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Title: Are Altcoins Risk or Opportunity? Post by: Nexta on September 22, 2025, 08:14:23 PM Altcoins like Cardano and Avalanche provide alternative approaches to scalability, governance, and decentralization. Yet their success depends on adoption, community support, and real-world utility.
Exploring altcoins critically teaches how innovation and market perception interact. Each project offers lessons in risk management, ecosystem growth, and the dynamics of supply and demand.How do you assess an altcoin’s potential versus its inherent risk? Title: Re: Are Altcoins Risk or Opportunity? Post by: Jegileman on September 22, 2025, 08:49:04 PM Altcoins always have a way to get people’s interest in them and then after a while, their promises are not fulfilled and people tend to have similar beliefs on upcoming ones and put them on the same category over again.
Altcoins potentials can be assessed through what it tends to offer, solving real time problems is the best way and if it is just rebranding old ideas, they won’t get the attention they want. They need to have a good or known developer behind their project to get the interest of the people. Their tokenomics also plays an important role while assessing them. Market hypes and general perception of the public on the coin can either move or break the project. The risk management of the tokens has to be preserved, like do they have enough liquidity? not regulated and not prone to hacks? All these are to be put in place while checking the potential of a coin and their inherent risk generally. Title: Re: Are Altcoins Risk or Opportunity? Post by: Orpichukwu on September 22, 2025, 10:30:10 PM We can only try; we can't get a perfect pattern to use and detect a genuine profitable project, but we can use our sense to object and avoid some obvious scam projects.
We can only try; we can't get a perfect pattern to use and detect a genuine profitable project, but we can use our sense to object and avoid some obvious scam projects. The same way that altcoins offer us good opportunities to make profit is also the same way we are, but with the risk of losing money in that same process. What I actually avoid in altcoins is overhyping; I prefer to let the development do the talking and not the hype by influencers. Once there is real-life usage for the project, then it will get my attention. Title: Re: Are Altcoins Risk or Opportunity? Post by: pooya87 on September 23, 2025, 03:22:37 AM Majority of altcoins are centralized and have no new ideas, they just rehash the same old ideas over and over with a new name and new advertisements. This is why they don't have real potential and any "opportunity" is just short term profit making at a very high risk.
Each project offers lessons in risk management, ecosystem growth, and the dynamics of supply and demand. That may have been true many years ago with the first generation of altcoins, but it no longer is true. Most of the altcoins we see today are just fake projects that no matter what supply they have there will be gamblers who buy into them (fake demand). There is no lessons to be learned here if you ask me.Title: Re: Are Altcoins Risk or Opportunity? Post by: WatChe on September 23, 2025, 03:39:05 AM Majority of altcoins are centralized and have no new ideas, they just rehash the same old ideas over and over with a new name and new advertisements. This is why they don't have real potential and any "opportunity" is just short term profit making at a very high risk. It looks like new Alt coins are launched with aim of just grabbing investors money. Now we have hundreds of thousands of alts in the market and it's natural that worth of alts has to go down due to so many alts circulating in the market. Moreover Alts are launched with claim of novelty and innovation but majority of them failed to deliver that or are either abandon by founders soon after the fund raising phase is completed. Title: Re: Are Altcoins Risk or Opportunity? Post by: btc_angela on September 23, 2025, 07:42:31 AM Altcoins like Cardano and Avalanche provide alternative approaches to scalability, governance, and decentralization. Yet their success depends on adoption, community support, and real-world utility. Exploring altcoins critically teaches how innovation and market perception interact. Each project offers lessons in risk management, ecosystem growth, and the dynamics of supply and demand.How do you assess an altcoin’s potential versus its inherent risk? Depends on which altcoin you are going to invest. If you go on the top 20 altcoins, then maybe there is risk but not that big. As compare to let's say a meme coin or shitcoin, if you don't have that experience and then just randomly throw money on them and think that you will make a lot of money, then that is the risk. Because as what others said, it's a dangerous investment, as it's pure of manipulation and pump and dump. So with that, the risk is very high and the chances are slim that you can make it alive unless you are very very lucky. Title: Re: Are Altcoins Risk or Opportunity? Post by: DeathAngel on September 23, 2025, 08:36:06 AM All investment vehicles are a risk but obviously some are a significantly higher risk than others. Nothing highly profitable is achieved by low risk investments. Altcoins are a risk but if you invest in major Altcoins (not sketchy memecoins) you can do very well so I would say Altcoins are a risk but give you a great opportunity to make a good return.
Title: Re: Are Altcoins Risk or Opportunity? Post by: JamesDaniel90 on September 23, 2025, 10:27:46 AM Altcoins are a risk but they provide much more opportunity compared to Bitcoin now for the rest of 2025.
Some altcoins will go to zero but many will 10x or more in the next 3 months. Manage your risk, and you should be fine investing in altcoins, especially those in the top 100. Title: Re: Are Altcoins Risk or Opportunity? Post by: Charles-Tim on September 23, 2025, 12:19:39 PM Many people know how to make excellent findings and know the right altcoins that they can invest on, but most people are blind to this and lose high amount of money on many new projects and altcoins. Altcoins are not worth it for many people but they can easily just invest in bitcoin.
Title: Re: Are Altcoins Risk or Opportunity? Post by: beveryu778 on September 23, 2025, 01:32:04 PM Altcoins like Cardano and Avalanche provide alternative approaches to scalability, governance, and decentralization. Yet their success depends on adoption, community support, and real-world utility. Altcoins are always risky and many people consider it as an opportunity who can take risks with Alt like gambling. Altcoins are very volatile so it is very difficult to control yourself and hold here. As long as you are in Altcoin, you will be under mental pressure. And then you will make wrong decisions and lose a lot. If you want to make good money with Alt and consider Altcoin as an opportunity, you have to be a very technical person and have the ability to control yourself in many ways.Exploring altcoins critically teaches how innovation and market perception interact. Each project offers lessons in risk management, ecosystem growth, and the dynamics of supply and demand.How do you assess an altcoin’s potential versus its inherent risk? Title: Re: Are Altcoins Risk or Opportunity? Post by: passwordnow on September 23, 2025, 03:55:47 PM How do you assess an altcoin’s potential versus its inherent risk? The potential really depends on how it's being made and what's the purpose of it. And the risk also differs when the altcoin has already been established. The lesser risk are the ones that have been in the market for so long but that doesn't mean that the longer the projects are, they're unlikely to scam. There were projects in the past that have became scam despite that they've been known already in the market. One example of it are the Do Kwon projects, the terra projects, LUNA and UST.Title: Re: Are Altcoins Risk or Opportunity? Post by: Slow death on September 23, 2025, 04:28:25 PM Altcoins like Cardano and Avalanche provide alternative approaches to scalability, governance, and decentralization. Yet their success depends on adoption, community support, and real-world utility. Exploring altcoins critically teaches how innovation and market perception interact. Each project offers lessons in risk management, ecosystem growth, and the dynamics of supply and demand.How do you assess an altcoin’s potential versus its inherent risk? In my case, I would first evaluate the team members and their past successes. Then, I would start by analyzing the project idea, how many projects have the same idea, and then whether it's a viable idea in the current market and whether the team is at an advanced stage of implementation. I also evaluate the altcoin's supply. Only when I see and am convinced that it's a project with a truly competent team and a unique idea, in which case I would risk investing. But currently, I prefer to stay away from these new altcoins because they offer nothing relevant. Most are just copying other projects, changing their names, and promoting pump-and-dump schemes. So, it's not worth investing in one and having months of headaches. The last time I invested in a new project, the developer disappeared with all the coins and I lost money. Title: Re: Are Altcoins Risk or Opportunity? Post by: Frankolala on September 23, 2025, 07:34:12 PM I believe if majority of people in the cryptospace is serious with investing and we only have few gamblers, altcoins dev will run at loss because they will have very little profit after pumping their scam tokens into the market. We have people who are greedy and want to make $1 million dollars with $1000, they end up falling for these shitcoins pump amd dump scam. Take a look at how many shitcoins Trump family alone have created and what's their current price now compared to the price immediately after launching it in exchange.
Title: Re: Are Altcoins Risk or Opportunity? Post by: GeorgeJohn on September 23, 2025, 07:58:37 PM Altcoins like Cardano and Avalanche provide alternative approaches to scalability, governance, and decentralization. Yet their success depends on adoption, community support, and real-world utility. What you need to know is that every coin is a risk during the investment because there is every possibility or probability that the coin might not survive when you invest on it some of them can undergo a bearish market on the process of investing on it so that is why we need to be careful and investigate properly for coin that we are about to invest on....Exploring altcoins critically teaches how innovation and market perception interact. Each project offers lessons in risk management, ecosystem growth, and the dynamics of supply and demand.How do you assess an altcoin’s potential versus its inherent risk? Investing in altcoins is an opportunity and also a risk because there is no investment that does not deal with a risk measure due to the possibility of it potentiality in the market, by a chance the coin you invest on survived it have turned to opportunity for you but the process wehereby the coin you invest on could not survive out means you are on the risk part. Title: Re: Are Altcoins Risk or Opportunity? Post by: Balmain on September 23, 2025, 08:05:41 PM I don't think altcoins are decentralized. They label them decentralized, but that's impossible. Altcoin investments, even those we call major altcoins, are extremely risky. They all use similar technologies, the only difference, in my opinion, being their communities. Many lack practical application in daily life, and that might change in the future, I'm not sure. There will inevitably be projects that will create significant changes, but they will still be centralized systems.
