Hold BIX on BiBox for dividends ( new exchange)
Today I wan to share a few ideas about BiBox, a "new" exchange that could have some potential.
Some of you might remember that I talked about 2 very promising exchanges back in the day.
One was Binance which had really low fees and if you held BNB you'd get even lower fees. Together with the fact that you can get referrals for a bonus, their ambitious vision and the excellent team, I was a big fan. I recommend to always get some BNB to pay half fees and really, profit long term. That was back when bnb was about 1$. Now is about 10!
The second one was KuCoin. Now Kucoin had a few new things going for it. Marketing themselves as " the people's exchange" they claimed to pay 20% of their trading fees if you held KCS in your account. They also had a very cool referral program and helped them a lot ot gain popularity. I thought that given their strategy to add new coins fast, their volume could increase a lot and the value of KCS would go up. That was when KCS was about 60 cents. It went to 15$!
Sadly, KuCoin then started to fk it up. They discounted the referral program, their support is slow and speaks in broken English. I lost faith in KuCoin and moved out. ( For the record KCS is trading at 1$ now..).
BiBox is basically KuCoin #2. They position themselves as AI-enhanced exchange whatever this means. The team is mystrious as well and could not find anything about it but they say "Bibox’s founding team is formed by top tier Chinese blockchain giants. The team includes early bitcoin enthusiasts, adopters of block chain, established series entrepreneurs, professional securities trader, Venture Capitalists (VC), high-tech Angel Investors, and one of the best AI experts in the industry." I mean everyone says this but yeah, I guess.
They had a successful ICO so now they are here.
I've been following them lately and it seems that everything works alright. The interface is familiar to those who used KuCoin and Binance as it is almost a clone of those. They have competitions and list interesting coins just like Binance. The security is top notch at the user level ( can't tell how well they guard their own funds though they say they do).
Now. I would recommend to sign up for two reasons:
low fees and new coins that are not listed anywhere else. These are good reason to have an account here.
But looking at this BIX token, it has a few practical things going for it:
You need to pay the fee for listing your tokens in BIX. That could potentially mean that as more projects will want to list here, the price will naturally go up. As with Binance, holding BIX gives you lower fees as well. There is incentive to hold vs sell.
Holding BIX gives your 30% dividends of the whole traded volume of the day ( relative to your holdings).
You do need to trade AT LEAST once a week to be eligible though from what I understood so that's a bit stupid and of course support was less than helpful. Here;'s the whole announcement:
They later pushed that to 30%. This is further inventive to hold and also some buy pressure from new projects. Together with the possibly increasing volume it makes for a tempting value proposition.
Conclusion:
I am uncertain and a bit skeptical about this one but I think BIX has potential to grow ( it's 60 cents now and I think it should be at least as valuable as KCS which is 1$+ ) once we are back into Bull market and the coins they list are sometimes very interesting and worth getting maybe. I'll update once I know more.
If you want to sign up on BiBox and use my links, you will be my referral. If you mind that, just go directly to the site.
Do you trade here, do you have any insight? Share in the comments!
Thanks for the share man. Gonna look into this :)
I knew you'll like it :D
The reward for holding isn't much, however I'm sure the price of the BIX will rise. For 800$ worth of BIX bought now you will get around 7$ a month by holding, which is nothing compared to an increase of token value by even 20% .
It's still an investment , I'd rather have my $ locked up in other projects rather than their own coin.
The site is pretty good, I had an account there already.
COOL! thanks for the insight. I agree with the statement that is not much but if you can spare it, could be good. Imho my experience with KCS showed that you arer right. better to take the profits of the coin increasing 20% (or 8x) than hope the dividends will make it worth holding. Thank tof rhe comment, man! Hope all is well with you!!
I think people are slowly going to start moving away from centralized exchanges and use decentralized versions.
DEXs have a few key advantages over CEXs, particularly when it comes to security, anonymity, control of funds, speed + fees.
Nearly all DEXs suffer from a lack of liquidity at the moment, but 0x protocol and a few other hybrid solutions are working on liquidity pooling which should eliminate this.
Some really cool projects like Radex and Airswap have zero fees, which could be game changer.
Consensys has a great article about current and upcoming DEXs, and when you see the amount of projects in the pipeline - https://distribuyed.github.io/index/ - I think its clear they are going to offer real competition for CEXs.
Cutting out the middleman is always going to be a good thing, and stays truer to the founding principles of crypto.
slowly being the operative word. You need a lot more education to use DEXes and I don't think we're there yet. Also think there will always be a point for normal exchanges.
Agree that the UX/UI of a lot of DEXs can be horrible and confusing for crypto n00bs. However, with hybrid solutions like Ethfinex this is being solved somewhat. But its not going to take long for DEXs to work on their UX/UI - just look at the great job that IDEX has done in creating friendly and familiar interface.
Also, things like the 0x trade widget (release in summer) could be a big deal - its essentially a button that will allow one click buying/selling of erc20 tokens using shared liquidity of 0x relayers - very cool! The only problem is (I think) you still need some ETH to use it...
Centralised exchanges will still be around, but likely their market share will get eaten away by DEXs, and they always have an existential risk of hacks, exit scams, etc. which makes those who have been in the cryptosphere for a while wary.
I guess for me, the biggest DEX issue is that you still need to have basic education regarding crypto. That's good but also bad. If I open an account on bittrex and I lose the password I have pass reset. If I lose my private key on IDEX I'm done-o. So there's a lot of responsibility in the hand of people who don't even realize they hsave this responsibility. We need more education before DEXes become a THING...also a paradigm shift :)
True words - education is key!
You can buy c20 tokens there.first ever tokenised crypto index fund,waiting for the top 20 to start booming again.....
Wow! Awesome post dear @razvenelulmarin
I have so much benefited from your post. Keep posting dear. Stay blessed and be happy always.
bix is better but i just want sphx to be listed in here. check this review tho. http://www.hodlerxl.com/sophiatx/sophiatx-the-blockchain-for-business/
Thanks for the heads up @razvanelulmarin. I will signup and see how it is going for me. I like the fact that they have low fees.
I never traded a single thing anywhere, and you can check my profile I am a complete fresher to Steemit. I came here some time ago but it didn't interest me much. A simple question, when we withdraw or upload money can we do this with VISA on Bibox and what would be a fee to do that? Thank you.
no... to cash out into fiat you will usually need to sell whatever you have into btc, then sell that for fiat on localbitcoins.com or whatever you use. Some exchanges offer wire transfers out, but they can be a pain in the butt. There are some alternatives like getting a pre paid visa debit card & using that to shop with.... Monaco is one such card - https://mona.co/index.html Not sure if it's working yet though so dyor.
thanks for the answer! more or less that;'s true but depends on your country a lot!
I'm very interested in plutus.
Thanks for the tip on plutus, looking into that now.
I bought some coss a while ago and to this day I have no idea how their reward system works :) and it's price dropped like a brick of course :P
coss...yeah...
Thank you @razvanelulmarin for the information. I will give BiBox a try it sounds interesting. Did you also heard about AEX exchange that is a decentralized exchange on the Bitshares Blockchain. Right now you can earn there AEX Tokens by holding BTS, BTC, LTC or ETH on there exchange. You will get daily distribution of AEX Tokens in your Account. Here check it out https://www.aex.com/