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

The Currency Analytics By TCA PR

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

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

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…

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…

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

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.

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

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…

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.