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I agree with your point and you completely forget to mentioned one more blockchain technology which is looking like real competitor for Ethereum is NEO more over its providing gas for holders . ADA is another project which really looking great . TRX still in its low value . The negative impact for TRX and ADA is huge supply.
You focus on tokens are now very successful tokens, but in my opinion, if you want to get higher profit, so you should pay attention to some new ICO tokens, because most of the new ICO tokens, does not have a big rise, so these tokens, there could be a bigger reward.
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You focus on tokens are now very successful tokens, but in my opinion, if you want to get higher profit, so you should pay attention to some new ICO tokens, because most of the new ICO tokens, does not have a big rise, so these tokens, there could be a bigger reward.
These are my personal choices: Bitcoin, Ethereum, Monero, Litecoin, Steemit, Komodo, IOTA, Vechain, Eos and NEO.
All these coins have very ambitious plans for future. Community loves to use them all.
All these coins have very ambitious plans for future. Community loves to use them all.
since i am a trader and because i am interested in making profit and not bag holding i prefer to watch the market instead of following some altcoins that have some fake market capitalization thanks to their huge premined supply like ethereum.
what i watch is the potential of a pump and whenever i find something like that i make my move and invest as much bitcoin in them as i think the risk management allows and enjoy the profit they give me in short term on my bitcoins.
i have tried bag holding big names before but it never worked for me. sometimes they get some pumps and give me some profit but in comparison that profit is too tiny and with a lot of risks.
what i watch is the potential of a pump and whenever i find something like that i make my move and invest as much bitcoin in them as i think the risk management allows and enjoy the profit they give me in short term on my bitcoins.
i have tried bag holding big names before but it never worked for me. sometimes they get some pumps and give me some profit but in comparison that profit is too tiny and with a lot of risks.
A very correct and good opinion about this list of crypto-currencies is really worth watching, but it also seems to me that there are still a lot of projects that will really look very good on this whole background.
you have made a mistake if leaving bitcoin, waves and neo. do not you see the opportunities that these three have? give your time and try to research it.
In my opinion top 10 cryptocurrency we should follow are:
BTC - Emotional and most secured network
ETHEREUM - huge Community
MONERO - Annonimity
EOS - Large transactions
ZILLiqa - Sharding and huge tX effect
ZRX - Decentralized exchange protocol
Wanchain - Ripple + Monero + Eth + BTC
KNC - DEX
AGI - AI marketplace
Quantstanp - auditing smart contracts
In my opinion these 10 should be in every portfolio. I believe this portfolio will give more than 5000% return over 2018
BTC - Emotional and most secured network
ETHEREUM - huge Community
MONERO - Annonimity
EOS - Large transactions
ZILLiqa - Sharding and huge tX effect
ZRX - Decentralized exchange protocol
Wanchain - Ripple + Monero + Eth + BTC
KNC - DEX
AGI - AI marketplace
Quantstanp - auditing smart contracts
In my opinion these 10 should be in every portfolio. I believe this portfolio will give more than 5000% return over 2018
I still hope NEO is in the top 10. Because I have given it a lot and I expect it to grow strongly when it comes to the compromise of Chinese people. It will be backed up to speed up the value. In other words, China is always known for its ambitious and arbitrary expressions. That can make a profit when holding NEO.
In my opinion top 10 cryptocurrency we should follow are:
BTC - Emotional and most secured network
ETHEREUM - huge Community
MONERO - Annonimity
EOS - Large transactions
ZILLiqa - Sharding and huge tX effect
ZRX - Decentralized exchange protocol
Wanchain - Ripple + Monero + Eth + BTC
KNC - DEX
AGI - AI marketplace
Quantstanp - auditing smart contracts
In my opinion these 10 should be in every portfolio. I believe this portfolio will give more than 5000% return over 2018
BTC - Emotional and most secured network
ETHEREUM - huge Community
MONERO - Annonimity
EOS - Large transactions
ZILLiqa - Sharding and huge tX effect
ZRX - Decentralized exchange protocol
Wanchain - Ripple + Monero + Eth + BTC
KNC - DEX
AGI - AI marketplace
Quantstanp - auditing smart contracts
In my opinion these 10 should be in every portfolio. I believe this portfolio will give more than 5000% return over 2018
I think this is the 10 cryptocurrency we must have
BITCOIN
ETHEREUM
RIPPLE
LITECOIN
IQTA
MONERO
EOS
BANCOR
BITSHARES
ARAGON
bitcoin has many advantages and does not bind your time during investing. Bitcoin itself is a virtual currency that you can play as if you were playing real money.
