My picks and why:

EOS - great project that is almost ready for mainnet launch and is headed by Dan Larimer
ICON - because it's a great project and is run by Koreans, who love crypto
XMR - because it's now one of the main darknet currencies, and that's pretty much how Bitcoin got so popular

If I had to put all my money into one coin right now it would be EOS.

Why?

EOS is very similar to Ethereum in that it is an operating system on which to build apps, but it has many advantages over Ethereum, particularly the number of transactions per second (10,000 compared to 10).

Also, it's due to launch in July, which means the price will probably go up quite a lot over the next few months. Unlike other similar projects, it's almost ready.

The main developer of EOS is Dan Larimer who has already created two other successful blockchains - Steem and Bitshares. So he obviously knows his stuff...

The current price will well below what the price will be once the mainnet launches and people see how easy it is to build apps on this platform on a commercial scale.

We're currently creating a new social/educational hub for the crypto and [Suspicious link removed]munity where people can teach, learn, and network on anything related to blockchain or cryptocurrencies.

The platform will provide a range of different free and paid content types: articles, videos, podcasts, and online courses. This can be anything from trading strategies to blockchain development to ICO and airdrop reviews.

It will also have its own token based on the EOS blockchain. The token won’t be sold in an ICO or given away in an airdrop, but will be distributed to content creators based on audience engagement with their content (in a similar way to how Steemit works). Advertising on the site will need to be paid for in this native token - which will give it value and enable content creators to redeem their tokens if they wish.

Users of the platform will also earn small amounts of tokens for their activity, consumption of advertising, sharing of content to other platforms, and referrals of friends. This will promote early adoption and viral marketing.

Apart from advertising and paid content, we’re also considering a number of other ways to monetize the platform, which will give even more value to the token. 

We have a number of possible ways that we're looking to work with individuals and businesses:

- Working with content creators who want to get great exposure and get paid for their content (they will be paid in dollars for their paid content and in tokens for their free content)
- Providing advertising for existing businesses such as exchanges, ICO promoters/reviewers, consultants, trading educators, etc.
- Creating partnerships with promoters, influencers, and advisors

We are currently in the process of developing the platform and are hoping to launch later this year.

We are already in negotiation with a number of key influencers in the industry so are hoping to get good traffic from day one.

If you’d be interested in discussing how we might be able to work together, please let me know.

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Thanks Monsterer... Some great advice there

Thanks Colorblind

I agree that customer support on most major exchanges is pretty bad. Although I guess to be fair they've probably had huge increases in users in the past 12 months and are struggling to deal with that... Customer support in any business is essential.

I'm not so sure about not using Open source. I'm pretty sure Binance is based on Peatio (although no doubt heavily modified) and it seems to do OK I know there has been quite a bit of work done on the Peatio exchange recently by the Peatio.tech guys for their own use and that has no doubt improved it greatly as they're going to be using it for a major exchange I think.

The other things I think seem to be missing on existing exchanges: very few have fiat currency support (and instead use USDT which is on pretty shaky ground at the moment IMO), customer service as you mentioned, and also support for smaller coins. Cryptopia has lots of smaller coins but their customer support is terrible and their platform in general is not very nice to use.

If you were going to build a new cryptocurrency exchange, how would you do it?

Would you use existing open source software such as Peatio, would you create a custom made platform, or would you try to use one of the existing decentralized exchange platforms?

Consider from a business perspective as well as a developer's perspective... 

Hi Everyone,

I've just come across this project and it looks really interesting. However, I have a question. Sorry for my ignorance, but I'm still trying to get my head around how everything in this crypo world works!

My question is this: how does the wallet system work on this exchange?

For example, if I have both an XVG wallet and a BTC wallet in the DEX, each with their separate address, how do I know what the private key is for those wallets?  Can I access those wallets from outside Cryptobridge, or only from inside?

Are those wallets addresses that are actually on the XVG and the BTC blockchains, or are they somewhere else (on the cryptobridge blockchain)?  If they are not on the related blockchains (XVG and BTC) where and how is the currency stored?

Any information about this would be greatly appreciated!