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How to Profit from #cryptocurrency
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This free guide looks at some strategies to help you profit from #investing in cryptocurrencyCryptocurrency is one of the most risky yet rewarding investments in our current era.All kinds of people having made huge amounts of money by investing into cryptocurrency, from tech nerds to average Joes.This has lead to people looking for information about cryptocurrency investing, so I made this guide.It does not take a paid group or being a genius to profit from investing in cryptocurrency. FREE resources like this guide should be more than enough.When I say “profit from cryptocurrency”. I don’t mean you will become a millionaire overnight by investing $100 and going to sleep. That is not how investing works.Real investing is persistent and it takes having knowledge about the projects you invest (...)

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#cryptocurrency Adoption Is Already Happening. But When Will It Go Global?
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Global adoption is the phrase that we hear almost every single day on the crypto-media. Unfortunately, due to widespread incompetence caused by technological complexity, the complete picture of how things really are can’t be fully grasped.Furthermore, additional confusion was caused by cryptocurrency bans and tightened regulations all around the world. But everything is not so devastating like many individuals can think, and it may sound surprising that the current legal framework and some financial institutions already allow conducting financial operations via cryptocurrencies. So, what’s the missing puzzle, and why things get traction so slow?Tight Bonds — Banks, Regulators, Payment SystemsIn order to grasp the whole picture, we have to understand how entities starting from regulators and (...)

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On #token Economy and Token Price: 3 Best Practices
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What makes token price keep rising? I summarized 3 types of logic for rising token price.What is the rational token economy model behind token price? How can some cryptocurrencies’ price keep solid in the long run?Vitalik once mentioned in his blog his valuation for medium-of-exchange token based on Fisher’s formula: M V = P  THere:— M is the total number of coins;— V is the velocity of money, that is, the number of times an average token changes hands everyday;— P is the price level, this is the price of goods and services in terms of the token, so it is actually the inverse of the currency’s price;— T is the daily transaction volume, which is the economic value of transactions per dayTo put it simply, if there are M number of tokens, each of them changes hands N times a day, then there’s a (...)

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Institutional Investors and the $24trn business opportunity of “The Era of Tokenization”
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Increased interest from larger investors is no longer in question: now is the time for Custodians to close the remaining gapA A growing number of Institutional investors are entering the Digital Assets space, supported by high profile players looking into this new asset class. According to Bloomberg, George Soros and the Rockefeller family’s Venture Capital fund are beginning to take positions in the emerging asset class.While the average fund size remains relatively small compared to that of the traditional financial world, in 2018 the total number of crypto funds grew significantly. As of today, only a few players are solely focusing on this new asset class (10% of total funds have 100% of AuM in Digital Assets), but many traditional asset managers are investing in Digital Assets up (...)

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How to Keep Your Bitcoins Safe from Online Theft
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Bitcoin is considered the most popular #cryptocurrency across the globe due to its high price, decentralized functioning and digitized nature. Such is its popularity, however, that cyber attackers and online thieves continue attempting to steal coins using whatever means possible. No matter how technologically savvy you are, if you buy #bitcoin, you need to make sure that they are stored safely and securely. Here are four tips to help keep your bitcoins secured from theft.1. Choose a Strong PasswordAlmost everything online can be safeguarded from unwanted and inappropriate access if it’s effectively password protected. That said, many people use the same passwords for multiple accounts, from social media to email and shopping platforms, which makes them easy targets for hackers. If you use (...)

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Proof of Work Currencies as Scarce Commodities:
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Proof of Work Currencies as Scarce Commodities:SummaryGiven the relatively low adoption rate of Bitcoin as a means of exchange (~ 250,000 transactions per day for Bitcoin on 1/25/2018) and the rapid appreciation of its price during Q2 & Q3 of 2017, some market observers have argued that Bitcoin (and Ethereum by association) is simply an instrument of irrational speculative demand in virtual markets. However, proof-of-work cryptocurrencies should also be considered as intrinsically scarce commodities whose production is spurred by participants allocating significant computational resources to maintain an immutable chain of records (i.e #blockchain). Mining represents a unique attribute of crypto-assets and the mining pools involved in securing the Ethereum and Bitcoin blockchains (...)

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0 to $1 Million in 5 Months for Our #cryptocurrency #startup
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0 to $1 Million in 5 Months for our Cryptocurrency Startup. Lessons learned.“What if we have too many users?”A question we naively asked before we launched our product. I think there is always some underlying hope that this will actually be the case and therefore we orient ourselves to consider and think about it. To that end, after much deliberation, we built a safeguard in the product that would allow us to “turn” off sign ups in the event we were overloaded with users. It read something like this:Due to the high volume of signups. Ember Fund is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later.Unfortunately, we didn’t get to put this error message to use…We spent the better part of 2018 working soul-crushing nights and weekends to build this app and it all led up to our big Product Hunt launch (...)