Ethereum. Yes, he inherits almost all the weaknesses of bitcoin, but at the same time, still has not been able to surpass bitcoin in many parameters such as update speed and possible smart contracts, making Ethereum currency very popular in the implementation of ICO.
Ripple, the project with an interesting idea. Developers want to create a new payment system capable of working with all world currencies. The project is interesting among the banking community and gained support, by taking away a number of advantages of the classic crypto currency. Ripple is not decentralized and the operations they use are not 100 percent transparent, but for the banking world this is the basic norm they use.
Litecoin. In fact this crypto currency is a complete bitcoin analogue and very seriously works to remove all errors. Almost all the parameters they have are better than the original version, but they still have many significant shortcomings - it is in second place and so far not taken seriously from the investment diversification tool.
IOTA is said to be an innovation in the world of crypto currency despite being born five years ago. Frankly, it's hard enough to say why now he's gaining demand growth as a blizzard, but in fact Iota is in a strong position in the top 10 international crypto currency.
Monero. The project is not limited by emissions, but the transaction space is larger than bitcoin. In addition, the project seems to come from Russia and some investors refused to cooperate for this reason.
EOS. The developers have created a new programming language, and currently created a new operating system based on that programming. Project goals are very ambitious
Bancor. It is an exchange platform based on ethereum where everything is governed by Smart contracts. The uniqueness of bancor is that this first crypto currency introduces derivative to blockchain, which was not done by any previous cryptocurrency.
Bitshares.alat very useful if you want to forget the loss when conversion, in fact bitshares used as currency to collect commissions at the time of transactions with a flat currency
Aragon. attempt to build an effective business on a faltering ground with predicted events. No one can tell what will happen....
BITCOIN
ETHEREUM
RIPPLE
LITECOIN
IQTA
MONERO
EOS
BANCOR
BITSHARES
ARAGON
bitcoin has many advantages and does not bind your time during investing. Bitcoin itself is a virtual currency that you can play as if you were playing real money.
Ethereum. Yes, he inherits almost all the weaknesses of bitcoin, but at the same time, still has not been able to surpass bitcoin in many parameters such as update speed and possible smart contracts, making Ethereum currency very popular in the implementation of ICO.
Ripple, the project with an interesting idea. Developers want to create a new payment system capable of working with all world currencies. The project is interesting among the banking community and gained support, by taking away a number of advantages of the classic crypto currency. Ripple is not decentralized and the operations they use are not 100 percent transparent, but for the banking world this is the basic norm they use.
Litecoin. In fact this crypto currency is a complete bitcoin analogue and very seriously works to remove all errors. Almost all the parameters they have are better than the original version, but they still have many significant shortcomings - it is in second place and so far not taken seriously from the investment diversification tool.
IOTA is said to be an innovation in the world of crypto currency despite being born five years ago. Frankly, it's hard enough to say why now he's gaining demand growth as a blizzard, but in fact Iota is in a strong position in the top 10 international crypto currency.
Monero. The project is not limited by emissions, but the transaction space is larger than bitcoin. In addition, the project seems to come from Russia and some investors refused to cooperate for this reason.
EOS. The developers have created a new programming language, and currently created a new operating system based on that programming. Project goals are very ambitious
Bancor. It is an exchange platform based on ethereum where everything is governed by Smart contracts. The uniqueness of bancor is that this first crypto currency introduces derivative to blockchain, which was not done by any previous cryptocurrency.
Bitshares.alat very useful if you want to forget the loss when conversion, in fact bitshares used as currency to collect commissions at the time of transactions with a flat currency
Aragon. attempt to build an effective business on a faltering ground with predicted events. No one can tell what will happen....
Einsteinuim? Are you serious? The coin does not fit into the top 100 coinmarketcap comrades, what's your excuse?
Don't always look at the Market cap. There are so many great projects that have not fill into the market cap. Look into the project and how such coin functions at the real life.
