Waves is one of the best crypto projects imo. I agree, if any altcoin will make a x100, waves is a good choice imo.
You're talking out of your rear end! It's not 2014 anymore - the days when coins skyrocketed for no reason whatsoever are over! And, as each year passes, the lower ranking coins have smaller and smaller odds of surviving in the long-term. Waves is a crypto-Dodo - it cannot adapt fast enough or sufficiently enough to survive in a radically-changing blockchain environment.
The blockchain is dead. Long live the blockchain!
Talking in sweeping terms does not make it a valid argument. The fact of the matter is that this environment is under strong centralization by different strategies of infiltration to present an appearance of remaining unfiltered as it became known for.
BTC and the top 5 are entirely subverted and only reached these positions because they are already infiltrated by the establishment.
If you have a project that is independent, you have nowhere near the opportunity to reach this level of exposure because it will destabilize the status quo. Then, if you sell your share for penny on the dollar, then you are welcome on the inside because it is the same elite who will be raking in the profits.
Situation was definitely different in 2014 because the environment was unrestricted, now, all value extraction has been stamped out by gatekeepers who hate this invention because they understand that ultimately it will radically overturn the current and corrupt system.
China = Binance
Bittrex = CIA
CM = Goldman
NEXO = Goldman
NEO = China
WAVES = Soon to be Russia by VST integration
The list is endless, and it is the same 3 powers behind most coins in the top 10.
If you are a genius dev, of course you will become rich in crypto, but for normal projects it is a hard environment to constantly go up against establishment gatekeepers that are like weed now.
Marquise $Museum was integrated with crypto because if you are an artist who want to find sales channels and expositionl then you must also become a communist lefty. Unless you are a top 0.1% of world talent who can automatically attract collectors, only then may you decide how to operate your business more freely. Look at Chapelle, he servied the fashion industry for decades and was all but forgotten in Hawaii when someone in the inside invited him back to exhibit worldwide in the best galleries. This can only happen because 1. he was top talent photographer. 2 he served the cause (communism).
Crypto was once unfiltered for startups and a very promising method of raising money for all kinds of things, but this was radically subverted by criminals and sock puppets in little less than a year. It requires a solid methodology to be successful in this space, but now even with proper documentation it is not possible to be approved by bettertokens for qualified issuer status because they decided so, ie centralized gatekeeping. Bettertokens did not even exist as a unit when Marquise $Museum was launched way back in late 2017. It is a joke, but it is an expensive joke for my project.
If this was 2016, $MM would already have CMC integration and qualified issuer status, bad timing is all, too late.
Remember, this is crypto, this invention was given away freely from the unknown creator. Can you see how incubated startups and university projects are completely controlled if the military can do this to a tech that was not even in their control from the beginning. It took them a year to subvert key sectors in crypto.
And if you refuse to cooperate? AK-47 to the face.