Predictions
I thought it'd be fun to make some predictions for the near future and beyond so I hope you enjoy my overview.
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I would like to preface this by saying that there are two outcomes that 2018 could hold. In this blog post I'm going to talk about the positive outcome because I really just think it's more likely. The ball is in motion and it's going to take a lot to stop cryptocurrency. The other possibility is that we see a crash in the next few weeks and it keeps the crypto ecosystem depressed for another 3 months to a whole year.
Coins to nab this Christmas
That being said, every coin in the top 50 will likely appreciate in value in 2018. It's going to be glorious. The real question is which coins have the most upside. My personal belief is the money will be flying everywhere, you should really try to mitigate risk by investing in solid fundamentals though. Here are some coins I believe strike a good balance of upside and fundamentals.
1) Steem / SMTS: Okay listen. I am a little biased. But at $2.80 as of writing this post, it's still an amazing buy. I really think that the $10 steem is within reach for 2018. If SMTs see early adoption and the initial reviews are good, we could even see a gradual healthy pump into the $50+ range. The tech behind steem is some of the best in the game right now and with SMTs around the corner the low price will be very difficult to justify.
2) EOS: With 500ms confirmation time and smart contracts, it's easy to see why EOS has been getting so much buzz. The early work looks pretty promising and we all know Dan can deliver a solid product. Even at $8 I don't have too much issue suggesting this one. I think EOS will likely see the $100+ range as it approaches 1.0 release.
3) IOTA / BYTEBALL: It's interesting to group these together, but they makeup the major players right now in the DAG coin game. DAGs are very interesting because it's an alternate approach to scaling that actually improves and becomes faster with each transaction added to the DAG. IOTA's execution leaves a lot to be desired but overall I think their heart is in the right place. Byteball is really interesting too in that it has all the advantages of IOTA with no coordinator. It also supports confidential transactions that are done in a way that is significantly less cryptographically intensive. All it uses is hashing and emails on chain. Pretty interesting stuff.
4) Golem: Truebit is a verification protocol which allows for computationally expensive smart contracts to be computed off chain. This allows for massive scaling benefits. This technology has yet to be implemented into its own currency, but until then, golem is the next best thing. Golem is bringing to life the spirit of truebit by using its verification protocol. The software is still in alpha but I'm 100% sure this technology will be getting lots of attention as the scaling race heats up in 2018.
5) Monero / Zcash: As the demand rises for cryptocurrencies so will the demand for privacy. Especially as we begin the regulation era. Zcash and Monero are on the cutting edge of the confidential transaction technology right now and I don't see them going away in 2018.
6) Bitcoin: As much as we all love Bitcoin (yes you do, don't try to hide it), it's your mom's cryptocurrency. I believe that buying Bitcoin today could still double your money in 2018. While it may not have much upside, it's a very safe bet.
Coins to give to your bratty nephew
And just to say we did, why don't we enumerate some bad apples to avoid for 2018.
1) Tether: Listen, I don't have any solid evidence, but the writing is on the wall.
2) BitConnect: Another obvious choice. Cryptocurrency is already way to volatile for Warren Buffett, do you really need to add a ponzi on top?
Hope you enjoyed this article and let me know what you guys think are the best investments down below in the comments.
INFORMING THE MASSES - A short list of some of the abuses against @Noganoo by Satanic whales on Steemit.
For those of you who are unaware @Noganoo was sexually abused when he was 5 years old. Bernie Sanders learned this from Fyrstikken whom Noganoo trusted and confided in and then was betrayed and slandered by Fyrstikken whom Noganoo brought to Steemit. Noganoo only requested that Fyrstikken send back the 10 Bitcoins he stole from SatoshiHorizon through his āaltcoin investment fund.ā Noganoo stood up against Bernie's flag abuse towards SeaBlue which caused the war that you are seeing today. Bernie swore to destroy Noganoo because Noganoo defended the helpless minnows on Steemit. Below are just a few of the terrible insults they have spoken against this Christian man. Please visit @Noganoo's blog and support and encourage him through these demonic attacks as his old friends have forsaken him. Not only do these people verbally attack Noganoo but they antagonize him until he responds in anger, then they sent the FBI to his house for "threatening." Noganoo has requested to all of the whales on steemit directly for them to speak to these 2 fraudsters and tell them to stop. Not a word was said in one year and now he is resorting to further action. The abuse will stop. If you have any information as to the identity or whereabouts of BernieSanders or Pfunk please contact abuse@steem.in. There is a substantial reward and you can remain anonymous. Noganoo is unable to file a restraining order against these 2 until he finds their identity. BernieSanders is a pedophile and should not be rewarded with upvotes on Steemit.
First of all let's go back to before this all started. Noganoo was investigating the fraud and theft of 10s of millions of dollars of rewards by Donkeypong, Gavvet, HanshotFirst, Kevinwong, The-Alien, JrCornel, Sweetsssj and Knozaki2015 with their organization called "SteemGuild" where they used the Steemit Co-founder Ned's account to vote for themselves instead of the "minnows" they claimed to be supporting. Go look at all of their current account values and you can see that over 1 year ago Noganoo was right! They paid themselves multi-millions for only a couple months of curating on Steemit. Something the rest of us do for free. You can see that these people and their friends are the only people who have ever attacked Noganoo. They are trying to cover up their theft. If you go back on the blockchain you can see Noganoo's accounts previously supported most of these authors with his thousand bot voters early on in the platforms launch. https://steemd.com/@sweet-banana?page=17 Then Noganoo called out The-Alien for his common use of the word "Motherfucker" in his fiction stories that were upvoted by their "Steemguild" to number one on trending every day to "raise money for the guild." Fact is they stole millions of dollars. This rebuke prevented Noganoo from ever getting an upvote from that guild which controlled over 30% of the voting power on Steemit at the time.
