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Auroracoin News

Auroracoin is an Icelandic peer-to-peer cryptocurrency, designed to avoid government restrictions on krona that strongly limit its movement outside Iceland. AUR is explained as the first country-based cryptocurrency and was intended to be distributed to all citizens of Iceland. Auroracoin was initially based on Litecoin’s core but changed its codebase in 2016. It is not dependent on the national currency or national banking system and has no regulations over it, although the government helped establish it by giving the developers access to Iceland’s databases. 50% of Auroracoin was “airdropped” to all the citizens listed in Iceland’s national ID database who claimed their right to it. Unclaimed pre-mined coins were made inaccessible or “burned.” Auroracoin has a fixed supply that helps fight against inflation and can be sent anywhere, keeping transactions secure and anonymous with randomly generated addresses.

Auroracoin’s shine is gradually fading away. Being introduced in seemingly the right place and in the right time, it was the second largest cryptocurrency befor...
Saving Iceland’s Economy: Did Auroracoin Fail Its Mission?
Alicia Naumoff
2016-04-19T14:55:00+01:00
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More of Iceland’s population holds cryptocurrency than anywhere else in the world. Could that, combined with recent political and financial scandals, propel it ...
Could Iceland Embrace Crypto Before Anyone Else?
Joël Valenzuela
2016-04-18T14:50:00+01:00
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Auroracoin has nearly doubled in price over the Panama Papers. CT spoke with developers behind three regionally-centric cryptocurrencies (Auroracoin, Sterlingco...
Auroracoin, Sterlingcoin, Scotcoin: National Cryptocurrencies Provide Alternative to Central Banking
Joël Valenzuela
2016-04-09T17:00:00+01:00
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Auroracoin’s development team plans a second coming as new scandals emerge with government corruption surrounding 2008’s bank collapse.
Auroracoin Makes a Comeback in Iceland, the Country Mired in Financial Scandals
Joël Valenzuela
2016-03-31T14:15:00+01:00
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Cryptocurrency enables you to “be your own bank,” and banks are more than just a place to put your money—they're also a place from which to borrow. Pure-Central...
Pure-Central Facilitates Peer-to-Peer Crypto Lending
Amanda B. Johnson
2015-01-13T09:11:35+00:00
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After several years of interesting research in Artificial Intelligence, David Lio got into crypto-currencies late in the game (late 2013), left California and h...
DAVID LIO: WE WILL EVENTUALLY BE DISCUSSING FIAT’S VOLATILITY
Armand Tanzarian
2014-04-28T08:02:14+01:00
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Slater has been working all around the world these past few years, trying to develop software for mutual credit economies and eventually uniting all such econom...
Interview: Community currency engineer Matthew Slater
Eric Barrier
2014-03-28T16:07:52+00:00
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Auroracoin’s airdrop to all Icelanders began Monday night/Tuesday morning, and there’s already enough data to start drawing conclusions and maybe speculating a ...
Observations from Auroracoin’s launch
Armand Tanzarian
2014-03-27T08:49:26+00:00
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