2018 summed up: 👀

January 2018 - "We are all going to be rich!" 😍
BTC: $16,000, ETH: $1400, BCH: $2,650.
Alts doing 100-200% daily.
Most Binance alts did x10+ Dec 2017 - Jan 2018.
New website Announcment = +50-100%.
ICO with ex. Facebook/Google team = x3+
Paid group leaders in heaven.

February 2018 - "Fear kicking in we just need to calm down before next rally" 😥
BTC: Drops from $16,000 Jan ATH to $5,800 and bounces hard, people think they caught the "bottom".
Many alts do x2-x4+ on this 10 day bounce - (Feb. 5 -> Feb. 15)

March 2018 - "I will be back next bull-run" 😤
BTC March high - $11,500, March low: $6,500.
Red month, -50% on most alts this month.

April-May 2018 - "This was the bottom!" ☺️
BTC bounces from $6,500 touches $10,000 before continuing downwards.
ICO hype is at all time high. Most of these would end up keeping tokens locked for months and going under ICO price. ETH is hovering around 0.08 BTC.
BTC/ETH "flipping" memes.

June-July - "This IDEX gem will x100 by the end of the year" 🤓
Full of depression and salt. Many alts dropped to their lowest BTC value these months.

August - "This time it's different" 👍🏽
Most of Crypto Twitter getting bullish, Paid group leaders calling for x10s.
Moonboys liquidated by a -(16,6%) drop in under 2 days.

Sept-Oct-Nov - "Feels like everyone cashed out and left" 😭
Volume is declining. $6000 is still holding.
Tradeogre microcaps are "the hype".
Random Binance pumps are getting less common.

November-December - "Capitulation. Fuck Crypto" 💀
$6000 broken, capitulation initiated.
45% drop on $BTC in 13 days.
$BTC ends the year with a 20% bounce from the 2018 bottom $3120.

Bakkt: We are pleased to confirm that we have completed our first round of funding of $182.5 million.

https://medium.com/bakkt-blog/first-capital-raise-739db1bab6d3

#Crypto Rewind 2018

Fortnite Merch Store now accepts Monero as payment option

https://cointelegraph.com/news/fortnite-merchandise-store-starts-exclusively-accepting-monero-as-payment-method

Unlike ICOs, which issue Utility Tokens to the customer, STOs provide what is called a Security Token. Here are the laws and KYC stipulations surrounding STOs.

https://hackernoon.com/know-your-customer-kyc-regulations-for-stos-43c55132f196

Sparkster has finally opened its code repositories to the public, check what InCodeWeTrust think about their code.

👉 https://cryptodiffer.com/sparkster-ico
👉 https://cryptodiffer.com/news/sparkster-source-code-review/

LTO Network has announced its collaboration with Torque Ventures, ICODrops, and BitMax. The whitelist is open. Glad to support them!

Details: bit.ly/2AoGXbN
💧https://icodrops.com/ltonetwork/

DADI launches the world's first Edge network

https://dadi.cloud/en/updates/network/dadi-launches-the-world's-first-edge-network/

Deep Chain Reorganization Detected on Ethereum Classic (ETC)

"We detected 8 additional reorganizations that included double spends, totaling 88,500 ETC (~$460,000)"

https://blog.coinbase.com/ethereum-classic-etc-is-currently-being-51-attacked-33be13ce32de

⭐️VANTA NETWORK AMA 10/01/19 8am EST, 2pm CET, 10pm KST⭐️
⏰ Time until AMA - https://tinyurl.com/y8oybbdt
✋️ Submit a question for the VANTA Network team - https://goo.gl/LyXRkm

🗣 AMA is in our public channel https://t.me/WolfCryptoPub, so please join before we begin. 🎙

🗣 Summary -

The VANTA Network is a decentralized and permissionless network that ensures real-time, secure and private connectivity. Through the VANTA Network, both individuals and corporations will be able to develop real-time data transmission services and commercialize those services at low costs. The VANTA Network will eventually aim to allow infinite connectivity among all devices regardless of location.

