Cryptocurrency Discounts Part 1: Blood in the Streets.
Do you want to make your first investment in cryptocurrencies or get some cryptocurrency at a massive discount while the market is still low?
“The time to buy is when there’s blood in the streets.”
We all know this statement made by Baron Rothschild in the 18th century, since then, this mindset was used as a dogma by traders and investors all over the world when comes to make profits. Therefore we want to help you to find the best investment between many gems, which in this low market could be found at a massive discount.
WHICH INFO YOU'LL GET?
We decided to make a daily report taking in consideration 5 coins/tokens per day examining those aspects:
-Short description of the coin/token;
-Ranking, Supply and Market Cap;
-Top 5 Markets with their liquidity;
-Official Wallets;
-Last Updated Roadmap;
-% from ATH (All Time High);
LET'S START THEN!
In today’s part we will talk about 5 coins, mind that i said coins and not tokens, since with the term “Coins” we describe protocols which have their own blockchain and are used mainly as store of value and medium of transfer, instead being hosted on top of other platforms like Ethereum, NEO or Waves, which are used for different purposes as well as the ones cited before; those ones are called “Tokens”.
NANO
WHAT'S NANO?
Nano, ex Raiblocks, is a low-latency payment platform that requires minimal resources, making it ideal for peer-to-peer transactions, where each account has their own blockchain as part of a larger “Directed Acyclic Graph”.
Unlike blockchains used in many other cryptocurrencies, Nano uses a block-lattice structure. Each account has its own blockchain (account-chain) equivalent to the account’s transaction/balance history. Each account-chain can only be updated by the account’s owner; this allows each account-chain to be updated immediately and asynchronously to the rest of the block-lattice, resulting in quick transactions.
-Instant transactions
Nano transactions happen immediately, so it’s a currency you can use every day for purchases large or small.
-Zero fees
Pay for the purchase, not the privilege — zero fees on whatever you buy, from bus ticket to business class flight.
-Infinitely scalable
Nano can process over 1000x more transactions per second than Bitcoin, so you’ll never get stuck in a queue.
-Whitepaper: https://nano.org/en/whitepaper
RANKING, SUPPLY AND MARKET CAP
According to CoinMarketCap, Nano is ranked 49th with a market cap of roughly $175 million;
Supply:
-Circulating: 133,248,289 NANO
-Total: 133,248,289 NANO
-Max: 133,248,289 NANO
As you can see, the Circulating, Total and Max Supply are same, that means all the coins are already been released in the market and that makes it very appealing when we think about the deflation overtime since there won’t be any other coin created in the future. If that is followed by demand, the coin fixed amount will create scarcity increasing the price and giving you some profits.
WHERE IS NANO TRADED?
Nano is currently traded on different exchanges with different pairs, we’re listing the top 5 pairs per liquidity with relative exchanges:
-Binance — NANO/BTC — Vol. $3,145,189
-Mercatox — XRB/BTC — Vol. $151,512
-Binance — NANO/ETH — Vol. $151,090
-Bitinka — NANO/BTC —Vol. $80,601
-Kucoin — NANO/BTC — Vol. $61,334
WHERE CAN I HODL MY NANO?
We have 3 different instruments where we can keep Nano and all of those are provided by the Nano Official Website:
-Online Wallet;
-Android and iOS app;
-Desktop client.
All of them can be found on the official website: https://nano.org/
You can also keep your Nano in the hardware wallet like Ledger Nano S, which is the safest way to HODL your cryptocurrency by the way. Trezor is not supporting Nano yet.
ROADMAP
Nano’s website provides an exhaustive section about the roadmap represented by a living document, which is subject to change over time, divided into sub-sections regarding the status of operations and details about the steps already completed, you can find it here: https://developers.nano.org/roadmap
LAST BUT NOT LEAST…THE ATH!
At the current time, Nano is traded at $1.31, which is -96.53% from its ATH of $37.62 reached on the 2nd of January, 2018. If you put it in perspective, investing $100 now, you’ll have roughly $2.870 if the coin reaches again the ATH price.
QTUM
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WHAT'S QTUM?
Qtum is a decentralised and open-source smart contracts platform and value transfer protocol, which uses proof-of-stake consensus, meaning node operators are rewarded for validating transactions. It also has a DGP (Decentralised Governance Protocol) governed blockchain where community participants can vote to change certain network parameters. Qtum also succeeded to launch the “first ever space-based Blockchain node” on a Chinese satellite in February 2018.
-The blockchain made ready for business
Separating the settlement and computation layers of blockchain allow for greater flexibility. Qtum’s stacked approach enables multiple virtual machines or run environments to operate on top of the blockchain.
