TOP NEWS - BITCOIN
Bitcoin broke through $11,000 for the first time since January
"Bitcoin broke through the $11,000 mark over the weekend for the first time since the end of January as its price continues to slowly rise following a violent sell-off at the start of the month."
ETHEREUM
Cryptocurrencies ‘could drop to near-zero at any time,’ Ethereum founder warns
""Reminder: cryptocurrencies are still a new and hyper-volatile asset class, and could drop to near-zero at any time," Vitalik Buterin said on Twitter. "Don't put in more money than you can afford to lose.""
RIPPLE
Ripple Moves to Revolutionize Traditional Banking
"Easily rocketing into the top ten cryptocurrencies by market cap, Ripple is striking out against the archaic banking networks. The protocol was conceived as a solution for the slow backend that plagues financial institutions across the globe. Their current spot as the number three cryptocurrency has them sitting at a market cap of almost $46 billion dollars. That’s roughly half of Ethereum and only a quarter of Bitcoin. Their increasingly widespread adoption by financial institutions gives them a very strong basis for growth, even with the relatively low per unit price of $1.18."
BITCOIN CASH
BILLIONAIRE CALVIN AYRE IS BUILDING A $100M BITCOIN CASH RESORT IN ANTIGUA
"Soon, wealthy tourists looking to live large in the Caribbean will be able to reserve rooms at controversial billionaire Calvin Ayre’s resort in Antigua — if you’ve got the Bitcoin Cash.'
LITECOIN
Litecoin price analysis: LTC/USD sits in a range as Litecoin Cash goes online on YoBit Exchange
"Litecoin price recovers from Sunday’s low, as Litecoin cosh hard fork produced little effect on coin dynamics. Litecoin Cash was born on Sunday eve, through the much-touted hard fork of the fifth largest cryptocurrency by market value. All Litecoin holders that use the wallet with access to their private keys got LCC tokens for every LTC, just as promised."
CARDANO
Cardano (ADA) – No Product, No Problem
"Forbes called Cardano a coin to watch – stating how Charles Hoskinson and his team set out to take the blockchain technology to new heights and gain mainstream momentum. Hoskinson himself recently said in an interview that in just six months we could see Cardano surpass Ethereum or Bitcoin in “every dimension and aspect.” Developers around the world are working day in and day out to develop this third-generation platform. Cardano sets out to solve the problems we had with first generation cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin."
NEO
NEO ID Layer Utilization: The Valid Project
"After planning out and launching the Valid project, Procivis AG wants to grasp a higher ground of personal information management. At the core is a user-controlled digital identity solution allowing people to transact online securely and seamlessly while safeguarding all their sensitive personal data. To add on top of that, in the particular marketplace, users can be connected to data consumers like service-delivering or product companies. Right now, it has been declared that the digital identity layer of NEO [NEOID] will be implanted on the platform, to develop VALID’s agnostic e-identity layer while a major investor in VALID it is announced NEO Council to be."
STELLAR
Stellar (XLM) to Top $1 in the Coming Month
"This week has seen the price of Stellar Lumens (XLM) perform far better than the rest of the top 10 largest coins. The coin’s price was in the green all week and closed the day top of the list at a daily return of over 9% this Thursday. This recent resurgence comes as a relief to Lumen owners after the recent cryptocurrency bloodbath that saw the price drop to less than half after reaching an all-time high of $0.8 this January."
EOS
EOS.IO Ushers in a New Era in Decentralized Applications
"The EOS.IO platform has consistently performed among the top cryptocurrencies over the past several months. Their ambitious goals have gained them a large number of fans, and the market cap for EOS has shown that. Their current price per coin hovers around $10, with a total market cap of $6,707,321,940. EOS.IO is looking to supplant Ethereum as the blockchain of choice for decentralized applications. If they should succeed, we would see that market cap expand by a factor of 10."
IOTA
[IOTA-Taipei Partnership Could Push IOTA Cryptocurrency Price Past $5](https://www.profitconfidential.com/cryptocurrency/iota/taipei-partnership-iota-cryptocurrency-price-forecast/}
"In case you haven’t heard, the IOTA foundation, the non-profit organization behind IOTA, has recently joined hands with Taiwan’s capital city, Taipei, for a groundbreaking project. Taipei is in the process of turning itself into a smart city, which means that data of all forms is being digitized. That includes the identities of its population. Taipei is currently testing IOTA’s Tangle technology to create an online database of citizen identities that’s decentralized on a distributed ledger and can’t be infiltrated."
STEEM
Steem (STEEM) or Dogecoin (DOGE)? Which is the Greater Crypto Community?
"Is Steem a good investment strategy? For the creators of the community yes and for the content creators it can be as well. Like dogecoin it is about the community. And as long as there is a strong community there will be investment opportunity. If something better comes along that surpasses Steem that’s when you may reconsider. In this case be weary of Facebook. They Appear not very pro-crypto. But if cryptos continue to pick up steam Facebook and others may be forced to join in on the action. And let’s face it is crypto currency really going anywhere?"
