Best digital Assets to invest in 2019

 

Just like 2018, this year 2019 promises to be full of ups and downs for all cryptocurrencies. That means there's still an opportunity to create wealth — you just need to make the right choice. Due to the recent fluctuations in prices of bitcoin, traders' stakes turn the tables in favour of the alternate coins with a strong technical backup both in human intelligence and technological advancement. What are the best crypto-currencies to invest in 2019? Here are the most promising blockchain technologies and the companies behind them.

Bitcoin and Ethereum Investments; are they still the investors choice.

The chances that Bitcoin will make its previous 1,000% rise are slim: the cryptocurrency community admits that there are more technologically advanced alternatives to bitcoin presently. New altcoins pop up every day, and their developers keep surprising audiences with innovative features and the technological supremacy of their solutions to problems and challenges of life. Although the bearish tendency of the market seems to subside a little, no one can guarantee that the record high of usd20,000 Bitcoin price can still be broken.

What about Ethereum? It is still potent and promising, but there are many competitors coming up with more agile and sophisticated blockchains. Some companies are already shifting from Ethereum to Neo and platforms alike.

1 EOS

Of all Ethereum's competitors in the cryptocurrency space, EOS seems to be the most technologically advanced platform challenging Ethereum. Why? First and foremost, it removes the main barrier for developers — the Solidity language (it's the only means of programming in Ethereum). Instead of it, EOS users have access to databases and instruments along with other numerous services, which means no knowledge of programming languages is required at all.

To top it off, EOS is more flexible compared to many other similar platforms: no gas fees are charged because 21 gatekeepers process the transactions. The coin isn't mined; it's produced by certain users elected by the community. Has all the chances to become an advanced, popular blockchain platform, so don't miss the opportunity to buy it for as low as $1.68.

2. Ripple: The Next Coin after Bitcoin

Slowly but steadily, Ripple has made its way to the second largest cryptocurrency by market cap after Bitcoin. However, this coin works with completely different principles. Ripple was created for the usage of large financial institutions rather than individual users: this cryptocurrency serves to facilitate cross-border payments, making them strikingly fast and cheap (a transaction costs a fraction of cent). Ripple Labs received huge support from corporate investors (such as Google), and now this cryptocurrency is being introduced by Asian banks and financial institutions around the world. Ripple it is expected to reach the $1 threshold in the nearest future — its current price is $0.29.

3 Stellar Lumens: Makes the Perks of Ripple Available to a Wide Audience

Unlike Ripple, Stellar is designed to facilitate cross-border payments for individual users. While such payment processing giants as PayPal charge 5% fees for transactions, Stellar has only a $0.01 fee for six hundred thousand transactions.The processing speed is 5 seconds per transaction, which is quite low. Moreover, the platform solves the issue of energy consumption that plagues Bitcoin and a few other blockchains. The proprietary Stellar Consensus Protocol is used to process operations instead of Proof of Work. The Stellar team has already partnered up with a few tech top dogs, such as IBM, so it enjoys enormous support from corporate investors.

4. Tron

Why consider TRX? TRON recently acquired BitTorrent, which allows for developing safe decentralized torrenting methods in the future. For example, such innovations can help us to distribute files across a network and re-assemble them for user downloading at receiving ends.

Another one of TRON’s advantage is that it’s one of a few ERC20 tokens that have made it to MainNet. Although TRON’s growth isn’t as rapid as Ethereum’s, it has 300,000 accounts so far. At the moment, 1 TRX is worth $0.013, so it’s a good investment for traders and investors with a very low budget.

5. Litecoin One of Bitcoin’s main alternatives, Litecoin has made it to the Top-10 cryptocurrencies by market cap: it has reached a $1.45 billion capitalization and now is the 9th coin on the list. LTC has the average block mining time of 2.5 minutes against Bitcoin’s 10 minutes. Besides, it’s one of the big four on. It has 84 million coins in supply compared to bitcoin’s 21 million supply, it has 2016 block with a SCRIYPT Hasing algorithm while bitcoin has same 2016 blocks but with an SHA 256D  Hasing algorithm. While Bitcoin was created by satoshi Nakamoto, litcoin is created by Charles Lee.

While Bitcoin requires 95% of miners to signal that they support SegWit for activation, Litecoin requires only 75%. The lowering of the consensus threshold makes it easier for Litecoin to attract active investors. At the moment, Litecoin costs $26.15 — it’s been through ups and downs lately, but the cryptocurrency investors and users still believe it has great potential.

6. IOTA

IOTA cryptocurrency was designed for the Internet of Things. It has four key advantages over other coins:

• It’s scalable.
• It’s fully decentralized.
• Users aren’t charged fees.
• It’s modular.

The technological secret underlying IOTA’s success is the system called Tangle. While Bitcoin uses a blockchain environment to maintain the ledger, IOTA’s Tangle is a directed acyclic graph (DAG). Such a system solves the problems of scalability and transaction fees. The sender performs some kind of proof of work and approves two transactions. Thus, the higher the number of users is, the faster transaction speed they can enjoy. To top it off, IOTA has a lot of applications.

Considering the fact that the number of Internet-driven devices is expected to reach 30 bln gadgets by 2020, and the market cap will be around $7.1 trillion, IOTA has a lot of potential, even though there’s a serious competitor – the IOTW startup.

IOTA has a high transaction speed with a DAG chain structure, with microtransactions as its token usability. Its IOT Applications is in microcomputers, with a demo micro mining code. IOTA has a high potential for growth and huge returns on investment due to its scalability and its free charges that may be a good bait to users.

