Investors continue to invest in crypto-currency start-ups, participating in the primary placement of tokens (ICO), despite the growing regulatory pressure.
Over the period from January to May 2018, ICO raised a total of $ 11.8 billion, which is twice as high as the same period a year earlier ($ 5.5 billion), according to the Wall Street Journal, based on the data from the ICOBench.com platform about 900 transactions.
The ICO market continues to grow, despite tightening regulation, including from the SEC, as well as regular reports of fraudulent transactions and a general fall in the prices of crypto-currencies.
These problems discourage some retail investors, but large investors focused on the technology sector continue to pour money into the ICO in the hope that this market will eventually go uphill.
Among the largest ICO this year is the placement of the Telegram Group tokens, the developer of the messenger of the same name, with a volume of $ 1.7 billion, as well as the startup block.one, a platform for implementing block-based business solutions, with a volume of $ 4 billion.
However, even without these two ICOs, the total volume of token placement in the first half of 2018 is higher than for the entire 2017 year. According to the WSJ, 490 startups successfully conducted ICO in January-May 2017, the average amount of funds raised was $ 24 million.
According to a study by the international consulting and auditing company PwC and the Crypto Valley association, 537 ICO projects were held from January to June 2018, totaling $ 13.7 billion. During this period, Telegram ($ 1.7 billion) and EOS ( $ 4.1 billion).
Last year, 552 teams came on the ICO, which received $ 7 billion. If you subtract the two highest-grossing projects from the first five months of 2018, the amount of funds raised during this period will be $ 8 billion.
Researchers noted that the primary location of the tokens is again rapidly gaining momentum with the help of hybrid campaigns that allow publicly to raise funds after the received financing. First they collect from $ 100 thousand to $ 1 million from venture investors, then open to the general public.
"After the excitement of 2017, the ICO sector has become more established and definite. Now more attention is paid to improving business and legal practices, investor relations and attracting financing, "said Daniel Dimers, head of PwC Strategy.
Since the beginning of the year, there have been more projects in the UK for the primary placement of tokens than in the United States. Approximately the same number of Swiss crypto-enthusiasts. A rating of ten countries is closed by Israel and Hong Kong.

I want to invest 500$ on altcoin but I really confused on which coin I can invest and my investment will be long term. Please experts help me to choose altcoin to invest.

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How much money are in the world? And how much money can Bitcoin be worth? in comparation to that.

Bitcoins have made people head spin for 8 years now and become unbelievable since December 2017, when the value of 1 bitcoin rose up to 20 000 USD! But how this phenomenon appeared, what are the causes of this craziness… Found out in this article
https://blog.bitspark.io/why-is-bitcoin-making-the-world-go-crazy/

Whenever the market crashes, everyone holding a coin professes HODL. If you're a non-trader and confident that you invested in the right coin, by all means just hold. But a trader doesn't just hold altcoins.

Over the past 6-7 months, and even in the last couple of months, I've been swing trading to great effect. Whether the market takes a long-term bull or bear pattern, it's always conducive to swing trading as long as you don't get greedy.

How do I swing trade? Take multiple positions on steady, established altcoins, such as Neo, at low RSI(weekly). Sell at roughly 15-20% gain(relative to btc) and buy in at next pullback.

Established altcoins keep repeating the same pattern relative to btc, which is readily readable, even when fiat prices tumble dramatically and by swing trading, you can redouble your position over time without risk.

Even in a bear market, you're making gains.

The growing development of cryptocurrency in the world becomes a very positive thing in this digital era where the use of blockchain-based technology becomes real. However, in my mind, being questionable is actually the reason that many people make and create a new crypto currency?

Now I do not care if the market goes down more because I know Cardano is the future!
Some people say it will become no 1
It is an amazing project so do yourself a favor and research it
Cardano could reach a market cap of 100 Billion in the next 2 years!
There is more to this project than meets the eye. You see it or you don’t: up to you!
Cardano is the next big thing and could possibly be as big as Google,Amazon,Microsoft,etc!

I don’t think it is rocket science to know that Cryptocurrencies are the future way of transaction/money. So, it is very important for any individual to be absolutely aware of all the happening in the world of Cryptocurrency.

I have no worries regarding this thanks to CryptoNewsTrends, where not only one is able to get latest news and happening across the globe, but also trending stories. It really makes working incredibly easy for all involved.

