Hodling Experiment: Committing To Blockchain Technology Through Cryptocurrency
This post was originally published on my Medium blog and can be found here . I hope you enjoy and find this helpful! It’s been quite a roller-coaster the past year, hasn’t it? At the beginning of 2017 , the price of Bitcoin was $962.48 , now $10,009.20 ; Ethereum was $8.19 , now $756.70 ; Litecoin was $4.36 , now $186.73 ; and NEO was $0.14 , now $100.83 . It’s not wonder we’ve seen such a mass exodus from the world of FinTech to the crypto markets, thankfully. Not only that, but 2017 was the year that Bitcoin truly went viral. Meaning, most human beings have now heard of Bitcoin as the cryptocurrency. Over this time, we have seen many corporations begin to partner with projects that conducted an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) , real companies . So much so that the ecommerce behemoth, Overstock, is running an ICO — people are waking up. So are the world governments. Though anybody in ...