The last year in the world of cryptocurrency has been that of hatred and anger. It all began during a massive bull run in December of 2017 where people first became excited by amazing gains and quickly became blinded by greed and shortly thereafter they were devastated by massive losses in capital. Many of these people joined the world of crypto at the peak, invested everything they had, and lost it all (or close to all of it). Following the initial drop there was still hope. But it slowly began to get worse. The price stopped going up and only continued it’s downward spiral. People on social media became cold and angry. Rightfully so, they lost a lot of money with promises of riches from their friends and large crypto twitter accounts.

One major difference that I’ve noticed between this year and last is the focus on price over product/adoption. Bitmex went parabolic and shorting Bitcoin became the new cool thing to do. Twitter went from talk about technology and adoption to charts, TA, FA, shorting, longing and host of many other unproductive things. Of course this is natural in any market, but when you only focus on the price you lose sight of why many people invested in the first place.

The crypto world has been burnt to the ground, as it has before. But just like before, it still breathes life. With each crash comes pain. But that pain coincides with a cleansing of sorts. Cleansing of scams and fake projects looking to steal your money and taint the water. These projects can not afford to live with prices so low. High prices were their only way of survival. But what happens after a forest is burnt down? It regrows bigger and stronger. Who survives? Only the strongest do. The ones who fight. The ones who keep pushing and building. They rise from the ashes stronger than ever.

Finally… let me get to my point. I’ve been watching social media from a distance as projects bash each other. But then I look at the KIN Foundation and their community of loyalists. They sit by and quietly root for their favorite project. Why? Because they know something that others don’t. They know what KIN Foundation is doing. They know what they are building. And almost every day we are seeing something new from them. New updates, new partnerships, new features to apps. Millions of users have joined the KIN ecosystem over the past month via an assortment of cool apps. Some of these apps have 1000s of users and some have millions. It’s growing slowly, but it’s growing. While other projects struggle find a use case for their blockchain, KIN continues learn and grow. Just like every single cryptocurrency project out there, KIN was burnt to ground. But the difference is that they never stopped fighting for their vision. They continue to rise from the ashes. They continue to push for real users and adoption. They don’t worry about large exchanges because they aren’t ready for massive price speculation. Some don’t understand this, but many do, including myself. Mark my words, KIN will shine in 2019 and there is nothing anyone can do to stop it.