Five reasons 2018 could be the best year yet for cryptocurrencies.

[1993jochico]

Hosp has explained before why a potential cryptocurrency bubble could burst in 2018, but there are several factors that make him see upside potential in the space.

For bitcoin, the most important cryptocurrency by his estimation, he sees a 150 percent potential upside for 2018.

Taking into account several factors, the cryptocurrency market's upside potential could rise to up to seven or eight times present levels, he says.

1. The work on scaling issues
2. Large scale and more legitimate ICOs
3. Regulation
4. A lot of execution and usability
5. Institutional investors

For more info or details heres the link.
https://www.c[Suspicious link removed]m/2018/02/23/bitcoin-ethereum-other-cryptocurrency-five-positive-factors-for-2018.html

I think this is reasonable.

[Roukawa]

Definitely, the price will uprise in the Q4 of 2018. It will just repeat the scenario during 2017 wherein the bitcoin bullish the market. But I think it will grow up more and other cryptocurrency will move up also. Let see how does the luck of cryptocurrencies for 2018 and just hope that it will hit the  high price.

[Ctn]

1. The work on scaling issues
2. Large scale and more legitimate ICOs
3. Regulation
4. A lot of execution and usability
5. Institutional investors

That’s far from happening buddy. I don’t see any major updates regarding the work on scaling issues. We still hoping for this one since years. Many forks came out but they all did it for their greed and profits and nobody really helped bitcoin scale up. The segwit came in but branched our crazy and spreaded the community into two.

There is no reason to support the ICO here, because there are none out there who has brighter ideas any more. They all are condensed now and repeating each other to get some profits. The ICO just stands out only if the real product is avaible for the particular project.

Regulations, this is mega issue and it could turn out to be international one someday looking after its global question. Every country’s government is concerned about it because the money just flying away from one country to another without their radar. Don’t see much things happening in the favour of bitcoin though.

There could be execution and usability only if above three points are valid. This can only happen if there is really a real use of the whole thing in real world applications.

Institutional investors, ah I think there are some but what about them, how they will raise the economy eight times the current one.

[Saksham]

Definitely, the price will uprise in the Q4 of 2018. It will just repeat the scenario during 2017 wherein the bitcoin bullish the market. But I think it will grow up more and other cryptocurrency will move up also. Let see how does the luck of cryptocurrencies for 2018 and just hope that it will hit the  high price.

I think this scenario it became a habit for Bitcoin, amazing growth in the ending of the year. In deed people are starting to realize the power of the crypto community and that is a good thing because this demonstrates that we believe in something that can be accomplished.

[Blackhammer321]

The fifth reason would be the best reason why 2018 could be the best year for a cryptocurrency as well as the cryptomarket though the speculations arent accurate but the institutional investments coming from different countries can really make it happen this year.

[frowsiter]

I am not sure about the reasons you have mentioned up there but do know one thing that crypto currency is on the verge of rising. It has already seen huge down slope and it is done with whatever crash it had recently. The crash was anyway replica of the year start which can also be seen for many last years! The downfall at the year start is always thought to be year ending post effect as well as Chinese new year start effect. They both squeeze the bitcoin market from both the side and hence it always falls around this one.

This will now again start rising as the post effects has ended and people are out of the hangover now! They are getting the investments back into crypto. News can be heard that many UK's stock holders are investing huge amounts of money into this and thus it can grow really big by the end of year 2018.

[kolesozw]

1. The work on scaling issues
2. Large scale and more legitimate ICOs
3. Regulation
4. A lot of execution and usability
5. Institutional investors

I don't find 3. Regulation and 5. Institutional investors for good at all.

Also, market will grow a lot slower now. I think the best year so far was 2017 and the next better year will be '19-20, but not '18.

[Ranly123]

Hosp has explained before why a potential cryptocurrency bubble could burst in 2018, but there are several factors that make him see upside potential in the space.

For bitcoin, the most important cryptocurrency by his estimation, he sees a 150 percent potential upside for 2018.

Taking into account several factors, the cryptocurrency market's upside potential could rise to up to seven or eight times present levels, he says.

1. The work on scaling issues
2. Large scale and more legitimate ICOs
3. Regulation
4. A lot of execution and usability
5. Institutional investors

For more info or details heres the link.
https://www.c[Suspicious link removed]m/2018/02/23/bitcoin-ethereum-other-cryptocurrency-five-positive-factors-for-2018.html

I think this is reasonable.

I am not so sure about your claim and the reasons you mentioned could possibly do any good in cryptocurrency, most especially in the second reason you say. Are you sure there are more legitimate and large scale ICO coming? As what i have observed many ICO have been identified as scam and a waste of time and investment because of how they advertise their ICO in the community. Cryptocurrencies may experience a good year but not totally the best, but it could happen soon.   

[fiulpro]

Well with massive regulations there could be a problem too .. we should remember that every country comes with their own regulatory points due to no single institutional body regulating everything all we could see would be chaos and that could prove to be something that might create imbalance causing massive uproar and problems instead this regulatory responsibility should be given to one centralized body otherwise I don't see how beneficial it would be.

[Vatimins]

Hosp has explained before why a potential cryptocurrency bubble could burst in 2018, but there are several factors that make him see upside potential in the space.

For bitcoin, the most important cryptocurrency by his estimation, he sees a 150 percent potential upside for 2018.

Taking into account several factors, the cryptocurrency market's upside potential could rise to up to seven or eight times present levels, he says.

