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70 PAGES • 39 PRO PICKS • 21 COIN ANALYSES 19 PROS • 13 FEATURES

JANUARY 2018

NEW YEAR NEW MOON

The 21C Pro Squad(In alphabetical order)

Beastlorian @BeastlyorionBitcoin Dad @bitcoin_dadBully @cryptobullyColleen G @cryptonoobgirlCrypto Bull @Crypto_GodCrypto Bulldog @cryptobulld0gCryptoChief @cryptochief_CryptoGat @cryptogatCryptoManiac @happywithcryptoCryptOrca @cryptorcaCryptoRand @crypto_randCryptoTutor @cryptotutorFlorian @MarsmenschJoe Crypto @cryptoridyMissnatoshi @missnatoshiNotsofast Crypto @notsofastPamela Paige @thepinkcryptoTheBitcoinBear @cryptotrendzYakherder @yakherders

ADDITIONAL CONTENT

The Crypto Street Podcast CrewKiller Whale @k1llerwh4lePrince @13prince31CryptoDale @cryptodale

Pinkcoin’s Creative Design Director @elypse_pink

TEAM 21C

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Alder

Tiff

CEO & Editor-in-Chief@GameOfCryptos

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Designer

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- Welcome!- Top Picks 21-16- A Lesson with the Tutor - Lesson 3- Top Picks 15 - 11- Joe’s ICOs- The Cryptostreet Podcast- Missnatoshi’s Corner- Top Picks 10 - 6- Coin In The Spotlight- Gat’s Smallcaps- Our Top 5 Picks!- #iwanttobetheminer!- Pink Pages- Miss G’s Noob Journey: Part 3- Pamela’s AMAs- Crypto All-Stars- Donate- Beast’s Trading Spot- Bulldog’s FA- Event Calendar- Competition- See You Next Month!

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WHAT A CLIMAX TO 2017 THAT WAS FOLKS. NOT A MONTH AGO I WAS WRITING ABOUT HOW BITCOIN HAD HIT THAT MAGICAL $10,000 SPOT, AND NOW WE CAN SAY IT’S HIT THAT UBER-SUPER-SPECIAL PEAK OF $20,000! I’D LOVE TO SHARE A GOOD LAUGH AND A JOKE WITH YOU GUYS THAT $40,000 IS NEXT ON THE AGENDA… BUT I’D PROBABLY HAVE TO EAT MY WORDS BY FEB, AS FOR ALL WE KNOW THAT COULD BE A

REALISTIC POSSIBILITY.

SO, ALT SEASON IS WELL UNDER WAY, AND WE’VE SEEN A LOT OF THE COINS MAKE INSANE GAINS OF BETWEEN 100-300%. THEN OF COURSE WE’VE GOT MONSTERS LIKE ZCLASSIC WITH A WHOPPING 2000% INCREASE IN A SINGLE WEEK. WHO KNOWS WHAT JAN WILL BRING? THE CALENDAR IS CRAMMED FULL OF EVENTS, THE PROS ARE OUT IN FULL FORCE, AND THE COINS ARE ALL BEHAVING LIKE ABSOLUTE MANIACS. 2018 IS POISED TO GET OFF TO AN INCREDIBLY EXCITING

START.

THIS MONTH WE’VE GOT A MASSIVE 10 PRO FEATURES FOR YOUR DELECTATION, AND OUR NEW DESIGNER IS SLOWLY REPLACING SOME OF OUR STAFF FEATURES WITH THE NEW AND IMPROVED V.2 OF 21C’S STYLE. YOU’LL NOW FIND NOT ONLY THE TOP 21, BUT ALSO THE ROUNDTABLE (NOW RENAMED CRYPTO ALL-STARS), AND THE EVENT CALENDAR IN OUR BRAND NEW THEME. NEXT MONTH WE AIM TO HAVE MOST OF

THE MAG COMPLETED IN THE SAME STYLE.

SO FOR NOW LET’S DIVE RIGHT IN WITH THE FIRST OF OUR TOP 21 COIN ANALYSES! TURN THE PAGE DEAR

READER, AND YOUR ADVENTURE SHALL BEGIN…

V, Editor-in-Chief

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TOP 21SAVE YOURSELF SOME TIME & ENERGY!

Welcome to our main feature! This is an analysis of the top 21 coins for the month ahead. We hand select some of our pros picks, add some of our own, and set about the epic task of researching and writing up only the most relevant information in the most easy-to-understand way - so you get the benefits of all the research and knowledge without

any of the legwork.

Our aim here is to help you get a quick look at a coin’s background, what it’s done last month, and what it may do next month. We include a lot of stats for those interested in their own analysis, and a scoring system on the bottom of each page - which gives a brief look at how we’ve rated

each area of each coin’s performance.

The overall score we give - from 0 to 100 - allows us to rank each coin from no.21 all the way up to no.1. We analyse Public Opinion, how much Room To Grow the coin has, TA, FA, and Upcoming Events. Those scores contribute to the

final figure.

Read on, see what coins are trending this month, and enjoy!

Figures accurate at time of publishing


GAMIFIED MICRO-TASKS

STORM[STORM]https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/storm/

+184% N/A 165m 0.0046 Bancor Network

HitBTC

UnikoinGold (UKG)

First Blood (1ST)

GameCredits (GAME)GROWTH

PAST 30 DAYSGROWTH

PAST 90 DAYS MARKET CAP ($) PRICE ($) WHERE TO BUY COMPETITION

0.00

0.25

0.50

PRICE (US$)

0.06

0.03

0

LOW: 0.016 HIGH: 0.05

DECEMBER 2017 JAN 1

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U P COM I N G E V E N TS

P R E D I CT I O N

Storm is a very recent token launched in the last week of December, and has already gained a multimillion market

cap at $120M.

Storm creates earning opportunities for people all around the world by letting members find ways to earn through micro-tasks. You can earn by playing videos, trying new products and services, by shopping or performing micro-tasks. They

count on advisors like Bill Shihara from Bittrex, and Tom Bollich from Zynga. Their team has some great prior experience in

blockchain tech.

Being such a recent asset, it’s still discovering its price through highs and lows, but the great FA will make it a

solid bet mid/long-term.

Probably one of my favourite bets for 2018. Excellent suite of payments for microtasks with a gamified perspective.

All-star team and advisors, founder of Bittrex and Zynga to mention just a couple of them.

Storm has no events or an available roadmap for the time being. It will be launched soon, however.

Who can say exactly what will happen when a coin’s been on the market a week? Well, we’re in an industry

where 99.9% of people love to make money, and there’s a fun product in their field of interest that will help them make money. Potential gains seem like a no-brainer. But

as always, use caution with coins that are new to market.

T EC H N I CA L A N A LYS I S

– Crypto Rand

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PUBLICOPINION

2 3 4 1 3

TOTAL SCORE

67%

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THE ORIGINAL OPEN-SOURCE P2P CURRENCY SPONSORED BY SHIBA INUS

DOGECOIN[DOGE]https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/dogecoin/

+285% +605% 929m 0.0077 PoloniexBittrex

Cryptopia

Shibas are friendly and competition-

averse. They only get A N G E R Y

around filthy cades.

GROWTH PAST 30 DAYS

GROWTH PAST 90 DAYS MARKET CAP ($) PRICE ($) WHERE TO BUY COMPETITION

0.0

0.5

1.0

PRICE (US$)

0.01

0.005

0

LOW: 0.002 HIGH: 0.0093

DECEMBER 2017 JAN 1



P R E D I CT I O N

Nothing much ever goes on in the Dogecoin world, but the recent bull run has fueled this adorable coin, making

it rise 3x since the beginning of December. Who would ever guess a cute Shiba would give us munnies?

Dogecoin was created for fun by the American programmer Billy Markus back in 2014. It was supposed to be used as a meme

currency, a move applauded by Shiba Inus all over the world. But it has, in recent years, teamed up with charities around the

globe, making it the most adorable and squishable currency with a cap over $600 million and lightning fast transactions,

gaining the reputation of being a tipping coin.

DOGE is known for its predictable market cycles, but this time it surpassed all expectations and is still on a steady

climb. If traders keep feeling bullish about it, we might see it hit a $1bill cap soon. Much opportunity, such money,

wow!

The original meme coin. The large supply makes it perfect as a tipping coin. I would love to see some form of web implementation where you could tip content creators directly with doge. And don’t forget, according to the

Chinese Zodiac, 2018 is the year of the Dog.

2018 is the Year of the Dog in the Chinese Calendar. In the words of Avril Lavigne, ‘what more can I say’?

The temptation to make jokes in this section is almost too high to bear... but in seriousness, Doge is largely based

around public opinion. If the meme-lovers get distracted, Doge could fall. But don’t underestimate the year of the Doge. Also, if Doge gets integration as a formal tipping

coin... Well, time for a trip to the moon.


– CryptoBull

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PUBLICOPINION

3 3 3 1 4

TOTAL SCORE

69%

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HYPERCONNECTING THE WORLD IN A DECENTRALIZED NETWORK

ICON[ICX]https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/icon/

+285% +1171% 1.96b 5.2 OKExBinance

Ethereum (ETH)

Qtum (QTUM)

Lisk (LISK)

GROWTH PAST 30 DAYS


0.0

3.5

7.0

PRICE (US$)

7

3.5

0

LOW: 1.16 HIGH: 6.99

DECEMBER 2017 JAN 1



P R E D I CT I O N

Icon has recently launched in Korea and it’s taking the Crypto world by storm. Trading below $1.50 at the beginning of December, it has soared past $6.50 on

Christmas Day, preceding their main launch on January 24th.

Focused on a community-based blockchain, Icon seeks to bring the different projects and cryptoassets together

without resorting to centralized exchanges, mainly for identification data, wallets, and goods and services -

giving a real use case to daily problems. The ideas are limitless.

The highs were astonishing and the lows brutal to some new investors, as it usually is in Crypto. There’s huge

volume and a stable uptrend with support at $5.

Rumoured to be the Korean Ethereum, Icon will launch their platform this month, and considering how their ICO

sale went, this means I’m feeling very bullish on it.

On January 24th Icon will release their mainnet, which is an extremely bullish scenario for the asset.

Mainnet release will have a huge impact on the price, and when their platform goes live there’s a good chance that investors will flock to see what all the fuss is about. As always, use caution with new projects and releases. Avoid

FOMO.


– íris

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PUBLICOPINION

4 3 2 3 3

TOTAL SCORE

70%

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DECENTRALIZED ETHEREUM EXCHANGE

0X[ZRX]https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/0x/

+264% +12% 354m 0.685 BinancePoloniex

Liqui

BridgeCoin (BCO)

Waves (WAVES)

BitShares (BTS)

GROWTH PAST 30 DAYS


0.00

0.35

0.70

PRICE (US$)

0.7

0.35

0

LOW: 0.188 HIGH: 0.693

DECEMBER 2017 JAN 1



P R E D I CT I O N

Last month 0x was allowed to shine again, flying from $.19 to over $.60, reaching a new ATH. With what’s coming for the next year, this could be very well the foundations of a

solid uptrend.

The 0x Project is a decentralized exchange based on the Ethereum protocol. It provides an easily accessible

exchange specifically for Ethereum assets, while at the same time, allowing lossless transactions and high

liquidity.

Surpassing a new ATH above $.60, and with a market cap of less than 300mill, 0x still has a lot of space ahead to

run. Wait for consolidation in this area before buying in.

Noticed ZRX is getting more attention lately. Developers are doing really good work. Recent fundamental reviews

indicated 1.50USD base valuations, providing plenty of upside. Below 4k Sat it still is a perfect bargain.

Next quarter 0x will be implementing governance R&D (research and development) and new UI components

before launching their platform in the second quarter of the year.

Events are slowly developing with 0x, and even though it might not look like much until their platform releases, in just the last month the price has gone up more than 3x. If you’re holding the tokens, there are still profits coming your way. If you’re not, use caution until consolidation is

confirmed.


– CryptoManiac

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PUBLICOPINION

3 3 3 3 3

TOTAL SCORE

71%

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DECENTRALIZED EXCHANGE FOR INSTANT CONVERSION OF CRYPTOASSETS AND PAYMENTS

KYBER NETWORK[KNC]https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/kyber-network/

+104% +26% 317m 2.22 CoinnestBinance

Liqui

0x (ZRX)

BridgeCoin (BCO)

BitShares (BTS)

GROWTH PAST 30 DAYS


0.0

1.5

3.0

PRICE (US$)

3

1.5

0

LOW: 1.09 HIGH: 2.9

DECEMBER 2017 JAN 1



P R E D I CT I O N

After their launch in October 2017, after entering Binance and hitting $2.40, it tanked back to the $0.93 area.

Recently it’s reached an ATH of over $3. Their platform Kyber is launching soon.

Kyber is a system that allows the instant exchange and conversion of cryptoassets. It also allows merchants to receive payments in any token, while also mitigating the risk of price fluctuations in cryptocurrencies with derivatives trading. It is trustless, decentralized and

provides high liquidity. The specialized team counts on advisors like Vitalik Buterin (Ethereum).

Kyber has had a Steady climb from $1 to $3 since mid-November. It had some small dips along the way, which is healthy. Expect accumulation and spike around mainnet

release sometime in Q1.

In my opinion, Kyber is poised to take a large market share of decentralized exchanges. If it does that, then Kyber Network Crystals (KNC) should do very well once

people migrate over to its service. Their mainnet is scheduled to launch Q1 2018.

Kyber Network mainnet will be launched in this first quarter, and it will surely be big news for the platform. It

will allow the trading of ERC20/ETH pairs.

Like almost every other coin with good fundamentals, KNC is rising, but this is compounded by speculative rises due to their platform release in January. The near future

looks extremely bullish for Kyber.


– TheBitcoinBear

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UPCOMINGEVENTS

PUBLICOPINION

3 4 3 2 3

TOTAL SCORE

72%

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SOUND PEER-TO-PEER ELECTRONIC CASH

BITCOIN CASH[BCH]https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bitcoin-cash/

+71% +442% 41b 2368.81 GDAXBittrex

Bitfinex

Bitcoin (BTC)

Bitcoin Gold (BCG)

Litecoin (LTC)

GROWTH PAST 30 DAYS


0

1955

3910

PRICE (US$)

3910

1955

0

LOW: 1320 HIGH: 3909

DECEMBER 2017 JAN 1



P R E D I CT I O N

Last month Bitcoin Cash was added on Coinbase and Bitstamp. That has bred some controversy regarding newcomers being confused about which one is the real Bitcoin. Regarding the price, some allege that due to confusion from new investors,

BCH has doubled in price on the day it was listed on Coinbase, suffering an immediate flash crash from which it is still recovering.

Never a dull moment with Bitcoin Cash.

Bitcoin Cash was forked out of the need for faster transactions, while keeping the original Bitcoin ideal. Bitcoin Cash supporters claim that the SegWit fork proposed for the Bitcoin blockchain is fundamentally wrong according to Satoshi Nakamoto’s vision of full decentralization. Bitcoin Cash allows users to determine their preferred blocksize, which can be scalable from a minimum of

2MB up to 16MB.

From around $1500, BCH has gone to the moon and back, the height of its parabolic top coming in at over

$4000. Currently there’s a somewhat stable support at the $2500 area.

As controversial as it is, you cannot deny the possibility of BCash seeing similar gains that Bitcoin had over the past

year.

This month BCH will be listed on a new Japanese crypto exchange, will have a meetup in London too, and will

update their address format.

Love it or hate it, BCH is here to stay. There’s little doubt that as the overall market cap for Crypto increases - so

too will BCH’s own cap. We predict steady gains for Jan, providing the general market remains stable.


– Yakherder

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PUBLICOPINION

3 3 4 3 2

TOTAL SCORE

73%

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By CryptoTutor

HI, I’M CRYPTOTUTOR, @CryptoTutor ON TWITTER AND THE OWNER OF THE YOUNG PROFES-SIONALS TRADING COMMUNITY. OUR FOCUS IS INFORMATION-SHARING, BOT-DEVELOP-MENT AND STRATEGY MANAGEMENT. MY GOAL IS TO REVOLUTIONISE THE FLOW OF INFOR-MATION ON CRYPTOCURRENCY MARKETS (I.E. BITTREX ALT/BTC PAIRS) BY LETTING MY TEAM DEVELOP BOTS (SRSI TOOL, CHART/CANDLE PATTERN RECOGNITION & MORE). GROUP AD-MISSIONS GO BY DM ON TWITTER.

1. HistoryThe Ichimoku cloud is also known as the Ichimoku Kinko Hyo, which means “one glance equilibrium chart”. This technical analysis indicator was created by the Japanese journalist Goichi Hosoda. In the market of cryptocurrency, you’ll see that many professional traders use this indicator (not all use all the functions of it, but I’m pretty sure they know all the functions).

