My Statement On Crazy Altcoin Speculation
Hi everyone. I feel the need to make the following statement considering the environment we're entering into...
There WILL be a major altcoin crash at some point in the next year or so. It'll affect the fundamentally flawed altcoins.
There are a lot of cryptos based on companies with no product. Cryptos with no application use. There are cryptos like Dentacoin which is based on dental hygiene and the dentist industry with more than a billion dollar market cap. That's ridiculous.
My point is, there is a coming consolidation. Many cryptocurrencies will continue to prosper for many years down the line, but many of the terrible cryptocurrencies will crash and burn.
Understand what you're getting into. Don't judge a book by its cover. A cool logo is not a reason to get in.
While I'm a big proponent of cryptocurrencies, I do find uneducated speculation to be concerning for those who've done no research but are maxing out your credit cards to get into something you know nothing about.
The fundamentals are entirely different from the derivatives markets, but it does remind me of the shoe shine boy in October 1929 giving the wealthy investor stock tips.
The fiat system will come down. The stock market will eventually come down. The bond market is crumbling as we speak. Cryptocurrencies, gold and silver will carry on and be innovated on, but that's not to say they all will. Many cryptos will likely not make it through this year.
I don't want people to get too excited and start throwing their money away. I've seen a lot of reasonable speculation recently, but I've also seen people promote cryptos they don't even understand. This has prompted me to make this statement.
With that said...
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Governments, banks and media are attempting to follow one bearish crypto story with another in an attempt to manipulate the value of the market down.
First was the faulty and fake story regarding a so-called South Korean ban.
Now talks about China building more walls around the market pertaining to mining.
Lots of FUD, no fire. This is further evidence of how powerful and dangerous the market is to the banking and political establishment.
I agree 100%, People should first understand what they are getting in to not all alt coins will do well, I've said this right from the very start of my Real Wealth Journey. The idea of having precious metals as part of a nest egg is also a good idea.
Exactly, and when we look back at the dotcom bubble, it's not that the internet didn't survive, it grew by leaps and bonds. It's more than a lot of the lesser web businesses crashed and burned and we should learn from that.
We can't compare cryptos to stocks in most cases, but considering this metaphor I think it's important for us to look at the big picture.
Yes, of course the dot com bubble caught a lot of people off guard, thankfully I wasn't one of them but I did suffer during the property market bubble in 2007 and the big crash of 2008. It just makes sense to have diversification in to different currencies and metals. The next big crash will be bigger than anything we have ever seen.
I have always been a little attracted to Dogecoin, because it is all about dogs, but I never quite thought about the things you talked about in here. I haven’t invested in it, and probably won’t.
Dogecoin has some fundamental upsides, but primarily it's a joke coin which hasn't released a software update in years, so I wouldn't personally get involved in it. It was never meant to break a 1 billion dollar market capitalization, nevermind 50 million. :P
Yeah, I am amazed by how big it is. Do you have any coins that you would recommend investing in now that have a strong support behind them?
Thank you to you and John for helping us sift through the BS. Agree a correction is going to happen in the crypto market. Be right and sit tight. Cheers!
Altcoins are the future, and IOTA is one such cryptocurrency that will shape the lives of millions around the globe with its iot infrastructure.
Can you elaborate? iot? What does it mean or stand for?
Dot.com 2.0
I agree it's like the dot-com bubble, but it's more like 1997 right now than it is 2000. Because it's just getting started, I wouldn't say for sure that the token market is going to crash this year, although it most certainly will at some point in the future. That said, I've been going all-in on small-cap altcoins lately because I think we are going to see massive gains before the crash. Tron was just the first example of what we'll be seeing in 2018 with some of these coins.
Do some due diligence, try to pick altcoins with a good plan and a good team, then cash out along the way into real currency (BTC, LTC, BCH) and gold. Also diversify. If you pick 5 coins, 4 go to zero and 1 goes 10x, you still come out ahead. If suddenly your coin hits a stupid market cap like Tron did at $17B, it might be time to sell and lock in your gains.
As for me, I'm in EOS, SUB, LEND, LINK, POE & ARN, but please do your own research. Resteemed.
Great comment and advice. I believe too that coins that are platform based are the ones to look out for. If these are successful then it will boom beyond our dreams. Am looking keenly on EOS, IOTA, ETH.
^^^ Solid comment there. Thanks for the list, still getting going/learning here, so coins to research are helpful. Thanks
yeah your post is 100 procreant correct 90 procent of the coins are shit are they won't deliver
I've seen a lot of coins with no fundamentals that just seem to soar on hype. Tron comes to mind, I don't think they even have a working product. Meanwhile a lot more solid projects are languishing. In the long run the quality coins will prevail but it can sure be aggravating to watch some people get rich off of crap.
Right now, I am really feeling that way about Bitshares. It has a fully working product with the DEX (decentralized exchange), fast transfer speeds and excellent fundamentals... but it's price has had a big drop in the last week or so. I'm sure it will come back up, but the drop is tough to watch.
I feel better about Steem, as there seems to be more and more people joining and contributing.
I keep hearing a lot of good things about bitshares but it is something haven't done much research on and I have never invested. Maybe a good time for some research.
Now is a good time to research #bitshares. I consider it to be one of the most valuable things that I've learned on Steemit. Steem and Bitshares go very well together. I've written a few posts on it in the past and I'll probably write a few more. Here are two recent posts:
Hope those help. Feel free to comment on those posts, or here, if you have any Bitshares related questions. I'll do what I can to help!
Thanks for the links I will check them out!
No problem. I also just posted another article on this topic.
And they are currently looking cheap!
Actually I'm just in the process of consolidating, going to buy a little more iota, I'm tempted by data. I sold 20% of my verge after it 20*, gonna hold onto the rest, I guess it's free money now.
That's a good way of doing it. Basically free rolling.
Wow. It's good to pause and just say it like it is I guess. All in all a very nice 'context post'... I agree with you 100% on this...
Bigger picture - fiat and stocks are themselves inherently flawed, on that basis (good) crypto coin growth is much more likely than traditional wealth funds.
Micro picture - there is a populist wave of altcoins, most of them are pointless and will disappear... Personally I put all of the various dope coins in this category. There are simply too many pointless coins for MOST of them to just crash and burn.
I'm beginning to wonder whether I should just consolidate all my various altcoins (I do have a few comedy speculations in there) into some solid ventures and just not look at my portfolio until July (or some other random month this year).
It'd probably do my heart the world of the good, and I doubt if it'd make me any less richer (or poorer) in the long term.
I've decided not to mess with my crypto portfolio either. Usually I try to make trades to make more profit and it backfires anyway. Last one, I traded out of Verge just before it 20x'd. So now I am just holding my positions and if I want something else I will just buy something with cash.
u are doing great work....keep it up....best of luck
Agree. Upvoted and resteemed.