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The Week In Bitcoin - Issue #105: Predictions A Plenty

For this issue, I thought I'd round up some blockchain/ crypto/ token predictions from around the web
The Week In Bitcoin
The Week In Bitcoin - Issue #105: Predictions A Plenty
By Alan Tsen • Issue #105 • View online
For this issue, I thought I’d round up some blockchain/ crypto/ token predictions from around the web. 
Note, these are simply presented to show the differing views on what people from the industry think 2018 will look like. Obviously, don’t take them as gospel 🙄
In case you missed last week’s issue, my predictions can be found here:
👉  My predictions for 2018
Also, I’ve included a neat piece on ERC-20 tokens. It’s one of the more readable pieces that I’ve picked up and given nearly every token is based on the ERC-20 standard it might be worth having a look at how it works 😉
🧐  Have some interesting news (which is not an ICO scam) I should include in my newsletter? DM slide me on the Twitters, Snap or Insta (I’m @alantsen across the distributed world wide web of social).
— Alan Tsen 👊 💯
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🔮 Predictions 2018
1.Bitcoin is the generation 0 of blockchain technology… the opening act… the gateway drug … the first inning … MySpace. We must thank her for her work, as none of the following technology would be…
media.consensys.net  •  Share
Forget about DLT - 2018 will be the year of the crypto asset - but institutions and banks are simply not ready. How should you sell bitcoin? Are you ready?
11fs.com  •  Share
Looking Ahead: 2018 Predictions For The Digital Asset Space
2017 was the year all eyes turned to digital assets and blockchain technology — spurring both to pop up everywhere around the globe.
In fact, there are now more than 1,300 types of digital assets with a collective market capitalization of over $700 billion — which is a higher market cap than some of the biggest banks in the United States.
ripple.com  •  Share
A year ago, Alex Tapscott (my co-author of Blockchain Revolution) and I made some predictions for 2017. At the end of the year we compared those predictions to what had actually occurred. Overall they stood up well. Notably we said: “Bitcoin will hit $2,000 (that’s right: one bitcoin will be worth $2,000). Ethereum will not…
qz.com  •  Share
Bitcoin and blockchain are often pitted against each other, but I come from both worlds and believe that both are game-changers in their own right.
www.coindesk.com  •  Share
The post-Christmas, pre-New Year’s period is always one of my favorites. Every year, I take a couple of days to unplug from the internet, reflect on the past year, and look forward to the year ahead…
medium.com  •  Share
Articles From This Week
We take most power for granted. After all, humans enforce most of their social contracts by giving away some freedom. We usually think about intermediaries in a microscopic scale. We think about the…
blog.aragon.one  •  Share
The Texas State Securities Board (TSSB) has ordered the blockchain-based financial system startup BitConnect to cancel a token sale it had planned to start on January 10.
According to a news release published on the regulator’s website, BitConnect was claiming to offer tokens with 100% annual returns, which the TSSB determined qualify as unregistered securities
www.coindesk.com  •  Share
So, how do I download this? – was the question. What do you mean? – was the reply. How do… where’s the node software? With silence following, does this really not even have a blockchain or any product at all, we wondered. Their Github page does suggest so. We thus asked coders to confirm.
www.trustnodes.com  •  Share
This article appeared first under the title “Where Will the Crypto Craze Lead? A Venture Capitalist’s View” on ProMarket.org, the blog of the Stigler Center at the University of Chicago Booth School…
medium.com  •  Share
The Ethereum community, key developers and researchers and others have always recognized scalability as perhaps the single most important key technical challenge that needs to be solved in order for blockchain applications to reach mass adoption. Blockchain scalability is difficult primarily because a typical blockchain design requires every node in the network to process every transaction, which limits the transaction processing capacity of the entire system to the capacity of a single node.
blog.ethereum.org  •  Share
From Cold Storage
In light of today’s ICO launches, digital token sales during which companies and organizations raise millions of dollars instantly while giving out digital assets, it’s important to recognize the underlying technology that nearly all of these tokens possess: ERC20.
news.earn.com  •  Share
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