As of late I have personally spent a lot of time watching markets for the cryptocurrency space as a whole. A lot of my reasoning is mild research for the crypto I work with "Visio" to look for trends and timing for my marketing tactics for them. Oddly enough though this mild research has given me confidence in the coming year ahead for this industry and for crypto users of all types in 2018.

With the year 2017 coming to a close soon, its very evident that being involved in cryptocurrency this past year has been so amazing. Whether you earned you more capital gains or not by investing in any of the crypto options before you, you may have come to a conclusion that win or lose the year has provided many constant options to try your hand numerous times for investment riches. This has been one hell of a year and I suspect its only going to boom even more so in 2018.

If you have been in this industry a while like me and my fiance have and got yourself inside a few more inner circles who live and breath crypto like we do. You will start to notice a growing trend of more advice out there to prepare and try to save back as much as possible. I have yet to really nail down specifically as to why this is prominent advice past user speculations but I do find in some research that we are all starting to break the mainstream hurdle for mass appeal.

I do not care what coin is your top choice or what beliefs you have in any project. Whether your a Bitcoin enthusiast or ETH mining madman, its pretty clear that in many spots with the crypto space that we all have valid holding options but still many scamming types to weed through and avoid. This is your area to deal with, you must be wise and dig a little deeper to research your future investments but as a word of advice, I always say listen to your gut before word of mouth from others because you in the end are the one holding all the cards before anyone else when it comes to your money!

All things have an ancestor of some form or type. So, no matter what hard forks Bitcoin endures from now until the end of time or forks on any other cryptocurrency for that matter, its of lack of concern to me as long as the heart of the community surrounding the crypto holds true to the nature that Satoshi designed this, for users and decentralized freedoms for our individual finances. The ancestor to Crypto will always remain Bitcoin, love or hate what is going on this is the start and heart of the movement and we can never take that away from Grandpa whether you want to or not.

So for any form of legit predictions I may make for myself about the coming year, I tend to have to always resort to "GRAMPS BITCOIN" for tell tale signs of what may or may not effect the whole of the crypto space. Well "POPS" is seriously nearing the halving of 2020 in which miner rewards will be cut back in half to an astounding 6.25 Bitcoins per block reward in roughly a little over 2 years from now.

This Bitcoin Halving may feel so far off but let me head a little advice. 2 years to save for a bigger pay check is not as far away as it may feel to you right now. Competition is going to crowd the space and I firmly believe in 2018 we are going to start to feel like sardines in a can in this industry when outsiders catch onto the fact that they can invest in Bitcoin or its alt cousins and only in a matter of 2 years see potential profits to an unheard of ratios that I can't even imagine the numbers yet. The inflation rate going on with Bitcoin was designed very special, to keep it decentralized and eventually create scarcity to provide growth in value. 2020 maybe the tipping point for this to conquer all markets like no entity has ever touched before so being prepared might be something to fit in your New Year's resolution this Jan. 2018.

Like all notations in crypto and warnings, lets just get this crap out of the way. I AM NOT AN INVESTMENT ADVISOR, I did not go to school for this, nor caught or bought me any degree in investing or financial advice so what I give you here is just what I am planning for myself but optional to your own tactics ahead in crypto. With that said, lets roll forward.

I have a serious conviction right now that its time to save back as much crypto as possible from this stage forward. To diversify more than I ever have and ultimately get that end game going for the top coins I back completely. Personally I am always with Bitcoin and Litecoin as my two main holdings, due to them always giving me acceptable profits and for me less risk because now a days corrections come and go but the trend seems to always replace losses if your just patient and not hit that cash out button too early.

Bitcoin tends to be what I accumulate the most and try very hard to save. Of course with life there is bills and well BTC is usually the easiest to cash out to pay those pesky bastards but I am starting to realize everyone and their brother are soon going to want to pick up my dumped BTC droppings next year so I think I will just hold them tighter so none of you get a grip on them. Forks, this Bitcoin Gold crap coming up is of no consequence to me personally. In the end I believe in what Satoshi gave us so always will back the heart of Crypto out of belief most of us just know the key value in what it gave us.

I suspect next year a trend of users will start to do the math more, that this halving will effect the space a lot and a need to be cautious with expenditures like myself will create a small stir of scarcity sometime in the first quarter of 2018. I state this out of my own speculation but with the math and fast rises we seem to be having in Bitcoin the last half of 2017, it to me feels like a faster lead up to more valued markets as bigger players start pouring in, and trust me, they already are. So save your Bitcoins or just donate them to great causes like my own lol (My BTC Address: 198qbQRYkVJvL6p745sxzrd7MVPVR7rBR2 ) but think it through seriously next year in how you manage your BTC's...I just think those of us that spend it too much soon will regret.

