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BBC recently did a interview around the volatility of cryptocurrencies. I think we are still so early in this industry but I would love to know your thoughts about where we are going and how you think the landscape will change.

People in the podcast include:

Marc Warne, Founder, Bittylicious
Jemima Kelly, reporter, FT Alphaville
Dave Jevans, CEO, CipherTrace


https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000676m

Do you want people to put on headsets and listen to this podcast for 28:33 minutes? why would people do that? I think you should listen to the podcast and then summarize what they said and post in this thread the summary you made


if enter a lot of money in the crypto market, I believe that the volatility will not be very high as it is today, at least we will not see high increases and followed by very large falls

I also hate listening to a very long Podcast, sometimes some opinions are out of topic, I prefer reading an article, but if it is a very people in the crypto like Satoshi I'll go for it, better just summarize it, going back to your question, until we don't have a regulation we will still going to have an ups and down, but I prefer unregulated because everyone will do his own assignment.

Right, some may add adlibs which are not relevant and is missing the point of the topic. 28:33 minutes is too long for me, I think i’ll get bored listening to it, might as well OP have summarize it for us to understand the gist instead of us listening it, it’s time consuming, just saying.

Perhaps it would be better if the OP explains to us the main points of the conversation between those people.
I also hate listening to long podcasts and I assume that this podcast is going to be extremely boring as well.
The topic about risks/rewards is discussed so many times here and I don't think that these crypto "experts" will bring something new to that subject.

Hey
I don't think listening to this is very least possible.

Now let's about the market *
We saw some highest gains of 2019 and it stayed on that for like 1-2 hour and then it fell loosing it's value , it went down by 1500$ , but then those who were intellectual enough to wait actually knew that it is going to be high again soon , soon enough after some days it reached 12k and right now it is going to go down a lil when it's up , because people sell , but if you wait it is for sure going to hit 20k$ is what I believe.

Volatility of the market is talked much as the risk factor of bitcoin, if it was less volatile maybe the risk is low but it won't be that interesting and an effective investment asset.

With cryptocurrency being into risk is upon users self interest, because there is access for risk free earning as well risked earning. Potential investors who doesn't want to take risk just invest and leave it for years to get the good return. With trading the risk is big as the market changes were not that easy predictive.

It's been 10 years already, from the price of .1$-$20k so I guess you can draw your own conclusion there specially on the risk and rewards. The question is are there investors who are in the market for the long haul or just wanted to short specially crypto? And then they will bitch later saying that they have lost money. But if you are going to look closely, then don't understand the value of risk and how to mitigate it.

being volatile is not the problem and it can not be considered a "risk" in my opinion. take a look at bitcoin ,it has been volatile for all its life but it still is a very good currency and/or investment. the reason is because volatility is the product of having a small market on exchanges.

the problem is when volatility is not because of smallness of the market but it is because of manipulation. for example no matter how much money goes into altcoins they will remain highly risky because their volatility is product of pure manipulation which people call pump and dump.

Volatility is one of the main reason why Bitcoin is being supported after all these years and about risk and rewards then it would
definitely just depend on how a certain individual would utilize its movement and level of decisions would vary on how you do forsee it.

Volatility will not go away, its not something that is destined to go away neither, it is literally there because people have no regulations while doing trading and that allows us to make 10%-20% movements anytime you want, if a stock drops 50% all of a sudden in a day than a lot of people will ask what happened and why it happened and there would be consequences but if bitcoin drops 50% tomorrow nothing will happen at all.

I think above is the obvious reason, why volatility can't go away, it has no other factor to go away, the reason why it's here is because of deregulations and decentralization and as long as they exist (which I really hope they do) than nothing can change it at all, governments and ministries have no power over bitcoin hence it will not be questioned by authorities since it has no central organization.

What do you expect from a speculative asset? Of course there will be volatility and we can't simply escape that. Right now is just an example, reaching as high as $13800 on some exchanges and now down to $9800. You do the math as how much it drop? Just two days ago it was around $13200, and now below 5 digits again, so talking about volatility.  ;D

Risk, volatility is part of the ecosystem. We have witnessed the ups and downs of the market, so we can conclude  that the risk and rewards are very much correlated to one another. It's the question on how are you going to react, specially if you have gain so much experience in the market and have seen the worst of it.

That's what separate the 'smart investor' to those who are newbie and who FOMO. Smart investors knows to calculate and mitigate the risk, however, newbies do panic and complain that they can't make money of out the prevailing market. So it boils down as to how investors matured and take the risk positively.

