• On the next list we´ll review those cryptocurrencies that by 2018 are the most demanded of the market, besides other interesting data about these financial assets.
10- NEO: It´s dollar value is currently US$20,10.
This cryptocurrency project was launched in 2014 as “AntShares”, and it was rebranded to “NEO” in 2017.
Creators: Da Hongfei, Erik Zhang.
9- IOTA: It´s dollar value is currently US$0,58.
IOTA was founded in 2015 by David Sønstebø, Sergey Ivancheglo, Dominik Schiener y Serguei Popov. The project is supervised by IOTA Foundation, a non-profit organization located in Germany, which is responsible for the development of technology and encourage its adoption.
8- Stellar(XLM): It´s dollar value is currently US$0,20.
Stellar was launched in 2014 by the co-founder of Ripple Jed McCaleb and Joyce Kim. Before this network project was officially launched McCaleb formed a website called "Secret Bitcoin Project" seeking alpha testers.
7- Litecoin (LTC): It´s dollar value is currently US$56,16.
This cryptocurrency is supported by the P2P network, and an open source software project published under the MIT license. Litecoin was intended to be a Bitcoin alternative electronic currency.
Litecoin was launched through an open source client on Github on October of 2011.
6- Cardano (ADA): It´s dollar value is currently US$ 0,084.
Cardano was released on September of 2017 under the 'Byron' bootstrap phase with the official launch in Japan. It was created by blockchain development firm Input Output Hong Kong (IOHK)
5- EOSIO: It´s dollar value is currently US$ 5,09.
the EOSIO platform was developed by the private company block.one and released as open-source software on June of 2018.
EOSIO aims to be the first decentralized operating system that provides a development environment for decentralized applications like Steemit.
4- Bitcoin Cash (BCH): It´s dollar value is currently US$504,01.
It´s a cryptocurrency and alternative version of the Bitcoin project that arose as a result of a programmed hard bifurcation that was executed on August 1, 2017 and that resulted in the separation of the original bitcoin block chain into two differentiated and coexisting block chains.
3- Ripple (XRP): It´s dollar value is currently US$0,29.
It´s a project based on free software that pursues the development of a credit system based on the end-to-end paradigm.
Each Ripple node functions as a local exchange system, in such a way that the entire system forms a decentralized mutual bank.
2- Ethereum (Ether): It´s dollar value is currently US$219,36.
Ethereum was proposed by Vitalik Buterin, a cryptocurrency developer. The development of the same was achieved thanks to a collective financing platform, from July to August 2014. The system finally came out on July 30, 2015.
After a bifurcation of the block chain in July 2016, there are two active Ethereum lines: Ethereum and Classic Ethereum.
1- Bitcoin (BTC): It´s dollar value is currently US$6.489,21.
Bitcoin is characterized by being decentralized, that is, it is not backed by any government or central bank and lacks legal certainty.
On 2009, Bitcoin's P2P network became operational with the publication of the first open-source client program, and the creation of the first bitcoins. Until the invention of Bitcoin, all payments in the Bitcoin were required. Electronic commerce will be channelled through trusted centralized entities, generally banks and other financial companies, which manage the tracking of all transactions.
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