Five cryptocurrencies to watch in 2018Mainstream investors spent much of 2017 trying to figure out how to jump in on bitcoin, the digital currency that's seen its price balloon to as high as US$19,000 (NZ$27,000) in recent months. - Bitcoin CashYou can think of bitcoin cash as bitcoin's faster and younger sibling. Bitcoin made certain changes in its code to bring down those fees and speed things up, but the people who wound up creating bitcoin cash wanted to go much further. That's how bitcoin cash was born. "You have to be long [on bitcoin cash] as a hedge," he wrote in a recent blog post.

Source: Stuff January 04, 2018 22:07 UTC