MaidSafe might be a bit more popular than Monero. We know about 3 links to it since March 2021 and only 3 links to Monero. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
A concrete show case: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/monero/ ("sort by volume"). Or see it here: https://i.imgur.com/XWe1SJ1.png. Source: 5 months ago
A crypto coin is simply a digital coin, created for making payments. Coins are created to act like money: in other words, they represent a unit of account, store of value, and medium of transfer. Crypto coins tend to take the form of their native blockchain, like with Bitcoin (BTC), Bitcoin Cash (BCH), Litecoin (LTC) and Monero (XMR). Source: about 1 year ago
I also recommend https://web.getmonero.org/ as well as https://xmrig.com/ regarding step by step configuration. Source: over 1 year ago
Why is monero's 24 hour trading volume down 35.17% today? https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/monero/. Source: over 1 year ago
Monero has a market cap just shy of $3 billion as of this writing, that seems a bit more than "niche" to me. Source: over 1 year ago
I used to really geek out on this space, since I'm building a decentralized Internet suite myself. I interviewed Ian Clarke, the creator of Freenet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWrRqUkJpMQ -- they are finally close to releasing, after 14 years! (Disclaimer: I am not affiliated with them). - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago
Pay per packet. I remember maidsafe was working on this for many years without much success. Then they got into crypto for micropayments a decade later and it all got a bit messy. Not sure how well the project is doing these days but it was a solid concept at heart. https://maidsafe.net/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago
Https://maidsafe.net/ my dude. The new internet is in testnet ;) and 14 years in the making. Source: almost 3 years ago
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Ripple (XRP) - Ripple is known as RTGS (real-time gross settlement system), exchange currency and a remittance network operated by the Ripple company.
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