Emercoin: is a digital currency and blockchain service platform. Microsoft and several banks use this blockchain. EmerCoin is a decentralized cryptocurrency that holds many great characteristics similar to Bitcoin. Emercoin is a hybrid of NameCoin and PPCoin that utilizes both Proof-of-Work and Proof-of-Stake mining. This allows the many great features of both systems to be captured. Emercoin has not been in the top 10 cryptocurrency cap market so it had been out of the spot light the last 2 years. The price has increased more than 1000 percent since it has come out.