2. The configuration of the Ichimoku cloud systemUnder the assumption that you use Tradingview.com, the cloud system asks for 4 inputs. The conversion line periods, the base line periods, the lagging span 2 periods and displacement.

Conversion line periods:The conversion line is known as the ‘Tenkan-sen’ and represents the average of the HIGH and LOW in the previous periods. So, actually it is comparable with how the exponential moving average works. It calculates for every candle the previous periods the HIGH and LOW and draws a line through the points. When confi guring this Ichimoku cloud, Tradingview will ask you for the conversion line periods. On which periods do you want

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the Tenkan-sen to calculate the average? Later on, we’ll discuss which settings are in our eyes the best. The color of this line is standard blue, however, you can change the color under style.

The base line periods:

The base line is known as the ‘Kijun Sen’ and works exactly the same as the conversion line. Standardly, the color of this line is red. The only difference is the input of PERIODS. The idea behind this line is that it is calculated based on a higher number of periods. For example, the conversion line periods could be 9 and the base line periods could be 26.

Just like the moving average, when the previous average of the lower periods (conversion line) crosses one of the higher periods (base line) upwards, the trend has already turned bullish on that timeframe. This is what we call a TK-cross (Tenkan line crosses the Kijun line upwards). And if the higher periods line (base line) crosses the one of the lower period (conversion line) the trend has already turned bearish.

Help! I cannot remember which one is the higher periods and which one is the lower periods. To solve this problem, you can change the colours (under tab styles) to for example a darker line for the higher periods and a lighter colour for the lower periods. For example green and lime.

The lagging span 2 periods:

The lagging span is known as the ‘Senkou span’ and indicates the red/green cloud, which everybody knows as the ‘Ichimoku cloud’. This cloud has two boundaries, the Senkou span A and Senkou span B. The Senkou Span A line is the average of the conversion line and the base line plotted the given periods into the future. The Senkou Span B line is the average of a given periods HIGH and LOW. This one is also plotted in the future. The Senkou Span B is most of the times based on a higher number of periods.

Displacement line:The displacement line is known as the ‘Chikou line’. The Chickou span is a lagging span and will be behind the prices. It represents the most recent price but by a given period behind the current price level. This span helps to understand how the trend has changed; how much further it is away from the candles, and how much stronger the trend is. This indicator can also indicate resistance and support points.

Settings:In the stock market, where markets are not 24/7 available, the settings should be: (18, 52, 104, 26). In Cryptocurrency markets where the markets are 24/7 available, the settings should be: (20, 60, 120, 30).

3. Trading signals• When the price level is above the

cloud it means a bullish trend, under it a bearish trend.

• When the cloud color changes it means a change in trend (green is bullish, red is bearish).

• When the price moves above the base line the momentum is bullish, under it the momentum is bearish.

• When the conversion line (Tenkan-sen line) moves above the base line (Kijun sen), the momentum is bullish, under it the momentum is bearish.

• When the lagging span is above the price & cloud it is bullish, under it means bearish.

I could go on and on, but I’ll leave the details for another lesson with Cryptotutor. We have seen that this Ichimoku indicator is really strong and comprehensive. It is an all-in-one indicator, so learning the details of it could be a really strong improvement of your knowledge and ability to use indicators.


DECENTRALIZED AUTONOMOUS ORGANIZATION PLATFORM

WINGS[WINGS]https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/wings/

+142% +103% 104m 1.21 LiquiBittrex

HitBTC

EquiTrader (EQT)

Augur (REP)

Gnosis (GNO)

GROWTH PAST 30 DAYS


0.00

0.75

1.50

PRICE (US$)

1.5

0.75

0

LOW: 0.49 HIGH: 1.44

DECEMBER 2017 JAN 1



P R E D I CT I O N

This past month Wings has been listed on Binance with the pairs WINGS/BTC and WINGS/ETH. In the past few

weeks has climbed from $.35 to over a dollar, for a very impressive 3x.

Wings is a platform for companies and entrepreneurs to submit their ideas for community consensus attached to prediction

markets. It means that people have the ability to predict how much a certain project or idea evolves over time in terms of

adoption rate, how much it will gather in investments, etc. They aim to ‘identify and promote high-value proposals that have

higher chances of positive financial returns’.

After a dip at the start of December, Wings climbed to over $1.20. It’s had steadier growth than a lot of altcoins

during this period, with no major dips. This could be a sign of continued steady growth during Jan.

An easy to use platform where users can create, support, and invest in Decentralized Autonomous Organizations

without any specific coding knowledge. Its growing popularity makes it an ideal investment.

In early 2018 Wings will release version 2.0 of their smart contracts and chat bots, including their standalone

client.

Wings has shown steady growth during December, and this coupled with the growing public opinion that it’s a

solid but undervalued project will probably mean larger gains coming soon. For now, whether this happens in

January is up for debate.


– Yakherder

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PUBLICOPINION

3 3 4 2 3

TOTAL SCORE

74%

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A COMMUNITY BUILT CRYPTO - BY PEOPLE, FOR PEOPLE

PIRL[PIRL]https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/pirl/

+144% +1009% 9.4m 1.27 Cryptopia

Syscoin (SYS)

Ellaism (ELLA)

BitBay (BAY)

GROWTH PAST 30 DAYS


0.0

0.8

1.6

PRICE (US$)

1.6

0.8

0

LOW: 0.52 HIGH: 1.57

DECEMBER 2017 JAN 1



P R E D I CT I O N

Pirl was launched at the end of October at the price of $0.11. Since then it has started a slow growth cycle, going

up the ladder until a recent ATH of $2.23 (not shown on the daily chart), over 20x its starting price.

Pirl is an asset of its own. It’s a masternode based cryptoasset that is ASIC-resistant (resistant to relying

on heavy machinery, allowing retail miners to mine as well). Pirl was inspired by Ethereum to build their own smart contract environment as well. A decentralized

marketplace is also in the works.

Pirl has formed a steady uptrend and is now looking for volume before the next leg up. It may gather fuel for a

new ATH in the first or second week of January.

Similar to ELLA, one of my picks last month, but with masternodes. No premine, but the dev gets 1 out of every 12 PIRL mined. So far things are looking good. I’ve mined

some and I’ll just hold on to it and see where it goes.

They are currently working on their Windows and Mac wallets, as well working with exchanges on their listing.

Masternodes are still halfway functional. They also count on the community to guide them on functionalities that

will be necessary in the future.

If the new exchange announcements occur in January, then the price will certainly reflect that. With such a low cap it’s hard to imagine any way but up from here. One

to watch closely, and to BTFD.


– Crypto Bull

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PUBLICOPINION

3 3 4 3 2

TOTAL SCORE

75%

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SCALABILITY, PRIVACY AND INTEROPERABILITY

AION[AION]https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/aion/

+176% +673% 299m 5.08 DecentrexEtherDelta

Ark (ARK)

Wanchain (WAN)

Blocknet (BLOCK)

GROWTH PAST 30 DAYS


0.00

2.85

5.70

PRICE (US$)

5.7

2.85

0

LOW: 1.49 HIGH: 5.61

DECEMBER 2017 JAN 1



P R E D I CT I O N

After a lifetime of slow growth, August has seen Aion has expanded not only in market cap, but also as a business. They’ve arranged partnerships with Wanchain (who have yet to release their platform), Bancor, and Icon, to build bridges between different blockchains and assure the

security of all transacted data.

Aion was designed to support custom blockchains and act as a bridge between them, allowing trustless cross-

chain interoperability, meaning that you can interact with different blockchains through Aion. Aion-1 is their first public, dedicated blockchain. Aion’s team have strong figures such

as Alexandra Roatis, Ali Sharif, and Anakha Palissery.

Aion is still only available in EtherDelta, which is extremely volatile and doesn’t have much volume. However, the

demand is there. As with all good projects, in December Aion has also joined the bull run party and is set to

achieve loftier heights. Scale your entries and don’t FOMO!

[AION] is a 3rd generation blockchain that will have exponential gains over the next few months. Over 91%

of the circulating tokens are locked up in the TRS, which means once more news and updates are out the price

will spike.

This month Aion will be attending the Blockchain Conference in Miami, Florida. At the beginning of this

coming year Aion has also scheduled a virtual machine, a token bridge and interchain communication, and a

modified proof-of-work consensus algorithm.

Aion has a lot of room to grow, offers a great concept backed by a strong team, and looks good on the charts. With more marketing and awareness-building, this coin is primed for some great potential gains in the near future.


– CryptoGat

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3 4 4 3 2

TOTAL SCORE

78%

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SCALABLE BLOCKCHAIN PLATFORM

ARDOR[ARDR]https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/ardor/

+413% +823% 1.55b 1.54 PoloniexBittrex

HitBTC

Ark (ARK)

Ethereum (ETH)

Neo (NEO)

GROWTH PAST 30 DAYS


0.0

0.9

1.8

PRICE (US$)

1.8

0.9

0

LOW: 0.3 HIGH: 1.72

DECEMBER 2017 JAN 1



P R E D I CT I O N

In December, Ardor’s genesis snapshot was recorded, setting up preparations to make its blockchain fully

operational. Price wise, Ardor has gone from an astounding $0.35 to an ATH of $1.73, an increase of 500%.

Ardor was built as a child-chain platform to Nxt (NXT). It aims to scale technologies that were built for the last 12 years on Nxt’s blockchain. This means that everyone can

easily create their own child-chain that interacts with the whole Nxt blockchain ecosystem. A use case for this is to allow the chain where you store your information to interact with the chain that stores your medical records.

For quite a few months Ardr has maintained its level in the $.12 area. It has kickstarted to a parabolic at the

beginning of December, hitting an ATH of $1.60. It will very likely experience a correction after its platform release on

January 1st.

Ardr will have its platform launched soon. This, coupled with the high attention nxt had been getting of late is

surely a sign of good things to come. After the correction we may see the beginning of an uptrend.

They will be releasing their new platform at the beginning of January, which is highly expected this month in the

crypto community in general.

Many experts believe this asset is still undervalued, making it possible that this parabolic is only the beginning of a much bigger trend. For now though, wait for a large dip before making an entry. What goes up must usually

come down.


– V

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BROWSE, CHAT, AND MAKE PAYMENTS ON THE ETHEREUM PLATFORM

STATUS[SNT]https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/status/

+218% +464% 579m 0.156 BinanceBittrex

Huobi

Obsidian (ODS)

investFeed (IFT)

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Last month Status joined the Ethereum Alliance, the world’s largest open-source blockchain initiative. Its price has soared 5x to over $0.20/token, coming back down to

the $.16 area.

Status is a tool where you can safely store your Ether and ERC20 tokens, a browsing tool to find and use Ethereum

dApps as well as also listing your own. You can also trade Ether and its tokens directly with other users. It comes with

a fully decentralized and encrypted messaging system too.

Like all good cryptoassets this month, Status had its moment. It’s now found a support at $.15. The trend looks

bullish, but wait for confirmation of an uptrend, and as always: BTFD.

This sleeping giant (not to mention it has already QUITE awakened) has things cooking. Maybe not January, but

the first quarter of 2018 should be interesting.

Their roadmap is unclear about the near future, but their FAQ lays bare their long-term plans: a decentralized

messaging system, a social network with hashtags, dApp directory (akin to Play Store or App Store, for example),

research tools, and more.

SNT had a meteoric rise this month. It’s still relatively new to the Crypto world, but it making a solid name for itself. There could be a giant cup-and-handle forming, and this coupled with the Ethereum Alliance news points to great things ahead. Jan could be another excellent month for

Status.


– CryptoChief

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With a plethora of copycats and an increasingly saturated ICO market - determining the difference between a good project

and a get-rich-quick scheme becomes increasingly challenging. However, this month one project stood out so much so that it completely obliterated that blurry line, making this months’ ICO recommendation a no-brainer.

This project is STK, a global payments network developed for instantaneous cryptocurrency transactions. For most of you, your immediate response will probably look something like, “Isn’t that an incredibly competitive space,” and “isn’t that supposed to be the purpose of cryptocurrency in the fi rst place?” And the answers to those questions are yes, and partially yes. So why is STK the best ICO of January? Because it proposes a new-aged solution to a long-time problem in a viable and attainable way – with a real plan!

Last week, I went into the dry cleaners and pulled out my American Express card to pay. The woman sitting behind the desk told me they don’t take that here and naturally, as a man of crypto, I asked why. She told me simply, “the transaction costs are too high, the fees make it unfeasible for our business because we charge such low amounts.” That is largely the problem which cryptocurrency set out to solve, allowing for an instant and lossless exchange of value. However, there are a variety of issues preventing mainstream vendors from accepting cryptocurrency.

First, bitcoin transactions take 10 minutes or more to confi rm these days, and that number will only increase as network traffi c continues to grow. Second, Ethereum transactions take a good half-a-minute or more even on a good day, which is still too slow. Imagine waiting that long at the checkout line for the transaction to clear – the loss in effi ciency would cost companies millions over time. Finally, existing point-of-sale systems do not have built-in mechanisms for accepting cryptocurrency. The business owner would have to either adapt to a new (currently non-existent) point-of-sale system or ask customers to transact directly between private wallets – which would be as bizarre as it sounds.

Cryptocurrency solves so many issues that could help business owners increase margins all across the world. There must be a way to integrate this new half-a-trillion-dollar plus technology into mainstream systems, must there not?

Well, there is, and it is called STK - the best proposed solution for mainstream point-of-sale cryptocurrency transacting yet. They have partnered with nearly every major PoS systems company in the world today - reaching a total of ~39 million merchants.

STK proposes an intriguing concept, it is a totally new way of leveraging blockchain payment channels to create truly lossless and truly instant payments. The STK token promises instantaneous payment verifi cation and will do so by immediately settling cryptocurrency transactions through the STACK payment channel. The STACK channel transfers the denominated amount of funds from their liquidity pool and connects to the existing PoS systems’ payment terminal, automatically sending the merchant the equivalent value of the STK tokens sent, and converts it into the native fi at currency of wherever you happen to be shopping.

Obviously, there is competition in this space. TenX has the COMIT network which proposes a very similar concept for leveraging payment channels. They are undeniably further along in development and they also have the physical “crypto” debit cards released already. I myself was an early investor in TenX, the project is solid, and I am not going to try and simply tell you that “STK is better!” – because, to quote Steve Jobs, “Don’t think better, think different.”

And that’s exactly what STK is doing. They are thinking different. STK is thinking different in the same sense as Jobs’ when he founded Apple computer, initially competing with hundreds of other personal computer companies that he would ultimately beat out.

Before I fi nish telling you exactly why STK is such a promising ICO, we must also consider the Metal project. With a market cap of over $200M, and a steady development team, Metal is certainly worth noting as well. They also propose a “tap-to-pay” B2C rewards systems, similar to STK, but with less emphasis on mainstream merchant adaptation. TenX and Metal are strong projects, both competing for the same general market, but STK does things different enough to make itself a viable contender in this multi-billion-dollar industry. Oh, suppose I should mention them, Monaco and TokenCard do technically exist as well, though I hardly consider them contenders, to be honest.

The most powerful feature of the STACK wallet is its availability as a mobile app which helps to make online or POS transactions on the go. It is very useful for business people or individuals who travel a lot. Through the STACK payment channel, STK can transact in real-time,

making instantaneous zero-cost crypto transactions a thing of reality – to both consumers and merchants.

STK “tap-to-purchase” connects with existing payment rails through participating merchants’ PoS systems, immediately withdrawing the designated amount from the STACK liquidity pool into the areas’ native currency and then fi nally, into the merchants account. With availability at more than 39 million locations worldwide, STK is usable virtually anywhere. Notably, STK is actually accessible at 3 million more locations than is TenX.

Needless to say, STK has a powerful team behind the project. With backgrounds in payment processing, two former high-level employees at MasterCard, strong development, marketing, and community management teams, this project will prove to be a real contender in the space. STK has powerful and innovative technology, but so do their competitors.

What truly separates STK and makes it worthwhile investment is not their focus on being technologically superior, though that is part of it, the real reason it is great is due to their focus on what matters most: the users. STK has explicitly made clear of their focus on user experience, simplifying interface, and ultimately making the platform more desirable and easily accessible for the end-user.

If you check out STK’s website, you will see just how much these guys know how to make a damn good user experience - their design and interface is absolutely fl awless. So why did I bring up Steve Jobs earlier? Because, personal computers all generally served the same functions in ever-

so-slightly different ways, but it was Jobs’ focus on creating an unparalleled user experience that led Apple to the huge success it is today.