I do not need to listen to any podcast to be able to know the risk and rewards of cryptocurrency, the major risk I see in cryptocurrency is that it is opened to being used by fraudsters to move large amount of stolen money without it being traced, and can also be used to launder money, some says it can be used by terrorist too to fund terrorism, but amidst all these, the economic benefit of cryptocurrency still outweighs its risk despite its volatility.

Through cryptocurrency, jobs has been created for lots of people, businesses are expanding, and through cryptocurrency, people are able to establish companies that they would never had imagined could be opened without them getting involved in ICO. Cryptocurrency has sent lots of youths back to school and giving the less privileged financially to make some money that has upgraded their financial status.

1. Volatility in cryptocurrencies is due to very low total marketcap crypto have compared to other traditional trad-able assets like stocks, bonds and gold.
2. Marketcap is slowly growing and when it will be huge enough to easily absorb billions or even trillions of dollar worth of trade in a day than volatility will be very low compared to what we have now.
3. Industry gonna mature and there might be thousands or even millions of new security and utility coin/token flooding in the market every year without affecting the core cryptocurrencies like BTC, ETH, LTC ....

In Cryptocurrency, we will indeed get a very high risk because of the volatility of the Crypto value that has never been stable.  If we invest in Cryptocurrency, we really need to be ready with all that.  however, behind this high risk, Cryptocurrency also provides us with tremendous opportunities to make a profit.  because of Cryptocurrency price fluctuations that can rise quickly and very high.

I think volume plays a big role but at the same time we have seen that volume could be bad as well, it all depends where that volume is going into. If you have just few whales playing in bitcoin like they want then you can have those people leave and make the market very vulnerable as well.

If the total volume is 30 billion dollars lets say and 15 billion dollars of it is just 10 banks then when they leave the volume will be down half and whatever people decide to move towards will happen very quickly. We need to not just get more volume but also get more userbase in that volume as well, if we are going to have 30 billion dollar volume then there should be no one with more than 500 million power and even less if possible so nobody has the chance to make the market go wild anymore.

That's a challenge though. Will risk is a part of our life in crypto and ain't no way to escape from that otherwise, to face it.
If we really care about risk, then risk also turns it back to you. Better to look it in a positive way rather than of thinking it negative cause that could be a hindrance to our success.

We don`t get rewards if we don`t risks. After all, we are the one that will experience the result. No matter we lose, we always want to get up and fight. Cryptocurrency is a life changer. Many people are looking for this investment as a way to become rich. But they also see this as a great SCAM. Whatever we are perceiving in crypto industry, it will still remain cryptocurrency. We just part of their development which in vice versa, we are the stakeholders of crypto.

Risking our capital is not good at all time. Yet, we have seen many evidences of pay-outs and the money they received from investing, crypto is also a risky investment. There is no such thing as real rewards here. In fact, even rewards at the bounty campaigns are ruined by scam projects. If we just get rewards, probably the little one that suits to our bill fees.

This is a new platform and volatility is the face of the market and it is mainly because of the low liquidity we have, not sure how anyone could overcome that situation in this market, the change in landscape is dependent on how major countries are planning to regulate the market and the major factor would be how they will view anon currencies like Monero and other similar coins. We can only speculate now but in a couple of years we will have a clarity about the entire market.

what clarity are you talking about ? there is no clarity because you once said that we are here to speculate . your right because cryptos is about speculation due to thier volatile nature which we cant exactly know on where the price is heading at . the title is  true because there is always a reward after the risk and the more the risk you face , the more the reward you will also achieve  .

The smaller the market for a coin the higher the probability of manipulation. That's why investing in Bitcoin is less risky than in any of them. But I agree that even for BTC the market is still too small for it to be stable. How big the market should be is a big question, but I think it should be at least 10 times bigger than it is now. And that's perfectly possible, by the way, because BTC is used by less than 1% of the world population still.

It's very simple to to understand the volatility keeps the prices of the cryptocurrencies to be risk and the same volatility makes the cryptocurrency to be much more profitable investment.

Right.People have always known cryptocurrencies as being volatile that makes it a very risky investment.But behind that volatility is what makes all investors and traders keeps on being thrilled knowing the price would suddenly goes up and gives them huge profit and sometimes goes down which gives them opportunity to buy even more for additional investment.

Any sort of investment means you are taking a risk. Invest on a business and you have a risk of losing everything due to failed business. The same thing goes for crypto currencies. Invest on wrong time and sell at the wrong moment, you will be suffering huge loss. Lose track of your crypto currency investment, you will end up with nothing. Bigger the risk, higher the profit is!