Neo, Nem, 0x - obligatory too
I want to add one more coin, XCPO is masternode coin which providing passive income. Since the project is about e commerce marketplace which mean that this project is very appropriate to grow the value of coin. Cryptocurrencies users can use their coin to buy goods in that platform. The platform not only accept XCPO but also other cryptocurrency. The important coins that we should follow is only bitcoin, ethereum and coins that we own.
Einsteinuim? Are you serious ? The coin does not fit into the top 100 coinmarketcap comrades, what's your excuse?
Gettibg to know historical daily prices for 10 top cryptocurrencies
Calculate daily returns
Simulate a year
Simulate a year many times
you will have to believe that the following coins are taking the lead.
BITCOIN
BITCOIN CASH
ETHEREUM
EOS
LITECOIN
OMISEGO
NEO
RIPPLE
MONERO
Zcash
With 2017 now in the books, we can officially look back and dub it the "year of the cryptocurrency." Despite the stock market historically taking its seat at the head of the table in terms of wealth creation, it was cryptocurrencies that delivered what could be the single greatest year we've ever seen from an asset class.
When the year began, the aggregate market cap of all cryptocurrencies was just $17.7 billion. However, by late December, this figure had topped $650 billion, representing a better than 3,500% increase in about a year's time.
Bitcoin, the world's most popular and valuable virtual coin by market cap, is perceived to have led the charge higher in cryptocurrencies. It is, after all, the crypto coin most accepted by merchants, and easily the most-traded virtual currency of the nearly 1,400 that can be purchased by investors.
However, truth be told, bitcoin was actually an underperformer last year. It took a backseat to many up-and-coming coins and blockchain players -- blockchain is the infrastructure that virtual coins are built on, and it is responsible for logging all transaction data in a digital ledger -- which wound up gaining a whole lot more on a percentage basis. Heading into 2018, the story is no longer about just bitcoin. Instead, it's about which cryptocurrency could become the next bitcoin, or the next thing to be better than bitcoin.
With this in mind, I'd suggest forgetting all about the highly played-out bitcoin at this point and consider following these 10 cryptocurrencies instead.
1. Ethereum
Ethereum is the second-largest cryptocurrency in terms of market cap behind bitcoin, and there's a very good reason to pay attention to it rather than bitcoin: big businesses' attraction to its blockchain.
The Enterprise Ethereum Alliance, which was formed early in 2017, currently has 200 organizations testing out a version of Ethereum's blockchain in numerous different industries, demonstrating that its blockchain technology can transcend currency-only applications, which is something bitcoin can't do. In particular, the incorporation of smart contract protocols into its blockchain (smart contracts help to facilitate, verify, or negotiate the enforcement of a contract) makes it a very popular choice among enterprise clients.
2. Stellar
Stellar (formerly known as Stellar Lumens) has been hovering between 10th and 20th in terms of largest crypto market cap for a few weeks now. Like Ethereum, Stellar's blockchain is its major selling point, and it similarly incorporates smart contract protocols. However, Stellar has positioned itself to go after corporations, and not just financial service companies.
In October, Stellar announced a partnership with IBM (NYSE:IBM) and KlickEx that'll see a dozen banks in the South Pacific region develop and deploy Stellar's blockchain technology in order to handle the multiple currency payments received from IBM's customers. If successful, Stellar has the capability to scale its blockchain to new regions, which is great news seeing as how IBM generates tens of billions of dollars from overseas clients.
3. Ripple
Unlike Stellar and Ethereum, Ripple has a gung-ho mission to become the go-to blockchain for big banks and financial institutions. Its quick transaction-processing times are one reason it was able to snag a partnership with American Express (NYSE:AXP) and Banco Santander (NYSE:SAN) in November. According to the partnership, any non-card payments made via American Express's FX International Payment network to a U.K. Santander account will be routed through Ripple's blockchain and process instantly.
What's more, Ripple's coin, the XRP, could be used as an intermediary in future cross-border partnerships. As an example, if a company paying in Japanese yen sent a payment to the U.K., Ripple's blockchain could instantly convert yen into XRP, then XRP into pounds, cutting out the financial middleman.
