CoinCompanions, hereby our new Buzz of February full of crypto news. Better late than never! As the bulls had their market entry in January things were looking promising. The month February was experiencing a small cool down with healthy pull backs. Still, with the halving of bitcoin in May to come, who knows what will happen 
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As always the following subjects will come forward in this month’s Buzz; CoinCompare, monthly Throwback, Crypto listings, the top 5 ups and downs and of course the recurring Best Deal Broker of the month announcement.
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It has been quiet at CoinCompare for a couple reasons. We are mainly with two crypto enthusiasts, with different fields of expertise and jobs and use a part of our spare-time in our company and our platform. We aren’t a full-time company. Still, we apologize for the lack of absence and continuity. Unfortunately it shall remain like that for a while due to private events.
That being said, I also want to announce that we are expanding our services on CoinCompare.eu. Blood, sweat and tears are shared to ensure our new service is finished and ready to launch in March 
. We are excited and we hope you are as well.
A couple notable developments and happenings:
Coinmerce launched 2.0. Full new design for web and app in which simplicity is key
De Nederlandse Bank (DNB) publishes first newsletter for providers of crypto (Dutch)
Tron founder Justin Sun finally had his charity lunch with Warren Buffett
Twitter CEO managed to get bitcoin logo for #BTC and #bitcoin
Italian crypto exchange Altsbit got hacked and lost € 65 million in crypto
Cryptopia film premiered in Europe See trailer here
Kraken Security Labs hacks Trezor wallet within 15 minutes
As of this new year we shall track all listings and delistings actively, not just the comparable ones. A couple altcoin listings and one delisting in February. It has been stable for a while now. Let’s hope for more changes in the future. Below the overview of which crypto’s have been listed and delisted at our supported brokers last month.
Listed |
Delisted |
| Knaken: – |
Knaken: Grin (GRIN) |
| Bitladon: LTO Network (LTO) |
Bitladon: – |
| Bitqist: – |
Bitqist: – |
| Coinmerce: Chiliz (CHZ), Hedera Hashgraph (HBAR), LTO Network (LTO) | Coinmerce: – |
| LiteBit: Chiliz (CHZ), LTO Network (LTO) | LiteBit: – |
| Anycoin Direct: – | Anycoin Direct: – |
| Coinbase: Kyber Network (KNC) |
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 215 (-1)
Bitladon 196 (+1)
Bitqist 150 (–)
Coinmerce 146 (+3)
Bitvavo 58 (–)
LiteBit 53 (+2) Currently under going maintenance due to wallet support. Among them are Monero, NEM and Zcash. Full article here.
Anycoin Direct 26 (–)
Coinbase 20 (+1)
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CoinCompare 189 (–)
We started February with 189 crypto’s where we compare the prices of. With Grin out and LTO Network in, the total amount remains 189 different crypto’s on our unique one page price comparison overview.
The biggest ups and downs of February:
Ups |
Downs |
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| +199.37% Hedera Hashgraph (HBAR) | -46.66% Telcoin (TEL) | |
| +161.40% COTI (COTI) | -44.44% GoChain (GO) | |
| +132.96% Power Ledger (POWR) | -39.55% LTO Network (LTO) | |
| +120.34% Kyber Network (KNC) | -39.54% Gulden (NLG) | |
| +109.84% Orbs (ORBS) | -39.34% Moeda Loyalty Points (MDA) | |
Here are the best deal brokers of the month February. Please read the disclaimer below the trophy to understand how the best deal broker is determined. 16 brokers with 189 comparable prices are monitored to come to the following result:
Bitqist! Keep an eye out for this broker as they have from time to time the best sell prices for your crypto 
. With 70 entries and a 18.42% share, they gained 0.10% in compare to January 
resulting in keeping the third place.
Bitvavo! Going up! From 104 entries and a 27.22% share to 113 entries and a 29.73% share. Nice gain of 2.51% and still the provider who handles the lowest commission on their buy and sell transactions 
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Coinmerce! The best deal broker of 2019, article here, still going strong! In compare to January, they had small loss of 0.08% 
in February, but still holding the biggest share in the market with 134 entries and a 35.26% share. With their new design, user-friendly dashboard, great variety of crypto and good publicity they are still king 
. And there is more to come, as announced: “So, we’re excited to announce that soon you’ll be able to deposit almost all of the cryptocurrencies Coinmerce offers and use a new trading option to swap cryptocurrencies.” Great work!
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.
