I think so.
2017 was the best year for the bullrun upcoming at that time. The presence of bullrun in 2017 really influenced many things, especially the numbers of people entered in crypto world as growing. Additionally, we can also see the growing crypto companies offering their products and projects regarding crypto coin or token. In that time, we can also see the highest price to reach.

Yes 2017 wz one of the best year for crypto. The prices were right, new companies were coming up with great projects, no much ICO scams as there are now. Overall, 2017 is get to be beaten. I stand to be corrected.

Samsung Galaxy S10 is a new brand of Samsung product, which has an inbuilt crypto wallet, which can store bitcoin, Eth and some others. This is also a cold storage wallet, which is not connected to the internet. This new development, will it cause more harm than good or its much better than web wallets?
Please share your thoughts, thanks.

There are two side to the coin, the pro is one is able to store ones assets in one's phone. The con is if the phone is stolen ur developed issues, dat assets are gone

Market is a one of kind of publicity of drawing the attention of the national and international industrialists and producers. The most of country invites friendly countries to install  stalls in the market fair to display their exportable goods to the people of the country. Market rate in time high or low.                 

I see that you are new and have not taken the time to start from the beginners section before jumping here. I will advise you to learn this forum and its rules first before you post anything, that way your post will make sense.

It is very possible, but we cannot claim it yet we have no proofs. Whales are a group of people that work together in order to gain profits on market. As they have funds, capital, and power, actually they can manipulate market with buy-sell themselves. Unfortunately, we have no proofs so far.

Even if there is proof, what can be done? When the market is manipulated, some gain while some loss. But I do not think the market movement is entirely due to it been manipulated. I believe that the high and low demand factor play a huge role.

I do not understand on the basis of what made this list, because I do not see very profitable projects for bounty hunters.

Maybe You Have Never Participated In A Bounty Programme Which Is Why You Don't Understand. The List Above States Both The Good Project I Have Participated In, Meaning Projects That Earned Me Money And Projects That Did Not Earn Me Money. That Is What We Are All Sharing. Hope You Understand Now Mate.

Enterprise blockchain startup Symbiont has closed a $20 million
Series-B funding round led by Nasdaq Ventures with participation
from Galaxy Digital, Citi, Raptor Group and others.

The firm, which has kept a fairly low profile the last two years as
the cryptocurrency market’s gyrations overshadowed the
enterprise sector, previously raised a combined $15.4 million from
a seed round in 2014 and Series A in 2017.
Symbiont CEO Mark Smith told CoinDesk that the firm doubled its
staff last year, and now has more than 60 employees.

“We have been very good stewards of capital for the six years we
have been in business. I think we have done more with less than
anybody out there,” Smith said. “So it was time for us to do a
bigger round and adding the Nasdaq as an investor and partner,
and Citi as an investor and partner, really solidifies our strategy.”

As part of the investment, Nasdaq Financial Framework, a software
company owned by the exchange, will integrate Symbiont’s
Assembly smart contracts platform to explore new avenues
involving tokenization.
Smith, a veteran of the early days of financial market matching
engines, explained there has been a big movement towards
combining blockchain with traditional exchange technology.
“Symbiont will give Nasdaq the ability to originate a financial
instrument and the smart contract to custody it on a blockchain, to
allow trading to occur with their matching engine, to allow
surveillance to occur across the network using Nasdaq technology
and then to perform settlement on a blockchain,” he said.
To be clear, Symbiont is not working with the Nasdaq proper, just
the software arm, which sells tech to other exchanges, clearing
houses and central securities depositories in about 50 countries.

As Smith put it:
“We are infrastructure people: dirt under the fingernails, digging
the ditches, laying the roads.”

Win Some, Lose Some
Indeed, Symbiont has kept a firm focus on building capital markets
infrastructure using a proprietary blockchain and smart contracts
architecture.
The startup has lasered in on a handful of carefully selected use
cases and partners, such as index data management with
investment giant Vanguard; making the mortgage market
transparent and more efficient with Wall Street legend Lewis
Ranieri ; and optimizing the syndicated loans market with Ipreo’s
Synaps platform.

