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      "body": "<center>![waves logo original.jpeg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmQWk4LDx6A4dpucvNTvVywmAWgvBFmi4CGpZTvEgMSKdy/waves%20logo%20original.jpeg)</center>\n## Overview\n\nWaves is one of the most innovative cryptocurrency platforms ever to be launched. A great deal of waves potential has yet to be realized but that should not be seen as a disqualification – in fact it should be seen as quite the opposite. The fact of the matter is that waves is a very strong platform undergoing massive development with a wide range of functionality. Waves is attempting to provide a solution to one of the most significant issues preventing mainstream cryptocurrency adoption: transferring fiat into crypto. The waves team is not limiting themselves to one single function though. In fact, the scope of the waves platform is much larger. From their decentralized exchange to simplified smart contracts that allow for easy token creation, the waves platform has a lot to offer. We will examine the most innovative features of waves, how they are all interconnected and how each possess the potential to be a massive market of its own. Most importantly, we will discuss how these features complement one another and add tremendous value to the platform as a whole.\n\n## FEATURES OF WAVES\n\nThe most powerful feature of waves are the “fiat gateways” – which are methods of instantaneous cryptocurrency purchasing through the use of traditional fiat currency. Consider that one of the main objections people typically have towards investing in cryptocurrency is that the process is too complicated and overly challenging. Today it takes between 7-9 days to transfer money into an exchange and can run up quite a tab in commission and fees. The other option is to deposit cash directly via Bitcoin ATM’s which charge shockingly high fees ranging from 7-18%. Waves is trying to cut out that week-long wait and get rid of those unnecessary fees. For this reason, waves could prove to be one of the keys towards mainstream cryptocurrency adoption. Fiat gateways provide easy onramps into crypto. The ability to instantly transfer a U.S. dollar for the equivalent value of a digital currency is huge. People would take crypto much more seriously if they knew investing was as simple as transferring money from one account to another. Waves could be on the precipice of a major industry upset. If waves is able to lock up a few key partnerships it would allow everyday investors access to the crypto markets like never before.\n\nThe incredible thing about waves is that they didn’t stop there. Being the world’s first official crypto onramp was simply not enough for this brilliant, highly ambitious team. There are several other features of the platform that are also very innovative and important. The Waves DEX (decentralized exchange) perfectly complements the fiat gateways as the perfect onramp to cryptocurrency investing. The decentralized exchange boasts true peer-to-peer trading with virtually no transaction fees. The waves team is constantly working on this feature of the platform, adding new currencies to the DEX every other day. The trading volumes are currently very low and increasing liquidity is their primary concern. The decentralized exchange space is very hot in crypto right now and there is a lot of competition. However, all other decentralized exchanges are struggling to increase liquidity as well. Waves has a couple of major advantages, after all it was the first project to conceive of the decentralized exchange in the first place. They have by far the most man hours spent in development. They actively seek out partnerships to increase liquidity through their fiat gateways and other decentralized exchanges have little community support relative to waves - which is essential to building and maintaining satisfactory trading volumes.\n\nWaves also enables decentralized application development much like Ethereum. However, waves has a very different approach. Waves uses simplified smart contracts that enable easy token creation. Tokens built on the waves platform are essentially plug-ins, which means no coding knowledge is required to create a waves token. The major benefit of creating a token on the waves platform is that it provides existing businesses looking to leverage blockchain technology an easy, cost-effective solution to tokenizing their business model. As the CEO and founder of waves puts it, “One of the core Waves missions is to enable any business with development prospects, regardless of its size and geographical location, to run the ICO and raise funds for growth and development. We are deeply convinced that in the new digital economy, the ICO can compete with other tools for raising investment both in the high-tech industry and in the real sector and industry.” MobileGo is a great example of a waves-based token success story. It is the most successful token to have been built on the waves platform to date. MobileGo is a mobile gaming platform that wanted to leverage blockchain technology to bring efficiency into their sector and create a crypto-centric gaming community. They raised over $50M in their ICO. Waves provided MobileGo with the tools to raise funds and complete development of their platform. Through the use of a new piece of technology called “BlockSwap,” MobileGo was able to transition seamlessly between waves and Ethereum, thereby allowing them to take advantage of waves’ easy token creation/administration while also leveraging Ethereum smart contracts to enable decentralized gaming tournaments. It is a great example of how the waves platform is providing highly effective solutions for businesses looking to transition into the crypto space.