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    July 03, 2018

    Cryptocurrency Daily Discussion Megathread - July 3, 2018

    Daily Discussion Megathread - July 3, 2018

    Posted: 02 Jul 2018 10:48 PM PDT

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    It costs $17 to create an EOS account. Also, storing data is almost as expensive as in Ethereum (most of the time MORE expensive).

    Posted: 02 Jul 2018 06:39 PM PDT

    I thought running (d)apps on a centralized shitcoin should be almost free, but turns out not only do you have to hold millions of dollars of EOS just for CPU usage, you have to buy RAM as well. I was shocked when I did the math:

    1 KB of RAM costs $4.44, so 32 bytes would cost you $0.14. Storing 32 bytes in Ethereum costs 20000 gas. So if gas price is less than 15 Gwei (it was 1 Gwei for a couple of weeks until the exchange incident), Ethereum is CHEAPER than the fucking coin that promised to be thousands of times more accessible than it.

    So, why did they sacrifice decentralization and raise $4 billion again?

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    My dad (50 year old Accountant) paid me in crypto to mow the lawn. Helping adoption with old people

    Posted: 02 Jul 2018 11:40 PM PDT

    Coinbase Custody Already Has 10 Institutional Clients Using Its Services

    Posted: 02 Jul 2018 05:20 PM PDT

    These billboards are all over the Valley in LA. I don't think this guy is helping with adoption.

    Posted: 02 Jul 2018 10:14 PM PDT

    impressed with the aventus founders, shows the caliber of young entrepreneurs that are focused on cryptocurrency vs iOS apps, etc.

    Posted: 03 Jul 2018 01:33 AM PDT

    About 100 steps away from the Notre-Dame Basilica in Montreal

    Posted: 02 Jul 2018 08:26 PM PDT

    NEO announces first steps towards decentralization!

    Posted: 03 Jul 2018 02:17 AM PDT

    Coinbase Custody is Officially Open For Business

    Posted: 02 Jul 2018 06:10 AM PDT

    Bitmain's pools near 50% of Bitcoin's hashrate. Bitmain is also a lead investor in ViaBTC.

    Posted: 02 Jul 2018 10:29 PM PDT

    Kraken Responds to Bloomberg Tether Allegation

    Posted: 03 Jul 2018 01:08 AM PDT

    NanoBlocks iOS Wallet Launched

    Posted: 02 Jul 2018 11:02 PM PDT

    https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/nano-blocks/id1378558905?ls=1&mt=8

    A beautifully designed wallet from a dedicated indie developer.

    I've been beta testing this app for months and I'm really pleased for them to see this launch.

    Here's a a quick vid of it I made a while ago:

    https://youtu.be/ygOXQikIjAs

    Also- the code is open source - https://github.com/nebyark/nano-blocks

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    South Korea says it will invest $200m into blockchain projects by 2022

    Posted: 02 Jul 2018 07:46 AM PDT

    Bitcoin (BTC) Price Watch: Another Bullish Continuation Signal

    Posted: 02 Jul 2018 09:30 PM PDT

    EU Parliament Gives Cryptocurrency Their Support

    Posted: 02 Jul 2018 07:51 AM PDT

    Bloomberg Wakes Kraken: Someone finally stood up and told the business media that crypto people have brains, so their journalists might want to "check their facts".

    Posted: 02 Jul 2018 03:22 PM PDT

    $EOS in a nutshell

    Posted: 03 Jul 2018 01:03 AM PDT

    Crypto market making another jump: $15 billion in one hour

    Posted: 02 Jul 2018 01:05 PM PDT

    EXPERIMENT - Tracking Top 10 Cryptocurrencies for One Year (2018) - Month Six/Half-time Report - Down 66!%

    Posted: 03 Jul 2018 12:58 AM PDT

    EXPERIMENT - Tracking Top 10 Cryptocurrencies for One Year (2018) - Month Six/Half-time Report - Down 66!%

    Down -66% so far

    tl;dr: The. Pain! And Ethereum wins first half of 2018.

    Full blog post can be found here.

    Okay, let's dive in:

    The Experiment: Instead of hypothetically tracking cryptos throughout the year, I made an actual $1000 investment, $100 in each of the Top 10 cryptocurrencies by market cap as of the 1st of January 2018. It began as a lazy man's Index Fund (no weighting or rebalancing), but I'm starting to move away from that terminology as things have changed quite a bit since January 1st, 2018. Plus the term "Index Fund" seems to bring out the shills trying to sell their own Crypto Index Fund product. My experiment is less technical, more fun (for me at least), and hopefully still a proxy for the entire market- or at the very least an interesting snapshot of the 2018 crypto space. I'm trying to keep it simple and accessible for beginners and those looking to get into crypto but maybe not quite ready to jump in yet.

    The Rules: Buy $100 of each the Top 10 cryptocurrencies on January 1st, 2018. Run the experiment 365 days. Hold only. No selling. No trading. Report monthly.

    Month Six/Half-time Report - Down 66\% Ouch. June saw the continuation and acceleration of May's downturn. All cryptos included in the experiment fell at least -16% for the month and all remain in negative territory for the year.

    June Winners - As we've seen in past downturns, the more well known and established cryptos did the best this month. Bitcoin dominated, down -16%, followed by Ethereum and Dash, both down -23%. A pretty sad state of affairs for crypto in June if both second place finishers shed about a fourth of their value.

    June Losers - IOTA got hammered this month, down -44%, followed by Cardano and Stellar and down -39% and -37% respectively. Cardano has had a rough couple of months - it was down -32% in May as well.

