Tips When Investing in Cryptocurrency

When investing in cryptocurrency, you can find many one-stop-shop over the Internet that will give you many advises. As an investor research only objective information about any cryptocurrency or crypto app that you might be interested in.  If you are considering to invest in any crypto coins, it would be helpful to understand these projects. The best cryptocurrencies out there are the ones that solve these giant problems in the startup world. You would also want to know how the price has been performing over the last month, 6 months, year, 2 years, so you can think about how you want to time your entity in the market. You’ll definitely want to follow the coin and check the news and reviews to get a sense of what the general market sentiment is like towards that coin and figure out is it being worked on, if yes, by who? Are they no-names in the industry, or do they have serious street credit? Is the project evolving?  Is it getting faster, cheaper, better and easier to use? These are very important things. If you see that prices are going up, but there doesn’t seem too much progress, then that’s probably a red flag. But if you see that the price is staying flat or declining, but there seems to be a massive progress being made on that project, then that could be a sign that’s it’s a good time to be involved. You would also want to look into the economics behind the coin in question that you’re doing research on. An example on this is check how many coins are out there in active circulation for that currency? Is the overall supply of coins capped and limited to a fixed number, or is there inflation built into it in a yearly basis? The answers to these questions vary greatly from coin to coin. So it’s very important that you understand the supply and demand economics behind it.

Only invest what you can only afford to lose. Note that every dollar that you invest in cryptocurrency could all go to zero overnight. At the end of the day, cryptocurrencies are programs or software. Software and programs are built using codes, which comes from humans. Humans aren’t perfect and these codes may contain bugs. It’s possible that a bug could get discovered that can lead to a “black swan” events that could wipe out your entire investment overnight. Aside from just bugs, there’s a risk of a 51% attack on the network, or the fear of quantum computing. There are user errors that you also have to consider. Cryptocurrency has only been around as an industry for about 12 years now, so we’re all kind of learning on the fly how to do it. It’s very much so an experiment, it’s early days, so make sure you’re treating it as such and that you only invest what you can afford to lose.

 

Posted by Lyndsey Annabel