Last year, bitcoin surged 116% reaching a high of $108,000.<\/p>\n
If you missed that move, this is your chance to buy the\u00a0dip.<\/strong><\/p>\n The crypto market is consolidating at the moment, with bitcoin trading in the $90k area. I expect the next move higher to come\u00a0soon.<\/p>\n We\u2019re in what has historically been the best time to own crypto. The \u201csweet spot\u201d that\u2019s typically produced the biggest\u00a0gains.<\/p>\n Every fourth year, crypto prices plunge. The last time that happened was in\u00a02022.<\/p>\n Markets then recover slowly, with the biggest gains being handed out in years 2 and 3, as this table of bitcoin\u2019s annual returns\u00a0shows.<\/p>\n Year 2 was 2024, and year 3 is\u00a02025:<\/p>\n In August 2023, when bitcoin was trading for $27,000, I told members of my premium crypto advisory RiskHedge Venture<\/em><\/a> <\/em>it was headed to $150,000.<\/p>\n Bitcoin price more than tripled\u00a0since.<\/p>\n Based on how much the price has already risen, and my analysis of past cycles, I now believe BTC could possibly run to $250,000 within the next 12\u00a0months.<\/p>\n I first heard about bitcoin in 2011 when it was trading under\u00a0$5.<\/p>\n Didn\u2019t buy any. Big\u00a0mistake.<\/p>\n But from this mistake, I learned to appreciate the unique trait of crypto. We all had the opportunity to buy BTC from the very beginning, when it was only a\u00a0pup.<\/p>\n This is the opposite of how the stock market\u00a0works.<\/p>\n Former cyclist Lance Armstrong was an early investor in Uber (UBER). <\/strong>He invested $100,000 in 2009 when the company was valued at less than $4\u00a0million.<\/p>\n He would see gains on his initial stake of around 25,000X\u200a\u2014\u200awhich would turn $100,000 into $2.5\u00a0billion.<\/p>\n That\u2019s great for Lance. But he only got that opportunity because he was a rich, connected celebrity. Although an average person could have mathematically turned $1,000 into $25 million investing in Uber, no one did. Uber wasn\u2019t available to invest in for regular folks until it IPO\u2019d in\u00a02019.<\/p>\n By that time\u2026 it was already a giant\u00a0company.<\/p>\n Bitcoin went live in early 2009. That very same day, investors could buy it for fractions of a\u00a0cent.<\/p>\n Most cryptos work this way. Their tokens launch alongside their businesses on Day 1 when they\u2019re tiny, early-stage startups. It\u2019s like investing in Steve Jobs or Bill Gates tinkering in their garages, long before Apple (AAPL) or Microsoft (MSFT)\u00a0IPO\u2019d.<\/p>\n Crypto lets ordinary investors truly get in on the ground\u00a0floor.<\/p>\n You notice how many of the people who got rich in crypto were nowhere near Wall\u00a0Street?<\/p>\n You\u2019ve surely seen the kids driving Lamborghinis\u2026 or the 20-year-olds who turned a couple thousand dollars into a couple million dollars in\u00a0crypto.<\/p>\n Think about how unique that is. Typically, big early-stage gains flow straight to Wall Street because it controls the deals and access. The rich get\u00a0richer.<\/p>\n In crypto, it\u2019s different.<\/p>\n Anyone could buy Ethereum (ETH)<\/a> when it launched in 2014 for 30 cents. Today, ETH is trading around $3,200. Where else can a regular investor throw $100 into an early-stage startup and see it balloon to $11.6\u00a0million?<\/p>\n It\u2019s the same for Solana (SOL)<\/a>, which launched in early 2020 at less than $1. It\u2019s up 200X since\u00a0then.<\/p>\n The point is that the crypto market is still so small and so new, there\u2019s plenty of room for exponential growth.<\/p>\n But you don\u2019t want to buy just any small crypto. I wouldn\u2019t touch 99% of them\u2026 but the other 1% have the potential to change the\u00a0world.<\/p>\n Here are three early-stage cryptos I\u2019m optimistic about for\u00a02025\u2026<\/p>\n I first recommended Hivemapper (HONEY)<\/strong> to my <\/em>RiskHedge Venture<\/em><\/a> subscribers in November\u00a02022.<\/p>\n A year later, we sold half of that position for a 1,050% gain. We continue to hold the other half (+900%) as of this\u00a0writing.<\/p>\n This may look like you\u2019ve already missed the boat. But don\u2019t worry, Hivemapper is still a very early-stage crypto. It hasn\u2019t even made it into the top 100 cryptos by market cap yet (currently, it\u2019s in the 250th spot). There\u2019s still plenty of\u00a0upside.<\/p>\n Remember old-school paper maps you had to unfold and fold all the\u00a0time?<\/p>\n You rarely see them anymore. These days, we rely on apps like Google Maps to get\u00a0around.<\/p>\n Most people use Google Maps multiple times a day, without even realizing it. They use it each time they book a room on Airbnb\u2026 hail a ride on Uber\u2026 review a restaurant on TripAdvisor\u2026 order groceries via Instacart\u2026 scope out a neighbor\u2019s home on Zillow\u2026 track their UPS delivery\u2026 or order food on DoorDash.<\/p>\n Every single one of those services runs on Google\u00a0Maps.<\/p>\n \u201cMapping\u201d might seem like an obscure industry that doesn\u2019t really matter. But it\u2019s a multibillion-dollar industry\u200a\u2014\u200aand Google (GOOG) dominates about 85% of it. Morgan Stanley estimates Google Maps raked in $11.1 billion<\/strong> in revenues in\u00a02023.