The Internet was seen as a great liberator when the small guy could compete against the big corporations. But fast forward 20 years have we lost the benefits of the net with the way it is now dominated by a few large companies? From being a liberator it has become controlling. Will we see the same happen for blockchain where initially we can see it as a great disruptor and disinter-mediator only to become something that over time becomes less free and more controlling?

How sweet could it be?

I really want the professionals to shed more light on this if it could be actualized and how easier could it be and what implication can it have on bitcoin

I originally made this post in the French section in February 2018.
Two months later, I would like to share my point of view with the rest of the community.
Obviously, I’m not the first guy to talk about that, this is just to share what I think about the possible evolution of the market in the next years.
I am not a native English speaker, so there are certainly some mistakes, all my apologies for that.
Good reading!




Currently, the money market can be categorised like this:

• The FIATs
• Bitcoin
• The altcoins

This categorisation is, I think, quite representative of the current situation. However, I would like to give you my vision of the potential evolution of the cryptocurrency market (and a bit of the FIAT currencies too) and discuss about it with you, to compare our points of view, and gather the opinion of more experienced people (I’m in cryptocurrencies for less than a year actually…).




Let’s begin by discussing of the Bitcoin/Altcoins separation. Firstly, it seems totally justified for several reasons.

The main argument going in this way is the fact that Bitcoin is the very first cryptocurrency that has been created. It's like the "mother" of all the other cryptocurrencies that exists, whether by concept or by the code (in a general way). It's the base of everything. The originator. In this way, Bitcoin was serving and still serve as a "guide" and as a model for other cryptos, that are looking on the evolution of Bitcoin and taking the interesting innovations (and adding their own ones).

Bitcoin is, on first sight, the inevitable way for (almost, see below) any person entering the cryptocurrency world, for two reasons. The first one is that the most people that are interesting them in cryptos don’t know this world well and focus on the currency that everybody is talking about: Bitcoin, and buy a little bit of it “to try”. They often discover this other world apart that are altcoins afterwards. The second reason I’m thinking about is that most of the exchanges that are converting FIAT money into cryptos are especially selling Bitcoin. And beyond this entering on the cryptocurrency market, the alcoins exchanges are made with Bitcoin as an intermediary, that is used as a reference. For example: I want to convert Alt1 into Alt2, I have to buy some BTC with Alt1 and then buy Alt2 with these BTC.

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If we look at the Bitcoin dominance chart on CoinMarkeCap, we can see that Bitcoin has been, indeed, the main cryptocurrency in the market, and by far (with 80 to 95% since 2013), to the beginning of 2017. (Important note: at this time I didn’t follow all this, so there are surely some events that occurred and that I’m not aware of) The dominance decreases radically during the first semester 2017. We see on the chart that it matches to the increasing of Ethereum and a peak of Ripple, but we particularly see that the “other altcoins” are also becoming stronger, in a general way. By the way, we can notice that this also matches to the moment when the market cap (and the value) of Bitcoin (and by extension the rest of the market) began to really take off.

This dominance, that went slightly up but stayed below 60%, decreases again not long ago: it happened in December 2017, when the cost of a bitcoin was at its highest and the network was overloaded. We saw a lot of people using other cryptos, altcoins, to avoid the Bitcoin network’s very high transaction fees. The peak of Ripple is involved too, amplifying this drop of dominance, but even if we have to consider it, we will not talk about it here.

We clearly see that the network didn’t hold out since it was unusable for everyday transactions. We can obviously rely on the actual and future development to improve this (I particularly think about the controversial Lightning Network). But in a meanwhile, we can see a group of additional cryptocurrencies between Bitcoin and the smaller alts, that is the one of the alternatives to Bitcoin. (Warning, what follows (and the previous sentence too) is only a personal theory, we can’t take it as a reality) So we have:

• (the FIAT currencies, obviously)
• Bitcoin, the big master
• A group of alts for the common transactions ((Ethereum,) Bitcoin Cash, Litecoin, Monero, Zcash for instance)
• The rest of the alts

