This is not a “buy now” list. It’s not a “best performers” list. It’s not a list of coins that will do well for the rest of the year or a list of my favourite projects. It’s something like a combination of all of those.
What I did for this post was to look at the coins that have performed the best in 2019 – from 1 January to date. The market has generally been bullish and most coins have climbed during that time. As a reference: BTC is up 44.22%. For this list I chose coins which are up 100%
Workin: Can you hear the sound in the air?
Buckley: Yes.. faintly, buh I can hear em
Workin: What does it whisper?
Buckley: szz.. szz.. It’s very weak and your thick voice isn’t helping either
Workin: Listen you scumhead.. Listen again!
Buckley: mism… mism.. optimism. Originating like a big roar from afar, reaching to us with struggles like a bird flying through a raging wind. It like something is trying to tell us a thing about the future.
Workin: about what?
Buckley: I am not a wizard nor do I analyze or interpret as you do. So, how do you expect me to know that?
Workin: as for the advantage of age. I think I should decipher this. It was in the summer of 2015, I was in the wood with Martin just as we two are, a similar voice erupted. Same with Zeus in 2017. For the big part.. What follows that two periods was something unimaginable and the later event was stronger than the former.
Buckley: what event?
Workin: the bulls in their large numbers migrating from the far west flooded our county. Chasing away the bears we have long fought against as they rally with great strength. Our pastures flourished with their fresh manure, leaving our land with an abundance of nutrients to hold onto.
Buckley: then I can’t wait to get my friends prepared. I need to inform Jimmy, Infosion, dtwo, Antigenx, Sulex and all I could. Because if by your words, the upcoming rally would be greater than the past. We need to get our pastures prepared.
Optimism! It moving quietly in the air. Rising up to the heights with bigger strength.
Unless a person is not an active follower, the mood revolving around social discussion platforms like Reddit and Twitter is something to be excited and curious about. It has been a while since people of varying experience and expertise speaks about historical events and records like in this moment.
Topics like the golden cross, phase of renewed optimism and so on are now being deliberated upon in a manner that has long been seen.
Overall daily trading volume isn’t planning to cool down the mood either.
The past 36 hours saw another upward movement by the king himself, putting everyone in awe of his next direction. Alts were really dumped out of FOMO to rally along with the king, but several corrections along the way must have signaled an unknown direction.
The direction of the next movement is very unpredictable, calling for more carefulness in other to stay safe.
Happy trading or HODLing.
Let look at some of the recent happenings and discussions.
A crypto scammer got called out in public by a desperate investor.
A short story of a 75 years old man who bought crypto for his grandchildren.
“I traveled 1 year around the world on 1 BTC(plus alt) – and wrote a book about it”.The fantasy of a crypto investor.
EOS main net reaches 1 million accounts.
Samsung rumored to be developing blockchain solutions with Ethereum and ICON.
A take on how some exchange incentivizes wash trading.
Tron partnered with Liverpool FC. What a bullish news! ‘Yet to be authenticated‘.
Created along with the debut of the internet are companies with the focus on providing large-scale access to digital service or information such as the Google search engine, Amazon web service and the rest.
Fast forward to a few more years, we saw various models of businesses formed around the users accessing these services.
User-generated data created a lot of revenue opportunities. The advertisement industry took a new form of engagement. Product development relies on the core behavior and patterns of users.
To the unfair part, individuals with the right to these data are cheated out of the information they provide by being totally ignored in the revenue sharing mechanism.
Good awareness is now widely spread among users on how they are being robbed of their personal prints and belongings.
This has ushered a rally calling for a decentralized move. Luckily with the birth of the blockchain, the move is having more fruition than earlier predicted.
Revamping one the crucial gateway to access the internet is the Brave project with the introduction of the Brave browser built on the chromium browser infrastructure.
Brave reward content creator using the BAT token, distributed via the user accessing such creator’s content.