The VANTA Network's aim is to allow individuals to create decentralized networks that perform real-time data transmissions as well as process and store that data by selecting intelligent peers, collaborating, and evaluating each other using the VANTA Network protocol and the consensus algorithm.

🔥More Info:
⚡️- https://medium.com/@wolfcrypto/wolf-crypto-ieo-review-vanta-network-dde2c16168fc
⚡️- https://medium.com/vantanetwork/interview-with-ryan-seo-vanta-network-ceo-f3cd83b53862
⚡️- https://medium.com/vantanetwork/vanta-establishes-strategic-partnership-with-microsoft-99a174491a14
⚡️- https://medium.com/vantanetwork/vanta-network-b8a52846bb1a

👨‍👩‍👧 Team:
- Ryan Seo - Oracle JAPAC, Voiceloco Founder - https://www.linkedin.com/in/joonhyuk-seo/
- Adrian Park - SK Planet, Gamedetect Comm Founder - https://www.linkedin.com/in/seyoonpark/
- Martin Jung - Amazon Web Services, Oracle - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jinyounj/

- Full Team - https://vanta.network/TeamFull

👨‍👩‍👧 Advisors:
- YoonSeok Choi - VP of Microsoft Korea - https://news.microsoft.com/ko-kr/exec/yoon-seok-choi/
- ChangNam Choi - Oracle APAC Regional Head - https://www.linkedin.com/in/choi-changnam-04932bb9/

👉 VANTA Network links:
- Website - https://vanta.network/
- Medium - https://medium.com/vantanetwork
- Telegram - https://t.me/vantanetwork
- Whitepaper - https://vanta.network/doc/VANTA_White_Paper.pdf
- Executive Summary - https://vanta.network/doc/VANTA_Executive_Summary.pdf

COTI Trustchain TestNet is now live
The TestNet release features a number of key innovations from the COTI R&D team, including the Trust Score Update Algorithm (TSUA), Arbitration Service, one-click payment requests, DSP consensus, node managers and more.

https://medium.com/@COTInetwork/coti-launches-its-testnet-with-top-payment-processors-remittance-companies-and-stable-coins-soon-671b73a6bfa6

Julian Hosp steps down as TenX President and leaves the company...exiting before TenX even issues their long awaited TenX card...

What will Julian's next scam be?

https://twitter.com/julianhosp/status/1082864292431646720

Aergo responds to recent "FUD"

https://medium.com/aergo/addressing-key-questions-from-our-stakeholders-3d734a58c0d5

🚨 January Recap & Upcoming Events 📍

January Recap (so far): 🕯

- Bitcoin Turns 10 Years Old
- Julian Hosp Quits TenX. Sold 200+ BTC TenX before announcement
- Tron rallies over 200%, powered by BitTorrent airdrop
- ShapeShift announces major layoffs
- Ledger Announces a New Bluetooth-Based Hardware Wallet
- Bitcoin Transaction Fees Hit Three-Year Low
- Ethereum Classic gets hit by a 51% attack

Upcoming Events this Month: 💷

- 16. - $ETH Constantinople Fork
- 16. - Cboe XBTF19 Expiration Date
- 17. - $TRX Nitron Summit
- 25. - CME: January Last Trade (4 PM GMT)
- 31. - $ZIL Mainnet Launch

⭐️VANTA NETWORK AMA REMINDER 10/01/19 8am EST, 2pm CET, 10pm KST⭐️
⏰ Time until AMA - https://tinyurl.com/y8oybbdt
✋️ Submit a question for the VANTA Network team - https://goo.gl/LyXRkm

🗣 AMA is in our public channel https://t.me/WolfCryptoPub, so please join before we begin. 🎙

Big news from Bitmain as Jihan Wu is poised to be replaced.

"Bitmain Technology, the world’s biggest maker of cryptocurrency mining rigs, is poised to name a new CEO to replace company co-founders Wu Jihan and Zhan Ketuan, people with knowledge of the matter said"

https://www.scmp.com/tech/policy/article/2181392/bitmains-two-founders-step-aside-chinese-cryptocurrency-giant-taps