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"title": "State of Blockchain Q1 2018",
"subtitle": "Summarizes key trends, data and events in Q1 2018.",
"publishDate": "February 6th, 2018",
"slug": "state-of-blockchain-2018",
"summary": "
CoinDesk's Q1 2018 State of Blockchain summarizes key trends, data and events in Q1 2018.
",- • Bear market takes hold in multiple cryptocurrencies. Price, transaction volume, exchange volume, and more all down over 3 months.
- • Bitcoin hashrate continues to grow by 47% despite slumps.
- • $6.3bn for ICOs and $885mn for VC. The average ICO raise amount has about doubled from last quarter of $16mn to $31mn.
- • Transaction fees fall from 60% to 90% with bitcoin averaging a $9.49 fee per transaction.
- • Sentiment Survey: 31% paid taxes on their crypto gains. 18% of U.S. respondents said they thought understanding taxes were easy compared to 38% of Non-U.S. respondents.
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"pages": 94,
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"title": "Introduction",
"page": 3
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{
"title": "Public Blockchains",
"page": 6
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{
"title": "Market Interest",
"page": 23
},
{
"title": "Why the bear market?",
"page": 29
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{
"title": "Investment",
"page": 37
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{
"title": "Private Blockchains",
"page": 49
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{
"title": "Regulations",
"page": 51
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"title": "Sentiment Survey",
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