They'll utilize IOTA protocol to create a market for data that companies can buy and sell. Unbelievable! IOTA to power the World's data sharing!

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-blockchain-iota-cisco/blockchain-network-iota-teams-up-with-cisco-volkswagen-others-on-data-marketplace-idUSKBN1DS2EE

IOTA announces partnerships with world's biggest tech companies for its IOTA Data Marketplace project. The significance of this project is beyond one's imagination (please refer to the attached and the comments from those tech giants - extremely bullish)

https://blog.iota.org/iota-data-marketplace-cb6be463ac7f

Breaking: PowerLedger (POWR) listed on upbit just now with POWER/KRW pair (one of the first alts to be able to receive KRW trading pair). https://upbit.com/service_center/notice?id=58

https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/7ctiir/breaking_powerledger_powr_listed_on_upbit_just/

Here is my opinion on GRS value before and after the B2X fork:

GRS will steadily increase to its ATH starting from 9th Nov, 2017; and after the Nov. fork (until the end of Dec) the price will skyrocket to 5 to 10 USD levels and beyond. Here are the few of the many reasons for my claim:

1. On 9th Nov, 2017; Korean exchange upbit will allow new subscribers to its exchange. https://twitter.com/UPbitExchange/status/926253055288504320. Since 1st Nov, 2017; they had halted registration of new subscribers due to their server overload due to enormous public interest for registration. In the 1st week of their launch they already became the 2nd largest domestic exchange in Korea surpassing Coinone and Korbit (largest domestic exchange being Bithumb) https://upbit.com/service_center/notice?id=37. It is to be noted that upbit is first altcoin exchange in Korea which is run by kakao talk (a messenger like whatsapp used by 95% of korean people). People trust Kakao talk’s products (unlike Bithumb which was hacked previously). GRS (being Asic Resistant and its amazing wallet infrastructure) held top position in terms of trading volume for significant amount of time on upbit and its interest in Korean people have increased a lot. Hence, expect a big increase in GRS trading volume starting from 9th Nov, 2017.

2. Secondly, Upbit is launching GRS/KRW trading pair. Timeline is not given on their website but it is widely anticipated to be added soon. This is big news because in all the 3 popular Korean exchanges (bithumb, Korbit, coinone) there isn’t any bitcoin pairing and Koreans in general are not very used to trading in bitcoin pairs. GRS/KRW trading pair will not only bring more volume to GRS but also will be much more convenient for traders. This trading pair could be coming any time from now.

3. Bitcoin gold will soon be allowed to be withdrawn and/or to be traded on various exchanges very soon. https://www.fxempire.com/education/article/complete-guide-exchanges-support-bitcoin-gold-448791.It will be further sold for other established ASIC resistance coins such as GRS which has amazing wallet infrastructure already in place. Currently, there are security issues with its listing in many exchanges such as coinbase and other exchanges. Bgold is disliked by bitcoin community and lacks in development. It would take long time for it to reach to the same level as GRS is now.

4. For people who have concerns if GRS could further reduce in value before the Nov. fork; It is to be noted that just in the past week; GRS's reddit community has grown significantly. For instance, its reddit page’s subscribers rose from 400 about 2800. It’s market cap has skyrocketed from about few million USD to 50 million USD in a week. It, also recently, got media coverage which led to its further exposure to new people. Majority of the people, including me, are staunch believers in GRS technology are long term hodlers. Given this situation, I believe that it is not expected to dip further from its current levels.

5. Lastly, I have been following many crypto traders who are suggesting to buy GRS (and other alts) before/around or right after the B2x fork because alts are expected to rise in value after that. However, you wouldn’t be able to purchase alts right after the fork due to the issue of replay protection of B2X. You might end up losing all your bitcoins. https://www.fxempire.com/education/article/complete-guide-exchanges-support-bitcoin-gold-448791. Moreover, there is a lot of confusion and fear among the bitcoin community as to which coin will be the real bitcoin and given the issues of replay protection (not been activated on B2x) along with Bitcoin cash claiming to be the real bitcoin. This could get pretty complex and bitcoin’s value could collapse to extremely low levels. That means even if you get B2X; the combined value of BTC and B2X could be lower than the current bitcoin’s price. Do you really want to take this chance or do you want to make significant gains through investing in people’s coin…your choice!

This is my humble opinion. If anyone disagree or would like to add more; i would love to hear for a constructive discussion

ASIC mining has been concentrated into relatively centralized data centers operated by professionals which makes it less decentralized consensus. Instead of any random person, using a relatively powerful computer, you are dependent upon only people who are advanced enough to operate specialized ASIC hardware and who buy it from handful of companies that can distribute the hardware however they please and to some extent for whatever price they please coz the demand is high.

Hence, we need those coins whose algorithm shows “resistance” to ASIC hardware and the only coin who is extremely committed to remain ASIC resistance is Vertcoin. The reason is that it has not only memory intensive algorithm (Lyra2Rev2) which makes it particularly difficult to develop an ASIC in the future but it has proved in the past (by hard forking) that if someone tried to make ASICs for vertcoin; it will hard fork to remain ASIC resistant and hence “the people’s coin. https://coinpupil.com/2017/10/17/introduction-vertcoin-asic-resistant-cryptocurrency/.

That being said, let me tell you how the value of vertcoin will steadily increase to its ATH starting from 9th Nov, 2017; and after the Nov. fork (until the end of Dec) the price will skyrocket to 10 to 20 USD levels and beyond.