Now, users can now enroll in the advertising network system Brave promises during its initial founding stage to be eligible for a fair reward for viewing and engaging with advertisement served through its partners.
Read the in-depth update now on Coindesk.
Samsung invested €2.6 million in hardware crypto security firm Ledger.
Binance launch new service in Singapore.
Samsung is developing an Ethereum based blockchain and may issue its own token.
Ledger appoints new CEO.
TrustToken plan to release four additional stablecoins this year.
John McAfee hinted about knowing Satoshi but fear being charged against by the U.S government.
An interview with ETF consultants and applicants by Cointelegraph to gain more overview about the future effect of ETF on cryptocurrency. Youtube video
Put some grin on your cheek with this crypto meme as I round up this digest
Sourced from Reddit.
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The contents of this post are intended for information purpose only and should never be taken as an investment or trading advice. All information contained herein is linked to their respective sources without being taking word for word except in quotes and references.
South Korean electronics giant Samsung is developing its own blockchain network and eyeing the issuance of its own token further down the road.
An exclusive CoinDesk Korea report on Tuesday, citing a person “familiar with Samsung’s internal situation,” said that the company’s blockchain task force – part of its wireless division – is building a blockchain mainnet based on ethereum. The work, however, is still at the “internal experimental” stage.
The source said:
“Currently, we are thinking of private blockchain, though it is not yet confirmed. It could also be public blockchain in the future, but I think it will be hybrid – that is, a combination of public and private blockchains.”
Bitcoin could fall back to $5,000 in the next few days, as litecoin – which guided markets higher in the first quarter – is showing signs of weakness.
Bitcoin’s long/short ratio has dropped well below 1.00 for the first time since Jan.1, signaling growing bearish sentiment. Further, the 14-day relative strength index is teasing a bearish divergence. Therefore, a price pullback looks likely.
The case for a drop to $5,000 would weaken if the price bounces up from the ascending 10-day moving average, currently at $5,303.
Government-approved cryptocurrency trading platforms in Japan are undergoing changes with big players entering the market. News.Bitcoin.com talked to Japan’s top financial regulator to learn about the regulatory implications of the changing business models and internal systems of regulated exchanges.
“There is no need to re-register. If its business model or internal control system are to be changed, FSA will rigorously review them from the perspectives of user protection and others”.
Binance has launched a new cryptocurrency exchange in Singapore after months of anticipation, TechCrunch reported on April 23, albeit with limited features.
Users of the platform are only able to purchase bitcoin (BTC) using Singapore dollars (SGD,) meaning far fewer trading pairs are available for consumers compared with the company’s main exchange.
The Binance Singapore website suggests that the service is being offered in conjunction with Xfers, a local payment service that claims to offer a crypto wallet approved by Singaporean regulators. Three steps are listed for new customers: creating an account with Binance Singapore, linking their Xfers account, and beginning to buy and sell bitcoin as they wish.
John McAfee, the eccentric antivirus pioneer known for his brushes with the law, said he has spoken with Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto and plans to reveal the person’s identity.
But the timing of the announcement is up in the air. After previously telling Bloomberg he would expose Nakamoto “within a week,” he backed off the plan. McAfee said Tuesday on Twitter the controversy could hurt his efforts to fight an extradition to the U.S.
“People forget that I am a technologist,” he said. “I am one of the best.”
In delaying the revelation, McAfee posted a letter from Mario Gray, his extradition lawyer, saying that exposing Nakamoto could make him the target of lawsuits — forcing him to defend himself “on many fronts.”
“Releasing the identity of Satoshi at this time could influence the trial and risk my extradition,” he said in a tweet. “I cannot risk that. I’ll wait
“On April 25th, Deex opens the platform for OTC (Over The Counter market) market trading.”
“April 25–26, Seoul, South Korea, K.E.Y PLATFORM 2019”
Activation of Shift Core v7.0t will occur at block 22,400.
Thursday around 9 PM UTC we will add new language to our website: Polish.
“Purchase Q-Gas backed IOU with USDT,” on BitAsset.