4. NEM
NEM and its coin XEM may not flow off the tongue like bitcoin, but XEM ran circles around bitcoin last year, with a gain of more than 30,000% at one point from Dec. 31, 2016, through Christmas Day 2017. Like many of the other names on this watchlist, blockchain is the big reason it's been such a top performer.
NEM, rather than focusing solely on enterprise clients, is all about peer-to-peer payments and transfers, be they retail or enterprise. Being that the NEM Foundation is based in Singapore, it should come as no surprise that its biggest win in 2017 was a September announcement of a partnership between NEM and the Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC). MDEC is a government-owned institution that handles digital infrastructure, security, and technology-related laws advisement in Malaysia, meaning it could have significant influence in getting XEM adopted in Southeastern Asia.
5. Litecoin
Sometimes called "bitcoin-Lite" since it forked from bitcoin back in 2011, Litecoin is an intriguing cryptocurrency to monitor since it appears to hold a number of advantages over bitcoin.
Make no mistake about it, Litecoin is all about becoming the next peer-to-peer payment facilitator like bitcoin. However, it has a founder that's fully dedicated to its development, has a faster block-processing rate that keeps miners intrigued (and rewarded), has a more decentralized proof-of-work algorithm than bitcoin, and perhaps most importantly, it's implemented the SegWit (Segregated Witness) upgrade to its blockchain. This upgrade helps to vastly improve blockchain capacity, while reducing transaction settlement times and fees.
6. Komodo
Komodo is a relatively new cryptocurrency to hit center stage, but it brings a whole slew of advancements that virtual coin users and investors are bound to appreciate. Naturally, as is the case with most of these cryptocurrencies, the blockchain is once again the star.
With Komodo's blockchain platform, you have the option of choosing between transparent anonymous transactions (you'll read about the emergence of privacy coins in a moment), with the technology being used to obfuscate the source of those transactions evolving from what cryptocurrency Zcash uses. Komodo also has plans to launch 32 independent, fiat-pegged cryptocurrencies, which may allow for the easiest conversion between fiat and digital currencies that we've ever seen.
7. IOTA
Blockchain has been a driving force for IOTA as well, which has moved to as high as fourth in terms of biggest cryptocurrencies by market cap last year. The big catalyst was an announcement in November from the IOTA Foundation, a German nonprofit that oversees the IOTA virtual currency, that it was releasing its Data Marketplace for a two-month demo.
IOTA's Data Marketplace is a setup that'll allow businesses to sell data in order to incentivize data sharing, as opposed to having that data go to waste. Further, this Marketplace is "blockless," meaning transactions on the network can be made for free. This helps to resolve one of the biggest constrains of blockchain technology (transaction fees), and it also brings the potential for scalability to the demo. IOTA has already teamed up with the likes of Accenture and Deutsche Telekom, with ambitions for additional big partners in the future.
8. Monero
Privacy coins, or virtual currencies that beef up protocols designed to protect the privacy and anonymity of a sender (or receiver) of coins, are suddenly all the rage since they speak to the heart of a decentralized cryptocurrency. At the top of that list very well could be Monero, which has gravitated toward being a top-10 cryptocurrency by market cap of late.
What makes Monero so special is its use of ring signatures via its open-sourced protocol known as CryptoNote. Ring signatures act like a group of signers in a joint bank account, but in this instance, the actual signer remains unknown. A one-time spend key, known as a stealth address, is generated by a sender of XMR (Monero's coin), with only the recipient of those funds being able to detect and spend those funds.
9. Verge
Verge, which was just a blip on the cryptocurrency screen a year ago, exploded higher by more than 1,500,000% at one point last year -- and no, there aren't any missing decimal points in there! It, too, is part of the recent privacy coin craze, and it received a nice boost of late following positive commentary from John McAfee, the CEO of MGT Investments and former figurehead by McAfee antivirus software.
The secret sauce for Verge is its use of multiple anonymity-centric networks like I2P and Tor to obscure users' IP addresses and ensure that transactions are untraceable. Verge offers quick transaction settlement times over its blockchain of around five seconds, and it already offers multiple secure mobile wallets, including the Tor Android Wallet for mobile anonymity.
10. Einsteinium
If you want something really unique, put Einsteinium and its aptly dubbed EMC2 coin on your radar. At one point, EMC2 had risen by well over 200,000% during 2017, but it has since pulled back a bit after a parabolic run.
