How to hold Cryptocurrency in 2018

hasyu

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In the past 3 weeks many Cryptocurrency investors have hold a large number of Altcoins such as TRX, XVG, XRP, ADA, etc. ranging from good to bad coins including DGB, DOGE.

Getting back a little bit with the psychology of human beings: we are always afraid but very pleasure when others talk about profit. When some coin prices are falling, you only see the negative things in it: "It will surely keep falling, so it’s better to stay away". When it turns back up: "It will plunge again sooner or later?" But when it's high up then: "It will no longer fall".

As an investor, you will have to understand a coin before investing money in it. You should evaluate and consider everything before making the decision to buy and hold for a long term (for 6 months to 1 year , or at least 3 months for the most impatient investors). Because one cycle of increase / decrease of a coin usually lasts for 2 months, understanding coin will give you confidence, psychological preparedness before facing the falling prices

The criteria to assess a coin:
1. General information about that coin
2. The purpose of generating the coin
3. The dev team (do more or say much)?
4. What is the current product? In what stage?
5. Are there existing customers? Potential customers?
6. Vision of future coin? Is it realistic or just expressed in words?
7. Scalability? Can it be accepted by the public? Is it possible to apply to everyday life?
 

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All good points @hasyu Particularly in light of all the reports of dead projects whose development has ceased. Scams and dead ICO’s along with money grabs made off with over $1 billion in 2017. Think of all the working products that could have funded. Think of all the good that money could have been used for. Think of all the big and small investors who sent money to those only to never see it again.

Be VERY careful when choosing to invest in a new project. Even the most ethical developers can lose motivation when money is easy to get in large amounts. If you were able to raise $50 million without a functioning product, how motivated would you be to continue development? Keep that in mind when investing.



https://cointelegraph.com/news/techcrunch-over-1000-crypto-projects-are-considered-dead-now

Thousands of cryptocurrency projects are already dead

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List of Dead Coins | Coinopsy

Two sites that are actively cataloging failed crypto projects, Coinopsy and DeadCoins, have found that over a 1,000 projects have failed so far in 2018. The projects range from true abandonware to outright scams, and include BRIG, a scam by two “brothers,” Jack and Jay Brig, and Titanium, a project that ended in an SEC investigation.

Obviously any new set of institutions must create their own sets of rules and that is exactly what is happening in the blockchain world. But when faced with the potential for massive token fundraising, bigger problems arise. While everyone expects startups to fail, the sheer amount of cash flooding these projects is a big problem. When a startup has too much fuel too quickly the resulting conflagration ends up consuming both the company and the founders, and there is little help for the investors.

These conflagrations happen everywhere and are a global phenomenon. Scam and dead ICOs raised $1 billion in 2017 with 297 questionable startups in the mix.

There are dubious organizations dedicated to “repairing” broken ICOs, including CoinJanitor from Cape Town, but the fly-by-night nature of many of these organizations does not bode well for the industry.
 
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