Emerald Crypto | March 3, 2021

BAT, short for Basic Access Token, is up over 71 percent in the past few days. The price has risen from a tick under $0.47 per share Sunday to over $0.80 at the time of t...his writing. This cryptocurrency currently occupies over one billion dollars in market capitalization and has a very concrete and tangible application in the real world, making it one of the more popular cryptos among traders and investors.

BAT is an open source blockchain based on Ethereum. In a nutshell BAT is integrated into the Brave browser and was created to solve inherent inefficiencies and privacy violations nagging the digital advertising industry. BAT is the world's first private global ad platform and is unique because it allows users who opt in earn tokens for attention paid to ads that populate. In other words users get BAT for viewing ads, which of course turns everything on its head.

Additionally, verified content creators and publishers earn BAT by allowing Brave to serve ads on their platform. (Currently that platform can be a website, YouTube, Twitter, Reddit, Vimeo, Twitch and/or GitHub.) Creators can also earn through tips contributed by readers, followers and subscribers.

Verified creators can choose to get paid in BAT, Bitcoin, Ethereum or U.S. Dollars and earnings can be spent on gift cards or used to support other content creators. In the future users will also be able to apply earnings toward premium content subscriptions.

BAT is the first crypto application to have more than 1 million users and is one of the leaders in the new Internet economy. This should not come as a surprise as Brave Software Founder and CEO Brendan Eich created JavaScript and co-founded Mozilla, which developed the famed Firefox browser.

The Brave browser itself is faster and more private. It utilized shields which blocks ads, gets rid of unneeded cookies and makes the browser harder to recognize. It also uses secure connections when possible to block malware.

Brave maintains support for chrome extensions too.

The browser also features the option to open pages in Tor. Tor is free and open source software that enables very private internet usage by hiding the user's history and masking their location. It obscures the user's location by routing them through several encrypted servers before they land at the destination page.

Brave with BAT integration has launched current or past successful ad campaigns with Nexo, eToro, Verizon, Crytpo, BlockFi and many other leading brands. They have also established a solid presence in the blockchain gaming community.

Overall the Brave community currently boasts over 25 million active monthly users, 7.4 million active daily users, and over 1 million verified creators accepting BAT (this author is one of them).

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Huge amount of dollars has been invested in Bitcoin by the Twitter owner.

Emerald Crypto | February 23, 2021

Litecoin (LTC) is a digital asset that new cryptocurrency investors and traders might consider adding to their portfolios. LTC is similar to Bitcoin in that its prima...ry use is as a currency / payment processing network.

In fact Litecoin was one of the first Bitcoin forks. In the world of cryptos a hard fork occurs when a change in protocol results in the splitting off of a cryptocurrency into two separate entities.

As Coin Central's Alex Moskov put it, many look at Litecoin as the silver to Bitcoin's gold. LTC has a larger circulating supply and a lower price when compared to BTC:

Supply: BTC – 18.6M LTC – 66.5M
Price: BTC - $49,000 LTC - $179

Litecoin is both open source and peer-to-peer. When something is open source that means the developers make the software source code available to be viewed, modified, distributed and/or upgraded by anyone. Peer-to-peer (P2P) is a characteristic component of decentralization where transactions are managed through a distributed network of computers rather than through a centralized authority.

LTC is as much as four times faster than BTC and the network is capable of handling higher transaction volume due to more frequent block generation. The cost of transactions is also very low – according to their website near-zero cost payments to anyone in the world. The low transaction costs and the fact that it is available on all of the major exchanges make LTC a good choice for initiating deposits and trades.

Litecoin is currently the 8th largest cryptocurrency globally in terms of market cap ($11.9B) and is currently trading up over 38 percent since the beginning of 2021.

Two upcoming events could also bode well for Litecoin's market outlook. First, an upcoming code release in March will announce enhanced privacy features for LTC. Second, Spark (FLR) recently announced an airdrop for Litecoin holders.

As always readers are encouraged to do their own research and to come to their own conclusions but we think there is a good place for Litecoin is most cryptocurrency portfolios.

Sources

https://litecoin.org/

https://coincentral.com/what-is-litecoin/

https://www.cryptoglobe.com/latest/2021/02/crypto-analyst-says-litecoin-breaking-out-explains-why-it-could-run-to-1000-in-2021/

Originally published here

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Bitcoin (BTC) was lower, after an intraday price spike on Tuesday took the largest cryptocurrency to a new all-time high of $48,226.25, based CoinDesk 20 data.