Title: Re: Are Altcoins Risk or Opportunity? Post by: Wakate on September 25, 2025, 05:25:43 PM I believe if majority of people in the cryptospace is serious with investing and we only have few gamblers, altcoins dev will run at loss because they will have very little profit after pumping their scam tokens into the market. We have people who are greedy and want to make $1 million dollars with $1000, they end up falling for these shitcoins pump amd dump scam. Take a look at how many shitcoins Trump family alone have created and what's their current price now compared to the price immediately after launching it in exchange. You just hit the the nail on the plywood and you are right about the way many altcoins projects are flying out of nowhere. These people know that if they launch a project at anytime, they will always see gullibles that will invest their money before they crash the market. Too many altcoins that should have not gotten a single investor are their in the crypto market getting lot of money from investors that hope to get profitable from their investments. If every trader and investor choose to dump their projects, many of these scam devs would never dare to launch another project again because they know that people are not going to invest in them.Title: Re: Are Altcoins Risk or Opportunity? Post by: X-ray on September 26, 2025, 04:33:33 AM Altcoins like Cardano and Avalanche provide alternative approaches to scalability, governance, and decentralization. Yet their success depends on adoption, community support, and real-world utility. Exploring altcoins critically teaches how innovation and market perception interact. Each project offers lessons in risk management, ecosystem growth, and the dynamics of supply and demand.How do you assess an altcoin’s potential versus its inherent risk? More of a volatile asset to me where you should profit and get out while converting it back to bitcoin to preserve wealth and grow it. Altcoins like cardano and avalanche is rather bumpy ride because sentiment shift fast, there's also premint which I didn't really like. That's why even if I invested into altcoin, I will eventually come back to bitcoin. Title: Re: Are Altcoins Risk or Opportunity? Post by: Accardo on September 26, 2025, 05:09:22 AM Altcoins is an opportunity for the builders not the investors, there make more than the buyers and decides what happens next whether to dump it or pump it with some kind of promotion on another project. Just few days when the Binance coin hit 1k it was a huge news then in few other days CZ started pushing Aster project on his page. With the success of one altcoin these developers use it to drag attention to other project they wish should be recognized in the market. It's a centralized thing, altcoin are, and the team in-charge of a certain alt are in control and seizes opportunities to grow more themselves than the buyers.
Title: Re: Are Altcoins Risk or Opportunity? Post by: Iamgoat on September 26, 2025, 08:27:30 PM Majority of altcoins are centralized and have no new ideas, they just rehash the same old ideas over and over with a new name and new advertisements. This is why they don't have real potential and any "opportunity" is just short term profit making at a very high risk. Just call it gambling... Laughs... Because any investment wit just short term profit but which also poses a very high risks can be simply referred to ask gambling. What you are saying is not far from the truth because as someone who has followed the crypto space for a little while now, I can also agree with you when you said the majority of these altcoins have no new ideas nor bring anything new to the table as they are majorly just clone projects of older projects with a different branding and controlled Quote Each project offers lessons in risk management, ecosystem growth, and the dynamics of supply and demand. That may have been true many years ago with the first generation of altcoins, but it no longer is true. Most of the altcoins we see today are just fake projects that no matter what supply they have there will be gamblers who buy into them (fake demand). There is no lessons to be learned here if you ask me.Title: Re: Are Altcoins Risk or Opportunity? Post by: Baki202 on September 26, 2025, 10:16:18 PM It looks like new Alt coins are launched with aim of just grabbing investors money. Now we have hundreds of thousands of alts in the market and it's natural that worth of alts has to go down due to so many alts circulating in the market. Moreover Alts are launched with claim of novelty and innovation but majority of them failed to deliver that or are either abandoned by founders soon after the fundraising phase is completed. And what everyone is after now is money, both the developer and the investor, they are more concerned about what they will get in return, but what they are supposed to be concerned about is the structure of the program and the project road map, because when it comes to project the success of the project, and aside from the kind of altcoin, there are also better ones that have raised enough money that will sustain the project and not dump it on the community. After all, that is very common in the market. And they come with mandates that they want to be the game changer, and at the end of the day, they will end up doing the same thing, and that's what they should do. Try to do better, and when you visit exchanges, you see a lot of coins with little to no value, and they end up delisting them. Title: Re: Are Altcoins Risk or Opportunity? Post by: ndutndut on September 27, 2025, 02:34:00 PM Majority of altcoins are centralized and have no new ideas, they just rehash the same old ideas over and over with a new name and new advertisements. This is why they don't have real potential and any "opportunity" is just short term profit making at a very high risk. It looks like new Alt coins are launched with aim of just grabbing investors money. Now we have hundreds of thousands of alts in the market and it's natural that worth of alts has to go down due to so many alts circulating in the market. Moreover Alts are launched with claim of novelty and innovation but majority of them failed to deliver that or are either abandon by founders soon after the fund raising phase is completed. So in my opinion if you ask whether altcoins offer opportunities and risks, the answer depends on the individual and their trading management. The opportunity is potentially high if you can capitalize on the opportunity. The risk is certainly greater due to extreme volatility and low liquidity, which can lead to the demise of projects. Therefore if you want to capitalize on altcoin opportunities, you must maximize profits and minimize risks by conducting thorough research and managing risk with strategies such as setting stop losses. Title: Re: Are Altcoins Risk or Opportunity? Post by: M47AK16 on September 29, 2025, 03:45:00 PM I don't think altcoins are decentralized. They label them decentralized, but that's impossible. Altcoin investments, even those we call major altcoins, are extremely risky. They all use similar technologies, the only difference, in my opinion, being their communities. Many lack practical application in daily life, and that might change in the future, I'm not sure. There will inevitably be projects that will create significant changes, but they will still be centralized systems. If there's a team backing that specific altcoin than yes, they are centralized somehow. Decentralized would mean complete anonymity which these altcoins hardly have. They are backed by a team and also have a governance wallet. Not all of these alts will say they are decentralized as some already are labelled as being centralized. There is nothing wrong in altcoins being centralized. We already have a decentralized bitcoin blockchain which fulfils most of our needs so now looking forward towards centralized innovation might not be bad.The ones lacking practical applications will already be seen as some kind of a ponzi scheme and people will hardly trust those kind of projects. We can't deny the fact that we have seen some really wonderful altcoins bring innovations and having real life use cases. Title: Re: Are Altcoins Risk or Opportunity? Post by: WatChe on September 29, 2025, 04:54:03 PM And what everyone is after now is money, both the developer and the investor, they are more concerned about what they will get in return, but what they are supposed to be concerned about is the structure of the program and the project road map, because when it comes to project the success of the project, and aside from the kind of altcoin, there are also better ones that have raised enough money that will sustain the project and not dump it on the community. After all, that is very common in the market. And they come with mandates that they want to be the game changer, and at the end of the day, they will end up doing the same thing, and that's what they should do. Try to do better, and when you visit exchanges, you see a lot of coins with little to no value, and they end up delisting them. There are countless number of Alts in the market with new coins launching every day or week. It's natural that when you have so many Alts in the market there worth will go down. It's not possible as investor to identify which project is real and which project is scam. There are cases where even real projects fail just because the founders claimed features that were impossible to be integrated at development phase. That's why it's better to keep focus on top alts listed on CMC. Title: Re: Are Altcoins Risk or Opportunity? Post by: Accardo on September 29, 2025, 05:07:23 PM There are countless number of Alts in the market with new coins launching every day or week. It's natural that when you have so many Alts in the market there worth will go down. It's not possible as investor to identify which project is real and which project is scam. There are cases where even real projects fail just because the founders claimed features that were impossible to be integrated at development phase. That's why it's better to keep focus on top alts listed on CMC. The founders do not also know of what would be of the market. Speculation attract buyers, for the fantasies promised. New projects weaponize predicting how well they'll progress in a short time to potential buyers, to get them rolling in money for maintaiance and development. These things are ran like any other company, when the buyers are no longer there the goods decline in value. Title: Re: Are Altcoins Risk or Opportunity? Post by: EarnOnVictor on September 29, 2025, 07:46:09 PM Altcoins like Cardano and Avalanche provide alternative approaches to scalability, governance, and decentralization. Yet their success depends on adoption, community support, and real-world utility. The risks and opportunities in altcoins work hand-in-hand, so you can't ignore one for another, and the risk has made a lot lost their investments, while the opportunities have made a lot become rich. The two are irony of one another and no matter how useful the altcoins could be, some people have regretted participating in it. To avoid the regret, know your altcoins very, DYOR, know the right time to invest or divest (No altcoin should be 100% trusted to warrant HOLDing for too long). Then effectively manage your risks and avoid being gullible and greedy.Exploring altcoins critically teaches how innovation and market perception interact. Each project offers lessons in risk management, ecosystem growth, and the dynamics of supply and demand.How do you assess an altcoin’s potential versus its inherent risk? Title: Re: Are Altcoins Risk or Opportunity? Post by: Jubilee58 on September 29, 2025, 07:52:07 PM Altcoins like Cardano and Avalanche provide alternative approaches to scalability, governance, and decentralization. Yet their success depends on adoption, community support, and real-world utility. Exploring altcoins critically teaches how innovation and market perception interact. Each project offers lessons in risk management, ecosystem growth, and the dynamics of supply and demand.How do you assess an altcoin’s potential versus its inherent risk? Altcoins possess this two characteristics, they are seen as risky investment and at the same time profitable opportunity. There are notable altcoins in the cryptocurrency market such as Solana, cadano, Etherum, Binance coin etc, these altcoins have made tremendous profit for people who invested in them and held them through the bull market season, and up till now some of these altcoins I have mentioned are still very ready to deliver good profit to it's investors. Altcoins are good opportunities to make good profit in cryptocurrency, especially when they are spotted in time. Altcoins are very volatile in nature and most of the altcoins does not require much money to invest in them, but are capable of delivering massive profit when you purchase the good ones. Today, there are numerous altcoins in the cryptocurrency market and when choosing a particular altcoin to invest in, there are some factors that one should consider because not all altcoin are worth investing your money. When investing in altcoin it is important to look for altcoins with utilities and use case, know the team behind the altcoin and more also the total supply of that particular altcoin. Investing in altcoins is good but requires so many research and investigation in order to choose the right ones. Title: Re: Are Altcoins Risk or Opportunity? Post by: gunhell16 on September 30, 2025, 08:39:16 AM Altcoins can indeed be considered an opportunity, and at the same time, they are also an investment with relatively high risk due to their volatility. So, it’s up to us whether we’re prepared
to face or accept this as an investment that we believe can help us roll over the capital we put into it. In short, always do your own research (DYOR), which is something we constantly read and are reminded of by our fellow members here in the forum. This will never go away in the crypto business industry that we’ve been involved in and have observed for several years already. Title: Re: Are Altcoins Risk or Opportunity? Post by: Mpamaegbu on September 30, 2025, 02:23:02 PM Altcoins like Cardano and Avalanche provide alternative approaches to scalability, governance, and decentralization. Yet their success depends on adoption, community support, and real-world utility. It's the same scenario with Bitcoin. Every business or project needs those words in bold to thrive. It's not an altcoin thing alone. When Bitcoin was birthed, it didn't have the type of traction it's having now. Its community made that possible by hodling strong and it got the attention of the world. Mass adoption has set in. Any altcoin would do just fine too if it had all that too, including memecoins. We've seen what Dogecoin (a memecoin) is doing too, let alone altcoins with strong utilities.Quote How do you assess an altcoin’s potential versus its inherent risk? The first thing I check out for is utility. Then supply. That's if I'm going to be hodling. If I'm not going to hodl for a period of time, I check the narrative behind it. Noise sells coins. I understand that business is about risk. If I lose, no problems. I move on to another. Those who are scared of losing rarely make money in this industry. Title: Re: Are Altcoins Risk or Opportunity? Post by: adultcrypto on September 30, 2025, 08:03:50 PM Altcoins can indeed be considered an opportunity, and at the same time, they are also an investment with relatively high risk due to their volatility. So, it’s up to us whether we’re prepared This is my opinion as well because some people have become millionaires through altcoins whereas some have ran into debt because of investing in the wrong altcoins. Hence, the task is on the individual to do proper research and then take the decision on what to invest in and how much to put. But I will always advise that investing in altcoin be treated as gambling because you can win so big or lose so big therefore, invest what you can afford to lose. to face or accept this as an investment that we believe can help us roll over the capital we put into it. In short, always do your own research (DYOR), which is something we constantly read and are reminded of by our fellow members here in the forum. This will never go away in the crypto business industry that we’ve been involved in and have observed for several years already. Title: Re: Are Altcoins Risk or Opportunity? Post by: flapduck on September 30, 2025, 11:27:56 PM You should treat altcoins as venture bets with a real chance of going to zero.
