2018 is the year of regulation! We have experienced a lot of changes already. As of January 1st the United States is taxing every cryptocurrency trade. The state-level SEC has been sending cease and desist letters to Ponzi style cryptocurrency platforms. And now the SEC has ICOs in their targets. What frustrates me is they want to regulate something they don't even recognize as a currency.
Something else you are going to start seeing is an increase of investments into privacy coins due to all of this regulation. I will be doing a video on what are the best privacy coins and what kind of future to expect from them. With all this regulation and Bitcoin not truly being private its a very safe assumption to say start looking into things like Monero and Zencash.
Take a look at my DTube video to see what the SEC has released.
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