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2021 will undoubtedly bring new opportunities as CryptoQuant continues to expand amid a surge of interest in cryptocurrency worldwide. Ju has said that the goal for 2021 is to enable traders to conduct evidence-based research thanks to input from professionals including data scientists, machine learning scientists and developers. On-chain analytics is becoming increasingly relevant to a wider trading audience given Bitcoin’s rapid entry into the mainstream.

He also said that 2021 will see exchange control of the Bitcoin supply continue decreasing as supply and demand creates a shortfall of coins. Just like last year, price action will respond in kind. “I expect this trend to continue in 2021, and due to the decrease in BTC supply, the price of BTC is reasonably expected to align with the trend,” he told Cointelegraph. Another milestone for Bitcoin, said Ju, will be Bitcoin taking 8% of gold’s market capitalization, which also implies a Bitcoin price of more than $100,000.

Ju’s 2021:

2021 will undoubtedly bring new opportunities as CryptoQuant continues to expand amid a surge of interest in cryptocurrency worldwide. Ju has said that the goal for 2021 is to enable traders to conduct evidence-based research thanks to input from professionals including data scientists, machine learning scientists and developers. On-chain analytics is becoming increasingly relevant to a wider trading audience given Bitcoin’s rapid entry into the mainstream.

Ju’s 2020:

Like many in the Bitcoin analytics sphere, Ju had an action-packed 2020. With Bitcoin diving to price lows of $3,600 in March, only to finish December at near $30,000, the appetite for explanations and insights into Bitcoin price behavior was palpable. Ju presided over the scene as CryptoQuant charted trader habits and warned of incoming market ups and downs. Arguably among his most telling contributions was sounding the alarm, including to Cointelegraph, over exchange balances and miner selling when these signaled that a significant price move was on the way.

Biography:

Ki Young Ju, CEO of South Korean on-chain analytics resource CryptoQuant, is a relative newcomer to the cryptocurrency markets scene. Before starting CryptoQuant in 2019, Ju was a software engineer. His background prior to that was in analysis of a different kind, focusing on business. Ju began to increasingly hone in on the cryptocurrency sphere, with CryptoQuant aiming to provide indicators and tools for professional analysts and traders of Bitcoin, Ether and stablecoins.

Tapscott co-authored, with his father Don Tapscott, the 2016 book Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology Behind Bitcoin is Changing Money, Business, and the World.[7] The book became a The Globe and Mail as well as Toronto Star bestseller.[8] Financial Times reviewed the book and wrote "The Tapscotts provide a thorough, balanced and enlightening guide to the next big thing",.[1]

In October 2016, Tapscott gave his first TEDx Talk at TEDxSanFrancisco.[9] He currently sits on the Advisory Board to Elections Canada, the independent, non-partisan agency responsible for conducting federal elections and referendums.[10] He also serves as an advisory board member at early-stage start-ups, including Paycase [11] and nuco.[12]

In the summer of 2016, Tapscott co-convened a meeting of blockchain stakeholders in Muskoka, Ontario to discuss governance of the whole blockchain ecosystem.[13][14]

On November 5, 2017, he announced that NextBlock was forced to scrap IPO plans due to being dropped by their underwriter, CIBC, after the company is reported to have made false and misleading statements in its marketing materials.

Tapscott co-authored, with his father Don Tapscott, the 2016 book Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology Behind Bitcoin is Changing Money, Business, and the World.[7] The book became a The Globe and Mail as well as Toronto Star bestseller.[8] Financial Times reviewed the book and wrote "The Tapscotts provide a thorough, balanced and enlightening guide to the next big thing",.[1]

Tapscott was born in Toronto, Ontario and attended Upper Canada College.[3] He holds a BA in Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought from Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts where he graduated in 2008.[4]

Tapscott represented Canada as a member (and captain) of the Canadian Men's Rugby Under-21 Team in numerous tournaments in 2006 and 2007.

On June 12th, 2018, Alex Tapscott and Don Tapscott released a New Edition of Blockchain Revolution with over 25,000 words of new material on cryptoassets, smart-contracts, digital identity and more. Alex is a graduate of Amherst College (cum laude). He lives in Toronto, Canada.

In 2017, Alex co-founded (with Don Tapscott) the Blockchain Research Institute, a multi-million-dollar think-tank that is investigating blockchain strategies, opportunities and use-cases. In November of 2017, Alex and Don Tapscott were recognized with the Digital Thinking Award from Thinkers50, as part of their Distinguished Achievement Awards.

Alex Tapscott

is a globally-recognized writer, speaker, investor and advisor focused on the impact of emerging technologies, such as blockchain and cryptocurrencies, on business, society and government. He is the co-author (with Don Tapscott) of the critically acclaimed non-fiction best-seller, Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology Behind Bitcoin and Other Cryptocurrencies is Changing the World, which has been translated into more than 15 languages. His TedX San Francisco talk: Blockchain is Eating Wall Street has been viewed over 600,000 times.

Regarding Bitcoin, Schwartzer remains bullish for the year but notes that compared with its lows in March 2020 and April 2020, its price is still up over fivefold at the start of 2021. Thus, at the time of writing, she believes that the largest cryptocurrency is “overbought” in the near term and advises investors to check their volatility risk management for the coming year. A more sober outlook is reserved for Ether, the largest altcoin, which Schwartzer compares to the now-defunct supersonic airliner Concorde. Despite its technological prowess, Ethereum as a network may fail to bring its solutions to the mainstream in an appropriate manner. Instead, she says, it may end up “weighed down by its own complexity and lack of broad economic use.”

Schwartzer’s 2021:

With momentum behind cryptocurrency only accelerating in 2021, Schwartzer will likely see interest in understanding investment opportunities to continue growing. A current concern is the possibility of upcoming legal hurdles in the United States, where lawmakers seek to impose questionable monitoring and identification requirements on cryptocurrency companies and wallet holders. At the same time, as stocks continue their record-breaking climb amid ongoing dollar weakness, Cointelegraph predicts Schwartzer will have a lot to talk about.

Schwartzer’s 2020:

With Bitcoin and stocks on the rise throughout 2020, Schwartzer’s investment expertise saw continued demand. At the same time, her media contributions began to focus increasingly on the economic phenomena that characterized the year, among them the weakness of the U.S. dollar and the reentry of Bitcoin into mainstream consciousness on both the institutional and retail levels. Ria Bhutoria, director of research at Fidelity Digital Assets, named Schwartzer her “favorite Bitcoin bull of 2020.”