Of all extant cryptocurrencies – over 1,500 – those restricted to mobile platforms, wallets, and exchanges comprise a fairly small portion. Yet despite ERC20 and utility tokens’ dominance in the ICO landscape, there is a high potential for mobile-only cryptocurrencies to democratize mining and dramatically decrease transaction costs. Potentially, this makes mobile-based cryptocurrencies, in aggregate, a foundation for tangible and tractable work to reverse the remaining and foundational problems seen with dominant cryptocurrencies today. The Problem Today’s dominant cryptocurrencies are used mostly by highly tech-savvy users, blockchain companies, and their staff, and accredited investors participating in ICOs. Moreover, they – especially Bitcoin, Ether, Litecoin, and Ripple – are increasingly referred to as stores of value instead of high-frequency and high-volume transactive material like fiat currency. Yet this trend is slowly beginning to fade as more people realize the transactive value […]