I'd also stay away from any coin with "risk-free APY,", shady treasuries or single 'multisig' control. Title: Re: Are Altcoins Risk or Opportunity? Post by: Barikui1 on October 01, 2025, 02:21:25 AM Many people know how to make excellent findings and know the right altcoins that they can invest on, but most people are blind to this and lose high amount of money on many new projects and altcoins. Altcoins are not worth it for many people but they can easily just invest in bitcoin. The problem about alt coin is that out of 100 of it in the market, it's only like 3-5 that be of greater value in the future, the rest are just for short term gains, it rise and stays up for like 6months or lower, and after then, it starts crashing in price, and once the downward movement start, their is no going back for that asset .Where most Investors are getting it wrong about alt coin is that they are not wired to stay up for long like Bitcoin that gets better as time passes by, they are more likely to decline in value overtime because majority of Investors will likely dump them for newer coin where their is opportunity, and once they are done with that one, they will move on to the next, and the circle goes on like that. Title: Re: Are Altcoins Risk or Opportunity? Post by: taufik123 on October 01, 2025, 05:02:05 AM -snip- But if it is calcified there are the top altcoins that are indeed quite good until now, although they are also affected by the price of Bitcoin Where most Investors are getting it wrong about alt coin is that they are not wired to stay up for long like Bitcoin that gets better as time passes by, they are more likely to decline in value overtime because majority of Investors will likely dump them for newer coin where their is opportunity, and once they are done with that one, they will move on to the next, and the circle goes on like that. and there are also Intermediate altcoins and the lowest one, assuming that the price is constantly changing and does not last long. Altcoins that are still surviving such as ETH, BNB, SOL, XRP and even DOGE are the first memecoins that are still able to survive today. But look at how the new altcoin emerged, it was just the initial hype that bolted it up and then abandoned and moved to another altcoin again. And what is even riskier is that new memecoins continue to appear and deceive many people, because they are just a rogue dev scam tool. Bitcoin is indeed the first and cannot be replaced, but altcoins will also be an option to diversify your portfolio and choose the one that everyone recommends, don't choose altcoins that have a high risk of losing value and will just be waste. Title: Re: Are Altcoins Risk or Opportunity? Post by: bitgolden on October 01, 2025, 06:19:01 AM The first thing I check out for is utility. Then supply. That's if I'm going to be hodling. If I'm not going to hodl for a period of time, I check the narrative behind it. Noise sells coins. I understand that business is about risk. If I lose, no problems. I move on to another. Those who are scared of losing rarely make money in this industry. Unfortunately "real world utility" becomes a not so important thing sometimes. As long as adoption and community is big enough then price goes up and that is it. I get that it is not a big deal to some people but we need to realize that it is not going to be easy to get that. Do you know how many people need to put up their money and keep talking about you and promote you to be that big? It requires a shit ton of people and that is why not many projects do it.Even some with 1+ million members ends up with nothing. Consider this if you ever want to start your project, you can have a million people, and not enough of them would end up with any decent marketcap. Hence you should avoid it as much as you possibly could. Title: Re: Are Altcoins Risk or Opportunity? Post by: Mpamaegbu on October 01, 2025, 02:34:30 PM I get that it is not a big deal to some people but we need to realize that it is not going to be easy to get that. Do you know how many people need to put up their money and keep talking about you and promote you to be that big? It requires a shit ton of people and that is why not many projects do it. Anyway, it wasn't easy too for Bitcoin to get to where it's now. Do you know how shocked I was when I read articles detailing how Bitcoin was even less than $0.1 at some point? That's, less than 10 cents. It's unbelievable, right? The major worry for me is the way a lot of people look at altcoins. People already think altcoins won't do well, even while investing in them. Why not give it some time to grow? Even Bitcoin didn't have it rosy before it caught its needed world attention. I often read how ETH is even bashed despite its depth of usage. It's a pity. If only people will give alts investments time to grow like Bitcoin enjoyed too. Title: Re: Are Altcoins Risk or Opportunity? Post by: Baki202 on October 01, 2025, 11:00:18 PM The risks and opportunities in altcoins work hand-in-hand, so you can't ignore one for another, and the risk has made a lot lost their investments, while the opportunities have made a lot become rich. The two are irony of one another and no matter how useful the altcoins could be, some people have regretted participating in it. To avoid the regret, know your altcoins very, DYOR, know the right time to invest or divest (No altcoin should be 100% trusted to warrant HOLDing for too long). Then effectively manage your risks and avoid being gullible and greedy. The risk is there and the opportunity is also there because there altcoins that gives you better value than bitcoin but the same way the profit is been calculated then so the loses should be calculated because a lot of things have been happening in the market of late that have been surprising especially bitcoin the price have been unstable of recent and indirectly bitcoin controls the market so without bitcoin nothing happens in the market. When anyone wants to invest in Bitcoin then the best thing is for them to do there own research because that is the only way will be able to get a opportunity out of bitcoin. And there are altcoins that can be trusted like bnb, eth and many others. All still depends how how the person buying does there research because from your findings you will know will coin to buy and hold for a very long time because it is very important. Especially when you want to hold. Title: Re: Are Altcoins Risk or Opportunity? Post by: Josefjix on October 02, 2025, 12:00:12 AM Altcoins like Cardano and Avalanche provide alternative approaches to scalability, governance, and decentralization. Yet their success depends on adoption, community support, and real-world utility. There is nothing new with these altcoin as they have shown us that the profits and hype or whatsoever are for the quick profits for the early investors or developers.Exploring altcoins critically teaches how innovation and market perception interact. Each project offers lessons in risk management, ecosystem growth, and the dynamics of supply and demand.How do you assess an altcoin’s potential versus its inherent risk? It's not proper to risk your funds when these projects have passed the stage of hype, once that phase is gone, stop investment immediately. Title: Re: Are Altcoins Risk or Opportunity? Post by: programmer3666 on October 02, 2025, 03:45:55 AM Altcoins like Cardano and Avalanche provide alternative approaches to scalability, governance, and decentralization. Yet their success depends on adoption, community support, and real-world utility. The risks and opportunities in altcoins work hand-in-hand, so you can't ignore one for another, and the risk has made a lot lost their investments, while the opportunities have made a lot become rich. The two are irony of one another and no matter how useful the altcoins could be, some people have regretted participating in it. To avoid the regret, know your altcoins very, DYOR, know the right time to invest or divest (No altcoin should be 100% trusted to warrant HOLDing for too long). Then effectively manage your risks and avoid being gullible and greedy.Exploring altcoins critically teaches how innovation and market perception interact. Each project offers lessons in risk management, ecosystem growth, and the dynamics of supply and demand.How do you assess an altcoin’s potential versus its inherent risk? altcoins always kind of come with both risk and opportunity!! like seriously some people have made life changing money from them while others have lost almost everything. that is why you can not just look at the potential without also considering the risks that is involved as well the best way is to always do your own research, try to understand the project well and know when to enter and when to exit! no altcoin is safe enough to trust forever, so managing risk and controlling greed is very important. that way you reduce the chance of regret while still keeping the chance of profit intact. Title: Re: Are Altcoins Risk or Opportunity? Post by: gunhell16 on October 02, 2025, 05:37:44 AM We all know that altcoins are risky to invest in, and we should already be aware of that. It’s up to us whether we are willing to take the risk once we invest in cryptocurrency.
