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What are the reasons number of investors get into crypto? Is it the secured system (blockchain) behind, or the value? I do feel my assets are much safer here with crypto secured system then banking. What really brings someone to crypto platform?

The main reason people are coming to crypto is the money sadly. There are the ones who buy Bitcoin and hope to see it "mooning" within 6 months. And there are the ones that buy the first altcoin they heard about and they think it will pump at 1000% within 48h.
The majority doesn't understand the blockchain technology behind.

Number of reasons behind. Everyone comes in to make money and a very few know how assets are secured. Many rich men do select crypto platform to safeguard their assets. Yes i do feel crypto is more secured then fiats kept in my local account.  So I do come here to safeguard with crypto currencies.

It depends on the investor, but most come for the money, which makes sense since all investors are looking to make money, the difference strives in how they plan to achieve this, if an investor takes his time to research different projects and then invests with the idea of holding those few projects for years after doing his due diligence then the chances that he will be successful are high, unfortunately that is not our average investor, the average investor in this market invest in whatever new coin has the most hype or invest in a coin someone recommended in a social network and as you may guess the chances of success for someone like that are very low.

It's about the money obviously, people are getting to the crypto these days or let's give those days of 2017 during the bull run for the sake of the money. And that's where the hype all started.

A sad fact, they bought bitcoin for one obvious reason but they don't understand the technology lies behind it. But it's all changing today, people who are investing to bitcoin today starts to realize and understands what bitcoin really is.

i came for the online poker (seals with clubs) back in 2012 but tbh became much more interested when the bubble erupted in 2013. then i got into trading crypto and never really looked back. i gradually gained a real appreciation for the genius and utility of bitcoin and its ability to secure value. there's a pretty steep learning curve to wrapping one's head around it (math, code, cryptography, economic theory etc) so i'm never surprised when i see noobs clinging to buzzwords and chasing useless tokens that are bound to fail.

i would categorize investors into three categories:
1. those who are in bitcoin because of the technology and what it offers as a decentralized currency and that can not be found anywhere else.

2. those who are in it for the money
2.1. the first group are real investors who know what they are doing and have been making a ton of money doing this because they are aware of where they should put their money and don't waste it on dumping altcoins.
2.2. the newbies that are hoping for the money but have no idea what they are doing. they usually get caught up in some altcoin and lost all their money by bag holding a bunch of them and call that a "portfolio" and go bankrupt sooner or later.

note that you don't have to only belong to one category. for example i am here because i like the technology and what bitcoin offers but also i love making a lot of money!

Most people that invested in crypto are getting money. Huge revenue - this is what pushed them to invest in cryptocurrencies. And not any blind faith in decentralized future based on blockchain. Imagine the number of Bitcoin holders if it was not so profitable over 2017. It is also hard to find any practical usage for most of the so-called digital assets purchased by people. So the only reasonable thing that brings crypto to people is money.

Most investor come to the crypto world again is because of the money. They will always come back and try to make a profit from what they invested. Although they cannot always make a profit, as long as they can see the opportunity to make those profit, they will be back and keep trying. Some investor is smart enough to see the opportunity, but the other investor is only following the previous people and pretending that they will make a profit too.

I think we all know why investors came to crypto,
It is because of the profit ,Investors wouldn't invest on something if it weren't for profit.
I know it is harsh but it is the reality people started to notice crypto because of the profit.
Take a look back as time past by more and more people are using it because they know that they could earn from it,
But when it was just new and before the big pumps people are just ignoring it.

First is the obvious profits waiting for them should the market change its course and go for huge gains. Bitcoin and crypto has always been posited for gains no matter the weather, and will surely be overcoming bear markets as people don't fully lose confidence on the said asset. Huge gains entice people, especially if they know that they are not the ones riding the same boat. Also, investing in crypto is a lot easier as you only buy and then watch your profits grow without a sweat during bull runs. It's the easiest investment to make currently, and I'm pretty sure most who made a lot of profits in crypto would agree.

That's the main reason average joes enter the crypto space. It's always a friend or someone at work who's bragging about mad gains, which motivates people to invest in whatever they heard or think is profitable.

