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"This is my first post in 2019.

All last year we saw the fall of the crypto market. What will we see this year? I'll share my thoughts. Last year, regulators from many countries tried to create rules for ICO and cryptocurrency. This significantly influenced the development of the industry.

The market needed changes after the Grand rally at the end of 2017, when a lot of people came to the cryptocurrency sphere. ICO projects appeared like mushrooms after the rain, 99% of them are useless and do not need blockchain and the creation of new cryptocurrencies (tokens and coins). Almost all of these projects thought they could hit the jackpot and easily get tens of millions of dollars after creating the site and white paper. These projects had a negative impact on the development of the market, they did not give a positive ROI for investors who later were disappointed in the ICO market. I can say with confidence that crowdfunding for ICO no longer works and will not work.

I think that 2019 can be called a trend of STO (security token offering), but this type of crowdfunding will not be positive. To start STO requires significant funds to obtain permits from regulators in different countries. This is a new level of ICO evolution. The trend is such that most likely the classic financial market will take the cryptocurrency market and cryptocurrencies will become part of the classic financial market. But for this it is necessary to clear the crypto market from a variety of low-grade and garbage tokens, exchanges, projects. If you are creating a project, then do not make a new token, use existing coins. I personally support this trend and believe that it is necessary to clear the market. Only the strongest will survive. Today, the crypto market is no longer a place to earn easy money.

Many people ask me what will be the bitcoin exchange rate? I think that we will not see X10 bitcoin growth, my forecast is 6000-7000 USD for 1 BTC. The crypto market is still very young and easily subject to manipulation from the outside, Any major player can change the crypto sphere in any direction, because Many companies capitalization more than the entire crypto market." - said Vladimir Nikitin ICObench expert about trends in 2019.

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the crypto market is well enough to give much confidence to every crypto fantic and believer that things are going to be much better as most projects have actually developed their Minimun viable products that will obviously give a good pricing effect on their coins and tokens and that will give a bullish market in the global crypto market even amongst its pairs.

Nice speculations mr icobench..  I love your site,  this is where I consult the ICO I am joining in. Any plans of creating your own crypto.

I also hope the ICO rating website like yours will not arbitrarily register new projects in the website dashboard, whether or not it is also the same as supporting the coin, right? You should now pay more attention to how this reputation will have an impact on the future development of the ICO.

It seems that your view of ICO by using tokens that already exist in the market is good input, and it is possible to reduce dumps. And of course, ICO makers will be more observant by having more potential tokens or coins. Your website is indeed helpful and this is a good input to avoid scams.

Yeah, why is it that they want their own coins as always?

Why not just use bitcoin instead. Or maybe Ethereum could be the next choice. Make it stronger for in the long run it could also benefit you.

Well, they really pull a lot of investors in their ICOs but the fact that it will not stay long still happens.

They are always just good at the start and soon you will find yourself holding dust.
If bitcoin can be used for your service then do it. Do not make it more confusing.

Why would they create their own crypto? ICOBench so-called experts are not 'experts' in many ways.


You should read more about ICOBench and how ico reviews site in general works. ICOBench is a platform where almost everyone can vote and judge a project based on their own views. I can name a lot of project with good ratings from ICOBench and other ICO reviews site which at this moment fail to deliver their roadmap, dumped heavily from ICO price and so on. Remember Savedroid?

New year and new hope with bitcoin or altcoin price will be on higher price, we have tired and bored how bitcoin and altcoin at lower price last year, always have chance bitcoin and crypto could be on the top price.

Since almost 99% of smart contracts projects are running off erc20 blockchain I think that's where the problems is coming from ,erc20 is so easy to use by scammers and ethereum does nothing about it,I think new rules is what we need to lower trust issues plaguing cryptocurrency, 99% of projects are just here to make money ,nothing else there should be way to tackle this

In 2019 we need a strong controller for the ICO projects as most of them are scammers. They are too a reason behind the downfall last year, also we don't want to see such a drop again like it happened last year. Atleast a descent stability is good enough this year.

you are too biased towards ICOs only because you are running a website that is focusing on them and you refuse to believe that their time in this market is over because it was not a legitimate way of raising money and nobody has ever used them to run a half decent project. all of them are taking money to release a code that they copied from someone else and call themselves a "company"!
STOs are no different either, that is why despite all the advertisement by sites like you there is none that comes close to the hype of ICOs last year.