7. BAT

Basic Attention Token (BAT) was founded by tech specialists from all over the world. This token is designed for content creators, publishers, their audience, and advertisers. For example, users can donate to content creators in BAT currency, or get BAT rewards for watching advertisements. BAT is supposed to be used in the Brave browser, which repels malware and protects users’ privacy while surfing the web. With this browser, users will enjoy the content they like without annoying ads and ISPs selling their personal information.

At the moment, BAT is worth $0.14. The cryptocurrency is expected to start growing in a year or so.

8. Zcash

Even those who don’t use the darknet for making purchases will definitely like the idea behind Zcash: this blockchain is created for people who want their transactions to remain private. That adds the value to the coin from an investment standpoint, and it will only grow as the darknet continues evolving. Recently, the team has introduced technical improvements that will reduce the memory consumption of transaction privacy by 98%.

Add to that such facts as:

• Coinbase recently called Zcash one of the coins with great potential.
• Users’ transaction data can be revealed selectively.
• Due to some similarities with Bitcoin, Zcash can become a store of value down the road.

At the moment, Zcash costs $59.5 and is the 19th cryptocurrency in the global rating.

9. Monero

A great alternative to Zcash, Monero is also used in the darknet market (for this reason, Coinbase isn’t likely to add it soon). The Monero blockchain boasts thought-through transaction schemes that involve ring signatures and stealth addresses that keep transactions private. Like Bitcoin, Monero also has the proof of work verification standard: it means there’s always value behind XMR. Aside from that, Monero has strong community support because it’s based on the principles of decentralization and privacy — those are the key values for investors and traders.

Monero’s key advantages are as follows:

1. It has a superior mining algorithm. It’s designed so that ASICs wouldn’t have much technological superiority over usual computers owned by average users. It means would be simple to mine by its user. Due to the absence of an entry barrier, Monero attracts more participants to fuel its development.
2. Adaptive block size limit. Monero blocks are produced every 2 minutes, and the adaptive block size limit means that users will be automatically able to handle the future increase of transactions by expanding the block size automatically.
3. I2P protects users from passive network monitoring, so nobody can say whether you use Monero at all.

The 12th cryptocurrency by market cap, Monero (XMR) costs $46.6. Monero has a potential for value appreciation with a huge army of  are over 180 contributors supporting it’s blockchain,

10. Skycoin

The blockchain behind Skycoin was designed to replace Bitcoin and Ethereum altogether. It has a well-developed infrastructure that serves the following purpose:

• Skycoin will replace Bitcoin.
• Fiber – a scalable and highly customizable parallel peer-chain platform – will replace Ethereum.
• Skywire – the new decentralized Internet, a wireless mesh network where users are rewarded for exploiting it. It is meant to replace MPLS, IPv4/IPv6, OpenFlow, Tor, I2P.
• Skyminer – the hardware that drives a decentralized Internet. Participants are paid for providing bandwidth, storage, and CPU power.
• CXO – P2P cloud storage service that serves the distributed network of Skywire. It will replace IPFS, FileCoin, Mega, Bittorrent Dropbox, and Google Drive.

Aside from it, the Sky-Messenger will be an analog of Telegram, Skype, Wechat, and WhatsApp, while BBS is meant to replace Twitter, Facebook, and Steemit.

All in all, the Skycoin project can become a great alternative to the traditional Internet. At the moment, Skycoin costs $0.92, and it might become one of your wisest investments in 2019.

The Strategies to Choose Cryptocurrencies to Invest in

How to choose reliable and promising coins for investment? Here are a few recommendations for making smart investments:

1. Opt for ICOs. This is one of the easiest ways to multiply your riches. For example, had you invested in Neo’s crowdsale, your return would currently be 160,000%, or 5,000% for Populous, or 4,000% for OmiseGo — well, you see that ROI may be astronomic. However, many ICO’s fail, so you should research thoroughly.
2. If you missed your chance to invest in an ICO, check out exchanges that are less popular. You can invest once the coin hits the market. During this time, there’s usually a short spike followed by a dump once investors seek short-term gains. This is a great opportunity to buy coins you’re interested in for a low price. Cryptopia and IDEX are perfect places to search for such types of coins.
3. Track and time important events. This is a short-term strategy and should mostly be used by experienced traders. It’s not a secret that the price of a cryptocurrency rises after some partnership announcements or tech introductions. You can buy cryptocurrency cheaper and sell it for a higher price.
4. Be in the know. There are thousands of cryptocurrencies that have already hit the market and thousands coming soon. You never know which gems you can stumble upon. Keep tabs on cryptocurrency news, research new projects, follow up information on cryptocurrencies .timely information is a key factor in the cryptocurrency space– knowledge is power, just as taking a decision to invest in one of the most crucial steps to making it big. Wishers don’t have a share but regret.

THE FACT REMAINS THAT…

Cryptocurrency has come to stay, and a strong revolution about wealth and investment has come. Disrupting long existing systems and restrictions that in most climes shielded the wealthy and mighty players in the strive for wealth. There are still lots of opportunities to invest in cryptocurrencies that can potentially make you 10-100x returns. However, as you may know, cryptocurrencies are very volatile. So before making a move, do your due diligence: research the cryptocurrency, blockchain, and development team behind any currency you want to invest in before you put your money. Seek the advice of investment experts for a guide on the future value potentials of currencies. If you really believe in the fundamentals of the token, the timeframe doesn’t matter. Once you buy the cryptocurrency, get all your patience(the investor mindset) and wait for when it gets listed on a major exchange.