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      "body": "Proclaimed by Business Insider as the \"cryptocurrency that people worry could crash Bitcoin and that regulators are investigating,\" Tether already has quite the reputation behind it, burgeoning though it may be. Founded in 2015 under the name Realcoin, Tether is a digital form of money designed to reap the benefits of both blockchain technology and traditional currency, by virtue of the Tether platform (which leverages the security and transparency of the blockchain) and being \"100 percent backed\" by currencies in their reserves:\n\n\"Every tether is always backed one-to-one by traditional currency held in our reserves. So 1 USD₮ is always equivalent to 1 USD.\"\n\n![Tether.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmf2gsZc2WcMvWzSJfcz7ZDp9mKeMhfasjurTohyfyrYwo/Tether.jpg)\n\nThis, Tether's founders say, makes it a stable currency equivalent to the U.S. dollar, Euro or Yen. 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      "body": "Founded by Justin Sun and the TRON Foundation in 2017, TRON is a decentralized, open-source cryptocurrency and network with aims of aiding content creators in receiving remuneration for sharing their works. The whitepaper, unfortunately, is heavy on Chinese characters, but a useful translation of their self description comes by way of TwentySumCrypto's Medium article:\n\n\"TRON is a world-leading blockchain-based decentralized protocol that aims to construct a worldwide free content entertainment system with the blockchain and distributed storage technology.\"\n\n![TRON.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmUNpiiwFYGTmA7RdVN5uBE3aZ2e1dMdGyvzw8hwvDzpJk/TRON.jpg)\n\nIn short, they're creating an environment that cuts out the content-controlling middlemen like YouTube, Spotify, the Google Play Store, Apple Store and the like. The idea has attracted some attention, which gave TRON a boost (although it has since cooled off) at the beginning of the year. TRON currently has a market cap of $2,990,096,297, or 277,763 BTC, and holds a value around $0.045478, with a 24-hour volume of $190,917,000 and a circulating supply of 65,748,192,476 TRX.\n\n<h2>TRON: Competition, Pros and Cons</h2>\nTRON's goal is to \"heal the internet,\" as they see it. As such, they want to wrest control from corporations such as Google, Amazon and Facebook, returning it to the hands of content creators. To this end, they are constructing a platform that will liberate data and provide free access to it, enable content creators to gain digital assets when their content propagates, allow personal ICOs to distribute digital assets, and allow for a distributed digital asset exchange (think games and similar commodities).\n\nIt's a bold promise, one where the content creators stand to earn more on their own than they currently do through intermediary sites. To achieve this, they have unveiled a multi-step plan that should culminate by 2023. As detailed on Hacked:\n* <strong>Exodus</strong>: TRON will implement simple distributed file sharing for its users, sans blockchain technology.\n* <strong>Odyssey</strong>: TRON will incentivize the creation and early adoption of its entertainment community by content creators. Creators will be paid for their efforts through a tipping scheme.\n* <strong>Great Voyage</strong>: TRON will introduce personal ICOs, allowing the transformation from \"fan economy\" to \"fan finance.\"\n* <strong>Apollo</strong>: TRON will launch its own tokens for decentralized trading, increasing economic vitality.\n* <strong>Star Trek</strong>: TRON will transition its content platform to a decentralized gaming platform with \"autonomous gaming and predicting functions.\" This is to generate more market capitalization.\n* <strong>Eternity</strong>: TRON will address fundraising and monetization concerns, allowing investors to inject money into popular games.\n\nThis, they claim, will allow them to expand what they call the \"Web 4.0 Ecosystem,\" a growing network they say boasts more than 100,000 members from more than 100 countries. Key features of this network are buzzwords many have seen bandied about before -- digital assets, blockchain-based smart contracts, decentralized applications -- all resulting in the fresh entertainment market that TRON envisions. This is not their only goal, however, as they'd eventually like to see their ecosystem adopted in areas beyond entertainment.\n\nIf this all plays out as they expect, an entire global society might function on the back of TRON's platform, decentralizing a variety of businesses and industries in the same manner. Not all share their optimism, however. As detailed in the Daily Dot, scandals have cast doubts on TRON's ability to achieve any of its lofty goals. It started with the accusation of plagiarized elements within the whitepaper, which may have been lifted from Filecoin.\n\nSun defended the whitepaper, blaming translation issues for the confusion, but further troubles struck with the announcement that TRON would supposedly be collaborating with Baofeng (the Chinese version of Netflix). This announcement, users noted, was misleading, since \"the partnership was actually with a new blockchain division within Baofeng, called the BCN.