Karras35 on 12/2/2021 at 11:46
I was wondering who of our members are into crypto.
If you are, like me, please post in this thread.
My first idea is to learn who is into it, my second idea is we could use this thread to exchange thoughts on certain coins that we invested in or think about investing in.
Also this can and is supposed to be an encouragement and a gateway for those who don't know anything crypto yet. I can provide some help to explain exchanges, coin listing websites, wallets, etc. I'm relatively new to this (June 2020).
My current Portfolio:
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https://i.imgur.com/fXTCq91.jpgYou don't have to share your portfolio like me and if you do, please make sure to black the amounts.
The ideas for this thread are still growing and I'm happy about any feedback and people who participate in the discussion.
demagogue on 12/2/2021 at 12:11
I've been researching cryptoart and crytopgaming recently, and have been toying with the idea of making my own or being a dealer for it. I like the underlying tech of a distributed database and the whole ethos of creating more security not by closing the public off but actually making a thing as transparent and as widely open to the public as possible. It kind of fits the open source ethos.
That said, I tend to think using it just for currency is about the least imaginative use of its potential (I might even protest at using the term "crypto" to only that one use of it), and I really dislike the mining aspect of bitcoin and some others, which is just wasted work and resources that do nothing good for the world except pump more carbon in the atmosphere. But some other cryptocurrencies are a little more responsible. And it's something I still follow because even things like cryptoart still work like cryptocurrencies in the underlying economics of it, and of course it's natural to integrate crytpocurrency with other cryptocommodities once you're already working in the world.
Edit: Even to the extent I'm into the cryptocurrency, it's just like it'd be for other currency (buying & selling) and not for speculation, which is really no different than forex trading and I think at some point it'll just fall entirely into that category. It's a thing people can do if they have heaps of time and money to sink into doing it properly, but I don't think it's such a good return on the life energy spent on it when you could be creating something useful or enlightening for the world. Or well, flipping the point around, in the long run I think you can make more money doing forex trading. I worry how bubble-like cryptocurrencies look, and the fact that unlike national currencies, there's not like this massive userbase underneath the speculation that gives me a little more confidence that, say, the currency of Tajikistan isn't going to just collapse one day, or at least you'll get some forewarning about it.
Karras35 on 12/2/2021 at 12:22
Quote Posted by Gryzemuis
FYI, cryptocurrencies are a scam. They are impractical. They are unsafe. They are kind of a ponzi scheme. They are not privacy-friendly.
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https://www.coingecko.com/en)
You are talking like my father who is very stubborn and missing out this unique opportunity.
Basically everything you said here is wrong. 1. Nothing is unsafe. You are responsible for what coins you buy. You have to chose wisely. Everyone can create a coin and some people of course try to make profit. It's not wise to invest in those small risky unknown (yolo) coins. The biggest cryptos are a very safe investion. They have products, working teams and agenda, whitepaper, smart contract etc . You can read them. It's very transparent. However, of course there are also "scam coins" out there you should not touch. 2. They are practical. You can cash out any time you want on your bank account. 3. They are safer than FIAT (€/$ etc). Look how much worthless $ play money the US is printing and dumping into the market causing inflation and big crash. Crypto is decentralized and much safer. Again. It's not 2015 anymore. 4. It's no ponzi scheme. It's simple supply and demand. 5. It's more privacy friendly than your bank account. ;)
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https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/the-graph)
Quote Posted by Gryzemuis
Lots of people have made money through cryptocurrencies. And more will. And lots of people have lost money. And many more will lose money. It's pure gambling.
There is some truth in this. But it is definately not pure gambling! You can analyze the chart and numbers. Everything is transparent. It's not the half criminal thing it was 5 years ago and what you think it still is! Today there is over 1 trillion worth of dollar in crypto! Big companies invested in crypo. Recent example: Tesla invested 1.5 b into Bitcoin 2 days ago! And that's just the beginning! It's the cataclysmic event crypto needed. Everyone who is smart invests in coins. But wait for the next small dip. We live in exciting times. I'm hoping to "retire" within the next 3 years. - But not from cryto of course. It's the future.
[video=youtube;5VtLwIeeW2M]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VtLwIeeW2M[/video]
Edit: Hi demagogue I'm super busy atm, but I like your response! :) I'll try to respond to it another time. :)
SubJeff on 12/2/2021 at 21:31
They might be unstable now, but will they always be?
Pyrian on 12/2/2021 at 21:38
In the long run, everything is eventually stable. ;)
Nameless Voice on 13/2/2021 at 00:04
The mining is definitely very bad for the environment, at a time when we can least afford it.
So many computers burning energy to perform pointless calculations.
Gryzemuis on 13/2/2021 at 00:16
It's not just the mining. Normal operations also require lots of computing by lots of computers. Costing an extra-ordinary amount of electricity, as well as compute-power. That's why I linked to the wikipage about scalability. The compute burden for normal operations is so high, that you can't use cryptocurrency-payments for ordinary daily use. That's why I said cryptocurrencies are not practical.
demagogue on 13/2/2021 at 00:25
Quote Posted by SubJeff
They might be unstable now, but will they always be?
There should be shocks that kill off the fringe ones, but I expect (admittedly without having studied it seriously) that the major ones should stabilize to work like any stable foreign currency. That's I was trying to say before. But once the bubble pattern is over, then it's even more like normal forex trading, where there's not much change over time, and those markets are the most fluid there are and even more like pure gambling. Well I guess it's all gambling, the difference just being one's risk tolerance. The more volatile it is, the higher the risk/return curve.
Since I've been studying Myanmar recently, that's actually a good case study. When it opened up from 2010 and FDI first started coming in, that would have been a decent time to invest in Myanamr's currency (kyat) or derivative currencies like Thai baht, because it'd just opened up to foreign investment. While the output wasn't increased all that much, the derivative of the output shot up like a rocket because simple inefficiencies that made a huge impact were addressed, things like companies being allowed to open a bank account & not have to store their money in giant bricks of $5 for the first time in 60 years, and suddenly a population of 60 million goes from 0.6% to 60% cell phone ownership 2010-2018. But the coup is going to instantly undo a lot of that, because you can't do foreign business under a xenophobic military government that just had a coup out of paranoia of foreign interference. That's volatility; high risk/reward.
I haven't studied the dogecoin market lol, but I just have the intuition market behavior stoked more by rushes of dopamine, seratonin, and glucocordicoids are more volatile than ones slow cooking by cold calculation when traders have 40+ windows of financial data open in their browser and growth is grounded in some kind of real social-economic thing sustainably happening.
Karras35 on 11/4/2021 at 20:56
Update:
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https://imgur.com/0oGEl21(
https://imgur.com/0oGEl21)
Started with 8.000 $ in July 2020 atm it's worth 42.000$.
Buying mainly on Binance. Buy & Hold. Zero work.
At this rate it will reach 60-80 k until end of July.
Same performance again:
450 k - 800 k in July 2022. But I would already be happy if it's "only" 250 k.
Just sharing. I'm really excited about this and wish more people would take the opportunity.
If you know a friend who is doing it, I advise you to ask him how. It's really simple.
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Check out the total market capitalization of all cryptocurrencies together:
Yesterday for the first time in history it reached 2 trillion $
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https://coinmarketcap.com/charts/)
Quote Posted by SubJeff
They might be unstable now, but will they always be?
Good question. With "unstable" I guess you mean the high volatility. Just today I watched a video about Bitcoins volatility - something is changing.
[video=youtube_share;p6PStkW7lO4]https://youtu.be/p6PStkW7lO4?t=124[/video]