STK is strong technically and they also have a special emphasis on what truly matters in the long-run – the users. STK is putting a hard cap on their crowdsale at just $17,000,000, valuing the project very low in relation to other projects of such valor in today’s oversaturated ICO market. The public sale begins Jan. 31st and I highly recommend watching this project. You won’t regret it.

I made my fi rst investment in Ethereum at age 17 and ran a reverse arbitrage service for half-a-year to earn enough money to start a cryptocurrency-based hedge fund. At 19, I fi nally launched the fund and diversifi ed into more than two dozen ICOs over the fi rst year. I sold my car at age 20 to invest more money into Waves and Golem. Today, I continue managing that fund and work as a consultant and adviser to several cryptocurrency-based startups.BIO

JOE’S ICOsThis Month

STK PLATFORM

“STK can transact in real-time, making

instantaneous zero-cost crypto

transactions a thing of reality”

Twitter: @CryptoRidy


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MISSNATOSHI’S CORNERby Missnatoshi

Just a � BTFDTwitter & Insta:

@missnatoshiGem - When you fi nd a coin that no one knows about yet and you start accumulating it. Otherwise known as a “hidden gem”. Bag - A classifi cation for your “bags” of coin holdings.

Bag holding - When you buy a coin hoping it would become the new Bitcoin. Only to fi nd that the price is going down and you are left holding your coin bags, praying to break even one day.

Shill - When you buy a coin and then promote or talk about it to your friends, telegram group chats or on social media.

Moon - When a coin goes parabolic very quickly (the green candle rockets up to the moon). Can also be written “mewn”.

Satoshi - 1/100,000,000 of a Bitcoin, and the name used by the unknown person who created Bitcoin.

MilliBit - 1/1000th of a Bitcoin

Mex - Bitmex a 0 sum game where you can leverage trade with 100x leverage.

Rekt - Another way of saying get “wrecked”. The term comes from the gaming community. In crypto people say REKT when someone lost money. Example: liquidated on Bitmex

Hodl - Otherwise known as HODL! A comment that went viral from a bitcoin talk post. The concept being that if you just ‘hold’ your coins instead of trading or selling, you will make gains.

The other day I got a message from a friend that said “Natasha, its like you speak a different language, I have to google every word you say to fi nd the Crypto to English trans-lation.” It made me laugh because, well, he was right. On twitter we must sound like we’re from another planet. With that in mind, I decided to write a little Cryptoslang dic-tionary to have some fun and help everyone who is still confused out. Lets get started!


Dox - When someone publishes private information about you on the internet.

Whale - Someone who has a very large amount of any given coin’s supply.

Sleeping Giant - When you know a coin or project is good but it hasn’t had its moment to shine yet.

Lambo - (Lamborghini) - The ultimate crypto dream car that everyone wants to get when they have ‘made it’.

Corn - Bitcoin or Bitcorn, the most organic type of coin.

Normies - What people in crypto call people who don’t do or like Crypto. Some have a strange obsession with comparing Bitcoin to Tulips.

Noob - A person who is inexperienced in a particular sphere or activity, especially computing or the use of the Internet.

BTFD - Buy the f“ing dip! Buy a low point on a coin’s chart, in the hopes it has a good chance of rising.

Bullish/Bearish - Characterized by rising/falling prices, or an optimistic/pessimistic outlook on a Crypto.

Perma Bull - Someone who is always bullish (optimistic) on Crypto or Bitcoin.

Ref Link - The link to an exchange that you can share to get commission from your referral.

Scam - A Crypto that is sketchy or a Ponzi scheme. Most likely will pull an exit scam at some point in time and take everyone’s money.

Rig - A GPU or other style of mining device that cranks out shares of digital assets by hashing metadata from the most recent block.

ATH - “All-time-high”, the highest ever recorded price for whatever metric is being used to analyse a coin. E.g. ‘Bitcoin’s ATH was $20,000. It’s now trading at $12,000.’ The reverse would be “all-time-low”.

Bubble - When market participants drive the price of an asset up above its plausible value.

ICO - ‘Initial Coin Offering’ or token sale that companies use to crowdsource funds for when a project launches.

Hard Fork - A hard fork is a change to the Bitcoin protocol that makes previously invalid blocks/transactions valid, and therefore requires all users to upgrade.

So good luck you there you perma bulls! Remember to BTFD and hodl onto your hidden gems. Always shill your ref links and bags to your friends. Be sure to keep some satoshi’s or corn on hand just in case you need to grab a Lambo for your trip to the moon. Watch out for whales and oh, most impor-tantly, try not to get rekt!


RETAIL MINER-FRIENDLY SMART CONTRACT PLATFORM

LUXCOIN[LUX]https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/luxcoin/

+600% N/A 6.7m 10.44 Cryptopia

Groestlcoin (GRS)

Pirl (PIRL)

Ellaism (ELLA)

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Last month LUX’s team has made certain announcements regarding their team, website release, rebranding,

upcoming partnership, and more. As a recent coin, it also took off to new heights, at an ATH of over $16, that’s over

a 10x increase for you!

LuxCoin claims to have the most efficient GPU (graphics card) mining

algorithm, and is also ASIC (application-specific integrated circuit) resistant,

meaning that miners don’t need heavy duty machines to mine LUX. It also

has SegWit implementation, which is a protocol that segregates part of

the information in a transaction to make transactions smaller and faster.

Smart contracts are also employed. Wealthier users can run masternodes

and access a hybrid POW/POS algorithm. All-in-all, a very tempting asset to

miners and investors for its profitability and potential.

LUX made a killing right from its introduction to the cryptoassets world starting at the end of October. It

reached its ATH at the beginning of December and has since then found a somewhat steady ground between the $4.50 and $6 area. It’s forming a cup and handle

pattern, but we need to wait for confirmation in January.

[LUX] is one of the most undervalued coins out there. In the next few weeks they are implementing segwit, smart contracts, and upgrading the wallet. Additionally there

are talks of a coinburn.

In this quarter LuxCoin seeks to activate stealth addresses, and implement public and private parallel masternodes

through their LuxGate platform.

If cup and handle confirms, this means we will very likely experience another all-time-high, depending on how the

general market fairs next month. If this coin gets more mainstream awareness then a strong uptrend could form.


– CryptoGat

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DECENTRALIZED BLOCKCHAIN SOLUTIONS

STRATIS[STRAT]https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/stratis/

+144% +190% 1.3b 13 PoloniexBittrex

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Last month Stratis launched their Breeze wallet and their ICO Platform. This bode very well for Stratis and has given

the platform enough fuel to reach a new dollar ATH at the $14 level.

Stratis is a smart contract platform, and can be used by customers to build their own blockchain applications

based on the open-source code. This gives freedom for certain use cases such as scientific study, transparency,

product tracking, data recording of IoT (internet of things), and identity management.

Starting this month kicking in on $5~, STRAT has rocketed to way above $12, granting almost 200% returns. With

its incredible FA, this could very well be the new support level.

ICO platform launch and announcement of two ICOs in January.

On Q1 2018 we can expect the launching of Stratis Academy and Stratis’ alpha version of their Smart

Contracts.

Q1 2018 is looking very promising, and we’ll almost certainly see a new ATH in the next few months. Stratis goes from strength to strength, and the breeze privacy wallet coupled with the fact that it’s a smart contract

platform mean that it’s primed for success.


– CryptoTutor

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THE ORIGINAL CRYPTOCURRENCY

BITCOIN[BTC]https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bitcoin/

+28% +212% 221b 13034.6 GDAXBitfinex

Kraken

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December was a crazy month for Bitcoin. Getting more and more mainstream by the day, everyone wants it. At the

start of Dec it was at the magical $10K, and since then it skyrocketed up, touching an unbelievable 20K at one point.

It’s now corrected to around 14K. CBOE and CME futures also launched, the latter being a surprising non-event, leading to

a small dip then an immediate recovery.

Born after the housing market crash in 2008, Bitcoin was created out of the need to make a decentralized currency that is not pegged to government-issued money. Its creator, Satoshi Nakamoto, is a total mystery to everyone. This person (or group of people) stays in the shadows and removes the

focus from being a person with a political stance, to an entity who has revolutionised our world forever.

Bitcoin keeps trying to push to its ATH, with some sideways movement that’s serving as fuel before it may take off

once again. The start of 2018 will decide when the next short bear market will come, so stay on the lookout for

reversals if you’re trading short-term.

I’m still ultra-bullish towards bitcoin FA and TA speaking. With futures being here, it’s only the beginning of a

brighter 2018 ahead of us.

This month there will be a few events around blockchain tech like the Blockchain Conference in Miami, and

Blockchain Cruise in Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand.

Balancing the fact that Bitcoin’s due a short bear trend with the fact that people keep buying it regardless is an

absolute nightmare. Whatever happens, it’s unlikely there will be a dip that lasts any significant amount of time, and of course we all know where Bitcoin will be in a few years.

Perhaps Jan will see $25k.


– CryptoChief

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PRIVATE INSTANTLY VERIFIED TRANSACTIONS

PIVX[PIVX]https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/pivx/

+149% +209% 529m 9.45 CryptopiaBittrex

CoinExchange

ZCash (ZEC)

ZClassic (ZCL)

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PIVX is one of the most active coins in the crypto space. Last month they managed to more than double the value of their market cap, taking the coin from $4 to $11. Coins with good fundamentals can only have a bright future,

and PIVX is one of them.

PIVX is based on Bitcoin, with a focus on decentralization, privacy, and real use cases. Simply speaking, PIVX is a form of private and trustless digital cash that can be

exchanged, hiding transactions and their end users. It’s a currency instead of a token, which means it has the

future capability to be used directly to buy other assets.

PIVX has had a healthy climb this month from $4 and $13. With a steady 3x increase, it’s now had a week’s

consolidation at around $11. This could be new support for a higher push which may come soon.

After a year of consolidation since its meteoric rise in March 2017, PIVX has accomplished a lot. This includes the release of world’s first PoS+Masternodes+Zerocoin stack. Plenty of room for growth is an understatement.

In the next few months PIVX is seeking to implement multi-sig addresses, elastic block sizes and an encrypted chat

system right in your wallet.

Pivx is one of the most advanced privacy coins, with a great public opinion, and a strong team. The market cap is small compared to its competition, so the only way from

here is up. It performed better than many other alts in Dec, so Jan could be much the same.


– Florian

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SMART ECONOMY PLATFORM

NEO[NEO]https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/neo/

+119% +152% 4.76b 72.06 BitfinexBittrex

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Neo had such a busy schedule in December that it almost made our heads spin. Between their competition of CoX nodes on their mainnet, conferences, events, listings and

the announcement of dApp competition winners, Neo has more than doubled in price. What a journey!

Formerly known as Antshares, Neo is China’s first official Blockchain project. Headed by Da Hongfei, its goal is to

create a smart contract digital asset platform. Neo’s one of the public favourites as its price soared from $1 to highs

of over $60 after its infamous rebrand.

The charts are bullish, with an uptrend forming after an organic and steady growth phase. If fractals are to be

believed, NEO is due a large rise very soon.

With Ethereum flirting with $1000, Neo seems like a good large cap pick. Lots of action on platform and giant in

APAC. And China fud all but forgotten.

This month Neo will have several meetups throughout Europe, such as in Dublin, Hamburg, Amsterdam, and

London. They’ll also be opening a new dApp competition that will run until February 25th.

Neo’s a coin we all love to love. The public support coupled with the extremely strong team, fundamental

concept, and active development, mean that the future quite literally always looks bright for Neo.


– CryptoBully

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CoIn iN ThE

KyBeR NeTwOrK CrYsTaLs (KnC)By ThEbItCoInBeAr

Spotlight


I want to start off by reminding all of the readers that I am not perfect. Although I try my best to fi nd undervalued (or what I perceive to be

undervalued) projects, I don’t always hit the mark! Do not assume that you will make a positive return

by investing in the coin I am about to write about.

Also realize that past performance is not indicative of future success. Additionally, I have a vested interest in the success of the below coin as I have already invested into it with an intention to hold it for quite some time. Finally, I am not a fi nancial advisor, and nothing I write here is fi nancial advice.

I am writing about my research and fi ndings of Kyber Network Crystals (KNC), and anything stated here is only based on what I found online, any error in accuracy is not intentional.

KNC is currently listed on Binance and if you have not signed up already, please use my reference link: https://www.binance.com/?ref=11629636 .

First, I will go over what piqued my interest in Kyber. Then, I will go over the basics of Kyber itself.

Afterwards, I will detail what sets Kyber apart from other exchanges. I will also talk about the futures market that Kyber will introduce and end will some fi nal remarks.

One of the main reasons that Kyber fi rst caught my eye is because it was the last project that Vitalik Buterin (one of the founders, and basically the face of Ethereum) openly advised. The project that Buterin had supported immediately prior to KNC was OmiseGo, which turned out to be one of my favorite tokens as well. Therefore, I was admittedly over-excited as I began to dig into Kyber in order to fi nd out why Buterin supported it.

On a related note, something else that got me excited about Kyber personally was all of the major hype leading up to the successful ICO, followed by the extreme disappointment of investors as the price slipped closer and closer to the ICO price.

The reason why this excited me was because it made me feel as if people were narrowly focused on the hype and speculation of the project due to Buterin backing it, instead of looking at the fundamentals of the

project itself. Once the hype

surrounding Buterin died down, the price of KNC quickly slipped to 10,000 satoshis and lower. Even now the price of KNC is less than half of what it was immediately following its ICO (in terms of satoshis). This in and of itself is not a good reason to buy something, but I am emphasizing how the price seemed to be driven by the presence of Vitalik Buterin and not by the

fundamentals of the project. To me, this signalled that Kyber could potentially be undervalued if the fundamentals were strong, because it seemed as if most people did not bother to look too

deep into the project itself.

Kyber will be a decentralized exchange in which users will be able to buy and sell cryptocurrencies. In the Kyber Network there are 5 separate roles actors can partake in: Users, Reservers, Reserve Contributors, Reserve Managers, and

KyberNetwork Operators. Users will be people like me and you who want to trade cryptocurrencies on the exchange.

Reserves will be the entity(ies) that provide liquidity for the platform (by holding the reserves of crypto assets). Reserve contributors will be actors who contribute assets / money to the reserves and take a share in the profi ts (further increase liquidity). Reserve managers are the actors who will control the exchange rates in reserves. And fi nally the KyberNetwork Operators will be the ones who maintain the network by listing/delisting token pairs. At fi rst this will only be KyberNetwork employees, but will eventually be transitioned into a decentralized model.

There are a couple of unique features to Kyber which sets it apart from other exchanges in a positive way. One of the main differentiating factors is the way Kyber will exchange token A (payment) for token B (desired) for an individual user. Kyber will look through all of the reserves to determine the best route from A → B which will allow the best exchange rate.

Individiual A may be paying in BTC and want

I am a PhD student who deals with the creation of biosensors for small molecules as well as pathogens. I was fi rst introduced to Bitcoin when it was 200 dollars, and remember watching it crash from 250 - 50.

“I WAS ADMITTEDLY OVER-EXCITED AS I BEGAN TO DIG INTO KYBER IN ORDER TO

FIND OUT WHY BUTERIN SUPPORTED IT.”

Twitter: @cryptotrendz


LTC. However, Kyber may fi rst exchange individual A’s bitcoins for ETH and then exchange the ETH for LTC if it provides a better exchange rate for individual A. To me, this is a huge advantage over traditional exchanges as it seemingly eliminates non-effi cient exchange rates and their characteristic arbitrage opportunities within the Kyber exchange itself.

Additionally, Kyber will take advantage of their new wallet contract which will allow Kyber to send tokens on to the user’s desired destination on their behalf. The destination address will receive the converted tokens as if the tokens were sent from the sender, not the Kyber contract. This couples with the novel feature above which convulutes the path of A → B but may provide a better exchange rate.

Something else that I’m excited about is Kybers proposed integration into already used and popularized wallets such as MyEtherWallet, Jaxx, and others. I feel like this is a big plus which will help the adoption of this decentralized exchange. For months I put off signing up for new exchanges because it was a slight inconvenience, however the easier the transition is, the better user adoption will be. I believe that user adoption will also be aided for other reasons which I describe in my fi nal notes.

Another aspect which I believe has been completely overlooked by many is the implementation of futures markets into Kyber. Kyber will have futures in the forms of what they call “forwards” and “options”. Forwards will allow two parties to trade a cryptocurrency pair at a later time but at a predetermined price.

For example, if person A thinks the price of ETH will go up in 10 days, they can create futures contracts to purchase ETH in 10 days around the current market price.

Options are a bit more complicated. They are meant to protect against a perceived drop in price and come in the form of calls and puts. Call options give the owner of the contract

the right to purchase a crypto asset at an agreed upon price. Put options are the opposite.

