In this market, you need only one small investment to change your life. There are thousands of crypto millionaires and more are being minted every day.
There are FIVE criteria my picks must pass before I recommend investing in them: leadership, market size, code, tokenomics and, for ICOs, ICO structure. The three picks in this report meet (or exceed) my requirements for setting us on the path to heart-pumping profits.
Before we get into the recommendations, I’m going to cover the basics of how to set up your portfolio.
First, decide how much you want to invest in our recommendations for the next year. I would put no more than 5% to 10% of your overall investments into crypto.
It doesn’t take a large percentage to move the needle on your wealth. These are high-risk, high-reward investments.
Everyone should start with bitcoin (BTC) as the base of their portfolios. You can buy other coins with it, and it should generally be a core holding for all crypto enthusiasts. Personally, I keep around 50% of my crypto holdings in bitcoin. It’s the “reserve currency” of the crypto world.
I recommend spending bitcoins only to diversify into alternative cryptocurrencies because these are the only opportunities I know of that can offer even more growth than bitcoin. By following this strategy, I’ve done extremely well. Much better than I would have done if I just held bitcoin.
I believe we will see many cryptocurrencies rise over the next decade. Today, the entire market is worth less than $200 billion.
This will be a no-brainer multitrillion-dollar market. It’s an alternative way to store money and earn a return. And a platform to build applications that run on these new assets.
Finally, we have an alternative to our horribly flawed, government-controlled “fiat” money scheme.
All the coins I have selected for our initial picks are top-notch opportunities. They each meet every one of the requirements I look for: thriving communities, growing adoption and world-changing potential.
Building Your Cryptocurrency Portfolio
For example, let’s say you have $10,000 dedicated to investing in recommendations from this service over the next year.
We expect to make one recommendation per month on average, so you should invest roughly the same amount in each one ($833).
In crypto, all it takes is one big winner. We aim to find more than that, but keep in mind that these ventures are much like early-stage tech investments. Extremely high profit potential, but not all will be long-term winners.
Our plan is to build a diverse portfolio over time. Me and my team are researching the most promising opportunities on crypto exchanges and in upcoming ICOs. We’re reaching out to our contacts in the crypto world about upcoming deals.
Because I believe some of these crypto assets will go on to become some of the largest and most disruptive technological forces we’ve ever seen.
A few more guidelines before we begin…
- Expect to hold these positions for six-plus months.
- Holding strong is the key to making money in crypto.
- We will take some profits on the way up.
- But don’t try to day trade; the fees and taxes will eat up your profits.
Now let’s not waste another minute, here are my BEST crypto opportunities you’ve been waiting for…
Recommendation No. 1: OmiseGo (OMG)
Crypto ticker symbol: OMG
Market cap of circulating coins: $800 million
Price at recommendation: $9
Circulating coins: 102 million
Total coins: 140 million
Recommended exchange: Bittrex.com
The nature of money is changing rapidly. In 2016 in China, more than $5.5 trillion worth of transactions were conducted using mobile payment tech. Cards are out; mobile wallets are in.
Our first recommendation, OmiseGo, is set to capitalize on this shift. This remarkable team is building an international financial platform to rival existing bank infrastructure.
Their slogan is, fittingly, “Unbank the Banked.” It’s meant to be ironic, because many cryptocurrencies plan to “bank the unbanked” with new tech. But OmiseGo is attempting to upset the existing system and build a better one using the blockchain.
OmiseGo is aiming to be an international and decentralized exchange, a clearinghouse, and a payment platform. A virtual JPMorgan of crypto, if you will. It will allow cryptocurrencies, fiat money and other financial assets to be transferred in a fast, secure and transparent manner.
In essence, OmiseGo is using blockchain technology to facilitate trade and commerce on a global level. Unlike existing bank systems, OmiseGo transactions will settle in seconds instead of days. And unlike bitcoin, OmiseGo is built to be energy-efficient. This is critical for such a large-scale project.
