Story: GOING GREEN: 5 Crypto Coins for the Eco-Conscious Community

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EOSIO (EOS) 

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TRON (TRX) 

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Ripple (XRP) 

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Cardano (ADA) 

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XinFin Network (XDC)

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A Final Word

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Over the past decade, cryptocurrencies have enabled several advantages that pose formidable challenges to the status-quo of fiat currencies.

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A majority of blockchain protocols, including Bitcoin, secure their ecosystems using the Proof-of-Work (PoW) consensus mechanism.

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With more miners entering the industry, the idea of  these super-computers competing to mine coins at the cost of the environment would be a scary one, if not for…

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Renewable sources of energy such as hydro-electricity, solar energy, and oil-power, as opposed to traditional sources, are much more energy-efficient, cheaper, and easily…

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As a faster, cheaper, and more secure alternative for PoW-based coins, the community has been striving to reduce its ecological footprint.

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So, what are these alternatives? Given below is a comprehensive list of the top 5 green coins (in no particular order) that are currently disrupting the crypto industry. 

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EOSIO is a public blockchain protocol that solves 2 major setbacks that are associated with mainstream platforms—transaction fees and scalability.

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The EOSIO blockchain implements a Delegated Proof of Stake (DPoS) consensus protocol, thus enhancing the energy efficiency of validating transactions in EOS—the platform’s native…

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Further, EOS can be exchanged with virtually any cryptocurrency provided they’re converted to ETH or BTC first. At the time of writing, EOS is priced at $2.68 per coin. 

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