Here is the chart of yesterday :
Here is the current chart :
Yesterday we were testing the support line at 0.39 and I was saying you that I was hoping it won’t break. It has been broken and as annonced, it created an acceleration in the drop. We are now stabilizing because we have a little bounce on the BTC from its support line but for sure STEEM did again a very bad drop yesterday… I will give you the next support in my next article.
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And is there a land of milk and honey on the other side?
BTC is back on the warpath, pushing to new 2019 ATHs over the last two days. Yes it’s retracing now, but anyone with half a brain cell knows that that is only temporary.
This is the major price target level for BTC at the moment:
We have now encountered the last meaningful resistance on our way back up to $6000+ levels. This resistance level is the same support level that offered us a small pause during the drop from $6000 to below $4000 in November 2018.
Both normal Fib levels and
Sometimes, the harder you fall, the stronger you rise”. – Anonymous
Every now and then we are mostly faced with one challenges or the other. It may be financial, spiritual or physical. But every time you fall, the best thing to do is to rise and stand firm again. Why? Because no one would be there to pick you up.
This is the cryptoland, and there are different fall that could manifest in various ways.
Talk of buying a crypto coin at a prize you dim safe only to later realize you are one of those who bought the top, or maybe due to your trading convenience you slept soundly leaving your crypto on an exchange with the confidence that you are protected from price risk having set a stop loss at a target you are willing to take a loss only to wake up to the news that the exchange has been hacked.
It could be the loss of a private key, it may be the direct compromise of your device. Whatever challenges you might have been through, “you really need to pick yourself up and rise again”.
Maybe you risked so much denting your way of life as a result. You got very hard on yourself thinking about where to start from. I am glad to tell you there is a solution and that solution is “starting all over again”.
No doubt! Your decision made things worse, it prolonged your days of struggle. Mind you, you have got no option than to “start over again”. Yeah! It worth it. Why? Because the greatest thing that is happening to your life right now is the privilege of living, and the grace of life itself is worth living for.
So, pick yourself back up and start over again.
Your experience just made you stronger, you got wiser, more rational and also careful.
There is winning time for everyone at a different period. Your winning time will come.
As long as you wake up, stand on your feet, breath in and out, every day is a new chance for new opportunities.
Dear reader, don’t mind me for my naughty dry advice, the cryptoland is just a dangerous path to journey, it takes only the strong to survive, and the strong become stronger as the downside of it can hardly be averted.
But there are winning days for everyone, all it takes is to sit tight, hold your breath and strike at the right moment, and if your subjected right moment turns out the other way. Don’t go hard on yourself tomorrow might just be another better opportunity.
Alright! Let get into today’s digest.
This analysis indicated the Golden Cross just formed on Bitcoinsince 2015.
The comments on the post would definitely make bubbles in your stomach .
BMW announced VerifyCarpower by the VenChain blockchain.Crypto is getting more adoptionthan you think.
NEO revitalize their coin economic model of the awaited NEO 3.0_
A report of NASDAQ secretly testing Bitcoin-basedproduct.
Charlie Lee(litecoin founder) perspective on cryptocurrency as a payment method.
Binance completed the swap of BNB ERC token to its native coin on its main net._
Blockchain became widely speculated as a disruptive tech base on the combination of its makeup technologies, especially cryptography and the unit identifier using hashes.
Taking into consideration all aspects that make it’s immutable and secured such as a sequential ordering of block, history of block authenticity and many others. It will be quite difficult to carry some set of attacks on the tech.
But that status took a huge blow.Recently, in the news, there is a report of a hacker who was able to guess the private keys of over 700 accounts containing about 45,000 either put together, an incident which questions the credibility of the algorithm used for generating private keys on the Ethereum blockchain.
As the common know, a software system needs a single point of weakness to be rendered vulnerable. Let see what impact this have on the general view of blockchain and how the community reacts to it.
Read the in-depth news now on Cointelegraph.
