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Here are some little pieces of advice about Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies:

1. Invest only what you can afford to lose

2. Don't put all your eggs in one basket (diversify your investments).

3. Do your own research_ (DYOR) before investing.

4. Stay up-to-date with market trends and news.

5. Use strong passwords and 2FA_ to protect your accounts.

6. Never share your private keys or personal information.

7. _Be cautious of unsolicited investment advice.

8. Don't invest in something you don't understand.

9. Have a long-term perspective (avoid quick profits and losses).

10. Keep your emotions in check (avoid impulsive decisions).

11. Use reputable exchanges and wallets.

12. Stay calm and patient (avoid impulsive decisions).

Remember, investing in cryptocurrencies carries risks, and you could lose some or all of your investment. Always prioritize caution and careful consideration.

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Do risk management most especially that bitcoin is a high-risk asset. Otherwise, if you fail on managing its risk, you will never be successful on your bitcoin investment, or in general, your crypto investment. And if possible, never let others know that you are into bitcoin investment. Never create topics that will give hint to the people that you have bitcoin in your wallet, aside that will put you into danger, your bitcoin asset as well might be prone to stealing or hacking your own wallet so they can make an access to your bitcoin.

Thanks for all these advice in their numbers, but i think the best top do for now is to focus more on the best advise which can be useful for traders alone, since we are on the trading discussion board, if we are to consider the general advise on what is expected of us to do as a whole in cryptocurrency, we may not be able to finish them because there will be a lot to say and warned of.

There is no form of investment that does not contain risk and this is not just talking about crypto because all forms of investment have different levels of risk. Talking about fluctuating assets does have a much greater risk if invested without knowledge because the market can change more quickly than expected. But what's interesting about bitcoin is that it has a repeating cycle and if someone can understand its conditions, minimizing risk will be much easier.

Risk management will be formed when someone understands the assets they want to invest in and emotions will be much easier to control. The points you convey will be well formed when someone understands how to make investments correctly because if someone starts with poor knowledge it will make things more complicated.

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Worst advice ever for crypto.

Do NOT diversify your crypto investments. Only Bitcoin should be considered for investment. Even if you "diversify" it should only be to hold coins you use a lot (ETH for gas on Dapps, for example).

It's highly irresponsible to teach people to diversify.

100x or 1000x altcoins what? That's not investment, that's gambling/speculation ;)

Everything contains risks. the difference is only in the level of risk itself. In the crypto world, Bitcoin may have a lower risk level than Altcoins. But there are also altcoins that are more risky than other types of altcoins such as memecoins and shitcoins. So the most important thing is that we have to recognize the investment instrument or field we are going to enter. Don't just be a person who makes decisions based on feelings or impulsivity. But understand everything starting from the basics. Likewise in trading and investment. All the suggestions conveyed by the OP are really needed. But in practice, only a few are often used by beginners who have just come to crypto trading or investing. Because most of those who come are because they are carried away by the hype caused by following an influencer. But this is quite common. maybe even I used to be like that too. The most important thing is that we must not be lazy in studying and analyzing everything we are going to enter first.

It can be worse if you picked up the wrong assets but if that was the case, then it's better to just focus only in BTC or in ETH. For someone who already have an experience, they might still need an advice like this because they themselves are already doing this on the top coins. If we are a DeFi user or an airdrop hunter, we can deal with a lot of tokens and they need an extra coin like for example ETH for us to initiate a transaction but I think this is not what you call as diversification.

Diversification can only be for the investors who purchase different assets in bulk and then they don't constantly use those assets but they are only waiting for the best times like the bull run before they liquidate them for profits. Investing is gambling because the value of the assets can sometimes go down and worse may not recover anymore. When investing, our aim is to profit as much as we can, so yeah that 100x or 1kx return is something that we really love the most.

Diversification is not always advised, but the idea behind it is not bad, provided you do it properly and do not overdo it. If anyone must diversify, I always say to make sure that you have more than 85–90% of your investment in bitcoin.

