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We are happy to announce that we have rebranded our blog from crypto101 to CryptoAuthority! There may be some minor changes that still need to be made and will ...

Why women don’t engage with Cryptocurrencies as much as men

Interesting facts to bear in mind before reading further: Only 29% of US Bitcoin investors are female. 96% of Coin Dance’s visitors, a popular crypto website, a...

Study Digital Currency with Andreas Antonopoulos

![blockchain-in-the-education.jpg]Awareness about cryptocurrency has increased vastly over the years, with Q4 of 2017 being the peak point. Most cryptocurrencie...

Will SegWit & Lightning Network kill Alternative-Cryptocurrencies?

Just a few days ago, the Lightning network was deployed onto the Bitcoin main net after months of test net trials. This comes just two months after SegWit was i...

Mini Market Update - 16/03/18

Yesterday was the first day that the Lightning network went live on both BTC & LTCs main nets. Generally, prices are the same as yesterday and at times slightly...

Mini Market Update - 15/03/18

The total value of all cryptos is now $316bn, lower than our last dip at the start of Feb and we've now retraced back to early December '17 levels. View this as...

Monero (XMR) - The Privacy Cryptocurrency

What is Monero (XMR is the token) and what can it offer to the crypto scene not offered by other mainstream cryptocurrencies? In one way Monero is similar to Bi...

Mini Market Update - 5/3/17

The week is starting on a high with the market cap creeping up to $470bn. If we can challenge $500 today then that'd be a great day of progress and would start ...

A Brief Overview of The Most Popular Cryptocurrencies

Bitcoin (BTC): Market Cap: $173,770,261,894 Circulating Supply: 16,887,787 BTC Total Supply: 21,000,000 BTC Bitcoin is the purest example of a cryptocurrency. I...

What are Decentralised Exchanges?

What are decentralised exchanges and how do they differ from traditional centralised exchanges like Bittrex, Binance, etc.? To understand the difference between...

BISQ releases update

Bisq announced the following via its Twitter​ account today: Bisq v0.6.6 is out, and this release is a big one. Highlights include: - 75% reduction in minimum t...

Paying with cryptocurrency debit cards

As promised we are keeping a close eye on a few different prepaid cards allowing users to pay using cryptocurrency, @tokencardio @monacocard @tenxwallet @crypto...

CRYPTO Market Update - 23/02/18

Over $30bn worth of digital assets have been removed from the cryptocurrency market within the past 12 hours; which has led to almost every coin in red today. B...

Binance "Coin of the Month Competition"

Binance is currently running its "Coin of the Month Competition" Currently, the voting is as such: Dent (DENT) 2439 18.95% Elastos (ELA) 2827 21.97% Medicalchai...

How Digital Currencies and Blockchain Technology Can Help To Reduce Poverty

The World Bank has published statistics revealing that just over 3 billion people (over 18 years-old) alive today do not have access to basic financial services...

Mini Market Update - 18/02/18

Mini Market Update: As expected, the markets have dropped off a bit today after a steady 7 day bull run; but such behaviour is not uncommon for a Sunday. Invest...

Different Ways to Purchase Bitcoin

Most recently, I have grown fed-up of centralised exchanges like Coinbase. Their services are too slow, too expensive and too bureaucratic; people often wait we...

Mini Market Update - 10/02/18

Mini Market Update: The market is fairly bullish today with all but a few coins rising. BTC approaching $9k which is incredible taking into account that we were...

Monero, Lisk, Civic and BCash are amongst the only coins that have gone up in the last 24 hours

In the last 24 hours, ​the cryptocurrency market has been on the rise with Monero, Lisk, Civic and Bitcoin cash leading the rise! This market rise may continue ...

Mini Market Update - 07/02/18

Mini Market Update: What a positive past 24 hours. We were preparing for BTC to slide to $3k (which it still may) and for all other coins to follow in its depre...