\n\nThere are many other examples of interesting projects undergoing development on the waves platform. The idea that waves can provide the enterprise solution for tokenization is quickly becoming a reality. The most compelling example of which is the recently announced “whoppercoin.” That’s right, Burger King. It was announced last week that Burger King Russia is going to launch their very own token on the waves platform to serve as a loyalty rewards program for their customers. A lot of people may overlook that and perhaps even laugh at it. But really consider that this proves waves’ viability as a tool for tokenizing existing business models of all sizes. The idea that waves can provide the enterprise solution for tokenization is no longer conceptual. Burger King’s loyalty rewards program may seem small but the impact on the waves platform is huge. This is the kind of news that grabs the attention of institutional investors and moreover it grabs the attention of other businesses considering leveraging blockchain technology themselves.\n<center>![waves how it works.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmUE1rxnWNyfDgSFy8oB35ZDaLiVd7tGHdfMa97ZkYJcyB/waves%20how%20it%20works.png)</center>\n## BACKGROUND ON WAVES\n\nAfter taking a long look at the various features of waves, it is no wonder that it is one of the most highly regarded projects in crypto. Still sitting at around only half-a-billion-dollars, it is quite small in relation to what it could be. Waves has an incredible team, perhaps even one of the best in crypto. They are constantly adding all-stars to their staff with strong backgrounds in their respective fields and some level of experience in crypto. If cryptocurrency is ever going to become mainstream, fiat gateways are going to be essential towards making that happen and nobody on the planet is more dedicated to seeing it through than Sasha Ivanov, the CEO and founder of Waves. His experience in crypto began in 2013 upon the launch of coinomat.com which was an instant-purchase cryptocurrency exchange that set out to cut transaction fees below that of the major exchanges. Coinomat was the first blockchain-based instant cryptocurrency exchange. However, the project ultimately lost out against its major competitor, ShapeShift. Sasha was not discouraged though, he saw it as an opportunity. ShapeShift allowed instant purchasing of cryptocurrency through the means of credit/debit cards, which is still very costly. Sasha wanted to go a step further and enable instant, direct fiat deposits. Waves was born out of an unwavering desire to let the masses have access to cryptocurrency in the way it was originally intended – open to all and without the need for costly middlemen. In addition, he took it as an opportunity to develop something truly special, an enterprise solution to tokenization. The idea was to develop a token creation process so simple and easy that any business could issue shares and raise funds, aiming to break down all barriers to entry that have existed in the business world since the beginning of time.\n\n## BRILLIANCE OF WAVES\n\nWith waves, literally anyone can create a token and hold an ICO. If there is a market for it, no matter how niche, you can start a business. Take for example Kolionovo, a project which launched a (surprisingly) successful token sale through waves, raising over $500,000 for its small agricultural business developing real production of agricultural goods and services. Literally anything can be tokenized with waves and it is so simple and easy that there is no reason not to start your own business. Compatible with Ethereum incase more advanced development is necessary, creating a token on waves is the perfect blockchain solution for new businesses in all areas of technology (both high and low).\n\nHowever, the true brilliance of waves is not that they have one defining feature, but three. All of which work perfectly together to create one flawless master platform. With their decentralized exchange, it makes transferring cryptocurrency extremely easy while also enabling people to invest in new projects in a quick and simple manner. Finally, because of their fiat gateways, waves becomes the all-in-one tool to invest in cryptocurrencies big and small from beginning to end. Enabling people to instantly purchase cryptocurrency through fiat and providing them with a decentralized exchange and crowdfunding platforms, there is no reason to use anything else.\n\n<center>**Analysis**</center>\n\n**Core Development**: Very Strong. (8.5/10)\n\n1. The decentralized exchange is still only semi-decentralized, there is still a need for some form of centralization at this time. They are working to fully decentralize trading but blockchain transactions are not high enough yet. The waves team has done a great job so far but they are still working to put all trading data on the blockchain which requires synchronizing all the nodes. The “middle ground” the exchange currently operates on is not bad at all though. It still provides the essential function of a decentralized exchange – you are in control of your own funds, there is no middleman controlling it.\n\n2. Tokenomica has come along great. Simple token creation and easy administration is proving to be a very useful asset for startups and existing businesses alike. There has been a lot of development on top of the waves platform. Simplified smart contracts and token-creation related features of the waves platform are already very well-developed. This feature of the platform is fully functional and prepared to scale.