Owners of the contract must also pay a fee called a premium which is calculated using the implied volatility of the underlying asset. It was not stated in their whitepaper how this volatility calculation will be made, but I will assume it will be fairly reasonable. And, from what I understand, party A will write the contract, and party B will purchase the contract and be responsible for the premium attached to it.

Previously, I have stated that futures are dangerous instruments in the highly volatile

cryptocurrency markets. However, I am not personally excited to partake in the Kyber futures markets; I am excited because I see a high demand for a futures market, and don’t really know of another platform in which you will be able to trade derivatives with arbitrary cryptocurrencies.

Kyber will provide a trustless exchange which will offer instant trades, low fees (I assume), and high liquidity for users. Overall I am very excited for the Kyber mainnet to come out this quarter (Q1 2018). I

believe that the demand for decentralized exchanges will continue to grow, and can see Kyber being the forerunner of them all.

Conversely, being fi rst to market is one of the

largest competitive advantages that a product can receive when obtaining and retaining market share in a fi eld. However, In my opinion, Kyber can overcome this obstacle for a slew of different reasons.

For one, if there continues to be issues with the exchanges that were fi rst to market, for example

users losing funds or being hacked, then the demand for a novel decentralized exchange will grow. Additionally, I don’t think we can underestimate the power of Vitalik Buterin being an advisor to this project; I’m not saying we should blindly listen to or follow an individual (myself included), but I believe that Buterin may talk about Kyber closer to its mainnet launch which will give the exchange a lot of publicity.

On top of that, the second most important

competitive advantage a product can receive is being the best in the market. I believe that Kyber can defi nitely steal this attribute because of the wide range of

products it will offer, its integration with popular wallets, and its utility token which will increase in scarcity as more get burned through the use of the exchange.

I did not go over every feature of Kyber, and I encourage you to do your own research if you choose to invest in this cryptocurrency.

The english version of the Kyber whitepaper can be found here:

https://kyber.network

“FOR MONTHS I PUT OFF SIGNING UP FOR NEW

EXCHANGES BECAUSE IT WAS A SLIGHT INCONVENIENCE, HOWEVER THE EASIER THE TRANSITION IS, THE BETTER USER ADOPTION WILL BE.”

“BEING FIRST TO MARKET IS ONE OF THE LARGEST

COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGES THAT

A PRODUCT CAN RECEIVE”


HOW TO FIND LOW CAP GEMSby CryptoGat

In a few simple steps I am going to teach you how I fi nd my gems. Low marketcap coins can be risky, but if you fi nd the right ones the profi ts are insane. There are a few important things you

need to look at.

IS THE IDEA UNIQUE?The most important thing when trying to fi nd lowcaps with HUGE potential is examining the project as a whole.

Are there other projects that offer the same thing?

• If yes - then you must dig in and fi nd out if the project you are looking at will be BETTER than the current options. Look through the whitepaper (red fl ag if they don’t have one) Compare the marketcap of the project with its competition – if the project has a lower marketcap, then it has room to grow

• If it is unique – will this project solve existing problems in the space?

Examine the technology behind it Go through forums like bitcointalk and reddit – is there a strong community backing it?

Are they professional?From the start the developers should be acting in a professional manner. The website should be up to date and appealing (10 year olds can make websites now-a-days), they should have multiple social media platforms up and running, and most importantly

the team should be transparent and responsive.

ConclusionUsing this simple criterion can help you fi nd some promising lowcaps. Always remember,

lowcaps are very risky and have low liquidity – only invest a little.

IS THE PROJECT LEGIT?Some lowcaps seem “too good to be true”. If you get that impression, typically it is a scam project! There are a few things to look at to fi nd out whether or not it is a scam:

• Look at their GitHub and see if there is a demo – how often do they make commits? How many developers are working on the project? Is the code original, or a fork?

• Find the roadmap and see if the developers have been meeting their milestones

• Who are the devs? Do they have experience in cryptocurrency AND the fi eld related to the project?

Sometimes it is best to wait for more development on lowcaps before you buy them. Buying earlier can result in huge returns, but it can be risky.

Twitter: @CryptoGat


TOP 5TOP 5Well, we’ve seen all the way from 21 to 6, and now it’s time for our top 5

picks of the month!

Buckle up and get ready, and as always, do your own research

(DYOR)!

Figures accurate at time of publishingPAGE 30 21 CRYPTOS ISSUE 3

BANK THE UNBANKED WITH CRYPTO

OMISEGO[OMG]https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/omisego/

+97% +64% 1.8b 16.01 BitfinexBittrex

Binance

Metal (MTL)

Ethos (ETHOS)

Everex (EVX)

GROWTH PAST 30 DAYS


0.0

9.3

18.6

PRICE (US$)

19

9.5

0

LOW: 7.88 HIGH: 18.5

DECEMBER 2017 JAN 1



P R E D I CT I O N

In December, OMG managed to be listed on the Korean exchange Coinnest, and have two of their

representatives speak at the Blockchain World Conference in Bangkok, Thailand. They also managed to move from alpha to closed beta, a stage known as

‘Fuseki’ on their roadmap.

OmiseGo is a payment platform project within the large Thai company Omise. They help solve a fundamental

problem of coordination between payment processors, gateways and financial institutions. OmiseGO is a start-up lead by Jun Hasegawa and Donnie Harinsut, founders of

Omise, which was set up in 2013.

Just like basically all other good assets this month, OMG has found a new ATH. It hit above $20, and has now

fallen back to a support between $12 and $15. There’s a definite upward trend in the making.

OmiseGo will always be a personal favorite of mine. Like Kyber, OMG will have a POS decentralized exchange in which stakers will earn a portion of the profits generated through fees. Both Kyber and OMG are advised by Vitalik

Buterin.

Investors can participate in the closed beta SDK available on their blog. The beta version of SDK is being built by a strategic partner, a ‘huge multinational company’, who

for now will remain unknown.

OmiseGO has a great cause - to bank the unbanked. This, coupled with their great public opinion and seemingly

unstoppable events and partnership news schedule means that their team is set for success. If the ‘huge

multinational’ partner is revealed in Jan, then we can bet the price is going to skyrocket.


– TheBitcoinBear

TA FAROOM TOGROW

UPCOMINGEVENTS

PUBLICOPINION

3 4 4 3 4

TOTAL SCORE

91%

05


BLOCKCHAIN PLATFORM, INCUBATOR, AND ECOSYSTEM

DRAGONCHAIN[DRGN]https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/dragonchain/

+223% N/A 305m 0.84 KucoinEtherDelta

Cardano (ADA)

EOS (EOS)

Ubiq (UBQ)

GROWTH PAST 30 DAYS


0.00

0.59

1.18

PRICE (US$)

1.2

0.6

0

LOW: 0.22 HIGH: 1.17

DECEMBER 2017 JAN 1



P R E D I CT I O N

What a crazy ride it has been in December for Dragonchain holders! If you bought it at the ICO you’ve probably seen the

amazing journey from $0.06 to an incredible $1.20 ATH. December was, in general, an amazing month for smallers caps to gain,

and Dragonchain, with its amazing fundamentals, was right on in there. It’s now sitting at the top 100. Who knows how many rungs

of the ladder it will climb in January?

Not only a blockchain platform, Dragonchain also aims to be a marketplace and incubator. You can build your own scalable

platform using established languages like Java, Python, Node, and C#. The incubator allows you to have early access to projects built

on top of it, supported by a marketplace where you can utilise smart contracts, specialized experts, and purchasable platforms. Joe

Roets is the CEO. He has former experience in software architecture at The Walt Disney Company.

In its short life, the charts show a healthy climb, finding a more or less stable support around the $.80 area, with a

very strong support around $.40. The potential in this coin is immense, and could very well be among the top 20

next year.

Anyone who follows me on twitter knows my love for this project. The announcement of their “slumber score” encourages holding. Currently sitting over $1 (from $.06

ICO).

DragonChain will be releasing their Look Lateral project pre-sale for investors built upon their DragonChain

incubator, it aims to make art accessible to all.

The bulls ran wild after the ICO crowdsale ended. It has gone up more than 33 times its ICO price, which is a

crazy gain compared to most coins in this space, but a completely plausible one - this is Crypto afterall. A higher

rise is also very plausible in Jan.


– CryptoBully

TA FAROOM TOGROW

UPCOMINGEVENTS

PUBLICOPINION

4 4 4 2 4

TOTAL SCORE

92%

04


SPEND YOUR CRYPTO PROFITS IN THE REAL WORLD

TENX[PAY]https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/tenx/

+65% +41% 410m 3.53 Bit-ZBittrex

Huobi

Monaco (MCO)

Centra (CTR)

TokenCard (TKN)

GROWTH PAST 30 DAYS


0.0

2.4

4.8

PRICE (US$)

4.8

2.4

0

LOW: 1.93 HIGH: 4.78

DECEMBER 2017 JAN 1



P R E D I CT I O N

Recently TenX has implemented more cryptocurrencies and scalable payment operations for Europe. They

currently accept Bitcoin, Ether and ERC20 tokens on beta, as well as Dash. Its price has spiked, almost hitting $6 a

token.

TenX allows you to finally spend your crypto gains in the real world. 50 countries accept the TenX card, and it

has no spending or exchanging fees. TenX was built by Toby Hoenisch, Julian Hosp, Michael Sperk, Paul Kitti, and

several others.

In the long-term TenX seems to be forming a cup & handle, a very bullish sign. It’s had a few months of consolidation, so now’s a pretty good entry point.

TenX is a well-marketed, well-developed project with a healthy product. They lead the real-world payment

brands, and as soon as Crypto goes mainstream they’re probably going to rule the world.

On January 1st Tenx will start issuing cards worldwide, which is great for those living in under-developed

countries and for those who are unbanked. This can be big for investors, depending on the demand from

customers.

TenX holds the brand top spot in terms of ‘real world’ every day usage. After a lot of consolidation, it could be

ready to start a strong uptrend. With their cards being issued worldwide imminently, we won’t have to wait long

to find out.


– V

TA FAROOM TOGROW

UPCOMINGEVENTS

PUBLICOPINION

4 3 4 4 3

TOTAL SCORE

94%

03


P2P ELECTRICITY SURPLUS TRADING ON THE BLOCKCHAIN

POWER LEDGER[POWR]https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/power-ledger/

+27% +1375% 308m 0.83 BinanceBittrex

Cryptopia

SunContract

GROWTH PAST 30 DAYS


0.0

0.6

1.2

PRICE (US$)

1.3

0.65

0

LOW: 0.5 HIGH: 1.2

DECEMBER 2017 JAN 1



P R E D I CT I O N

Last month POWR was launched on Changelly, has partnered up with BCPG to bring renewable energy to

Thailand, has made it as finalist on the Talent Unleashed Awards, and was listed on KuCoin. A big month!

Power Ledger is a blockchain-based P2P energy trading platform that allows users to trade their energy surplus through the trustless network without a middleman. It launched in May 2016 and has been very active with

conferences and partnerships.

It entered the markets in November at $0.05, and hasin less than two months been able to achieve more

than 2000% its value since the token sale. It’s in a stronguptrend (with occasional due corrections). It’s currently

sitting in a stable support at $.90.

Awesome solution that covers one of the main issues in blockchain. Still in early stages of development. It’s

moving greatly across institutional players.

This month POWR is one of the 10 semi-finalists in the Extreme Tech Challenge taking place in Las Vegas. Dr. Jemma Green, the co-founder, will be speaking at the

World Economic Forum.

With its incredible FA and the partnerships they keep amassing, the long-term scenario for POWR looks very

bullish. There was also rumour of them being in talks with Tesla, but this is unsubstantiated.


– Crypto Rand

TA FAROOM TOGROW

UPCOMINGEVENTS

PUBLICOPINION

3 4 4 3 4

TOTAL SCORE

95%

02

(Nov 01>)


SMART CONTRACTS FOR AN AUTOMATED WORLD

UBIQ[UBQ]https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/ubiq/

+231% +204% 212m 5.33 CryptopiaBittrex

Ethereum

Icon

Lisk

GROWTH PAST 30 DAYS


0.0

2.7

5.4

PRICE (US$)

5.4

2.7

0

LOW: 1.58 HIGH: 5.33

DECEMBER 2017 JAN 1



P R E D I CT I O N

Last month was a crazy ride for Ubiq, finding an ATH at 4.5 times its support price ($1.70~). A lot of voices are bringing awareness to this great project, some even

saying that it’s the most undervalued of the top 100 coins.

Ubiq is a decentralized network that allows the creation and implementation of smart contracts and dApps.

Inspired by Ethereum codebase, Ubiq is a decentralized global ledger and supercomputer, a powerful tool for developers to automate everyday tasks carried out by

middlemen.

In the last days of December there was a huge spike in price that is currently finding a support. The steadiest

support is still at the $4 area. There may be consolidation and then a rise after January 1st.

Very undervalued platform for the service it provides. I wouldn’t be surprised to see a $1-2b market cap in the near future. I wouldn’t quite call it the new ETH, but it’s

not far off

There will be a token distribution to UBQ wallet holders on January 1st.

Ubiq is one of the projects people may talk about in a year or so as having ‘only been $10 a year ago’. It

may not quite be the next Ethereum, but it’s definitely a contender. Short-term - awareness is growing and the charts look great. Wait for a consolidation or correction

and then BTFD!


– V

TA FAROOM TOGROW

UPCOMINGEVENTS

PUBLICOPINION

4 4 4 2 4

TOTAL SCORE

98%

01


Sure, you could get someone to send you some as a test. But to generate yourself a

Bitcoin address and receive them, you’d have to do 99% of that work anyway. So in the meantime why not type in one command line and wait for your computer to make a few on its own?

This is the foundational genius of cryptocurrencies, cryptoassets, cryptotokens, whatever you want to call them-- this is what it is. If you have access to a computer, electricity to make it work, and a network to which you can connect... you can create your own valuable asset, from the work you do with those tools. By the power of mining, if you are

able to get online, then you have access to income, to safe savings, to purchasing power. You don’t have to buy anything. You do not need anyone’s permission to hold (hodl wasn’t invented yet!), save, spend or trade your bitcoins. Your wallet is a node on a network of money. All nodes follow the same rules, and reject those who break those rules.

Nobody can tell you whether or not you’re allowed to participate in the bitcoin ruleset, and the Money-over-Internet-Protocol it enables. Specifi cally, nobody who is normally in charge of the money and valuable assets people generally use: governments.

This ethos is why Libertarians

WHAT IS $MINING AND WHY SHOULD

I CARE?By Notsofast

ARTICLE 1 OF 3 (MINING SERIES)This is the fi rst of three installments in the @notsofast $mining

series, a 21cryptos exclusive.

In the beginning, there was only mining.

If you wanted some bitcoins, it was up to you to head over to bitcointalk, download the open source Bitcoin code, compile it yourself, and set your computer’s CPU to start processing sha256 hashes in the hopes your work would discover the nonce of the next block’s header and earn you 50 bitcoins.

Twitter: @notsofast

fell in love with Bitcoin so hard! This is also where I fi rst entered the story. I’m not a hardline libertarian, so although I thought the philosophy of Bitcoin was cool af in 2011, I wasn’t super interested. Libertarians are not a dominant force in society, I reasoned, and if Bitcoin was money for Libertarians, Bitcoin couldn’t ever be a dominant force in money. So when I downloaded a Bitcoin-QT wallet, I didn’t bother typing setgenerate true -1 into its console, and I left it on my hard drive to rot.

Until the end of 2013, when I found a Dogecoin meme on Imgur. Immediately I recalled that cranky Bitcoin ethos, and liked how Dogecoin’s irreverence turned it around


and spanked its ass. Here was a version of Bitcoin that didn’t take itself too seriously... that had a random block reward for the hell of it... that had a massive supply so anyone could have and use a whole bunch... this was a version of MoIP I could get behind. I love underdogs. I love memes. I love trolling those who take themselves too seriously. And I believe, or did at the time, that Planet Earth is just crazy enough for Dogecoin to challenge Bitcoin, as an implementation of it that more people-- MOST people-- might end up actually using. I wanted some. I downloaded a DOGE wallet and visited faucets that airdripped me tiny amounts of DOGE. It was an awesome fi rst day as a cryptocurrency fan. But on Day 2, the faucets were empty. And I still wanted more Dogecoins.

I didn’t want to sign up to a shady website and send real dollars to buy bitcoins and then turn around and buy dogecoins with those bitcoins. That was a ridiculous idea, to trust multiple websites to take my real money for my intangible playcoins. So the remaining option was to buy a couple of gaming GPUs I could sell later if/when the hobby died out, and make them myself.

This is how LOTS of people got into crypto, and stayed. We were Dogecoiners. We could create our own money for fun.

