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Ex-Goldman Exec Sees Better Days Ahead for Crypto as Institution-Focused Crypto Brokerage Launches

Ex-goldman exec sees better days ahead for crypto as institution-focused crypto brokerage launches

Ex-Goldman Exec Sees Better Days Ahead for Crypto as Institution-Focused Crypto Brokerage Launches


Ex-goldman exec sees better days ahead for crypto as institution-focused crypto brokerage launches
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Ex-goldman exec sees better days ahead for crypto as institution-focused crypto brokerage launches
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Despite the price declines that cryptocurrencies have endured this year, an ex-Goldman Sachs executive is still optimistic about the future of digital assets.

Greg Tusar, who is a former global head of electronic trading at the New York-based financial giant, likened the current state of the crypto market to the ‘early days of trading equities electronically’, according to Bloomberg. Consequently, Tusar sees huge opportunities for entrepreneurs in the space:

“It’s early stage, there’s a lot of opportunity to build great businesses and have impact.”

Evidently, Tusar has taken his own advice and is the co-founder of Tagomi Holdings, a live electronic crypto brokerage which launched recently. The startup has received the backing of among others Founders Fund, a venture capital firm that counts billionaire Peter Thiel among its key people.

Institutional Investors

According to Tusar, who doubles up as the startup’s chief technology officer, the live electronic crypto brokerage will offer sophisticated execution and transparency that wealth management firms and top family offices require in order for them to invest in digital assets:

“Tagomi applies proven electronic trading solutions that these sophisticated investors have come to expect, and removes the operational hurdles commonly associated with digital asset investing.”

Tusar is not alone in expressing optimism for cryptocurrencies despite the bearish conditions. Earlier this month, the CEO of Circle Jeremy Allaire predicted that the prices of cryptocurrencies will rocket in the next 36 months.

While he didn’t mention a specific price for bitcoin, Allaire revealed that he was betting for the price to go up:

“I don’t make significant price predictions. But it’s certainly going to be worth a great deal more than it’s worth today. I am long in the market.”

Growing Adoption

Another perennial optimist has been the founder of Fundstrat Global Advisors, Tom Lee, who recently argued that the current prices for cryptocurrencies were unjustified as the adoption had greatly increased with the number of crypto wallets having risen dramatically.

Last month, the chief executive of cryptocurrency investment firm Galaxy Digital, Mike Novogratz, also expressed optimism about the future of the space. While giving his price prediction for bitcoin, Novogratz stated that the next rally will be driven by institutional investors:

“There’s going to be a case of institutional FOMO [fear of missing out], just like there was in retail.”

Founders of the Gemini cryptocurrency exchange, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss are the other big names in crypto who see better days ahead. The twins have gone on to back their views by continuing to release new products amidst the bearish conditions including a mobile app for their Gemini crypto exchange saying that “We think it’s a space that’s here to stay.”

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Published at Tue, 18 Dec 2018 14:29:11 +0000

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In an increasingly growing market, bitcoin market share dominance is fading every day of 2017. As market fears of a hard fork continue to fester, a manic Monday saw bitcoin drop under $1,000, as altcoins grow stronger than ever before.


Why don’t we start with some good news first? The overall decentralized digital currency market has never been bigger and stronger, judged by market capitalization value

Since the start of 2017 alone, the overall industry has risen from $18.2 Billion USD in value to a peak of $26.2 billion USD on March 16th, according to CoinMarketCap. As of this morning, it is $23.5 billion, still an improvement of almost 30% since the first of the year.

THE ALTCOINS ARE COMING!

Clearly, the market fears of a hard fork are causing many to diversify their digital currency portfolio over the last month or so. Ethereum’s Ether is the largest altcoin on the market, and its value has taken another jump this morning. With Bitcoin down almost 7% on Friday morning, Ethereum is picking up the slack, up almost 15%.

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Ethereum’s gain may be two-fold, with some Bitcoiners moving in and also with the announcement of their newest partnership with Brave yesterday. As we reported yesterday, Ethereum will create BAT (Basic Attention Tokens) for the Brave internet browser network to enhance the privacy and relevance of their ad network, so this new investment may be as much a pro-Ethereum move as an anti-bitcoin dump.

Dash & Ripple Bagholders Rejoice

Dash continues to show that it is the safe haven hedge to any bitcoin market fall. Every time bitcoin falls, Dash gains, and the altcoin passed $105 again this morning with a market cap eclipsing $750 Million. Ripple, the #4 altcoin in market cap, is also having a field day, as the week comes to an end. Ripple is gaining in the neighborhood of 20% on the market just within the last 24 hours.

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In closing, bitcoin has lost almost 20% of its global market share since January 1st, 2017, falling from 87.4% to just 68% this morning.

The half-glass-full was of looking at it is people are no longer taking their money out of the digital currency market if bitcoin stumbles. They are getting other digital currencies, which overall is a great thing.  the ecosystem is growing every day. And clearly, the mainstream is also investing more and more into the entire industry.

I’ll skip the pessimistic side of the equation. It’s Friday, people! Have a great weekend!

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