Darren M Meade

Cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin, are not a long-term trend but a fraudulent fad. That’s how establishment business media pundits and high-profile banking officials relentlessly label them. They were wrong in 2017, and our 2018 "Cryptomania Cash-In" trend will prove them wrong again. The Trends Research Institute has consistently predicted substantial volatility across digital-currency markets, especially as governments worldwide scramble to impose regulations and controls over the trading of cryptos, new coins entering the market and initial coin offerings (ICOs).  However, the media and even cryptocurrency advocates are missing the perspective: As we have cryptocurrency’s growth will escalate as nations go cashless.  Paying by apps, cash is not part of the new world order of millennials and the generations to follow. And, to them, digital currencies are what gold once was for baby boomers: safe, comfortable and trusted.  They see cryptocurrency as a “populist