\n\n3. Fiat gateways are currently functional, there is still some development ongoing with the waves “stable coin” which pegs fiat to the blockchain.\n\n**Business Development**: Strong. (7/10)\n\n1. Token creation is going very well on the waves platform, there have been many notable developments in this sector. The most recent news about “whoppercoin” shows the waves teams ability to land key partnerships is certainly coming along. Recent initiatives have begun to usher as much third-party development as possible on the waves platform. The initiative is in early phases but it looks promising in its current state - there has been a noticeable uptick in development since the initiative began.\n\n2. Fiat gateways are lacking partnerships at the moment. This is a tough space to enter for any cryptocurrency. Getting banks and other financial institutions to implement these systems takes time. They are very risk averse people and cryptocurrency is their antithesis. However, Ripple was ultimately able to land key partnerships with the same forms of institutions necessary to increase liquidity for the waves fiat gateways. The business end of development for this segment of waves is by far the most challenging but is also in very early phases. The team is one of the most capable in crypto and are working diligently to add as many new partnerships as possible.\n\n**Use Cases**: Medium. (6.5/10)\n\n1. The waves platform as a whole currently sees around 30,000 - 40,000 transactions per day, which is fairly low. However, that’s up from 1,000 per day less than four months ago. The usage has been rising steadily as a result of increased demand for the token due to a recent uptick in new projects being developed on the waves platform.\n\n2. The waves platform has a great deal of room to scale. The use cases are actually fairly low at this very moment. However, the serious use cases come as more fiat gateways are deployed thereby increasing liquidity on the decentralized exchange.\n\n**Risk**: Medium. (5/10)\n\n1. Waves has a great team and the development is coming along well. They have proven there is a need for easy token creation and administration. That feature of the platform provides a level of reliability that offsets a lot of the risk.\n\n2. The risk is rather low in relation to the potential. However, it won’t be easy to add fiat gateways - as stated previously in the “business development” section of the analysis. But if they can do it, the waves DEX will become highly liquid and the waves platform will become a part of the mainstream discussion.\n\n3. There is certainly a lot of upside for waves. It could become the official on/offramp for crypto which would make it as pivotal to the industry as Bitcoin or Ethereum. However, there are ultimately a lot of variables in the equation to waves success with many challenges and obstacles to overcome first.\n\n**Investment Rating**: A\n\n**Current Market Cap**: $500,000,000\n\n**Target Market Cap (Long-term)**: $7,000,000,000 - $11,000,000,000\n\n \n\n<center>**Conclusion**</center>\n\nWhen Ethereum first launched in 2015, the potential was always there, it just took time for people to realize it. Waves was launched one year later and the potential is certainly there, the question is how long it will take for the market to catch up. Waves has set themselves up to be one of the next major blockchain disruptors. With constant development and new projects announced every week, it is one of the most promising projects in crypto. The network only sees around 30,000-40,000 transactions per day and still struggles with low liquidity on their decentralized exchange. In addition to which, only a handful of fiat gateways have been launched to date. 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The project is very new, having just launched a couple months ago, it is still in pre-beta. In its’ current state the wings prediction markets only provide “ICO price discovery,” which means that you can only make a prediction on how much money an ICO will raise over the course of its fundraising efforts.\n\nAlthough the project is in an early testing phase, the wings team has done an incredible job closing six major deals with some of the best ICOs to come out this year. The rewards for predicting these ICOs each paid out more than one million dollars (cash equivalent) to wings forecasters. To put this in perspective, let’s look at a few examples of some forecasting events which have already taken place on the wings platform. If you had $1,000 worth of wings at $.40 per wing and staked it on the AdEx forecasting for example, you would have received $172 for locking up that prediction for only one short week – given you were early and accurate with your prediction. That is not an isolated incident, in fact people who invested in wings 4 months ago and participated in all six forecasts have earned more than 400% in returns from forecasting rewards. Don’t forget, the rewards are bonuses, the wings price has moved up 3,000% over the past 4 months as well. The additional 400% is all take-home earnings that came in addition to the appreciation of the wings price. That is what makes the platform so valuable. As wings develops new forecasting tools and expands its presence, the rewards will increase and the number of forecasting opportunities will also increase. That means larger returns and more of them. This all comes in the beta phase which will