Even Bitcoin still carries risks meaning there are no crypto assets completely free from risk; they all have it. It really depends on our mindset whether we see it as an opportunity. What we might view as an opportunity could be seen differently by others, since we all have different ways of choosing potential altcoins. That’s why we should always be vigilant and smart when investing in cryptocurrency. Title: Re: Are Altcoins Risk or Opportunity? Post by: JamesDaniel90 on October 02, 2025, 06:43:10 AM Altcoins are risk and opportunity.
Why invest in Bitcoin now if it’s only going to maybe see a gain of 40 or 50% by end of year while Altcoins will pump 5-10x easy during altseason? Altseason always comes at the end of the cycle, which is due in the coming months so now is a much better time to be in Altcoins compared to Bitcoin if your just an average guy with average money you have to take more risk with Altcoins. I have been in Altcoins a few years now , had some losers but also had good winners my best seeing a 40x return. I didn’t have too much money in it because it was a risk, but you don’t see a 40x return without taking risk in Altcoins. Title: Re: Are Altcoins Risk or Opportunity? Post by: Ishicryptic on October 02, 2025, 09:11:25 AM All investment vehicles are a risk but obviously some are a significantly higher risk than others. Nothing highly profitable is achieved by low risk investments. Altcoins are a risk but if you invest in major Altcoins (not sketchy memecoins) you can do very well so I would say Altcoins are a risk but give you a great opportunity to make a good return. Altcoins are risky compared to Bitcoin that has built strong reputation over them, their risks also depend on the altcoins in question, if you talk about top altcoins that have built reputation they are lesser risks than many shitcoins that are available. I personally see these new projects that are hyped now and then as mostly scams, anybody that wants to put money in them should know that they are gambling their funds. I don't see much opportunities in new altcoins, what I see mostly are risks, the uncountable altcoins that are springing up has reduced the trust on altcoins. Altcoins can give fast returns and they can also take your money very fast.Title: Re: Are Altcoins Risk or Opportunity? Post by: Mpamaegbu on October 02, 2025, 10:43:13 AM I don't see much opportunities in new altcoins, what I see mostly are risks, the uncountable altcoins that are springing up has reduced the trust on altcoins. Altcoins can give fast returns and they can also take your money very fast. Yes, you're ight about the fast returns from recent altcoins and the inherent risk of one also losing one's money as fast as anything. But isn't risk a part and parcel of investment? It's of course. If all investments were risk free, don't we think everyone would be an investor? With that, there would be much crowd and profit potential would be drastically cut down.A reminder, those who think Bitcoin is free of risk or has lesser risk should also realize that those who will be investing in Bitcoin in the bear season will have a different narrative from this. Those who invest in altcoins know the risk, it's the ROI that drives them to it. Bitcoin, on a short term, can't give the type of ROI alts give and that's why alts have so much attraction for investors. Title: Re: Are Altcoins Risk or Opportunity? Post by: Z_MBFM on October 02, 2025, 02:29:59 PM Altcoins like Cardano and Avalanche provide alternative approaches to scalability, governance, and decentralization. Yet their success depends on adoption, community support, and real-world utility. Altcoins are both risk and opportunity depending on the direction you think from. If you can invest in a good Altcoin, you will get a lot of good profit from it in a short time. But if you do not know how to do good analysis and leave everything to luck and invest in new coins, then it will be risky. So strengthen your analysis skills, then Altcoin investment will be a good opportunity for you to make a lot of profit. Altcoins have to be invested for a short time and you can get something big from it in a short time. So Altcoin investment seems like a big opportunity to me.Exploring altcoins critically teaches how innovation and market perception interact. Each project offers lessons in risk management, ecosystem growth, and the dynamics of supply and demand.How do you assess an altcoin’s potential versus its inherent risk? Title: Re: Are Altcoins Risk or Opportunity? Post by: justdimin on October 02, 2025, 08:59:00 PM Altcoins like Cardano and Avalanche provide alternative approaches to scalability, governance, and decentralization. Yet their success depends on adoption, community support, and real-world utility. Altcoins have shown us great innovations and some of those have really changed the way people look towards cryptos. But there just are a handful which are worth investing into. Other will just be a riskier decision so to answer your question, few altcoins will open doors of opportunities but few will just be a riskier choice if we want to gamble with our money. Nowadays it is even difficult to study all altcoins as there are plenty in the market and even after a strong performance, few of those will end up rugged. Exploring altcoins critically teaches how innovation and market perception interact. Each project offers lessons in risk management, ecosystem growth, and the dynamics of supply and demand.How do you assess an altcoin’s potential versus its inherent risk? By studying thoroughly about the altcoin and going through it's tokenomics, team and potential challenges can teach us to distinguish between genuine altcoins vs ponzi ones. But we will have to spend hours making research about those potential altcoins. Title: Re: Are Altcoins Risk or Opportunity? Post by: Abbatty on October 03, 2025, 07:04:38 AM altcoins always kind of come with both risk and opportunity!! like seriously some people have made life changing money from them while others have lost almost everything. that is why you can not just look at the potential without also considering the risks that is involved as well the best way is to always do your own research, try to understand the project well and know when to enter and when to exit! no altcoin is safe enough to trust forever, so managing risk and controlling greed is very important. that way you reduce the chance of regret while still keeping the chance of profit intact. Altcoins volatility is very high which makes them a very profitable asset but they also come with a matching risk. A lot of people have made a wholesome amount for themselves while some have actually being wrecked investing in altcoins. This is why they are not to be approached without caution, any wrong movement will be costly so you need to make good research and enquiry about which ever coin you want to invest in first. Title: Re: Are Altcoins Risk or Opportunity? Post by: markm on October 03, 2025, 08:53:20 AM Risk and reward tend toward balancing one-another, so that higher risk tends toward higher potential reward as well as higher potential for loss.
There is often a scale factor too, that most specific projects or opportunities are likely to trend toward lower percentage reward as they scale up, even despite various "economies of scale" that scaling up might provide. As things scale up they often seem to at least appear less risky, maybe a kind of "too big to fail" mentality setting in or somesuch. But as they seem less and less risky they more and more appeal to massive institutional investors, almost "forcing" them to scale up, and that often seems to lead to all kinds of dis-economies of scale such as legislative costs, conformance costs and the like that seem ultimately to maybe become a form of parasitical leeching-out of value that economies of scale could in principle otherwise provide. Depending on how one looks at that though I suppose all that parasitical cost could be regarded as itself a value, since one is presumably free to regard the providing of jobs to vast numbers of lawyers and legislators and accountants and so on and so forth as valuable. Mostly it seems risk is opportunity. The less risk involved the less of an opportunity it tends to be, on a slippery slope between a sure-fire retaining or increasing of value and a wager at "dark horse" odds... -MarkM- Title: Re: Are Altcoins Risk or Opportunity? Post by: Diamondarikpi on October 03, 2025, 09:18:53 AM Altcoins always have a way to get people’s interest in them and then after a while, their promises are not fulfilled and people tend to have similar beliefs on upcoming ones and put them on the same category over again. Altcoins potentials can be assessed through what it tends to offer, solving real time problems is the best way and if it is just rebranding old ideas, they won’t get the attention they want. They need to have a good or known developer behind their project to get the interest of the people. Their tokenomics also plays an important role while assessing them. Market hypes and general perception of the public on the coin can either move or break the project. The risk management of the tokens has to be preserved, like do they have enough liquidity? not regulated and not prone to hacks? All these are to be put in place while checking the potential of a coin and their inherent risk generally. Yes, these are what that I always consider before investing in altcoins. Imagine investing in something that doesn't have an intrinsic value, is it a good idea? Title: Re: Are Altcoins Risk or Opportunity? Post by: zeuner on October 03, 2025, 11:01:20 AM It's hard to achieve meaningful decentralization in an altcoin. Most of them have only a single protocol implementation. Therefore, for all but a few the risk management is mostly a regulatory question, not a technical one.
