Lisk, Litecoin & Vertcoin!? Up. Floyd "Crypto" Mayweather and The Hubii Network

• Litecoin up because of some good news out of their camp. The creator of Line Coin, or the guy that copied bitcoins code originally: https://twitter.com/satoshilite/status/900445105533755392 Atomic swaps are the hot new thing: Vertcoin is also up https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/vertcoin/

• A lot of you have been telling me to check out Lisk: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/lisk/

It’s up quite a bit, so let’s finally get around to it. At first glance, it would have a similar vibe that Ethereum did in the early days. Some people are disillusioned with all these coin projects with no working product, and Lisk is a breath of fresh air. It’s being developed by a clever bunch of people who are extremely active and posting their updates on the github repo. Simply put it’s a platform that you can create your own decentralized blockchain applications on. These are coded in JavaScript, which is a huge deal as almost all enterprise uses it. It’s an all in one platform where creators can monetize their content with the idea that it’s no more difficult to create a dapp on the platform than it is to create any other web application. Sentiment is extremely bullish as people believe enterprise customers out there that are toying with the idea of decentralized apps now have a platform on which to do so.

• Segwit activates. But the market stands still. So Segwit is old news for the market. So, what’s the next big bit of news for Bitcoin? The lightning networks? Not too much news on when we can expect to transact with that just yet. Testing of compatibility and implementations could be coming over as soon as a few weeks, or a few months maybe at max. There is also talk of MAST, a little-known plan to advance bitcoin smart contracts. Acronym for Merkelized Abstract Syntax Trees, try saying that 4 times quickly, very basically can enable complicated redemption conditions that aren’t currently viable partially because of space constraints. Directly after in my mind in terms of importance is increasing transaction speeds, and then the lowering of the fees. Which Bitcoin Cash has proven to effectively slash hugely.

• What we know for sure now would be the November hard fork to 2mb block sizes. Now there is controversy over whether the network should fork again so soon after activating Segwit, and I expect these voices to get louder and louder as the date approaches.

• Bitcoin will enter the trillion-dollar market cap according to the founder of Standpoint Research. https://www.coindesk.com/standpoint-founder-bitcoin-asset-class-will-grow-2-trillion-market/
• Out of curiosity that would be $121,000 per bitcoin. I think this will happen easily at the current rate. Remember you may have your doubts about the future, and it’s always healthy to be a little pessimistic. However, it’s difficult to argue with the fact that if Bitcoin continues on the path that it currently is, and has been for many years, trillions of dollars for a market cap will be easy.
• Bitcoin is up hundreds of percent this year, while Gold and Silver haven’t seen anywhere near this kind of growth. Yet the gold and silver market is worth multiple trillions of dollars.
• Now Gold and Silver has some use cases in being worn as jewelry and manufacturing, but Bitcoin has great use cases as well. Some would argue even better. So how much longer will investors not take note?

• Floyd Mayweather just tweeted about his second ICO on Twitter:

• This picture is so generic, a lot like his last one for Stox ICO: https://www.instagram.com/p/BXD4KDqgX3x/

• I’m not even certain he can invest in them as an American citizen, and could be his social media team getting paid to promote.

• So, what is it this time? https://www.hubii.network/ The Hubii Network, built on the Ethereum blockchain and described as a "blockchain-based decentralized content marketplace". Hubii claims that a content market running on Ethereum's blockchain will bring a number of advantages to its users, making it "free of monopoly" and eliminating the need for third party intermediators. Hubii also proposes a number of use cases for smart contracts on the platform, such as tipping content creators and automated payment to content owners once a certain number of views is reached. Just days into the ICO, with a long time left still to run, they’ve raised 900 Ether, with at today’s valuation is $290,000.

• And we just crossed 15,000 subscribers on YouTube!!! Thank YOU :)