That's why the price continues to rush up during bull runs. People actually get the profits they are looking for, till the bull run ends and suddenly people start panic selling. It's quite interesting how the psychology here works.

Overall, greed is the main driver for everything that represents crypto. If the market is boring long enough, even the most firm 'believers' of the tech get bored and start complaining about the lack of market activity.

Of course there are things that need to be taken into account by investors in investing in playing in the world of cryptocurrency.
the reason: crypto prices time, day, month, year always increase, it has been recognized in various top countries, not related to banking and another technology-safe crypto for its users.
Of course, in this case the name of a human being, you certainly want to have more and safer assets, so that every year the value of your wealth will continue to increasein crypto like bitcoin.

Generally speaking, I honestly don't care about the blockchain as technology either. I got bored of it because it's just one big buzzword hype businesses try to exploit in order to raise capital. It's obviously their right to do so, and actually a smart move businesswise, but that doesn't make the blockchain as technology any better.

The only thing of value that blockchains offer is their decentralization, and Bitcoin absolutely mastered the art of being a useful blockchain. Corporate and private entities don't need a blockchain, just a well configured database. It's more scalable and has been an option well before Bitcoin even existed.

If it isn't for the decentralization, the only thing left here is gains, and considering that the majority of the people don't care about decentralization, they're here for the gains. It's ok, they bring in liquidity, so there is at least one positive aspect to their speculative journey in crypto.

To me. the reason why I joined bitcoin all those years ago was the capability of earning money from all around the world instead of just my own country. If I wanted to earn money from an american it would have to be a big deal before bitcoin, now it is something quite easy and if I do like a simple task and earn 5 bucks which is basically nothing but still good feeling that I could do it and get the money in less than half an hour. The ease of transactions and connecting the whole world together was what brought me into bitcoin.

Plus, when I first started my laptop was capable of mining bitcoin, even those times laptops was getting out of hand and something like fpga (could be different, long time ago) was getting more attention but still my laptop making me money was a great feeling to begin with.

crypto platform was purely concentrate in decentralised platform because of everyone knows everything. It is more transparent in banking system so I really like this concept and we will earn great profit in short term. Normally all the companies and industries are adopt Cryptocurrency so this will be a future fiat currency.

When Bitcoin price starts from $.1 and then goes off to $100 then obviously, people goes crazy and went to crypto to make more money. Of course there's also that idea that bitcoin can be used as store of value since we have total control over it. And then by simply investing, your money will grow overtime that not even the banks can give you that big interest. But you have to understand that you need to know how to secure your wallet as well, specially if you're going to put a huge amount of money in crypto as investments or store of value.

Yes, true, a well-secured database can be enough in most case, but there are some industries that can make a real use. I don't mean the blockchain would revolutionize their business but for sure but it can help to make a more efficient system. I can't give a concrete example but the military defense and its supply chain (the blockchain start to be used by 2-3 companies) can be more efficient by 10-15%. (The USA don't use the blockchain directly ofc). For a company 10% increase in efficiency means a couple of million of profit increase yearly :)

The most common reason why investors are coming simply because they want to earn more, and since the hype on investing with cryptocurrency is high, they tend to focus on this one without any understanding about how this market works. I also like the idea of having a faster transactions so this is my one reason why I’m still here in cryptomarket.

a) Money matters (that's why they called investors so they will expect a return)
b) Technology
c) Easy to used

As far as the crypto hype is concern, there is no doubt that majority dragged into crypto because of what they saw to others, getting decent earnings.

However, there are people who realized that crypto is not always about getting "profits" and began to take advantage the fundamentals of using blockchain technology.

While on the process of pursuing their main purpose they learned how good using crypto is, how easy to access it, how easy to convert it on fiat etc. all things that they never experienced in a centralized payment processor or banks.

Admittedly or not recognized that people are interested because the value is extraordinary when the Hype occurs, it is very human if someone is interested in jumping directly to the market but there is sadness that they do not understand exactly the concepts in crypto and blockchain, insights that make mistakes breakable, the second is realistic because he wants to have a savings account in the future not too obsessed with being impromptu, that's what I know and in the end after the bearish market goes they start coming out and complaining about this situation, I just want to say You are not at the right time in placing all your money and not having enough patience as a long-term investor.