And then Dogecoin pumped like hell on the cryptomarkets, and suddenly our hobby became for fun AND profi t.

The profi t started to change everything, and FAST.

First the PC gaming community had fl exed its build skills. Its members had begun adding more than one GPU to a computer, making even the most tricked-out gamer’s rig look like an empty box by comparison, all in the name of tweaking for more bitcoins more effi ciently. Then miners had begun building and running multiples of these Frankensteins, in parallel,

creating a run on the retail GPU market that left shelves empty to the puzzlement of big box stores, totally throwing the “I’ll just resell to gamers” backup plan out the window (unless you knew like ninety basements’ worth of gamers).

Then dedicated ASIC machines hit the marketplace, designed to

only mine Bitcoins, making everyone’s investment in bitcoin-mining GPUs instantly obsolete-- but they could still mine Dogecoins (or Litecoins or several other coins), and dump them for Bitcoins, or trade them for profi t, or HODL them tight. New variations of Bitcoin with parameters designed to be better and fairer than bitcoin started springing up, rallying miners to support them and earn mounting value for that support. We saw altcoins challenging Bitcoin’s status, or altcoins that defi ed Bitcoin’s sha-256 ASICs by using new consumer-hardware-mineable algos. We saw novelty coins, scamcoins, colourcoins, themecoins, you name it. We saw a dozen new coins to mine, every day. Miners could employ multiple strategies to earn wealth in so many ways that played to individual strengths-- computer hardware chops, trading skills, a knack for identifying good projects before anyone else-- mining became an edge that

PAID.The crypto network of

money grew and mining grew with it. Today we have giant Chinese farms burning cheap coal to mine bitcoins and offl oading the environmental externality costs to the planet’s future. We have hundreds of mineable currencies and hundreds more that you only get by

buying, not mining. We have coins using algorithms that can only be mined with CPUs, or GPUs, or their own special ASIC machines.

For every thousand people that have read an article saying Chinese farms have a monopoly on mining crypto, there is a home miner out there

exploiting the gap between that idea and the truth, and making BANK. You know how you lord your 5x ICO gainz over traditional investors who used to brag about their banner years of 20% profi t? Mining for profi t can exploit a more complex game-theory interaction of timing, economics, and information asymmetry to make that 5x

look just as silly. (How silly? I will not get into specifi cs here, because a) it is good practice to show not tell; b) it is better practice to keep this hypothetical and devalue miners as targets for hax; and c) you wouldn’t believe the gainz, dear reader.)

Yes, there are plenty of ways to make money in crypto besides mining.

You can buy ICOs whose tokens live on other networks. However, when you buy an ICO at retail value, you are paying its issuers what they have dictated that their

“This is how LOTS of people got into crypto, and stayed. We were

Dogecoiners. We could create our own money

for fun.”

“Then dedicated ASIC machines hit the marketplace, designed to only mine Bitcoins, making

everyone’s investment in bitcoin-mining GPUs instantly obsolete”


project is worth. But do you trust the ICO issuers not to give massive discounts to secret bulk buyers, whose breakeven on the investment is one tenth what yours is, in order to raise more money for themselves? Do you trust them not to buy their own ICO tokens to infl ate their numbers for the sake of promotion? Do you even trust they need the massive amounts of money they say they need in the fi rst place? Between the initial ICO valuation period-- where the issuers tell you how much their project is worth, by stating what they “need” to raise-- and the later period, after the trading market for their tokens matures, the token will go through something called price discovery. This is where the market, over time, fi gures out what the project is ACTUALLY worth, by reaching an equilibrium between buyers and sellers.

That equilibrium, for a pre-product pre-income venture, is almost always going to be lower than the ICO’s number of tokens outstanding times its full retail token price as issued, due to the issuers’ greed or optimism, and the discounts only the issuers can truly quantify. Fundamentals-- which at the beginning are just vapourware promises and unauthorized pictures of Vitalik Buterin as an Advisor-- only matter as a speculative premium on price, until and unless that venture gets a product, a userbase, and revenue. This boils down to one thing: price discovery for an ICO is probably going to start high and trend downward, and as an investor, you are fi ghting against those odds. And we’re not even going to get into how the American SEC wants to protect you from those bad odds...

You can buy tokens who

secure their respective networks via Proof-of-Stake, for the passive income. PoS is fantastic, but it’s got an inherent problem: vulnerability to a Sybil attack, where an attacker spoofs (pretends to be) a whole bunch of unique nodes on the network, and coerces the

network to his favour, without anyone else knowing the network is full of fake nodes. There are decent band-aids, and even better tech on its way to fi xing this with fi nality,

so I don’t suggest you avoid PoS because of Sybil attack risk, just know that it exists. However, PoS’s reliability at scale isn’t as conclusively proven as Proof-of-Work or PoW mining is. You may, as I often do, value the passive income from PoS projects more than the risk of Sybil attack. But you’ve assessed that risk by looking at stake generation and the richlist in the block explorer, right? Right?

You can get airdrops. These are pretty sweet: you get tokens for free. Oh, except you have to fi ll out a form on a website that fi ngerprints your browser, OS, and IP address, and serves you an ad with a password-stealing keylogger in it. Or you have to download a wallet with a trojan in it that steals all the other crypto on your computer AND creeps your webcam. Or I’m being a pessimist and these free tokens are legit and make it to a marketplace where they trade for... almost zero. (What did you expect for free?!) There are always rare exceptions of legitimate airdrops from which you can grind out some additional working capital, even valuable airdrops, but these are few and far between.

Notice a similarity between these three ways to get crypto? They all require you to buy at someone else’s

price, or jump through someone else’s hoop, in order to participate. Mining is unique in that you can make a capital investment with resale value, and then forever choose what to mine, or even whether to mine at all. You are in control. Unlike PoS, you can mine whatever you want, rather than only produce small amounts of the asset you bought (or some specifi c related asset). Unlike an ICO, you know your mining costs and can choose the effective price you pay via mining breakeven, rather than taking an issuer’s word for it-- and no agency has to give you permission, or legalize over what work your computer does to reward you. And unlike airdrops, you can choose what you want to earn, when you want to earn it. Sure there are unique risks to mining, like a pool not paying you, or capital depreciation/obsolescence of your rigs, but you can account for these. They don’t stand in the way of your full and complete control.

Maybe most importantly, mining introduces you to an important set of fundamentals you may have ignored in your investing. If you’ve bought a PoW coin without knowing what it cost to mine it, you may have been the other side of the trade belonging to a spec miner taking extreme multiples in profi t. From your pocket. This is the information gap I mentioned earlier, which directly pays miners. No information gap or profi t opportunity? The miner turns off the rig, or points it somewhere else. Information gap that can reduce risk or increase profi t? The miner turns on the rig and mines like hell.

You want to be the miner, don’t you?

“They all require you to buy at

someone else’s price, or jump

through someone else’s hoop”


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THE TWITTER COMMUNITY: MY FAVORITE CRYPTO

CANTINA & DISCOVERING WORLDS OF OPPORTUNITY

COLLEEN GREENWOOD


When fi rst entering the crypto space as an absolute noob, there

are many options at your fi ngertips for learning the ropes -- YouTube, Google, Bitcointalk.org, Reddit. They all pale in comparison, IMHO to Twitter. Once you get the hang of it and fi gure out who to follow, it is a veritable gold mine of both information and drama.

The latest news is always circulating and you can quickly cut through the B.S. that the mainstream media has been regularly guilty of, as the articles that have been tweeted will have an impassioned fi restorm of comments debunking misinformation while raking the reporters though the hot coals of the unforgiving Crypto-Twitter jury.

In fact, within my fi rst week of having bought bitcoin, I had come across a

frightening article from one of the major media outlets that nearly had me ready to throw in the towel. You know, the typical “Bitcoin is a scam” story. I recall fl inching while reading it as my heart sank into my stomach. After having determined with my typical blind conviction that investing in crypto would make me a multimillionaire in a few years time, this news hit me like ton of bricks and

my whole world suddenly seemed to be moving in slow motion. It was like I was walking in a dream world; a horrifi c, nightmarish

dream world. My shoulders sagged as it dawned on me that I would have to break this terrible news to my friend, the eager gas station attendant that had just set me up with bitcoin.

I hung my head as I proceeded to text him the link to the depressingly unpleasant article, knowing it would rob the wind from his sails. “F*ck!” was the only accompanying word I could

muster to send along with the link.

My phone beeped with his reply almost immediately. “Fake News” was all it said.

“Did you even read the article?!” I replied in disbelief.

“I only needed to read the headline. It’s fake news.” he reiterated.

I wasn’t sure what to think. I hastily logged into

The last fi ve months of the year 2017 would be, in short, one of the most extraordinary fi ve months in my history on this bewildering orb we call Earth.

Of course, I didn’t know it on that humid August evening when I enthusiastically bought my fi rst fraction of bitcoin at my local gas station. Having had zero background in fi nance or tech, I didn’t know anything really, which is a strangely wonderful position to be in.

Everything that I was to encounter was new and mysterious and exciting in a way you can’t imagine. CryptoLand was full of words I’d never heard before -- blockchain, Satoshis, white paper, segwit. I didn’t know how to correctly pronounce OmiseGO. For all I knew, “hash rate” was a unit of measure for how high one can get while smoking jazz cabbage, mining was simply a way to unearth coal, and PoS was a term I’d been using to describe a slow driver I’d gotten stuck behind while running late to get to work in the morning. I didn’t have the faintest idea what DYOR, ICO, FOMO, or FUD stood for. I was positively radiant with ignorance.

“POS WAS A TERM I’D BEEN USING TO DESCRIBE

A SLOW DRIVER I’D GOTTEN STUCK BEHIND WHILE RUNNING LATE”

“If you hang out with chickens, you’re going to cluck. If you hang out with eagles, you’re going to fl y.”

- Dr. Steve Maraboli

Twitter: @CryptoNoobGirl


my freshly created Twitter account to see if I could fi nd the article being passed around. Sure enough, it was there. I intently read through the comments and as I had hoped, the crypto community had already taken the reporter to task. I rolled my shoulders to ease the tension in the back of my neck as a corner of my mouth curled up to a lopsided grin. Being somewhat of a tin foil hatter, this was suffi cient enough for me and my faith in bitcoin was wholly restored. “Fantastic!” I texted back to my friend as I nodded to myself in agreement.

Once you start hanging out on Crypto-Twitter long enough, you start to realize that not only is it helpful, but it’s also a lot of fun. It somewhat reminds me of my favorite dive bar. So many strange characters are lurking about and you never know what kind of conversations you’ll end up in until you have a seat next to them. You start bumping elbows with some interesting people, many of whom are completely anonymous, choosing avatars and fake names to protect their identities. Actually, I suppose Twitter feels more like hanging out in the Star Wars cantina, now that I think of it. I’ve gone from being a social butterfl y in “real” life, to favoring hanging out at home online with an army of muppets, felines, dogs, whales, cows, ham-cats, drunken ducks, movie stars, cartoon characters, and superheroes. Hek, there’s even an empty beer bottle that you can chat with! It’s truly marvelous.

Twitter can be a very useful tool when getting a feel for the sentiment of a currency or the market in general. But, it can also help you to fi nd your style and fi ne-tune your strategies. The people (most of them) of Twitter

are wonderful. They (for the most part) want to see you succeed, as your success will ensure their success as well by continuing to increase adaptation. I’ve had many of my noob questions graciously answered, found moral support during diffi cult times, and been pointed in the right direction more times than I can count. The fact is, you can’t fake that kind of warmth. You just can’t. I’ve tried. And it seems to me, you just don’t encounter such warmth from strangers that often, unless they’re drunk or have a hard-on.

One thing leads to another, as the saying goes. I’ve found this to be very true with almost anything in life, especially now with Crypto-Twitter. In the fi ve short months I’ve been in this space, I’ve had the pleasure of witnessing some amazing opportunities unfold for some amicable and deserving people and I have even managed to experience a

few nifty things for myself. What a thrill it was when my new, anonymous “superhero” friend who had been messaging me about his frustration working in a soul-sucking offi ce job wrote me one day, ecstatic that he was fi nally able to quit

and go full time into crypto. Seeing other people achieve their goals is a beautiful thing.

One of my favorite stories is about another new friend of mine whom I only recognize online as a funny movie character avatar. If I bumped into him on

the street I would never know it was him since he’s another anonymous account, but I feel comfortable using the term friend. I’m not sure exactly how we became pals at fi rst. He was mainly posting really bad toilet humor jokes when I came across his account, but they cracked me up and I couldn’t resist interacting with him. At the time, he had maybe 40 followers and it seemed like he was spending a good amount of his time tweeting juvenile thoughts into thin air, just for something to do.

One day, I recall him hanging out at a playground in the afternoon where he had taken his child. He was eavesdrop-ping on a small group

of hooligan kids that were within earshot and took it upon himself to “live-tweet” what those kids were bab-bling about. I was thou-sands of miles away from this scene, reading word for word what a few tweens

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were saying about girls and other arbitrary young boy affairs, most of which would have likely gotten them grounded had their mothers overheard the conversations. It was rather ridiculous and humorous to say the least, and his account promptly became one of my favorites to follow. It didn’t take very long, just a few short months before many other people started to take notice of his offbeat brand of humor. As fate would have it, he is now a co-host of a wildly suc-cessful crypto Podcast and a popular twitter personality. You just never know what is waiting for you around the corner.

Crypto is a growing space. Even if you’re not a tech whiz or have a background in fi nance, there are many opportunities to be had. In my case, I was serendipitously offered a gig writing for this magazine after not having written much more than grocery lists on Post-it notes for several years. I had been a hobbyist writer previously while in my school days and it has been wonderfully gratifying to knock the rust off of my writing tools. Evidently goofi ng around and hanging out online after a having few drinks can have its rewards.

Making new friends “in real life” that I would have otherwise never encountered has also been an amusing side effect of joining the crypto community. While on vacation in a bustling metropolis recently, I tweeted my whereabouts

and inquired if anyone would be interested in grabbing coffee or a drink and chatting about crypto. I had the good fortune of meeting up with two very opposite individuals. One,

a humble radiologist who is an avid HODLer and passionate about mining. Sampling various gins at a cozy neighborhood bar, we had roucous discussions on world travel, the meaning of

life, and what makes us tick. The other, a mischievous yet incredibly kind full-time trader whom I wouldn’t be shocked to fi nd out that he was a member of Mensa. We bar hopped around the city discussing some of my favorite topics: quantum physics, the supernatural, and other mysteries of the universe.

Garnering new insight into two very different approaches to investing as I fi nd my way in this space: valuable.

Making new wonderful friends: priceless.

As another example, not long ago I accepted an invitation to a somewhat exclusive crypto meetup weekend in Miami where I partied with complete strangers (only having known their twitter handles) while we mingled in posh nightclubs, restaurants, and even a yacht. A freaking YACHT of all things. It was so cringe-inducingly stereotypical Miami. I LOVED it! The whole weekend felt like a strangely glamorous movie, which I had absolutely no business being in, as I am rather accustomed to shabby

“SEEING OTHER PEOPLE ACHIEVE THEIR

GOALS IS A BEAUTIFUL THING.”

dives. I felt almost like an “extra” that had gotten lost on a movie set and accidentally walked through the middle of the fi lming of a main scene, but the director never yelled “Cut! Get this crazy person off of my set!” Everyone in the crew had clearly been into crypto for quite some time and were rather successful in that endeavor. Most of them made their livings solely trading bitcoin or working in some manner in the fi eld.

Being an utter crypto noob and having a somewhat run of the mill career in the insurance industry, I worried I’d feel awkward and somewhat out of place. As luck would have it, just by being in this relatively small and niche landscape of crypto, I was warmly welcomed by the group, making me feel almost as though I was now part of some fabulous secret society. I emerged from the weekend with a legendary hangover that could make Keith Richards wince, an inexplicably sprained ankle, some new perspectives on crypto, and a handful of new acquaintances and friends. It was perfectly fantastic.

Don’t kid yourself that you have to be some particular type of person to do well or thrive in this space. You don’t have to know everything about every aspect of blockchain or trading. All you really need is patience, a willingness to learn, and balls of steel in this volatile space. No matter your goals and hopes in embarking on the crypto journey, whether they be humanitarian, anarchistic, or simply to make money and gain personal freedom: don’t be afraid to stick your head out a bit and interact with the community. We don’t have cookies, but we do have sick charts and fart jokes.


I am a real estate developer in New York City who specializes in securing investments from high-level commercial developers across state lines. In my

off time I shoot editorials and high fashion, I have been featured in several prestigious magazines as a professional photographer. Appearing in magazines such as Dark Beauty and Maxim. I am the fi rst woman to establish a professional roundtable (The Moonshot Groups Crypto Roundtable) consisting of ex-forex professionals, hackers & software developers, and network security analysts. The focus? To educate their community and bounce information off one another. There is power in numbers and this group proves it.