launch in September of this year. (the wings team will actually be unveiling the beta at a major blockchain conference on September 9th – the news of which will likely dominate the crypto news cycle and once it has diffused properly the price will likely reflect an increased anticipation of the release)\n\n## Upcoming on Wings\nLet’s look at what is coming in September’s beta launch and why the improvements are so important and how they enable the platform to scale beyond being a simple price discovery tool and into a full on “decentralized decision-making market.” First, it is important to understand why these ICOs decide to pay wings forecasters up to $1 million for their services. The answer is actually very simple: Marketing. Wings, even in such an early phase, has established itself as the go-to crypto startup endorsement tool. In fact, the reason I invested in AdEx was because I saw the wings forecasting of it, seeing that wings endorsed the project cleared my mind of any fears and objections I had regarding whether or not the project was legitimate – which is becoming a serious problem with ICO investing. After noticing that wings’ endorsement had resonated with me at such a high level, I decided to take a deeper look into investing in wings itself. The wings platform is quickly becoming the most effective “megaphone” for crypto startups to spread the word about their projects and guarantee funding is achieved. Wings has by far some of the strongest community support of any project, virtually everyone in crypto knows about it and uses it to some extent or another, but there are still so many people who have missed the greatest investment of all standing right in front of them – wings itself. The fact that it is already a part of the mainstream crypto conversation and ushers so many tangible and realized use cases, it is shocking that the project is still valued at just $60,000,000. Wings is the perfect marketing tool for ICOs because it is able to precisely target the cryptocurrency investors who are most likely to invest in these projects but may not have heard about them otherwise. All it takes to start a cryptocurrency company is to have an idea, make a website, have a whitepaper that explains the idea and a roadmap to make it a reality, you don’t even need a prototype – all you need to do is put your project on the wings platform for forecasting and that effectively cuts out all the work of developing a marketing strategy and does not require any capital beforehand in order to market the startups fundraising efforts.\n\nThe wings beta in September is not only going to provide more opportunity for forecasters, it is also going to became a much stronger tool for startups. The great thing about the rewards structure/early predictive efforts of wings’ forecasters is that the startups holding their ICOs will soon be able to use the data and adjust their fundraising “hard caps” accordingly – meaning they could raise millions and millions more than they may have otherwise had they stuck to their original plan. The new features offer startups more hands-on, useful information and advice from the community as to how they could make their project better. For example, if you have a high forecasting reputation and propose an idea for how to make the project better, people could stake wings on that proposal and those people will be rewarded accordingly if the company implements that idea. There will be all sorts of new extra predictive markets coming soon, many of which will be unveiled on September 9th. What we do know is that the September’s beta release will bring the “decentralized decision-making market” (DDMM) to fruition. There is no other project quite like it, the DDMM could prove to be one of the most powerful blockchain applications yet. It creates a rare win-win-win scenario for everyone – forecasters, prospective investors, and crypto startups – all benefit greatly from the DDMM. There is no downside to using wings for anyone and it provides a high utility for everyone.\n\nIn September’s beta, they will be implementing the forecasting reputation system. This means that people will be able to build reputations and monetize those reputations with the community. For those interested in forecasting but don’t have the technical knowledge to accurately predict an ICO will be able to stake their currency on someone else’s prediction with a high reputation, that person whose prediction is being staked upon will receive an additional reward from the earnings of the person who staked on their forecast. The concept is explained very well in the wings whitepaper, in their words, “Those participating in forecasts on the WINGS platform receive a public rating representing their ability to make correct forecasts. WINGS DAO implements a liquid DAO governance system that allows for fluid delegation of votes. Token holders can loan (\"delegate\") forecasting to other token holders (\"a delegate\") who have, for instance, higher reputation. In WINGS forecast ratings influences the reward that both the token owner and his delegate receive. A higher rating signals a participant who outperforms and therefor other token owners should be willing to loan their forecasting right to the particular participant, creating a meritocratic decision-making system.”\n\n\n<center>**Analysis**</center>\n**Core Development**: Very Strong. (8/10)\n\nThe core development team is one of the strongest of any crypto startups out there right now. The team has a lot of experience and has proven their ability to develop a strong work product, especially considering that wings only raised ~$4,000,000 in funding during their ICO.