To be begin with, we wish all you crypto enthusiasts, fans, believers, supporters, traders, hodlers, baghodlers and nocoiners a happy New Year!
We hope you had a blast and may 2020 bring all the luck and happiness into your lives!
Also, we would like to thank you for all the support and that you keep using our platform to check out the best crypto deals 
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I think it’s safe to say that a lot of predictions went down the drain, as bitcoin did not deliver any firework in December. The market can be boring from time to time, but be patience as the next halving is already around the corner. It should be happening around the month of May. The affect of it might take a while, see chart below. Fingers crossed!
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As always the following subjects will come forward in this month’s Buzz; CoinCompare, Throwback December, Crypto listings, the top 5 ups and downs and of course the recurring Best Deal Broker of the month announcement. And a first within CoinCompare, the announcement of the Best Deal Broker of the year 2019 
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2019 was an okay year for CoinCompare. We added more than 50 crypto’s, added Bitqist as broker, but we are definitely not there yet. We are fully focusing on content, content, content, content and content. To achieve some steps, we hired a content writer to help us out with supporting thousands and thousands of words to fill our pages. As mentioned in our previous Buzzes the broker pages shall be handled first. Including the chapter ‘Costs and prizes’ as we want to be as transparent and clear as possible.
A couple notable developments and happenings:
SATOS shows new design, news board and changes extension to .eu (Dutch)
One of the first Dutch bitcoin brokers, Bitonic, introduces new design
Anycoin Direct teases their new logo for 2020, hinting on a new full re-design
Hackers grab nearly $ 480K from blockchain platform Nuls
Crypto YouTubers spark outrage as the platform (temporarily) deletes videos and content
Not a lot of (de)listing activity in December. What are the brokers and exchange working on? Apps? Expansions? Below the overview of which crypto’s have been listed and delisted. Keep in mind that we focus on the (de)listings of crypto’s where we compare the prices of. If possible, we track incomparable (de)listings as well.
Listed |
Delisted |
| Knaken: APIX (APIX), Hdac (HDAC), Hycon (HYC) |
Knaken: Incent (INCNT), SAI (SAI) |
| Bitladon: WePower (WPR) |
Bitladon: BitSend (BSD), Bytecoin (BCN), Dentacoin (DCN), MaidSafeCoin (MAID), Substratum (SUB), Wings (WINGS) |
| Bitqist: – |
Bitqist: – |
| Coinmerce: Verasity (VRA) | Coinmerce: – |
| LiteBit: Binance Coin (BNB) | LiteBit: – |
| Anycoin Direct: – | Anycoin Direct: – |
| Coinbase: Orchid (OXT) | Coinbase: – |
As of writing the total amount of unique and comparable crypto, per the largest brokers and exchanges, are as following in compare to previous month:
Knaken 206 (+1)
Bitladon 194 (-4)
Bitqist 150 (–)
Coinmerce 144 (+1)
Bitvavo 58 (–)
LiteBit 51 (+1) Currently under going maintenance due to wallet support. Among them are Monero, NEM and Zcash. Full article here.
Anycoin Direct 26 (–)
Coinbase 18 (+1)
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CoinCompare 188 (-1)
We started December with 189 crypto’s where we compare the prices of and ended with a minus 1 only, resulting in 188 different crypto’s on our unique one page price comparison overview.
The biggest ups and downs of December:
Ups |
Downs |
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| +70.32% TomoChain (TOMO) | -53.73% Hedera Hashgraph (HBAR) | |
| +67.06% Waves (WAVES) | -51.31% Matic Network (MATIC) | |
| +59.17% Horizen (ZEN) | -41.17% Function X (FX) | |
| +54.03% GoChain (GO) | -40.24% Particl (PART) | |
| +45.70% Ocean Protocol (OCEAN) | -35.93% MaidSafeCoin (MAID) | |
And as final, the announcement of CoinCompare’s Best Deal Broker of the month. Please read the disclaimer below the trophy to understand how the best deal broker is determined. 16 brokers with 188 price comparable crypto, where the prices have been monitored daily to come with the following result at the end of the month December:
Bitqist! Owning third place with 76 entries and a 20.21% share and probably keeping it for a long time 
. A loss 3.35% in compare to November. No news, no new crypto added in December, but still trading around 150 crypto. That amount ensures them also bronze, as they are third based on the amount of crypto they offer.
Bitvavo! Still the cheapest broker 
for almost all the crypto they offer, but the amount of crypto is still a lot lower in compare to their competitors. Therefore, still number two in December 2019 with 103 entries and a 27.39% share. A gain of 0.17% in compare to November. No worries so far, as it is still 7.18% more then number three Bitqist.
Coinmerce! Bring in the champagne 
and light up the fireworks 
! The inevitable happened, next to becoming Best Deal Broker December, has Coinmerce also become the Best Deal Broker of the year 2019! Which is a first on CoinCompare, as we are tracking the digits for a full calendar year now. It is hard to beat Coinmerce when having a dominating 132 entries and a 35.10% share in December. A gain of 5.26% in compare to previous month. The two brothers don’t stand still either, because they have hinted to us that they are working on a new complete web- and app-re-design. We are excited, because “it’s going to be HUGE!”. More will be announced on short notice from their own channels.
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As final we would like to express our gratitude towards Coinmerce for their support to the crypto community 
. Besides offering crypto, they also make sure that they think along with newcomers, so that getting in to crypto will be a user-friendly process. Congratulations with being Best Deal Broker 2019 and being so from the beginning 
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The best deal provider of the month is determined independently with the average of cumulating buy and sell prices of all the best deals that are shown on our homepage. Logically, the larger the variety of crypto offered, the most chance of becoming the winner. In the end it is still the price of the crypto that matters as it has to be comparable. Discounts in Tiers and VIP levels are not included in the calculation. As deals change several times a day, due to the volatility of prices, the broker with the best deal can therefore change as well. Due to that fluctuation we take two snapshots per day to the determine the broker for that day with the most entries on our main page of our website.
