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Bitcoin coming to thousands of ATMs in the UK

27 Dec 2020 1 minute read 4 comments Awah

It is always good to read stories about cryptocurrency becoming more mainstream. It has now been announced that Bitcoin will be coming to 16,00 ATMs in the UK through a deal between cryptocurrency company BitcoinPoint and the ATM company Cashzone. Ho...

Is Decentralisation the Answer?

14 Apr 2020 3 minute read 0 comments Awah

The concept of decentralisation is not new and has been talked about for over a century with regards to decentralised government and providing regional/local power and decision making. It is a utopian state in politics that can quickly result in fall...

4 Challenges Facing Cryptocurrency Adoption

11 Apr 2020 2 minute read 6 comments Awah

Out of the last global financial crisis of 2008, people were fed up with the governments and the central banks printing money as a means to get out of the crisis. When governments print money, they are giving themselves money by devaluing the money y...

VC Security Concerns with Zoom? - Good Alternatives

7 Apr 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Awah

  In these difficult times when we are all locked at home, the use of video conferencing has skyrocketed. To facilitate working from home, people are moving their meetings online and Zoom has been a key application that people have been using. The Re...

CoinPoint Faucet payouts scam or legit?

2 Mar 2020 2 minute read 5 comments Awah

I thought I would give the CoinPot faucet ago to see what I can make it 1 month.  CoinPoint offers different faucets where essentially you can get bombarded with a few adverts but can then earn rewards through the faucet.  The idea is that the more c...

Electroneum - Goes global in 140+ countries with mobile top-ups

25 Feb 2020 1 minute read 5 comments Awah

Electroneum I have written about Electroneum previously https://www.publish0x.com/cryptonewbie/electroneum-the-global-coin-seeking-a-use-case-xyonnj?a=WPe9jzZaLy Electroneum have always been trying to provide real utility in the value of ETN.  To del...

KuCoin spat with WinPlay BUT where is the $1 Million USDT?

21 Feb 2020 1 minute read 6 comments Awah

The Competition KuCoin recently kicked off a promotion competition with a total prize of £1 million USDT.  Competition participants where let to believe that by completing certain social media tasks and other competition activities they would get mor...

Getting started with KuCoin exchange

15 Feb 2020 4 minute read 0 comments Awah

KuCoin History KuCoin is a cryptocurrency trading exchange that launched in September 2017 with the tag line of "The Peoples' Exchange".  Their aim is to provide secure and easy to use trading functionality to a global userbase and at the same time p...

Publish0xTutorials - Read/Publish get crypto rewards through Coinbase Wallet

3 Feb 2020 2 minute read 2 comments Awah

What is Publish0x Publish0x is a blogging platform with a difference.  Publish0x allows users to earn some cryptocurrency by reading blogs about cryptocurrencies (and other subjects) by tipping good content.  There is no better way for newbies to lea...

Electroneum - the global coin seeking a use case

1 Feb 2020 3 minute read 2 comments Awah

HistoryElectroneum was first announced in August 2017 and then born in November 2017 after an ICO that had the Electroneum token ETN priced at USD 0.01. It was one of the most successful ICOs ever with a record number of participants. After some init...