Cryptomarket 2019

[ICObench]

"This is my first post in 2019.

All last year we saw the fall of the crypto market. What will we see this year? I'll share my thoughts. Last year, regulators from many countries tried to create rules for ICO and cryptocurrency. This significantly influenced the development of the industry.

The market needed changes after the Grand rally at the end of 2017, when a lot of people came to the cryptocurrency sphere. ICO projects appeared like mushrooms after the rain, 99% of them are useless and do not need blockchain and the creation of new cryptocurrencies (tokens and coins). Almost all of these projects thought they could hit the jackpot and easily get tens of millions of dollars after creating the site and white paper. These projects had a negative impact on the development of the market, they did not give a positive ROI for investors who later were disappointed in the ICO market. I can say with confidence that crowdfunding for ICO no longer works and will not work.

I think that 2019 can be called a trend of STO (security token offering), but this type of crowdfunding will not be positive. To start STO requires significant funds to obtain permits from regulators in different countries. This is a new level of ICO evolution. The trend is such that most likely the classic financial market will take the cryptocurrency market and cryptocurrencies will become part of the classic financial market. But for this it is necessary to clear the crypto market from a variety of low-grade and garbage tokens, exchanges, projects. If you are creating a project, then do not make a new token, use existing coins. I personally support this trend and believe that it is necessary to clear the market. Only the strongest will survive. Today, the crypto market is no longer a place to earn easy money.

Many people ask me what will be the bitcoin exchange rate? I think that we will not see X10 bitcoin growth, my forecast is 6000-7000 USD for 1 BTC. The crypto market is still very young and easily subject to manipulation from the outside, Any major player can change the crypto sphere in any direction, because Many companies capitalization more than the entire crypto market." - said Vladimir Nikitin ICObench expert about trends in 2019.

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Please share your thoughts and leave comments.

[jpnl0006]

the crypto market is well enough to give much confidence to every crypto fantic and believer that things are going to be much better as most projects have actually developed their Minimun viable products that will obviously give a good pricing effect on their coins and tokens and that will give a bullish market in the global crypto market even amongst its pairs.

[Noynoyliit]

Nice speculations mr icobench..  I love your site,  this is where I consult the ICO I am joining in. Any plans of creating your own crypto.

[Dondont]

I think that 2019 can be called a trend of STO (security token offering), but this type of crowdfunding will not be positive. To start STO requires significant funds to obtain permits from regulators in different countries. This is a new level of ICO evolution. The trend is such that most likely the classic financial market will take the cryptocurrency market and cryptocurrencies will become part of the classic financial market. But for this it is necessary to clear the crypto market from a variety of low-grade and garbage tokens, exchanges, projects. If you are creating a project, then do not make a new token, use existing coins. I personally support this trend and believe that it is necessary to clear the market. Only the strongest will survive. Today, the crypto market is no longer a place to earn easy money.

I also hope the ICO rating website like yours will not arbitrarily register new projects in the website dashboard, whether or not it is also the same as supporting the coin, right? You should now pay more attention to how this reputation will have an impact on the future development of the ICO.

[anafiene]

It seems that your view of ICO by using tokens that already exist in the market is good input, and it is possible to reduce dumps. And of course, ICO makers will be more observant by having more potential tokens or coins. Your website is indeed helpful and this is a good input to avoid scams.

[Reid]

Yeah, why is it that they want their own coins as always?

Why not just use bitcoin instead. Or maybe Ethereum could be the next choice. Make it stronger for in the long run it could also benefit you.

Well, they really pull a lot of investors in their ICOs but the fact that it will not stay long still happens.

They are always just good at the start and soon you will find yourself holding dust.
If bitcoin can be used for your service then do it. Do not make it more confusing.

[elda34b]

Nice speculations mr icobench..  I love your site,  this is where I consult the ICO I am joining in. Any plans of creating your own crypto.

Why would they create their own crypto? ICOBench so-called experts are not 'experts' in many ways.

Your website is indeed helpful and this is a good input to avoid scams.

