All the reasons why NEO should be part of your crypto portfolio 👍
cryptocurrency·@pandorasbox·
0.000 HBDAll the reasons why NEO should be part of your crypto portfolio 👍
<center></center> <h3>**I'm a big fan of NEO, as most of my regular followers will know by now, and full disclosure: about 40% of my entire portfolio is in NEO. And in this post I'm going to tell you why, and why you might want to consider adding NEO to your portfolio as well. I'll try to keep this short and focus on the benefits for _you_ and the future outlook.**</h3> <center></center> <h3>NEO IS BETTER THAN ETHEREUM</h3>It's true. It just is. The benefits are numerous. Let's start summing some up: * **1000 tps versus Ethereum's 15 tps** This means NEO is much faster and can handle _a lot_ more transactions * **NEO is already a form of PoS, Ethereum still needs to upgrade to PoS** NEO already is, what Ethereum is trying to evolve into * **NEO's network gas is seperated in the GAS token, ETH is not** Transacting on NEO will not diminish your stake like it does with ETH * **NEO has higher rewards** Ethereum is [planning on giving 1-3% ROI on their PoS](https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/7p9o2z/vitalik_said_he_is_shooting_for_13_interest_for/?st=jcb0qidg&sh=56621763), while NEO [_already_ gives you 5-7%](https://neotogas.com/) (I have had it higher in the past) * **NEO GAS can be earned with _any_ amount of tokens** Ethereum will require you to stake a _large_ amount of money, whereas with NEO you can stake with as little as 1 NEO and start earning * **NEO's GAS generation is super easy, staking ETH will require a lot** With NEO, just transfer it into your wallet and you're done. No need to even keep the pc running. But with ETH you need to actively run a node to send on transactions. * **NEO transactions are FREE** And there is a _very_ good chance that they will remain free, or near-free. Ethereum transactions are about $1 currently. <center></center> <center></center> <h3>DECENTRALIZED VS REGULATORY COMPLIANT</h3> One criticism of NEO is that it's not decentralized as Ethereum is. This is bad research though, because anybody looking a little further will find out that NEO has always had plans to fully decentralize, and is in fact in the process of decentralization. The majority of the nodes are indeed still under the control of the NEO council, but this is intentionally done in order to be able to guide the network in it's infancy and protect it until all the bugs are completely gone. and all attack vectors are covered. I personally think it is a mature approach, and I believe decentralization is certainly coming and possibly faster than most think. NEO's main focus is _not_ to 'fight the man' as most decentralized-focused blockchains seem to be though. Instead of fighting the system, NEO seeks to _upgrade_ the existing systems. It is therefore designed from the ground up to be regulatory compliant and inherently possesses properties that make it acceptable by governmental bodies. Ethereum, on the other hand, is a 'wild west' to most regulators and as such faces regulatory risks that NEO probably will not. It is not for nothing that NEO is hinted at being the 'Ethereum of China', and rumors have been for months now that NEO/Ontology has some kind of special relationship or standing in the eyes of the Chinese government. <center></center> <h3>THE FUTURE</h3> Most of the top crypto's are actually Ethereum based crypto's, but NEO is quickly coming up! Whereas Ethereum has always been the go-to place for ICO's, more and more serious projects are going to NEO instead now. There is as much development in the NEO ecosystem as there was in Ethereum early in 2017. NEO has a huge warchest to fund development too. And it's working. For the NEO development contest they are running with Microsoft in China, no less than 318 teams have already signed up [according to the latest count from a little less than a month ago](https://steemit.com/cryptocurrency/@pandorasbox/new-neo-dapp-competition-with-microsoft-has-318-teams-sign-up-that-s-a-lot)! 318 teams!!!! That's a _lot_! <center></center> And let's not forget City of Zion, the community initiative for NEO that has done _amazing_ work in developing wallets and contributing to the NEO development. A sister-initiative has also sprawled in China, with an equally enthusiastic developer community dedicated to NEO. Vitalik may be a super genius, but when it comes to business NEO's Da Hongfei actually looks the part too. People have likened him to being the 'Steve Jobs of crypto'. Who will big business do business and build trust with? The autistic boy-genius with the unicorn shirts, or someone like Da Hongfei? <center> </center> <center></center> I have been seeing NEO as a $300-500 coin ever since I bought it. Truthfully I did not expect it to be $120 already, but I completely believe that NEO will reach the $45 billion market cap that Ethereum has had for the greater part of 2017. I think Ethereum is going even higher than it is now too, though! It's likely that Ethereum will be more valuable in market cap for a long time, perhaps always, than NEO. But NEO offers a _lot_ more growth potential, and getting in as early as possible means not only do the NEO tokens appreciate in value, the GAS you generate appreciates in value as well. I am currently generating more USD worth of GAS per year than my initial investment in NEO was. Talk about ROI!! I'm forever bullish on NEO. Will hodl this for another 3-5 years. <center></center> <br> <center>[](https://steemit.com/@pandorasbox)</center>_(Art by [Roy Lichtenstein](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Lichtenstein))_
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