Day: December 29, 2017

Ripple price has gained 35% within a day trading at an average of $2.20. What about its market cap? #NEWS

2018 is bound to be another really interesting year for Blockchain technology, with even greater awareness and adoption than 2017. #EXPERT BLOG

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Blockchain in healthcare might not be sexy, but it’s moving forward according to one of the sector’s leading female CEOs.

Recall that after the announcement of the Segwit2X project, the price of B2X futures increased 3-fold, and the day before the fork, the price for them rose by another 75%. Right after the start, the most powerful support for Segwit2X was provided by the miners. The aggregate capacity of friendly mining pools accounted for more than 300 Th/s. All these facts point to the importance of BITCOIN Segwit2X for the crypto-community!

This unanimous support for ordinary users is due to the technologies that B2X offers. It is able to get rid of high commissions for transactions and low speed of the Bitcoin network itself. Furthermore, Bitcoin is no longer decentralized, since the main production capacities are concentrated in the hands of several pools.

And how it feels to live in a world without freedom of choice, where everything is predetermined in advance? Everyone agrees, that such state of events is terrible. And it’s terrible that the crypto-world with its idea of decentralization and independence from official structures is becoming more centralized. Some cryptocurrency exchanges and electronic wallets try to impose their ideology on users, deciding whether to list a coin or not, as well as whether to accrue B2X to their users! At the same time, this ideology is dictated by nothing other than the number of zeros. Thus, companies deprive their clients of the right to choose and monopolize the market. And this will never have good consequences in the long run.

Understanding that they became the hostages of the situation, users initiated the creation of a petition at Change.org to support the fork of BITCOIN Segwit2X, which was already signed by more than 50 thousand people. And one of the users even left a meaningful comment: “The entire decentralized community needs Segwit2X. If we do not decide to be a fork or not, then there is no decentralized community”. Their support was especially valuable to the project team, which from the very first day faced unprecedented pressure and threats on their way since someone thought that BITCOIN Segwit2X has an impact on the Bitcoin rate.

Despite all these obstacles, the fork of BITCOIN – Segwit2X was successfully launched, thereby proving that the freedom of choice in the modern crypto-market is more urgent than ever!|

More information about the project can be found on the official website and in social networks:

https://t.me/Segwit2Xfork

https://twitter.com/Segwit_2X

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As of today, only the developers can implement Blockchain and smart contracts. Matrix wants to change that by letting everyone write a smart contract through artificial intelligence. #BLOCKSHOW

2017 Initial Coin Offerings

The ICO market has exploded in 2017. Once a relatively unknown funding method, the total number of ICOs in the first half of 2017 surpasses the whole number of funds raised in 2016.

How Does It Work?

Projects launch an ICO by issuing crypto tokens on the blockchain, giving early investors the opportunity to acquire tokens in exchange for cryptocurrency. ICOs are usually limited by time or a cap on the amount of funds raised. The value and number of tokens released can be static or calculated based on the amount of funds raised.

The Problem with Investing

Not all ICOs are honest, in many cases start-ups have launched their ICO without a well thought out plan and strong team behind the project, simply offering an impressive website with a vague whitepaper. In fact, many crypto token projects have failed to deliver their promises to investors. One well known example of this is the DAO, which raised $150 million in ICO, the largest ever, later losing a large amount of the fund due to hacking.

ICOtoInvest.com Solution

As mentioned above a certain amount of risk is involved when choosing an ICO to invest in. ICOtoInvest.com has the purpose of guiding you through the ICO market, offering non-biased reviews and ratings of projects. These reviews are based on what ICOtoInvest.com believes is the core of a successful project including elements such as:

• Real teams
• detailed whitepaper
• quality of website and other marketing strategy
• transparency
• admins who understand and explain the project
• backing from the crypto community.

trade.io a Triumphant ICO

One project that has been recently reviewed is trade.io. Developed by an experienced team of accomplished management and advisors with backgrounds in the fintech investment banking, blockchain, and trading space. Using blockchain technology the team will develop an E-Wallet, a secure storing medium for fiat, cryptocurrency and other tokenized assets. The team also plan to revolutionise peer to peer trading with a platform to serve individuals and institutions. A unique aspect to this project is the liquidity pool, providing a multiple transparent revenue stream such as margin financing and transactional proceeds.  To participate in the liquidity pool trade tokens will be used, the tokens can also be used on the trade.io exchange.