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3 Promising cryptocurrencies under $5 to invest in for 2019–2020
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From cross-blockchain transfers to a banking competitor #cryptocurrency that targets over 2 billion usersWhen investing in cryptocurrency, one overlooked but important factor to look out for is utility.Forget the flashy ICO adverts and look instead at how a cryptocurrency will be used. A high utility provides the following benefits to a cryptocurrency:Improves liquidityA cryptocurrency that is constantly being used, transferred and traded allows for investors to easily buy and sell said cryptocurrency. A cryptocurrency with a high marketcap may make you wealthy (on paper) but if it is not being traded enough, who will buy it off you?Drives demandA cryptocurrency with a legitimate use is a cryptocurrency that is needed and sought out by users who can benefit from it’s utility. It is also (...)

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What I learned losing $139,000 in #trading #cryptocurrency
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The story about the failure that may set others out for success.▻https://medium.com/media/16a915f3b3e6163622ac037b10672e7c/hrefThere is something fascinating about trading, especially cryptocurrency trading.Every time you open a position, you feel like you know something others don’t, something that puts you on a pedestal. When you are right, you feel like you’ve beaten the market, but this is the exact moment when the market starts to beat you.In late 2016, after spending a great load of time studying the phenomenon of cryptocurrency, I’ve decided to pour all my investment-dedicated capital — around $11,000 — into it. I got so bought into the whole concept that every time I went to bed and closed my eyes, the coin ratios in portfolio seemed to be flying around my head.My main investment thesis (...)

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The top ‘onshore’ crypto jurisdiction — if you’re not American
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The top ‘onshore’ crypto jurisdiction — if you’re not AmericanDelaware has held bragging rights as the first state to adopt the US constitution since 1787. And it seems that being a pioneer is the State’s ‘thing,’ as it takes a similar approach to drive #blockchain adoption in the country.True to its motto, the state of ‘liberty and independence’ has taken many steps over the past few months to provide an attractive business environment for crypto businesses.While jurisdictions such as Malta and Zug have become some of the most established blockchain and crypto-friendly places in an international context, #delaware has enforced a series of legislative changes that have positioned it as the new ‘Crypto Valley’ in the US.The main driving factors for this are Delaware’s laws designed to attract foreign (...)

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A Must-Know Crypto Investment Glossary Recommended by Ray Dalio
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Designed by LUKRUMAs a new investor in the growing #cryptocurrency sector, you might feel overwhelmed by the terminology you’ve encountered exploring the market and chatting on forums. In order to help familiarize yourself with crypto colloquialisms, LUKRUM has provided you with an essential glossary of terms that will enable you to get a basic grasp on investing in digital currencies.BlockchainA linked list of modification-resistant blocks of data. Cryptocurrency transactions are publicly recorded in chronological order on the #blockchain using cryptography.BitcoinBitcoin (BTC) is a digital, peer-to-peer currency that exists without the need for a central bank or intermediary.AltcoinAny cryptocurrency model other than Bitcoin can correctly be called an altcoin.EthereumUnlike Bitcoin, (...)

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Investing in the Security Token Ecosystem
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I had the pleasure of presenting on the topic of “Investing in the Security Token Ecosystem” in January 2019 at the Security Token Realized conference in London. Below is a summary of some key ideas from the presentation. If you are interested in learning more about our insights and perspectives on investing in the space, check out the full video presentation here.I) Key Benefits of Security Tokens:Transparency & Programmability: Establishing trust between different parties is of vital importance locally, nationally, and globally. #blockchain is the ultimate cap table of “who owns what” and a record of all the previous transactions. Additionally with smart contracts, we can program compliance so that trades can automatically go through if the investors are compliant, else there would be (...)

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What is #scalping and How It Is Being Used in #cryptocurrency #trading?
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Forex scalping once was a heated topic among the investors. It might stay around for good as the trend somehow is boiling for the cryptocurrency. For a lot of fresh investors, the Cryptocurrency Scalping could be new, but it’s been lurking around since long.Understanding ScalpingThe term scalping is relatively used with intraday Trading. This style of investment suits those looking for marginal profits over a short period of time rather than long term risks. With scalping, a trader is making profits of 50–70 pips using technical analysis, the strategy could be due to their habit of spending hours analyzing the Forex trading market.It works magically as the investor isn’t holding any sort of asset/share for a long period and is stopping-loss quickly to make small yet more frequent profits. (...)

