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I believe IOTA is going to rise to near the top of all cryptocurrencies and reach #3 in market cap by the end of 2018. My prediction is based on several factors including:

1) Trinity wallet will soon be released
2) Recent partnerships and projects including Porche, Qubic, City of Taipei, electric charging stations, etc.
3) No fees for transactions
4) Unlimited scalability

If the top 10 cryptos in market cap stayed where they are. IOTA would need to get to about $10 per MIOTA to reach #3. We know many of those others will rise also, but I predict $20 for one MIOTA by the end of the year as their project get rolled out and the new wallet goes live. I think this will easily get it to #3.

Agree or disagree?

IOTA runs on DAG system. Other cryptocurrencies run on blockchain system. DAG system is quite different from blockchain system.  I prefer blockchain system more.

Trinity wallet would be the cool thing to have.and i was looking for to have No fees for transactions. these are so inoavative i believe if the keep these promises then it will be very cool.

I'm thinking #4 but yeah. For starters. Imo Iota will be super huge. What they are getting together at the moment (foundation, team, partners, new wallet, Q etc.) is just incredible.
You can like Iota, you can hate it but I'm pretty confident that this will happen soon enough. Also let's not forget about Q. Plus there are still lots of other things to come.

Hmm, yes, I see what you mean. Trinity wallet, no fees transaction and lots of collab with major vendors, and all other good news.
But, nobody knows about tomorrow, keep your expectation low, or you may get a heart attack caused by disappointment.

Iota is a fine coin to hodl. It has the juice and potentials to rise very far in value. But I don't think it can break in to the top 3. The top 3 coins today will be contested by Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ripple and Neo. This is my belief

How do you say so? Is there any valid links or post behind it. If it is not a fud then people will get chance to invst in it. But, as it is not that popular among people, it's really hard to say about it in future.

Sorry but I highly doubt top 3 will happen, to many flaws and red flags in the past. It may do well and increase in value but will never be a top 3 crypto.

Read this analysis from cypto hedge fund:

https://multicoin.capital/2018/01/23/iota-miota-analysis/

If hedge funds like this are coming to these conclusions then it will leave a void for institutional money coming in, then again retail money could push it way up but not top 3. Good luck

I think this is impossible. IOTA wants to overcome EOS has been very difficult then. So 6th place is the most feasible.

Iota really has so much potential. But it Need to prove is ability in daily use with big companies. They already have some Partners which are big companies but they Need to have an final prduct one day !

It might be, but do you think why bitcoin cash fourth coin in the market, it has no different feature or partnership... Not the development is determinant in the ranking.

I really like the IOTA project and I actively invest in it. Last year, IOTA was already approaching the heights of capitalization. This year is also possible a large increase in the price of the coin. However, $ 20 for IOTA is very much. I think that by the end of the year IOTA can cost from 5 to 10 dollars.

Because the blockchain system is more decentralized compared with IOTA which use the server to keep the decentralized of the network(they said this as decentralized)
Maybe the blockchain system charge the more fees compared with IOTA but all seem good for me compared with DAG which has controlled by developer.

IOTA is one of the coin out there that has a promising future. But there are coins that have more to offer than IOTA. If the team can upgrade certain things on this crypto then I will probably believe that there is a chance it will hit the top 3 spot in the market.

It's somewhat debatable if the DAG is as decentralized as a blockchain, for instance people really argue that DASH is not decentralized because of the masternode system. You could apply this to the DAG model in a sense.

In my opinion arguing decentralization is kind of getting old and irrelevant, yes bitcoin is probably the most decentralized, but in every system that is argued to not be decentralized there would have to be suicidal players that want to lose tons of money to take down the system...not likely imo.

I think after the release of their wallet, the price should rise. I don't like to keep a lot of coins on the stock exchange. It's not safe. I would have bought much more if I had the opportunity to withdraw coins from the exchange.
In my opinion, other investors hold the same opinion. Accordingly potentially after release Trinity, demand has to increase. 10 dollars is certainly very much, but x2 or even x3 from today's price is a very realistic forecast.

IOTA is the sleeping giant that may or may not wake up.
And I don't say this lightly.

It is revolutionary tech specifically for the internet of things.
There are the practical benefits: feeless and infinitely scalable.
Also, integration into Iot, which is where all devices are heading.

However, you can not ignore the major problems it has:
Development has been painfully slow and there are similar projects that are starting to or have already outpaced IOTA.
The devs themselves and the community surrounding it has a very toxic atmosphere.
It is still not deployed yet and is theoretical (right now, it is centrally controlled and promised to be "let loose" in the future.  Will that happen? And when it does how will the tech actually perform?).

