Hello 👋 I will go over the best cryptocurrencies for 2018 this is based on what I've been observing in 2017 and I feel like these coins have up to 10x potential in 2018 so let's take a look the very first one should be no surprise its Bitcoin now before you feel like or you're thinking this is a easy answer, hear me out
Bitcoin of course you guys know is the first and most well known cryptocurrency today okay that has not changed and in terms of adoption it's growing as Bitcoin is getting into mainstream media more and more because as price increase more and more people want to learn about it and hear about it and want to know how to get involved with it and buy it because of that bitcoin is only going to go up and up and up in 2018 and then what's going to add to that is Bitcoin futures and ETFs as you probably know Bitcoin futures is a big deal although in an indirect way everything settled and everything traded in futures is cash it's based on bitcoins price so now you got big big big or old institutional investors that is too afraid to touch Bitcoin now they're looking at it in terms of okay maybe I know maybe I can trade Bitcoin futures instead and if they're thinking about Bitcoin now everyone else is gonna follow so Bitcoin future is definitely a big deal it adds more attention to Bitcoin which is a good thing and then right afterwards ETS which are exchange-traded funds they're gonna come right behind it and those will have a direct correlation with Bitcoin because the companies that are set to follow them do need to have Bitcoin on hand and don't want each etf's open then you do have people that can invest directly in these funds and have a direct correlation to Bitcoin and the supply of Bitcoin as we know bitcoin is scarce there's a limited amount it's the biggest reason why bitcoin is going up because unlike anything else out there in terms of dollars or gold or oil or even cattle for example there's a limited there's a limited supply but there's not a finite supply okay you can always find more gold you'll always find more silver eagles pearl or dollar so you could always raise more cattle but bitcoin is finite after 21 million that's it you can't generate you can't mine anymore because of that as the price is going up more and more people are just go hoard it they're not going to use it as a currency and that's fine that's why bitcoin in my opinion is still the true wealth builder if you want to change your life you want to change your lifestyle you want to accumulate as much Bitcoin as possible within the next three or five years I really believe that now.
Other cryptocurrencies I will be talking about and just general trading and cryptocurrencies they can make a lot of money they definitely can but in my opinion the point of trading cryptocurrencies is to make money and use that money to accumulate more Bitcoin because I feel like Bitcoin being a store value will have the most growth in three to five years compared to any other cryptocurrencies so Bitcoin because of that because this is a finite number it's a very small 21 million just it's a store bout as a value store and it's the first and most well-known and the largest doctor cryptocurrency out their bitcoins growth is not go stop in 2018 and those who follow me know that I always stress Bitcoin should be part of everyone's portfolio and a large amount of their portfolio as a staple and my stance doesn't change it in 2017, bitcoin saw about of 1700 percent increase and I predict that Bitcoin will still see upwards of 10 1000 percent growth in 2018 so that's tenfold in terms of price increase so we end a year at 20,000 let's say there's a good chance that Bitcoin can be at 200,000 by December 2018 and I'm not exaggerating that number bitcoins growth is gold stay steady because the new influx of money from institutional investors and overall interest from the general consumer base is if you talk to just your friends your family your co-workers even though many of them do know about Bitcoin or heard about it but if you asked how many of them actually hold Bitcoin very little and if they do it's you know a little bit and that's the reason why as Bitcoin goes up and up and up more and more people are going to be interested more people want to get involved even businesses. Square recently opened up Bitcoin trading on their cash app it's beta testing but still that's example you know that PayPal can't be far behind so you know you got consumers going you know getting more involved with Bitcoin you got businesses getting more involved Bitcoin merchants of course and then you got the wealthy and the investors that are simply hoarding more and more Bitcoin as a value store it's good cause Bitcoin to go up trust me on this do not ignore Bitcoin for 2018 all right.