So you think regulation can make fluctuations disappear? in my opinion it's not a factor that will make prices stable. although regulations and legalization are made for crypto. the market will remain fluctuating, that's what makes cryptocurrency special afterall

When we leave our house every day, and we embark on a journey to our destination, there is risk of accident, risk of getting molested, risk of being stolen for much other life threatening risk out there, but yet we still go about our activities believing that we are in God’s hand and hoping that nothing will happen.

This is the same faith we need to have on the investment we are risking, although we have to use our head too when taking some certain risk, there are some risk that our instinct will clearly tell us is not worth taken, but we get stubborn to our instinct and get burnt by it. If we can take the right risk, then such risk will do more good to us than the damage it has with it.

A lot of people are afraid that Bitcoin (Cryptocurrencies) are volatile and they are afraid that they don’t want to lose their money. I am also afraid of that sometimes, but without that volatility being there, it wouldn’t be as rewarding as it is. It’s all about risk, if you’re able to take that risk you’re either going to win or you lose and when any of these things happens, all you can do is just to endure all it all and nothing else. If Bitcoin wasn’t volatile I don’t even think it will get this far, cause what attracted people to start investing in Bitcoin is because they all thought they will make money from it.

I think the only thing we can risk with cryptocurrencies is money. You risk and you can lose if you make a wrong move, the right moves are highly rewarded with profit. Except for profit, we have many other rewards, more important than money itself is knowledge, with the knowledge you can earn money easily. We grow with crypto, we learn and we make friendships, we make contacts for a lifetime, maybe that`s more valuable than any money.

Everything has risks. It is up to us if we are prepared to face it. There are many risk when you invested in cryptocurrencies because market is very volatile. If we know well what we get into we can minimize those risks. I invested in crypto because I'm more thinking that it will have a great value in the future mostly bitcoin.

Correct. It's pure bs when people talk about how regulations will make sure the market of Bitcoin will get stable.

If you want to see how much effect regulations have on a market, follow tech stocks; some of the biggest companies in the world lose/gain 20-30% of their value in a matter of a week or a month. Bitcoin isn't different, it's just the rate at which these fluctuations happen that gets people upset, but that for a market lacking liquidity is completely normal.

An example of recent EXTREME upwards volatility is MoneyGram. In one single day the stock price shot up from $1.45 to $3.88! It has a very small market cap, but this just mirrors what happens with altcoins here. The point is that there isn't really a difference between unregulated markets and regulated markets in terms of volatility. Liquidity is what you need.

I don't listen to my mother nag for 10 seconds and you will be making me listen into a 28 minutes podcast? 10 years are still early, we all know that, Risks? We all know that, Rewards? We had been grabbing all of the rewards we have but most of the time, we let it go since we thought that it could grow more but that is btc, it pumps, it dumps still, we earn.

Tagging up a real life situation.Im with on the same foot as yours.Im not really keen on seeing podcast like this one yet we know
on whats the risk and rewards of crypto and just being simply making yourself got involved into this speculative market you can
able to spot out on what are the things you would face up.

This podcast starts with talking about what Libra promises to us but even this interview was early step from bbc because it's another task if will Libra be in action because it may have serious issues with government of united states.
On another hand my opinion on given subject is that risks exists for investors and rewards are for both, investors and crypto enthusiasts but that reward is risky for investors. For people who use bitcoin as a payment method, it's great option for protecting privacy and managing your own money. Crypto offers cheap transactions without banks, that matters the most. You can hold money outside of bank and if you have bad bank history, nothing can stop you from making online transaction via using cryptocurrencies which is really a reward.

What you said relates more to a dice game than to Bitcoin. It's in a dice game you can bet your money with 10% win chance, and either lose it all or win tenfold, and the probability of the former is 90% while the probability of the latter outcome is only 10%. It's not like that with Bitcoin. With Bitcoin you are risking to lose 80% of your investments, but this is very unlikely. What is more likely is winning twofold in the nearest future(3-6 months) and maybe twenty-fold, or even more, in the long run.