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DLT M&A Weekly : March 10th 2019
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DLT M&A Weekly: March 10th, 2019Distributed ledger technology mergers and acquisitionsNo new DLT M&A transactions were announced this past week.Today we’re taking a closer look at #coinbase’s strategic acquisition efforts over the past year or so. Coinbase is by far the most active DLT acquirer today, after recruiting Emilie Choi from LinkedIn in May 2018. Emilie leads corporate and business development as well as Coinbase’s venture effort.Our assessment below highlights each acquisitions previous business, how it fits within Coinbase’s efforts and the strategic drivers of each acquisition. Much like Google and Facebook in their early days, many of Coinbase’s acquisitions are team and technology-driven transactions. Also notable, Coinbase has moved early and aggressively to build its (...)

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How to Raise $20 Million and get Listed on Binance — QuarkChain’s ICO Campaign Market Analysis.
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How to Raise $20 Million and get Listed on Binance — QuarkChain’s ICO Campaign Market Analysis.Investments into the ICO market have fallen dramatically as of late — this is just a fact.For a long time now, there have no waves of investments that was once provided by those who literally put in everything during the general growth of #cryptocurrency. Besides this, projects started to set smaller hardcaps, which is really good as it brings the founders down to earth. Lots of them, for some reason, want to raise hundreds of millions of dollars for ideas when $100,000 would be more than enough.Nevertheless, every month there are projects that successfully close the decently sized caps. As they say, only the strongest survives, especially in a difficult market. What did these strongest projects have (...)

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Intel Launches A Commercial #blockchain Suite, And XBT Postpones The Launch Of Its #crypto Basket
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The State of The Market — February 14, 2019 BTC: $3,611.84 (-0.52%) ETH: $121.70 (-0.93%) XRP: $0.302635 (-0.38%)The market is in negative today, as #bitcoin is testing its support at $3,600. It is not a strong support yet, and if bears have it their way, Bitcoin could once again crash to $3,400 over the weekend when the volumes are low. The total market cap lost $1 Billion in the last 24 hours, and all of the top 10 cryptocurrencies have posted small losses. The market is following Bitcoin’s price movement right now and Bitcoin dominance remains unchanged.In other news, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has suggested that a new smart contract function called “Create2” be integrated into the upcoming Constantinople upgrade. The function adds a new attack vector to the platform and allows a (...)

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How to Handle Tax Reporting as a High Volume #cryptocurrency Trader
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The dramatic highs and lows of #bitcoin and the outright explosion of cryptocurrencies over the past couple years have a lot of traders and enthusiasts wondering how to report cryptocurrency on their #taxes. This article dives into the specifics of tax reporting for high volume crypto traders.If you are reading this, you are probably a crypto-trader or an enthusiast concerned with the process of paying taxes on your trading activity. Maybe you have an automated trading strategy that conducts hundreds of trades every single month, and now you’re realizing that you have no way of calculating what your true tax liability is. Maybe you have lost a lot of money trading cryptocurrency and you now want to claim these losses to save as much money on your tax bill as possible.No matter your (...)

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How to Create a #cryptocurrency Wallet and Secure your Assets
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Knowing how to buy and sell cryptocurrency on a crypto exchange is not enough, you need to have a secure crypto wallet where will store your assets. Just like walking holding all your hard earned money on your hands can be risky, leaving your digital tokens on the exchange can be a big risk. If the exchange gets hacked, you coins could disappear into thin air.In this post, will share actionable tips that will enable you to create a cryptocurrency wallet and secure your assets.But what is a cryptocurrency wallet?A cryptocurrency wallet is simply a virtual wallet used to send, receive and store digital assets such as #ethereum, #bitcoin, Litecoin among others.As you can see, a cryptocurrency wallet is what gives you total and absolute control of your money. It’s a vital tool for all crypto (...)

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Conquering crypto winter: inside #horizen’s move to increase its block reward
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During this ‘crypto winter,’ the slump in crypto prices has led to the shutdown of a number of projects.Most recently, the NEM Foundation, a community-sponsored non-profit organization that promotes the #blockchain of NEM, announced a massive downsizing of its 150-person staff.While the foundation says it’s not bankrupt, it admits that it only has about one month of funds left in the bank.Despite the hard times, some projects with governance and economic incentives in place have been able to weather the storm only partially scathed. One such project is Horizen, where I act as general counsel.I recently sat down with Rob Viglione, the company’s co-founder and CEO to get his insights on the declining prices. Rob elaborated on Horizen’s plan to use its unique tokenomic structure to survive the (...)

