The Joke Valued In Billions!
The What now? The popular cryptocurrency called Dogecoin aka the meme coin has been in the news for a while thanks to its “CEO by popular social media vote” Elon Musk. In 2020 it got Musk’s attention and thereafter, its…
The Snippets Journal
By Shreesha
Category Cryptocurrency
Coinbase: The Leading Light To The “CryptoEconomy”
What is Coinbase? – a 30-sec rundown It is a mainly a marketplace for cryptos. It is the second biggest crypto exchange in terms of volume behind Binance. Makes most of the money through commissions. Diversified into other products like…
Square It Up!
What? Square is a fintech company co-founded by Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and Jim Mckelvey in 2009. The name comes from the company’s square shaped card readers. But before that, Dorsey said that the company was almost named “Squirrel” because…
NFT. What? How? Where?
What? NFT is the new buzzword in the cryptocurrency space as well as collectible items space. It stands for Non-Fungible Tokens. Fungible means replaceable. For example, say, you have a cookie. If I borrow that from you, and give you…
Hashrate and China
The word Hashrate is associated with Bitcoin mining. In the Bitcoin network, a new Bitcoin is issued to a “miner” as a block reward for solving a block. This is done by using special hardware to solve a complex computational…
The High Profile Crypto Lawsuit Of The Decade!
Plaintiff – Securities Exchange Commission(SEC)Defendent – Ripple Labs Ripple(XRP) is the 3rd biggest cryptocurrency by market capitalization. It was created by a company initially called Newcoin.Inc(later named into Ripple Labs in 2013). They basically created XRP tokens as a part…
Musk stanning Doge
What is Dogecoin? Dogecoin is an open-source cryptocurrency forked from Litecoin in December 2013. It is based on a popular internet meme “doge” and features a dog of the Shiba Inu breed in its logo. Its creators marketed it as…