-Expanding the smart contract ecosystem
QTUM is about to revolutionize the way Smart Contracts are viewed, developed and used. With the x86VM, QTUM will be the first blockchain platform to allow next-gen DAPPS become a reality. Developers will be able to build Smart Contracts for QTUM using mainstream languages.
-Mitigating and solving scalability
Qtum employs a decentralized governance protocol allowing for blockchain parameters like the block size, block time, gas schedules, and the minimum gas price for contracts to be modified without requiring a fork. Additionally, the Qtum team is working diligently on lightning networks & payment channels to allow for 20,000+ tps.
-Proof of stake mining
Qtum employs a proof of stake consensus protocol that allows anyone with as little as one qtum to help secure the network. Our current Smart Stake Protocol is based on PoS v3.0 with some mutualized block reward features to increase the security of our smart contracts platform.
-Keeping the blockchain decentralised
From Qtum’s consensus algorithm to our support of the Simple Payment Verification (SPV) protocol, our goal is to keep the network decentralised and bring smart contracts to everyone, including light clients in low bandwidth environments.
-Whitepaper and Docs:https://qtum.org/en/white-papers
RANKING, SUPPLY AND MARKET CAP
According to CoinMarketCap, Qtum is ranked 23rd with a market cap of roughly $484 million;
Supply:
-Circulating: 88,805,324 QTUM
-Total: 100,805,324 QTUM
As you see there isn’t Max Supply, that’s because there isn’t a fixed supply to this coin, therefore it’s an inflationary cryptocurrency with a certain amount of coins released gradually over time due to the Proof-of-Stake rewards.
WHERE IS QUTUM TRADED?
Qtum is currently traded on different exchanges with different pairs, we’re listing the top 5 pairs per liquidity with relative exchanges:
-ZB.COM — QTUM/BTC — Vol. $46,516,416
-LBank — QTUM/ETH — Vol. $17,109,629
-LBank — QTUM/BTC — Vol. $17,036,332
-BCEX — QTUM/BTC — Vol. $8,010,491
-BitForex — QTUM/USDT — Vol. $7,145,680
WHERE CAN I HODL MY QTUM?
We have 3 different instruments where we can keep Qtum and all of those are provided by the Qtum Official Website:
-Online Wallet;
-Android and iOS app;
-Desktop client.
All of them can be found on the official website: https://qtumeco.io/wallet
You can also keep your Qtum in the hardware wallet like Ledger Nano S and Trezor, which is the safest way to HODL your cryptocurrency by the way.
ROADMAP
Here you can see the second Qtum roadmap, the third one is already a work in progress and will be released soon:
LAST BUT NOT LEAST…THE ATH!
At the current time, Qtum is traded at $5.43, which is -94.92% from its ATH of $106.88 reached on the 7th of January, 2018. If you put it in perspective, investing $100 now, you’ll have roughly $1.968 if the coin reaches again the ATH price.
NEM
** WHAT'S NEM?**
NEM focuses on building exactly what you need, whether that’s a fin-tech system, tracking logistics, an ICO, document notarisation, decentralised authentication and much more. NEM’s private permissioned blockchain delivers industry-leading transaction rates for internal ledgers, with its revolutionary consensus mechanism and the Supernode program ensure that NEM’s open, public blockchain can grow without ever compromising throughput or stability.
-Use Case Examples
NEM’s modular Smart Asset system enables businesses to build an incredible variety of real world application uses. By using NEM’s built-in features to define your Smart Assets and connect them together, you can represent almost any system of business transactions on the blockchain with minimal development.
-Platform Architecture
NEM’s architecture is designed for both simplicity and flexibility of development. The blockchain itself is supported by nodes running NEM-provided software that implements NEM’s feature set and unique consensus mechanism. This may either be the open, decentralized, self-supporting NEM public blockchain, or it may be a permissioned private NEM blockchain running on your own servers.
-Platform Features
The NEM blockchain’s range of features is made available to you through simple RESTful JSON calls to an API Gateway Server. This drastically simplifies the creation of client apps or interfacing servers to the blockchain. You can implement your usage of the blockchain using any language you prefer without being forced to reimplement existing business logic or develop in an unfamiliar environment.
-Whitepaper and Docs: https://docs.nem.io/en
RANKING, SUPPLY AN MARKET CAP
According to CoinMarketCap, NEM is ranked 17th with a market cap of roughly $1 Billion;
Supply:
-Circulating: 8,999,999,999 XEM
-Total: 8,999,999,999 XEM
-Max: 8,999,999,999 XEM
Some people get confused about it since the market cap information websites indicates this amount as circulating supply, not indicating the Total/Max Supply. The total NEM that will ever circulate will be 8,999,999,999 XEM, therefore they’ve all been released in the market and not one more XEM will be created. That’s a positive thing if we are looking a deflationary cryptocurrency with fixed supply!