However, not all its partnerships panned out. For instance,
Symbiont dedicated a lot of time and effort between 2015 and 2017
helping create a blockchain technology-enabled regulatory
environment in the state of Delaware, creating rules for share
registry and the ability to create a whole new class of securities.
All that work, done free of charge, came to naught for Symbiont
when Governor Jack Markell’s term ended, according to Smith.

“The new administration came in with less fanfare about the use of
the technology and a very conservative approach,” he said.

“Instead of moving forward, they took a big step back and decided
to defend the incumbents against what they considered disruptive
tech, then reached out to IBM and spent over $1 million replicating
the exact road map we gave the state.” (The precise amount of the
single-bid contract was $738,000 , according to the Delaware
News Journal.)
Another wrench was thrown into the works last August, when
Symbiont’s partner on syndicated loans, Ipreo, was acquired by
IHS Markit, which has worked with ethereum-based Quorum
(developed by JPMorgan) on this use case.

Smith could not say too much about this but hinted that
Symbiont’s new big-bank investor would go to bat for it on the
syndicated loan front. “Certainly with Citi now in our cap table we
can see how this is going to move forward,” he said.
Competitive landscape
It’s common these days to view the enterprise blockchain world as
consisting of Hyperedger, R3, Digital Asset and enterprise
ethereum variants. Symbiont has been around for as long as any of
these forks, consortiums or other proprietary solutions, and Smith
is never shy about sharing his opinion of them.

“I would argue that we are the only enterprise blockchain
solution,” he said. The others, he contended, either aren’t really
blockchains or have privacy and security shortcomings or haven’t
produced anything beyond ideas.

On the subject of corralling together large consortiums, Smith
believes innovation always comes from individuals and small
teams that are able to iterate quickly and nimbly.
“I think what you get in consortiums is just compromise. You end
up with average tech, nothing revolutionary – sometimes barely
evolutionary. Creating a back office as a service with a shared
ledger is not revolutionary. That’s what a consortium will get
you,” Smith said.

So what does Symbiont have to show for its work? Smith said
several of its projects will enter production in 2019, starting with
the Vanguard collaboration, which uses corporate action data to
manage the asset manager’s passive indices. Syndicated loans
and mortgages will follow.
As far as the sustained bear market for crypto assets is concerned,
Smith said from day one his firm had stayed away from those sorts
of “shenanigans.”

“We kept our head down and focused on what we always believed
would be the marketplace, which is a regulated marketplace,” he
said.

Of course, he is very sad to hear of people losing their jobs and
said it was unfortunate that many people lost a lot of money. But
overall, Smith said he is glad to be out of the hype cycle,
concluding,
“We are in the trough of disillusionment and I am extremely
excited.”

https://www.coindesk.com/

Anyone with stashes of Ether cryptocurrency might
want to watch out for increasingly cunning
scammers, who've found out how to make big
funds with simple swindles.

In 2018, tricksters made $36 million by duping
Ether owners into handing over their money for no
one's profit but the crooks'. That was double the
$17 million for 2017, according to a report from
Chainalysis , which tracks cryptocurrencies for all
manner of government agenices, private entities
and exchanges. (Chainalysis classes scammers as
different to hackers who exploit bugs and outright
steal cryptocurrency, such as those who stole $32
million in Ether in 2017 . Indeed, hackers are
making more than scammers, thanks to repeat
smash and grabs from 2016 through 2019.)

And whilst the number of scams actually started
decling through 2018, they "were bigger, more
sophisticated and vastly more lucrative," according
to the analysis, exclusively provided to Forbes.
Chainalysis found more than 2,000 scam addresses
on Ethereum, the blockchain-based platform on
which Ether (also known by its acronym ETH) is
distributed. Those accounts received funds from
nearly 40,000 unique users over last year. That's
four times more people scammed in 2018 than 2017.