ICOtoInvest.com successfully recognised the potential of trade.io, the project has moved forward to form partnerships with HitBTC, the renown Bitcoin university the “University of Nicosia”, and the successful ICO from the 1st half of 2017, with the identity verification software supported by the blockchain, sponsored by “Civic”. This has played a vital role in the success of trade.io crowdfunding which has currently raised over $18 million.

DIWtoken.com the Next Big Success

ICOtoInvest.com has recently received the whitepaper for the DIWtoken.com project and upcoming ICO, and has already completed a preliminary review. The DIW team intends to offer its account holders a highly encrypted, secure and private decentralised platform where they may store their digital data and personal information as well as share their services. ICOtoInvest.com will soon disclose its in depth review of the DIW project.

Our Commitment

ICOtoInvest.com aim to provide high quality reviews and we invite projects that believe they qualify for this to contact us on [email protected] or alternatively fill out the form on ICOtoInvest.com  

This is a sponsored press release and does not necessarily reflect the opinions or views held by any employees of The Merkle. This is not investment, trading, or gambling advice. Always conduct your own independent research.

This Year is Over…

During 2017 BYZANTIUM has successfully provided their services to the most promising ICOs, including Crypviser, CryptoPing, Goldmint, Mircomoney, Naga Token Sale and Bankex. Moreover, they worked with The Token Fund. Most of the projects received Strategy & Consulting / Marketing & PR / Community management & Support / Branding & Web-development services from BYZANTIUM which resulted in more than 12,000 BTC gathered (in total for all projects based on the sum collected on the last day of the token sale converted to BTC in accordance to exchange rates).

BYZANTIUM generated more than 1000 crypto and investing media publications for their clients as well as attracted thousands of ICO investors to the projects.

Speaking about business development, BYZANTIUM Agency has attracted big crypto “stars” as advisors and investors to their clients.

BYZANTIUM specializes on PPC advertising, providing services of paid advertising on social media and searching engines. Thus, clients get thousands of precisely picked conversions with great conversion rates and smart optimization.

Moreover, BYZANTIUM negotiated and organized more than 50 strategic partnerships for their clients (like partnerships with Bancor, Cointelegraph etc.).

Let’s give particular attention to the last two projects BYZANTIUM has had this year. NAGA and Bankex have collected $50 million and $66 million accordingly during their ICOs. BYZANTIUM managed to bring more than 60 thousand backers to NAGA making it the second biggest ICO in terms of backers up to date. The key formula for success making BYZANTIUM so unique is the deep level of immersion into the team of a project it works with and the results speak for themselves.

…And Now the New 2018 Year is About to Begin!

Now that the year has ended, BYZANTIUM ICO Agency is willing to offer to their future clients a whole array of different services:

• Strategy & Consulting
• PPC advertising in social media and search engines
• Marketing & PR  
• Community Management & Support
• Branding & Web-development
• Business Development
• VC Support and Pitches
• Roadshow Creation & Conferences Organization

The key value proposition of the Agency is the ability of the core team to integrate inside the client’s team and become a part of the existing functional entity to be able to provide as much value for the project as possible. Thus, the Agency provides not only consulting services but integrates themselves with the projects they are working with.

Moreover, it is important to mention that BYZANTIUM is working with no more than 2 clients at a time in order to maintain high KPIs and efficiency, which is uncommon nowadays due to the fact that most agencies work as ICO boxes providing their services to tens of projects which usually results in poor quality and low conversion rates.

About BYZANTIUM

BYZANTIUM is a Leading Token Sale Consulting Agency founded by a team of professionals with backgrounds in blockchain technology, investing, PR, and marketing. The whole team consists of 17 members. Moreover, the Agency has lots of subcontractors on hand. This whole “marketing army” can convert any promising project into a super successful one.

The co-founders of BYZANTIUM Peter Bel and Max Uperyaka have an impressive background. Peter was among the first members of the CoinTelegraph team. Together with Max, they managed traffic and PR on the Humaniq project that turned out to be a big success. After that they founded BYZANTIUM and began as a marketing agency, which transformed into an ICO Agency as of today. Thus, now it not only provides full-cycle ICO services but also attracts private and institutional investors.

Also, BYZANTIUM owns eventcha.in event tracker that can help everyone keep track of the latest blockchain events out there. It’s completely free of charge to use.

So, if you have a promising project with an existing product, thought out tokenomics, as well as a really cool idea in mind, and you are planning on doing an ICO – feel free to contact BYZANTIUM via an email: [email protected] or Telegram: @bzntm to start the cooperation ASAP!

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The India government doubled down its skepticism over cryptocurrencies, calling them like “Ponzi Schemes.”