Investing in Bitcoin is similar to investing in Google stocks in 2007: the price of the stocks was already 5 times up since 2004, and some people thought it could go only down, and they started selling and it indeed went down, but today the price of GOOGL is 5 times higher than it was in 2007.

the risk and reward level in crypto really depends on the traders control of emotions thats what i think aside from the given knowledge of course
but too much excitement might push you to go FOMO or invest more that what you afford to loose and on the other end having patience might give you enormous reward

Listening to the podcast is not going to do me any good, because there’s nothing they will say in the podcast that is going to sound new to me, it’s also going to be the same thing a lot of people have been saying over and over again. Bitcoin is very volatile, we all know that, and we know that trading Bitcoin is a huge risk and that you can lose everything that you invested, and bitcoin can also be a life changer, there are lots of people that became millionaires by using the opportunity they had with Bitcoin, though this time around it is different because it now expensive and more risky. So stories are not going to be the same.

Even if you have the knowledge about it, there is still the risk. Volatility is a risk too and that is the reason some people don't want anything to do with it. But as we all say, the higher the risk, the bigger the rewards. People risk their money with the hope of earning huge profit out of it, but as you've said, without knowledge and usually skill, they can lose their money.

Unfortunately, our confidence rarely helps in real life. Even the best experts in the world make mistakes sometimes, not to mention ordinary people like us. There are many projects that look very promising in their whitepapers and road maps, but they fail to deliver in the end. Instead of studying a project, I would rather study the team behind it and the big names that support it.

confidence cant help you at all times  . let say for example your too confident to pick up a shady coin but unfortunately the coin got crashed becasue it was only a pumped and dumped  . see? but at least your confident to try than sticking on your comfort zone and not trying at all   .  studying the team or names does not differ from studying the whole project because there is a potential that they could fake it all  . scams are everywhere these days  .

The real impact of this technology will be sensed in the next 20 years. IT is like smartphones, once is in our daily basis you cant get away and we need this kind of technology in our life, if could make it so much easier.

Cryptocurrencies are all have risks and accompanied with high regards as well, though volatility in the market exists still it is worth the support from the crypto community and still crypto currencies are still surviving and getting stronger due to the mass adoption that many people are more interested and invested on crypto market. To succeed in crypto each of us must have patience, timing and most importantly knows how to HOLD. As the saying goes "High risks, Big rewards".

Well elaborated, you have mentioned both the risk and the benefits of using bitcoin, as much as I know bitcoin has no side effect in our life, if we will use it properly for getting profit I am sure it will give us fully benefit, if you consider trading as risky then just increase your knowledge about trading so you can avoid risk otherwise trading and using bitcoin in any field is fully profitable, holders get good reward at the end.

There are people who think that anything can be faked on the Internet, but I don't belong to this group. I think when someone is listed as a developer, and this person confirms that on their twitter(or any other social) account then it's true. Scams are everywhere, but they are so easily spotted by a trained eye that people ignore them without even noticing. Besides, do you really think that it's easy to come to some right conclusions after studying the whole project? I don't think so. Many projects look very promising, and it's impossible to tell whether they will fail or succeed in the future. So, I think researching about the team members provide you with more useful information.

To be fair every single investment has a risk, but one of the biggest problems I see is the mentality of those that enter the market, in other markets people are not really looking to become rich overnight, they are only trying to multiply their capital slowly and methodically but in this market people invest all their money in an unknown coin and the chances they lose their money by taking such a reckless action is very high, or even if they invest in bitcoin they use leverage to try to diminish the time needed to get huge profits not realizing that by doing that they risk losing everything.

I am a person that literally lived the risks and rewards of cryptocurrency in the past couple years, I have been saving up bitcoin and using it for stuff for the past 3 years and so far sometimes when I save bitcoin aside the amount of bitcoin I saved increases however the amount of dollar I have drops because bitcoin price drops so even though I have more bitcoins each and every single day the amount of dollar I have sometimes drops, however at the same time I spend some of it time to time and even though I have spent the bitcoins I saved the amount in dollar looks unchanged even more the next day because bitcoin increases.

So, as you can see I have actually lived the ups and downs of being a bitcoin investor and sometimes it is really good but sometimes it makes you feel bad.

Risks are always part of cryptocurrency. One who has the mind to take risk gets the benefits out of the same. One example for the same is the recent price drop.

I sold an ethereum for $330, and bought back at $335 fearing the price has begun to increase. If I had got the mind to risk, then I could've have had patience and bought back at $300 or if I was good enough to study the market I could've bought at $200. What I missed is the profiting.

I feel your pain buddy. But you should know this that there are people who have been through this and this is not something that only a few people have been experiencing. These "losses" so to speak and common in any speculative market and they are the reasons why people trade on them.

At this point you should just hold your ETH till the price rises above your buying point. Make a decision in your mind whether it is profitable for you to hold ETH or BTC and dont blame yourself for that later on.