Classic ponzi schemes are working
According to Philip Gradwell, chief economist at
Chainalysis, one of the most significant scams of
2018 was the classic ponzi scheme. This saw
scammers send out emails to Ether owners, asking
them to contribute money for which they'd see a
guaranteed return. Of course, the return was simply
derived from other people contributing to the pot,
not from any genuine investment.

One of the most significant pyramid schemes was
that of 333 ETH, said Gradwell, which made off with
$3.5 million worth of Ether. Running on the
Ethereum-based DApp decentralized application, it
promised a daily 3.33% payout from an initial buy-
in. Though it was called out as a scam , it still
attracted a significant number of Ether owners.
Forbes attempted to find contact details for 333
ETH, but its Russian-language website was down at
the time of publication and there were no contacts
listed in the site's registration details.

The other major scam, which was leading to more
significant losses in the first half of 2018, was the
fake initial coin offering (ICO). Gradwell said this
was down to an ICO "fever" in the early stages of
last year. In some cases, entirely fake ICOs were
created with legitimate-looking websites and
campaigns behind them, encouraging people to buy
up some fancy new currency. The coins then
mysteriously disappeared, as the ICO turned out to
be a fraud.

Finally, standard phishing, where unwitting victims
were duped out of their account passwords. Once
inside Ether wallets, the hackers ransacked the
cryptocurrency within.

An Emerging Android Threat
Whilst it'd be wise for Ether owners to use complex
passwords and be aware of scammers tricks, there's
an emerging threat out there in the form of fake
Android apps.

Lukas Stefanko, a cybersecurity researcher at ESET,
has found a number of fake Ether wallets going
around Google Play. Often they impersonate
MyEtherWallet or MetaMask, trying to rob users of
their login details for the real apps. Each time
Stefanko has warned Google, the apps have been
swiftly removed.

Just earlier this week, the researcher tried out a
mini social experiment, asking his Twitter followers
to pick one of two MyEtherWallet apps that were on
Google's market. A worrying 40% chose the fake.

https://www.forbes.com/

After more than a year since the crypto market’s massive
correction in early 2018, none of the various predictions about
an equally massive rally that might catapult prices back to its
late 2017 highs have materialized.

Bitcoin, the largest cryptocurrency based on market cap, is
currency trading at around $3,500 which is way below its
almost $18,000 all-time high in December 2017.

But what is surprising is that despite the depressed prices of
all cryptos, adoption of digital coins continues to spread
worldwide.
For instance, Saudi Arabia and UAE just launched a new joint
cryptocurrency to facilitate cross border payments.

Middle East’s New Joint Cryptocurrency Announced
The new joint cryptocurrency was announced during the first
meeting of the Saudi-Emirati Coordination Council held in Abu
Dhabi on January 19, 2019, according to WAM , UAE’s national
press agency.

The meeting was attended by all of the council’s 16 members
from both countries as they discussed various strategies on
possible areas of collaboration such as the financial markets,
aviation, customs, tourism, and security.
The launch of the Saudi-Emirati Pilot cryptocurrency is aimed
at facilitating cross-border payments at the moment.
Initially, it will only be used by banks during the experimental
stage as the council still wants to gauge the implications of
using cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology in such a
scenario.

The distributed database for the crypto will be shared and
maintained by all the participating banks as well as the central
banks of the two countries.

Saudi-Emirati Alliance
While initially limited only for cross-border payments between
Saudi and UAE, the success of this joint digital coin could have
a positive impact on the cryptocurrency market as a whole.
The financial might of the Saudi-Emirati alliance is among the
world’s strongest blocs as the combined sovereign wealth
funds of both countries is the second largest in the world.
The alliance’ clout also extends in the export, oil and corporate
sectors.

Combined, the two countries are ranked eighth worldwide in
terms of exports of services and goods, account for almost a
quarter of the world’s oil stock and is ranked 17th when it
comes to the market cap of their listed companies.
A cryptocurrency that can reliably handle the cross-border
bank transactions between the two countries is basically a
seal of approval on crypto’s use as a financial tool.

https://blokt.com/news/