GOSTCoin. The history of the first cryptocurrency in I2P
GOSTCoin. The history of the first cryptocurrency in I2P Hornbeam 7 min View Original The information space is filled with various videos and articles on the topic of cryptocurrencies. The bright rise of anonymous digital money in the public consciousness began around 2016. This is primarily due to the active use of Bitcoin on underground trading platforms. Due to the openness of technology and the great popularity of the words "crypto", "blockchain" and similar ones, a mass of fly-by-night cryptocurrencies appeared, which artificially grew in price and attracted investors from both business figures and ordinary onlookers. The classic scheme looks like this: create a bunch of candy wrappers, then inflate the price for them on any exchange, and at the peak of the price, sell all your crypto dummies, taking the real money of gullible people in exchange for unnecessary digital assets. By 2018, in people’s minds, cryptocurrency had transformed from a panacea for anony