That is what you need to be a great investor and a trader, patience especially if you are dealing with cryptocurrencies.

With the sudden price drops, you can't avoid getting disappointed sometimes. You never know what might happen that is the reason why you just keep calm and just ride the flow. Patience, knowledge, skills and money, that is what you need to become a successful investor or trader. Risk is always there especially cryptocurrencies but the rewards? Man, you will not be disappointed.

I also think that we are still in the early stages of the crypto market. Although there were many ups and downs, the Rekt periods were serious but I still believe that the crypto market will soon be a decentralized market with a total market capitalization of over trillions of dollars.
You can see, in 2017, there were just over 800 - 900 businesses in the crypto market, but after only one and a half years, the market now has over 2200 coins in operation.
This shows that the spread and extent of Crypto's influence is huge.
In the future, there will be a lot of businesses operating here and we will have a big financial market not unlike the stock market.

Mistakes are inevitable things yet no matter how good we are on analyzing the market with its due behavior which is

very speculative ones then we would still lose up.Waiting for recovery?This doesn't suit out for anyone specially for those people
who don't have much patience on looking up their current holdings.

Look this is bitcoin and it is volatile, there is nothing you can do about that, the price will sometimes go double even triple of what it is in matter of a month and then one day it will go down 20% in a single day as well, there is really no way of knowing which one will happen so you gotta just hope for the best.

If you can actually live with that then sure go ahead and jump into crypto and do whatever you want, this is a trillion dollar world and you can actually carve a space for yourself here, anyone can. If you fear that you are going to lose money and can't be part of something risky then this is not for you. I have lost a lot of money in crypto but I also made a lot as well so instead of focusing on the bad days (like right now :D.) I focus on the good days which I had plenty of as well.

20% gains in one day is not a common thing.

The average movement is around 5-10% max and unless some big news makes it into the market we dont see a 20% or more gains. But 20% losses are common specially during any session of selling pressure when bitcoin is getting attacked heavily from opinions of several big names and social media is also making sure to promote these articles. Media is basically a double edged sword, who would both help in pumping and dumping bitcoin. So there you have more of a risky move if you follow them too much.

20% is quite possible, maybe its not common I agree but considering it moves like that in couple days it is disingenuous to say that its rare in daily moves, yeah maybe not daily but quite common in couple days at most. We have seen bitcoin move triple of what it used to be in couple months recently, so if you are lucky than you could make that type of differences.

The point however is that bitcoin make huge movements, it goes up and down in very big numbers and that is something common for us, if you go into a coma and wake up at the end of this summer (say September first) and you see bitcoin at 3 thousand dollars or 30 thousand dollars, would any of them shock you? Would you be "how did this impossible thing happened?" or would you be more like "well its bitcoin, figures". I wouldn't be shocked, it happens in bitcoin.

The risk is an ordinary thing that we have to experience in investment and the reward is our right in investment, it is only natural that we get a reward when we invest because we have spent enough capital for this investment and not all successful investments and even losses in the end  and that is a risk that we must accept

The mentality of the opportunity come but once is what is making lots of them take unnecessary risk in the cryptocurrency market, and you are right, they will never take such risk in other market like Forex and stock. Look at the way they are abusing margin trade in the cryptocurrency market, to an extent that someone would dare risk 100x leverage in this very volatile market, people are just so funny on how they want to take advantage of a system they no nothing much about to make lots of money overnight.

The wisest people are just the ones you talked about, they come with the mentality of just gradually increasing their capital and not think it would make them extremely rich overnight, although this was the mentality I came with too until one of these useless coins dealt with me severely.

There is always risk in everything, and the fact the risk is big does not mean it will bring a big rewards, there are some risk that will make you and there are some that will mar you, the only risk that you should take are risk that you are quite sure is worth taken, don’t see risk in things and see it as opportunity.

Someone once lectured me on how to trade shitcoins and make money, he has done it once or twice and has taken so much money, which is you get to buy some shitcoins before a whale pumps it and then you quickly sell off during the pump. This was a very big risk, and I decided to try this risk too, and then I decided to put lots of money into one of these coin that is yet to be pumped, but instead of it being pumped, it kept in declining till I lost that investment.

Well the only risk in Bitcoins is loss and the only reward is profit.
What's important is on what extent these things are.
We we keep our Bitcoins secured and do transactions and exchanges using high security there isn't any risk of theft. But more importantly it's how we study the price graph's ups and downs that determines our fate.