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"Sorry, I should have said "Go fuck your cousin." (again)
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Here is Pfunk attacking Noganoo's girlfriend.
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Here Bernie tries to twist the truth and calls him an "incestuous criminal." Bernie is trying to convince the unknowing public that Noganoo is a sex criminal.
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I'll save you a spot beside me in hell to torment you with incestuous dick art for all eternity.
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I'm pretty sure (noganoo) was molested by somone in the church.
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Incestuous Scumbag, I bet the abuse never even happened and you are trying to gain sympathy
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Here is Pfunk 2 years ago violently attacking an article Noganoo wrote about Christianity, Pfunk at the time had no idea Noganoo wrote this! Pfunk is a hater of true Christians but aligns himself with the fake Christians so he can get more witness votes and doesn't lose support. Pfunk proceeded to individually message everyone that upvoted Noganoo and slander him and threaten them with loss of support if they continue to upvote his articles. Pfunk, Berniesanders and Ausbitbank costed Noganoo over 50,000 dollars in losses last year. Ausbitbank attacked Noganoo to impress his witness friends when Noganoo is the one who brought him to Steemit. He brought Noganooās reputation from 68 down to zero with stolen Steempower provided by JamesC
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The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. - John 1:5
INFORMING THE MASSES - A short list of some of the abuses against @Noganoo by Satanic whales on Steemit.
For those of you who are unaware @Noganoo was sexually abused when he was 5 years old. Bernie Sanders learned this from Fyrstikken whom Noganoo trusted and confided in and then was betrayed and slandered by Fyrstikken whom Noganoo brought to Steemit. Noganoo only requested that Fyrstikken send back the 10 Bitcoins he stole from SatoshiHorizon through his āaltcoin investment fund.ā Noganoo stood up against Bernie's flag abuse towards SeaBlue which caused the war that you are seeing today. Bernie swore to destroy Noganoo because Noganoo defended the helpless minnows on Steemit. Below are just a few of the terrible insults they have spoken against this Christian man. Please visit @Noganoo's blog and support and encourage him through these demonic attacks as his old friends have forsaken him. Not only do these people verbally attack Noganoo but they antagonize him until he responds in anger, then they sent the FBI to his house for "threatening." Noganoo has requested to all of the whales on steemit directly for them to speak to these 2 fraudsters and tell them to stop. Not a word was said in one year and now he is resorting to further action. The abuse will stop. If you have any information as to the identity or whereabouts of BernieSanders or Pfunk please contact abuse@steem.in. There is a substantial reward and you can remain anonymous. Noganoo is unable to file a restraining order against these 2 until he finds their identity. BernieSanders is a pedophile and should not be rewarded with upvotes on Steemit.
First of all let's go back to before this all started. Noganoo was investigating the fraud and theft of 10s of millions of dollars of rewards by Donkeypong, Gavvet, HanshotFirst, Kevinwong, The-Alien, JrCornel, Sweetsssj and Knozaki2015 with their organization called "SteemGuild" where they used the Steemit Co-founder Ned's account to vote for themselves instead of the "minnows" they claimed to be supporting. Go look at all of their current account values and you can see that over 1 year ago Noganoo was right! They paid themselves multi-millions for only a couple months of curating on Steemit. Something the rest of us do for free. You can see that these people and their friends are the only people who have ever attacked Noganoo. They are trying to cover up their theft. If you go back on the blockchain you can see Noganoo's accounts previously supported most of these authors with his thousand bot voters early on in the platforms launch. https://steemd.com/@sweet-banana?page=17 Then Noganoo called out The-Alien for his common use of the word "Motherfucker" in his fiction stories that were upvoted by their "Steemguild" to number one on trending every day to "raise money for the guild." Fact is they stole millions of dollars. This rebuke prevented Noganoo from ever getting an upvote from that guild which controlled over 30% of the voting power on Steemit at the time.
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"Sorry, I should have said "Go fuck your cousin." (again)
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Here is Pfunk attacking Noganoo's girlfriend.
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Here Bernie tries to twist the truth and calls him an "incestuous criminal." Bernie is trying to convince the unknowing public that Noganoo is a sex criminal.
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I'll save you a spot beside me in hell to torment you with incestuous dick art for all eternity.
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I'm pretty sure (noganoo) was molested by somone in the church.
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Incestuous Scumbag, I bet the abuse never even happened and you are trying to gain sympathy
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Here is Pfunk 2 years ago violently attacking an article Noganoo wrote about Christianity, Pfunk at the time had no idea Noganoo wrote this! Pfunk is a hater of true Christians but aligns himself with the fake Christians so he can get more witness votes and doesn't lose support. Pfunk proceeded to individually message everyone that upvoted Noganoo and slander him and threaten them with loss of support if they continue to upvote his articles. Pfunk, Berniesanders and Ausbitbank costed Noganoo over 50,000 dollars in losses last year. Ausbitbank attacked Noganoo to impress his witness friends when Noganoo is the one who brought him to Steemit. He brought Noganooās reputation from 68 down to zero with stolen Steempower provided by JamesC
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The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. - John 1:5
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