I would not expect Siacoin to reach $1 in 2019. I think it's a good idea to hold them, but I wouldn't expect them to exceed $0.50 any time in the near future...
Any reason why you feel this way? Their platform offers a lot, storage facilities, new ASIC miners being released. All this is Cloud and Big Data Storage related.
Big Data technologies are successors of websites like Facebook, Yahoo and many other big companies, which now use Big Data as a huge form for gathering and creating new business
approach's and models for multi-billion dollar companies.
I feel when a lot of these companies start supporting the idea and the platform of using a much reduced cost and storage platform then this would sky-rocket.
There is no doubt it is a good platform and has a great team supporting it.
The main reason is the circulating supply... 28 billion and counting. There is simply too many coins available and currently being mined for the value to increase to $1 within 2019.
Ohh I see what you mean, thanks. I'm still learning and trying to understand what information is actually useful and what is a load of BS.
So the circulating supply, how would you calculate it or understand it better for a newbie?
Is there a decent topic on: How to invest, like understanding Circulating amounts (Years) value and how it all works? I usually invest by reading news about what Platform what future development and developers of the coin and also some comments on here I find useful from reputable members.
I like to follow coin market caps on
www.coinmarketcap.com. Coins are ranked by market cap. You can also see current price, circulating supply, volume, etc.
Essentially when making long term value guesses/assumptions you always need to take circulating supply and total market cap into consideration. If your suspected future value (in this case $1) multiplied by the circulating supply ($1 x 28 billion = $28 billion market cap) exceeds the market cap of superior or much more widely held/praised coins (in this example, $28 billion surpasses everything except btc), it is highly unlikely that your guess or assumption is even remotely possible.
Hope that helps you a bit with your decisions ...