OmiseGo is the cryptocurrency that powers this network. It is used to validate transactions and will reward owners with “dividends” from transaction fees (this feature is still in development, so stay tuned for updates).
Here’s a summary of why I believe in OmiseGo…
- All-star team of blockchain developers (including genius and Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin – this is one of only two other crypto projects he works with)
- Energy-efficient “proof-of-stake” system that rewards owners with “dividends”
- Going after the biggest market in the world (money)
- Strong community of users, developers and holders
- The timing is perfect, as debt piles up and the world loses faith in fiat currencies.
Here are just three of the huge markets OmiseGo is targeting…
- Remittances – when foreign workers send money back home ($462 billion-a-year market in Southeast Asia)
- B2B commerce – facilitating payment in multiple crypto and fiat currencies for merchants (a market worth trillions)
- FOREX – foreign exchange is a tremendously large market, and OmiseGo aims to be a next-generation crypto and fiat exchange.
All-Star Team
Omise, the company behind OmiseGo, already has thousands of merchants signed up for its payment processing services. Omise is backed by top Asian venture capital firms Golden Gate Ventures and SBI.
Omise is based in Asia, with offices in Thailand, Japan and Singapore. This is where most of the technological innovation is taking place today, so they are perfectly positioned geographically. These countries are also among the most progressive in terms of blockchain technology. They have all been supportive, with Japan going so far as to make bitcoin official legal tender (money).
OmiseGo is the cryptocurrency that powers this international network. It will be used to validate transactions on the OmiseGo blockchain and is already emerging as a useful cryptocurrency by itself.
In the near future, owners of OmiseGo will be able to “stake” their coins in a wallet. This system allows ordinary owners to process and verify transactions, and collect transaction fees in the process. This system is still in development and should be released in the near future. Some of the best blockchain developers in the world are currently working on it.
Partnerships With McDonald’s and Others
Omise recently announced a partnership with McDonald’s of Thailand. Under the deal, Omise’s suite of tools will power orders on the corporate site and through its official delivery app, McDelivery Thailand.
To be clear, this doesn’t mean McDonald’s is buying a bunch of OmiseGo (yet). But it is a very positive signal showing that the team has serious chops when it comes to business development. They know how to make deals with big players, which will be critical to the success of OmiseGo.
The underlying business of Omise is thriving, and this will drive demand for OmiseGo down the road. The goal is to build an international payment network and platform. A next-generation payment company with its own decentralized currency.
Today, OmiseGo is valued at around $800 million. Compare that to Ethereum’s $25 billion or bitcoin’s $120 billion, and you can see the room for growth here.
OmiseGo has a strong partnership with the Ethereum network and hosts some of its services on the Ethereum blockchain. As stated earlier, one of OmiseGo’s lead advisors is Vitalik Buterin, the 23-year old genius and creator of Ethereum.
OmiseGo developers are hard at work building their own blockchain network infrastructure, which should be released in 2018. Until then, it will be primarily based on the Ethereum blockchain.
The OmiseGo proof-of-stake (dividend and verification system) system should be live within a few months. We don’t have an exact deadline as of yet. Once that’s live, we can all begin “staking” our OmiseGo and receiving a bit of reward in the form of more OmiseGo.
Disclosure: I am long OmiseGo. I have no plans to sell and will only do so after I have told members to sell.
Recommendation No. 2: Vertcoin (VTC)
Crypto ticker: VTC
Market cap of circulating coins: $204 million (as of 11/9/2017)
Price at recommendation: $4.90
Circulating coins: 41 million
Total coins: 81 million
Recommended exchange: Bittrex.com
Vertcoin is often called the “people’s coin” due to its fair and decentralized nature. Created in 2014, it has a track record of delivering on its promises.
This coin is still under the radar of most investors. With a market cap (total value of all coins) of around $200 million, it’s still very small, a tiny fraction of bitcoin’s $120 billion market cap.
