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We would like to welcome all our new subscribers to the Rowlingstone family! As we come to
the new year, we’d like to do a special thank you to all our subscribers, free and premium. We
have had a fantastic 2017 and look forward to what 2018 brings us all.
Our premium channel is now closed for new signups. In the new year, we will
have announcements about our plans for community development. Meanwhile,
please contact us for more information.
Recap
It was a crazy week for the cryptocurrency market, with over $100bn market cap increase in just
a 7 day window from $500-$600bn, and then a $100bn bleed close to the weekend which shook
lots of newbies out and saw BTC shed another 20%, falling below $13,000 and reminding us
that things can’t go up forever! We’ve had lots of questions about this, and we believe the
market is still to remain bullish in the coming months. Bitcoin crashed 30% 6 times this year,
and each time recovered extremely quickly and bounced back far beyond its original
crashing point within a short time frame.. If you’ve built your portfolio with risk management
in mind, you should be back to normal before long. Again, a reminder that holding is best, panic
selling will often leave you short here. Bitcoin dominance remains below 50% and we’re
expecting next year some of the top 20 altcoins to take significant share of the market.
We believe we will continue to see further growth in the coming months for a number of
reasons:
1. With Professional traders entering the market from the financial world, significant sums
of money will pour into this extremely volatile and profitable market.
2. Retail investors are coming in thick and fast. With more mainstream media coverage,
even your grandma has heard about Bitcoin, and may even consider buying some. We’ll
talk more about this subject next week for our New Year Special, so keep an eye out.
3. Corporations and banks will start to buy cryptocurrency to bolster reserves. This kind
of money means we will see pumps on the more mainstream friendly cryptocurrencies,
and those in the top 10-20 particularly. Some likely candidates are...
a. BTC Bitcoin
b. ETH Ethereum
c. LTC Litecoin
d. BCH Bitcoin Cash
e. DASH
f. XMR Monero
g. XRP Ripple
h. XLM Stellar
We expected some fluctuation from Bitcoin and the alt market and before publishing the
newsletter, the sentiment had changed hence this weeks delay to publish. With over $100bn
growth in 7 days, it was likely that value could be shed from the market within half of that time
period, as people look to take profits over Christmas and weak hands are shaken out.
With that said, we are expecting the market cap of cryptocurrency to go at least x6 from where it
is. That brings it in line with the Foreign Exchange market, which is entirely possible. That said,
the closer we get to that point the closer we get to a very large scale market crash. It’s important
to have strategies prepared that protect you from volatility, afterall, the 90s dot com stock
bubble did eventually burst, but that didn’t mean the internet was useless.
The MSCI growth of tech stocks is now higher than it was during the bubble. If you want to
know what it is to be a real holder, imagine holding for 10 years through THAT dip.
Here at Rowlingstone we are trying to identify the best blockchain and cryptocurrency projects
that we believe will survive through a tech bubble burst. We are sure you know the vast majority
of these coins and tokens will crash and burn, so particularly our top picks are those we believe
should be safer long term.
It’s important that by this point if you have made significant profits on your investments that you
consider taking some profits. Pay off your debts; mortgages, leases and loans, (and your taxes..
sorry!) and free yourselves from the banks.
Buy, sell, send and receive Bitcoin Cash on Coinbase
Bitcoin Cash was added to Coinbase on 19/12/2017 w hich caused one of the most incredible
pumps we have ever seen, with Bitcoin Cash surging over 200% in under one hour. On GDAX,
the order books had it as high as $9000, but this was before it was trading and the order books
were closed.
Was this a coordinated attack on Bitcoin Core? BTC dropped below support right in time for
this announcement; and right after Roger Ver announced he was “selling all his BTC due to high
fees” - GDAX then also announced they would begin trading. This caused BTC to drop to below
$15,000 again for a short time, filling some luck low ball buy orders! Anyone holding BCH was
very lucky here, but this prompted allegations of insider trading to Coinbase. Coinbase have
since halted BCH trading and are investigating internally.
At the time of writing, BTC has begun to recover and BCH has declined it’s growth. While we
recommend holding some BCH as a hedge, we do not believe this is the “flippening” that has
been discussed.
● BCH pairs are added to exchanges. This is extremely bullish for the BCH price and may
cause further decline in BTC. CoinEX - a new UK based exchange will only trade BCH
pairings.
● Coinbase will add more coins, which most likely will be one by one and from the
following list:
○ XRP
○ DASH
○ XMR
○ ETC
Others will follow, and we’ll explore them. For now it may be worth stocking up on the above in
the event that these listings do take place, as they will cause big pumps. Things are getting kind
of crazy as Crypto Mania takes over. Here are some of our favourite tweets of the week:
One project that really stands out for its long term potential is ICON. This project is backed by a
team of over 50 employees and 25 partner companies, and was created by Dayli Financial
Group: http://www.daylifg.com/ - a powerhouse of Korean Fintech Startups.