\"\n\nThen there was the claim that Sun had \"sold 6 billion TRX for $300 million,\" leading to speculation that the TRON CEO might be running a scam of sorts. Sun denied these allegations as well, but it opened the door for even harsher criticism, coming by way of Bitcoin.com, TrustNodes and, most notably, the Washington Post:\n\n\"[TRON is] the cryptocurrency that's valued at over $7 billion even though it doesn't actually exist. It's just a white paper filled with a bunch of buzzwords.\"\n\nA major test for TRON going forward will be turning around the negative assumptions about the company and convincing a wider swath of the public that they are who they claim to be.\n\n![TRON-2.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmc1vPai1cfbfGXyguHsu8dSTVmpZ2sSGQajf5gMjJmunq/TRON-2.jpg)\n\n<h2>The Uses of TRON</h2>\nIn spite of the blowback, TRON does seem to have some legitimate partnerships and real-world use cases under its belt, detailed again by TwentySumCrypto. Most impressive of these is the release of the game Pet Planet/Love.Pet, a virtual pet game that's seen as an answer to Ethereum's CryptoKitties. 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      "body": "NEM has been in the headlines recently because of repeated hits to their value, dropping below $0.54 in February. That grim picture doesn't convey a complete story, however, as NEM had been making serious strides at the beginning of 2018, and the so-called \"smart asset blockchain\" still has plenty going for it. Launched in 2015 by pseudonymous developers, NEM is a peer-to-peer cryptocurrency and blockchain platform. It was originally conceived as a fork of NXT, but then reworked as a completely new network, one with enterprise-grade solutions designed to set it apart from other altcoins and introduce innovations that would allow it to compete in a decentralized future fraught with rival currencies.\n\n![NEM.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmVAgXTZL7xgWcmrGst9AjXhcTVBC1YJRGrp3wWyFLuWs4/NEM.jpg)\n\nAmong these innovations are the proof-of-importance algorithm, multi-signature accounts, encrypted messaging and the Eigentrust ++ reputation system. The multitude of features have generated plenty of interest in the platform, and with its incorporation into the Mijin commercial blockchain, NEM saw some significant growth heading into 2018. At present, NEM's market cap is around $4,547,231,999, or 390,104 BTC. The value currently rests at about $0.505248, with a 24-hour volume around $73,120,400 and a circulating supply of 8,999,999,999 XEM.\n\n<h2>NEM: Competition, Pros and Cons</h2>\nOne of the key features that sets NEM apart from other blockchain platforms is their Smart Asset System. The idea is to provide a customizable and open blockchain that allows users to fine-tune how they use the platform. As NEM puts it:\n\n\"Focus on building exactly what you need, whether that's a fintech system, tracking logistics, an ICO, document notarization, decentralized authentication or much more.\"\n\nThe blockchain contains a Namespace, which defines a user's \"home\" on the blockchain. In these spaces, users can create Mosaics, which NEM calls the \"basic building blocks of Smart Assets.\" Mosaics provide \"easy-to-remember names to user addresses\" and other details, and can be used to represent whatever the user decides: signatures, coins, status updates, etc.\n\nThe Smart Asset System goes deeper than this, though. It also allows users to create \"Addresses,\" which then serve as containers for Mosaics and can be connected with Multisig rules. The address can be a user, a unique asset or other variables that users define, which they can then update or change through configurable Transactions. The system allows for a great deal of flexibility, allowing just about anyone to construct whatever system they dream up, then link it to the NEM blockchain in a simple manner.\n\nThe Proof-of-Importance algorithm touched on earlier is another interesting facet that NEM's system includes. It differs from the commonly used Proof-of-Work and Proof-of-Stake algorithms, creating consensus by way of incentivizing participation in the NEM platform:\n\n\"Each account is assigned an importance score that proxies its aggregate importance in the NEM economy. Accounts with higher importance scores have higher probabilities of harvesting a block. Because all transactions are publicly available in NEM, the transaction graph of the NEM economy can be calculated exactly.\"\n\nNodes have \"importance scores,\" which dictate how often they may harvest (akin to mining in the POW system), and, over time, the coins \"vested\" in a user's wallet contribute to their importance score. Accounts must have at least 10,000 vested XEM to be eligible for an importance score. 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Ease-of-development and customization come by way of the Smart Asset System, which, instead of requiring users to develop smart contract code from scratch or use \"off-blockchain\" techniques for defining custom assets, provides \"direct API access to a specialized set of tested and secure on-blockchain features.\" Finally, the security features of NEM's platform include built-in spam filters, encrypted messaging, P2P time synchronization and multi-signature addresses, among other details, all of which are discussed on the company's technology page.