My research strategy for a blockchain project is very simple:
- I research the project's whitepaper, recent development, community, Bitcointalk thread, and source code.
This step helps me decide whether this crypto currency gets me excited from a developer's perspective. - I estimate what market cap the coin should have, and then I look at the actual coin market cap.
If it's lower than what I estimated, I invest.
I undertook these steps for a project I happened upon a few weeks ago: Novusphere, and I was very surprised to find the current market cap to be far below what I had estimated.
It's like torrents, but better
Novusphere allows for online media streaming (i.e. audio and video) and static file hosting. What's interesting is their unique tech behind it: AFIX (Advanced File Indexing), which allows apps to easily integrate a searchable decentralized database of files. This makes it possible to create all sorts of libraries of content (i.e. your own decentralized & immutable vlog, wiki, gallery, etc). Wikileaks for example would be a great candidate, since content cannot just be taken down.
Think of it like the Torrent protocol + a database of (streamable) torrents.
The Advanced File Index allows for hosting any kind of content, and would allow apps, artists, etc. to reliably host their static content in a decentralised way. Any content that's statically hosted on the internet could be hosted & discovered with AFIX on Novusphere.
Development & Market Cap
Novusphere is clearly in its early stages of development. I could only find updates and an updated roadmap (official wallet releasing August 14th) in a recent post in the Bitcointalk thread. However, the deal-maker for me, the things I described above are already working.
Needless to say I'm excited about this project. Especially with the extremely low (under $5 million) market cap.
What Blockchain project would you like me to review next? Let me know in the comments.
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thanks for the advice!
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You're very welcome!
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How can you calculate its value? Don't tell me that because it's below $1.
Let me predict this. Next, they will release a wallet. After that, they will do something with the wallet, like more beautiful, easy UI. After that, another technology that every coins already had.
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That would be bad. However, they have a very reasonable and achievable goal, wallet in this case is a full filesharing platform that doesn't really exist elsewhere.
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I describe the way I estimate value in the first paragraph of the OP.
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What do you base the estimations on? Value of current similar products?
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exactly. same level of quality if they deliver and uniqueness. I do same thing for long time. this rules out most ico's as they are way overpriced from day 1 usually.
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Thank you!
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Hello and thanks Dean. You had predict NEO was undervalued at 10 000% and you've right !
What do you think about ITT ( Intelligent Trading Technologies )?
https://tokenmarket.net/blockchain/ethereum/assets/intelligent-trading-technologies/
have a nice day
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Thank you. Haven't heard of this but it looks interesting. Will take a look!
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Hi Dean, what your opinion about I/O coin. Looks promising to me, but don't know if there are many people want to store info in a blockchain. Do you have an opinion about this coin
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I think it is about time to re-evaluate ATMOS. The current pace of development. The eos-forum.org is getting better everyday, and they are close to adding privacy features that will benefit the entire EOS ecosystem. ATMOS will be a 5 dollar coin.
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