The difference between investment and gambling is not so significant; the difference is mostly on the timeline for potential profit, for which gambling promises a quicker return or loss. The difference between investments and gambling cannot be about the involvement of research alone because in some gambling, like sports betting, the gambler has to actually do some research before making a decision.

Investments in Bitcoin are significantly advised, but let's be sincere and tell ourselves the truth because we know that it is not only Bitcoin in the cryptocurrency space that has a potential return on investment in the long run; it is just the most reputable of them and the most promising, and not all altcoins are promising 100x or 1000x returns. A little investment in some other coins (diversification) can still be considered an investment.

Be low profile. Not everyone needs to hear the story of your life and your crypto journey. There's a reason for this so that people won't be assumed to be friggin' rich in crypto. But if you're too loud and boasting, you will never know what may come. One of it is something like a $5 wrench attack[1]. So, if you love your life, keep your mouth shut and choose who to talk with for something that matters a lot and sensitive topics in real life. Life is tougher nowadays and people can do crazy things for their own sake.

[1] https://www.financemagnates.com/terms/5/5-wrench-attack/

I feel this thread is better suited for the beginners and help board given its content. This is the trading and discussion board and your content don’t highlight much about trading. I think the closest to that is having to invest what you could loss and invest on a long term base.
However, most of the tips and pointers to safe investing remains valid, the thread could do more by being informative to the many newbies that would be more frequent and needy of this kind of advice in the B&H board.

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Don’t be too hasty to loss your precious Bitcoin. Always ensure to take security/privacy methods seriously and hodl as much as you’ve invested.

It is a bad idea. Bitcoin always proves to be the best in gains, and sustainability. I insist diversification means buying Bitcoin in addition to funds, stocks. etc.

Diversifying crypto into others... is going against history of price and utility of all altcoins, which show they have no ability to grow over Bitcoin.


No man. Investments are based on sound background. Good market potential. Good future userbase. Good prospects of growth and technological development etc.

Buying altcoins have no basis on any of those. People only buy them completely on low cap potential to explode, and community interest, and listing interest, etc. That's gambling and speculation :) altcoins don't even bother with whitepaper now. Or new tech. Just ripped coding.

Exactly. Be it in trading or investing alone, one should never dare to share that he has bitcoin in his wallet.   Bitcoin is an expensive and profitable asset so you need to be more cautious about your words and actions so you can secured your coins 24/7. Don’t flex whatever achievement or successful investments you have most especially in social media, those people will never be happy for you but instead will try to attack you indirectly.  And as much as possible, live a very simple life despite of having successful bitcoin investment so that people will never make an eye of you, and think that you are only making a minimal amount of income enough for daily survival.

Only 12 points or there are still other points that are needed to be included in it again.
Don't be someone whose profession is to advise others if you don't have the practice for yourself.
Nowadays we are sophisticated, including getting answers to questions we don't know quickly, such as using artificial technology.
Trading is not as easy as the theory suggests because in practice trading is not as easy as AI providing answers to the keywords we enter there.

This repeating cycle in Bitcoin can only be exploited by people who have high patience and sufficient knowledge of Bitcoin. But traders usually look more at the moments and trends in the market itself because traders always enjoy more profits in a certain period of time, including profits in the short and long term. However, regarding risk, I think this is the main point that everyone must know before starting any work because in this world there is no work that can be avoided from risk.

Too many obvious stuff here that people do not really realize how important they are. I believe that we are going to end up with a lot of people who are thinking about making a mistake, and they fail to do it most of the time.

I think it needs to be something that will be taken care of, and we need to just consider how this could be done some other way. In the end, we need to focus on how to get better, and I am not really seeing how this could make things any better in the end. I believe that people are aware of these, and just ignore them or not even realize that they are making these mistakes.

