Many social media platforms use voting systems, such as upvotes, shares or “likes” to prioritize content. Steem incorporates these concepts into a unique, blockchain-based platform that pays users in STEEM for their contributions to the network. While STEEM and bitcoin are both cryptocurrencies, STEEM’s usage is specific to social networks.

In the cryptocurrency space, there still is a lot of people who believe that Bitcoin is the one and only currency to rule them all. Competing projects such as Dash and Ethereum are routinely ridiculed, even though they introduce concepts that Bitcoin can’t or will take years to do so, for reasons I will explain later.

The fact that the crypto markets have not been affected by the decline in the stock markets in the past few days is a positive thing. If this outperformance continues, we anticipate some speculative money to shift to cryptocurrencies, resulting in a sharp upward movement.

Below is the table of the 10 largest cryptocurrencies, and their change in market cap. This is a snapshot from a service that is exclusive to InvestingHaven’s cryptocurrency investing service to which all premium crypto members have access.

OMG will launch (Q4 2017) their white label Wallet SDK (Software Development Kit). Meaning, any company / app / developer can use OMG's SDK (as they would use Angular or Wordpress) to develop a wallet and a transactions interface, on the blockchain, in a way that is completely customizable to fit their own brand and design (it's white label, so it's just a programming kit, there's no such thing as a logo or OMG brand, it will just be a programming tool for developers: just like when you visit a website, you have no clue if it was made with React or with Angular).

Other novelties are planned for crypto currency, which should still boost DASH.For example a brokerage service with free bank transfers.But also an opportunity to exchange DASH with 20 fiduciary currencies.Also planned, DASH vending machines and even an integration of health care.

I like vertcoin, verge, neo, omise (cos I want to buy maccas in Thailand!), and factom. I haven't done a heaps of research into those coins and I don't have a lot invested in them. It is more of a speculative gamble with money .

This is the reason why Ripple is actually pretty undervalued currently. In the coming future, as it adds newer and newer clients to its structure, the Ripple will most probably be able to increase its market cap and value significantly.