The buzz about Einsteinium is its focus on becoming a charitable fund for scientific, technological, educational, and blockchain-based studies. Every time a block reward is paid out to miners for proofing transactions, the Einsteiunium Foundation receives 2.5% of that reward. Approximately 80% of the funds received goes toward research, with the remaining 20% used for marketing and donations. The Einsteinium community gets to vote every so often on what project they believe should be funded next. And best of all, mining EMC2 is relatively simple compared to other cryptocurrencies, suggesting anyone could potentially get involved.
When the year began, the aggregate market cap of all cryptocurrencies was just $17.7 billion. However, by late December, this figure had topped $650 billion, representing a better than 3,500% increase in about a year's time.
Bitcoin, the world's most popular and valuable virtual coin by market cap, is perceived to have led the charge higher in cryptocurrencies. It is, after all, the crypto coin most accepted by merchants, and easily the most-traded virtual currency of the nearly 1,400 that can be purchased by investors.
However, truth be told, bitcoin was actually an underperformer last year. It took a backseat to many up-and-coming coins and blockchain players -- blockchain is the infrastructure that virtual coins are built on, and it is responsible for logging all transaction data in a digital ledger -- which wound up gaining a whole lot more on a percentage basis. Heading into 2018, the story is no longer about just bitcoin. Instead, it's about which cryptocurrency could become the next bitcoin, or the next thing to be better than bitcoin.
With this in mind, I'd suggest forgetting all about the highly played-out bitcoin at this point and consider following these 10 cryptocurrencies instead.
1. Ethereum
Ethereum is the second-largest cryptocurrency in terms of market cap behind bitcoin, and there's a very good reason to pay attention to it rather than bitcoin: big businesses' attraction to its blockchain.
The Enterprise Ethereum Alliance, which was formed early in 2017, currently has 200 organizations testing out a version of Ethereum's blockchain in numerous different industries, demonstrating that its blockchain technology can transcend currency-only applications, which is something bitcoin can't do. In particular, the incorporation of smart contract protocols into its blockchain (smart contracts help to facilitate, verify, or negotiate the enforcement of a contract) makes it a very popular choice among enterprise clients.
2. Stellar
Stellar (formerly known as Stellar Lumens) has been hovering between 10th and 20th in terms of largest crypto market cap for a few weeks now. Like Ethereum, Stellar's blockchain is its major selling point, and it similarly incorporates smart contract protocols. However, Stellar has positioned itself to go after corporations, and not just financial service companies.
In October, Stellar announced a partnership with IBM (NYSE:IBM) and KlickEx that'll see a dozen banks in the South Pacific region develop and deploy Stellar's blockchain technology in order to handle the multiple currency payments received from IBM's customers. If successful, Stellar has the capability to scale its blockchain to new regions, which is great news seeing as how IBM generates tens of billions of dollars from overseas clients.
3. Ripple
Unlike Stellar and Ethereum, Ripple has a gung-ho mission to become the go-to blockchain for big banks and financial institutions. Its quick transaction-processing times are one reason it was able to snag a partnership with American Express (NYSE:AXP) and Banco Santander (NYSE:SAN) in November. According to the partnership, any non-card payments made via American Express's FX International Payment network to a U.K. Santander account will be routed through Ripple's blockchain and process instantly.
What's more, Ripple's coin, the XRP, could be used as an intermediary in future cross-border partnerships. As an example, if a company paying in Japanese yen sent a payment to the U.K., Ripple's blockchain could instantly convert yen into XRP, then XRP into pounds, cutting out the financial middleman.
4. NEM
NEM and its coin XEM may not flow off the tongue like bitcoin, but XEM ran circles around bitcoin last year, with a gain of more than 30,000% at one point from Dec. 31, 2016, through Christmas Day 2017. Like many of the other names on this watchlist, blockchain is the big reason it's been such a top performer.
NEM, rather than focusing solely on enterprise clients, is all about peer-to-peer payments and transfers, be they retail or enterprise. Being that the NEM Foundation is based in Singapore, it should come as no surprise that its biggest win in 2017 was a September announcement of a partnership between NEM and the Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC). MDEC is a government-owned institution that handles digital infrastructure, security, and technology-related laws advisement in Malaysia, meaning it could have significant influence in getting XEM adopted in Southeastern Asia.