This.  ::)

His opinion is a little bit pessimistic, because it mostly talks about the situation with ICOs, which is grim.

I think BTC's ATH price in 2019 will be more than 6K-7K. It will not reach its previous ATH in 2017, but it recovers more than that (probably to 10-12K levels). The market recovers with bitcoin somewhere in 2019, but few assets will reach their 2017 ATH prices.

I think the time has come when projects that have collected a lot of money from 2017 to 2018 need to show the result of their work. Of the 2,100 coins and tokens, 95 percent is rubbish, which will never show the finished product. There should be a time to clear the market of shit.
We can guess a lot about the price of Bitcoin in 2019, but there will always be one truth, 1 Bitcoin = 1 Bitcoin)))

It seems like a new ATH of bitcoin and the whole cryptocurrencies since it hit the bottom on the mid of 2018. Hope we can get a new soar in the last 2019.

Everyone is talking about what is STO. But most of us doesn't know what reallt STO is! I hope it will be good but I am not sure.

I really hope that the cryptocurrency market will be regulated as tired of losing money on fraudulent projects

A regulated marked doesnt save you from fraudulent projects, nor losing money. Take a look at TenX eg. ... their project ran successfully for about a year, until the CEO made an exit scam selling all his coins and leaving the project. No regulation would prevent you from that as long as cryptos are not classified as stocks.

I find it ironic that ICOBench posting some negative opinions about ICOs  ;D

But yeah, I somehow agree that this will the year of the STOs. Regulators would favor those who are already in compliance with their current policies.

The author of the post is right, but I want to add a little. Many are waiting for such tools as BAKKT and ETF to appear on the market but have not noticed the emergence of the DX Exchange which allows to exchange cryptocurrencies for tokenized shares of such giants as Apple, Facebook, Microsoft and others. Just imagine if these 2 markets will merge, into a cryptocurrency market the influx of a large amount of capitalization will begin with the stock market, that's over $ 50 trillion.

Many ICOs are fraudulent and are created only to enrich their founders.
It is the solution to this problem - Security Token Offering or STO. STO, unlike ICO, never bypasses laws and rules, it only removes financial institutions and intermediaries from the process.

Tell me you're buying right now!

Check these out my friend.

PRG, NEM, GOLEM and ETHOS. I like the development made by these in past few months. I have to say that these coins are very underrated and low priced so do check these out and I'm sure you'll find them interesting.

Is there any requirements to be qualified as trustworthy when predicting the faith of the cryptocurrency? Well, I guess we can also predict using our own understanding of the basics of trading cryptocurrencies.

I think that this year will be more stable for the cryptocurrency as a whole and active growth will begin at the end of the year but may not overcome the historical highs. I'm going to laugh when the market will come alive again and the haters will shut your mouth. Especially Jordan Ross Belfort.

Throughout the month in 2018 there has been a bear market, even today. I think the occurrence of several fraud projects that occurred in 2018 has a negative and real impact on investors to enter the market. They are saturated and afraid to invest. So it makes perfect sense if STO began to be in demand by many people to start a new sheet in the world of cryptocurrency investment.

I think that the crypto-currency market in 2019 will fall to the minimum value from 2017 and then begin to grow again and the growth will be quite strong.

Everyone hopes that the increase after the Bearish market in the previous year will have stronger growth today or tomorrow.
There will be no end to the market price because Altcoin is ICO like a tree root that is looking for nutrients so the fruit is of good quality and vice versa if more altcoins fail it will be bad.

The latest news about SCAM of ETCV says that the year 2019 also began with not very good news for the ICO market

yeah, there is a lot of negative energy now regarding ICO market, which is generally not good for crypto, but i hope that this will self-regulate

Cryptomarket of 2019 is under pressure. Many huge exchnages and big holders control this situation. All we can do is just waiting when will decide to start a new bullrun. My view is that it will be before summer.

I think this year we will see waves of security tokens offering a lot of good and reliable projects are currently building the infrastructure for the security token ecosystem, not financial advice

Well, it sounds pretty obvious already. There is nothing new for me in this statement so... I wonder what do ICObench and other ICO rating platforms plan to do without ICOs?)))

