Next hot crypto coin
Accordingly, while the crypto-asset movement espouses a democratization of nearly every aspect of business, life and wealth accumulation, like the "friends-and-family" allocations of the dot-com bubble, most of Carlson-Wee's 13 investments to date have been made before the ICO, at a significant discount. And, yes, scores of foolish day traders and IPO junkies got crushed, but lots of smart, early players got very, very rich. Even if the IRS gets all those customers' names, however, it still has a big problem if it wants to tax all the crypto-gains: Much of the trading is done on overseas exchanges, and even more could migrate there. An especially hot type of crypto-commodity: decentralized data-storage tokens, such as Filecoin, Sia or Storj, which compete with Amazon Simple Storage Service.