If all investors are to come out plain or vote, I can bet with my money that majority of the investors are in for the value and not for the system itself, which is the main reason why bitcoin has not really experienced high growth in its usage. Most of us including I sees it as a means of which the value of our current asset can be multiplied.

I remembered when I was first introduced to crypto currency, the person that introduced me to it convinced me with the fact that BTC is a good investment for the future of my children,because whatever amount I put in now will surely multiply by 100x before they are through with school, but really never made me see the benefit of crypto from the system aspect.

Cryptocurrencies are a system that is so good and has many advantages compared to other financial systems.
Security is the most superior thing, we all really want to apply the crypto system to various existing systems.
We just have to wait for our time everything is going well.

There are a lot of factors why people decided to invest into crypto currency. The most popular reason is for the money itself, crypto currency tends to fluctuate a lot than fiat.


Blind investor doesnt look at the system itself, they always look for the value if they can capitalized ad gain profit from crypto.


Banking system is still the safest way to secure your assets, dont let the crypto system blind you too much.


"Curiosity" thats when it all start.

of course the number one reason is profits or lets say money to be specific.  Lol because on crypto currency there's a free money especially  doing bounty and there's a massive profits also when it comes investing because its very promising wherein with it you can double your money in just one blink because of being so volatile of market time on time .reason more people become interested on it.

What brings investors into crypto is its fluctuating value. I am sure this is the main factor that makes investors interested in crypto. If it is safe, the system of bitcoin is not entirely safe because it is still prone to fraud and hacking. So in my opinion what really brings investors into crypto is its value. And of course there are still many reasons because there are many advantages of crypto that can get investors into it.

And this will always be the trend until something is really done to make people see the advantage of crypto currency in banking systems aspect, without this, the market will continue to be volatile and we being manipulated by whales, although we have so many entrepreneurs too now that are beginning to see the system aspect of it and using it as medium of payment for goods and services which may be the reason why the market has not been more volatile than this.

I think crypto platform will help you to become rich. And by becoming rich you need to learn trading. It's because trading is the best way in cryptocurrency for a person to earn wealth. That brought me to crypto. I guess that it's just like stock and will help us grow bigger.

At least cryptocurrency is able to make money without having to leave home and has changed someone's life financially if viewed from the material side. but in technology, we can find out that Blockchain technology is growing and can be applied in various fields as needed. So this is one of the knowledge we have to learn

Investors take advantage of its nature being highly volatile, which makes it the perfect candidate for a short/long-term investment depending on the person's goal. In addition, investing into cryptocurrency can be less complicated compared to conventional investments since you only purchase the coins and wait for its value to mature enough to be converted back to cash. Although it may yield large profit margins, it is also a double-edged sword since its risks are directly proportional to the rewards.
On the other hand, some people appreciate the blockchain technology since it revolutionized on how it addressed the elimination any third-party trust.


A cryptocurrency platform will not help you to become rich but it provides an opportunity for someone to earn bitcoins through exchanges. I would not say that trading is the best way to earn wealth as it is a very complex and complicated method.

90% of people buy crypto to make a profit, meaning cryptos are a good investment and people want to take advantage of this opportunity to make a profit, there's nothing wrong with that. If people make a profit on the investment they make, they can use those coins to buy their things. that's why I say that it's okay for people to enter the crypto world because of that.

Some entered into crypto cause they think its the easiest way to earn money, others think bitcoin is for long term investment where they could get huge profit someday.

The investors here at the cryptoworld because of the money or profit that's the reality we invested crypto because they see the potential to get them big profit or they become millionaire in the future. Im so hapoy because of that because I still earning money. Crypto have many brings to us not only in the profit but also the uses there is a lot of advatanges of having the crypto's so that's why they love it.

For me it's definitely because of being so volatile of crypto market which has a opportunity always that can make a good profits especially if market is fine. and with it you can buy a very cheap and affordable coin to invest . So probably that's the common reason why ppl jump to crypto.

The crypto makes it good to get people because of this many people who have jobs that are not even fulltime atleast still earning, but usually investment is the leading way to earn good profits and the crypto is a secured system and a good one currency in the world.

