Bitcoin is the first successful internet money based on peer-to-peer technology; whereby no central bank or authority is involved in the transaction and production of the Bitcoin currency. It was created by an anonymous individual/group under the name, Satoshi Nakamoto. The source code is available publicly as an open source project, anybody can look at it and be part of the developmental process. Bitcoin is changing the way we see money as we speak. The idea was to produce a means of exchange, independent of any central authority, that could be transferred electronically in a secure, verifiable and immutable way. It is a decentralized peer-to-peer internet currency making mobile payment easy, very low transaction fees, protects your identity, and it works anywhere all the time with no central authority and banks. Bitcoin is design to have only 21 million BTC ever created, thus making it a deflationary currency. Bitcoin uses the SHA-256 hashing algorithm with an average transaction confirmation time of 10 minutes. Miners today are mining Bitcoin using ASIC chip dedicated to only mining Bitcoin, and the hash rate has shot up to peta hashes. Being the first successful online cryptography currency, Bitcoin has inspired other alternative currencies such as Litecoin, Peercoin, Primecoin, and so on. The cryptocurrency then took off with the innovation of the turing-complete smart contract by Ethereum which led to the development of other amazing projects such as EOS, Tron, and even crypto-collectibles such as CryptoKitties.
Reinventing the retail business and customer relationship. Netkoin (NTK) is an ERC20 token based on the Ethereum blockchain. The NTK token will be used to power Netkoin’s universal rewards system on Netkoin’s location based mobile application and business management platform. Netkoin’s location based mobile advertising application aims to make retail shopping relevant and rewarding for customers based on their location. The mobile application will contain numerous features and filters in order to provide the customer with a personalized retail shopping experience, while maintaining the highest level of user’s data security and privacy. Netkoin’s business management platform will be utilized by retail stores to enable business owners to manage their stores advertising on the Netkoin mobile application. Businesses can integrate their store’s social media content, providing them with a single place of advertising their businesses content with shoppers. Therefore reducing content marketing management by the retail business marketing team.