** WHERE IS NEM TRADED?**
NEM is currently traded on different exchanges with different pairs, we’re listing the top 5 pairs per liquidity with relative exchanges:
-Coinsuper — XEM/BTC — Vol. $10,887,418
-Zaif — XEM/JPY — Vol. $2,673,949
-HitBTC— XEM/BTC — Vol. $1,682,703
-Binance — XEM/BTC — Vol. $1,233,075
-Kryptono — XEM/BTC — Vol. $1,097,164
WHERE CAN I HODL MY XEM?
We have 3 different instruments where we can keep XEM and all of those are provided by the NEM Official Website:
-Online Wallet;
-Android and iOS app;
-Desktop client.
All of them can be found on the official website: https://nem.io/downloads/
You can also keep your NEM in the hardware wallet like Trezor, which is the safest way to HODL your cryptocurrency by the way. Ledger Nano S is not supporting NEM yet.
ROADMAP
NEM does not publish its roadmap, just the updates.
LAST BUT NOT LEAST…THE ATH!
At the current time, NEM is traded at $0.12, which is -94.19% from its ATH of $2.09 reached on the 4th of January, 2018. If you put it in perspective, investing $100 now, you’ll have roughly $1.741 if the coin reaches again the ATH price.
CARDANO
WHAT'S CARDANO?
Cardano is a decentralised public blockchain and cryptocurrency project fully open source. Cardano is developing a smart contract platform which seeks to deliver more advanced features than any protocol previously developed. It is the first blockchain platform to evolve out of a scientific philosophy and a research-first driven approach. The development team consists of a large global collective of expert engineers and researchers.
-The project
Cardano is a blockchain platform evolved out of a scientific philosophy.
-Ouroboros
The first provably secure proof of stake algorithm, peer reviewed by academics.
-Daedalus
The wallet will be able to run decentralised applications on the blockchain.
-Whitepaper and Docs: https://cardanodocs.com/introduction/
RANKING, SUPPLY AND MARKET CAP
According to CoinMarketCap, Cardano is ranked 8th with a market cap of roughly $3 Billion;
Supply:
-Circulating: 25,927,070,538 ADA
-Total: 31,112,483,745 ADA
-Max: 45,000,000,000 ADA
This Coin is also a deflationary one considering that once is reached the Max Supply, no one more coin will be ever created. Cardano is also a project which points to allow smart contracts to be built on top of it, which factor is going to maximise the mass adoption of the coin/platform in the upcoming years.
**WHERE IS CARDANO TRADED?
Cardano is currently traded on different exchanges with different pairs, we’re listing the top 5 pairs per liquidity with relative exchanges:
-Upbit — ADA/KRW — Vol. $21,749,164
-Binance — ADA/USDT — Vol. $18,764,389
-Binance — ADA/BTC —Vol. $14,068,384
-Huobi — ADA/USDT — Vol. $5,453,614
-Bittrex — ADA/BTC —Vol. $2,045,408
WHERE CAN I HODL MY CARDANO?
At the moment we can keep Cardano just in the Daedalus Wallet which can be found in the Official Website Page:
For now, neither Ledger Nano S or Trezor are supporting Cardano, but they have announced the support for it and the implementation is already in progress.
ROADMAP
Here you can check the Cardano roadmap with countdowns on updates and announcements:
LAST BUT NOT LEAST...THE ATH!
At the current time, Cardano is traded at $0.12, which is -90.94% from its ATH of $1.33 reached on the 4th of January, 2018. If you put it in perspective, investing $100 now, you’ll have roughly $1.108 if the coin reaches again the ATH price.
NEO
WHAT'S NEO?
NEO is a non-profit community-driven blockchain project. It utilises blockchain technology and digital identity to digitise assets and automate the management of digital assets using smart contracts. Using a distributed network, it aims to create a “Smart Economy”. NEO was founded in 2014 and was open sourced on GitHub in June 2015. NEO believes that community development is its top priority. NEO has a huge developer community around the world, such as CoZ, NEL and NeoResearch, who continuously contribute to NEO development. Millions of community members are active on Reddit, Discord, Github and Twitter.
-Digital Assets
Digital Assets are programmable assets that exist in the form of electronic data. With blockchain technology, the digitisation of assets can be decentralised, trustful, traceable, highly transparent, and free of intermediaries. On the NEO blockchain, users are able to register, trade, and circulate multiple types of assets. Proving the connection between digital and physical assets is possible through digital identity. Assets registered through a validated digital identity are protected by law.