I agree these are important, but I also think that people are not as stupid as we think, they are smart enough to know these are mistakes, they are just stupid enough to make them anyway. I do not know what makes a person do something wrong even though they know that they are doing the wrong thing, that is a human mystery that will never be figured out, but they still do. The day we realize what makes people do the wrong thing they know they shouldn't do, we can have great traders in the world who avoid all of these and do the right thing and make a lot of profit, but that is not right now.

While that can be true but it's mostly applied to the ones that have actually made a mistake in the past. Experience makes someone smarter and avoid those stupid stuff to get into them.

But not all that trades and invests to the market are experienced and some sort of these tips are going to be helpful to them.

We only realize that we're stupid enough that had done a mistake upon seeing others do differently but in a positive way. As they say, if it works, it ain't stupid but if it doesn't then that's it.

These are obvious tips, but then they keep resounding because we mostly ignore them. Lemme contribute to everyone of them.

The first rule of investment, especially when it's about volatile assets.

Diversification here doesn't mean to buy several altcoins and shitcoins. It means enter real estate, buy gold etc.

Doesn't necessarily mean you must research, it means you are liable for your investment decisions.

Necessary for day traders but has nothing much to do with long term investors.

Day traders and exchange users.

Very important, but you can share with an important someone in your life. Who knows you may die next week.

99% of unsolicited investment opportunities are scam.

I consider this as the most important of financial advices and since I got this advice 2023, I became wiser.

Accompany this with DCA
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There will be friends and relatives that will want to speak to you about this and they will make you feel that you are obliged to tell everything to them. But don't do that, you are on your own and you have to protect yourself from them and that's why remaining lowkey and avoiding talks in real life about your assets and Bitcoin is a must. If you are not comfortable of talking to the person in front of you then don't but it's also your decision if you're going to be talkative to them if you just want to be nice but still, pick your topics and words.

Another reminder is that every bitcoiner or crypto enthusiast should remember the rule of "not your key, not your coin." Some investors feel deceived by some offers on staking rewards, and therefore they put their assets at risk by depositing them on a third-party platform that they cannot control as they would if they had them in a self-custodial wallet. Also, the advice of diversifying in crypto investments has actually led some people to heavy losses. I think it's better to stick with the only few coins or tokens that the investor is aware of. If you must diversify, then it should be on other non-crypto assets. 

This are all very good advice that all newbies should follow but the advice is also good for older investors as alot of us haven't been investing in the right way and this is making us to not make profits while others are having successful investments.  Investing in either Bitcoin or altcoins can make you to have a good profits if you don't invest above your limits and don't get involved in fomo that leads to you buying at the top. Always wait until the market is settle before you start investing in any cryptocurrency. All the tokens that gets newly listed should be avoided and monitored to see how they are performing before you invest.

Well, I can share it because I have nearly nothing lol. What people need to be careful about is if they have any, because at that moment it would be subjected to attacking, both physical one if they know who you are, and also to hacking attempts as well, doesn't make sense, should be something we need to be careful about.

I believe that if we can do something nice, like something we can actually care about, we can make that work, and shouldn't be an issue at all. We are seeing growing pains in crypto these days, and if you can wait for it then we could all get rich, at that point we need to be silent about it.

Living a simple life when you get rich is hard, a lot of people want to fix things that are wrong in their life, that doesn't mean that they are going to go out and buy a lambo, or even latest iphone, it just means paying off their debt, that alone could be something that could peak interest from others about where you found that money, so you need to hide what you spend as well. If you spend anything on anything, do not let others know, because while you hide your income, you may fail hiding your expenditure and that could give you away, which is usually what people see at first sight.

There are so many hidden explanations you didn't make in your posts and I will brief some of them for clarification especially those who are learning and majorly the newbies and I will only do that for the ones that are not self explanatory.

