Few days ago China announced the creation of ranking of cryptocurrencies and other blockchain projects that the Chinese government considers to possess technological merit.
The 28 crypto's in the inaugural index are:
Ark, Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, BitShares, ByteCoin, Cardano, Dash, Decred, Ethereum, Ethereum Classic, Hcash, IOTA, Komodo, Lisk, Litecoin, Monero, NANO, NEM, NEO, QTUM, Ripple, Siacoin, Steem, Stellar, Stratis, Verge, Waves & Zcash.
The announce from the CCID stated that the intention was to scientifically evaluate the development level of blockchain technologies. This is to asist in providing professional consulting services for the government, enterprises, research institutes, and technology developers.
The researchers used a number of criteria to select blockchain companies to include in the index:
*The project should have its own independen main chain
*Nodes can be freely created
*It should have a published block explorer where block information can be easily tracked
*It needs to run on open source code
*It should have a open website that project team members that are contactable
And few hours ago THE LIST POP UP.... AND WO0T... STEEM RANK 2
The announcement has not yet had an impact on the price of steem in the markets. I prefer not to comment on the position of bitcoin in rank 13 next to Verge ...
The most surprising thing is that while Facebook is forbidden in China ... well you know what I mean;)
Let's celabrate it!