Gone are the days when the general belief to profit on cryptocurrency is to HODL or engage in trading in the hope of better valuation per unit of owned asset.
But there are now some different ways to profit by just holding an asset provided it is done the rightful way.
One of it is staking owned asset for a particular period of time which may be a period of 6 months, 9 months, or a year with the aim of realizing some interest.
This new mechanism is seeing the establishment of different projects providing such opportunities.
In the news – BlockFi ‘a crypto lending service” saw a major in flush of customers staking their Bitcoin or Ether asset(s) with the aim of benefiting from the annual interest rate.
Continue the read on Coindesk.
You can now shop with Bitcoinon Amazon.
This crypto app lets you track and analyze over 2,000 crypto asset price and performance.
Here is another app that gauges the market mood and sentiment for better analysis.
The story of a wealthy founder who lost over $130 Million in bitcoin investment.
Crypto-base transfer can cut remittance fee costs in Africa by 90%.
Survey shows South Koreans increased crypto holding over the last year by 64%.
Teen sent to 10 years imprisonmentfor attempted crypto hacking on cell phones._
Put a little grin on your cheek with this meme as I round up this digest
This meme is sourced from a Reddit post.
Thanks for your time reading the digest. Remember to visit my blog tomorrow for another interesting digest.
Cheers 🙂
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The contents of this post are intended for information purpose only and should never be taken as an investment or trading advice. All information contained herein is linked to their respective sources without being taking word for word except in quotes and references.
As predicted in my last update, bitcoin broke up and out of the bullish ascending triangle in which it was consolidating. It found resistance right at the top of the prior order structure created back in November of 2018. Daily volume has spiked above $16 billion.
Shorts are still stacking while longs are stagnant.
We’ve finally seen the 50 day MA cross above the 200 day MA (Golden Cross). While this is an extremely bullish sign overall, it doesn’t come without major warnings.
In today’s analysis I discuss those major warning signs, where I think price is going from here, traps to avoid
Twitter $twtr reported earnings this morning as is presently trading over 9% higher. We have been talking about this one for a while and I felt that this may be the time they turn the corner. The chart was holding up well and getting very tight, the commander in chief uses this platform daily, and Jack is a smart guy and innovator. The chart is breaking up and needs to hold 36 to REALLY matter.
Percentage beats year over year across the board in revenue which is huge! Y/Y beats are the trend setter and ones that matter! We saw
You think you are, but you aren’t.
I’m a really clever guy, but even I’m probably not ready for it. Why not?
The problem is our oldest enemy: ourselves.
Being creatures of habit / sheep with a herd mentality – us humans struggle against our biases every time we try to go against the grain and think out of the box. As if it isn’t bad enough that we have to fight the collective opinion of 7 billion other people, we also have to fight ourselves.
You are biased. You’re probably very VERY biased. Only a small and exclusive group of people even realise this, let
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin proposed a higher staking reward for the upcoming proof-of-stake (PoS) algorithm implementation on the Ethereum blockchain on GitHub on April 20.
Per the proposal, 2,097,152 ether per year would be issued when 134,217,728 ether is staked and validating transactions, resulting in an annual return for stakers of 1.56%. The current circulating supply of the coin is 105,764,762 ETH, which means that this amount of stacked ether is a theoretical maximum of sorts.
The proposal also estimates the annual return for various quantities of validating ether. For instance, if only 1 million ETH was staked with this configuration, validators would receive an annual return of 18.1%. The community on Reddit has reacted to the proposal seemingly well, with many defining the rates as more reasonable than the previous ones.
Remittances have become a lifeline for many people in Sub-Saharan Africa, but the cost of sending money via banks and money transfer operators remains punitively high. On average, it costs 9.3% (of value transferred) to send the equivalent of $200 to the region, the highest remittance rates anywhere on the planet, according to the new World Bank 2019 report. However, the cost drops dramatically by as much as 90% when money is sent through cryptocurrency-based fintech companies like Bitpesa.
