Cryptocurrencies

XRP is a global payment settlement system that aims to be a faster and less costly alternative than traditional payment platforms.

Litecoin is a cryptocurrency designed to provide instant, secure and low-cost payments.

As mentioned in an earlier section, one can think of Bitcoin as one big global ledger system that records transactions (or ‘moving money’) between one person to another. Whenever Bitcoin transactions are processed on the Bitcoin network – that means…

There are a number of ways you can get Bitcoin: Just like traditional money, you can earn it by providing goods or services, and asking for people to pay you in Bitcoin rather than in traditional money. This is often…

Created as part of the upcoming changes in the Consensus Layer, sharding was proposed by Ethereum developers to split the infrastructure of the Ethereum blockchain into smaller pieces to support more users, improve efficiency and speed up the verification process.

It’s a formal document by the government, a person or company that presents an argument for something, be it a product or some other solution. 

One of the key characteristics of Bitcoin is that only 21 million Bitcoin will ever be created (or ‘mined‘). However, releasing them all at once could cause a number of problems. If they’re released too quickly but demand doesn’t grow,…

You can buy part of a Bitcoin.

Bitcoin is pseudo-anonymous, addresses can be traced.

Bitcoin’s security is one of its major assets. But can it be hacked?

Bitcoin was the very first cryptocurrency ever created, but is brand recognition why Bitcoin is number one?

You can now buy and sell Ethereum with Luno.  Recently we’ve seen a renewed interest in Ethereum from our customers. Like Bitcoin, Ethereum (or ETH, the underlying currency) has soared to an all-new record high over the past few weeks as…