One reason it’s under the radar is that Vertcoin didn’t have a big flashy ICO. It started before that trend got going. The coin was distributed extremely fairly at the beginning and, unlike many other coins, Vertcoin was not “pre-mined” by the founding team. This is a huge positive for Vertcoin because there aren’t a ton of insiders with free coins to dump.
Vertcoin is quietly building momentum and delivering high-quality upgrades. It’s been implementing upgrades at a faster pace than bitcoin while maintaining code integrity and security. For example, it launched Segregated Witness (SegWit) technology, which is an important security upgrade, months before bitcoin did.
Vertcoin was originally based on bitcoin’s code, but it has made many notable improvements on the original system.
The most important difference is that anyone can “mine” Vertcoin. This gives it a huge advantage in terms of decentralization (a critical feature for successful, secure cryptocurrencies).
Here’s a quick primer on cryptocurrency mining and why it’s important.
Mining is the process of creating new coins. “Miners” use computers to solve complex cryptographic problems as part of securing the network. Miners are rewarded with a few coins for their effort.
In the early days, anyone could mine bitcoin with just about any computer. This was ideal because the entire purpose of a decentralized network is that it’s widely distributed and cannot be shut down or censored.
But today’s bitcoin miners are large corporations with multimillion-dollar data centers. They use specialized computer chips (ASICs) which are dozens of times more efficient than retail ones. It’s become somewhat centralized under a few major players.
Miners can mine whatever cryptocurrency they choose to. And sometimes they decide to create their own versions of bitcoin, like Bitcoin Cash, which was “forked” off of bitcoin into its own blockchain ticker symbol.
Many argue that this position gives bitcoin miners too much influence over the coin. For example, the largest mining group just tried to make some major changes to the coin through a “hard fork,” which could have been disastrous (SegWit2x, which would have shifted power away from bitcoin’s core development team). It showed that bitcoin’s mining system can be vulnerable to outside influence.
Vertcoin is built so that anyone can mine it. You don’t need a million-dollar data center to do so.
Its main goal is wide distribution and community involvement. Hence why they call it the “people’s coin.”
The algorithms are also uniquely built to resist attempts to gain an unfair advantage over other miners. So the playing field for mining is leveled.
Other highlights…
- Upcoming mining difficulty increase in mid-December (will decrease selling pressure from new coin issuance by half)
- Atomic Swaps (explained below).
The team recently launched Atomic Swaps, which allow users to exchange their Vertcoin with Litecoin and other cryptocurrencies seamlessly from within their own wallets. This means that one day, exchanges like Bittrex may not even be necessary.
Along with Litecoin, Vertcoin is leading the charge on Atomic Swaps, one of the most promising upcoming crypto breakthroughs.
I believe this coin has a bright future, and could easily be the size of Litecoin (up 10 times from prices today, as of November 9, 2017) in a year or so.
Vertcoin is one of the few coins that can legitimately compete with bitcoin. And many argue that its system is better due to its more decentralized nature (remember, the more decentralized a coin is, the more secure it is).
And due to the fact that more people can mine it, it should continue to grow organically as word spreads among miners, investors and their friends.
Disclosure: I own Vertcoin. I currently have no plans to sell and will only do so after I have told members to sell.
Recommendation No. 3: Ark (ARK)
Crypto ticker: ARK
Market cap of circulating coins: $350 million
Price at recommendation: $3.50
Circulating coins: 97 million
Total coins: 140 million
Recommended exchange: Bittrex.com
Ark is a truly impressive young blockchain platform. Like our other recommendations, it has its own cryptocurrency unit built into the platform (ARK). This is what we’re recommending you buy.
Ark is one of the fastest and most efficient cryptocurrencies. It generates new blocks roughly every eight seconds (compared to bitcoin’s 10 minutes). This means lightning-fast transactions. It is also far more energy-efficient than most cryptocurrencies.