(2) putting eggs in different places doesn't guarantee anything in investment unless you invest into the right project, buy coins that will worth something tomorrow and not some shitcoins.
(3) 2Fa are majorly for exchanges at most, I don't see there used aside from that and make sure you are using the open source one, not closed source.
(11) there is nothing like reputable exchange, most if not all exchange all acted like they are the good guys that are loyal to there customers but when you check inside, you will be awe on how they cheat their customers and seized funds from people.

Once you own bitcoin or even altcoin, then you should be responsible of your own keys. Do not let other people know that you have bitcoin because that will also put your own keys into danger. Remember, not your keys, not you coins, so you should do everything to protect your keys by not sharing it to others, or keep it in a private place where it’s very impossible for one to think that you are hiding your keys there.

I disagree with this. Not all the time this will work or not for all people.
My personal experienced here is Bitcoin versus altcoins, before, I only had Bitcoin but later on, I was lured to altcoins, and converted some of my Bitcoins to some altcoins.
And after that, I realized, if I just hold Bitcoin, I am more profitable and not lost some.

When it comes to crypto, it’s no doubt that there is no diversification needed as long as you focused more on bitcoin and accumulate more through DCAing regularly. However, if you wish to invest out of crypto so you can secure more profits in the future, that could also be a very wise option. Diversifying your investments does not only mean limiting in crypto, but you can also start dealing with non-crypto potential investments as long as you only invest on the amount you can afford to lose, not through taking a loan or borrowing money from friends or relatives as that could only mean increasing its risks.

You can't blame diversification when it's your fault, if you can choose the right project you won't lose money and will even get better returns. I think this has to do with each person's knowledge and experience because if investing in altcoins only causes losses then why do some people still make huge profits from it and some don't?

Also, is investing in altcoins really considered diversification? I think diversification is when we talk about assets outside the crypto industry and diversification helps us reduce risk. Putting all our eggs in one basket is never a wise idea because it can cause us to lose everything if the cryptocurrency market experiences problems. For me, diversification is about investing in cryptocurrency and outside assets like stocks, real estate...not altcoins.

As far as cryptocurrency is concerned, Bitcoin is the only asset that you can invest in and go to sleep with your two eyes closed. Despite the recent price dip that we're experiencing now, the experienced Bitcoin hodlers are not bothered about it, they know that it's price has the capacity to correct itself and skyrocket. But you cannot say the same thing about altcoins, most of them will dip and never recover, meaning that the project is dead and the investors will hold worthless bags. Although there are top altcoins that have gained reputations in the crypto market, but none can be compered to Bitcoin that has gained a reputation as a store of value.

All of the thing is important to be understand so people doesn't make a mistake and prevent it before it happens. But number 10 and 12 could be lost if they are panic and can not maintain their emotion. We see many traders or investors fail with that number but they still have a chance to fix their mistake by checking what they already done.

If they can track what they did, they will see where is the mistake so they can be careful for more and will learn and practice more better. Investing in cryptocurrencies have risks so they must know how to manage the risks not to become big. By always learning and practicing what they learn, they will see their skills will improves and that will helps them to make a profit.

That's my whole discussion since the beginning :) I think it's usually other way around however. Crypto (Bitcoin actually) is the diversification of investors who naturally first had non-crypto investments.

Maybe Gen Z are the first ones who first invest in Bitcoin, then traditional, but I don't think there are many. Most Gen Z start with Robinhood stocks.


Only if the sleep is multi years though :) Daily sleeping and checking is a nightmare for firstimers ;)

Bitcoin is way more profitable than altcoins, so there’s no wrong if you’ll just stick to bitcoin and maximize your bitcoin accumulation. While potential altcoins may also be capable to give you future profits, but as much as possible learn to avoid the new altcoins in the market, they have not yet proven their high utility in the market and worst is, they could only be a trap to get us scammed. This is the reason why I don’t encourage investing in altcoins, except for highly potential altcoins, but stick with bitcoin even through DCA.