-Digital Identity
Digital identity refers to the identity information of individuals, organizations, and other entities that exist in electronic form. The more mature digital identity system is based on the PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) X.509 standard. In NEO, we will implement a set of X.509 compatible digital identity standards. This set of digital identity standards, in addition to a compatible X.509 level certificate issuance model, will also support the Web Of Trust point-to-point certificate issuance model.
-Smart Contract
The NeoContract smart contract system is the biggest feature of the seamless integration of the existing developer ecosystem. Developers do not need to learn a new programming language, but can use C#, Java and other mainstream programming languages in their familiar IDE environments (Visual Studio, Eclipse, etc.) for smart contract development, debugging and compilation. NEO’s Universal Lightweight Virtual Machine, NeoVM, has the advantages of high certainty, high concurrency, and high scalability. The NeoContract smart contract system will allow millions of developers around the world to quickly carry out the development of smart contracts. NeoContract will have a separate white paper describing the implementation details.
-Whitepaper and Docs: http://docs.neo.org/en-us/index.html
RANKING, SUPPLY AND MARKET CAP
According to CoinMarketCap, NEO is ranked 15th with a market cap of roughly $1.3 Billion;
Supply:
-Circulating: 65,000,000 NEO
-Total: 100,000,000 NEO
-Max: 100,000,000 NEO
For this coin the argument is the same as the other deflationary ones we talked before, the fixed amount adds value to the coin, especially if the amount in circulation is more than half the total supply. Since NEO allows smart contracts to be built on it as we said about Cardano, the demand for it can also increase since having NEO gives you the right to claim GAS tokens in the Neon Wallet.
WHERE IS NEO TRADED?
NEO is currently traded on different exchanges with different pairs, we’re listing the top 5 pairs per liquidity with relative exchanges:
-Binance — NEO/USDT — Vol. $11,317,882
-Binance — NEO/BTC — Vol. $7,784,042
-BitForex — NEO/ETH — Vol. $5,369,296
-CoinEx — NEO/BTC — Vol. $5,030,945
-Bitfinex — NEO/USD — Vol. $4,782,271
WHERE CAN I HOLD MY NEO?
We have 3 different instruments where we can keep NEO and all of those are provided by the NEO Official Website:
-Online Wallet;
-Android and iOS app;
-Desktop client.
All of them can be found on the official website: https://neo.org/client
You can also keep your NEO in the hardware wallet like Ledger Nano S or NEODUN, which is the safest way to HODL your cryptocurrency by the way.
ROADMAP
Acronym explanations for the confused:
NGD — Neo Global Development, essentially the core NEO dev team
CoZ — City of Zion, the biggest NEO community development team.
NeoQS — NEO Quantum Safe. Quantum computers can solve a lot of decomposition problems (used by RSA cryptos for public-key encryption) and the elliptic curve discrete logarithm (used by ECC cryptos for public-key encryption). Pretty much 99.9999% of cryptos use these two. To put it in plain English, these algorithms are what prevents someone being able to calculate your private key from your public key. If a quantum computer can quickly solve it, then every single wallet would be vulnerable. NEO wants to find a suitable replacement that cannot be solved by quantum computing.
NEP — NEO Enhancement Proposal. They are essentially just ideas of ways to improve or extend NEO’s functionality. You can find a NEP list here.
NeoX — A protocol that allows NEO to interact with other blockchains for the use of exchanging assets or just regular old transactions. If one transaction went from NEO -> Ethereum, you’d need to ensure that the transaction either succeeds or fails on both blockchains. If it succeeded on one and failed on the other, you’d have serious issues. These are the types of thing that NeoX addresses and resolves. It also works with cross-chain smart contracts.
NeoVM — Neo Virtual Machine. A little virtual computer that executes the smart contracts.
NeoFS — NEO File Storage — a distributed storage protocol. Instead of a file path, data is indexed under a hash. That way you can split large files up into different data blocks and store them into different nodes. Essentially gives us a way to store things without them needing to be held in centralized storage (say, certificates registered to digital identities).
LAST BUT NOT LEAST...THE ATH!
At the current time, NEO is traded at $21,41, which is -89.13% from its ATH of $196.85 reached on the 15th of January, 2018. If you put it in perspective, investing $100 now, you’ll have roughly $919 if the coin reaches again the ATH price.
CONCLUSION
Well, hope you liked it! Tomorrow another 5 coins/tokens will be taken into consideration and maybe you’ll find some hidden gem to put in your future investments.
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