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What is blockchain? Since 2017, blockchain has often been put forward as the miracle solution to all the world’s ills. At that timeThe hype was at its height, and blockchain projects were springing up by the thousands, driven by the ICO phenomenon. However, many people talk about blockchain without really understanding what it’s all […]

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What is Proof of Authority?

The Proof-Of-Authority (PoA) is a consensus method that gives a small and designated number of blockchain actors the power to validate transactions or interactions with the network and to update its more or less distributed registry. It works as follow: according to the chosen scheme, one or more validating machines are responsible for generating each […]

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What is Tron (TRX)?

The Tron network has been in the news a lot recently, following the acquisition of the BitTorrent company for $120 million. The performance of the native TRX token has been good over the last few months, creating a buzz behind this project led by Justin Sun and his team. Coinhouse takes a look at the […]

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What is the Brave Browser and its BAT?

Cryptocurrencies, by their properties, are making their way into our lives. A good example of this statement is the Ethereum-based BAT token, which is the cornerstone of a potential new web advertising economy based on the Brave browser. We analyse here the value proposition of this system. The Brave browser: when privacy comes first Brave […]

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What is Tezos (XTZ)?

In the Blockchain world, Tezos is a project that, for better or worse, got a hell lot of attention. Tezos is the product of many years of crypto-economic and philosophical reflections led by its masterminds Arthur and Kathleen Breitman, and who laid them out in their 2014 White Paper. Previously, Arthur Breitman was a research engineer for Google X […]

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What is Stellar Lumens (XLM)?

Stellar Lumens is a payment network that allows financial institutions, companies or individuals to send each other value in the form of the native XLM asset or in the form of IOUs, digital representations of any asset on the Stellar network. Launched on July 31, 2014, this platform is co-founded by Joyce Kim and […]

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What is Kleros (PNK)?

On July 15th, 2018, the Kleros IICO successfully raised 5793.58 ETH (2,3M€ at current price valuation) after a two-month fundraising, this IICO round issued 16% of the PNK token supply to around 220 investors. Kleros was the first project in the world to use the concept of interactive coin offering shared by Vitalik Buterin, Jason Teutsch and Christopher Brown. What […]

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What is EOS?

EOS is a blockchain project led by developer Daniel Larimer, unveiled and financed in 2017 and then put online in 2018 after an ICO of all records that lasted a year and raised up to 4 billion dollars through an ingenious but questionable mechanism. More than a year and a half after its launch, let’s […]

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What is Dash (DASH)?

DASH is a cryptocurrency created in January 2014 by Evan Duffield, successively named Xcoin, then Darkcoin. Initially based on a copy of Bitcoin, Dash allows confidential and almost instantaneous transactions, and is supported by a masternode governance system. What are the differences between Bitcoin and Dash? Dash is based on a two-tier system involving miners […]

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