Twitter: @ThePinkCrypto

MONETIZING EXCESS ENERGYDEMOCRATIZATION OF POWER

OWNED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE WORLDRE-IMAGINING THE ELECTRICITY NETWORK

CO-CREATING THE ENERGY SYSTEM OF THE FUTUREBRINGING HUMANITY TO THE ENERGY SYSTEM

POWER LEDGER AMAWITH

PAMELA PAIGE

We are no stranger to Power Ledger here at the Moonshot Group, but now we have a chance to have our questions answered directly!

If you would like more information on the Power Ledger project their website and whitepapers are linked below.

https://powerledger.io/https://powerledger.io/media/Power-Ledger-Whitepaper-v3.pdf

DAVE FROM POWER LEDGER WILL BE ANSWERING QUESTIONS TODAY.


QWhat do your current media marketing/public relations/communications strategies look like at the moment, and how do you feel about Power Ledger's participation in the semi-fi nals of the Extreme Tech Challenge 2018?

ADuring our ICO it was all hands on deck and we had some help from an external social media and PR company. We’ve just hired a Community and Marketing manager in-house (she started Monday!) and part of her role is to take a step back from the madness and strategically plan what little steps we need to take for the bigger picture. That includes what events we need to speak at, what interviews we should be doing and how our social media presence should evolve to get us to our business goals and keep us on track. We’re a small team, so we have to be strategic about where we spend our energy.

We’re very excited about being semi-fi nalists in the Extreme Tech Challenge 2018 and I’ll be in Vegas for it in January. It’s an honour to be semi-fi nalists with such a high calibre list of companies. We’re also organising a Vegas meet-up beforehand -- we’ve locked in a date and once the time and venue are confi rmed we’ll share the details with our community.

QHow does this spread outside of Australia? How do individual jurisdictions intersect with the POWR marketplace? Won’t energy in place A with QWE circumstances always differ in price from place B with XYZ circumstances?

AThe dual token structure of the Power Ledger platform provides interoperability across multiple jurisdictions. POWR tokens provide the licence to operate the system and tying the value of the Sparkz to the lowest denomination of the local currency means we can operate with ease in multiple jurisdictions with differentially priced energy systems.

QI know you guys have already partnered with Mahindra, one of the biggest companies in one of the most populated country (India). Lots of European countries have made commitments to 100% green energy by certain years, are you trying to partner with those countries? If yes, are you in talks with some of them now?

ADefi nitely! The commitment to 100% green energy is a really promising thing for us. LISD (The Liechtenstein Institute for Strategic Development) will become the fi rst European Application Host to offer Power Ledger’s blockchain-based peer-to-peer energy trading platform in Europe, which we announced in November.

We’ll support the development of low-cost, low-carbon distributed energy markets in microgrid developments there which is really exciting. Power Ledger will support LISD in marketing, planning and developing the metering, market settlement and reconciliation components of microgrids while LISD promotes and develops sustainable microgrid developments and other trading uses based on renewable energy and storage systems in Europe.

QIs there any upcoming exchange in your pipeline?

AWe can’t pre announce any exchange news, but as soon as there is something to announce we’ll share it on all our offi cial social media platforms and our Telegram announcement channel. In the meantime you can buy POWR from Bittrex, Kucoin, Cryptopia, Binance, Coinspot and Gate.io

QHow many people will be able to access your technology?

AThe market for electricity is massive, over 70% of the world population. We intend to scale the platform globally.

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QThere is a lot of buzz regard-ing achievements in fusion energy. If (very hypotheti-cally) fusion was achieved say tomorrow, what impact would that have on powr?

AThere’s no doubt, distributed renewable generation, like fusion energy, is going to get cheaper and more effi cient meaning the balance in the energy system will swing even further towards consumer generation. That swing will only increase the opportunities for consumers to monetise their excess generation capacity to sell it to consumers who are unable to participate in that distributed energy economy for a raft of social and fi nancial reasons. Better penetration of distributed generation will enhance the opportunities for people using the Power Ledger platform.

QWhich energy technology would work best with blockchain? Specifi cally, will solar panels or energy storages be able to transfer easily to these types of energy products?

AAny and all technology works fi ne, solar panels and energy storage are the most common but any fl ow of electrons is tracked and transacted on the platform.

QHow big is your team right now and where do you see your company in the next 5-10 years?

ARight now, we’re a team of about 20 staff, associates and contractors distributed across Australia. Over the next 5-10 years we’ll grow organically but effi ciently to make sure we can stay at the forefront of the distributed energy trading evolution and pivot the Power Ledger platform and technology to bring more and more opportunity to consumers.

QHas incentivization of the profi t sharing model been created yet and when do you plan to begin distributing profi t sharing?

ARather than a profi t sharing model we’re developing an incentivisation mechanism that rewards consumers for contributing renewable energy to the system. This mechanism is under development but will be a key component of the POWR economy encouraging the deeper penetration of distributed renewables and rewarding consumers who invest in clean energy technologies.

QAre there any plans to break into the United States and Canadian markets?

APower Ledger took the step from trading application to trading platform in order to bring the benefi ts of autonomous P2P energy trading to as many people in as many places as possible. The US and Canada present major opportunities for P2P energy trading and we’re already in discussions with US and Canadian companies as well as multinational companies that have existing operations and customers in North America.

QDo you see an opportunity for Power Ledger to combat the massive energy consumption of BTC mining or perhaps compliment it as a way to increase the profi tability?

ARather than “combating” energy consumption, we’re focussed on providing opportunities for energy consumption that don’t have the negative impacts of traditional generating technologies. Energy consumption has a direct correlation with economic growth so we see the Power Ledger platform as a facilitator of effi cient and clean energy consumption that can continue to drive the economic development of communities around the world without the detrimental impacts of the traditional energy system.

“AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT AWARDS GRANT TO $8 MILLION PROJECT IN THE CITY OF FREMANTLE USING THE POWER LEDGER PLATFORM”


QHow can POWR help with the vasts amount of humanity which still till this day do not have any access to electricity or energy?

AThe Power Ledger platform can provide a modern, low cost, low carbon alternative to the traditional energy supply model. Even better, because of the ability to fractionalise an asset, the platform can give communities and individuals a chance to own a share in their local power generating assets

QAs for Asset Germination Events, what exactly do these entail? Will these be cryptocurrencies that are different than POWR or will they be more like buying into shares of companies that are created under the umbrella of Power Ledger?

AWe’re still working towards the fi nal model for AGE’s - it’s complex and jurisdictions differ in their interpretation of fi nancial instruments but fundamentally, the AGE will allow for a seed investment, the germination of a renewable generating asset and offering of that asset to investors to earn a secure return. Seed - Germinate - Bloom

QHow do you plan on achieving globalization and expanding to a more international market outside Australia?

AThat’s the purpose of the platform - we allow other application hosts to use the Power Ledger platform to create their own trading environments. The POWR token is surrendered as a payment for the software licence, to gain access to Sparkz and to provide a limited prudential cover for energy buyers and sellers.

QHow will you integrate with existing wholesale legacy power/electricity markets which don’t even have APIs?

AMany wholesale power/electricity markets are not settled in real time. For example, ELEXON in the UK has a settlement period of 30 minutes.

QWill you spend effort to make these markets real time? And would you substitute green technology in exchange for the renumeration it generates? I.e make loans to spread green tech?

AGreat questions... There’s a number of models for integrating with existing markets. The most obvious, and what we’re doing in Perth, is take data directly from meters and provide the reconciliation and settlement, in time frames consistent with the wholesale market intervals, so we can integrate the two markets at an individual customer level. Our settlements a near-real-time too aligned with whatever the wholesale market requires. At the moment we’re using 15 minute and 30 minute settlement periods. We’ve experimented with shorter because our platform can settle much faster than 15 minutely but aligning with the wholesale settlement period is a sensible approach. We’re not working on a fi nancial services angle just yet but it may eventuate as part of our Asset Germination product.

QWill p2p energy trading matter once everyone has solar on their roof and electricity price has fi nished its race to the bottom?

AThe fees are really small because of the frictionless characteristic of the Sparkz Token but even still, they will reduce as the volume of trading increases.

QWhat will be the fees to transferring and processing the energy?

AThe fees are really small because of the frictionless characteristic of the Sparkz Token but even still, they will reduce as the volume of trading increases.

RE-IMAGINING THE ELECTRICITY NETWORK


QWill p2p energy trading matter once everyone has solar on their roof and electricity price has fi nished its race to the bottom?

AAbsolutely! There will always be people. who, through no fault of their own, can’t afford to participate in the distributed energy economy - renters, people suffering fi nancial or social disadvantage - and they deserve the same access to low cost, low carbon energy as the rest of the population. The other issue to consider is the sustainability of putting PV and storage on every person’s roof to meet their peak demand rather than sharing capacity to meet the diversifi ed peak demand across a large group of people. For example, if I just look after myself I need enough capacity to meet my peak demand. If I’m sharing energy with a group of people, we’re not likely to have a peak demand at the same time so the amount of generating capacity we need to install is reduced if we’re sharing it.

QWhere is the energy stored?

AIt can be any storage device or we can manage the platform with a connection to the local grid for back-up that way.

QMicro fi at energy markets, like PowerPeers, exist already as do programmable smart contracts , why does this need to be on the blockchain? Can you give us an update on your current app development and testing?

AThe blockchain is needed when we have multiple parties transacting in near real-time. A relational database might be OK if there’s one generator with multiple consumers but when there’s multiple (and potentially competing) generators there needs to be a settlement model. In existing systems a Market Operator is responsible for reconciliation and settlement. In distributed energy markets the blockchain provides fast, trustless settlement so we can pin the fi nancial transaction to the physical transaction. Our app is currently in commercial operation in Perth and we’re working with partners in India and other places to broaden the application of the trading model. The Platform is in development and we’re focused on the middle of next year for delivery.

QWould you substitute green technology in exchange for the renumeration it generates? I.e make loans to spread green tech?

AThat’s a fi nancial instrument we’re contemplating. Our technology makes it easy but the existing fi nancial services regulatory framework doesn’t contemplate what our technology can do. It’s a bit of the new world bumping up against the old world.

DAVEThanks for the questions, guys. Let's do it again sometime.

PAMELAThank you very much for taking the time to answer all of them.We will certainly Look forward to extending this AMA when new developments come along next year, perhaps.

DAVEThanks for hosting us @ThePinkCrypto Power Ledger is focused on facilitating the de-velopment of low carbon, low cost energy systems owned by the people of the world. The support we've got from our community really buoys us and keeps us focused on the important work in front of us. We're open to queries and scrutiny at any time so if there's questions on who we are or what we're doing, we'd love to hear them! Have a great day.


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OmiseGo will always be a personal favorite of mine.

Like Kyber, OMG will have a POS decentralized exchange in which stakers

will earn a portion of the profits generated through fees. Both Kyber and OMG are

advised by Vitalik Buterin.

Anyone who follows me on twitter knows my love for this project. The

announcement of their â€œslumber scoreâ€ù encourages holding. Currently

sitting over $1 (from $.06 ICO).

With Ethereum flirting with $1000, Neo seems like a good large cap

pick. Lots of action on platform and giant in APAC. And China fud all but

forgotten.

Will have its platform launched.

(Honorable Mention) As I’ve stated in the previous

issue, I believe the release of the computational layer will be huge for

Cardano. This release is set for sometime Q1 2018. However, now that it’s over 10x my buy-ins it is unlikely that I will

purchase more.

in my opinion one of the most undervalued coins out there (but it’s moving up fast as I type this).

Becoming the platform of choice for sexy new projects. Basically like ETH, without

the cats and Parity.

Rollout cards worldwide.

Will launch its first use case. CGI Rendering.

In my opinion, Kyber is poised to take a large market share of

decentralized exchanges. If it does that, then Kyber Network Crystals (KNC)

should do very well once people migrate over to its service. Their mainnet is

scheduled to launch Q1 2018.

OM I S EGO ( OMG )D R AGO N C H A I N ( D RG N )

N EO ( N EO )

A R DO R ( A R D R )

CA R DA N O ( ADA )

U B I Q ( U BQ )

T E N X ( PAY )

GO L E M ( G N T )

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@CryptOrca

@cryptobully

@cryptotrendz

CryptoBully is a corporate attorney and occasional crypto

trader. You can find him on twitter at @cryptobully.

I am a PhD student who deals with the creation of biosensors for small

molecules as well as pathogens. I was first introduced to Bitcoin

when it was 200 dollars, and remember watching it crash

from 250 - 50.

Easy going daytrader

The original meme coin. The large supply makes it perfect as a

tipping coin. I would love to see some form of web implementation where you could tip content creators directly with doge. And don’t forget, according to the Chinese Zodiac, 2018 is the year

of the Dog.

Similar to ELLA, one of my picks last month, but with masternodes.

No premine, but the dev gets 1 out of every 12 PIRL mined. So far things are

looking good. I’ve mined some and I’ll just hold on to it and see where it goes.

Lots of stuff in the works and great community support. Not

following development too closely as I feel comfortable just hodling. Hopefully

we’ll see new highs in 2018.

DOG ECOI N ( DOG E )

P I R L ( P I R L )

MOT H E R S H I P ( M S P )

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@Crypto_God

Full time twitter troll falling deeper and deeper down the

rabbit hole known as Crypto.


Aion is a 3rd generation blockchain that will have

exponential gains over the next few months. Over 91% of the circulating

tokens are locked up in the TRS, which means once more news and updates

are out the price will spike.

LUX is one of the most undervalued coins out there.

In the next few weeks they are implementing segwit, smart contracts, and upgrading the wallet. Additionally

there are talks of a coinburn.

BitBean is a fun project and actually one of my first PoS coins.

It was the first coin to implement a maximum of 20MB block size. Rebranding to Bean Cash soon. You know what that

means.

Noticed ZRX is getting more attention lately. Developers are doing really good work. Recent

fundamental reviews indicated 1.50USD base valuations, providing plenty of upside.

Below 4k Sat it still is a perfect bargain.

After having a rough period, NEO found its way up again. Expecting

multiple ICO’s on NEO soon and with it an Ethereum effect as we have seen

early 2017. If you can buy below 450k Sat, load up on them. 900K could be a first

exit, but im happy to keep them for higher levels.

I’m still ultra-bullish towards bitcoin FA and TA speaking. With futures being here, it’s only the

beginning of a brighter 2018 ahead of us.

With dedicated ASICs incoming shortly (Baikals in January, others

in June) a great tea & vision, I expect a huge growth in usage of the platform.

Goodbye 1k Sats.

Ark is staying a bit behind compared to other alts. It’s still

trading close to the bottom of it’s channel and looks very promising at 40k sats. Fundamentally a very strong project

and do yourself a favour. If you buy them, store them in your wallet and vote for a delegate! DPOS makes

you more ARK.

This sleeping giant (not to mention it has already QUITE

awakened) has things cooking. Maybe not January, but the first quarter

of 2018 should be interesting.

Upon observation, I think it’s time we give attention to these low

value/PoS/faucet alts.

XMR is going to have a great year in 2018 because it is the most

popular privacy coin. New investors entering the space are going to get into

alts and buy coins they have heard about and are confident in. Additionally there

are â€œrumorsâ€ù that Monero will be accepted by huge online

retailers soon.

After a year of consolidation since its meteoric rise in March

2017, PIvX has accomplished a lot. This includes the release of worlds first

PoS+Masternodes+Zerocoin stack. Plenty of room for growth is an understatement.

A I O N ( A I O N )

LU XCOI N ( LU X )

B I T BE A N ( B I T B )0 X - P RO J ECT ( Z R X )

N EO ( N EO )

B I TCOI N ( B TC )

S I A ( S C )

A R K ( A R K )

STAT U S ( S N T )

DOG ECOI N ( DOG E )

MO N E RO ( X M R )

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@CryptoGat

@cryptochief_

@happywithcrypto

@marsmensch

I look at charts til I am delusional and they speak to me.

Background in conventional financial markets as a quant, trader and

portfolio manager. Brought my skills to crypto. Started “The Happy Few” early September 2017.

Apply for “The Happy Few” by following @HappyWithCrypto and sending a tweet using

#InterestedToJoinHappyFew

Hardware hacking, mining & Bitcoin are my favorite tech topics. I wear

plenty of hats. Nowadays, people mostly know me as fundamentals

expert for new technologies in the blockchain space.

My favorite picks are masternode cryptos,

privacy focused projects and distributed storage

technologies.

I am Crypto Wolf. Pretty new in the Crypto space, but not in the

financial market.


