The failed has been hit by its own contentious hardfork. A Roger VER-ified client called ABC decided to implement new rules from an "official roadmap" while a client backed by decided not to. As of this writing one chain has more blocks committed than the other, but the clear losers appear to be all parties involved in this dispute including those furthest on the periphery who let themselves become affected by it through failing to appropriately discount the deficits in credibility attached to the folks positioned as "leaders" in this incredibly sour and bitter wank competition.
In a legally and morally dubious move Roger Ver's mining pool redirected hash power subscribers intended to aim a mining actual bitcoin to instead prop up his favored side of the Forkcoin. ↩
As part of our commitment to innovate and offer customers new ways to trade crypto, today we are introducing the following USD Coin (USDC) markets: XRP/USDC, XMR/USDC, XLM/USDC, DOGE/USDC, LTC/USDC, and ZEC/USDC.
Trading for these pairs is now live.
USDC is an asset-backed stablecoin introduced in September. It has support from more than 60 exchanges, wallets, protocols, platforms, and applications around the globe and continues to see broader adoption. Already, the circulating supply of USDC has surpassed 140 million.
Our introduction of new markets for USDC follows other steps we’ve taken in recent weeks to provide customers with more options:
Last week, we became the first exchange to offer customers the option to trade the two tokens at the center of the debate about the bitcoin Cash (BCH) hard fork: bitcoin Cash ABC (BCHABC) and bitcoin Cash SV (BCHSV). Learn more .
In October, we introduced the native tokens behind decentralized liquidity network Bancor, the Bancor Network Token (BNT), and virtual reality platform Decentraland, (MANA). Learn more and .
Also in October, we announced a new mobile app for Poloniex to allow existing customers, on iOS or Android, to trade with a few taps of their thumb and get the benefit of Poloniex anywhere, anytime and with a high-fidelity native app trading experience. Learn more .
We’re dedicated to continuously improving Poloniex and welcome your input. Please follow the on Medium to learn about our new asset additions, and get in touch with us at on Twitter if there is an asset that you would like to recommend for listing. Thank you for your support.
