Dash (formerly known as Darkcoin, also known as Digital Cash) is a digital currency that has quietly crept its way into the top 10 largest cryptocurrencies.
Blockchain is infrastructure, not for the fastidious and highly predatory
Bitcoin is an application of the blockchain, while Gcoin is the underlying protocol of the blockchain.
Ether is the other mainstream currency alongside Bitcoin. Among the thousands of virtual currencies, Ethereum has the second largest market capitalization in the world, after bitcoin.
The unstable state of the market has been the ground on which Soros has tested his theory of contrarianism, arguing that financial markets are volatile and disorderly.