\n\nAlthough NEM has suffered from a sharp rise and dramatic fall early in 2018, that's not enough to count out its technology as a mere fad. Values are volatile, but the support behind the community and their blockchain vision is still going strong at the moment.\n\n![NEM-2.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmP4FT6XKrcwgSRCbwtEr8j84Aw9iTEt7cdxhdZ3NFWwkk/NEM-2.jpg)The \n\n<h2>Uses of NEM</h2>\nNEM outlines several use cases for their platform on their site, stating that the Smart Asset System can be put to work to build \"an incredible variety of real-world applications\" for businesses. Among these, they list facilitating financial payments, creating new cryptocurrencies (sans programming), enabling mobile payments, overhauling equity markets to save money and improve efficiency, creating escrow services, use as a liquid asset, and creating new versions of payment applications like PayPal.\n\n<h2>The Future for NEM</h2>\nNEM is still investing in their future by way of improvements to the platform and the expansion of their global adoption. 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      "title": "The Blockchain Handbook - Chapter 12: IOTA (IOTA)",
      "body": "Self-proclaimed as the \"next generation blockchain,\" IOTA, launched in 2016, bills itself as the future of the \"Internet Of Things\" and is designed especially for this ever-increasing web of internet-connected objects. As the co-founders and the IOTA team see it, the expansion of the Internet Of Things will require \"the need for interoperability and sharing of resources\" between the various devices. They'd like to see IOTA become the backbone of this new landscape, creating a business model that turns technological resources into a service to be traded in a real-time, open market, sans fees.\n\n![IOTA.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmNUEQJ9Kj6TBDuN1tH6LXMzqpZ4ojB9sgJjKzuVVdkhDP/IOTA.jpg)\n\nThe idea is one that has plenty of people excited, with outlets like the Daily Dot contemplating whether or not it might be \"the next Bitcoin.\" That interest sparked a large jump in value in the later part of 2017, and even though it's cooled heading into February of 2018, the market cap for IOTA still sits near $4,423,900,398, about 446,003 BTC, while the value is approximately $1.59, with a 24-hour volume of $55,855,200 and the entirety of its maximum supply -- 2,779,530,283 MIOTA -- in circulation.\n\n<h2>IOTA: Competition, Pros and Cons</h2>\nThough the hype about IOTA becoming the next Bitcoin is real, it's important to note there are some significant differences between the two platforms. For starters, IOTA doesn't generate blocks like Bitcoin, nor does it need to be mined. Instead of the tried-and-true blockchain concept of other cryptocurrencies, IOTA uses something known as Tangle, a \"revolutionary new blockless distributed ledger.\" According to the IOTA team, this system is \"scalable, lightweight, and makes it possible to transfer value without any fees.\" That description is just a cursory one, though. IOTA goes into more depth about the tangle system in their white paper, and a helpful summary comes by way of A Beginner's Guide To IOTA:\n\n\"For every transaction that occurs on IOTA's network, the transaction needs to approve two previous transactions by conducting a small amount of Proof of Work for them. The premise is that as more transactions occur, the network will be able to scale faster since there are more verifications being performed in parallel.\"\n\nThis system, IOTA explains, also helps to mitigate instances of double sending and allows for the network to be asynchronous. Nodes, as they put it, \"do not have to achieve consensus on which valid transactions have the right to be in the ledger,\" but \"in the case where there are conflicting transactions, the nodes need to decide which transactions will become orphaned,\" which is done via a selection algorithm. Other benefits of this system include the fact that the network is fully decentralized and transaction speeds increase as the user base grows.\n\nIOTA's platform allows for micro- and nano-transactions, true, but the \"core feature,\" according to their website, is the ability to transfer data through Tangle. 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Near-future enhancements to the IOTA platform, however, will include improved networking, automated snapshotting and the masked authenticated messaging system, among others. 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      "body": "Self-proclaimed as the \"next generation blockchain,\" IOTA, launched in 2016, bills itself as the future of the \"Internet Of Things\" and is designed especially for this ever-increasing web of internet-connected objects. As the co-founders and the IOTA team see it, the expansion of the Internet Of Things will require \"the need for interoperability and sharing of resources\" between the various devices. They'd like to see IOTA become the backbone of this new landscape, creating a business model that turns technological resources into a service to be traded in a real-time, open market, sans fees.\n\n![IOTA.