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Blackcoin is cryptocurrency that appeared after the fork of NovaCoin, which occured in 2014. Blackcoin initially had been using a PoW algorithm but was then was changed for PoS. Due to PoS v 3.0, all Blackcoin holders get rewards in the form of dividends, the amount of which varies from one percent to eight percent yearly. Even though Blackcoin’s price is currently less than a dollar, it nevertheless has two advantages that make this cryptocoin attractive for investors. The first one is the possibility of gaining money just from holding Blackcoin and keeping the program turned on so it can work as a Blackcoin faucet. The second one is the very fast confirmation of transactions, which usually less than a minute. Multipool Blackcoin consists of the computer power of all Blackcoin community members in order to mine other altcoins, which can then be exchanged for Bitcoin and Blackcoin. Blackcoin mining is unavailable because of PoS.
BlackCoin’s homepage boasts an elegant, streamlined design while the coin’s declared advantages are not unlike Bitcoin’s itself
555Itson.me allows users to pay for literal drinks, coffee or food at local restaurants from anywhere in the world. Soon, it will be incorporating cryptocurrencies.
1171Dutch bitcoin and altcoin brokerage Anycoin Direct expands its instant buying and selling service to an additional fourteen – predominantly Eastern European – countries. The move is the result of a new partnership by Anycoin Direct with the European payment institution TrustPay.
1554ShapeShift releases the Shifty Button, a tool allowing online merchants to start accepting payments in 11 different cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin and leading altcoins Litecoin, Dogecoin, and Darkcoin.
1041A failure in its consensus system has caused Stellar to fork, requiring a roll back. Stellar claims that the issue affects Ripple as well, something Ripple denies.
2138With protests exploding around the world, mesh networks are becoming an increasingly used tool. Blackwave Labs thinks cryptocurrencies can help and they are building the tools to bring about Protesting 2.0
501Popular exchange Bittrex was experimenting with Blackcoin pairs, but today they announced they will be dropping both BlackCoin and Litecoin pairs.
776Danish cryptocurrency exchange platform CCEDK announces it has started accepting Darkcoin, allowing the privacy-centered digital currency to gain wider European exposure.
752We got a chance to ask Ronny CEO CCEDK about the recent launch of Nubits, his forward-thinking approach to altcoins and 2.0 cryptocurrencies, and the state of Bitcoin in one of the most prosperous and progressive countries in the world, Denmark.
1432Sports have always seemed like the way Cryptocurrencies can wiggle their way into the mainstream public's heart or at least consciousness. Now, some Cryptocurrency 2.0 projects, including NXT and Blackcoin, are making a serious move towards the sports world and it is far more than a simple sponsorship.
542Weekend Roundup by Cointelegraph!
395Blackcoin has been added as a base currency on Bittrex, oh, and some other things happened in Blackcoin as well.
501Blackcoin can now be accepted and distributed at Genesis ATMs, the first PoS coin to be accepted by the premium Genesis ATMs.
539Coinsis Is a new entrant into the Bitcoin debit card game, and it appears that they plan to use Blackcoin to stand out from the crowd.
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