But Ark is much more than a simple cryptocurrency. It is a highly flexible platform for building applications which can connect to other blockchains (like bitcoin or Ethereum) and applications. I believe exactly these types of developments will form the basis of our next monetary system.
Ark is also building its own smart contract platform, which it refers to as the Virtual Machine project. This will be somewhat similar to Ethereum and opens up a huge opportunity in distributed applications.
There is too much on Ark’s roadmap to cover entirely here, but here are some highlights…
- NFC technology for wearables and other hardware applications
- Point-of-sale hardware for merchants
- Push-button deployable blockchains for private use
- Debit-like cards that can spend crypto via Ark
- Mobile wallets (Android/iPhone).
One of my favorite things about Ark is its team of developers. It’s an extremely experienced core team, including the former lead developer of Lisk, a highly regarded crypto platform. They do a great job communicating with the community and are hard at work upgrading this powerful young platform.
Ark has a unique “consensus mechanism” which I believe is superior to older coins like bitcoin. A consensus mechanism is how disputes about upgrades are settled.
Ark has a fascinating delegate system. Fifty-one delegates are elected to run “nodes” which process trades, forge new coins and settle transactions. Delegates are elected from within the Ark community. Every wallet with a balance gets votes in proportion to their Ark holdings.
Delegates then share their transaction proceeds with their voters (an 80% profit share is typical). So there’s an incentive for users to vote for a delegate who has a good reputation, has demonstrated the technical knowledge and hardware to run it, and is trustworthy overall. There is also a system for removing troublemaking nodes.
As you can probably tell by now, Ark is a truly impressive project. It is building a blockchain ecosystem with tremendous potential.
The community aspects of Ark are what makes this coin truly stand out to me. On social media site Reddit.com, there is a thriving Ark community of over 9,000 members. Here’s a picture of recent discussions…
Ark users are involved, proactive and all working to help make Ark a revolutionary platform and cryptocurrency.
The elegant “delegated proof-of-stake” governance system it has designed is working. It’s the best one I’ve seen in crypto. And, as we’ve seen with all the drama surrounding bitcoin upgrades, governance is important. Bitcoin is missing a dispute resolution system while Ark has one built in from the start.
You can learn how to vote with Ark on the official site here.
By buying Ark coins, you’ll be a participant in this system. Now, you don’t have to get involved unless you want to. But I encourage you to explore the system and see what it can do. The more we get involved with our portfolio companies, the better we’ll all do.
And by voting for a delegate, you’ll be receiving a share of his or her Ark rewards. This can earn holders up to 8% per year in additional Ark. You can find a list of delegates and more information about finding a good one here.
Consistent Upgrades
Ark developers are constantly working on improving the code that runs their platform and cryptocurrency. They “ship” new upgrades regularly, do extensive testing before anything goes live and make the code open source so it can be audited by other blockchain experts.
Here’s a screenshot of their GitHub repository. This is simply the directory of open-source code that makes Ark work. As you can see, there is very active development happening. Real issues are being resolved, and new development tickets are being processed. This is a fantastic signal, and helps convince me that this coin has a bright future…
Buying and Storing
Buy on Bittrex.com (guide coming)
Cold (Offline) Storage
Ark can be stored on the Ledger Nano S, a hardware wallet that allows you to keep your coins offline. This is arguably the most secure way to store coins long term.
We’ll do a video soon on how to store Ark and other coins on the Ledger Nano S.
Disclosure: I own Ark. I currently have no plans to sell and will only do so after I have told members to sell.
Final Note
As I mentioned in my presentation, the total global currency market is around $80.9 trillion. To put that in to perspective… capturing only 0.2% of this market would give OmiseGo an estimated $161.8 billion valuation. A 22,000% gain from its current valuation – about the same as I’ve seen from the 68 ICOs I’ve studied.
Taking advantage of just our first moonshot recommendation (OmiseGo) could put you on the way to being the next crypto millionaire.
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We have some extremely promising recommendations in the pipeline. Stay tuned.