Research into the top ten crypto deals in 2017 based on their investment returns (ROI) has revealed that on average each returned over 136,000 percent, according to data shared with Cointelegraph by Crypto Finance Conference (CFC) analysts July 27.
Out of all the crypto projects that raised a minimum of $1 million in 2017, IOTA (MIOTA) clinched a staggering 614,934 percent return for investors, sealing the top spot in the researchers’ rankings.
IOTA is an Internet of Things (IoT)-focused crypto platform that uses a so-called Tangle system.
Also, the extreme success of infrastructure projects suggests investors should be seeking foundational companies that will redefine the internet in the next 10 to 15 years.” ROI-Driven Crypto Research Findings.
Source: Crypto Finance Conference Earlier this week, Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian — whose VC firm Initialized Capital was one of Coinbase’s first investors — gave his own perspective on crypto investments.
Since the massive bitcoin and crypto surge in late 2017 and resultant crash in 2018 everyone has been waiting for a return to those giddy heights. In reality, it may just take a little longer as it did after the dotcom bubble burst.
Cryptocurrencies garnered a significant amount of interest from people around the globe in 2017. Subsequently, the number of digital currencies on exchanges skyrocketed from 617 to around 1,335. The cryptocurrency market grew exponentially especially in the last quarter of 2017.
New research into the top ten crypto deals in 2017 based on their return on investment has revealed that on average each returned an astounding 136,000%
“We have nothing to hide,” says Tory Reiss, VP of corporate development at TrustToken. Like the market’s most popular stablecoin, Tether, TrustToken's TrueUSD is fiat-collateralized.
Eidoo has been providing digital wallets to consumers since 2017, and their original wallet only had the option of Ether for their tokens. In a recent announcement this week, they finally are able to let users store Bitcoin, along with buying and using it, on their wallet. The BTC token will be supported on both […]
Tom Lee is known as one of Wall Street’s biggest bitcoin optimists. As the cryptocurrency hovered around $3,500 in September 2017, he predicted that bitcoin would be “your best investment until the end of the year.
Tom Lee is known as one of Wall Street’s biggest bitcoin optimists. As the cryptocurrency hovered around $3,500 in September 2017, he predicted that bitcoin would be “your best investment until the end of the year.
Since entering into a bear run in January 2018, crypto stocks have suffered, leading some investors to dump them, but bitcoin’s unexpected recovery in July 2018 is giving the asset class a much-needed second wind.
One of the most significant crypto exchanges, Coinbase, has stated that there was no insider trading of Bitcoin cash in December 2017 after the firm thoroughly investigated the matter. According to a credible source who pleaded anonymity, Coinbase conducted a brainstorming meeting last week to deliberate the result of an internal investigation that has been […]
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Spindle, Japan’s largest ICO officially promoted by a J-Pop star, Gakuto Oshiro, (45) better known by his stage name GACKT, was the unnamed crypto company allegedly slammed by the FSA earlier this year, a weekly Japanese magazine revealed.
Bitwise Asset Management is the latest venture to apply for a cryptocurrency exchange-traded fund (ETF). Called the Bitwise HOLD 10 Cryptocurrency Index Fund, the ETF will track the returns of the company’s HOLD 10 Index, a “market-cap-weighted index of the 10 largest cryptocurrencies” that captures roughly 80 percent of the total cryptocurrency market capitalization.
Cryptocurrency exchange Binance is making plans to expand operations into South Korea, reports Business Korea. Per the report, Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao hinted at his company's expansion plans while speaking at the Blockchain Partners Summit in Seoul last weekend.
Bitcoin Cash (BCH), one of the most popular and controversial coins on the cryptomarket, appeared on 1 August 2017 as the result of a fork in Bitcoin. At the time of writing, it is ranked 4th in the ratings on CoinMarketCap and is trading near $800.
Part of the community believes that a “decentralized exchange” is a contradiction. Because, in practice, they do not fulfill as such what they claim to be. So, ‘decentralized' is no longer an aspiration.
The signs and signals in the crypto-markets are indicating a resurgence of Bitcoin (BTC) to past glory as witnessed in the second half of 2017. By the end of July last year, The King of Crypto was valued at $2,700.
With the rapid rise in cryptocurrency prices at the end of 2017 and the start of this year, the market faced a soar in amounts lost due to fraud and scams in the field. According to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) investment instruments have seen an increase in scams generally during the year […]
Galaxy Digital CEO and prominent Bitcoin bull Mike Novogratz described an institutional influx of capital into cryptocurrency in his keynote speech at Blockchain Week Korea — as reported by The Street.
The crypto business has proved to be highly lucrative for many people. The year 2017 brought with it an exponential increase in trading volume that led many to become millionaires almost overnight.
Bitcoin went on a serious bull run in 2017 and rose over 1,900 percent by the end of the year. Despite that, Wall Street remained largely skeptical on the subject of digital currencies throughout the past year.
Bitcoin dominance is at its highest level since the beginning of 2018. According to data collected by CoinMarketCap, bitcoin’s total value is just shy of $130bn with the entire crypto market coming in at $276.
Ethereum has long been held as the second most valuable cryptocurrency in the global market, but the CEO of Circle has recently gone as as far to say that Ethereum was the primary catalyst to last year’s bull crypto run.
Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire has publicly praised Ethereum, countering cryptocurrency community criticism of the network and its perspectives this week. Allaire Bullish On Ethereum In comments to CNBC’s Fast Money segment, Allaire, whose Circle has renewed its thrust into the cryptocurrency industry this year, attributed 2017’s market success to Ethereum development.
Ripple (XRP) makes all the gains for a whole cycle in a month’s time. In other words, the price corrects for the rest of the year as some investors take profit and others panic sell. While this may seem like a farfetched theory, it is surprising to see how Ripple (XRP) follows the exact same pattern over and over again as demonstrated by the chart for XRP/BTC above.
