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hi, i just joined the crypto market, and was referred to this forum so i can learn better and can learn from on this forum. I have some questions please help me answer it:
- I have an initial capital of $5000, what coin should I invest in for the long term?
- How to avoid easy scam coins?
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We cannot give proper financial advises. You should not invest based on random people's advises. You should learn and understand what you're doing.
Also you're on a bitcoin and crypto forum, hence people will tell you why crypto is great ;) Just, again, make your own decision when investing.

Now to your questions. For newbies Bitcoin is basically the only proper solution because it's the least risky. But keep in mind, all crypto investments are risky. I cannot promise you that you'll be on profit in a week or a year from now. That's why one rule is to invest only money you afford to lose or keep locked for long time.
Historically an investment in Bitcoin was on profit in max 4 years. But Bitcoin is still young and history doesn't mean that much.

On the other hand, altcoins promise great profit, but on very long time they usually disappoint (compared to bitcoin). Also it's difficult to find really profitable ones, even for rather short periods.

So with Bitcoin you also avoid scam coins, as long as you are careful to get actual Bitcoin and not Bitcoin cash, bitcoin gold, wrapped bitcoin on ethereum network and other things with bitcoin in their name.

Three final advises:
1. Make sure you buy from established and reputable platforms to minimize the chances to get scammed.
2. Take a close look at the platform requirements and fees, especially at the KYC requirements (if it's a KYC platform and you are OK to give your details, you may want to pass the entire process before your money is locked in there for whatever problems) and the trade and withdrawal fees.
3. Make sure you read and understand how to hold your coins safely. You may want to acquire a hardware wallet for your coins. Crypto is very easy to be stolen. Also keep in mind to always double check thoroughly the addresses you send/withdraw coins to (because copy/paste viruses can easily trick you into sending money to scammers).

I hope that this is informative for you and I didn't scare you too much :)

Be careful of that $5k crypto is a good field of investment but id you dont have enough knowledge on it even the basic one that budget of yours could end up to 0 as many factors to give you a good recommendation for investment and it has a very big risk. Make sure that money isnt your hard earned money or if it was hope you are ready for a huge gamble in trading crypto.

Regarding scam we have a section for that here where you can check out some posted coins and tokens.

Thank you for your advice, it is useful advice for me when I am new to the crypto market, I will consider and learn how to invest safely, manage my capital in the best way.

Are you ready to lose this 5000$? If anything goes wrong can you move on and not be let down because of your money? This is why I warn newbies not to use money that they can't afford to lose on crypto investment, since you are knew to crypto BTC is the best one to start with.

There is an unwritten rule in this community that you don't ask for financial advise because no one really knows how the market is going to move so no one can give you what coins to invest. Still based on your research. What we can do is to invest on the solid coins, in the top 1-20 and not on hype and shit and meme coins.

How to avoid scams? "If it's too good to be true, then probably is". Always use that philosophy.

You should diversify into bitcoin some of the top altcoins.
Actually, for long-term investment plans, it is preferable to read the fundamental factors well rather than the volatility performance. However, you can also analyze their charts in recent years based on historical price and marketcap volumes in conclusion.

Though it was stated above that you shouldn't rely on other suggestions regarding financial advice but here's my opinion regarding your questions.

Since you're talking about investment in the long term, choose a project that has been proven, tested, decentralized, and very volatile that has fast-moving in the market.  IMO, Bitcoin is the first choice and as others said, this potentially will have profit in a long term.

These are my opinions,

• Always DYOR
• Don't trust a hype project
• Always prefer on the decentralized concept
• Have a real use project

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Having this amount as initial for your investment. Please take time, don't just buy because someone has told you this and that. You study first as much as you can until you're too confident about what you must buy. But as a suggestion, start to study about bitcoin.

Invest to the top coins, you can use websites like coinmarketcap.com and coingecko.com.

Simply BTC, if you are really serious about finding opportunities and being safe from scam projects. When I see many new entrants to this market, they usually set very specific profit goals, but when it comes to buying and holding coins directly, the volatility in this market makes many people unable to maintain their own position. I find it important to have the basics to avoid making fundamental mistakes in the market.

Yes it is good place to learn. You will find in this forum very experience User. Newbie can learn lot of skill and safe advice from Old members.
Diversify your fund and don't invest in one coin. Bitcoin and Eth should be included in your investment. Both are for long term.
30% for Luna,Sol,Dot,ADA and Avax.
Don't buy any coin which are not listed on binance. You are new to crypto so I recommend you to buy only those coins which already available on binance.

If you want to absolutely avoid the risks i would say that you can buy stablecoins to put at interest / stake on binance

Welcome to the bitcointalk forum. Seeking advice on which coin to invest in should be bitcoin and other top altcoins. You diversify your investment.
Investing in the long term means that you are patient enough to wait on what comes out from your investments in years to come. Don't invest in an amount you can't afford to lose. Anything can happen in crypto

Wait and buy when the market corrects again. Most people make the mistake of investing when the market is high and then usually lose. But the very few manage to buy for psychological reasons when prices have fallen sharply. But this is exactly where you make the biggest profits in the medium and long term.


As a newbie, invest only in established coins e.g. in the top 50 or even only top 30. Many make the mistake and buy very very cheap coins with a small market value, thinking those can still rise the most. But there are reasons why they are so low. If you stay away from them, you have a great chance to avoid scams.

Of course, you ask the right forum, here most of them are people who are experienced in investing or trading, and you can get advice from those who are experienced, I will also give you my opinion briefly.
-$5000 is very suitable to invest in bitcoin and ethereum for the long term, you can choose to invest in one or both by dividing it into 50:50.
- there is no sure way to know it's a scam or not, we only use a thorough analysis, such as the team, roadmap, community and other documents that we consider that the project is taken seriously.