Title: Re: Are Altcoins Risk or Opportunity? Post by: gunhell16 on October 03, 2025, 11:08:45 AM Altcoins like Cardano and Avalanche provide alternative approaches to scalability, governance, and decentralization. Yet their success depends on adoption, community support, and real-world utility. Altcoins have shown us great innovations and some of those have really changed the way people look towards cryptos. But there just are a handful which are worth investing into. Other will just be a riskier decision so to answer your question, few altcoins will open doors of opportunities but few will just be a riskier choice if we want to gamble with our money. Nowadays it is even difficult to study all altcoins as there are plenty in the market and even after a strong performance, few of those will end up rugged. Exploring altcoins critically teaches how innovation and market perception interact. Each project offers lessons in risk management, ecosystem growth, and the dynamics of supply and demand.How do you assess an altcoin’s potential versus its inherent risk? By studying thoroughly about the altcoin and going through it's tokenomics, team and potential challenges can teach us to distinguish between genuine altcoins vs ponzi ones. But we will have to spend hours making research about those potential altcoins. Many people have indeed made profits from altcoins, and we cannot deny that, but of course, even more have failed to gain profits here in the crypto space. That’s why we should only invest amounts within our capacity funds we are ready to lose. Now, if others truly want to be 100% certain about getting profits, then they should allocate their investments in Bitcoin, because that’s where they can have a sure return on profit after waiting for several years in this crypto space. Title: Re: Are Altcoins Risk or Opportunity? Post by: Fredomago on October 03, 2025, 11:18:09 AM altcoins always kind of come with both risk and opportunity!! like seriously some people have made life changing money from them while others have lost almost everything. that is why you can not just look at the potential without also considering the risks that is involved as well the best way is to always do your own research, try to understand the project well and know when to enter and when to exit! no altcoin is safe enough to trust forever, so managing risk and controlling greed is very important. that way you reduce the chance of regret while still keeping the chance of profit intact. Altcoins volatility is very high which makes them a very profitable asset but they also come with a matching risk. A lot of people have made a wholesome amount for themselves while some have actually being wrecked investing in altcoins. This is why they are not to be approached without caution, any wrong movement will be costly so you need to make good research and enquiry about which ever coin you want to invest in first. Exactly, depending on how good you invest also your time in knowing the industry that you are investing your money, there are traders who manage to make huge amount of profits after following assets/projects that they think will bring good success, and since that the nature of this investment can explode to unexpected amount of increase they manage to make decent amount of benefits. While on the otherside, there are also investors who lose huge amount of money riding with scam projects which also very common in this venue of investment, a wrong interpretation can ruined your finances while with a good anticipation, then it's going to be a good place to earn. Title: Re: Are Altcoins Risk or Opportunity? Post by: Zanab247 on October 03, 2025, 11:59:02 AM I don't think altcoins are decentralized. They label them decentralized, but that's impossible. Altcoin investments, even those we call major altcoins, are extremely risky. They all use similar technologies, the only difference, in my opinion, being their communities. Majority of altcoins are centralized in case you want to make decision to take the risk to invest in centralized altcoins, because it hard for people to earn profit that will satisfy them to invest more money in altcoins. But if you invest in those few decentralized altcoins it will make you feel happy when you see the speed of the market pumping to your favour, because people invest in altcoins for profit purpose.Even though you are willing to take the risk to invest in altcoins, let it be existing altcoins people have known very well in terms of profit, and it will make you to be bold when hodling the altcoins to earn profit. Title: Re: Are Altcoins Risk or Opportunity? Post by: leonair on October 03, 2025, 01:08:00 PM Altcoins like Cardano and Avalanche provide alternative approaches to scalability, governance, and decentralization. Yet their success depends on adoption, community support, and real-world utility. Altcoins are always risky. No one can say whether it is an opportunity or not, but for those who have made a lot of profit by investing in Alt due to a careful analysis and their good luck, it may seem like an opportunity. Not everyone loses by investing in Altcoins. If everyone lost, then no one would invest here, so no Altcoins would survive in the market. There are many Altcoins surviving in the market, which means there are many investors here. So Altcoin is an opportunity for many to make a profit. Where the risk is high, the possibility of making a profit is also high. So if you don't take risk, you can never gain.Exploring altcoins critically teaches how innovation and market perception interact. Each project offers lessons in risk management, ecosystem growth, and the dynamics of supply and demand.How do you assess an altcoin’s potential versus its inherent risk? Title: Re: Are Altcoins Risk or Opportunity? Post by: Futurexxx on October 03, 2025, 02:25:32 PM . No matter how sweet you are making it sound in the ear of most Investors, it wouldn't change the fact that alt coin are full of shit and are not reliable on the longer run. What they are created for nowadays are for gambling purpose, they boom for a short while like three to six months and after then, it starts dieing a slow and irreversible death in the market since they fall more than they rise, so the risk associated with alt coin is just too big to be ignored, that's why I will only advice Investors to focus on Bitcoin alone since it's the only reliable asset out there. Exploring altcoins critically teaches how innovation and market perception interact. Each project offers lessons in risk management, ecosystem growth, and the dynamics of supply and demand.How do you assess an altcoin’s potential versus its inherent risk? Title: Re: Are Altcoins Risk or Opportunity? Post by: AYOBA on October 03, 2025, 05:18:22 PM Altcoins like Cardano and Avalanche provide alternative approaches to scalability, governance, and decentralization. Yet their success depends on adoption, community support, and real-world utility. The altcoins are very risky, and that's why not everybody is talking much about them anymore. Because even investors now know the altcoins really make their capital fall down, as a lot of the investors use a certain amount of money and invest in the altcoin, and the very time some of those altcoins go down, some don't give any sign of rising up again, and my problem with the altcoin is that by the time that the Bitcoin is falling down, they will follow up, and when it has reached that the Bitcoin is rising up, instead of them doing the same thing, they won't.Exploring altcoins critically teaches how innovation and market perception interact. Each project offers lessons in risk management, ecosystem growth, and the dynamics of supply and demand. How do you assess an altcoin’s potential versus its inherent risk? That is why, instead of me investing in any shit altcoin now, I will use that money for something else or invest in Bitcoin for a long period of time, because all the altcoins now are not reliable again; their risks are very high, and not everybody can afford it. Title: Re: Are Altcoins Risk or Opportunity? Post by: SATWAT on October 03, 2025, 05:53:51 PM I believe if majority of people in the cryptospace is serious with investing and we only have few gamblers, altcoins dev will run at loss because they will have very little profit after pumping their scam tokens into the market. We have people who are greedy and want to make $1 million dollars with $1000, they end up falling for these shitcoins pump amd dump scam. Take a look at how many shitcoins Trump family alone have created and what's their current price now compared to the price immediately after launching it in exchange. For those who choose risky kind of coins, I think they can also be serious about it and this makes them to still profit. But if a coin has already pumped up, then it only means that it was successful on getting a customer. Trump joined the scene and no doubt made a couple of shitcoins but I think this is nothing compared to some shitcoin creators that are long in the scene already, although with their power, they can magnet a demand easily, so they are still alarming.I don't think altcoins are decentralized. They label them decentralized, but that's impossible. Altcoin investments, even those we call major altcoins, are extremely risky. They all use similar technologies, the only difference, in my opinion, being their communities. Many lack practical application in daily life, and that might change in the future, I'm not sure. There will inevitably be projects that will create significant changes, but they will still be centralized systems. There are alts that are actually decentralized but I think majority of them are just centralized, and this is why it is easy for the people to say that alts are centralized. Major alts are of course not extremely risky. You are exaggerating there huh. Only alts that can have that label are those pump and dump alts. Old ats do also have different technologies and the crap alts don't even have it, although this can be because we have so many alts already and almost all tech ideas are already given, though it is not an excuse to continue producing crap projects.Title: Re: Are Altcoins Risk or Opportunity? Post by: EarnOnVictor on October 05, 2025, 12:22:31 PM Altcoins like Cardano and Avalanche provide alternative approaches to scalability, governance, and decentralization. Yet their success depends on adoption, community support, and real-world utility. The risks and opportunities in altcoins work hand-in-hand, so you can't ignore one for another, and the risk has made a lot lost their investments, while the opportunities have made a lot become rich. The two are irony of one another and no matter how useful the altcoins could be, some people have regretted participating in it. To avoid the regret, know your altcoins very, DYOR, know the right time to invest or divest (No altcoin should be 100% trusted to warrant HOLDing for too long). Then effectively manage your risks and avoid being gullible and greedy.Exploring altcoins critically teaches how innovation and market perception interact. Each project offers lessons in risk management, ecosystem growth, and the dynamics of supply and demand.How do you assess an altcoin’s potential versus its inherent risk? altcoins always kind of come with both risk and opportunity!! like seriously some people have made life changing money from them while others have lost almost everything. that is why you can not just look at the potential without also considering the risks that is involved as well the best way is to always do your own research, try to understand the project well and know when to enter and when to exit! no altcoin is safe enough to trust forever, so managing risk and controlling greed is very important. that way you reduce the chance of regret while still keeping the chance of profit intact. My resolve is that more risks are being taken while engaging in altcoins, but at the same time, altcoins have values more than each other, which is what we should first ascertain. This is why I always tell people that not all altcoins are shitcoins, it's a misconception saying that. Taking $ADA in this context for instance, though it has its flaws, Cardano can never be one of the coins that anyone should termed "shit," it speaks for itself, and buying it low makes a huge difference, aside from other value and functions. Title: Re: Are Altcoins Risk or Opportunity? Post by: MinMan on October 09, 2025, 04:26:05 PM Altcoins are always risky and many people consider it as an opportunity who can take risks with Alt like gambling. Altcoins are very volatile so it is very difficult to control yourself and hold here. As long as you are in Altcoin, you will be under mental pressure. And then you will make wrong decisions and lose a lot. If you want to make good money with Alt and consider Altcoin as an opportunity, you have to be a very technical person and have the ability to control yourself in many ways. I never understood why these people take those risks like gambling, it never made sense to me. I mean why would you do that? I think its going to be not a big deal at all, it should be done in a way where we can definitely consider this better if we can use something more stable and less risky. They want to gamble by getting into something that would be 10x if they are lucky, or zero if they are unlucky. They are basically playing a dice game with it but they are not realizing its basically like a lottery level odds for it.So why would they do that? I have no idea but that is the way they are trading and investing which goes beyond what I understand about them and that is why I will not try to judge them about it. Title: Re: Are Altcoins Risk or Opportunity? Post by: Dunamisx on October 09, 2025, 05:43:51 PM Cryptocurrency is of loads of benefits and at the same time has it risk, the same way we also have it from any other form of investment we made outside crypto, it is said that if we cant afford to risk it, then we should not invest in it, so if we cant afford taking it, we may not be able to take any risk at all and when this is not done, we cant be rendered with any advantage to take opportunity on what comes our way, risk is everywhere and no one can guarantee us safety when it comes to making money from anything that requires our investment.