1. The work on scaling issues
2. Large scale and more legitimate ICOs
3. Regulation
4. A lot of execution and usability
5. Institutional investors

For more info or details heres the link.
https://www.c[Suspicious link removed]m/2018/02/23/bitcoin-ethereum-other-cryptocurrency-five-positive-factors-for-2018.html

I think this is reasonable.

     Well, that is an amazing thing to hear and would pretty much be a great thing to believe in for people like me that is truly a crypto lover specially when it comes to bitcoins. But the thing is, all of the mentioned factors above haven't had any products yet or outcomes except institutional investors. All of those would be great if they really are going on and working. Just like (1), obviously, the scaling issues hasn't been fixed yet. 2nd is most probably very unlikely nowadays. And the 3rd one can either go with or against the cryptos. While 4th is clearly not possible yet. 5th is already happening but not as much as we want it to. So I guess, the cycle from the past years is still gonna happen for a few more years. How many depends on how fast this issues that bitcoins has gets fixed.

[Emin90]

Vista of course there is as mentioned above, the development of technology and conducting legitimate ICO. For the development of the bitcoin and other coins.
Growth and scale is inevitable

[seizetehday5]

Out of those reasons I would select #1 and #3 as the main contributors to the rise of the space this year. If we fix scaling (which seems fixed right now) the use case of Bitcoin becomes practical and we can thus legitimately use Bitcoin rather than hoarding it. Same goes for number three if regulation is done well, it will encourage the spending and usage of Bitcoin rather than hoarding, both are great positives for Bitcoin.

[ArtiSHOCK]

I hope it will be a good year for cryptocurrency! The beginning of the year not very successful and caused a lot of panic, but I think closer to the middle of the year things will get better!

[mersal]

But I have a reason that it is not be best as 2017 because now most of the governments are trying to control or regulate the crypto currencies so we can't expect this year going to be easy for the crypto currencies and their investors,so what we need to do is hold our bitcoin I hope the bitcoin will face all the issues and strongly comeback in the future.

[oddwh]

1. The work on scaling issues
2. Large scale and more legitimate ICOs
3. Regulation
4. A lot of execution and usability
5. Institutional investors

I don't find 3. Regulation and 5. Institutional investors for good at all.

Also, market will grow a lot slower now. I think the best year so far was 2017 and the next better year will be '19-20, but not '18.

That's funny, I've always seen that newcomers sees regulation as a good news when earlies sees that as a bad news. I don't really understand why, maybe mindsets have changed and new users doesn't search the same purpose behind bitcoin and cryptocurrencies.

2018 began mostly badly, even if the price comes back to 20k, I dont think this will be an amazing year as 2017. Let's hope it will just be a good consolidation year

[alexbs]

According to the thought of G. Zucco, which is one of the leading experts of bitcoin and blockchain, we could be between the 3rd/4th phase of Kubler-Ross model.

Bargaining
Depression  

That means admitting that blockchain technology might be useful but that doesn't mean Bitcoin will be. So, many newcomer investors looking for easy profits without knowing absolutely nothing about the technology and its applications, have the feeling of having arrived too late for Bitcoin, then they are investing in any alternative altcoins including the most bizarre/unknown random projects.

[bob123]

1. The work on scaling issues
5. Institutional investors

While i believe these 2 points will be the pushing force this year i don't think these 3 will already boost BTC in the short term.

2. Large scale and more legitimate ICOs
3. Regulation
4. A lot of execution and usability

Regulations and big adoption will take quite a lot of time until BTC will profit.
This isn't something which is pushed within a year and instantly results in a massive bull run.
Good things need time. BTC isn't much different. When LN will be ready and usable for the every-day man there will be a rapidly(!) growing interest.
But i don't think this will happen in the next 3-4 years. Being patient is the key to success.

[Nhebu]

Hosp has explained before why a potential cryptocurrency bubble could burst in 2018, but there are several factors that make him see upside potential in the space.

For bitcoin, the most important cryptocurrency by his estimation, he sees a 150 percent potential upside for 2018.

Taking into account several factors, the cryptocurrency market's upside potential could rise to up to seven or eight times present levels, he says.

1. The work on scaling issues
2. Large scale and more legitimate ICOs
3. Regulation
4. A lot of execution and usability
5. Institutional investors

For more info or details heres the link.
https://www.c[Suspicious link removed]m/2018/02/23/bitcoin-ethereum-other-cryptocurrency-five-positive-factors-for-2018.html

I think this is reasonable.

The year 2018 will become a lucky year for cryptocurrency and I hope I can joi  to the luck. I think that the integration of different companies are helpful way to boost the dominance of cryptocurrency in the world. Japan also joined the trend and I think it will play a vital role in innovations of cryptocurrency as well as blockchain technology. A lot of good things waiting for cryptocurrency and to us, crypto enthusiast. I hope that this will be the start of oyr future.

[FrueGreads]

Those are all fantastic and perfectly valid reasons for 2018 to be a very good year for cryptocurrencies. We see a lot of people with negative point of views, without really explaining things, and we also see a lot of people focusing on the price without pointed any valid reasons for the projections they make. I actually think we will have another good year, because of all those things you said. From a technological and development point of view, bitcoin is getting better, so there is no reason to believe bitcoin price will decline, or that the "bubble" will burst or any of those stupid things people say, with no real fundamentals to support their claims.

[mostkey]

for 2018 to be a very good year for cryptocurrencies.

maybe yes and maybe not. because if the view at this time. crypto growth is slowing down. and whatever reason that made all this happen, but this is not a standard. because crypto fans if we see it grow and this may be just at the beginning of the year, and do not know what will happen at the end of the year