This is my personal suggestion to you. You can check the top coins in https://coinmarketcap.com/ you should choose around the top 10 or 5 coins they are good for long term investment and don't stick with one coin, it is smart to divide your $5,000 to buy different coins.

To avoid scam coins, it is easy. Avoid high yield coins, low market cap coins, meme coins and pump and dump coins. Stick with top coins and always do your own research, try to explore the forum and read I can guarantee you that you will learn a lot here.

First and foremost, welcome to the Bitcointalk forum. I'm confident you've come to the proper place to find answers to practically all of your Bitcoin and cryptocurrency-related questions.
In regard to the question you ask on which crypto coin you are to invest in, I will advise you to take your own time and get a detailed knowledge on what cryptocurrency and trading is all about, after that you on your own will know which one to go for.

You must go to the legit coins. I just suggest you to get into the top 200 CMC. These tokens have strong fundamental compared with the coins placed below it. As a newbie and you must think about the wise decision to get an investment without involving a big risk.You can pick some from top 200 CMC as your candidates and try to do your own research to make sure you are picking the best one from your list.

YOu must not be greedy. majority of scam coins placed at hundreds or thousands. You must not also fall into the non sense APY offered by the scam token.

$5000, just put it into bitcoin, eth & solana & forget about it until retirement age. You should make a lot of money that way but your capital isn’t enough to get rich short term. You are going to need to HODL for likely two decades.

5000 is a good amount, if you are new to trading, then take the trade with a little thought, because a little wrong decision can lead to a big loss.  If you want to trade for long term then you can invest by looking at the coin which is listed in good exchanger (Like -Binance , Ku-coin etc) and its trade volume.

Congratulations mate on finding the forum, it's always great for you Crypto-currency knowledge hunt to be part of this forum, go look around the forum and read pin threads.
Question 1: let this be part of what you learn from this thread that you Don't let people choose for you in which coin you should buy, rather seek that suggestions on a listed coins from you and ask for the benefits of each of them.

Question 2. Firstly don't believe in hype without your own research, don't be lead by unsearchable greedy, ask questions when lost.

5000$ is the amount of money already that I want to invest and spend it to learn new knowledge. I can still accept the risk of losing if it brings something of value to me.

i willing to lose it, but when it comes to investing what value does it bring to me, knowledge - experience or anything in the long run I can apply when participating in the cryptocurrency market  :'(

solana is a new concept to me, I don't know what good is solana so I can invest this coin?

thank you for the advice, i will look into this, probably good to learn and invest in a coin anyway.

You need to refrain from investing and study cryptocurrencies starting from the basics. Only based on the acquired knowledge will you be able to make decisions on your own. Otherwise, you can easily make a mistake in choosing a coin and the time to invest, which will entail the loss of your capital.

Since you are trying to avoid easy scam coins its better to buy BTC, some newbies don't care about their capital safety they like gambling with new coins and tokens, this trick has good results too but is way too risky for a newbie, stick with BTC for now.

Hi and welcome mate. For a starter, $5000 is a good amount of money to put in cryptocurrency.
Well, you can just buy any top coin with small amount first, sometimes we need to learn from our mistake.
The important thing is, we don't buy wrong coin/token, double check smart contract address when we want to buy token, secure our wallet, avoid phishing. If we can avoid those common mistakes, it just a matter of time until we find some good coin/token to buy.

thanks bro, i will consider your advice, little but understandable. And currently, which project do you feel is meeting the opinions you just mentioned above?

yes i see people sharing is very active even though i am a newbie. I have spent 20% of my money for long term investment in bitcoin and eth, i want to spend small amount to invest first, research a few things before deciding to invest more

for long term investment bitcoin and ethereum is the best choice. but with 5000$ I don't think it's good. maybe you can buy other altcoins like solana, Terra, Avalanche, BNB, Polkadot, Polygon, or Cardano which are cheaper.


the easy way don't buy coins outside the best 100 list on coinmarketcap. and don't invest in new projects. although there are many projects that can buy ROI of more than 100% but not a few also end up rugpull. so don't invest in new projects.

How to avoid easy scams?
Just invest your money in bitcoin and ether and there you go, you can keep yourself away from the scams. I think being new person on the forum you should head over to beginners section where you will have amazing topics to learn from. I don’t know how much faster you can gain the topics but there are versatile topics. Whether it’s trading, buying coins, mining, understanding blockchain and more you can gain everything.

But don’t just fall for the other coins just as of now. Learn, then invest.

This is not a place to ask what coins are worth investing in, this is a forum to learn what and how to invest, you should be careful asking what coin to invest in if you're a newbie because this forum is full of promoters of pump and dump coins and by asking you're inviting them to victimize you.

My advice is to read, roam around think and be objective don't believe in all you read until you've done your research, investing in Cryptocurrency is not easy, the market is highly volatile and other people are not responsible if you invest in the wrong coin because of their suggestion.

If you are willing to lose it, and want to take bigger risks then you should be focusing on lower cap ones. When you go to a website like coinmarketcap, or coingecko there you will see the market cap of the coins and they are ranked based on that. Which means that if a coin is 1st in the rankings (bitcoin) then it has a lower chance of going 10x, it still does it, we have seen it recently, but it is a lot more rare.

But, if it is 89th or whatever, or even lower, then going 10x could be easier, obviously both can do that only in big bull runs. But if you do not want to risk anything, then picking 5 coins out of top 10 (not stable coins) then you should be fine and hold it for many years.

5000 is a fairly good amount. In this case, you have to be careful to invest, you are surrounded by scammers, you have to analyze yourself to invest, first acquire some knowledge about crypto by yourself, then by researching you can find the best sector to invest for you .
Now you can take a good look at  trading sector.