1. On 9th Nov, 2017; Korean exchange upbit will allow new subscribers to its exchange. https://twitter.com/UPbitExchange/status/926253055288504320. Since 1st Nov, 2017; they had halted registration of new subscribers due to their server overload due to enormous public interest for registration. In the 1st week of their launch they already became the 2nd largest domestic exchange in Korea surpassing Coinone and Korbit (largest domestic exchange being Bithumb). https://upbit.com/service_center/notice?id=37. It is to be noted that upbit is first altcoin exchange in Korea which is run by kakao talk (a messenger like whatsapp used by 95% of korean people). People trust Kakao talk’s products (unlike Bithumb which was hacked previously). Vertcoin (being Asic Resistant) held top position in terms of trading volume for significant amount of time on upbit and its interest in Korean people have increased a lot. Hence, expect a big increase in vertcoin’s trading volume starting from 9th Nov, 2017.

2. Secondly, Upbit is launching vertcoin/KRW trading pair. Timeline is not given on their website but it is widely anticipated to be added soon. This is big news because in all the 3 popular Korean exchanges (bithumb, Korbit, coinone) there isn’t any bitcoin pairing and Koreans in general are not very used to trading in bitcoin pairs. Vertcoin/KRW trading pair will not only bring more volume but also will be much more convenient for traders. This VTC/KRW trading pair could be coming any time from now.

3. Bitcoin gold will soon be allowed to be withdrawn and/or to be traded on various exchanges. https://www.fxempire.com/education/article/complete-guide-exchanges-support-bitcoin-gold-448791. It will be further sold for other established ASIC resistance coins such as vertcoin. Currently, there are security issues with its listing in many exchanges such as coinbase and other exchanges. There are other reasons, why Bgold will be sold for vertcoin, which I gave in my previous post here: ttps://www.reddit.com/r/vertcoin/comments/77fuvf/price_of_vertcoin_after_25th_oct_bitcoin_fork/

4. For people who have concerns if vertcoin could further reduce in value before the Nov. fork; they need to realize that just in the past few weeks; Vertcoin’s market dominance has already increased significantly. For instance, its reddit page’s subscribers rose from 10,000 about 16,000. It’s market cap has skyrocketed from about 33 million USD to 160 million USD in few weeks. It, also recently, got massive media coverage which led to its further exposure to new people. Majority of the people, including me, are staunch believers in vertcoin technology are long term hodlers. Given this, I believe that it's value is not expected to dip further from its current levels.

5. Lastly, I have been following many crypto traders who are suggesting to buy vertcoin (and other alts) before/around or right after the B2x fork because alts are expected to rise in value after that. However, you might not be able to purchase alts right after the fork due to the issue of replay protection of B2X. You might also end up losing all your bitcoins. https://www.fxempire.com/education/article/complete-guide-exchanges-support-bitcoin-gold-448791. Moreover, there is a lot of confusion and fear among the bitcoin community as to which coin will be the real bitcoin and given the issues of replay protection (not been activated on B2x) along with Bitcoin cash claiming to be the real bitcoin. This could get pretty complex and bitcoin’s value could collapse to extremely low levels. That means even if you get B2X; the combined value of BTC and B2X could be lower than the current bitcoin’s price. Do you really want to take this chance or do you want to make significant gains through investing in people’s coin…your choice!

This is my humble opinion. If anyone disagree or would like to add more; i would love to hear for a constructive discussion.

WHAT DID I SAY GUYS? WAS I CORRECT?? Proud of myself ))

First bithumb listed Dash and then Monero and now they will list Zcash as well. Ethereum is also working with Zcash (Zksnarks) for their privacy and Litecoin is working on privacy as well. With your theory, then all crypto-currencies can be used to arm more criminals which is not true. In my opinion, we still have time to buy Zcash before official announcement from Bithumb.

Secondly, UBIT another korean exchange (from Kakao talk) will be launching by the mids or Ends of October which will list Zcash ofcourse. So, Zcash is coming to Korean market and given its scarcity I am very much sure it will easily reach 500 USD by the end of 2017. But, you never know these  Koreans can pump it up to 1000 USD as soon as it is listed.

Lastly, Zcash dev team is one of the best in the crypto sphere and they are constantly updating us with their development and collaborations. It is the best coin around. It is not expected to dip below max 250 USD now. Get into it before it is too late. Current 270 USD is still way below its all time high of 400 USD at the time when Koreans were not very keen on investing in altcoins. Good times ahead.

Decision is urs. All the best.

P.S I live and work in Seoul, South Korea and can understand a bit of Korean and talk with Korean community about crypto updates.

There are rumors here in South Korea that Zcash will be soon listed on Bithumb. Bithumb is working hard to add it and expand coin offerings as soon as possible. This is because while listing Monero they promised that they will add more currencies in the future and since few new competitors (exchanges) are coming in Korean crypto market, they want to keep them at the top by offering more coins to Koreans. One of my friends here in Seoul told me that a lot of Koreans are discussing this Zcash listing on Bithumb. There was some information leak from their company.

Anyway this news is expected to come by this Friday 3 PM Korean time but it can be before that. It will be huge for Zcash price                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     because of it's scarcity (lower supply) and Koreans are aware and love this altcoin better than other privacy coins such as Monero, Pivx etc.

I am waiting for ZCASH to MOOOON

https://themerkle.com/chinese-bitcoin-exchanges-will-likely-not-be-banned-after-all/

Very positive news. Let's start buying before it's late