Title: Re: Are Altcoins Risk or Opportunity? Post by: Baki202 on October 09, 2025, 10:53:31 PM Altcoins are both risk and opportunity depending on the direction you think from. If you can invest in a good Altcoin, you will get a lot of good profit from it in a short time. But if you do not know how to do good analysis and leave everything to luck and invest in new coins, then it will be risky. So strengthen your analysis skills, then Altcoin investment will be a good opportunity for you to make a lot of profit. Altcoins have to be invested for a short time and you can get something big from it in a short time. So Altcoin investment seems like a big opportunity to me. And I think they are selected coins that can have lesser risk coins like eth and bnb and others I think it's only this new coins that have a high level of risk, and this already existing onces. And one good thing about Altcoin is that they are very affordable and there are good once that will give you good profit and there are tons of them. Just that before you invest in any coin it is better to do your own research so that you will know if it is worthy to invest in or not. And when it comes to Altcoin the best is for you is too choose a good one and keep for a very long time because to make profit you have to be ready to hold. And if you are holding for a long time I don't think the analysis will be that important. But for constant trading. You need to be familiar with the pattern that is how to know the steps at which the market is taking so every knowledge in bitcoin is very important. And that is why going for knowledge can not be looked down upon. Because is part of the criteria. So to me it's more than opportunity than seen Altcoin as risk. Just the matter of choosing the right one. Title: Re: Are Altcoins Risk or Opportunity? Post by: LeyMonte on October 10, 2025, 05:46:44 AM Altcoin is a much-discussed coin of crypto currency. Everyone believes and knows that there is a risk to this coin. But everyone also believes that it is possible to earn a good amount of profit from here. Just as it is possible to earn a good amount of profit, there is also a high risk of losing money from here. those who want to invest in altcoins along with bitcoin investment can invest by looking at the market and understanding it then they can earn a good amount of profit from altcoins.
Title: Re: Are Altcoins Risk or Opportunity? Post by: Kelward on October 10, 2025, 06:52:38 AM Altcoins can be risk or opportunity depending on the experiences and decisions of holders, if a holder lacks sufficient experience it becomes risky for him but with sufficient experience it becomes opportunity. If you don't understand how altcoins market works it means that you are risking your funds and no difference from a gambler but with market experience you can take advantage of opportunities to predict when to buy and sell. Although altcoins are very volatile and despite your experience and knowing how to take advantage of opportunities you can still lose your funds so always use amount that you can easily lose.
Title: Re: Are Altcoins Risk or Opportunity? Post by: Shineup on October 10, 2025, 07:03:45 AM Altcoins can be risk or opportunity depending on the experiences and decisions of holders, if a holder lacks sufficient experience it becomes risky for him but with sufficient experience it becomes opportunity. If you don't understand how altcoins market works it means that you are risking your funds and no difference from a gambler but with market experience you can take advantage of opportunities to predict when to buy and sell. Although altcoins are very volatile and despite your experience and knowing how to take advantage of opportunities you can still lose your funds so always use amount that you can easily lose. Simply put it is a risky opportunity because experience doesn't answer or crown it all, from my observations even the claim experience person is very much vulnerable to the risk investment and also stands with same opportunities of getting something out of it, I know some one that bought a car as a n achievements from altcoins he sees himself as an experienced and people respect him too but some he do lost hugely making his experience not to save him, it is obvious that the market is unpredictable and it may not favor you all the times even if you sees yourself as an expert. Title: Re: Are Altcoins Risk or Opportunity? Post by: danherbias07 on October 10, 2025, 09:09:37 AM It's difficult to answer this because there's really no assurance with Altcoins.
The number of bogus projects is higher than the real ones, with usage and products to back their claim. It's going to be a long and rigorous research before you can say you are sure with one project. I have joined many in the past and even bought some during the ICO days, and I can say from my experience that you cannot tell when the product is going to be successful or not. Some would do good initially and then eventually fall and be forgotten, even though the developer is eager to continue it. Without support, it will be a problem for them. They will just end up in bankruptcy. There are great projects that I have seen, but marketing can be cruel, especially in this era. They must also do their best to pull the community together and help them market it. Title: Re: Are Altcoins Risk or Opportunity? Post by: gunhell16 on October 10, 2025, 10:45:25 AM Altcoins always have a way to get people’s interest in them and then after a while, their promises are not fulfilled and people tend to have similar beliefs on upcoming ones and put them on the same category over again. Altcoins potentials can be assessed through what it tends to offer, solving real time problems is the best way and if it is just rebranding old ideas, they won’t get the attention they want. They need to have a good or known developer behind their project to get the interest of the people. Their tokenomics also plays an important role while assessing them. Market hypes and general perception of the public on the coin can either move or break the project. The risk management of the tokens has to be preserved, like do they have enough liquidity? not regulated and not prone to hacks? All these are to be put in place while checking the potential of a coin and their inherent risk generally. Many people believe they can get a bigger profit from altcoins compared to Bitcoin. While it's true that we can get a large profit from Bitcoin if we invest a large amount of it, if we only invest a small amount, we will only get a small profit in return. Unlike altcoins, the probability of getting a large profit is higher compared to Bitcoin, as long as we are sure that the altcoin has good market potential, like BNB, HBAR, XRP, and other top altcoins. Title: Re: Are Altcoins Risk or Opportunity? Post by: wakier on October 10, 2025, 11:01:11 AM Majority of altcoins are centralized and have no new ideas, they just rehash the same old ideas over and over with a new name and new advertisements. This is why they don't have real potential and any "opportunity" is just short term profit making at a very high risk. It looks like new Alt coins are launched with aim of just grabbing investors money. Now we have hundreds of thousands of alts in the market and it's natural that worth of alts has to go down due to so many alts circulating in the market. Moreover Alts are launched with claim of novelty and innovation but majority of them failed to deliver that or are either abandon by founders soon after the fund raising phase is completed. Title: Re: Are Altcoins Risk or Opportunity? Post by: justdimin on October 10, 2025, 04:40:53 PM It looks like new Alt coins are launched with aim of just grabbing investors money. Now we have hundreds of thousands of alts in the market and it's natural that worth of alts has to go down due to so many alts circulating in the market. Moreover Alts are launched with claim of novelty and innovation but majority of them failed to deliver that or are either abandon by founders soon after the fund raising phase is completed. And usually the investors who get trapped are small investors who buy altcoins at high prices and the price immediately drops, large investors only invest a little in Altcoins they prefer to invest in coins that are really good and the hype period does not end, we have to be careful if there are many altcoins circulating in the market but over time the hype will disappear even altcoins that use famous names do not guarantee good like the trump coin whose value is now very low even though many investors bought it at a high price.Those big whales just end up pumping whatever they want with their money and/or influence they have over the market and then they get out the first and they think it's the best thing ever, which it's not true at all. I believe in this to get better over long period of time and it should feel like there are ways that we can do a lot more with it. I understand it's not that complicated, but unfortunately many small investors still fall for it. Title: Re: Are Altcoins Risk or Opportunity? Post by: markm on October 10, 2025, 06:11:59 PM Plan to be dumped on. :)
That is, having decided what you would like to have a bunch of, place lowball buy offers, actively hoping someone or someones will "dump" the price way way down to where your offer lurks waiting precisely to profit massively from "dumpers" by being already in place to be the lucky person they "dump" on! Split the amount you can afford into a lot of pieces so as to place buy offers going as far up toward the "spread" (gap between highest buy offer and lowest sell offer) as you are comfortable going, to increase the chance that some dump will dump deep enough for at least one of your offers to get "taken". Do this for each coin or token you think might be worth having some of if it wasn't so darn high in price right now. :) Then when someone does buy some, put it back on sale, eventually building an ascending column of sell offers going up even beyond the highest price you think might actually happen just in case it does better than you hope thus maybe even most of your sell offers will get taken but hopefully not all of them unless you held some back or really seriously expect another "dump" will re-stock you by "dumping" onto the highest buy offer you have left. If a sell offer gets taken, that re-fuels your buy side and vice-versa; presto you are in business profiting (within that trading-pair) in both directions. If both sides of your chosen pair go down, your gains of both sides of the pair within the pair can offset that at least somewhat and over time can/could/might even far more than make up for it. -Mark- Title: Re: Are Altcoins Risk or Opportunity? Post by: allthebitandbobs on October 11, 2025, 01:12:42 PM This will be the same situation in almost every aspect or earning. Even we have seen people win millions in gambling and a few loose everything they have but this does not stop people from gambling. It depends on our perspective how we want to look at it. People have made really good profits out of altcoins and this is something which can maybe give you more profits as compared to bitcoins. All you need to do is find that perfect altcoin and keep holding it patiently until you see gains.
People will mostly be sceptical in terms of altcoins and this is what will make them panic in terms of a dip but they should keep having faith if they have chosen one of the top altcoin as the markets will always go in both directions and will only give us any profits if we stay firm on our decision. Title: Re: Are Altcoins Risk or Opportunity? Post by: markm on October 11, 2025, 01:58:27 PM Yesterday I had a good example of my above strategy working beautifully in BTC/XLM pair.