Second largest adoption by far among crytocurrency
Lightning Network/Atomic Swaps
Charlie Lee at Helm
New Marketing and PR Push
3x-5x Growth Potential
Second pick, might come as a surprise to you guys but most of you know this second most well-known cryptocurrency today because it is the second cryptocurrency that came out largest adoption right behind Bitcoin I'm a big fan of coins that have adoption because there's a lot of new cryptocurrencies that's coming out has alot of promise has a good team but there's no product no adoption litecoin definitely does Charlie Lee who is the mentor of Litecoin he actually came out and committed that he was ghost spent a lot more time marketing and forming business relationships on the behalf of litecoin because he kind of stood back a little bit but now he's coming back full swing and immediately after he announced that valve a huge game maker announced that they were stay away from Bitcoin and moving into litecoin it was huge news it triggered this avalanche of buys and litecoin jumped up from 100 to 150 and now it's hovering above 300. Litecoin is not to be ignored some of the other things that you might not know of is obviously litecoin implemented Segway and lightning Network and anything that has Lightning Network implemented can do atomic swaps so Bitcoin once they get their lightning Network fully implemented like wine and Bitcoin could definitely do atomic swaps what does that mean that means decentralized exchanges will now be able to trade between them you can also trade between other people it opens up possibilities and there's a ton of other coins that is set to go live on Lightning Network which you could also do a Tomic swaps with so with all that said litecoin has brokers previous ceilings it's heading much higher and I see a three to five times growth potential with like wait what does that mean that means right now if litecoin is around $231 I could see it hit a thousand and I could see a hit 1,500
before the end of 2018 okay don't ignore litecoin anymore like coin is here to play it's go go up
massively in 2018
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My next pick is Ardor
First Generation 3 Platform Coin
Introduction of "Child" chain
Huge interest from Ignis ICO and NXT snapshot
Team has experience building a product
10x Growth Potential
I've been talking about this non-stop Ardor was created by the next team it's built upon the next platform but of course improved includes child chains now which is a big deal it child chains off chains side chains primarily move all their transaction off the blockchain so for example how you Ethereum has a scaling issue these generation 3 platform which are Ardor is the first that's coming out to the market that these child side chains off chains will help with transactions and help the blockchain scale tremendously to handle the future so Ardor is coming out first it's backed by a team that knows what they're doing they conducted ICO for a Maine's child chain called Ignace back later I mean earlier this year it was very successful they raised fifteen million dollars and they're dropping a whole bunch of more coins to people who are holding next that's kind of the reason why next has jumped up so much toward under the year because the snapshot is happening December 28th and once it happens every next token that you own you will get half Ignace token and Ignace is a big child chain that's being attached to Ardor, Ignace has to do with a lot of the features that Ardor talks about in terms of handling transactions and so forth Ignace is a big part of that and it's big part of Ardor again I'm a very big fan of platforms that have a large adoption rate and it's coming to market and Ardor is coming to market and I anticipate that once it hit in January you go hear a whole slew of new coins and nude apps that's gonna be released for Ardor I feel like Ardor has huge potential I've been watching them since they were around 25 cents they jumped the 50 Cent's and I've been telling people to get in on it now they're hovering around 90 cents to a dollar even then I am going to say Ardor has a 10x potential in my opinion I believe by the end of 2018 if the adoption continues to grow and grow and they become one of leaders of generation 3 platform coins then they have a 10x growth potential so from a dollar they have the potential of growing to $10 okay.
The "Tangle"
Data Marketplace with Samsung and Microsoft
No scalling issues
No transaction fees
10x Growth Potential
let's take a look at the next coin IOTA a lot of people jumped on IOTA to bandwidth recently but there's good reason for and I will say I am one of them because IOTA has been hovering around for years and not many people know it but what really kicked off the interest in IOTA is because of Ethereum scaling issues and also because of its big big partnership with Samsung Microsoft so let me talk about Ethereum scaling issue and IOTA Tangle, Ethereum because it's a generation 2 platform coined it can't handle that many transactions it can handle about 15 transactions per second so they're desperately trying to scale that up Ethereum Team is looking at on change solutions and off chain solutions that off chain solution would be Raiden network which is kind of equivalent of lightning Network for Ethereum and ERC 20 base tokens now with that said Ethereum team still needs time to develop and to test and get everything working so and it didn't help that this very popular viral app called crypto kiddies have now revealed that yes Ethereum does have a scaling issue because Ethereum had some issues before with couple ico's before but other than that we never really heard any other issues about scaling until now that brought up they've brought up a lot of tension for IOTA. IOTA doesn't use blockchain it uses something called a tangle which basically they take they're forming a lot of I guess how you would called transaction channels between each person so unlike a blockchain where you need nodes or miners to verify to either do proof of work proof of stake you need or master nodes to handle things iota doesn't need any of that IOTA actually they make it proof of work being your verify other transaction so every transaction that you make as a proof of work you have to verify two other transactions it's kind of interesting it requires basically actually I should say the more people that go on IOTA does network the more transactions and the faster it becomes it's very interesting with all their block chains there's a problem with scaling even with side chains and these generation 3 platforms there's kind of a limit there's an upper limit in terms of how much it could handle with iota because of the way structure with the tangle there is no limit if you have millions upon millions of people get I owe I owe to make transactions it actually gets better it's the only network of all cryptocurrency that actually gets better with more transactions and users compared to any other blockchain out there in the cryptocurrency world it's it's awesome and because of the tangle and how the proof of work is verifying other transactions there's no transaction fee it's the only blockchain out there that has zero fees so you can send someone one sent you could send someone point 1 cent and there's no fees involved so that makes it awesome again something no other blockchain can say they might have low transaction fees but not zero transaction fee so IOTA to sum up has no scaling issues no transaction fees and then I mentioned this data marketplace that they just this big partnership they formed the Samsung Microsoft and few others and it's gonna be a data marketplace. If you think about Ethereum EEA the enterprise ether Alliance this is kind of it they don't really have official name but this is the start of it you go get a whole bunch of you know companies that go store data in this marketplace and a date and the marketplace can be accessed by other companies you can access the data through encrypted manner it's gonna be a huge one of the first of the kind and because IOTA does no transaction fees and no no problems of scaling issues it's perfect to handle massive amounts of data andmassive amounts of transactions it's huge I anticipate once that fully gets vetted and iota platform gets released that it's gonna be huge again iota is one of those coins I feel has 10x growth potential so it is hovering around the 450 mark I can see it go up as high as 450 dollars by the end of 2018 so don't ignore IOTA all right let's move on.