If you been up to speed with me here on Steemit, you already know that I am heavily a fan of Charlie Lee and his creation of Litecoin. More and more this year he has provided me ample reasons to be proud I have stood by my LTC holdings and I suspect more so as time progresses in 2018. I still have no clue why its still so cheap, personally I rather it get more community support because the technical improvements they are providing to all of crypto is astounding but yet still a little too undervalued for my taste.

I suspect as 2018 progresses the new blood coming in will find Litecoin just like I did a long time ago and find its value. Recently I got a SHIFT card tied to my COINBASE account and found turning LTC into real life payments that way is so much cheaper to move around and pay out that its becoming my main exit out of crypto for day to day transactions. This is an area BTC has slipped by too long on but I find LTC is the kid brother kind of keeping us going and I think people will catch onto that as well in 2018, maybe 2nd quarter but still fairly early in the year ahead.

Of course I will always hold some Visio, lol...I know personally me being their lead marketer makes me a little too inside to suggest you guys to look into this one but I know stuff going on and see the dedication going on with the developer that I highly suspect in 2018, most of you will know very well why I have stuck very hard to this project and turned down bigger projects paying me quite a sum to work. There is something special about this project and the fact they are more dedicated to a movement to remove central control from Youtube and places like that is big for me as a musician and fan of films.

Late 2017 and going into 2018 will be a huge growth period for Visio due to the launch of our platform. We are going into overdrive with content creators providing already some top notch material for viewers but not only that we have some planned inner workings that no one has ever seen in crypto of this magnitude before. So I am holding tight, accumulating and voluming up before all of you catch onto this one lol.

I do have interest in more coins of course but I just wanted to highlight my top usual's for you today. Main key is to adopt what you trust, back projects you believe in, and prepare for a very interesting road ahead. You think you seen something in 2017? Just you wait for 2018, have a feeling we haven't seen anything yet!

Now don't get me wrong about 2018, I don't foresee a new crypto hippy movement where we all hand out flowers and cash to each other and live happily ever after because of some future halving coming down the road that we need to prepare only for that. No my friends, we will have some dark times ahead as well and all those powers that be that this movement in crypto was designed to put in check will rear its ugly head I also suspect.

The SEC, Federal Reserve, and World Governments will also come here to screw with all of us at some stage and trust me they are gearing up for war and robbery when they figure it out on exactly how they can. These are the biggest pain in the neck any individual has to encounter, so be very seriously prepared this year for watching your back and your holdings security.

As an American here, I am already in the process of sorting what next tax season will mean for me. I had a pretty decent year, not enough to get too badly robbed but laws are already in place to deal with us crypto Americans and I suspect in most countries. This is an area I hope all of you will research and know about. Earning mass amounts of money is fun, providing the economy with stimulus from us crypto nuts is a gift to society but trust me these evil governments want more and will turn the fun into hell if they can gain that extra mile they want. So protect yourself and your family by making sure you watch your P's and Q's...but don't lay down for them, just get them off your backs till we can fully correct that corrupt system.

Something I have long found about the crypto space, this is a true movement and a very important one for history. We all may on day to day just see this as a way to make ends meet, gather our future riches or simply find it a curiosity....but we must remember this is a very unique system that has never been done before and personal one I am almost willing to fight to the death over to ensure its longevity and help towards all generations befalling after us who have their feet planted firmly on this planet right this moment. We as humans have made major serious mistakes up to this stage. We have built one too many corrupt systems and the current state of the world can not sustain any more of it. We fight wars between each other over mainly worthless immaterial paper. We have no patience for difference in culture, views, and religion so our growth ahead is stalled until we make important changes.

Cryptocurrencies is a step to me in the right direction, its a first case in point of putting something in the hands for all to spread common sense and wealth so no man, woman, or child is left behind in this world. We can end hunger, homelessness, and even health issues if we allow this to remain in the hands of the individual. But its also a double edges sword, in the hands of elites and wealth mongering hoarders it can undo the possible upgrade to society we need.

2018 I firmly believe will be the tipping point, it will make and break a lot of people in this space. The casual user will find out the competition has really yet to begin and there will come a year of survival of the fittest in the markets. This I firmly believe will be the case next year. It only takes research and education to sustain yourself in this space, I have yet to lose to this day since I have turned my back fully on FIAT cash and went 100% crypto. But I warn you, with prosperity comes many moral conflicts so please retain that good in yourself and remember this is also a movement and one that deserves all of us to keep its purity ahead.