The “group of alts for the common transactions” doesn’t have the purpose of supplanting Bitcoin or anything like that, but only do transactions with small fees. The cryptocurrencies that form this group are characterised by two things. The first one is (obviously) that the network of these alts is not saturated (that’s why I put brackets for Ethereum, although it doesn’t need fees as high as Bitcoin, it’s not far from its limit of capacity). The second one is the importance of this currency: it needs to have many users, to avoid problems like “well, I don’t have Groestlcoin, can I pay in Pascal Coin?” (this is just an example).
(warning, big bracket: Personnally, I know some people that arrived in the cryptocurrency sphere by ETH, without buying bitcoins. Even if it’s only a personal example, this can be a proof that Bitcoin isn’t the only way to buy other coins like I wrote above (yes, I know, I contradict myself, but it’s normal: it was just to say that it’s no longer needed to pass by BTC, although it stays the main way)).

Important thing, these altcoins don’t aim to replace Bitcoin, or be better like Bitcoin. In this theory, they need to be considered more like some “BTC-like” reducing the load of the main Bitcoin network.




All these observations (that I will certainly develop afterwards with your comments) are based on the actual market’s state that, don’t forget it, is still very young. But the cryptocurrencies still have a very huge potential to deploy and it is sure that the market in 10 or 20 years will be really different from the one that we know today. I’m personally part of the “extremists” that are thinking that the cryptos could replace the FIAT currencies. At least, I am convinced that they have the potential to achieve it, supposing that banks and states don’t manage to take control over it. But let’s suppose that it could be achievable. ZenFr did a small calculus a few months ago (Topic [FR]: Potentiel de valorisation du Bitcoin).

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According to this calculus, one satoshi would have a value of 3.50€. It goes without saying that with such a value, and without talking about the scalability and other problems that may occur, it would be impossible to spend our bitcoins in the daily life (no, I won't pay 3.50€ for a baguette or a coffee!).

The total supply of 21 million can be good enough as long as Bitcoin stays quite underground, but as soon as a lot of people begin to use it, it rapidly become few. Since 2013 the value of a bitcoin is count in hundreds of euros (/ dollar), and in thousands of euros (/ dollars) since the last year. The amounts of the transfers are of the order of 0.001 or 0.0001 BTC, we are maybe used to it, but for the general public it is not the best. (And without talking about inflation, etc.)

That's why I think that we should not consider Bitcoin as the only cryptocurrency that can reign over the others, that would stay common alts. Of course, it will stay the originator of all of we can see today in cryptos, but to my mind it won't outshine the cryptocurrency world eternally. I think that it will stay important but it will be along with other currencies, as we begin to see (not necessarily the actual ones, of course), to divide up the charge of the transactions.

Personally, I think that it can be a good thing.
You all know that Bitcoin and the blockchain principle in general rest on an advanced decentralisation. Yet, the fact that Bitcoin represents the main part of the market can be dangerous. Indeed, let's suppose that something happens to it. It never happened in the past because the technology behind is well thought and the network is working quite well (except the scalability problem), but we all know that nothing is infallible and it is dangerous to put everything on Bitcoin (or any other crypto), even if this cryptocurrency is very strong. If a problem happened, the majority of the market would disappear (or would be affected, at least). If this market is divided in several / many different cryptocurrencies, if one of them had some problems, then the consequences would be less important. Not only the currencies would be decentralized, but also the capital would no longer be centralised on one only currency.

Over time, we would have:

• Bitcoin, the mother of cryptocurrencies
• The everyday life altcoins
• The other altcoins, with a specific utilisation (+ the tokens)

There you go, I wanted to give my vision of the current market situation and one of its evolution possibilities (there are many others!), sorry for the massive text but when I begin to write I can't manage to stop. I do not have a superior knowledge or anything, and I surely did mistakes, forgot some important things... You can say it, and don't hesitate to give your point of view on this. Also, sorry for my English, I'm not a native speaker, I'm trying to do my best but it's sometimes difficult. I know that the pro-BTC will not like this post, but anyway, for me this is the occasion of learning, and for us all the occasion of debating and think about what will become the cryptocurrency market in the next years.




