At the beginning of December, SUB was trading around $0.30. Last week, the FCC repealed net neutrality, and SUB responded with a 100% price appreciation. SUB is currently consolidating around $0.60, with a market cap of ~$140,000,000.
Despite the negative aspects of the net neutrality repeal, it really couldn't have come at a better time for SUB investors. Substratum is set to launch their public beta sometime in the next two weeks, and V1 will come soon after in January.
Substratum's platform has far reaching implications when it comes to defeating censorship. In the USA, Substratum may be able to combat the effects of net neutrality. Traffic on the Substratum network is disguised as generic HTTP/TCP data packets. Thus, ISPs will not be able to identify, filter, and throttle specific traffic based on packet signatures. Unless ISPs implement a "whitelist only" method of throttling, they will not be able to filter traffic on the Substratum network.
VPNs are popular and a necessity in many countries around the world including China, Russia, and Iran. The problem with centralized VPNs is that they can be easily blocked by governments. I lived in China for a few months last year, and I had to switch VPN services three times during that time period because servers kept on getting blocked.
As Substratum nodes go live on the network, VPNs may end up becoming obsolete. Users will be able to use SubstratumNode to freely and anonymously surf the web through other nodes on the network. Here's the thing though... if you're running SubstratumNode, you will also get paid in SUB for serving requests to other users on the network.
Yes, that's right. Why pay a monthly fee for a VPN if you can use SubstratumNode instead? Lastly, SUB holders can "stake" their tokens for higher payouts.
Does this all sound exciting to you? Are you interested in running a node?
You're in luck. Substratum is NOT vaporware despite what SHIFT fanboys like to FUD about. There have been two successful alpha tests, and the beta will be available before December 31. Once again, V1 will launch in January.
Here's the takeaway.
- Substratum has a real and necessary use case.
- Successful alpha tests. Beta incoming. V1 in January.
- Rumored Bittrex listing "soon".
- 60-100 million coin burn after Bittrex listing. The coin burn will not affect the circulating supply, but it does ensure the devs will not be able to dump on the market (not that they would anyway).
With all of the above points in mind, I expect SUB to reach a price of $1.50 in January following a successful platform launch.