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Revainrating 5 out of 5

A coin to hold, for sure.

A coin to hold, for sure.

Pros
  • Its korean and koreans love technology.
Cons
  • Its not full implemented yet.

Though on the surface, it's natural to want to jump ahead to find a way to connect all these blockchain projects, I think we're getting way ahead of ourselves when we haven't even seen exactly how blockchains are going to impact our lives. It's clear blockchain will change everything, but it's not clear exactly how, and until then I worry about investing too much in a project whose main purpose is to join together blockchains that we're not sure have clear purpose in their current form...and…

Pros
  • They have a long-running blockchain to build on (theLoop) and being in Korea is a huge advantage as I think they'll have the most aggressive adoption of the technology, citing their ranking in the connected technology world rankings (#1 in 2015 & 2016). I think there's a lot of positivity around the project.
Cons
  • The issue at the core of bringing together blockchains is dealing with the liquidity problem of different coins. How can you write transactions between various blockchains if there aren't enough coins available to convert ICX into any other currency? Solving this problem is the key IMO, and how to build other infrastructure on top of that is a far simpler problem to solve...and ICO has just delegated solving that problem to Bancor (originally) and now Kyber Network! They're handing off the most innovative part of the problem to another project to deal with! Once you fix the issue of communicating cross-chain, I don't even know if we'll need a set system for everything else since any blockchain could really build mechanisms like governance or extend some of their own project's principles to apply to the global community. I am always suspicious of any BFT-based consensus protocol too since this creates the need for trust within the system, and the hope that you can have less than 1/3 of the network be bad actors...it just seems like centralizing around a smaller number of delegates and leaving yourself vulnerable to attack by a lesser number of nodes than would be needed to take over something like bitcoin (51%). I also feel trying to connect all the blockchains together before we even know all the ways blockchain can help us as a civilization is putting the cart before the horse...we're not even sure all the ways we're going to adopt blockchain technology, so why are we trying to connect all the blockchains together already? What if we end up just having every app in the world be on Ethereum, and running any other node is pointless? What it public blockchains only deal with certain kinds of financial markets and otherwise we have private blockchains that aren't willing to interact directly with other blockchains?

Revainrating 5 out of 5

keeper for sure

keeper for sure

Pros
  • strong project
Cons
  • not much buzz around it compared to the other coins

I hope to see this coin having much more attention than now, stay tuned, It might surprise everybody.

Pros
  • This coin is how I like to call it "The block-chain of block-chains" at first glance their whitepaper is not that easy to understand, but when doing enough effort to do so, it comes as the brilliant idea it is for future block-chain based technologies .
Cons
  • Nothing that comes to my mind yet

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Icon is a keeper!! :)

Icon is a keeper!! :)

Pros
  • one of the biggest and most promising blockchain projects, implementing lots of new and innovative technologies into it and it has a potential, check out their website and watch their introductory video. Also got a great team working on it.
Cons
  • none that I got to know about.