shown on television since his appearances in the earlt 2000s in the World Series of Poker (WSOP) and many other such events. Having continued a life long grind and adoration of the game, he still makes a commitment to play decades on and is the…
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The Existential Bitcoin Scaling Crisis Entering Into 2021 Blockchain Scaling History Back when Bitcoin was first invented back in 2009 under the leadership of Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator quickly seemed to have a virtually unpassable problem with blockchain technology that had to do with spam attacks. Satoshi simply could not figure out how to deal with spam transactions on the network and thought it might lead to Bitcoin's eventual and certain downfall. And then, in a…
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CeFi vs DeFi: The Showdown. Which Is Better? Recently in the cryptocurrency world, there’s been a lot of discussion of CeFi vs. DeFi. Many hardcore crypto enthusiasts are pushing for DeFi, while a number of others are pushing for CeFi. So, which one is better? Well that depends on what you are looking for when it comes to crypto and how you are planning to invest. https://mintdice.com/blog/all-about-decentralized-finance-defi-investing-banking **What is CeFi?** For those of…
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KYC and AML: How it Applies to Bitcoin in the USA If you have a bank account in the US, then whether you realize it or not, you’re subject to the regulations outlined in KYC and AML. And until recently, applications based on blockchain technologies weren’t forced to comply with these regulations, however, this has all recently changed and it’s throwing the cryptocurrency world for a loop. https://www.occ.treas.gov/topics/supervision-and-examination/bsa/index-bsa.html…