The main reason we have a lot of persons investing in crypto is because of the value not just the technology, this is what is causing frustration in the market because many of individuals who bought bitcoin in 2017 thinking that there will be an increase in price so that they can dump their coin ended up losing huge amount of money.

I believe that people should buy crypto not just because of the value but they should buy crypto for the technology itself and what they will stand to benefit in the future.

Depend on someone if we talk about cryptocurrency are much safer rather than we save in the banks. You may see some people who lose money in their wallet although it's their own fault. I do believe most people who come to invest in cryptocurrency are only in money matter, cryptocurrency are the most promising place to get a lot of profit especially investor bitcoin, till this time I can't imagine if someone start investing in 2010 and now he still hold a lot of bitcoin in their wallet, how much wealth they have got.

However, for someone who is conscious of the function of bitcoin or cryptocurrency as a whole, they will continue to explore and make cryptocurrency always grow. They will not be fixated on the investment that they have, but they will look for other loopholes so as cryptocurrency can be used by everyone. Which later they will see blockchain as the second reason when they choose to invest in cryptocurrency.

Not many people are here for the technology and those who claim that usually lie like Steve Wozniak.
Some people are here for a quick gain like former stock traders and some are for the long run like people who invested in the dotcom bubble and various startups.
I guess those who are here for the tech are people who made companies in the space and are trying to improve it like hardware wallet manufacturers but they also need money to operate.

I think that one of the reasons why they arrive at the cryptographic world is because the market moves much faster, due to the high volatility.

Many investors come from a market culture of the Stock Market, which is very safe, but whose important movements occur very slowly, that is, the movements that define a phase of the market occur every 4 to 8 years, while that in Crypto the long-term movements are usually 2, 3 or 4 years.

The security offered by the crypto is for its blockchain technology, fast and secure transactions, a not so expensive fee, and handle high volumes of money without the participation or permission of the government or a third party.

For some, they don't like the government control of their money. For instance, the government can limit money coming in and going out to the bank but cryptocurrency is freely transacted.

Crypto can be a safe place to store assets as well as an investment that can provide big results, and also to avoid taxes.

Fast and low transaction fee, tansparency, and anonymity. These are the reason why people are using it. In fiat transaction online, you must use your real name, pay huge fee, and wait for 2-3 business day in order to complete the transaction. There comes a time that they'll lock your account due to suspicous activity and you have to go to their office to appeal unlocking your account.

Well among all the things you've mentioned, i think the simplest answer would be the potential to make money. I mean, we're all used to keeping our money in banks and many doesn't even care about converting assets in crypto for it's security. Many people don't understand why they're here except for profit.

I think we are underestimating the hate against banks. Banks have been around forever but only in the last 10+ or so years they have been portrayed as the bad guys they are, even in movies and such we are starting to see people who are actually evil bankers, we didn't really see that before 2008 that much.

Since, those days we have seen plenty of movies where bankers are the bad guys. Long story short I think the "anti-bank" movement and seeing them as the bad guys in public's eye is a part of the reason why people moved to bitcoins, they wanted to control their own money and not let the JP Morgans of this world have the possession of their hard earn cash and than somehow lose it because they were too greedy with it.

Bitcoin has a strong anti-bank community that actually caused the creation of it and still it is growing in population everywhere.

Maybe it happen into your place but not to us. Banks treated us well and they are creating charity programs for the poor people which is to prove that they are help the community and just for there self improvements.
It is really disappointing to see those people who are too greedy which they never think the concerns of the others, in fact they have more enough but still they want more. How cruel is that? There is no question that the community may resist against them.

I think the primary reason of people why they enter in crypto world is the fact that you can make money through it. Indeed it has features that is beneficial to us like less hassle and faster payment for services or goods but on top of that is the ability to make money by simply investing.

The hype of investing in crypto increased when the time the value of bitcoin is soaring high, we are aware that due to last ATH of our assets many investors gain profit and thats how other people find crypto investment profitable. Although it didnt last long due to the investors who take advantage the bull run and sell their holdings.

