Darkcoin has made the decision to rebrand themselves as Dash in order to disassociate it from the illicit activities of the dark web.

Darkcoin is the anonymity focused cryptocurrency is set to change their name to Dash so that they are able to represent their platform better and to make it more accessible to users.

Evan Duffield, the lead developer of Darkcoin has said that this change has come about in part because of the unwanted association with dark web.

It has never been the goal of Darkcoin to support the dark web; the goal was to fix all of the problems that have plagued bitcoin since the beginning and to create a decentralized, private, trustworthy and fast payment platform. (more…)

The main features of Peercoin are the low power consumption, different mining than Litecoin and Bitcoin and a .1 Peercoin transaction on each transaction. Here are some facts about Peercoin.

Peercoin Using Different Mining System that Wastes Less Power

A massive shortcoming of Bitcoin is that millions of dollars are wasted mining it. Mining in this regard means verifying new transactions whilst creating new Bitcoins.

Bitcoin works on a proof of work scheme where mining computers solve problems using a lot of computing power. Bitcoin is network safe, but more power is wasted. (more…)