Additions:


- [coming...] what I mean by "cryptocurrency" in this post

- [coming...] About the Lightning Network

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Well most of us here are already aware of the hacking activities of binance and bancor.They are taking practical measures to track down the culprits but the question on my mind is why could coincidentally both exchanges be hacked?Now it appears that the exchanges are not moving at a faster and innovative ways to upgrading their systems and allow these hackers time to study their systems well,identify the loop holes and cause the problem.In my opinion, exchanges should always move in an unpredictable way so as to always confuse these scammers .The scammers are scaring new investors away and this must stop.Exchanges must be up and doing so that we can attract new investors into cryptocurrency else our efforts are going in vain to attracting new investors.

Any idea on wheres the safest exchange or sites to withdraw bitcoin to fiat?

Came across bitstamp as coinmama and coinbase is currently not support in my country (Brunei Darussalam)

Hmmm....this is really great

How sweet could it be if it will be and continue like this.
Yesterday i wanted to send 200$ to my trading wallet and i saw just 0.27$ as the transaction fee.

Unbelievable!!!

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I feel that sharks (Big traders) haven't collect enough Bitcoins. You can see that there were scandals when Bitcoin price rose. The scandals were exchanges hacked, China suppressed Crypto, etc whenever Bitcoin price up.
It's not a good news for Bitcoin and prevent price rise but it still rising, is this a signal that Bitcoin coming back ?
How do you think about it ?. I want to know your opinion .
Thank you
 

Bancor - a Kenya based exchanged which is known for its establishment of smart tokens got recently hacked. Bancor was said to be a decentralized exchanged but was recently compromised by hackers and suffered a huge loss of $23 million. People say that if it was a completely decentralized exchange then it should have lost the funds. Bancor said they were able to freeze a portion of amount in the hack which again raised the question as a decentralized exchange cannot be able to freeze the funds.

What are your thoughts on this ?

News on cointelegraph : https://cointelegraph.com/news/bancor-urges-industry-players-to-collaborate-after-23-5-million-hack

I kept seeing the Bitmex wrecked twitter thing and seeing mentions of leverage all over 4chan, but had absolutely no idea what it all meant. It also looked too complicated for me so I've always ignored it. Got bored today and it's actually much simpler than it seems. There's a ton of guides that go super in-depth and those made absolutely no sense to me, so I'm going to explain it from an idiot's perspective.

First of all, the draw of Bitmex is you can do what's called Leveraged trading. In the simplest terms possible, it means you multiply your percentage gains/losses. If you go 10x leverage long on bitcoin and bitcoin gains 1%, you gain 10% more money. This is super cool for impatient people like me because it allows you to trade more actively without getting wrecked by fees, and it's ridiculously exciting.

Bitmex doesn't allow US users, but supposedly, all you need to do is register under a VPN and you're good to go. I used ExpressVPN. It is a paid VPN, but they have a 30 day money back guarantee. You can register on Bitmex with it, then cancel. Or keep it because it's actually a super nice program.

Once you're registered, deposit some BTC into your Bitmex wallet. When you first open the trade screen it's going to look super complicated. It's not.

Buying Long on a coin means you expect it to go up. Buying short on a coin means you expect it to go down. Playing those buys works like any other Exchange (i.e. Binance). You can set a limit price to buy in at and an amount. to buy.

Now you want to pick your leverage. In the menu below that, there's a slider. Again, each multiplier of leverage means every 1% = your leverage multiplier. 1% gain with a 25x leverage means 25% gain. I would start with 2x/3x leverage until you get a good handle on things.

The Cost number below the buy long/buy short number is the big one here. With leverage, you're essentially putting loaned money toward a coin. With 10x leverage, you can buy 1 BTC even if you only have .1 BTC (this is why the percentage gains are so drastic). However, this means you can lose it as well.

Let's say you bought 1 BTC at $10000, Long at 10x leverage (So you put in $1000). If BTC dropped 10% to $9000, you would lose all $1000 you put in. If it went to $11000, you would gain $1000 and double your money. Bitmex will auto "liquidate you" if you drop too far and don't have any more money to cover (10x leverage means if it drops more than 10% you lose all the money you put in. 25x leverage means if it drops more than 4% you lose all your money).

You can change orders on the fly and constantly adjust. Let's say BTC raised to $10100 (1%). You could then sell your long order and you will have gained 10% and now you can invest your $1100.

Like I said, there's a ton of guides out there that go into the more fancy TA and ways you can adjust orders, but this should provide a quick overview to get you started. They have a testnet site where you can practice with fake money first as well.

Part 2 with more advanced tips here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3559891

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