Giant Cryptocurrency Firms Take A Leap, Possibly Establishing Banks? The notion of cryptocurrencies first stemmed in 2013 through the first ever digital currency, Bitcoin. While it took some time to get used to hearing “Bitcoin”, which to this day is somewhat problematic, between the years 2017 and 2018, more consumers have become cryptocurrency investors. With […]
The Tronix Currency is at $0. 03941 as of now, although it’s been valued great recently, it’s still down. The problem isn’t because of Tron, but the entire market is suffering. Each coin on the market lost ground over 2017 and some never got corrected.
Coinfloor, a cryptocurrency exchange that operates multiple subsidiary exchanges, is joining hands with Trading Technologies International, Inc. , a leading trading software provider.
Computer manufacturing company HTC says it is on the verge of releasing its upcoming blockchain phone, Exodus, which was first announced in May of 2018. Chief crypto officer at HTC Phil Chen leads the company’s blockchain and cryptocurrency initiatives.
Bitcoin went ballistic yesterday, rising by nearly $1,000 for the first time since the 2017 bull run, from around $6,700 to a high of $7,500. Its trading volumes are up...
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Canada-based Rivemont Crypto Fund, run by a portfolio management firm Rivemont Investments, holds around 91 percent of its $2. 3 million of assets in fiat currency, with only 9 percent in Bitcoin (BTC), Bloomberg reported July 17.
The 2018 crypto ecosystem is looking significantly different than 2017. Although the values of the most prominent cryptocurrencies are down considerably from their December 2017 highs, new digital currencies issued through ICOs are receiving record investment.
As the crypto market continues to meld into the realm of traditional finance, the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Institute is taking notice — so much so that the organization is adding cryptocurrency and blockchain sections to its 2019 certification exams.
Satis Group prepared a report, in which it has shown that around 81% of the total number of initial coin offerings launched since 2017 have turned out to be scams. The crypto world has been developing rapidly, with Initial Coin Offering (ICO) becoming one of the most popular investments in the world. Satis Group, the
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It’s a bear market out there. Trends are generally downward, although signs point to upward movement soon. So now could be a great time to buy. But to buy what? If you were to follow the patterns of 2017, you might think that there’s no question about where to invest your money.
More than 80 percent of ICOs in 2017 are identified as “scams,” while the UK sees crypto becoming mainstream within a decade — read more in our Hodler’s Digest
What Is Sentieo Crypto Tracker? Crypto Tracker from Sentieo is a bot launched in December 2017, and whose sole purpose is to scan public financial documents as they get released for information on blockchain technology, and cryptocurrencies.
While the possibilities of tomorrow are exciting, the utilization of this emerging tech on industries today is similarly significant. Here are five industries already seeing a positive impact through their use of crypto.
Trends tend to be reversed. The year of 2018 has seen Bitcoin (BTC) demonstrate both its volatility and bearish nature. However, the second half of 2017 the crypto community witnessed the exact opposite.
Since its launch four years ago as AntShares, NEO has come such a long way and the journey has only really just begun. As the saying goes, the future’s bright. During 2017, the NEO project really came into its own and achieved significant growth and recognition within the cryptocurrency world.
Ripple (XRP) had a catastrophic year so far. In late 2017 when Ripple (XRP) became so popular that it passed Ethereum (ETH) in market cap briefly and became a direct Bitcoin (BTC) competitor, Ripple (XRP) fans on most platforms were talking about how Ripple (XRP) could become the top cryptocurrency.
In December 2017, two individuals made more money trading digital cats on the blockchain than most crypto traders have made in all of 2018 trading cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum.
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Bitcoin movement has brought with it a tidal wave of activity in cryptocurrency
investments and trading. As a result, crypto market capitalization soared to an
all-time high of around $820 billion in early January of 2018.
Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs)–The bad news for ICOs continues to roll out this summer. Last month, TechCrunch published a review of the crypto industry, concluding that over a thousand projects were already considered dead, despite some still having a presence on exchange and coin listings.
For most people, cryptocurrency is a little-understood subject, which is understandable since digital coins were only thrust into the global limelight after 2017’s bull run. Thankfully, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) aims to address this lack of proper information on cryptos and blockchain by offering an online program that’s even CPD […]
Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain to Be Covered in London School of Economics’ New Crypto Course was originally found on [blokt] - Blockchain, Bitcoin & Cryptocurrency News.
Bancor, a decentralized crypto exchange that raised $153 million in June 2017, has lost $12. 5 million in ether, the native cryptocurrency of Ethereum, in a recent security breach. However, the blockchain protocol and its developers were criticized not for the theft of their funds, but for their ability to freeze funds using a centrally controlled system.
At a time when the unending crypto markets slump has made newbie cryptocurrency investors lose faith in the super volatile digital assets space, TenX co-founder, Julian Hosp remains optimistic that the price of bitcoin would reach $60,000 by the end of the year.
Anyone who follows the crypto market can clearly see that it reached its peak between December 2017 and the early months of 2018 and that things have just been downhill since. While some believe that this is normal and that it is just the effect of the market stabilizing and people taking their profits, others […]
A report from the Chinese news agency, Xinhua, has revealed that the Chinese Yuan’s share of bitcoin transactions has fallen dramatically following the Chinese government’s decision to impose a series of bans and restrictions on cryptocurrency trading and ICO fundraising in the world’s second largest economy.
In recent months, the world of cryptocurrency has witnessed a fascinating and somewhat paradoxical trend: while the price of Bitcoin (#BTC) has been on a rollercoaster ride, venture capital (VC) investments in crypto startups have steadily declined, reaching multi-year lows in August.