<\/strong><\/p>\n Building and maintaining a global map is incredibly expensive and time-consuming. There are an estimated 40 million miles of roads around the\u00a0world\u2026<\/p>\n And roads and routes change all the time, which means you have to re-map them regularly.<\/p>\n Each Google Street View car costs $500,000 to outfit. And Google spends an estimated $2 million per day maintaining and updating its maps. Even with all of Google\u2019s money and might, most roads around the world are only updated every 18\u201324\u00a0months.<\/p>\n That\u2019s a big problem for businesses like Uber and UPS, that rely on fresh, up-to-date maps.<\/p>\n There\u2019s another issue with Google Maps: It\u2019s super expensive. Uber alone paid Google Maps roughly $60 million between 2016 and 2018. That\u2019s over $50,000 per\u00a0day!<\/p>\n Here\u2019s how it\u00a0works\u2026<\/p>\n Hivemapper makes a 4K, high-definition dashcam that\u2019s roughly the size of a deck of cards. Anyone can buy one of these dashcams and attach it to their rearview mirror like\u00a0this:<\/p>\n Source: Hivemapper<\/em><\/p>\n The camera automatically \u201cmaps\u201d the roads as you drive around, just like a Google Street View car. Hivemapper then feeds these images into its global\u00a0map.<\/p>\n The best part? Hivemapper pays you in crypto for updating its map. In other words, you can earn Hivemapper\u2019s token\u200a\u2014\u200aHONEY\u200a\u2014\u200aby simply driving your\u00a0car.<\/strong><\/p>\n Hivemapper contributors have already mapped 414 million km of roads. For perspective, that\u2019s nearly the same as the distance from Earth to the\u00a0sun.<\/p>\n This is a FAR better way to build and maintain\u00a0maps.<\/p>\n Even with hundreds of Street View cars and cash to burn, Google maps a road roughly once every 18 months. With an army of contributors across the world, Hivemapper can map the same road at least once a week. Crypto incentives will motivate contributors to frequently update the\u00a0maps.<\/p>\n During testing, Hivemapper found it \u201csees\u201d any given street 25X more frequently than\u00a0Google<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Think about it this way\u2026 Google only gets one shot at taking a high-quality photo of a road once every few\u00a0years.<\/p>\n Hivemapper gets 25X more opportunities. This gives it a far better chance of building a high-quality, \u201cfresh\u201d map businesses will pay to\u00a0access.<\/p>\n Look at these two shots of the same road sign, for example. You can see Google\u2019s image (left) is blurry. Hivemapper\u2019s photo (right) is far\u00a0clearer.<\/p>\n Sources: Google Maps; Hivemapper<\/em><\/p>\n Hivemapper is only getting off the ground. But I\u2019m predicting it will eat Google Maps\u2019 lunch in a few\u00a0years.<\/strong><\/p>\n Hivemapper is building a much fresher map that covers our whole world. Google\u2019s few hundred Street View cars can\u2019t compete with millions of individual contributors who will cover every inch of highway around the\u00a0world.<\/p>\n Hivemapper also has a huge cost advantage over Google. Each Street View car costs roughly $500,000. Hivemapper\u2019s dashcams cost 1\/1,000th of that. And unlike Google, Hivemapper doesn\u2019t have to pay folks salaries to drive around all\u00a0day.<\/p>\n This will allow Hivemapper to undercut Google on price and eventually lure its high-paying customers away.<\/p>\n Back in 2022, HONEY reached an all-time high of $0.43. It currently trades at around $0.07. That\u2019s your buy-the-dip opportunity. You can buy HONEY on Coinbase.<\/p>\n Want to learn about the two early-stage cryptos I recommend for\u00a02025?<\/strong><\/p>\n Access them for free by <\/strong>clicking\u00a0here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2014 Stephen McBride, Chief Analyst at <\/em>RiskHedge<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n 3 early-stage cryptos to buy in 2025<\/a> was originally published in Coinmonks<\/a> on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Last year, bitcoin surged 116% reaching a high of $108,000. If you missed that move, this is your chance to buy the\u00a0dip. The crypto market is consolidating at the moment, with bitcoin trading in the $90k area. I expect the next move higher to come\u00a0soon. We\u2019re in what has historically been the best time to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35676"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}BTC prices have followed a \u201c3 up, 1 down\u201d pattern. We call it the bitcoin 4 year\u00a0cycle.<\/strong><\/h3>\n
But I wouldn\u2019t buy bitcoin. I prefer to own smaller, early-stage cryptos with higher\u00a0upside.<\/strong><\/h3>\n
Cryptos are different. They basically \u201cIPO\u201d on day\u00a0one.<\/strong><\/h4>\n
Early-stage crypto #1: Hivemapper (HONEY)\u200a\u2014\u200athe next Google\u00a0Maps<\/strong><\/h3>\n
Hivemapper is disrupting one of the biggest monopolies right\u00a0now\u2026<\/strong><\/h4>\n
Hivemapper invented a whole new way to build\u00a0maps.<\/strong><\/h4>\n