I hope everyone who was involved in bitconnect find a way to recoup from losses. And I don't beleive that bitconnect can recover some way, probably another project will take its place.
I agree with others that nice whitepaper isn't provide all necessary information for invest decision. How about the team, and the hype around the project?
Yes, it could bring some money, but there are problems: some aridrop forms trying to still private keys, most of them will be useless and almost nothing to worth. You will have to be registered in a many of projects to get some money.
Quite uncertain situation. I really don't know what can we expect from market. I dont think that we will see fast recover in 2-3 weeks, rather we will see more smooth growth.
There are too many scammers, as well as ICO with bad business models, too many noisy information, also regulatory crackdown. I think ICO will change significantly in 2018.
I think you must reduce the proportion of main coins in the portfolio. Look at the newest and smallest coins - they have the greatest ability to grow. If those coins can solve a real market problem, they can produce the biggest returns.
I think NEO is the next generation smart contracts platform, will be one of the biggest currencies in 2018. One of the reasons - NEO enable the development of smart contracts languages like Python or Java. This is a good growth driver.
Pay your attention at Nebulas. It has new interesting technology - the nebula ranking mechanism which makes use of a ranking algorithm that is mainly used to rank in the blockchain. Also, Hitters Xu as founder (Antshares founder).
If accidental crush will not happen for the cryptocurrencies, I have no no doubt that Ethereum will be the one of the main platform for blockchain application development for years to come. I think price will be more than 2K in 2018.
Over the medium term, crypto capitalization going to go a lot higher, and mid-term target of $1 trillion is the conservative end.I now believes that the crypto market cap will reach as high as $2 trillion by the end of 2018.
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