A whole lot of things dropped drastically, but it is the relative change of price within the pair that profits you within a pair. Suddenly XLM price-in-bitcoins dropped by ten or so of my buy-offers dumping ten offers-scale of XLM on me cheaper and cheaper and cheaper, then jumped back up so soon I had not even seen the drop and reacted to it by putting the bargain XLM back on sale; by the time I noticed it was back up so far that not only had I a bunch of XLM waiting to be put back onto the sell-side but also a bunch of BTC from the up part having already chewed into my own sell offers, in effect "dumping" bitcoin onto my "buy bitcoin using XLM" offers aka my "sell XLM for BTC" offers. So in effect the "spread" was much larger than the gap I usually leave between my buy-side and my sell-side, so as I reconstructed my columns of buy and sell offers I was doing so at greater percentage profit per offer-and-back than happens when I react to each buy or sell immediately by placing the proceeds back on the other side. A nice day for nowadays, though nowhere near as volatile as a 10,000-dollar day long long ago in BTC/DVC when in one day DVC went from 30 satoshis up to 300 satoshis and back in one day, chewing through my sell-DVC offers all the way up then through my built-under-that column of reconstructed buy-DVC offers I had followed it upward with when it chewed its way back down, leaving me with 1000 bitcoins profit and more DVC than I started the day with and bitcoins were "worth" ten bucks a pop. Back then there were so few "altcoins" that likely it was much the same kind of volatility folk are hoping for nowadays in memecoin gambling, but the thing to me is it was not gambling, in fact all the BTC and all the DVC I had on the exchange was not even what I could afford to lose it was just a part of what I had already won, after already having taken home oodles upon oodles of profits. I would not even bother looking at meme coins to speculate on whether they provide a similar environment in which to work, indeed last night someone proposed to me that they want my blessings as it were to issue a meme they characterise as a "commemoration" of the wonderful classic coin DVC but that will be a totally worthless piece of crap they were hoping to "justify" by claiming some of the profits would go to the DVC (DeVCoin) project....: Code: Mark Metson, [10/10/25 9:41 A.M.] The 100 bitcoins I might have kept comment refers to the 1000-bitcoin-profit day story but either dropped a zero or maybe that day had been when bitcoin was 100 bucks a pop and profit was only 100 bitcoin. I'd have to go find a post from closer back in history to be sure now but I had thought it was 1000 bitcoins at $10 not 100 at $100. Easy now to get confused, must be going senile. :) They obviously recently read the story elsewhere so might be more right than my unreliable memory, as I had not mentioned the story they brought reference to it into the chat from gosh knows how old a page or post or something they must have come across elsewhere. -MarkM- Title: Re: Are Altcoins Risk or Opportunity? Post by: MAAManda on October 11, 2025, 02:28:21 PM As someone who has seen a lot of the altcoin side of things, I consider altcoins an opportunity, but only as an economic opportunity, nothing more. When it comes to technology, Bitcoin (BTC) is undoubtedly the leader. However, since Bitcoin (BTC) MC is already too high & it's difficult to multiply, altcoins have emerged as an alternative. They're born with low MC, which easily increase as more money flows into them.
Title: Re: Are Altcoins Risk or Opportunity? Post by: gunhell16 on October 11, 2025, 03:51:59 PM As someone who has seen a lot of the altcoin side of things, I consider altcoins an opportunity, but only as an economic opportunity, nothing more. When it comes to technology, Bitcoin (BTC) is undoubtedly the leader. However, since Bitcoin (BTC) MC is already too high & it's difficult to multiply, altcoins have emerged as an alternative. They're born with low MC, which easily increase as more money flows into them. It really just depends on how individual investors look at Bitcoin or altcoins. That's because what one community sees as an opportunity may not be an opportunity for another. That's why it's crucial that we study and research the potential of the coins we might buy for short-term or long-term holdings. We simply cannot separate risk and opportunity when the topic is about investing in Bitcoin or cryptocurrency, and I believe the same principle applies to other business opportunities as well. Title: Re: Are Altcoins Risk or Opportunity? Post by: Emitdama on October 11, 2025, 06:08:33 PM Altcoins can be risk or opportunity depending on the experiences and decisions of holders, if a holder lacks sufficient experience it becomes risky for him but with sufficient experience it becomes opportunity. If you don't understand how altcoins market works it means that you are risking your funds and no difference from a gambler but with market experience you can take advantage of opportunities to predict when to buy and sell. Although altcoins are very volatile and despite your experience and knowing how to take advantage of opportunities you can still lose your funds so always use amount that you can easily lose. Yes, altcoins are quite volatile but that also means that they can give us opportunities to make really good profits if we have basic understandings and ability to make market research.Research is the key player with any kind of investment. Investing just because of the hype or just because we want to see good profits is not what we all expect. When it comes to altcoins, we need to spend a lot of time only to find that specific altcoin which shows us potential. Later comes market study, fundamentals and technical analysis which will show us the exact entry and exit points. Just blindly following altcoins is a big mistake even though they have high potential. Title: Re: Are Altcoins Risk or Opportunity? Post by: Cyber_warrior on October 12, 2025, 01:22:20 AM Exploring altcoins critically teaches how innovation and market perception interact. Each project offers lessons in risk management, ecosystem growth, and the dynamics of supply and demand.How do you assess an altcoin’s potential versus its inherent risk? Lots of newbies see altcoins as opportunity, no matter how you try to explain the risk in altcoins, they Won’t believe, they believe altcoins are the coins that can make then get the kind of profits they need within a short period of time, so they always thinking altcoins are opportunity, but after losing big, that’s when they going to realize that altcoins are just risky and not opportunity. Altcoins are the coins that can give you insane profits within a short period of time, but you should know that within a short period of time, you can lose everything which you have also. The main reason why people invest in altcoins is just for quick profits, and I don’t think there is anything more than that, but whenever they are investing in, they always forget about the risk. Title: Re: Are Altcoins Risk or Opportunity? Post by: GeorgeJohn on October 12, 2025, 08:08:15 PM Altcoins like Cardano and Avalanche provide alternative approaches to scalability, governance, and decentralization. Yet their success depends on adoption, community support, and real-world utility. It is obvious that altcoins is a very risk coins that someone can invest, we need to understand that hot coins if you don't take your time for investing in some of them that does not to have a potential it might lead you to regret investing in cryptocurrency.... so anyone who is investing in altcoin need to make a proper research of that Project to know if the project will be the one to survive or not because so many of them have not survived and so many also survived during the time there we are launchedExploring altcoins critically teaches how innovation and market perception interact. Each project offers lessons in risk management, ecosystem growth, and the dynamics of supply and demand.How do you assess an altcoin’s potential versus its inherent risk? So people who investing Bitcoin I think they need a proper investigation in any of them before they invest and they have to make a decision if they will invest for shot term or long-term, mostly any coin that you are having doubt on a particular Project I believe that your investing on it it should be on short term investment instead of long-term investment. Title: Re: Are Altcoins Risk or Opportunity? Post by: Odusko on October 12, 2025, 09:42:46 PM Altcoins like Cardano and Avalanche provide alternative approaches to scalability, governance, and decentralization. Yet their success depends on adoption, community support, and real-world utility. In terms scalability of the crypto community we must give that kudos to altcoins and for that reason we acknowledge them as the alternative coin community which is designed to provides and solve scalability problems and that is what altcoins are doing right now, although we have hard a few other coin that their projection and ecosystem failed to meet the desired alternative role that altcoins are meant to provide, which make to to fail and investors losing money which have affected the motivation of Many investors. Exploring altcoins critically teaches how innovation and market perception interact. Each project offers lessons in risk management, ecosystem growth, and the dynamics of supply and demand.How do you assess an altcoin’s potential versus its inherent risk? Title: Re: Are Altcoins Risk or Opportunity? Post by: Fredomago on October 12, 2025, 10:37:34 PM As someone who has seen a lot of the altcoin side of things, I consider altcoins an opportunity, but only as an economic opportunity, nothing more. When it comes to technology, Bitcoin (BTC) is undoubtedly the leader. However, since Bitcoin (BTC) MC is already too high & it's difficult to multiply, altcoins have emerged as an alternative. They're born with low MC, which easily increase as more money flows into them. It really just depends on how individual investors look at Bitcoin or altcoins. That's because what one community sees as an opportunity may not be an opportunity for another. That's why it's crucial that we study and research the potential of the coins we might buy for short-term or long-term holdings. We simply cannot separate risk and opportunity when the topic is about investing in Bitcoin or cryptocurrency, and I believe the same principle applies to other business opportunities as well. You are absolutely right! We can't seperate risk and opportunity but we can balance both if we have proper unsderstanding, if we do have the right knowledge and skills we can take our opportunities, better to carefully study your actions before taking steps into this venture, just like what you just said, it's not because someone manage to earn or to gain fortune it's not applicable that if you follow him you can have the same outcome, not unless you take your time to research and study the whole thing and practice what you learned, there's also a strong chance that you may gain success in the long run. Title: Re: Are Altcoins Risk or Opportunity? Post by: Kavelj22 on October 12, 2025, 11:33:08 PM It's hard to achieve meaningful decentralization in an altcoin. Most of them have only a single protocol implementation. Therefore, for all but a few the risk management is mostly a regulatory question, not a technical one. This is the problem of almost major altcoins actually in the market. I would support them myself if the were submitted to decentralization based protocol. There is a category called privacy tokens contains few projects, like all other altcoins are fully centralized including big ones like Ethereum or Waves... Unfortunetly, most of them aren't careful about providing more blockchain based privacy, while the majority are centralized more than Fiat money in many aspects. Title: Re: Are Altcoins Risk or Opportunity? Post by: Junii on October 15, 2025, 09:57:12 AM opportunity for those people who don't have enough money and risk for those people who have a lot of money