$50K in sight: “Bitcoin needs a couple... more big endorsements, and that could be the key to take prices above the $50,000 level,” Edward Moya, senior market analyst for the foreign-exchange broker Oanda, wrote Tuesday.

Inflation watch: European shares and U.S. stock futures were higher as Bloomberg News reported that “inflation has quickly become the biggest issue in markets on speculation the Federal Reserve will let the economy run hot out of the pandemic.” The U.S. Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Wednesday in its monthly CPI report that the consumer price index rose 0.3% in January, for a 1.4% increase over the past 12 months. The headline reading was in line with economists’ expectations.

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Yummy - this week, BAO "snacked" up the first spot!
Do you see your faves 😉
Discover new treasures here: https://coingecko.com/en/discover

Yummy - this week, BAO "snacked" up the first spot!
Do you see your faves 😉
Discover new treasures here: https://coingecko.com/en/discover

People tend to talk a lot about Bitcoin. It can be easy to forget that there are hundreds of other cryptocurrencies. Some of these cryptocurrencies may even attribute similar features as Bitcoin. But cryptocurr...encies are not just digital assets, they include their communities, too. One altcoin with a growing community is Dogecoin.

In this Dogecoin price prediction, we will start by explaining briefly what Dogecoin really is. This will be followed by its future and DOGE price for coming years.

What is Dogecoin?
Dogecoin is a peer-to-peer, decentralized, and digital currency that allows you to send money online easily. Dogecoin right from its launch has become very much significant in the crypto world. The Doge cryptocurrency is even used by retailers to accept payments. Its logo is a dog, which is their friendly mascot.

Dogecoin is a user-friendly cryptocurrency project launched on December 06, 2013. It uses its own blockchain and is widely supported by many wallets and Exchanges. Dogecoin’s main use case is for making payments and recently it has also been used as a tipping coin for rewarding small tokens to people during social media interactions.

FunFact about Dogecoin
Its most distinct feature, however, is its mascot. The developers of Dogecoin chose a “fun” approach towards its development.
Dogecoin was created by Billy Markus, Oregon, and Jackson Palmer. It was introduced as a joke, but who knew it would become so significant in the crypto world. It is also used by retailers to receive payments.

Dogecoin Technical Analysis 2013-2020
2013
Dogecoin made its debut in December 2013 at $0.0006 with a $3.5 million market capitalization. For a year, Dogecoin was on an upward trajectory and doubled exponentially.

2014
But the year 2014 was not as good for Dogecoin, New cryptocurrencies emerged on the market, such as NEO, Stellar, and Monero, and traders turned their attention to them. DOGE’s price fell to $0.0001.

2015
Co-founder Jackson Palmer quit the project unexpectedly in 2015. He explained that he preferred to concentrate on the technical aspects of the blockchain. With the news, the world began to speak of DOGE’s impending death, but this did not happen. DOGE managed to trade at $0.00014 by the end of December 2015.

2017
Dogecoin, however, did not cross the $0.0002-0.0003 price range until 2017. Yet consumers purchased coins for personal payments, and the capitalization of the altcoin rose steadily. Then the value of the coin increased dramatically to $0.003 in the spring of 2017 and further continued to vary. Surprisingly, DOGE surged to $0.007 at the end of 2017.
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Found this post on Facebook Cryptocurrency group. Do you agree or disagree with this statement?

Justin Roiland, the co-creator of the Adult Swim cartoon series Rick and Morty has joined the growing trend of celebrity artists creating non-fungible token (NFT) artwork. After the animator released the collec...tion called “The Best I Could Do” on the NFT auction house Nifty Gateway, the artwork sold for over $1 million in ether.

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What do you think about this prediction. Looks solid

Found on Redit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/ky81ti/this_bull_market_doesnt_stop_at_40k/

Bitcoin started to roll back today. In 12 hours - $ 7000 Do you think it will last?

Bitcoin hits $30,000🚀

🚀🚀🚀🔥

BTC broke the 30k mark. Sky is the limit guys.
Where do you see BTC by the end of 2021?

ETHEREUM BREAKS $700🚀

Let's send Ethereum (ETH) to $1000 as soon as possible!🔥

Altseason soon?🤔🚀

Both companies and private individuals will be able to use either Bitcoin or Ether for payments up to CHF100,000.

Thats roughly $110.000

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