Lightning Network for Ethereum
Compatible with all ERC-20 Token
Low Fees
Fast Transactions
10x Growth Potential
Okay the reason why Ethereum is not on here is because Ethereum is hovering around 50 60 billion market cap I do see it go up I don't see it going up as high as these other coins I've mentioned and I do think that there are held back a little bit or they are going to be held back a little bit because of the scaling issues they definitely need to solve it Raiden network is going solve that rate and network is already here it actually just opened up its network in November and it's being tested by a dozen other ERC 20 based token companies because they want to get in on Raiden Network Raiden network is the Lightning Network for Ethereum . what does that bring it opens up payment channels so it offers low transaction fees so you can actually send micro payments it offers very lightning fast I should say rate and fast transactions and it's compatible with all you ERC 20 tokens so that means the thousand plus coins that are based on ethereum can all jump on to Raiden network Raiden network has huge growth potential and not to mention Ethereum if they want to solve their scaling issues quick the person the company they need to rely on is Raiden Network now Raiden network has been pumped a little bit it's going on up and down up and down and it's around two hundred two dollars and 60 cents I feel like that is a steal I feel like Raiden Network being at two hundred to two hundred sixty cents does have also have 10x potential I see that it can go up as high as twenty six dollars but in the 2018 because of how many companies including ethereum will be utilizing it in 2018 I see huge potential with Raiden.
Smart and Clean Energy
Established presence in Australia
Expansion already in Progress
Distribution of Energy
Working product
10x Growth Potential
Power ledger those who have been following me know that I'm a big big fan of power ledger because they're involved in smart and clean energy they're disrupting the energy market and they have a working product they have a working product unlike a lot of these cryptocurrencies that don't even have working bras they do they have established presence Australia they actually have a decent presence Australia they have contracts to build out smart grids with solar energy and they're also working into tilly companies so that users can buy this is the first time ever as users can buy energy up front using the power lecture and then they can also either hoard it use that energy or even sell it to neighbors at a profit it's wild it's the first of its kind they're making great strides ready Australia they're ready expanding their talks about expanding to India to Thailand to some of the poorer countries that really don't have access to power and that's what power ledger is doing some really big fan of power ledger I really believe that they're going the right direction kind of first of the kind disrupting energy and bringing clean energy to a lot of places that simply can't even get access to energy I see Power Ledger is hovering around 50 cent $0.55 mark I see them having a huge potential 2018 as well as we hear more news about them in terms of where they're going and what they're doing I really think that they're gonna explode as well TEDx potential on Power ledger.
Marijuana Industry Set to Explode
Canada
US-California with 6 other states considering
Money/Banking Problem
Working Product
10-100x Growth Potential
Lastly this is extra okay and I'm throwing three coins in here because Pot coin, Hemp coin and Dope coin they all kind of relate to marijuana industry which is going explode in 2018 let me talk about Canada is gonna be one of the largest countries in the world to actually legalize marijuana they're getting there hasn't happened yet but anticipated to happen sometime this year in 2018 around summer and once that happens there's a there's a ton of dissent dispensaries that's waiting to be opened and it's gonna be a huge market because they're so close to the United States and then pot coin already formed a relationship with the weed MD which is a medical marijuana and there's a lot of medical marijuana out there but I'm talking about recreational marijuana and you asked the same thing we already have states that legalized recreational marijuana and those states are blooming because of how much tax dollars are getting so all these other states are paying attention in California which is gonna be anticipated to be the largest economy in the world just go be selling marijuana soon that's opening up in January okay so you can't discredit that and six other states are considering legalized recreational marijuana too so the United States as you know what the economy for the United States is the biggest in the world and when you have these states like California and these six other states in Colorado and all some of these other states that are coming board it's gonna be a huge market and right now there's a there's a big need there's a big banking and money problem with a marijuana industry at least in the United States because federally is still illegal that means no credit card transactions could be done no banks can be used to store money everything is done in cash and that's where
cryptocurrencies come in it's perfect it's perfectly suited to handle this market for now so pot coin, Hemp Coin and Dope Coin they all have their uniqueness they all concentrate on a little bit different things but overall I think it'll play a huge part in terms of forming partnerships within Canada and US and also help the farmers producers dispensatory the retailer's and everyone it's gonna be a perfect system and currency for them to use because of that I see them all having 10x to a hundred x growth potential because they're all very small the market cap and album pot coin, Hemp coin and Dopecoin are extremely small and if they get adopted I can see and I could see them explode okay I actually recommended a few Hemp coin and Dope coin I really feel like you can't ignore these three coins in 2018.