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Hodling Experiment: Committing To Blockchain Technology Through Cryptocurrency

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This post was originally published on my Medium blog and can be found here . I hope you enjoy and find this helpful! It’s been quite a roller-coaster the past year, hasn’t it? At the  beginning of 2017 , the price of  Bitcoin was $962.48 , now  $10,009.20 ;  Ethereum was $8.19 , now  $756.70 ;  Litecoin was $4.36 , now  $186.73 ; and  NEO was $0.14 , now  $100.83 . It’s not wonder we’ve seen such a mass exodus from the world of FinTech to the crypto markets, thankfully. Not only that, but 2017 was the year that Bitcoin truly went viral. Meaning, most human beings have now heard of Bitcoin as the cryptocurrency. Over this time,  we have seen many corporations begin to partner with projects  that  conducted an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) ,  real companies . So much so that the ecommerce behemoth,  Overstock, is running an ICO  — people are waking up.  So are the world governments.  Though anybody in ...

Binance Beginnings: Re-opens New User Registration, Slashes Referral Share

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This post was originally published on my Medium blog here . I hope you enjoy and find this helpful! Binance Website As  part of Binance’s aggressive growth strategy , they released a  referral program  which  compensated referrers with 50%  of the  trading fees paid by the people they referred  —  on 10/27/2017 . They  stopped allowing new user registrations on January 4th, 2018 . Binance Website Today, 1/8/2018,  Binance announced  they have  re-opened new user registrations temporarily  and  randomly . At the same time, they  will cut the referral fee bonus share  from  50% to 20% for all new  and  existing referrals . Has Binance given us another reason to use  Kucoin Exchange ? On  Christmas Day , I woke up feeling inspired to write a piece on Binance Exchange. It was entitled, ‘ Binance Exchange: Fueling a Hot New Era of Token-based Exchange Models? ’ You can see I am...