Africans working abroad last year sent $46 billion to support families in their home countries. The money is often used to pay for education, buy food and clothes, start a business, build a house and cover daily living costs. Money sent from overseas is a vital tool of survival for many families in Africa’s often unstable economies.
“We process our remittance payments with a blend of traditional and personal insurance such as pooling, as well as using cryptocurrency,” Zoo elaborated. “Our fees are 1 to 3% so it’s significantly lower than those mentioned in the World Bank report. A lot of our clients are money transfer operators that actually move the money and we are the underlying technology or software behind what they do as well as being their foreign exchange provider.”
The Takeaway
Bakkt, the proposed bitcoin futures exchange, remains in regulatory limboCFTC Chairman Christopher Giancarlo wouldn’t discuss specific proposals, but his general comments about crypto regulation offer hints at the reasons Bakkt is languishing
Part of the problem appears to be the firm’s plan to custody its own bitcoin, and clear trades through its parent company’s clearinghouse
This proposal may present issues both in terms of regulatory jurisdiction and opposition from other clearinghouse participants
The blockchain-based art registry startup Artory has reportedly raised over $7 million in Series A funding round from an early Spotify investor among others. The development was announced by art-focused publication the Art Newspaper on April 22.
Artory — ledger of which enables users to trace provenance and title data, as well as record sales of works of art — has reportedly secured $7.3 million from a group of investors, including private investing firm 2020 Ventures, which backed Swedish audio streaming platform Spotify, American logistics company Postmates, and luxury goods resale platform The RealReal.
Nanne Dekking, the founder of the project, said that the funds will be allocated for further improvement of the registry’s data and development of the platform’s functionality. Dekking said that they are “are building something that has to be vetted, accurate and easily searchable to show the depth of information behind every artwork.”
James Felton Keith is the kind of guy who’s so clean-cut, it’s intimidating, from the sharply-pressed suit right down to the meticulously trimmed nails. He has delicate features, studied economics at Harvard, and is often known by his patrician initials: J.F.K.
But his origins, and frequently his demeanor, are a lot more hardscrabble than all that suggests. Keith, who is black, grew up in Detroit—we met there when he spoke at the RadicalxChange conference—before transitioning to New York. He considers the Big Apple home, and now he’s mounting a 2020 campaign to depose incumbent Adriano Espaillat in New York’s 13th Congressional District, which encompasses both Harlem and Washington Heights—a cultural spectrum Keith says he’s well-positioned to span.
BAT releases milestone 0.63.x, which includes a variety of features, around April 23.
“#ARK Core Update v2.3 will go live on April 23rd 2019 at 4pm UTC.”
“We will be de-listing BWX due to an upcoming token swap on Tuesday April 23, 2019. Please cancel all orders before withdrawing.”
DAPS trading competition on BitMart from April 23rd – May 7th.
Genesis 2019 conference in Toronto, Canada from April 23-24.
Here is the chart of yesterday :
Here is the current chart :
It looks like the BTC is preparing for a possible Break Out, UP or DOWN, we will see in some hours. However, a UP Break Out will perhaps help us to finally break that resistance line at 0.43 that we are not able to stay uper more than some hours. Again I don’t understand the importance gave by the market for that resistance line but we cannot ignore it.ave been a little bit too much optimist yesterday by enjoying the break of the resistance line at 0.43$. We had a little UP just after that break but the sellers came back powerfully and just destroy that line again within some hours. Everything has to be done again now… and we have even the risk to go test the support line in orange around 0.39$. Let’s see friends…
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World famous tennis player Serena Jameka Williams revealed in an Instagram post published on April 17 that in 2014, she launched her investment business Serena Ventures and silently invested in over 30 companies, including major cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase.
According to the official website of Serena Ventures, the market cap of the portfolio is over $12 billion, and the diversity of the founders of the companies in which the firm invested is 60%. The website further notes that the fund is focused on early stage companies, encourages collaboration among portfolio companies and expands partnership opportunities.
