What You Should Expect From Cryptos in 2019

Trouble viewing this e-mail? [Click here to read it online]( [CASEY DAILY DISPATCH - Casey Research] Justin’s note: Last year was rough for the cryptocurrency market. Bitcoin saw its price plunge 72%. Ether – the second-biggest crypto in terms of market value – fell 82%, while many smaller cryptos crashed by more than 90%. These are staggering declines. But this is nothing new for the space. Bitcoin’s price has plunged 70% or more six other times since it was created in 2009. Each time, it’s bounced back stronger than before. Of course, history doesn’t always repeat itself. So I recently called our in-house crypto expert, Disruptive Profits editor Marco Wutzer, to see what he expects for 2019. --------------------------------------------------------------- What You Should Expect From Cryptos in 2019 Justin: Marco, last year was a rough one for the cryptocurrency market. What do you expect now that 2019 is underway? Marco: We’ve obviously had an impactful bear market in crypto in 2018. Pretty much all of last year was a downtrend. Bitcoin was relatively stable for several months around $6,000. Recently it has dropped to between $3,000 and $4,000. This is what I like to call the “capitulation phase.” It’s the last phase in a bear market, in which the last weak hands throw in the towel. But this phase will most likely go on for a few more months. I think we will continue around current price levels or even a bit lower for a couple more months. Then, we’ll form a bottom and enter the earliest stage of the next bull market. When the market actually turns around, we'll have a slow rise from the bottom. We won’t have lots of positive sentiment and excitement. This needs time to build, especially coming out of a capitulation phase. So I expect a slow climb over 2019 once we get out of the capitulation phase. We are in a time for accumulation. Hopefully, a sustained move up from the bottom and an upward price trend will give subscribers who are uneasy about the current state of the market more confidence again. Recommended Link [$600 Million Man Releases New '13-X’ Trade Recommendation on THURSDAY]( For 16 years, Jason Bodner placed orders on the “hush hush” for billion-dollar clients and filthy rich banks. (Once, he mopped up $600 million worth of shares for a single client!) He built his very own [13-X private database]( to mimic how the ultra-rich practically mint money. These [13-X trade plays]( have been proven in a historical test to push stocks 25%...50%...even 75% higher once the word gets out. (And occasionally much higher—up to a rare 7,384%—over time.) [Click here now]( -- Justin: Got it. Should investors harvest profits during this time? Marco: No, it’s not time for that yet. But this will be a good time to accumulate more of the best projects at really great prices so we’re prepared for when the market comes out of this bottoming phase and for when we see significant price rises again. That's what I foresee in terms of pricing. Justin: What about the [Blockchain Ecosystem]( How is it evolving? Marco: That’s a different story. There has been a lot of progress. We have a very big disconnect between what’s happening in the Blockchain Ecosystem and what’s happening in the markets. Right now, a lot of the next-generation, high-speed blockchains are in the final testing phase. This means their technology is basically done. They're making sure it has no bugs. They're making sure it performs well. They're making sure it's secure. Once the testing phase is done, they will launch the actual blockchain and you’ll be able to use it. Then, it will be providing actual value. And many of the most important and largest projects will go live with their product in the first and second quarter of this year. A lot of new services will become available, providing real utility and real value. Justin: What does all this mean for the ecosystem? Marco: Everything will become faster. Everything will become easier to use. Everything will become better and more valuable because it will work better and many additional services will become available for the first time. It will be a very exciting time of progress for the Blockchain Ecosystem. But, again, we have a disconnect in the sense that the Blockchain Ecosystem is becoming much better but the prices still have to catch up again with this development. In 2017, prices got ahead of where we really were in terms of the development of the Blockchain Ecosystem. Excitement took over, and prices got too high. In 2018, sentiment got too negative and the prices are now too low. And I see this disconnect continuing for some time this year because of so many good things happening in the development of the Blockchain Ecosystem. It will become so much more valuable and easier to use. The prices then have to catch up with these improvements, which will then eventually lead to more excitement again, and a new bull market. But right now, there is a disconnect between the value of the ecosystem and the current prices. Here’s the important takeaway: The development of the crucial pieces that make up the Blockchain Ecosystem is making good progress and everything is going exactly as it should be going. So prices catching up with this development is really just a matter of time. 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This year, we will have the infrastructure in place to have a lot more scalability. So when the next wave of growth with many new users hits, it won't be causing any problems and it will be a smoother experience. And the user experience is also getting better. We have a lot of new tools that make it easier to deal with cryptos, making it more user-friendly. The wallets get better all the time. There are several new hardware wallets coming out that will make it much easier for people to use cryptos. Overall, the quality of the user experience has fallen a little bit behind. And we're seeing a lot of projects catching up with this. A better user experience and improving capacity of blockchains are the two key points. Justin: What about institutional money coming into the space? Marco: There has been a lot of talk about that. People have expected it for a while. Until now it hasn't happened. But all the infrastructure, all the custody solutions, all the new exchanges, all the new platforms, the first crypto ETF – all of this will eventually happen. And most likely sometime this year we'll see the first wave of this. With these three things coming together, the infrastructure being there to handle a larger volume, the user experience becoming better, more products and services being available to make it more useful, deliver more value, and then big money from institutions arriving – this is all a good thing for the Blockchain Ecosystem. All of this is pushing us forward and will eventually lead to the next bull market. Justin: What about from the regulatory side? Any potential catalysts that we should be watching? Marco: I'm not a fan of regulation. But it's part of the world we live in. There are a number of countries that are forward-looking and very crypto-friendly… and you have other countries that are more reactionary and less crypto-friendly. Overall the rules are becoming much clearer, not just in the U.S., but everywhere. That’s a good thing. Initially, people just did what they wanted, not considering any legal implications. Now, a lot of projects are in trouble, especially with the Securities and Exchange Commission [SEC] starting to crack down on some projects. They are going to have to pay fines, and return money to investors. In the U.S., two congressmen have just introduced a bill, the “Token Taxonomy Act” that seeks to change the SEC’s 72-year-old definition of securities. The bill would exclude cryptocurrencies from the definition of a security once they become a functioning network. The SEC in principle also has no problem with ICOs as a method for raising funds. It just wants you to follow certain rules. Little by little these rules become clearer, and as they become clearer, it's easier and less risky for new start-ups to employ these crypto-based funding mechanisms. The current regulatory developments give more clarity and that’s a good thing in the sense that it gives security to investors, that they know that they can safely put their money in a new offering if it follows the rules of the SEC and so on. Clarifying the rules and updating regulations is important for any country’s economy if it wants to stay relevant, especially when it comes to the tokenization of assets. However, the biggest profit potential I see is in completely decentralized projects that enable a supra-national global economy, completely outside the realm of outdated nation-states. Justin: Great stuff. Thanks, Marco. Marco: You’re welcome. --------------------------------------------------------------- Justin’s note: Marco’s Disruptive Profits newsletter is unlike any other cryptocurrency advisory I’ve ever seen. Marco scours the crypto markets to find the highest-quality projects for his readers… ones that you won’t hear about from the mainstream media. 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