Unobtanium was traded hard on Bittrex and other exchanges yesterday, at one point was up 500%, as an investor took a major position in UNO. People have been asking a lot of questions about UNO as a result of the activity, and may people are discovering this venerable old coin for the first time. Here is a UNO primer to get you up to speed fast.
The price of UNO had been extremely low going into February, 2016 as a result of people using it to escape Cryptsy. Since the Cryptsy dumping stopped, UNO had made a steady recovery from .0029 btc to .006 over the past 6 weeks or so. Yesterday, someone put UNO on the board with nearly 200 BTC of trading.
If you're new to Crypto, you probably don't know UNO or why it's different. Here's some things you should know about Unobtanium
* UNO was fairly launched in 2013. There was no premine, no instamine, no stealth launch or any of the usual fakery. First 1k blocks were low reward to let miners set up their equipment. In fact, the developer even paid miners for a few UNO for the faucet he set up. It is 100% open source and contributions to UNO are welcome.
* UNO is SHA256, 3 minute blocks (3x faster that bitcoin) with KGW difficulty adjustments every block. It is merge mined with Bitcoin, and has a solid hash rate that is often measured in Petahashes.
* UNO is rare. So far, 197,000 UNO out of the 250,000 UNO max has been mined. There are 53k more to go, but it will take 300 years to reach the 250k limit. UNO is guaranteed to pay miners a reward for the next 300 years.
* UNO is low inflation. No worries about having your stake diluted with POS or a rapid supply curve.
* UNO has a solid network with plenty of nodes. No network issues here.
* UNO is well supported with lots of wallet options, including Electrum, JS Wallet, Copay, Android wallet, and is part of Uberpay multicoin wallet.
* UNO is a basecoin at Cryptopia exchange. You can directly exchange about 200 alts directly for Uno. It's also on Bittrex, C-Cex, SafeEx, and Bleutrade, among others. You can also get it on Shapeshift.
* UNO has a very active long term community that watches out for Unobtanium. You can connect with them
here on BTC, and
learn more here.