ICO platform launch and announcement of two ICO’s in

January.

Great smallcap pick.

Awesome solution that covers one of the main issues in

blockchain. Still in early stages of development. It’s moving greatly across

institutional players.

An easy to use platform where users can create, support, and

invest in Decentralized Autonomous Organizations without any specific

coding knowledge. Its growing popularity makes it an ideal investment.

Great project with an even better community/team behind. When

Ethereum switches to POS I think a lot of miners will shift to UBQ. Chart and

volume says the rest.

As controversial as it is, you cannot deny the possibility of

BCash seeing similar gains that Bitcoin had over the past year.

With the recent release of WAVES Labs, a startup incubator

that provides legal support, advice, resources, marketing expertise, and

seed funding, I expect WAVES to grow in popularity quickly.

Potential of being listed on Coinbase and many other

catalysts for January.

Probably one of my favourite bets for 2018. Excellent suite

of payments for microtasks with a gamified perspective. All-star team and advisors, founder of Bittrex and Zynga to

mention just a couple of them.

ST R AT I S ( ST R AT )

CO N DE N SAT E ( R A I N )

P OW E R L E DG E R ( P OW R )

W I N G S ( W I N G S )

U B I Q ( U BQ )

B I TCOI N CAS H ( BC H )

WAV E S ( WAV E S )

E T H E R E U M C L AS S I C ( E TC )

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@cryptotutor

@yakherders

@Crypto_Rand

I’m an Economist, Data Analyst and Technical

Analyst. Bought my first Bitcoin in 2013 knowing it

wasn’t the top. Started my own trading community a few months

back in which we’re automating Technical Analysis by building

bots. Analysing data and charts has become a habit which I’m not planning

to lose.

Trader, researcher, advisor and traveller.

I have two

decades of

experience

in business

and economic

development,

along with investment

experience in the stock

market. Cryptocurrency

trading began as a hobby a

couple of years ago and has

grown into my main investment

platform over the past year

thanks to the popularity of bitcoin. I

try and spend as much time as I can

researching the alt market in order to

earn more bitcoin to put towards my

retirement.


STAFFPICKS

Rumoured to be the Korean Ethereum, Icon will launch their

platform this month, and considering how their ICO sale went, this means I’m

feeling very bullish on it.

Very undervalued platform for the service it provides. I wouldn’t

be surprised to see a $1-2b market cap in the near future. I wouldn’t quite call it the new ETH, but it’s not far off.

I haven’t seen anyone mention this. It’s a very recent coin with a

working product from a company that seeks to safely protect, encrypt and store customers’ and patients’ genomic data. Their decentralized software will be launched at the end of January.

The fomo on this is unreal. At the time of writing it’s only gone and

done a 30x in 7 days flat. The word on the street is that it may have another 10x up its sleeve. VERY risky though, so careful

now.

Real world application, and fresh on the market. Could POWR pull

an ADA and take a jog up 10x Street? The charts and strong FA are similar in

both cases. You be the judge on this one though.

They will be releasing their first ICO based on the Incubator

platform. If successful, which I do not doubt, Dragonchain can easily

compete with Ethereum for a decentralized marketplace and network.

I CO N ( I CX )

U B I Q ( U BQ )

E N C RY P G E N ( D N A )

ZC L AS S I C ( ZC L )

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@GameOfCryptos

@n00bqu33n

Found the leprechaun of magic internet money in 2016. Part hodler,

part wannabe trader. Nothing a good FA can’t heal. Find my

crypto musings on Twitter @n00bqu33n.

I drink coffee and I know things. That’s what I do.

Also I <3 Game Of Thrones


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Alright that’s enough groveling, back to the exciting content...

(We’ll add more addresses next month when we can keep track - or get in touch at: [email protected])


BEAST’S TRADING

DOJOHailing from a background of music and web development, I was fi rst introduced to cryptocurrencies in February of 2016 by a friend and college. It didn’t take long for me to see the immense potential in this space, and by early 2017, I was fully invest-ed and began to trade them as a full time endeavor. In this time I’ve learned so much about cryptocurrencies and investing/trading that I’ve been able to radically change my life for the better. These days, I am working on perfecting my trading strategies in order to get the best possible returns.

Twitter: @Beastlyorion

Trading cryptocurrencies has become a fad as of late. At this point in the game, hedge

funds, fi nancial and educational institutions, and laymen alike are looking for their piece of the pie. They’ve heard the rags to riches tales and feel that if they can play even a small part in the crypto asset boom, they too can make gains that are unheard of in any other market.

Unfortunately most people coming into the space have little in the way of strategy when it comes investing or trading assets. The general route that I see most experienced investors taking is investing in an array of

cryptocurrencies of varying market caps and letting them run while ignoring the high volatility.

While that may be a strong strategy for investing, it does not unlock the true potential for the massive gains that are made possible by trading day to day or week to week. Ironically, the trick to making as much money as is possible trading in the space has less to do with which

currencies you buy and more to do with

when you buy them and when you sell them.

Reinvesting profi ts and benefi tting from extremely fast compounding is what allows decent gains to turn into legendary returns. Being able to trade effi ciently in a number of currencies at a time is the key to maximizing potential gains while minimizing exposure.

While there are many components to a sound trading strategy, it is timing that separates the good traders from the great traders.

The goal of a trader is to fi nd a trade that offers the best risk/reward setup with the highest chance of success that will play out in the smallest period of time possible. Finding these golden opportunity trades will unlock massive returns for your portfolio, and being able to consistently and successfully execute those trades will, hypothetically, allow you to beat every other trader in the market. It may seem like a daunting task to fi nd these trades, and managing to time the entry and exit correctly are very diffi cult, but luckily there are indicators to help us with that. Indicators are mathematical models created using the price action as

How can you make as much money as is possible trading cryptocurrencies? The answer lies in the strategy of the trader. In this article I go over a true and tried trading strategy using indicators to help maximize profi ts and minimize exposure while trading. Being able to implement this strategy successfully can put you one big step above most other traders in the market. Good luck!


input. Indicators can help you determine whether a coin’s trend is

bullish or bearish, how to time an entry, and how to exit at the top.

The main indicators I use to accomplish these tasks are Moving Averages, Stochastic

RSI, and Relative Strength Index(RSI). These are a few of the most popular indicators in use by professional traders. There are many many more, but I prefer to only use simple indicators as anything more in depth might cloud my judgement.

MOVING AVERAGES - IS THE TREND BULLISH?

The fi rst indicator to look at when approaching a new coin is moving averages. Moving averages can help you determine whether the trend is bullish, bearish, or neutral, even while the price action is very volatile. When searching for the trend, the idea is to look at the long term movement, so naturally the 1 day and 4 hour time frames will generate the best results in most

cases. Taking positions in coins that have well defi ned bullish trends greatly minimizes the risk and maximizes the likelihood of success. Moving averages are generally calculated using the average closing price of previous candles. A good strategy is to use three overlapping moving averages from the past 50, 100, and 200 candles. Generally, when these cross over, it indicates a shift in the trend from bullish to bearish or bearish to bullish.

The strength of the trend is determined by the slope and steadiness of the longer moving averages and the consistency in the distance of the 50 and 100 to the 200. As the longer moving averages grow steeper, the strength of the trend is increasing, and while they are growing shallower, the strength of the trend is lessening. Additionally, if the 50 and 100 diverge from the 200, the price is more likely to experience a strong pullback that would lead the 50 and 100 back to the 200 again.

STOCHASTIC RSI - WHERE SHOULD I BUY?

The Next indicator to look at is the Stochastic RSI (Stoch RSI for short). After a bullish trend has been identifi ed, this indicator will reveal the momentum of swings in the price on long and short time

frames. The Stoch RSI is an oscillator calculated

using the fl uctuation of the Relative Strength Index Indicator. A strong approach to using the Stoch RSI is to wait for the Stochastic RSI to bottom and begin turning bullish again on multiple time frames, especially the

daily and hourly time frames, in order to secure the best possible entry. When the Stoch RSI is below 20% on the 1 day and starts to move up again while in a bullish trend it is generally a good time to buy.

RELATIVE STRENGTH INDEX (RSI) - WHERE SHOULD I SELL?

The fi nal indicator I actively use in trading is the Relative Strength Index (RSI for short).

This indicator helps reveal the best possible time to close a trade. The RSI uses the velocity and magnitude of price action to determine the momentum of the trend. When the RSI starts to spike above the 70% level on the 1 day, 4 hour, 1 hour, and 15 minute time frames and the price is going vertical, it is almost certainly a good time to sell. Often times these events will be

accompanied by large volume spikes. The high volume allows traders and investors with large holdings in the coin to exit at high prices by letting others buy into their limit orders. Immediately

afterwards this can result in large drops in price as those that got caught with bags at the top begin to realize their mistake and start capitulating. Using this technique to sell the top can help get you out at a price worth bragging about.

For the most part, I personally stick to these three indicators when trading. They are

enough to make massive profi ts and reveal the simplest and strongest setups. By learning and mastering these, you can avoid getting lost in the endless list of indicators. The hardest part of this strategy for me is being patient. It works like a charm if you can manage to wait until just the right time to get in, and you are able to force yourself to exit when the time comes.

My recommendation is to do fundamental research on as many coins as possible, fi nd the projects and teams you like, and then wait for these setups on those coins. I wish you the best, and happy trading!


You have to understand that people love to brag about their success more than their failures. I bet there are tons of early adopters out there who tried to invest in other projects too, looking to make some more quick money. Most likely they knew nothing about the dynamics and the fundamentals of those projects and right now their Bitcoin count is less than what it was 1-2 years ago (if they haven’t lost all of their initial investment).

At the time of writing, on December 11th 2017, there are 1343 projects on Coin Market Cap. We can easily say that 90% of these projects won’t be around in 5 years. Don’t get me wrong, some

people will make a big fortune out of these projects, but more people will suffer from losses. Those projects are here to steal your precious investment if you are not smart enough.

In my opinion - before investing in any project - Fundamental Analysis should be the fi rst thing you do. It doesn’t matter if you are a “day trader” or a “hodler”. Without knowing the fundamentals you are just gambling.

With Fundamental Analysis, you can predict the long term value of a project more precisely than any other method. In this article I am going to explain the steps of a Fundamental Analysis, and how to fi nd the best information.

In my opinion the most important aspect of a particular project is the “Use Case”. There are tons of similar projects out there that offer the same thing over and over without any innovation. If a coin has a real world use case, if it is aiming to solve a real problem, for me it is always 1 step ahead from other projects. When I select projects I want to analyze, this is the fi rst thing I look at. I prioritize “Use Cases” because I believe it has the most chance of predicting success.

In my opinion there are 3 types of projects that have a higher chance to survive in the long run. These are:

1. PRIVACY COINS2. DECENTRALIZED EXCHANGES

3. FINANCIAL SERVICES & LENDINGI chose these 3 areas because the target market of these projects is much larger than that of most others.

I am Crypto Bulldog. I’ve spent most of my life starting up new businesses from scratch. I love to learn new things, and my biggest strength is my research capabilities. I fi rst got involved with cryptocurrencies early 2017. My end game is to buy an RV and travel the world until the day I die...

Twitter: @Cryptobulld0g

T he number of new investors is increasing massively day by day. Most of them are attracted by the constant “All Time High” news they hear about Bitcoin. After a while most of them will start to do what almost all of us did. “Ok. Bitcoin is fi ne, but

what else is out there? Can I fi nd something else, some other project that can 100x my money in a short time? Can I fi nd the next Bitcoin?” They will do that because of the success stories they hear about people: “I bought $1000 worth of Bitcoin back in 20XX and it is worth $$$$$$$$$ now.”

FUNDAMENTAL ANALYSISWITH CRYPTO BULLDOG


QUANTITATIVE

Market Cap

Circulating Supply

Total Supply – Max Supply

Infl ation over Time

Distribution/Rich List

ICO Details (if applicable)

Price

ATH & ATL

Cycles

Price movements against Bitcoin

Value Analysis against competitors

Markets/Exchanges (Liquidity)

Volume

Consensus Method

Block Specifi cations (if applicable)

There are key features and fi gures you have to consider while doing your analysis/research. I divide them in 2 categories.

(Not all of them may be applicable to all projects)

QUALITATIVE

Use Case*

Target Market

Technology

Innovation

Team

Variety of People (Marketing, Public Relations,…)

Developers (References, History, Github…)

Developer Compensation Model / Commitment

Advisors

Roadmap (Steps, deadlines, history of previous deadlines…)

Documents / Whitepaper

Community

Partnerships / Alliances

Competition

Planned events

AMA Sessions, BitcoinTalk posts

Concerns / How they address them


Most of the time it is easier to do research on a high market cap project than the low

cap one. They have larger communities behind them, and all of the questions you have to ask to analyze a coin are already asked several times. You can see the examples on my Twitter. All the info I published about those projects over there was already available to me on different sources.

Low market cap coins need a deeper analysis. You have to spend more time if you want a complete analysis. You may need to contact the project founders/developers to get some answers. Potential gains might be higher with the low caps, but don’t forget that the risk is also high.

On this issue we are going to analyze Everex, $EVX. I am going to keep this analysis brief because I want to show you the methods and give you the tools to fi nd all the information you need.

The project caught my attention fi rst time when I saw their name on Ethplorer. Anybody who dealt with ERC-20 tokens & MyEtherWallet visited this website at least one time. It turns out that Ethplorer is an Everex product. It is a great product to track your tokens and transactions on the Ethereum Network. In addition to Ethplorer, I discovered Chainy is also an Everex product.

As a fi rst step we have to check out their website www.everex.io and whitepaper. They promote that they are aiming to be a Blockchain Powered Financial Service.

Once the project is complete you will be able to transfer, borrow, and trade in any fi at currency & EVX tokens anywhere. Everex builds a global network of partners and vendors that accept Everex transactions as payment, while functioning as cash-out stations at which Cryptocash/Tokencash* can be redeemed against fi at currency There are a couple of other projects

on my radar that offer transfer, exchange and payment services but borrowing defi nitely will help Everex to reach more people.

I logged in to their Web Wallet and it looks good, but only remittances are active on it right now. It doesn’t give you any idea about micro lending part. In addition to their web based wallet they also have Android and IOS applications.

Yes, that’s right - they already have a working product. Everex had a pilot for its remittance system with over 100 Myanmar migrant workers

living in Thailand. The results are interesting. Seems like on average these workers saved 7% in remittance costs and currency-exchange rates. You won’t need a bank account to use the funds. You can either use ATMs to withdraw the funds, or spend them directly at participating merchants. This

requires a huge customer/merchant adoption. When you think about over 2 Billion people who have no access, or limited access to the banks, the target market is huge. In addition to that market tourists, expats and aid organizations can see the potential with this product to use it for their transactions.

Project websites are a great starting point to understand the project, but they may mislead you. Always be skeptical and read as much as you can about the projects from other sources like Reddit, BitcoinTalk, Medium… Especially for low market cap projects like Everex, you can go through all the posts quickly. This will give you a better understanding about the team’s communication skills, community, concerns, even competitors and more…

For example I was searching for a use case for the token and I found my answer on BitcoinTalk. Let’s be real. How many of the crypto projects, ICOs out there really need a token? Most of the ICOs use it to raise funds, and then afterwards there’s really no real use case for the token itself. So, naturally I like a project more when there is a real use case for the token. Everex tokens will be used on the platform to verify and track various activities such as:

1. Membership: Proof of EVX ownership will be required to access advanced features, such as immediate on demand credit.

2. Tradable Credit Scores & Collateral: Accumulation of EVX will allow low rated individuals and small businesses to improve their credit score. EVX will be accepted as collateral, enabling borrowers to access credit at lower interest rates along with other perks.

3. Incentives: Loans paid back in time will reward users with an EVX bonus, adding to a credit scoring, while late payments will entail an EVX levy, reducing that score.

4. Everex Buy Backs: Surpluses from successful business activities will be used to launch quarterly buy backs, in which Everex will purchase EVX at market price from EVX holders via “reverse ICO”. EVX tokens acquired this way will be distributed among the community for free as a means of user acquisition.

“HOW MANY OF THE CRYPTO PROJECTS, ICOS

OUT THERE REALLY NEED A

TOKEN?”


After a brief understanding about what Everex is and what they are trying to accomplish, now

we will start the “Quantitative” part of our analysis.$EVX is currently trading around $1 price level.

Coin Market Cap website shows that the price as of December 13 2017 is $1.16 - 0.00007087 BTC. The ATH was $2.84 – 0.00049 BTC. Seems like the project is having hard time especially holding that BTC value since then. The market cap is low, but this is why we chose this project. $19,173,825 market cap puts Everex at number 251 over 1343 projects. There are 16,500,000 EVX in circulation and the total supply is 25,000,000 EVX. It is an ERC-20 token on the Ethereum Network.