There is no doubt that digital currencies have been one of the most important investment instruments in the last two years. Many investors live in the hope that investing in digital currencies will allow them to benefit from the rapidly rising prices that have been in the past.
For me, crypto is a daily activity, a free time. It's a cult. I don't know what crypto is for someone, but it's definitely the future.

The very first reason why there are a large number of people here is greed. Yes it is. Common human greed. It is she who pushes people here, for this reason most people become investors. I think this is so. People who are really interested in the development of any kind of technologies here are much less than greedy people.

I don't think investors invest into cryptocurrencies because of how secured the blockchain technology is but because most of us wants to make profits from the market.  I can even say the major reason why people are not investing into cryptocurrencies is because many of them are afraid of the decentralized system and the preferred a third party system like bank and other financial institutions. 
Blockchain technology is the safest place in terms of secured system but many people don't know about it and those that know more about it are afraid on the system!

I am not being sentimental, but I think seeing the system from investment side is really killing the system. We can also see this playing out in the recent market as the market is still yet to experience big investors who comes in form of whale to invest heavily and thereby pushing the price of the coin so high to bull for profit purpose.

But, I think the investors that where interested has already made enough through the previous bull and not come in again until maybe next year but the truth is that this has to stop because the technology was created simply for payment and not investment, this action of theirs in the past is what is still making the market yet to recover.  

Investors are relying on the value and we cannot deny the fact that they considered bitcoin as an investment. They are risk taker and believe that they will have a huge profit if they will put their money in cryptocurrency. Most of us here contain that thinking. Despite of that blockchain technology it offered, the main reason here is to gain an income.

I think the investors get into the crypto is because they see the future behind of the blockchain and they are following and aware of the technology. They think that cryptocurrency is one new type of investment while it's not already getting a massive adoption everywhere, they can get part of it. They can have many options of the asset aka coins that they can buy and hold it for a long time, and they can limit the money they want to use because when they want to invest in crypto, they don't have to use big money.

Actually the blockchain system is a great system .We are so lucky to get this chain system .The system is so secured and i think its just better than a bank.The platform brings a a nice chain system where we can find all the system to one chain .We can use it from anywhere from the world .The system is so secure and also easy to use .

Maybe its because they want to hide thier wealth from the government,   they invest into crypto cause they think its for long term profit.  No doubt they want huge profit cause cryptocurrency is the future.

I agree on securing system, well that is true that is very secure when we used the blockchain technology system. However, people come and adopt blockchain is because of money. That is sad but that's the fact here when it comes investment I didn't say that your asset is safe especially on ICO, so, technically there's always the risk that you've might facing if you are going to adopt this.

my view investors want to reap profits in crypto see the value is high and every bull rises, investors are willing to spend money to buy crypto. yeah even though when they buy during a bull situation, they don't know what is a blockchain product even though the security is guaranteed, but eventually they will become aware of blockchain security

Ok, if we go by your logic and assume that blockchains are better than banks, what happens when banks adapt to this blockchain revolution? It's only a matter of time before they will due to the efficiency benefits.

And then we have another side to the story, which is how much better are blockchains compared to databases? XRP and EOS use a database structure to operate and it works even better.

If there is one person we can assume that he knows his stuff, then it's Brad Garlinghouse, CEO of Ripple. Everything they do is focused on database solutions. The only reason they use the term blockchain is because of the hype.

Add blockchain to your operation and suddenly investors come to you asking how they can invest.

Maybe they're influenced by there friends through social medias. Many crypto users are from the social media they are just saw an advertisement or a post on twitter, facebook or medium. Cryptocurrency investors came for an additional investment platform and maybe they want more earnings that's why they are here.

Most probably because crypto is an internet money, and we can influence those people who have an idea on how the internet will work.
According to Hannahanto, he feels safe with his money in crypto than in the bank, this one I would have to disagree with, banking has an insurance while crypto has non, if you just want to safeguard your assets, you go with the bank, they provide better security.

See dude, if you look into depth, then there can be many reasons framed for which many people invest in this shitty crypto world.
There are many examples and profits for the Investors fro which they invest in Bitcoins and other cryptos.
Bitcoin is like Gold. It can be proved as a valuable asset if you see in depth. And if you invest wisely you will surely get profit.
In short, the Bitcoin's volatile price make many investors to invest in Bitcoin.

