Unraveling cyber•Fund

This month Dima wrote a post that gives answers about the future of cyber•Fund. The full post is in our blog.

cyber•Fund Development

Today we are happy to release a preview of a cyber•Fund Rating page:

At this point of time it is just a page with some necessary data about blockchain assets. But it could help you to navigate in a world of cryptoassets. We know how to make this tool even more useful for you, but would appreciate your feedback and suggestion at our community forum — cyber•Talks.

Crowdfunding Monitor

Neucoin. In a cyber•Fund newsletter #7 we talked about Neucoin. We invested in it 0.6 BTC. Its crowdsale was amazing. 100M neucoins were sold for 3,637 bitcoins in just 3 days. We congratulate Neucoin Team with such a success, and now are waiting for a launch.

Factom. Congratulation to the team. 4,379,973 factoids were sold for 2,278 bitcoins during 2 month crowdsale.

Synereo. AMP’s distribution is complete. 45,439,378 amps were sold for $126,023. After burning 139,360,622 unsold tokens there are 1,860,639,378 amps that are traded now on MasterXchange, but trade volumes are very low. I think that listing on Poloniex exchange will certainly add activity.

La’Zooz’s crowdsale will start in 10 days. We wish success to the team and we’ll talk more about the project in the following posts.

Augur is another project that will make a crowdsale via Koinify. Start date has not been set yet. We’ll talk more about the project in the near future.

Private Equity 2013

Last month we lost money (-1,7 BTC and -370$ in USD).

Portfolio Month Performance:

Portfolio vs Bitcoin, Performance in 2015, USD

Performance in 2015, BTC

More details you could find in the Google Spreadsheet.

Disruptive News

May 11, 2015: Nasdaq launched blockchain technology initiative

Nasdaq launched enterprise-wide blockchain technology initiative using Open Assets Protocol. Congratulation to colored coins, Open Assets Protocol has chances of becoming an industry protocol for corporate securities.

Bob Greifeld, CEO, Nasdaq:

Utilizing the blockchain is a natural digital evolution for managing physical securities. Once you cut the apron strings of need for the physical, the opportunities we can envision blockchain providing stand to benefit not only our clients, but the broader global capital markets.

May 18, 2015: Bitcoin wallet privacy rating report is revealed.

It is a first really professional report that compares 10 most popular Bitcoin wallets on privacy. As you can see, the most private is Darkwallet which scored really high. The lowest ranking wallet is Coinbase wallet.

May 18, 2015: 21inc announced plans to put a bitcoin miner in every device.

21inc is more interested in Bitcoin as a protocol than financial instrument. They developed a mining chip that could be put into any internet-connected device and start generating a continuous production of tokens for a use in a wide variety of applications.

21 Inc. — Investor Slides

Balaji S. Srinivasan quote:

“Conceptually, we believe that embedded mining will ultimately establish bitcoin as a fundamental system resource on par with CPU, bandwidth, hard drive space, and RAM.”

New Shiny Blog and Monthly Newsletter

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Vitaliy delivers weekly investment news here. Dima reports on cyber•Fund and blockchain development. Kostya reviews blockchain marketing activities and Marina informs on fundraising news. Also, don’t forget that we love to tweet!

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Reported: @cybermonetarist, @21xhipster, @creat0r;

Prepared: @creat0r; Edited: @mguryeva