Those are the basic needed by a trader with your journey you will learn all of those things seems like its a prerequisite. If you want join in trading having a background what you will do is a must so you need to understand the market price movement with the help of the indicators, news because its affect the market every country or huge name acts with the Bitcoin. Next is what platform youw should use like the exchange and wallets and as a trader it's your highest priority to secure your money and make it safe. As possible secure your funds with the security feature they given or even your device use a strong layer of security to prevent possible attacks.

This is the reason Bitcoin is regarded as the king of cryptocurrency and the best coin to buy because when you hodl Bitcoin, you have a guarantee that you are going to make profits when the market recovers and begins to become bullish again. Altcoins are just too many and there are many of them that it is difficult to keep track on all of them to know which one is going to be the best decision to pick for investment. The buzz around them also shifts often therefore it is harder to be capable of determining which altcoins will give you better gains. The choice of investing in many is not good too because it can cancel all your profits that you were supposed to get when some of your investments gives you profits, therefore it is just better you choose Bitcoin to invest into.

All the advice the OP listed are all great and it's hard for me to choose if which those are the top ones but that's also great if it's already included there. Taking note of it is only easy anyway. If we can learn more, then why only limit ourselves? And having a lot of learnings is actually better because this can increase our chance of becoming successful on this field.

@OP,
Practically, I have come across lots of such suggestions and advices but nothing pushed me when I am into trading. Because, the trading pressure led me to be mad like and then I do forget all my learning. But, pro traders also share like they also faced similar scenario in their initial days and on gaining experiences, they are making use of advices. Overall, I am also on expectation of good days in my trading.

It is up to the person how he will react when he is infront of his computer when he is in the mood of trading. It would take patience and experience before you can say, you already contain yourself emotionally when you are executing your trades.
It would take time before you can say, you are already comfortable doing your trades. As there are quite a number of factors to consider, patience and perseverance are needed attributes to keep yourself interested in trading. It is by no means one day work to learn the strategies, tips or tricks to get out alive on this tedious activity.

Bitcoin will continue to be the king of all cryptocurrency having a bitcoin is actually a very big achievement and that is why you see everybody trying to do everything possible to hold the Moments you are able to hold for a very long time. Definitely you will be profitable, That is Something I can actually guarantee when it comes to investing in bitcoin not just investing. Do you actually have the patience to hold for your very long time? Because Only those that can hold for a very long time we will be profit. The population of altcoins It's too much and it very competitive in the market when something becomes too competitive it becomes very dangerous business to trading in. Look at bitcoin for example everybody knows that when the price goes down it would definitely come up That is one that that bitcoin will always do and with the level of trust people have for bitcoin they know it's value that bitcoin will always be bitcoin. And if eventually you are going for altcoin go for a better and the once's that have a very good market record before the whole thing will just crash because that is like a normal thing for altcoin when ever the market is down.

The summary of this advice is you should buy Bitcoin and and altcoins and the forget about it. When you buy something and you forget about it, all you have listed as advice wouldn't necessary, you wouldn't be bothered to look at your wallet, you wouldn't be emotional about it and anything sentimental about it wouldn't move no matter the condition of the market.

Don't forget to use the funds you can afford to lose, this will help you very well on holding your coins otherwise you will be feeling as if there is a big load on your head. There is nothing that is going to be sentimental about Bitcoin that will ever move you. Even if there is a crash, you wouldn't be move about it unless your target is reach before you attempt to sell your coin and this is not only to Bitcoin but all other coins.

I think the sentence using money that you are ready to lose is a sentence for people who gamble, but investing is different in my opinion, the sentence is not right when talking about investment, where compounding value becomes something very valuable, of course you can't not think of all the risks.

Yes, it should be using cold money, or indeed the funds have been provided for long-term investment, then from that you will not panic and know the clear direction where you will run even though the trend in the market fluctuates, if your sentence is used it is the same as playing gambling on an asset that we invest in and hope to become a dragon one day.