Cryptocurrency
by Michael Henris on April 11th, 2018

What is ViaCoin (VIA) crypto and its analysis for 2018?

ViaCoin is one of the older cryptos having been created in 2014. It is open-source and is derived from the Bitcoin protocol. The team behind the cryptocurrency aims to make it the cryptocurrency of the future. Because cryptocurrency as a whole is a pretty new thing, there have been a lot of mistakes done and a lot of improvement is needed to perfect the blockchain technology. Ideally, ViaCoin is supposed to be the crypto that corrects all these issues and ultimately become the crypto of choice in the future.

ViaCoin

The ViaCoin crypto is able to achieve speeds other cryptos are yet to even come close to. According to the company, the coin is 25 times faster than Bitcoin. It aims to achieve these high speeds by integrating into decentralized asset transactions on the blockchain technology. Viacoin is bit technical and is best understood by the technically experienced users. C++ and Python 3 are used to write the crypto. The team behind the crypto has developed a hierarchical deterministic key generation technology. The users of the currency will hence have it easier when they want to secure and reset their wallets.

Features that make ViaCoin different from the rest

  • The hash time lock for the crypto allows secure payment to be made between two parties. This is done without the risk of third parties interfering. A user of the ViaCoin platform can secure a transaction for a given period of time. This means that a user can secure a new transaction for a period until a certain change they desire is made. This ability is achieved using the newOP code feature.
  • Users of the ViaCoin platform can filter and search for transactions in a mempool while using the memory optimization feature.
  • The transaction tickle only allows a user wallet to send transactions once. With the use of the UTXO cache called Sicache, transactions are accelerated and optimized.
  • The blockchain has been optimized to allow for its free scaling. The blockchain has been pruned hence saving disk space. This also makes the memory to be optimized and hence faster transaction time.
  • Because the development team of the crypto uses TOPR support, the anonymity of transactions is enhanced. This ensures that the user’s identity is kept private and the currency is secure.
  • The crypto is compatible with the BIP9 algorithm which enhances miners’ capability to give more output. The algorithm also helps in lowering transaction fee.

The performance of the cryptocurrency

Until early 2017, ViaCoin had not seen a lot of volatility, just as it was the case for Bitcoin. As from mid-2017, the price of the VIA coin edged above $1 having for the longest time stayed below $0.01. The coin closed the year at a high of $4.8. The volumes traded on the final day of the year were more than $4.6 million while the market cap stood at $110 million.

VIA charts

As it is the case with many cryptocurrencies, the introduction of new regulations and also the performance of Bitcoin, ViaCoin surged to reach an all-time high of $7.84 on January 9th. Over the past few months, the crypto has been shedding the value it gained in January. On Tuesday, April 10th, the closing price was $1.55. The market cap at that time was $30 million while 24-hour traded volume stood at $9.9 million. At around 1400 (CET) hours, the volume had surged to surpass $47 million.

Should you invest in ViaCoin?

According to the team behind the crypto, there are several solid achievements attained over the past years. The dev team of the crypto has done a complete overhaul of the official website hence making it sharp and easy to navigate. With a new Vialectrum light wallet, customers are no longer required to download the entire blockchain.

In March this year, there was an incident where the price of BTC for VIA shot by close to 9,900%. During this hacking incident where Binance exchange’s customer accounts were accessed, millions are thought to have been stolen. Even though this was a clear hacking incident, the details of what really happened are yet to come out. One of the developers of ViaCoin came out later to categorically distance his firm from the scam.

By Michael Henris

Michael spends most of his time on ForexNewsNow trying to analyze all the different stories that are reported about the financial markets every day. All of his articles always contain some kind of analysis of what an interest rate change or a planned meeting from politicians could do to currency exchanges.

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