You are right, and people attracted to crypto in 2017 is because, in the middle of that year, they see the crypto was started to booming especially on many ICO. So they decide to invest some money, buy many coins while the price is low, and after the middle of that year, boom, the crypto was exploded and many people were making huge money.
I don't agree too if we save the money in crypto because we don't know what will happen with crypto and we can see that the crypto still unpredictable besides that, we need money in our life. But maybe we can separate the money into 2 parts, so we could still use the money while we can save the other money in crypto.

The reason I came to krypto for me was the main reason I kept my assets in crypto and also safe in many ways with us through trade or investment, and transactions.

If you feel it that way then you are right but there are some safety measures that you have to do first in order to safely secured your crypto on your wallet. By putting your key on a piece of a paper and hide it somewhere where you are the only one who knows where it's hidden.

Saving it any hard drives will be good provided that you'll never used it for another transactions. But even though we have do it still we can't assured that it will be a 100% safe unless we don't used that wallet anymore after saving cause it possible that we might be misplace our keys.
It is also a keep safe that not to leave our coins in an exchanges cause might not know that it will be hacked and loss everything inside including ours. So better to keep it in our wallet if we don't want to sell it.

I am brought to crypto platform because i can find easy way to trading. I am not mention about easy to get profit, but i am broker of a company before, and help investor trade in gold security. But with crypto platform, with general knowledge that i get from my company before, i get easier thing to trade and not really need a lot of capital to start.

You have every right to come into crypto platform for any reason that suits your interest but this ideology of using the system for profit or trading purpose only may make us never to see a stable coin or less volatile market.

We at least need to try as much as possible to keep part of it as asset so that crypto currency aim can be fully achieved on both side and not just falling on the part of profit alone, one of the reason why we are not experiencing much growth in the market is because a lot of people are scared of saving their money in the crypto platform because of its instability and we need more funds to keep the market growing.

Investors fall into this area primarily because you can quickly make huge money here, this is the most important factor due to which there is an influx of new investors here. This is one of the most volatile markets among all existing ones. This factor attracts the majority of investors here.

I dont think that crypto is really secure . when you buy a crypto you will be storing them on a wallet and on an exchange , the owners of those purse are still the one that controlls your assets  . they can also be hack and scamming is also present on this space .


Banks actually charge small compare to bitcoin fees  . while banks can secure your money safely away from fluctuations . many investors came because they want to earn but few are only succesful because bitcoin and crypto investing is not an easy task  . this isnt a way to earn easy money   

I think op should consider doing a pool to evaluate what really brings people to crypto, as for me, in the early days of blockchain, the tech was quite fascinating, even though over-hyped still it was an ingenious invention and worthy of the emerging tech-class. However, with a gravitational shift to a more speculative value rather than utility, it's become harder to know what really brings people to crypto as the days of stupendous "x'es" are probably over, and people lose more money now that before.

There are a lot of reasons people invest in crypto, one of them is the value, a lot of investors got a lot of profit by only holding it for long term and it's safer to keep your coin the wallet, there are a lot of security layers in the wallet, and its safe from the government supervision, and the future potential of crypto is very bright, there are more adoption and research that being conducted to implement crypto in daily life, and its more efficient to used crypto as transaction system

If I am to break it down, 50% are in for the profit that comes from its value, 30% are in to hold it as real digital assets for a long term while the remaining 20% are for both.

Now you can see why the market is yet to grow that much and stabilize, can you imagine if we have almost number of users who are in for the utility, how would it have been so sweet to hold and asset and store it for future and anytime you need part of it, you can always take from it and still retain the exact value you invest in with profit on it but many of us are so impatience that we really want to take the whole of the future in our pocket now.

There is not a lot of new money in crypto these days

So your whole question becomes kinda meaningless if this assumption is correct (which seems to be the case). But if you in fact wanted to ask why people got into crypto earlier (like a few years ago), then the answer should be straightforward and it was easy money. Those who invested in early 2015, had patience to keep their coins till the end of 2017 and prudence to quit when the time came, multiplied their investments. That was the primary driver if we cut the crap and noise