I hope the market will recover by 2019. Perhaps by the end of 2019 Bitcoin prices will be around 9000 ~ 10000 $. We went through 2018 sadly and I don't want it to repeat.

The ICO will continue and will transform into a new platform, but the purposes will be the same as before. The ICO will attract the investor to come to the project because people were searching a new way to help them to make money. The market itself will try to survive like in 2018, but perhaps, some coins can recover the price and back to the high price. But still, it's different to predict where bitcoin wants to go in this year because the price itself still goes up and down many times and in yesterday, bitcoin price still on below than $3600.

Crypto market 2019 i think this is the time of earning more profit it seems that in 2018 crypto market was a bloody market to the investors probably this 2019 crypto market will bounce back and hopefully it will happen on the first quarter of 2019.

The crypto market will continue to run and there seems to be no development that can explode, but it looks stable. This will make people be able to work and be creative better, ICO will be there but it needs refreshment to be able to provide a more innovative breakthrough.

Personally I think that we will see growth of all the crypto market this year and more exactly - in its second half. There are a lot of events which will launch it this period of time and can be like triggers for the next bull run start. But at the moment the market is seeking its new bottom...

If crypto market must be in the positive direction in 2019, it is not going to be a question of ICO or STO. Like many other cryptospace players, I don't seem to decode a significant difference between the two. More scrutiny must be directed towards every new crypto based project to give more credibility to the market.

Well, I guess you are right with your observation. I think we need to be very vigilant on these scenarios especially when we are one of the token makers or project makers. ICO is really important and it does help many individuals who wanted to earn money as well as to help the project prosper because they are believing that something good going to happen. Keep our heads up high and start helping our community to rise up.

ico and bad projects really have a negative impact on crypto prices and crypto continuity, I think if there are no projects and ico like that, of course the market conditions will not be bad, imagine if all the money collected in ico is bad and ico scam can be transferred coins that are already on the market, the market will not fall even more likely to continue to rise, but unfortunately a lot of money belongs to irresponsible people

I try to be positive and as long as we don't fall to some ridiculous levels like below 2500 dollars I'll be all fine and happy. I also see this year as a year of slow recovery and even the 6-7 thousand mentioned by OP would be completely fine for me. I'm not looking for huge gains in crypto. I could do with a very slow and stable rise of 5% a year because I'm looking for something better than fiat that will not get devalued by inflation.

this will be another depressed year for the most crypto projects. I will not surprise if some of top 100 currencies will collapse in 2019.

Most probably, you will be proven wrong. Definitely this year will not be that much struggling like we had in 2018. It may be boring year for the people who are all looking for exciting rising markets but for long term holders there will be no big differences from last year.

I am expecting crypto may bounce back this year sharply. Most cryptos will have new ATH and like you mentioned top 100 coins will not be a big concern when they will be failing or even get collapsed too.

I have seen many coin dies, was Delist, or no trading volume... Garbage coins and poor quality projects will soon be eliminated.

There is still time for right  prediction for crypto market, because it is still unstable and need regulations. We are early new to nlockchain technology and related it's tools in my opinion we will see the imrovement next 5 years. Let's be patient.

You are right. It is always expected to have drastic changes in top 100 coins. No wonders if wee see multiple coins will be losing their ranks from top 100 in coinmarketcap list. But, I am sure that bitcoin and few other major coins will never lose their reputation and ranking for sure and they may grow further in this year too.

2019 year will be crucial even have passed half of its first month, bitcoin is not showing where it will be heading. I guess we may get good sign before the second quarter will start. In between time, this market may be boring as most of the coins will be showing only sideways movement alone.

If the proof of legality is still shown in digital form, it won't be possible to be fully considered authentic and legitimate in local law, and almost 60% have the opportunity to be falsified. . So stop assuming that STO is truly safe for investors.

if OP is right then perhaps there is more to come so this year may not really a depress year. Those existing coins and tokens which are strong enough to have survive to which i think most of them are utility tokens are going to keep getting stronger still along with the STO tokens this year. just like what happened to DESICO, bounty hunters may have difficulty owning STO tokens.

I do not expect for 2019 that it will be really a good year for crypto, but i hope it will not be as bad as 2018. I do not need such a bad year again.  8)