Title: Re: Are Altcoins Risk or Opportunity? Post by: bettercrypto on October 15, 2025, 10:33:43 AM Altcoins can be risk or opportunity depending on the experiences and decisions of holders, if a holder lacks sufficient experience it becomes risky for him but with sufficient experience it becomes opportunity. If you don't understand how altcoins market works it means that you are risking your funds and no difference from a gambler but with market experience you can take advantage of opportunities to predict when to buy and sell. Although altcoins are very volatile and despite your experience and knowing how to take advantage of opportunities you can still lose your funds so always use amount that you can easily lose. Simply put it is a risky opportunity because experience doesn't answer or crown it all, from my observations even the claim experience person is very much vulnerable to the risk investment and also stands with same opportunities of getting something out of it, I know some one that bought a car as a n achievements from altcoins he sees himself as an experienced and people respect him too but some he do lost hugely making his experience not to save him, it is obvious that the market is unpredictable and it may not favor you all the times even if you sees yourself as an expert. The risk in altcoins will never disappear, so any investor must be aware of the risk and be ready for it. Because if they aren't ready, they shouldn't even attempt to invest here. Furthermore, all investors who invest in altcoins are truly risk-takers. We won't find any successful investors in the crypto space who didn't take a significant risk; there's no such thing. No matter how much research others do, the truth is that most investors are genuinely willing to take risks." Title: Re: Are Altcoins Risk or Opportunity? Post by: CoinAge.Cash on October 15, 2025, 11:16:21 AM It's hard to achieve meaningful decentralization in an altcoin. Most of them have only a single protocol implementation. Therefore, for all but a few the risk management is mostly a regulatory question, not a technical one. This is the problem of almost major altcoins actually in the market. I would support them myself if the were submitted to decentralization based protocol. There is a category called privacy tokens contains few projects, like all other altcoins are fully centralized including big ones like Ethereum or Waves... Unfortunetly, most of them aren't careful about providing more blockchain based privacy, while the majority are centralized more than Fiat money in many aspects. Could simplify this to a very basic understanding to understand it fully with someone who has no knowledge but wants to start a Token (Altcoin)? What are some of the steps you would take? Keep in mind I want it to be used with the real life currency like purchasing precious metals and abinding with taxes, laws and regulations. Title: Re: Are Altcoins Risk or Opportunity? Post by: markm on October 15, 2025, 01:49:18 PM Could simplify this to a very basic understanding to understand it fully with someone who has no knowledge but wants to start a Token (Altcoin)? What are some of the steps you would take? Keep in mind I want it to be used with the real life currency like purchasing precious metals and abinding with taxes, laws and regulations. I think the big thing to watch out for when considering launching a coin, token, currency or asset is what you are going to "back" it with. It is basically an IOU, just like a bank balance is. A bank balance shows how much, of what, the bank owes you. Similarly a coin token currency or asset shows how much its issuer or minter owes you. Unless it is a commodity in and of itself, of course. Bitcoin is more a commodity than a coin token currency or asset because just like gold or gasoline or eggs or bacon or butter or pork-bellies it is the thing itself, the uses to which it can be put, and the cost of manufacturing it and shipping it to you that is generally taken to be its "value". A generic token or coin such as anyone can at almost-no cost mint arbitrary numbers of is until imbued with value just another almost-worthless data-structure, possibly representing nothing whatsoever. It is a medium, media upon which can be recorded things like how much, of what, who is going to give you for it. Thus a first consideration before launching should be how much of what are you going to buy them back for? Once you have decided that - I recall you indicating you were thinking of redeeming yours for metals? - you can simply divide the amount of what you are going to buy it back with by the number of units you issue of your IOU (coin,token,etc) to assign a value per IOU. A big motivation for people "floating" their IOUs on markets is the hope someone somewhere sometime will buy one for more than the value that the original issuer of it put into it. That applies to commodities too of course not just to IOUs; bitcoin miners are at least partial motivated, usually, by a hope someone will someday pay them more for the bitcoins they mint than it cost them to mint them. With IOUs, costing almost nothing to mint, what is put into them is mostly how much the issuer of them is expected by other people to buy them back for. That leads us to the idea of total-bullshit coins tokens etc, which go farther even than IOUs: With the total-bullshit crap the only supposed "value" they have, since it is known or should be known that the issuer is one of the least likely persons to ever even consider buying them, is the hope or dream or fantasy that some other idiot will buy one or more of them... Hence ponzi schemes, the greater-fool theory and so on... -MarkM- Title: Re: Are Altcoins Risk or Opportunity? Post by: wiss19 on October 15, 2025, 03:51:11 PM those who want to invest in altcoins along with bitcoin investment can invest by looking at the market and understanding it then they can earn a good amount of profit from altcoins. Guess that is because of their numbers which are a lot but btc is only one. BTC is still being discussed though from time to time and then some altcoins can only come and go. Yes that if the potential is high then expect that the risk is also high as well but it is still possible to earn big even with a small risk only. Take example Bitcoin. Some thinks it is slow moving but we never know it's true limit yet but many believes it is still high. So as long as we get in early and forget it for a while, we can surely profit big here. When it comes to technology, Bitcoin (BTC) is undoubtedly the leader. However, since Bitcoin (BTC) MC is already too high & it's difficult to multiply, altcoins have emerged as an alternative. They're born with low MC, which easily increase as more money flows into them. There are altcoins that are unique or technology which is new and different from what Bitcoin has to offer. This should be the main reason on why they are created and most altcoins now are clearly in for the profits only. Bitcoin is still the leader when it comes to market cap and some other stuff.When you say economic opportunity, it can mean different things not only for the profit purposes but also for the use cases. If we are on the profit side, then there is also a risk with it but there may be not if we are only in for the technology. Title: Re: Are Altcoins Risk or Opportunity? Post by: CoinAge.Cash on October 15, 2025, 05:34:50 PM Could simplify this to a very basic understanding to understand it fully with someone who has no knowledge but wants to start a Token (Altcoin)? What are some of the steps you would take? Keep in mind I want it to be used with the real life currency like purchasing precious metals and abinding with taxes, laws and regulations. I think the big thing to watch out for when considering launching a coin, token, currency or asset is what you are going to "back" it with. It is basically an IOU, just like a bank balance is. A bank balance shows how much, of what, the bank owes you. Similarly a coin token currency or asset shows how much its issuer or minter owes you. Unless it is a commodity in and of itself, of course. Bitcoin is more a commodity than a coin token currency or asset because just like gold or gasoline or eggs or bacon or butter or pork-bellies it is the thing itself, the uses to which it can be put, and the cost of manufacturing it and shipping it to you that is generally taken to be its "value". A generic token or coin such as anyone can at almost-no cost mint arbitrary numbers of is until imbued with value just another almost-worthless data-structure, possibly representing nothing whatsoever. It is a medium, media upon which can be recorded things like how much, of what, who is going to give you for it. Thus a first consideration before launching should be how much of what are you going to buy them back for? Once you have decided that - I recall you indicating you were thinking of redeeming yours for metals? - you can simply divide the amount of what you are going to buy it back with by the number of units you issue of your IOU (coin,token,etc) to assign a value per IOU. A big motivation for people "floating" their IOUs on markets is the hope someone somewhere sometime will buy one for more than the value that the original issuer of it put into it. That applies to commodities too of course not just to IOUs; bitcoin miners are at least partial motivated, usually, by a hope someone will someday pay them more for the bitcoins they mint than it cost them to mint them. With IOUs, costing almost nothing to mint, what is put into them is mostly how much the issuer of them is expected by other people to buy them back for. That leads us to the idea of total-bullshit coins tokens etc, which go farther even than IOUs: With the total-bullshit crap the only supposed "value" they have, since it is known or should be known that the issuer is one of the least likely persons to ever even consider buying them, is the hope or dream or fantasy that some other idiot will buy one or more of them... Hence ponzi schemes, the greater-fool theory and so on... -MarkM- What about if I am able to create a Token (Altcoin) that is the same value of precious metals like everything from the basic metal to like copper and the rare chance to get silver and gold? Title: Re: Are Altcoins Risk or Opportunity? Post by: markm on October 15, 2025, 06:17:15 PM What about if I am able to create a Token (Altcoin) that is the same value of precious metals like everything from the basic metal to like copper and the rare chance to get silver and gold? You cannot create a token with the same value as anything other than itself, because being fungible only means being the same as itself, within itself. You can however "back" it with something else. Then its value should be the value of whatever you "back" it with multiplied by the chance you will in fact ever actually honour your claim that you will in fact "back" it. So again likely its value will not be quite the same as what you "back" it with. Basically a promise or contract or intention or expectation that each copper-IOU will in fact end up getting its bearer an actual piece of copper is likely to be worth less than an actual piece of copper to a blacksmith at his furnace with his hammer reaching for a piece of copper to smith, and possibly worth more than an actual piece of copper to someone wanting to walk to another town or continent without carrying millions of pieces of copper with them but who wants upon arrival to have or get millions of actual pieces of copper. All you can do really is try to make some kind of convincing promise or bullshit advertising-copy purporting that you will somehow "redeem" your tokens aka IOUs... -MarkM- Title: Re: Are Altcoins Risk or Opportunity? Post by: CoinAge.Cash on October 15, 2025, 06:48:31 PM You cannot create a token with the same value as anything other than itself, because being fungible only means being the same as itself, within itself. You can however "back" it with something else. Then its value should be the value of whatever you "back" it with multiplied by the chance you will in fact ever actually honour your claim that you will in fact "back" it. So again likely its value will not be quite the same as what you "back" it with. Basically a promise or contract or intention or expectation that each copper-IOU will in fact end up getting its bearer an actual piece of copper is likely to be worth less than an actual piece of copper to a blacksmith at his furnace with his hammer reaching for a piece of copper to smith, and possibly worth more than an actual piece of copper to someone wanting to walk to another town or continent without carrying millions of pieces of copper with them but who wants upon arrival to have or get millions of actual pieces of copper. All you can do really is try to make some kind of convincing promise or bullshit advertising-copy purporting that you will somehow "redeem" your tokens aka IOUs... -MarkM- great recovery from your first ever suggestion posted on my thread. Because I was thinking either getting an actual card made or mint an actual coin of some sort that only can be bought through my site, or you can top the card up via my site for workers in the industrial field like a company card to buy what they need for the job this will come out the company in this field if they are apart of my token this will allow them to either get a discount on items or the full price depending what it is. but still in the planning stages and research. |