Aleksandr Bulkin
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Here is my claim. Within 5 years the biggest cryptocurrency by market cap will not be Ethereum or any other platform currency. Instead, it will be an application token.
We all know what a database is: an organized collection of data. By analogy, then, we can think of a blockchain as an organized collection of resources, latter being defined as something that exists only in limited quantities. So, blockchain is really a resourcebase.
On July 20th, 2016 the market capitalization of [Steem](https://steemit.com/) briefly reached $386M and over subsequent weeks quietly retreated to under $150M. Many other cryptocurrencies followed a similar pattern at one time or another.