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The Beginners Guide to Investing in #bitcoin & #cryptocurrency: Getting Started
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Getting started with Bitcoin investing doesn’t have to be complicated, especially now in 2019I am sure that you, like a lot of people, heard about Bitcoin through a friend or came across it on the internet somewhere, maybe though blog or YouTube video.Like most people your first questions were probably “how do I get into Bitcoin” or “what is Bitcoin”.It seems very intimidating at first, when I bought my first Bitcoin I stayed up all night due to anxiety around this new, weird, blockchain based, digital currency.Part of this anxiety was due to so many different and scattered sources of information which just made me nervous.All I wanted to do was buy some Bitcoin, but now I was signing up to multiple exchanges and printing out paper wallets (using an offline printer) whilst shaking with a (...)

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Are Market-Moving #bitcoin Traders Evil, or Just Dumb?
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Over the past week, we have seen a couple of cases where the only way to explain the price movement in Bitcoin is if traders are dumb, evil or a combination of both. Before delving into the specifics, it is important to understand that the only way such things will cease occurring is if traders get smarter and start using tools (such as provided by CoinRoutes) that incorporate data from all relevant markets.The two examples that will be described in this note were the price drop of over $400 this past Sunday morning and a price divergence which happened yesterday morning (Thursday), where markets went in opposite directions simultaneously.Example # 1: Bitcoin plunges $400 on a Sunday morning…The technicals — BTC had a sharp, $200 coordinated rally on Saturday after grinding higher most of (...)

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Tokenizing Assets for Dummies
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How to Tokenize an AssetTokenize an asset and launch a Security Token Offering in a few misleadingly simple steps.The Market Shifts in FocusAs the #blockchain technology and cryptoasset markets mature, the focus has shifted from Initial Coin Offerings and Utility Tokens to Security Token Offerings and Security Tokens. Judging by the speed at which we seem to switch focuses in this industry I imagine we’ll be onto the next big buzz word within the next few weeks (the tokenized asset buzz already seems to be dying down in fact), however, for the time being- let’s look at how tokenizing assets actually works.Tokenizing assets is using digital tokens to prove ownership of real assets provides a number of benefits that expedite the process of buying and selling securities. Tokenizing an asset or (...)

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Is #xrp still a good investment? Here’s why I believe XRP is still a great choice
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Ripple over-performed during 2017 and 2018, can the trend continue into 2019?First of all before you decide to invest in XRP (Ripple) or any other #cryptocurrency for that matter make sure you do your own research and only invest what you can afford to lose.I have done my personal research on #ripple/XRP and here is what I have managed to gather about this cryptocurrency.Ripple enables almost instant cross-border, international money transfers. Ripple’s main target market are banks which will hold large amounts of XRP to transact almost instantly with each other.Even though Banks are the main target for Ripple, everyday people like you and I can use Ripple for money remittance purposes.For example I can send $2,000 to someone on the other side of the world and it would reach them in less (...)

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The #dexfreight platform business model and triple #token model
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A conceptual framework. Pt IIntroductionIn designing the dexFreight token model, we have taken a business model first approach. First design our business model, that is how we are going to create and capture value. Then design a high-level token model and finally design the specific mechanisms to implement the design.This article sets out the first two stages of this process: the dexFreight platform business model and high-level token model design. In subsequent posts we will detail the token model and specific mechanism designs.About dexFreightdexFreight is a decentralized platform for the logistics industry. It provides stakeholders with an end-to-end solution to book, contract, move loads locally and globally within a community-owned marketplace powered by an ecosystem of open source (...)

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JP Morgan Launches Its Own Digital Currency, And China’s Baidu Reveals #blockchain OS
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The State of The Market — February 15, 2019 BTC: $3,640.40 (+0.69%) ETH: $123.21 (+0.91%) XRP: $0.303646 (+0.20%)After a slow decline in the last couple of days, the #crypto market posted small gains today. While #bitcoin is still struggling to move past $3,650, the total market cap added nearly $1.5 Billion in the last 24 hours. All of the top 10 cryptocurrencies are in green right now, posting single-digit gains. A clear trend could emerge over the weekend when volumes are low. Meanwhile, Ethereum managed to defend its support at $100 this week, and Ripple has bounced back above $0.30.In other news, Coinsquare, one of the largest #cryptocurrency exchanges in Canada, has announced the acquisition of the StellarX decentralized exchange as it continues to evolve its platform. The StellarX (...)

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