State of Bitcoins & Crypto Mid-2018

The world of Bitcoins and Alt-coins have rapidly evolved over the past few years. Bitcoin related services such as exchange BTC-E and lending service BTCJAM once used have come and gone. While members of the previous guard of services shutter new services spring up to take their place. Some of these defunct entities are more notorious than others. With Mt. Gox being the de-facto synonym for a Bitcoin related service implosion. Mt. Goxed. However as of today a few of the older names have stood the test of time, so far, Bitstamp comes to mind. BTC-E not so much.

The cryptocoin space once had almost no other to only a small handful of players. Bitcoin has always been the largest unquestionable pioneer in this space. Recently newly developed alt coins have been making their way onto the scene, carving out their own space in the niche as well. Names such as

Monero
Ripple
Ethereum
Dash
Litecoin
Bitcoin Cash (Split)
to list a few have made their debut onto the crypto coin scene sharing room with Bitcoin.