It’s mission statement is nothing less than bold but it hopes to cement itself as a leader in
blockchain interoperability and development, meanwhile tackling traditional scaling issues.
ICON is the largest blockchain network in South Korea and is lead by 5 consortiums -
Securities, Banks, Universities, Hospitals and Insurance. They have full backing from the
Korean Government.
Rating
● Whitepaper: 9
● Security: 8
● Blockchain: 10
● Scalability: 9
● Website: 8
● Community:8
● Research and Development: 8
● Partnerships: 10
Total: 9
Disclaimer: ICX is currently trading about 15x ICO price, but given the scope of the
project, feel this is one of the biggest blockchain projects the world has ever seen, and
next year will very much solidify it is a market leading blockchain & cryptocurrency.
ICON, AION and WANchain have teamed up to form the “Blockchain
Interoperability Alliance”
This news largely went unnoticed due to the fact none of these currencies were listed, and we
have been keen to talk about it following the release of ICX and AION on exchanges, now that
WAN is nearing release, we are expecting all three to shake the market next year.
AION & Wanchain are also focused entirely on uniting multiple blockchains, through multi layer
blockchain network protocols and cross-chain smart contracts. The blockchain ecosystem has
grown drastically but it has been very clear that all of these projects have been built in isolation.
Collectively the Alliance raised $100 million USD. The projects span the entire globe, including
USA, Asia and Europe.
The Alliance have stated that they do not feel they are competitors, primarily because they are
based in different regions and feel they can learn from one another.
Expect Wanchain to receive a Binance listing shortly after it’s release.
Earlier today we shared the opportunity to invest in the LiveEdu presale through Rowlingstone.
Below is a quick recap of the project. If you have further questions, please join us in Telegram!
LiveEdu is a decentralized peer-to-peer project learning network for people to improve their job
skills in future technologies. For the launch of the new LiveEdu network, which is slated for
2018, we will start with the following seven topics: programming, game development, data
analytics, design, augmented reality, virtual reality, artificial intelligence and cryptocurrencies. In
2019, the network will be opened up for all topics. The blockchain education company is
targeting the $46 billion global online education market. LinkedIn’s $1.5 billion purchase of
Lynda.com offers a glimpse of this market’s potential; LiveEdu is building the next-gen Lynda
using ethereum ERC20 blockchain technology.
If you want to learn more about this project the Crypto Coin show did a short youtube video that
looks more in depth at the project https://youtu.be/HHKxxMMzhoE
If you want to participate in this pre-ICO sale through you Rowlingstone you use this
referral link to go directly to their website. Minimum investment is $200 dollars. Since you
are participating during the pre-sale you get a bonus of 25% minimum and that goes up
with the more you invest. The conversion rates are as follows 1 ETH = 3300 EDU, 1 BTC =
67000 EDU, 1 LTC = 1800 EDU
We are proud to partner up with LiveEdu and have high hopes for their learning network!
After the introduction of the revolutionary Bitcoin in 2009, the development of crypto currencies
in 2017 has taken a huge flight with many varieties with enormous improvements on speed,
security, anonymity, fees and more. Think of Dash, Zero Coin, Zecash, Pivx and others.
Now Phore has landed, a digital privacy cryptocurrency with a focus on sustainable
development and growth. Phore uses Proof of Stake and Masternodes to secure the network
and provide for a deep level of privacy and security. Phore has relatively fast block times
compared with Bitcoin and low transaction fees. Further a decentralized market place based on
Openbazaar 2.0 code will be launched shortly.
Phore is a digital privacy cryptocurrency, an update and rebrand of KryptKoin (KTK) which was
launched in May 2014.
This newly project has potential to grow fast in the near future. With the upcoming launch of the
marketplace in Q1, the implementation of Segwit and Smart Contracts the current valuation of
$35 Million has room for growth. The challenges towards the crypto world seems the marketing
and adaptation, however the team seems determined to achieve this sooner than later.
Rating
● Whitepaper: 6
● Applications: 7
● Security: 9
● Blockchain: 10
● Scalability: 9 (after segwit)
● Website: 7
● Community:8
● Research and Development: 8
● Partnerships: 6
● Total: 7.7
With the increase in adoption of VR recording equipment there will be an exponential growth of
user created content. The Spectiv platform therefore aims to gain a lot of traction in the industry.
As well as user created content, businesses such as travel companies and sports
entertainment providers, for example, will be jumping on the bandwagon and will adopt
and promote this medium of communication/entertainment.
Reach out to Nick Ravanbakhsh (@nickrava) if you have any questions regarding
Pre-ICO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pZEsSb8z9Y
Next week we’ll do a special recap of all our calls this year, how far they’ve come and evaluate
how they are performing in line with their roadmaps.
Thanks for reading this week, and we want to wish you a merry christmas
from the Rowlingstone team!