Monero (XMR) is a crypto that has been around for a while. However, just like other cryptocurrencies, it burst into scene last year. It began 2017 trading at $13 and attained an all-time high price value of $430, a very impressive price growth. With time, investors and companies began to trust the digital currency, with the latest of them being VideoLAN – the company behind the VLC Media Player. To recognize the effort of a company and support its growth, donations are made to that company. Even though it might be small and an indirect act of support, it still helps a lot in ensuring the company attains what it wants. XM has received donations and support from several big names such as WikiLeaks.

The reason Monero (XMR) has become popular with organizations is because it has displayed a promising growth in its technology. XMR mostly functions on the CryptoNote protocol, a technology that is mainly focused on privacy and anonymity. This sets it apart from several cryptos which as basically derivatives of Bitcoin or function in a similar manner.

VideoLAN adding support for the Monero project implies that users of their media applications can now donate to the organization using XMR. The company provided a wallet address and a QR code that can be scanned and payment made to them. Just like most cryptos, last month was excellent for XMR, with the coin attaining an all-time high of over $430. After this boost, Monero was affected by an industry-wide slump that saw its price range slip down and is currently trading at a price range of $350-400 where it has become stable. Recently though, Monero (XMR)’s appearance on the news has been for negative reasons. The currency can be mined easily when users execute a javascript via websites. ThePirateBay utilizes your computers computing power to mine XMR while you are checking out their website.

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A few hours ago, a Google Chrome browser extension was removed after it was discovered to mine Monero while using the processing power from the CPU of unsuspecting users. Hshare HSR Mining Overview. It is to early to know if VideoLAN support will aid the growth of the currency.

1 Satoshi (0.00000001 BTC) is the smallest amount of currency that can be traded using BitCoin. So how do you buy currencies worth less than 1 Satoshi? That's where lesser markets like LiteCoin's & DogeCoin's were useful!

(Cryptopia) Since 1 LTC is about 0.017 BTC, 0.00000001 LTC allows us to buy what BTC can not. DogeCoin follows LiteCoin in a similar pattern to LiteCoin following BitCoin. For months, lesser markets have been pooling together millions of dollars worth of CrytoCurrency that BitCoin couldn't touch. This week, a LARGE portion of the lesser market's equity went straight into PACcoin. This is why PACcoin surged in price, is now being traded above 1 Satoshi, and crashed Cryptopia. The sheer volume of trading for PAC was so enormous that Cryptopia's servers couldn't handle the traffic, and they were forced to shut down the 2 lesser markets in their entirety.

Couple all of this with PACcoin's 1000x reduction in March, and THE FUTURE LOOKS AMAZING! Right now PACcoin is being traded at the lowest possible BTC value, and the value can only go up. I'm going up with it. I'm buying more, and I'm HODLing. Edit: It's 4:02am now, and I'm off to bed. I'll be back tomorrow to continue the discussion. Edit2: I'm back & will be replying to comments all day.