NEM vs Sphere vs Lightning Bitcoin
What problem does this service solve?
NEM is designed to be a blockchain platform with improved scale and speed. NEM's blockchain is permissioned and private. It has some of the best transaction rates of any private ledger in the industry. | Sphere's goal is to create a digital currency with a fair distribution model. | Lightning Bitcoin's goal is to create a faster, and more scalable, decentralized payment network. |
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Company Description
NEM is a cryptocurrency and blockchain platform that allows multiple ledgers on the same blockchain. NEM Smart Assets are used to create mosaics for any asset. Transaction fees are paid with NEM's native currency, XEM. NEM originally began as a community-oriented cryptocurrency that was built from the ground up in the Java programming language. | Sphere is a smart contract platform and peer-to-peer payment network. The network has a hybrid PoW and PoS consensus mechanism and is powered by the native SPHR token, which can be swapped for an ERC20 token over the Ubiq smart contract platform. | Lightning Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency protocol with a DPoS consensus mechanism. It is a hard fork of Bitcoin that was created with the goal of improving transaction speeds and scalabilty. Lightning Bitcoin's on-chain governance system enables LBTC holders to vote for the blockchain improvement proposals and the delegates who maintain the network as Lightning Nodes. Lightning Bitcoin is not related to the Lighting Network, which is an off-chain protocol built on the Bitcoin blockchain. |