24 Hour Volume is around $1,621,800. Currently more than 70% of the volume is coming from Binance. It is traded on only a handful of exchanges and liquidity might be a problem in the short run. If another big exchange like Bittrex adds Everex, we might see a small price pump. As I mentioned before, Everex has plans to buy back coins from the public and this may be a SEC violation and exchanges like Bittrex may have a problem with this. I will research a little bit more about this subject.

With a little bit of research on BitcoinTalk I found their ICO (Token Sale Event) document. The rate determined for the ICO was $1 = 1 EVX or 1 ETH = 250 EVX (whichever was higher). No tokens were pre-issued before the ICO completion. They raised $400k during their Seed Round (early investors).$3.5 M in Pre-sale round (with 20% bonus offered). The main round was open till August 31st 2017, and they raised almost $26 Million in total.

The funds will be divided and used for 25% Lending Capital, 10% Working Capital for Cryptocash/Tokencash* Exchangers, 25% Marketing (very important in their case), 10% Business Development, Partnerships with Banks (also very important for adoption), 10% Liquidity Providers, and 30% System development, IT.

When you do your own analysis, you always have to check the coin distribution / rich list. This gives you an opportunity to see if there is a possibility for a coin dump from early investors when the price is right for them. For most of the projects, you can simply go to Coin Market Cap website and click on the “Explorer” links. For Everex it seems like the 3 largest wallets hold more than 52% of all tokens. We can assume the largest wallet is Everex’s own wallet and some of the funds in this wallet are vested in 1 year with no selling rights. Top 100 addresses hold almost 77%. The ratio seems not as fair as some other projects

out there but it is almost identical to OmiseGO’s distribution. Most people consider OmiseGO as a direct competitor to Everex (in my opinion they are very different) and have a market cap over $1.1 Billion right now (They also had an ICO and raised $25M). I will double check the distribution every once in a while. I believe we will see a better distribution when market cap is a little higher.

Now it is time for some Qualitative analysis. We already covered some of it before the

Quantitative part. If the Everex Team can increase the trading of their token through marketing and increasing awareness, it means more transactions, more EVX token usage and naturally a value

increase. Developers are an important aspect of any project, but in Everex’s case let’s assume the product is fully functional, but their marketing and business efforts are not enough for mass adoption. What would happen?

Their team must consist of key people to achieve their mission. I believe Everex has an experienced group capable of completing this mission. Check out the team on their website and dig a little deeper. Go to their social media accounts (like Linkedin…) and try to learn about their accomplishments.

This team wants you to see who they are, and they are mostly transparent. They have experts with several years of combined experience in the cryptocurrency / blockchain space (don’t forget their products like Ethplorer, Chainy…) They also have experts focusing on banking relations, marketing, risk management and country representation. They found key/experienced advisors to help them achieve their mission.

There is no information about core developers on the website, but CEO Alexi Lane commented on a Reddit post about it. He clearly stated that they don’t want people to bug developers every day about updates. When you look at their product line so far, I believe they have the necessary skills, but it would be good for investors

to have this information.

Also, always go and read the “Whitepaper”. Even if you don’t understand the whole technology and language, it may give you clues about the project that is vital. You can fi nd Everex’s Whitepaper on their website

under the “EVX Token” tab. This part on the Whitepaper really caught my attention: “The main-component that enables the Everex capital transfer system is Cryptocash/Tokencash, a fi at-

“WHEN YOU DO YOUR OWN ANALYSIS, YOU

ALWAYS HAVE TO CHECK THE COIN DISTRIBUTION /

RICH LIST.”

“ALWAYS GO AND READ THE “WHITEPAPER”.

EVEN IF YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND THE

WHOLE TECHNOLOGY AND LANGUAGE,”


pegged fully reserved stablecoin issued by a decentralized and federated network of cash custodians and underwriters.

Cryptocurrencies pegged by fi at currencies, such as Everex’s Cryptocash/Tokencash, are commonly referred to as stable-coins.” I came across the term “Cryptocash/Tokencash” while reading about how they will divide the ICO funds, and didn’t understand what it was back then. After reading the whitepaper I found an answer to my question. Cryptocash/Tokencash, in my understanding, is a representation of fi at currencies on the Ethereum Network as a standard ERC-20 token. Cryptocash/Tokencash can be sent almost instantly anywhere in the world and confi rmed by Ethereum miners.

Basically, you will walk into a partner bank, authorized agents offi ce or a currency exchange offi ce and exchange your fi at currency to Cryptocash/Tokencash. At fi rst sight it sounds a lot like “Tether”. I asked about the differences between Tether and Cryptocash/Tokencash to CEO Alexi Lane and he explained the biggest difference is that Tether is not fungible, but has a working product. Still being in the early stages, Cryptocash/Tokencash is fungible and can also be used outside of exchanges, unlike Tether. You can read more about it on their blog.

When you search the roadmap for Everex, it is hard to fi nd anything not on their website. I found an old roadmap during my research and decided to ask the team directly about it. They have a Telegram channel with over 4000 members, and it was really easy to reach Alexi Lane (CEO) from there. He was kind enough to answer my questions.

According to Alexi, they are working on a roadmap update right now. They also commented on a similar roadmap question on Reddit and said it will hopefully be on the website after the meeting event in Bangkok on Dec 14th, 2017. I took my note to check it out again after this meeting and it worked like a charm. On Dec 16th they released the highlights of this meeting and announced working on the offi cial new roadmap.

According to the highlights, they added 3 key marketing positions to the team including Chief Marketing Offi ces and China-Thailand Marketing Specialists. They also focus on another pilot with the partner Holley Group to gather

more data and metrics. Holley Group, a Chinese multinational manufacturing group, invested $500,000 in Everex this year. The team also will work on EVX token economy to add additional utility to the current use cases. On the old roadmap

they had plans to expand operations to Middle East and Europe in 2018. Hopefully this step is still going to be on the new roadmap.

They also have a Twitter account with over 8000 followers, and they are on Reddit with 1400 subscribers. The community, in general, seems to have faith in Everex’s future, and communicates with the team members easily.

Everex also announced preliminary agreements with Bloom. You can fi nd the details

of the agreement on their blog. Bloom is a decentralized credit scoring application based on Ethereum and IPFS. Everex addressed concerns about how they will evaluate the credit scores of underbanked individuals on BitcoinTalk many times ( I strongly suggest you go over their ANN post ) and this agreement will also enable them to integrate Bloom’s credit scoring algorithm.

Regarding competition, according to Alexi Lane their main opposition is other fi nancial institutions and central banks working on their own blockchain versions of fi at currencies. Since they already have their own customer base, they might become strong competitors, but Everex’s target market is the people who have little or no access to the banks.

As I mentioned before, a lot of people also consider OmiseGo as competition because of their similar target market, but I believe you can’t compare them since Everex’s largest focus is micro-lending and credit scoring. They combine transfers, payments, fx and lending/credit scoring in one wallet product, which is based on digitized fi at currencies on blockchain. There are other projects like Salt Lending and Humaniq but they only address one part of the problem.

Overall Everex seems like they are here to stay. They have an ambitious mission and a great team with different successful projects on Ethereum under their belt. They don’t rush things, and proceed slowly but strongly. They already had a pilot and tested the market for some of the features. They address a real world problem and have some good uses cases for the token itself.

I hope we are going to hear a lot about them in the future. There is a lot more information about the project out there, but we have limited space here. I suggest you always do your own research and never rely on others.

“THEIR MAIN OPPOSITION IS

OTHER FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS AND

CENTRAL BANKS WORKING ON THEIR OWN BLOCKCHAIN VERSIONS OF FIAT

CURRENCIES.”

In conclusion - keeping all this information on a excel sheet might help you a lot. It is easy to track and you won’t miss any critical features / fi gures that way. When there is an update on the project you can just adjust the related tab and you are good to go. Remember, don’t be lazy. Making money is never easy…


Who? What? When? See What’s Hot & What’s Not This Month in the Wonderful World of Crypto…

In this feature we show you what coin events are coming up this month. These can range from simple conferences to upgrade announcements, from beta testing to mainnet launches, all the way up to exchange listings and partnership deals.Events are important for a coin’s price - not only can the event affect the valuation of a project, but mass psychology also plays a large part in price movement. Not all these events will have a price-action effect, but a lot of them will. We’ll leave it up to you to decide what’s going to trend next in the exciting land of Crypto trading...

CRYPTO EVENTCALENDARJANUARY 2018


JANUARY

WEEK 1

1MON

2TUE

3WED

4THU

5FRI

6SAT

7SUN

Bitcoin Cash (BCH) listed on Coinbase/GDAXBitDice (DICE) Dividends Snapshot

Ardor (ARDR) Platform LaunchEmberCoin (EMB) Swap Details

Magi (XMG) POS/POW ImprovementsPaccoin (PAC) New Project Launch

SunContract (SNC) P2P Energy TradingGoldReward (GRX) Staking Commences

Komodo (KMD) BitcoinDark SwapExpanse (EXP) First DAO Release

Life (LIFE) Pre-paid Debit CardPhore (PHR) 2018 Roadmap Release

Open Trading Network (OTN) Airdrop

Bitcoin Cash Plus Hardfork

Cardano (ADA) Roadmap Update

DopeCoin (DOPE) Launchof Crypto Billings

Triggers (TRIG) AMA Session

Hedge (HDG) Reddit AMA

Ubiq (UBQ) Vote Tokens

Electroneum (ETN) Mobile Miner Beta Release

Golem (GNT) Blender Rendering

QTUM (QTUM) United Airdrop

RaiBlocks (XRB) RaiExchange Launch

district0x (DNT) Interview with Rhys Lindmar

Request Network (REQ) Update

Alis (ALIS) Meetup in Nagoya, Japan

ZCash (ZEC) at Tentative Conference in Berlin, Germany

MULTI-DAY MEETUPsONE-DAY MEETUPsNEW EXCHANGESCOIN EVENTS


JANUARY

WEEK 2

8MON

9TUE

10WED

11THU

12FRI

13SAT

14SUN

NEM (XEM) Global HackathonPatientory (PTOY) Health Startup Festival in San Francisco, CA, USA

Dragonchain (DRGN) Look Lateral Pre-Sale

Edgeless (EDG) Launching 2.0vStellar (XLM) Meetup in Singapore

Power Ledger (POWR) / AirSwap (AST) Extreme Tech Challenge Finalist

ZCash Gold (ZCG) Zlancer.com ReleaseNEO (NEO) Meetup in Dublin, Ireland

Modum (MOD) at Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, NV, USA

Agrello (DLT) / Wanchain (WAN) at International Blockchain Summit in Dubai, UAE

Octanox (OTX) Listing in Waves dEx, HitBTC and Unknown Exchange

Nexium (NXC) Shop Launch

Time New Bank (TNB) App Launch

Bitcoin Cash (BCH) Updating Address Format

Bitcoin (BTC) / Ethereum (ETH) / Litecoin (LTC) listed on DMM Exchange

NEM (XEM) / Ripple (XRP) / Ethereum Classic (ETC) / Bitcoin Cash (BCH) listed on DMM Exchange

Neo (NEO) Meetup in Amsterdam, Netherlands

Cappasity (CAPP) Retail Big Show Event

Neo (NEO) Meetup in London, UK

IOTA (MIOTA) Meetup in New York, NY, USA

Neo (NEO) Meetup in Hamburg, Germany



JANUARY

WEEK 3

15MON

16TUE

17WED

18THU

19FRI

20SAT

21SUN

Substratum (SUB) Platform LaunchBlockchain Cruise Malaysia Conf. in Singapore/Malaysia/Thailand

eBoost (EBST) Staking & Referral Program

Hawala.Today (HAT) Mobile Wallet ReleaseVeChain (VEN) “Thor” Rebranding Event in Singapore

Wagerr (WGR) Mainnet Launch

Solaris (XLR) ZeroCoin Activation

Life (LIFE) CoinExchange.io Delisting

Vibe (VIBE) 1st Performance Capture on Oculus Store

Moeda Loyalty Points (MDA) at Women Entrepreneurs in Technology Panel in Davos, Switzerland

Dovu (DOVU) Partnership Announcement

Golem (GNT) Blockchain Workshop in London, UK

iExec RLC (RLC) Dapp Challenge Event

BLOCKv (VEE) Invited to Showcase Product in Beverly Hills, CA, USA

Alis (ALIS) Meetup in Fukuoka, Japan

London Blockchain Week in London, UK

Clear Poll (POLL) Launch

Edgeless (EDG) New Version Launch

Bitcoin Cash (BCH) / Aion (AION) / I/O Coin (IOC) / Waves (WAVES) / Wanchain (WAN) / RSK Smart (RSK) /

Bitcoin (BTC) / Augur (REP) / WAX (WAX) / BlockV (VEE) / Ark (ARK) / Rivetz (RVT) / Dash (DASH) / Monero (XMR) / Blackmoon Crypto (BLM) at North American Blockchain

Conference in Miami, FL, USA



London Blockchain Week in London, UK

JANUARY

WEEK 4

22MON

23TUE

24WED

25THU

26FRI

27SAT

28SUN

Cappasity (CAPP) Meetup in Paris, France

Icon (ICX) Mainnet Launch

ZenCash (ZEN) Whitepaper Update

Litecoin (LTC) / Ripple (XRP) / Neo (NEO) at Blockchain Connect Conference in San Francisco, CA, USA

Qtum (QTUM) / Binance (BNB) / Wanchain (WAN) at Blockchain Connect Conference in San Francisco, CA, USA

Ethereum (ETH) / Cardano (ADA) / Factom (FCT) / Ripple (XRP) World Cryptocurrency Summit in Moscow, Russia

OmiseGo (OMG) / Filecoin (FIL) / Litecoin (LTC) World Cryptocurrency Summit in Moscow, Russia

Cardano (ADA) Meetup in London, UK


BLOCKv (VEE) Invited to Showcase Product in Beverly Hills, CA, USA

Power Ledger (POWR) at World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland

Genesis Vision (GVT) / Stox (STX) at iFx Expo in Hong Kong


JANUARY

WEEK 5

JANUARY

UNDATED EVENTS

29MON

30TUE

31WED

Neo (NEO) Devcon Conference in Silicon Valley

ZClassic (ZCL) Bitcoin Private Hard Fork

VCash (XVC) Alpha Release

Triggers (TRIG) IT Government Summit

Decent (DCT) Parnership Announcement

Aion (AION) Testnet Launch

Cappasity (CAPP) Launch on AliBaba Cloud

SolarCoin (SLR) Blockchain in Energy Sector Conference in Madrid, Spain

ZenCash (ZEN) Website Update & Ledger Integration

Binance Coin (BNB) Coin Burn

EOS( EOS) Dawn 3.0 Release

Icon (ICX) Annual Summit

Blocknet (BLOCK) UI Launch

SiaCoin (SC) Hard fork

Nexium (NEX) New Roadmap

Stratis (STRAR) First Verified ICOs

Ethereum Classic (ETC) A2A Cross-Chain Messaging System

AdEx (ADX) Beta Release

EncrypGen (DNA) GeneChain Goes Live

EncrypGen (DNA) at Festival of Genomics in London, Uk

HempCoin (THC) Hardfork

Lunyr (LUN) Open Beta

AdCoin (ACC) Hardfork

Voxels (VOX) Rebranding

Ripio Credit Network (RCN) Beta Release

Rise (RISE) Interlet Snapshot

Ambrosus (AMB) Partnerships Announcement

Mysterium (MYST) Alpha Release

Syscoin (SYS) Blockmarket Web & Desktop 1.2

VeChain (VEN) DNV GL Partnership

Radium (RADS) Hardfork

Elementrem (ELE) Hardfork

ASH (QASH) World Book Beta

GeoCoin (GEO) Swap

ETHLend (LEND) Airdrop


TenX (PAY) Debit Card Wordwide Rollout

XP (XP) New Roadmap Release (1st Week of January)

Lunyr (LUN) Development Update (1st Week of January)

BitCore (BTX) 5% Airdrop every Monday in January


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GOODBYE, AND THANKS FOR ALL THE FISH...Well, that’s it again for another fun-fi lled month folks, we hope you enjoyed the read!

Coming up next month in 21 Cryptos Issue #4…

Defi nitely:• Women of Crypto Featurette #1• More Pros will join the team• Mag re-design completeProbably:• Yearly Subs will be ready• Complete bespoke website re-design• Blogs and articles site hub will launch• Another 10+ pages added to length• & loads more!

Happy trading, and best of luck to you from V, Iris, Ananke, Tiff, and all the 21C Pro Squad!
