Just as Netscape’s IPO marked the real kick-off for the internet era, 2017 will be the starting gun for broad involvement of venture, hedge funds, and eventually average consumers in cryptocurrencies and related protocols and assets.
The recent run up in cryptocurrency valuations has caused a sudden and profound renewal of interest by entrepreneurs and investors in crypto. In December 2013 there was a similar spike of interest in Bitcoin. At the time, there was a 10-times run up and…