Dear Friend,
I hope you have been well and have stayed warm throughout the Crypto Winter!
Bitcoin hit $4000 again today, and Spring might be just around the corner. It could be time for a move back into the market.
But it's important to invest carefully and based on good research as this may be a short-term upswing. So, we want to make sure we invest in strong projects that will be around in the long term.
You may already be very familiar with our content, but in this quick introductory email I will show you how to make the best use of our site and our various research products.
First I'd like to share a little about what we do, why we do it, and why you can trust that we are on your side.
Profits Are The By-Product Of Great Research
This may be shocking to you, but most cryptocurrency investors make investments based on little or no research. Or even worse, they invest based on malicious, self-interested, or biased sources of information.
With over $130B USD in the crypto market today, bad actors have a lot to gain by distorting the truth or outright lying.
The fact is, unlike other mature asset classes, digital assets are so new that there is still very little regulation in existence to root out the scammers.
Don't just take my word for it.
Here is a list of "media" companies who were caught by a Breaker mag journalist, Corin Faife. He found that these outlets were willing to disguise ads as real news or research - an outrageous breach of readers' trust.
And these are ONLY the ones that got caught!
The bottom line is, doing your research and implementing proper due diligence will set you apart from the 99% of the investors out there. So give yourself a pat on the back for investing your time in good research today.
YOU ARE ALREADY IN THE TOP 1% OF CRYPTO INVESTORS!
We Have Been There & Have Seen the Worst
My Co-Founder, Jon Rice, and I met in a Telegram group in June of 2017 when we were doing research on various projects, sharing ideas and comparing notes on potential crypto investments.
Jon mentioned a project he had read about, that he liked and was looking to invest in - but he wanted a second set of eyes on it.
At first it looked like an exciting project and seemed to be worthy investment. Then we looked a bit deeper.
It took us three days of digging to realize it was a scam. Three days! How many casual investors have that kind of time to put into investigating a project?
THAT'S WHEN WE REALIZED SOMETHING HAD TO BE DONE.
Why You Can Trust Us
We started Crypto Briefing in 2017 because we were sick of seeing investors getting duped by ICO scams and investing in worthless coins and their grandiose promises. I have a background in economics and start-ups, Jon has a background in financial publishing and education... so we pooled our resources.
We began publishing our research on projects we were examining. The reality is that doing research and real due diligence takes a lot of time - seriously, a whole ton.
So we figured if we did the work already, we might as well share it for the world to see.
And for the past two years we have published all of our research and insights - for free - in the spirit of transparency, honesty and independence.
OUR NO ADVERTISEMENTS AND NO "SPONSORED CONTENT" POLICY
The shills have offered us a lot of money over the last two years to promote their products. But we decided we would never be tempted to compromise our editorial or research integrity... so we turned them down. Every last one. On one day in late 2017, we turned down two offers which, together, were worth almost $100k in Bitcoin.
That's how serious we are about our integrity.
We believe we are the ONLY crypto media company in the world that does this. (Yes, even some you might not suspect...)
We would have been perfectly fine doing this, day-in and day-out on a small scale, because we believe in the future of blockchain technology and its ability to change the world.
But fortunately for us, and our readers, our efforts did not go unnoticed - and the entire industry caught on to what we were doing.
In September of 2018 some of the world's largest blockchain funds encouraged us to open a round of financing to scale up, big time.
We closed a seed round of investment for $2M from funds like:
- Youbi Capital (one of the largest crypto mining funds in the world)
- Fenbushi Capital (one of the oldest and most prestigious blockchain funds in the world)
- DHVC (a top Silicon Valley Venture Capital fund known for their focus on fintech investments)
- NGC (one of the largest blockchain funds based in Asia)
Several other prominent funds joined in on the round as well, you can see our announcement of the raise here.
Soon after our raise, Binance.com, the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the world, began publishing our research for all their users. You can find our reports published on Binance here. And by staying positive about our industry while others try to tear it down, we've built hundreds of important relationships with people and companies across the entire crypto ecosystem.
As I'm writing this, there are now 18 people working on research and stories here at Crypto Briefing. We're one of the most respected pure crypto media outlets in the world, for the simple reason that we have a clear and simple mission:
"We advocate for the safe and responsible integration of cryptocurrency and blockchain technology into everyday life."
Now that you understand where we came from and why we do what we do, let's get started…
Our Editorial Content
We have put together a world-class editorial team that covers breaking news and everything happening in the world of crypto.
We cover an incredible breadth of stories - for example, we tracked down a rogue founder who claimed to have disappeared with $50M of investors' money (he later said it was a prank!)