\n\nThe team has a powerful commitment to the project and takes care in their work. They are very active on community forums, constantly engaging the community and receiving feedback on how they could improve the platform (which they take very seriously).\n\nThe only reason that I give their core development 2 points down is due mostly to their lack of funding. Considering their working on only ~$4 million the platform is coming along well and it serves its core purpose flawlessly. However, the website is quite laggy and the design needs some work, though this is mostly attributed to still being in the pre-beta phase. Aesthetic appeal is a lot more important than many people realize, the website is fairly bland right now though that should change once they’ve finish developing the core tech.\n\n**Business Development**: Very Strong. (9/10)\n\nThe business end of wings is highly sophisticated, the incentives system perfectly connects companies to primary users and subsequently primary users to secondary users. Partnerships are designed to benefit everyone involved, it is a rare example of a true “win-win-win” scenario.\n\nThe business development on the platform is progressing at a staggering rate, while still perfecting their tech the business development team has already made waves with some of their key partnerships (Bancor/Coindash). The team definitely has a major strength here, there is no doubt that as they progress the partnerships will only get better and therefore generate great interest in the platform.\n\nAll around wings has strong business development and great management. After having an issue sending wings, I sent a ticket to support and received a detailed response within 8 minutes. Definitely wonderful people managing this project.\n\n**Use Cases**: Strongest. (10/10)\n\nThe wings platform generates genuine use cases, incentivizing wings holders to use the platform and not just flip for a quick profit. The fact that investors in wings are also typically users means that the majority of the currency is staked during a new prediction – demand for the currency increases during new predictions and supply is lowered. Due to this gap between demand and available supply, the use cases generated on the platform will draw in new investors and users with every new partnership.\n**Risk**: Low. (3/10)\n\nThough it is a great project with great potential, it faces several unavoidable issues. Firstly, the ICO markets are becoming oversaturated (which is good in the short-term though) but in the long-term the oversaturation could potentially lead to a collapse of the ICO markets all together. (I don't believe that is all that likely personally, but it is a concern which others fear)\n\nThere is a new mild risk that recently came down from the SEC’s announcement regarding ICO regulation, leaving the greater ICO market in a state of ambiguity. How these new regulations are going to affect the markets is mostly unknown but likely benign in relation to wings. However, there is the absolute slightest possibility that this great project could be pegged as a “security” which means that wings would be subsequently sued by the SEC for “securities fraud,” which would lead bankruptcy. Again the odds of this occurring are very low and but should be weighed into the decision-making process when considering wings as a long-term investment.\n\nThe platform has a long way to go still, development is not complete and there is a lot that can go wrong in the time it takes to finalize their work product. New startups may pop-up accomplishing the same tasks with a better product and/or better partnerships, etc. (Unlikely, wings pretty much dominates this market segment)\n\nCurrently wings is going uncontested in the ICO prediction market, which is a very big market on its own. The wings team is in the process of cornering a large market as we speak, which makes the reward outweigh the vast majority of the risk.\n\n**Investment Rating**: A+\n\n**Current Market Cap**: $60,000,000\n\n**Target Market Cap (Short-term)**: $180,000,000 - $240,000,000\n\n\n<center>**Conclusion**</center>\nWings has a great deal of potential considering the platform is still in pre-beta and already has so many key partnerships. Wings peaked earlier this year at nearly $100M but fell due to profit-taking and fear during the major market crash which occurred in early-June. Since then its most key partnership with Coindash led to an unfortunate disaster after the ICO was hacked, however wings has shown great resiliency as this has not had a significant effect on the price. The community support is overwhelming, over 350 pages on bitcointalk, and 17K+ followers on twitter. 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      "body": "![ChronoLogic ICO.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmQGzVMfM1rdqFYL4wQ22X1GLLpY46SbEXTiHcq4zMAao6/ChronoLogic%20ICO.jpg)\n\n# Overview\n\nChronoLogic is certainly different. They have already achieved a successful pre-sale and will be launching their official ICO tomorrow, August 28th. There are only a handful of ICO’s worth looking at these days and ChronoLogic is definitely one of them. The platform has some potentially game changing features. The proof-of-time concept is the key value driver in ChronoLogic. However, let me emphasize that, “proof-of-time concept.” They don’t have a prototype yet, so it is really just a concept at this stage. The proof-of-time concept is a rare example of a new crypto startup actually attempting to do something significant – rather than unnecessarily raising tons of money for a project that tries to fill an extreme niche. It is hard to wrap your head around, but the PoT concept is actually very intriguing and highly scalable (if it works). If they can create a fully functioning prototype, proving their “proof-of-time” blockchain actually works, then this could be huge. However, there is an incredibly high degree of risk that comes with this project. I will walk you through my thought process and analyze the various risks and the potential rewards of the Chronos platform.