A Cryptocurrency startup named Currency.com based in Belarus has recently launched a securities trading platform allowing individuals to invest in equities, commodities, and indices with their crypto holdings of Bitcoin or Ethereum.

This startup currently has over 150 tokenized securities and eventually plans to roll out 10,000 different tokenized securites to their customers.

Investors are able to purchase these issued tokens with their cryptocurrency, meanwhile the tokens they purchase perform identically to the assets listed on NASDAQ.

Investors now having the ability to use crypto to invest in stocks like Apple, Netflix, or Google for the same cost of the actual share, brings us one step closer to greater adoption and regulation in the cryptocurrency space.

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Jan. 9: Pablo Escobar’s brother Roberto Escobar launched an ICO selling ESCOBAR stablecoins to fund a $50 million Impeach Trump Fund campaign, “Supporting the goal to Impeach President Donald Trump by donating funds to Escobar Inc, as a means of funding due to GoFundMe.com shutting down the fundraiser.” This ICO is ending in 114 days on May 10, selling 200,000,000 ESCOBAR (20%), where 1 ESCOBAR stablecoin = 1 USD after June 1, but is currently being sold for $0.25 in its ICO round. Escobar plans to list this token on various exchanges, on coinmarketcap, and develop a ERC20 wallet system for the token.

Escobar’s Trump ICO

Jan. 10: The hope of a Bitcoin ETF continues on, with crypto startup Bitwise registered the Bitwise Bitcoin ETF Trust with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in hopes of getting it approved. If this ETF for Bitcoin is successful, its shares are going to be listed on NYSE Arca, where stocks and options are traded compared to larger cap stocks on traditional NYSE. An ETF is what Bitcoin desperately needs in order to gain mass media attention, and potentially billions of dollars from investors waiting for this asset to be regulated.

Bitwise ETF

Jan. 11: NASA is attempting to implement blockchain technology in hopes of increasing privacy and security in their aircraft flight data. This information was revealed from one of NASA’s engineer publishing a paper suggesting that their security issues could be possibly improved by implementing blockchain networks and smart contracts. This is one step closer to adoption in the blockchain and cryptocurrency space.

NASA Blockchain

Jan. 14: A 51% attack occurred on the Ethereum Classic network on the exchange Gate.io, where the hacker was successfully able to steal 40,000 ETC worth $200,000 at the time. Unexpectedly, the hacker returned the now $100k worth of to Gate.io, but refused to give a reason for the attack, or why he/she returned the funds. According to the exchange, “We still don’t know the reason. If the attacker didn’t run it for profit, he might be a white hacker who wanted to remind people of the risks in blockchain consensus and hashing power security.”

ETC 51% Attack

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In Finance, the main objective is to determine the fair value or intrinsic value of an asset or investment to then make investment decisions based on this data.

With Cryptocurrencies, we often hear that they have no true value or intrinsic value. That their value is purely speculative which to a large degree is very true.

According to CoinFairValue and a model knows as the Currency Fair Value Model though many major Cryptocurrencies are not currently trading at their intrinsic value. Their model utilizes a number of factors such as Total Discounted Supply Theory Of Money, Velocity of Money, and other variables that they have derived from Austrian Economics to calculate the intrinsic value of cryptocurrencies.

CoinFairValue's intrisic values:

Bitcoin Fair Value - $7329.35

Bitcoin Current Price - $3688.83


Ethereum Fair Value - $244.03

Ethereum Current Price - $127.69


Stellar Fair Value - $.314451

Stellar Current Price - $.1283


Tron Fair Value - $.125685

Tron Current Price - $.028544


EOS Fair Value - $7.91

EOS Current Price - $2.91


Bitcoin Cash Fair Value - $382.19

Bitcoin Cash Current Price - $131.43


Litecoin Fair Value - $59.8

Litecoin Current Price - $33.24

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BTC

This past month Bitcoin has been testing between $3.5k and $3.6k, and overall the zone has been treated as an opportunity to buy for traders.

Under a completely bearish circumstance, Bitcoin will dip below $3,550 and continue to drop possibly testing its previous temporary bottom at $3.2k. However, many analysts predict that we may plunge further downwards and see fresh yearly lows around $2,500.

In the case that this is a healthy correction, Bitcoin will continue to consolidate with $3.5k as support and $4k as resistance.

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“I didn’t want to be the spokesman against bitcoin. I don’t really give a shit — that’s the point, OK?” - Jamie Dimon

Jamie Dimon CEO of JP Morgan and once accused leader of the Bitcoin haters has publicly stated that a global recession is not coming, despite many frightened investors and economists believing a recession will occur soon.

According to Dimon on Fox Business, “It looks to me like a slowdown [not a recession]. Sentiment changed dramatically for a whole bunch of different reasons. But the United States is still growing, at 2.5%. We just had some good wage data.”

Usually to my understanding, when the stock market performs well the sentiment and confidence in investors is high, which could result in investors looking for even more places to invest their cash such as Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.

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BTC

Max Keiser, host of his financial program Keiser Report stated that Bitcoin has the potential to have a major role in the modern global financial world due to its fundamental value.

On New Year’s Day with Keiser Report, it was pointed out that Germany is currently working on an alternative to the current system Swift, which is the global financial payment network based out of Belgium, but was said that United States is the leader in the network.


“A replacement to that [SWIFT] begins the end of the US Dollar hegemony. Bitcoin also emerged in 2009, and that is starting to take over and get bigger despite de price crash… The prices are down … But in terms of where Bitcoin is going, you and I have been involved with this space since 2011, we’ve seen it crash 94% in 2011, and it crashed something like 88 to 91% in 2013, 2014, 2015… So we’ve seen a few of these crashes, but what I do know from experience … In the past, during these previous crashes, a lot of building took place during that time, robust companies were built. They were no longer distracted, engineers are not distracted by price increases of 10, 20 or 30% a week”

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I believe that this is a final pump before we touch $2,000 levels. Bitmain is buying a bunch of BCH in order to successfully file for IPO, due to their existing poor earnings report. Some kind of manipulation is occurring right now, and I believe it will not sustain.

Check out this article I wrote here

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I currently have holdings of ETH, XRP, AND BTC. However I believe we may not see prices this cheap for bitcoin in the near future, espeically with institution funds rolling in. Should I sell my XRP for more bitcoin???
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it is good to have a diversified portfolio, however we may never see these prices ever at for bitcoin in the near future,altcoins will always be there, and some may not survive. Best bang for your buck holding and accumulating more BTC

100%!!!! At the rate we are growing as a society, the need for a worldwide currency that is digital is in high demand, and will most likely be adopted within the next 100 years. 

COINBASE is the way to go when purchasing bitcoins. Most trusted, been in the game for years now... I wouldn't reccomend buying elsewhere just because its so secure.