You should read more about ICOBench and how ico reviews site in general works. ICOBench is a platform where almost everyone can vote and judge a project based on their own views. I can name a lot of project with good ratings from ICOBench and other ICO reviews site which at this moment fail to deliver their roadmap, dumped heavily from ICO price and so on. Remember Savedroid?

[Commitments]

New year and new hope with bitcoin or altcoin price will be on higher price, we have tired and bored how bitcoin and altcoin at lower price last year, always have chance bitcoin and crypto could be on the top price.

[Bitbtc8]

Since almost 99% of smart contracts projects are running off erc20 blockchain I think that's where the problems is coming from ,erc20 is so easy to use by scammers and ethereum does nothing about it,I think new rules is what we need to lower trust issues plaguing cryptocurrency, 99% of projects are just here to make money ,nothing else there should be way to tackle this

[mahilchii]

In 2019 we need a strong controller for the ICO projects as most of them are scammers. They are too a reason behind the downfall last year, also we don't want to see such a drop again like it happened last year. Atleast a descent stability is good enough this year.

[Herbert2020]

you are too biased towards ICOs only because you are running a website that is focusing on them and you refuse to believe that their time in this market is over because it was not a legitimate way of raising money and nobody has ever used them to run a half decent project. all of them are taking money to release a code that they copied from someone else and call themselves a "company"!
STOs are no different either, that is why despite all the advertisement by sites like you there is none that comes close to the hype of ICOs last year.

[Emperor of Man]

you are too biased towards ICOs

This.  

His opinion is a little bit pessimistic, because it mostly talks about the situation with ICOs, which is grim.

I think BTC's ATH price in 2019 will be more than 6K-7K. It will not reach its previous ATH in 2017, but it recovers more than that (probably to 10-12K levels). The market recovers with bitcoin somewhere in 2019, but few assets will reach their 2017 ATH prices.

[IgorShumilo]

I think the time has come when projects that have collected a lot of money from 2017 to 2018 need to show the result of their work. Of the 2,100 coins and tokens, 95 percent is rubbish, which will never show the finished product. There should be a time to clear the market of shit.
We can guess a lot about the price of Bitcoin in 2019, but there will always be one truth, 1 Bitcoin = 1 Bitcoin)))

[Levyathan]

It seems like a new ATH of bitcoin and the whole cryptocurrencies since it hit the bottom on the mid of 2018. Hope we can get a new soar in the last 2019.

[taratorly]

Everyone is talking about what is STO. But most of us doesn't know what reallt STO is! I hope it will be good but I am not sure.

[Garrixx]

I really hope that the cryptocurrency market will be regulated as tired of losing money on fraudulent projects

[Lakai01]

I really hope that the cryptocurrency market will be regulated as tired of losing money on fraudulent projects

A regulated marked doesnt save you from fraudulent projects, nor losing money. Take a look at TenX eg. ... their project ran successfully for about a year, until the CEO made an exit scam selling all his coins and leaving the project. No regulation would prevent you from that as long as cryptos are not classified as stocks.

[rosezionjohn]

I find it ironic that ICOBench posting some negative opinions about ICOs 

But yeah, I somehow agree that this will the year of the STOs. Regulators would favor those who are already in compliance with their current policies.

[jouns]

The author of the post is right, but I want to add a little. Many are waiting for such tools as BAKKT and ETF to appear on the market but have not noticed the emergence of the DX Exchange which allows to exchange cryptocurrencies for tokenized shares of such giants as Apple, Facebook, Microsoft and others. Just imagine if these 2 markets will merge, into a cryptocurrency market the influx of a large amount of capitalization will begin with the stock market, that's over $ 50 trillion.

[likit123]

In 2019 we need a strong controller for the ICO projects as most of them are scammers. They are too a reason behind the downfall last year, also we don't want to see such a drop again like it happened last year. Atleast a descent stability is good enough this year.

Many ICOs are fraudulent and are created only to enrich their founders.
It is the solution to this problem - Security Token Offering or STO. STO, unlike ICO, never bypasses laws and rules, it only removes financial institutions and intermediaries from the process.