\n\n# Analysis\n\nThe first thing I look at when making an investment in an ICO is how professional the website looks – because that is literally the first thing I see. ChronoLogic did not totally disqualify themselves in this aspect, although I did certainly feel as though I had just ingested some form of psychedelics while scrolling through their website. It looks okay, but again I definitely felt like I was tripping because the graphics were bizarre and the sparse amount of text were filled with nonsensical, philosophical garbage about “time.” Literally nothing of substance, just weird statements about how time is the only scarce commodity and other really odd conceptual thoughts about time itself. That bothers me deeply, to the level that I would normally not even consider investing in such a project. However, two of my strongest indicators of good projects showed up as well.\n\nAfter reading through their whitepaper several times and watching their “informational” video, I still couldn’t figure out if they’re really good conmen or just clueless businessmen who have no idea how to convey their technology. Still, the founding team is actually quite impressive. I looked up each of them and their work history, backgrounds, and other acclaim – it all checks out. Some of the guys involved in the project have strong reputations and would have quite a lot to lose if they were involved in an illegitimate crypto startup. Particularly, the Forbes India 30 under 30 member, Toshi Sharma. He’s got an incredible background in blockchain technology and cryptocurrency consulting, I feel a sense of comfort knowing he is involved in the project. The leaders of ChronoLogic are two guys from a company called Wired Investors. The company is interesting, it a private equity firm that acquires tech startups and other digital assets to build and resell for profit. Meaning the leaders in this project have strong backgrounds in building tech companies.\n\n# Conclusion\n\nThe more I dug deeper and deeper into this project, the more interesting it got. I wanted to totally write it off, but the team is surprisingly strong and the product is potentially disruptive and highly scalable. They make big claims about their use cases that are mostly unfounded, although the team is actually heavily involved in the industries/markets they are going after. That means they may have the connections necessary to usher development on their platform and expand their usage greatly. The team working on this project has a lot of experience in this area and their company, Wired Investments, builds tech startups through connecting them with the people and resources necessary to create essential business relationships and partnering opportunities. That is a fantastic asset for a crypto startup. Today, in the fast paced, overly optimistic cryptocurrency markets, the fact that ChronoLogic is valuing itself at $12.5 million, it is almost considerably a steal. However, the project could and almost certainly will falter initially, considering they have no prototype and do not have an overly persuasive website or whitepaper. Cryptocurrency investors do not typically have the attention spans necessary to dig deep enough to look into the founding team’s business relationships in order to fully consider the possibility of partnering opportunities. The moment the first major partnership or new project is announced, or even if a functioning prototype of the Chronos platform is released, the project will be destined for big things. Ultimately though, I expect ChronoLogic to drop to $6-7 million at launch, perhaps 10 if we’re lucky.\n\n### STRATEGIC INVESTING\n\nSo why not invest later if I am so sure it’s going to drop? The answer is simple: hedging. The cryptocurrency markets are highly unpredictable and if you try to speculate on every little movement and control the uncontrollable, you will go insane. Sometimes you have to take risks, the key is to calculate your risks and have a strategy to minimize those risks. For example, if you wanted to invest $1,000 into ChronoLogic, figure out a tiered strategy for increasing your position in the case of a downwards price movement. Maybe only put $600 in the ICO, then if it falls by 40% at launch, invest another $250. If worst comes to worst and the price falls 60% from the ICO, invest the final $150. Figure out a strategy that works best for you. This way you still have skin in the game in the case that it goes up early. It is much more likely that it will drop at first though. Having reserves set aside to increase your holdings and further accumulate is essential to maximizing your returns in the eventuality of an upwards price movement. Pay close attention to warning signs though, you don’t want to become a bag holder. Make sure the team is still communicating with the community, that they are active on twitter and other social media outlets, and that they are ultimately trying to recover and that development continues on strong.",
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