We've broken market-moving news on IBM and Stellar, correctly predicted imminent listings on Coinbase, were the first to report that Bitcoin ETFs had been delayed, and we introduced our readers to Grin Coin - months before it was released.
Our investigative journalists dig in deep and interview key figures to find out what's really making market news in crypto, and to explain how blockchain is changing the world.
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Research on Listed Tokens – DARE (Digital Asset Report & Evaluation)
Over the past 12 months we have seen the crypto currency market shrink from $800B to now just over $130B. But that is no surprise and we have seen this before.
That's a chart of the Nasdaq Composite Index from 1992 to 2017. We watched the dot-com bubble burst and along with it all of the tech companies listed on the Nasdaq plummet in value.
Most of these companies disappeared and went bankrupt and only a handful survived. But those that did went on and made their investors billions in profits.
Companies like Cisco, Amazon, eBay, Priceline, Adobe, Intuit, Oracle and many others took short term hits on their stock price but came around and became hugely successful companies.
The same will happen to (some) currently listed cryptocurrency projects. Most will die off and eventually get delisted from exchanges. We are seeing a lot of that happening right now.
The ones that survive will end up dominating the market and their respective niches.
BUT HOW DO YOU PICK OUT THE WINNERS?
The short answer is, RESEARCH. Lots and lots of research.
But research takes a great deal of time and resources.
This is why we created DARE... the Digital Asset Report and Evaluation framework.
We have dedicated a full team of peerless crypto analysts who comb through the market and research listed projects, talking to their leadership, and seeing if they have the merits to make it through the Crypto Winter and become the Amazons of the crypto world.
Our team puts hundreds of hours into each token report so you have a fantastic touchstone for your own research.
In the conclusion they determine the investability of each project, based on the long-term viability of the project, and they give it an investment rating.
HERE'S THE KICKER...
Unlike analysts that rate crypto projects relative to each other, that doesn't make sense to us.
It's entirely possible that very few of these projects have what it takes to compete against existing, centralized (non-blockchain) projects.
So when WE rate them, we compare them not only to existing blockchain projects but ALSO to existing traditional solutions.
Only those that have the technology, adoption and ability to disrupt centralized traditional solutions will survive over the long haul.
Does Bitcoin have the ability to compete with the Paypal/Venmo's of the world?
Does Ripple have a chance at disrupting bank to bank payments or the SWIFT network altogether?
Those are the real questions. Whether you invest in cryptocurrencies or blockchain projects is your choice - we want to help make it an informed one.
ACTION POINT: read all of our DARE reports for free here.
ICO Reviews and Code Reviews
While we think there may be some good discounts in secondary listed tokens, this was not always the case.
In 2017 and in early 2018 we were not investing in secondary listed tokens, because we felt their prices were extremely inflated and the projects were way overvalued.
We focused our investments on buying into ICOs. We were basically buying into projects at the very early stages... and then we waited for them to get listed on public exchanges to be traded and bought freely.
But investing in ICOs is an extremely high risk and dangerous game because many of the projects had (and still have) very little to show for the vast sums of money they raised. Small teams, little code, and usually no users, let alone revenue streams.
When evaluating these investments you really need to know what you are doing and have the resources to do proper due diligence. Even still, it is extremely risky.
Right now ICO profitability has cooled down significantly but every so often we still see some with good prospects. So keep an eye out for them.
You can find our ICO reviews here.
How We Walk The Walk
Some public blockchain projects open source their code for anyone to download and examine. But many of these early stage projects don't offer access to the public, for obvious reasons.
But without access to a project's code it is virtually impossible to know if the technology a project claims to be revolutionary actually IS!
For special situations as these new projects go to raise funds from major blockchain investors... in which case they will need to open up their private code base for audits and reviews.
And uniquely in the crypto world, they often make an exception for us as well.
So before we make an investment we typically send our in-house team of experts, led by world-renowned blockchain expert Andre Cronje, to review the code: to see if the team has in fact built what they say they have.
Therefore, you will see that many of our ICO reviews were accompanied by code reviews.
You can find our past code reviews here.
Your Feedback is Extremely Valuable to Us
I really hope that you gain a lot of valuable insight and knowledge from our content, as we do believe that education is the first step towards a new decentralized world - and especially to democratized finance.
I also hope that our various research products help you make smart investment decisions, and in turn make a decent profit.
If you do enjoy our content we only ask that you help share our content and spread the word about our research with your friends!
And finally, we really want to know how we can provide better content for your investment needs so please take 30 seconds to fill out this quick survey and give us some feedback on how we are doing.
Regards,
Han Kao
CEO / Founder
www.cryptobriefing.com
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