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PotCoin (code: POT〔(【引用サイトリンク】) () PotCoin Launches Today 01/21 @ 4:20">url=https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=426324.0 )〕) is a peer-to-peer cryptocurrency which exists with the aim of becoming the standard form of payment for the legalized cannabis industry.〔 PotCoin is an open source software project released under the MIT/X11 license and was technically nearly identical to Litecoin until August 23, 2015, when Potcoin changed to POSV similar to Reddcoin. PotCoin is not managed by any central authority and provides a decentralised solution for the transfer of value. As of August 2014, PotCoin has received mainstream media coverage from agencies such as Fox Business,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://smallbusiness.foxbusiness.com/technology-web/2014/03/20/dopecoin-potcoin-want-to-solve-marijuanas-banking-problems/ )〕 Vice and TechCrunch.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/14/help-end-the-war-on-drugs-with-this-new-cryptocurrency/ )〕 ==History== PotCoin was released on January 21, 2014, via GitHub by three entrepreneurs from Montreal, Canada, who hoped to create a cryptocurrency that would be adopted by the legal cannabis industry across the world.〔 A week after launch, PotCoin had enough interest to merit multiple mining pools and on January 30, was added to a newly launched cryptocurrency exchange named Cryptorush allowing trading between Bitcoin and PotCoin.〔(【引用サイトリンク】) () PotCoin Launches Today 01/21 @ 4:20">url=https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=426324.msg4830599;topicseen#msg4830599 )〕 During February and March 2014, PotCoin gained mainstream media attention due to the large community and expanding development team. On February 17, Chronic Star Medical, a supplier of cannabis foods, was the first merchant to announce they would be accepting PotCoin as a form of payment.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://highonpotcoin.info/chronic-star-medical-accepting-potcoin-believe-core-idea/ )〕 By the end of March, PotCoin was added to three cryptocurrency exchanges that account for the largest trade volume to this date〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/potcoin/#markets )〕 and the development team had announced that they had secured their first seed-round investment.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://highonpotcoin.info/potcoin-devs-secure-investment-coin/ )〕 On April 9, 2014, the PotCoin development team revealed their identities for the first time when co-founders and developers Joel Yaffe and Nick Iversen delivered a talk about PotCoin at the New York Cryptocurrency Convention.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZQmUDf1tSU )〕 The team also announced that they would be present in Denver on April 20 for the 420 counterculture holiday. On April 19, 2014, PotCoin witnessed a dramatic rise in price, taking its market capitalization over 1 million USD〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/potcoin/ )〕 for the first time, fuelled by excitement around the April 20th counterculture holiday. On April 20, PotCoin experienced its first major crash with the value halving in one day due to speculation by investors. The market capitalisation then sunk to a low of $244,000 on May 22, 2014. On May 27, PotCoin ATMs were made available for use in two River Rock Wellness dispensaries in Colorado which was regarded as a major milestone and helped overturn the downtrend in price leading to an all-time high market capitalization of $1,860,000 on July 1.〔 Early 2015 showed dark times for Potcoin. The original development team broke apart and left for various reasons. At this point the community tried to rally Potcoin away from death as a community-driven coin. PotLabs, a group of people who had helped to develop many things for Potcoin in the early years, took charge of the push to keep Potcoin alive and moving forward. On August 23, 2015, Potlabs released an update for Potcoin, one that was very anticipated. With this Potcoin began its move to the POSV algorithm. Over the next few weeks there were some issues with the network getting up to speed. Many cryptocurrency exchanges also froze their Potcoin wallets waiting to see what would happen. Within a few weeks the network began to get up to speed and when exchanges were notified they began to unfreeze their wallets allowing normal transactions to resume. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「PotCoin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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