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmNUEQJ9Kj6TBDuN1tH6LXMzqpZ4ojB9sgJjKzuVVdkhDP/IOTA.jpg)\n\nThe idea is one that has plenty of people excited, with outlets like the Daily Dot contemplating whether or not it might be \"the next Bitcoin.\" That interest sparked a large jump in value in the later part of 2017, and even though it's cooled heading into February of 2018, the market cap for IOTA still sits near $4,423,900,398, about 446,003 BTC, while the value is approximately $1.59, with a 24-hour volume of $55,855,200 and the entirety of its maximum supply -- 2,779,530,283 MIOTA -- in circulation.\n\n<h2>IOTA: Competition, Pros and Cons</h2>\nThough the hype about IOTA becoming the next Bitcoin is real, it's important to note there are some significant differences between the two platforms. For starters, IOTA doesn't generate blocks like Bitcoin, nor does it need to be mined. Instead of the tried-and-true blockchain concept of other cryptocurrencies, IOTA uses something known as Tangle, a \"revolutionary new blockless distributed ledger.\" According to the IOTA team, this system is \"scalable, lightweight, and makes it possible to transfer value without any fees.\" That description is just a cursory one, though. IOTA goes into more depth about the tangle system in their white paper, and a helpful summary comes by way of A Beginner's Guide To IOTA:\n\n\"For every transaction that occurs on IOTA's network, the transaction needs to approve two previous transactions by conducting a small amount of Proof of Work for them. The premise is that as more transactions occur, the network will be able to scale faster since there are more verifications being performed in parallel.\"\n\nThis system, IOTA explains, also helps to mitigate instances of double sending and allows for the network to be asynchronous. Nodes, as they put it, \"do not have to achieve consensus on which valid transactions have the right to be in the ledger,\" but \"in the case where there are conflicting transactions, the nodes need to decide which transactions will become orphaned,\" which is done via a selection algorithm. Other benefits of this system include the fact that the network is fully decentralized and transaction speeds increase as the user base grows.\n\nIOTA's platform allows for micro- and nano-transactions, true, but the \"core feature,\" according to their website, is the ability to transfer data through Tangle. Devices will be able to communicate via secure connections, and that data will be \"fully authenticated and tamper-proof,\" negating the possibility of outside attacks. In IOTA's grand vision, the current Internet Of Things will evolve to a point with more machines than people, and all of those things will have the ability to \"talk\" with one another. There have been some concerns, though, stemming from the incident in which IOTA's Coordinator was forced to shut down.\n\nThe attack didn't generate any panic or loss of trust in IOTA's mission, but it did affect the IOTA wallet for a time. While it has since been addressed, it has led some to question how the project will fare going forward, because the IOTA team has built much of its platform from scratch. This means that the nascent systems IOTA has developed haven't seen as much use in the real world as more established ones, and the potential for unforeseen vulnerabilities may, as a result, be heightened. As the IOTA team moves forward, they may well realize and plan for this particular drawback accordingly.\n\n![IOTA-2.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmNqUwvNFKjN7Mny6hsbSbrL62sSZiQ22NT62ohfi6pgo3/IOTA-2.jpg)\n\n<h2>The Uses of IOTA</h2>\nIOTA goal, as stated in their roadmap, is a transformative one:\n\n\"IOTA was initiated with a very clear and focused vision of enabling the paradigm shift of the Internet of Things, Industry 4.0 and a trustless 'On Demand Economy' through establishing a de facto standardized 'Ledger of Everything'.\"\n\nThe machine-to-machine microtransactions and data-transfer abilities mentioned earlier are a part of that, but IOTA highlights several other use cases for their technology, including e-governance, masked messaging and an \"economy of everything.\"\n\nUsing IOTA's platform, organizations and even governments might be able to establish efficient e-voting systems for elections; devices can securely broadcast information for a wide range of uses; and \"anything with a chip in it\" might eventually be leased to others in real time, creating a world where idle possessions can generate value for their owners.\n\nBeyond this, though, IOTA surmises that their distributed ledger technology may have other uses waiting to be discovered and believes that talented developers will be blazing new trails previously unheard of as adoption of the IOTA platform grows.\n\n<h2>The Future for IOTA</h2>\nIOTA has laid out their plans in their roadmap, which seemingly culminates with the standardization of their Identity Of Things concept, a \"vital role in securing the connected world,\" as they see it. Near-future enhancements to the IOTA platform, however, will include improved networking, automated snapshotting and the masked authenticated messaging system, among others. 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