Iota can definitely welcome in a whole new era of blockchain just like ethereum did.
But I can also really see a situation where it just never wakes up.

Because of this, I am not putting all my hopes on it and hedging it with other similar projects.

I don't think IOTA is going to be top3
BTC ETH and XRP are projects with bigger potential, in my opinion. But IOTA can be a top 5 coin.

One think you may not be aware is that IOTA is centralized. They have a coordinator node, similar to ripple's master nodes.
Centralization MAY not be something bad in a company, that can even be desirable.

IOTA sure needs free transactions for IoT systems to work, as many transactions are going to be required. That's more important than decentralization for them. THey plan to one day shut down the Coordinator Node, but that's not going to happen anytime soon.

I disagree with the statement. Remember that it is not only IOTA that has a good development. Every year there are good altcoin appears and aiming for the position. NEO and Cardano is also there not to mention other potential altcoins.

I hope so.. but since Im here.. there is a lot of legit hype on IOTA.. but its still not rising.

I agree that eliminating the coordinator is important. I saw an interview recently where one of the IOTA team members/founders stated that the coordinator might be eliminated by the end of this year to early next year. I think this is an important step forward because it will make IOTA more decentralized.

Really want to believe that soon, IOT-projects will soar to the heavens, many times increasing its own capitalization. Just have to wait and see. HODL IOTA/ITC/ROX/...

I look forward to the launch of the trinity wallet,also having  a no transaction fee is something really innovative and thinking out of the box that will drive a lot of user and popularity to iota and thereby driving the price high. Crypto is interesting.

I agree if this altcoin will be one of the biggest. But I think for now, the purchase of altcoin is not or not yet really because of its function. I bought Moita to earn a profit in the future and not to send money to Neptune. And unfortunately all famous altcoin also have the same potential. So I think it will not happen anytime soon.

I fully agree with the project characteristics, but I think that the possible TOP 5 is its absolute maximum. Not 3.

Perhaps the current market capitalization of iota is quite high, because the amount of supply is also quite large.
But I think it will not be easy for iota to be the top three. There is neo, eth, ripple, and even cardano to be defeated.

Although IOTA is one out of good cryptocurrencies on the market but I don't think IOTA has any chance to reach to top 3 on Coinmarketcap :)).There are still so many other better cryptocurrencies than IOTA like ADA, XLM,...so I don't think IOTA doesn't have any chance to be able to reach to top 3 :))

In the end a competition will win them more efficiently, easily and inexpensively. And it seems like iota has these terms.
Although not this year, I think iota will enter in the history of cryptocurrency.

IOTA looks good, but top 3 is totally unreachable. Doesn't matter how good the project develops, it will not double or triple it value unless the whole market is going up. When the market is going up, so will do the other coins.

Only if it will kick down XRP, no way that it will be more expensive than ETH.

Things you analyze are just predictions, absolutely no convincing argument. Currently, IOTA is in the 9th position in the market with a rate of $ 1.90. Entering the top 3 cryptos in 2018, I find it not feasible because the current crypto in my view is not potential. It works on DAG system, not blockchain system like other cryptos. So I do not agree with your opinion!

I would say that it is absolutely impossible. IOTA is not bad project, I like it, but is it definitely not for top five. Top three is not even illusion, it is impossible.

Yes, I also like it very much, because it is in the middle layers of the currency, it can take the place of the winners from all the middle layers. Thank you.

I disagree. Let's not forget that when IOTA costs $ 10, the remaining cryptocurrencies will also have other costs. IOTA will not be in the top-3. I think at the end of 2018 the top 3 coins will be: Bitcoin, Etherium, EOS.

This will only happen if the Bitcoin price beats the historical high. We are at such a stage that everything seems to say that the market should go to beat new highs, big players come, projects are developing, new partnerships are being concluded and something is about to happen in the air. But it does not happen, the market resembles a swing. So only time will tell if you're right or not.

I do not think that IOTA can have such a huge potential. The top three coins in the market value of cryptocurrencies are currently Bitcoin. Ethereum and Ripple, IOTA is not possible to surpass Bitcoin and Ethereum. Ripple currently does not perform well in the market, but with strong financial backing behind Ripple, it is very difficult for IOTA to go beyond these three coins.

Each altcoin must have a developvent project, just not only IOTA. If you look at the maket.cap altcoin above IOTA has a high market. At now IOTA has a $ 5.06 B market while positioned when Ripple $ 27.48 B and Bitcoin Cash $ 21.93 B has a big difference, I guess it will be difficult to answer 'YES' to your question.