According to Wikipedia, Williams won four gold medals at the Olympics, and the Women’s Tennis Association ranked her world No. 1 in singles on eight separate occasions. Moreover, in August last year, business news outlet estimated her net worth to be about $180 million.
Is cryptocurrency exchange Binance’s delisting of bitcoin SV a form of censorship?
And if so, doesn’t that make hypocrites out of all the Bitcoin Core supporters and Craig S. Wright haters who cheered the downgrading of the latter’s competing bitcoin project? Are they not applying a double standard by simultaneously arguing for immutable, “censorship-resistant” blockchains?
These are the questions bitcoin skeptics are putting to a cryptocurrency community they view as failing to comply with the Voltairean maxim that one should fight for someone’s right to say something regardless of whether you agree with it. (Yes, I know it wasn’t actually Voltaire who said that…)
Whether this “gotcha” is fair or not, it has given rise to a far more interesting crypto debate than the tiresome, yearlong squabble between Craig Wright-supporting BSV holders and Craig Wright-loathing BTC holders, the one that triggered the delisting in the first place. (Before Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao, known as CZ, made his decision, BTC supporters had pressured him to punish Wright for filing defamation lawsuits against Twitter accounts that had refuted the bitcoin SV founder’s claim to be Satoshi Nakamoto.)
Investment banking giant JPMorgan Chase is planning to expand an existing blockchain project to include settlement features as it seeks to fend off competition from payments upstarts such as TransferWise and Ripple.
The blockchain-based Interbank Information Network (IIN), set up in partnership with Australia’s ANZ bank and the Royal Bank of Canada back in 2017, currently allows its over 220 banking members to quickly address payments that contain errors or get held up for compliance reasons – problems that can takes weeks to solve with multiple banks being involved across the payments chain.
The Financial Times reported Sunday that John Hunter, head of global clearing at JPMorgan, said the IIN is fast developing and that the bank is “looking at the ability to do more at the point of settlement.”
Fundstrat Global Advisors founder Tom Lee pointed out that the value currently reported by his company’s bitcoin (BTC) sentiment indicator Bitcoin Misery Index (BMI) has never been seen in a bear market. Lee made his comments during an interview with Cointelegraph published on April 19.
During the interview, Lee noted that through 2018, the BMI has not been over 50, while it now recently touched a value of 89. According to Lee, values over 67 have never taken place in a bear market.Lee concluded:
“It means that a bull market is likely starting.”
James Felton Keith is the kind of guy who’s so clean-cut, it’s intimidating, from the sharply-pressed suit right down to the meticulously trimmed nails. He has delicate features, studied economics at Harvard, and is often known by his patrician initials: J.F.K.
But his origins, and frequently his demeanor, are a lot more hardscrabble than all that suggests. Keith, who is black, grew up in Detroit—we met there when he spoke at the RadicalxChange conference—before transitioning to New York. He considers the Big Apple home, and now he’s mounting a 2020 campaign to depose incumbent Adriano Espaillat in New York’s 13th Congressional District, which encompasses both Harlem and Washington Heights—a cultural spectrum Keith says he’s well-positioned to span.
“After 2 years of development, we are proud to announce that IoTeX Mainnet Alpha will be launched on April 22.”
“The Emblem Mobile Wallet is nearing completion and I expect to begin rolling it out to the community over the next 2 weeks.”
Binance will delist “Bitcoin SV” BCHSV on April 22, 2019.
“April 22nd, the biggest partner of Phantasma until now will be revealed”
“DATE CONFIRMED The first phase of #BiboxOrbit will launch on Apr 22.”
Here is the chart of yesterday :
Here is the current chart :
I have been a little bit too much optimist yesterday by enjoying the break of the resistance line at 0.43$. We had a little UP just after that break but the sellers came back powerfully and just destroy that line again within some hours. Everything has to be done again now… and we have even the risk to go test the support line in orange around 0.39$. Let’s see friends…
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