5. Litecoin
Sometimes called "bitcoin-Lite" since it forked from bitcoin back in 2011, Litecoin is an intriguing cryptocurrency to monitor since it appears to hold a number of advantages over bitcoin.
Make no mistake about it, Litecoin is all about becoming the next peer-to-peer payment facilitator like bitcoin. However, it has a founder that's fully dedicated to its development, has a faster block-processing rate that keeps miners intrigued (and rewarded), has a more decentralized proof-of-work algorithm than bitcoin, and perhaps most importantly, it's implemented the SegWit (Segregated Witness) upgrade to its blockchain. This upgrade helps to vastly improve blockchain capacity, while reducing transaction settlement times and fees.
6. Komodo
Komodo is a relatively new cryptocurrency to hit center stage, but it brings a whole slew of advancements that virtual coin users and investors are bound to appreciate. Naturally, as is the case with most of these cryptocurrencies, the blockchain is once again the star.
With Komodo's blockchain platform, you have the option of choosing between transparent anonymous transactions (you'll read about the emergence of privacy coins in a moment), with the technology being used to obfuscate the source of those transactions evolving from what cryptocurrency Zcash uses. Komodo also has plans to launch 32 independent, fiat-pegged cryptocurrencies, which may allow for the easiest conversion between fiat and digital currencies that we've ever seen.
7. IOTA
Blockchain has been a driving force for IOTA as well, which has moved to as high as fourth in terms of biggest cryptocurrencies by market cap last year. The big catalyst was an announcement in November from the IOTA Foundation, a German nonprofit that oversees the IOTA virtual currency, that it was releasing its Data Marketplace for a two-month demo.
IOTA's Data Marketplace is a setup that'll allow businesses to sell data in order to incentivize data sharing, as opposed to having that data go to waste. Further, this Marketplace is "blockless," meaning transactions on the network can be made for free. This helps to resolve one of the biggest constrains of blockchain technology (transaction fees), and it also brings the potential for scalability to the demo. IOTA has already teamed up with the likes of Accenture and Deutsche Telekom, with ambitions for additional big partners in the future.
8. Monero
Privacy coins, or virtual currencies that beef up protocols designed to protect the privacy and anonymity of a sender (or receiver) of coins, are suddenly all the rage since they speak to the heart of a decentralized cryptocurrency. At the top of that list very well could be Monero, which has gravitated toward being a top-10 cryptocurrency by market cap of late.
What makes Monero so special is its use of ring signatures via its open-sourced protocol known as CryptoNote. Ring signatures act like a group of signers in a joint bank account, but in this instance, the actual signer remains unknown. A one-time spend key, known as a stealth address, is generated by a sender of XMR (Monero's coin), with only the recipient of those funds being able to detect and spend those funds.
9. Verge
Verge, which was just a blip on the cryptocurrency screen a year ago, exploded higher by more than 1,500,000% at one point last year -- and no, there aren't any missing decimal points in there! It, too, is part of the recent privacy coin craze, and it received a nice boost of late following positive commentary from John McAfee, the CEO of MGT Investments and former figurehead by McAfee antivirus software.
The secret sauce for Verge is its use of multiple anonymity-centric networks like I2P and Tor to obscure users' IP addresses and ensure that transactions are untraceable. Verge offers quick transaction settlement times over its blockchain of around five seconds, and it already offers multiple secure mobile wallets, including the Tor Android Wallet for mobile anonymity.
10. Einsteinium
If you want something really unique, put Einsteinium and its aptly dubbed EMC2 coin on your radar. At one point, EMC2 had risen by well over 200,000% during 2017, but it has since pulled back a bit after a parabolic run.
The buzz about Einsteinium is its focus on becoming a charitable fund for scientific, technological, educational, and blockchain-based studies. Every time a block reward is paid out to miners for proofing transactions, the Einsteiunium Foundation receives 2.5% of that reward. Approximately 80% of the funds received goes toward research, with the remaining 20% used for marketing and donations. The Einsteinium community gets to vote every so often on what project they believe should be funded next. And best of all, mining EMC2 is relatively simple compared to other cryptocurrencies, suggesting anyone could potentially get involved.
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