    Overall update – Ethereum wins first half followed closely by Stellar while NEM fades

    Since this report marks the half way point in the year, let's take a second to look at where we started. Take a minute to go over to coinmarketcap.com's historical snapshot page and scroll to 31st of December, 2017 or visit my blog for the screenshot.

    You back? Welcome back. The big picture is glaringly obvious - there's been a massive free-fall in the cryptosphere since the beginning of the year. The worst of the worst so far has been NEM down a stunning -82%. NEM has also fallen the most in rank dropping from #8 in January to #17 today and seems to be in danger of falling out of the Top Twenty. Cardano and Ripple had a difficult first half as well, down -79% and -78% respectively.

    In terms of bright spots, the title of best performer of the original Top Ten goes to Ethereum (currently "only" down -37% for the year) followed closely by Stellar (down -41%). Interestingly, the first half of 2018 can be seen as a battle between two cryptos: the experiment has shown that each and every month has been won by either Stellar or Ethereum.

    In terms of movement, there's actually less than I anticipated. Only NEM and Dash have fallen out of the Top Ten (NEM way down at #17 and Dash at #14) having been replaced by EOS (now at #5) and Tether (currently at #10). EOS is the real story of 2018. It hasn't gained tons in value but the fact that the price is up at all in the sea of red has resulted in a move from #12 at the beginning of the year to the #5 spot now. I guess I should have done a Top Twelve experiment instead!

    Total Market Cap for the entire cryptocurrency sector: June saw the total market cap shrink by approximately $75B. As painful as it felt, this is about the same as was lost in May and no where near the amount lost in March. Overall, from January 1st, the market has lost -55% or about $317B in value.

    Bitcoin dominance:Bitcoin dominance has been fairly easy to predict this year. As we've seen, when the overall market declines Bitcoin dominance increases as people presumably move from their alt coin positions into the more stable and well established projects. It was no different this month: Bitcoin dominance increased significantly from 38.6% to 42.5% in June.

    Overall return on investment from January 1st, 2018: My $1000 initial investment is now worth about $340, down -66%. This is the low point so far this year, slightly worse than March.

    Implications/Observations: I think many thought (or hoped) that March signaled a bottom in the crypo space. Although June has been rough (we saw many new record lows for 2018) it's important to point out that the end of the month has seen a bit of a bounce and that the total market cap is currently right around where it was in March. Not great news, but at least we're not significantly lower than we were n March. And as I've been putting together this report, July has started off well.

    As chaotic as the cryptocurrency market can appear, this experiment has exposed some patterns. For example, when the market drops, money predictably flows back into more well established and well known cryptocurrencies. Also, without exception the individual months have been won by either Ethereum or Stellar which have bested the original Top Ten all year long.

    And, of course, focusing solely on holding the Top Ten continues to be a losing strategy. While the overall market is down -55% from January, the cryptos that began 2018 in the Top Ten are down -66% over the same period of time. This approximately 11% differential continues to widen as the year progresses (for the last few months it was at 9%). At no point in the experiment has this investment strategy worked: the initial Top Ten continue to underperform compared to the market overall.

    I'm also tracking the S&P 500 as part of my experiment to have a comparison point with other popular investments options. Up only about 1.7% so far for the year, it's not even keeping up with inflation - but much better than being down -66%!

    Conclusion:

    In a word, the first half of 2018 has been...painful. Have we seen the true bottom? Let's see if the second half of the year will be better than the first half. The bar has been set extremely low, it shouldn't be that difficult!

    Thanks for reading and the support for the experiment. I hope you've found it helpful. I continue to be committed to seeing this process through and reporting along the way. Feel free to reach out with any questions and stay tuned for progress reports.

    What do you think about the way the market is going this year and when (if ever) do you think we'll see a proper bull rally? Is July the month things turn around?

    Catch up with previous experiment updates:

    May Recap: down -51%

    April Recap: down -37%

    March/Q1 Recap: down -63%

    February Recap: down -32%

    January Recap: down -20%

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    Elastos Decentralized ID: The Backbone of the New Internet

    Posted: 03 Jul 2018 01:09 AM PDT

    Japanese financial giant SBI is bringing its new crypto exchange to 23 million customers

    Posted: 02 Jul 2018 01:32 PM PDT

    This is what a SCAM project’s subreddit looks like. Every single comment is from a positive spam bot.

    Posted: 02 Jul 2018 06:22 PM PDT

    Four European Banks Process Live Trades with Blockchain System

    Posted: 03 Jul 2018 01:09 AM PDT

    Demonstrating TE-FOOD's Mobile Application, working product at 14 million marketcap, Each TFD logo is a shop where you can get TFD Labeled food.

    Posted: 03 Jul 2018 03:20 AM PDT

    Want to invest a lot of money quickly into crypto — what's the best way?

    Posted: 03 Jul 2018 02:18 AM PDT

    I have been involved with crypto for some time and now can finally make a substantial investment. Last year I made 6x my money but I was so broke I could only start with $50. Sigh...

    This year I want to invest .... a LOT more .... into crypto, especially considering Bitcoin seems to be near a floor and won't drop much below the cost it takes to actually mine one. Furthermore, over the past years crypto seems to go bullish towards the end of the year. So the time to buy IS NOW.

    But how can I do this quickly? I heard wiring money to Coinbase is pure hell. Localbitcoins is one option, but how can I trust randos with my money?

    Please advise. I am truly grateful for the community support during this time of great opportunity. Really hoping McAfee does NOT have to end up consuming his own penis!

    Thank you

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