The risk in cryptocurrency is more with scam project and shitcoins than with bitcoin and some big projects. We might have to go beyond what we read on whitepapers, social media updates and telegram to getting some inside information with recent new project, the scammers are smarter and some teams are not capable for the project they want to embark on. The present market condition will only help to strangle enormous shitcoins in the market and send them off. It is sad that we have over 3000 projects, many that have no demand-able use case and sharing in the marketcap.

The presence of risk in the market is what should trigger us in activating some trading tools like the one you mentioned here, but I am surprised that we still have some traders who thinks they can do without those tools to maximize risk because of their level of knowledge and experience, I think when it comes to risk, risk does not know any experience, the only language risk understand is to destroy a trade and only we can fight this with wisdom.

Another great thing that we must learn to always set in our trading is goal, because it is only when we have goal already set within us that we can see the need to maximize the risk that always exists in trading. Cryptocurrency is a very volatile market that every trader must work hard to make profit.

I think having the courage to go all in on these things make a big difference, I mean if you are really brave and want to do a big investment that could turn your life around then bitcoin is definitely the one.

There are not that many stuff that could potentially change your life in investment because most of them are boring gold or stock like stuff that make small movements and yeah they do give you a decent return if you pick the right moves but they are never like bitcoin, it literally moved x3 in the past couple months alone and yeah sometimes it falls horribly as well but that is good because when it falls you can actually buy even more from lower numbers in order to make more profits later on. It is one of the only investments in the world where people are unanimously agree that it will be a higher price in the future.

In order for us to minimize the risk of losing than gaining a profit is to learn how the market behaves. But of course, we will need some tools in order for us to lessen the hard work of trading thus making it easier to gain the profit that we set in our trading goal. That's why most traders master the risk management first in order for them to trade with such small losses if something bad happens.

In my opinion, the decentralized market is really necessary for all businesses in the world. This is where traders can trade freely and are not constrained by anything.
  Besides, the market also has the support of blockchain, which is an excellent technology that is indispensable in the future.
There are so many new and potential factors, I think the crypto market will grow bigger soon.

risks:
you can loose almost all your investments
rewards:
you can double/triple/etc your investments

I don't see much risk but mostly opportunity - at least as investments are concerned. Considering how tough it is, I can only expect for its uses to expand as the years go by.


With bitcoins, only if you go full FOMO and got in at the wrong time. Never go full FOMO. With alts the risk is if the project completely collapses and it becomes useless, so only invest in established cryptos like btc, eth, etc. if you're afraid of losing too much money.

Rewards:
Investment in  Cryptocurrencies like btc when they are at a low price, when the price gets high, see how you make profits with a little usage of brains and patience.
Use Cryptocurrencies to buy services that you need.
Be a part of the global change that's happening.

Risks:
Not many , but if your transaction are tracked you might be in trouble.
Make sure to invest at the right time and study the price graph thoroughly.

For the risk part, this is still controllable because you can only lose your investment when you invest in a wring projects, and if it is trading, it is only when you trade a wrong coin, or you panic sell that you will lose your investment, but all these above can actually still be controlled and well managed. We just have to learn to adapt first to the cryptocurrency terrain, and that have the necessary skill and the right strategy to investment.

We have to also know the right time to buy and the right time to sell. Another thing that makes the market look quite risky is greed, so many people have seen several opportunity to make profits several times, but their greed would not allow them to do the right thing, and then end up losing the chance.

That is one of the risks of a speculative market. It is obviously important to buy and sell at proper times at the proper price. Now what is a proper price to sell will vary according to the person but in general most traders would sell at a profit and the FOMO people will sell while panicking at a loss, because their initial faith was not concrete.

But this risk involved or in other words, the losses that can be incurred is the reason why some people will make a profit and the rest will lose. Its a continuous cycle so keeping buying and selling with targets in mind.

The volatility of cryptocurrency will remain as long as a small number of people or groups hold large numbers of cryptocurrencies they can manipulate the market and actually some people form groups to manipulate the market and to make their group profitable they offer paid memberships to gain access on what coins they are going to pump.

I have been invited to these group's channels before, they usually pick people around here who are interested and post a lot in speculations, trading and altcoins sections.

Volatility is really going to be a temporary thing and will be a thing of the past in some decades to come, those whales  cannot continue to hold the coin forever, with time, they will also gradually get rid of those coins because they would need some financial commitment at a certain time.

Don’t forget that bitcoin has a limited supply, the more the supply closes up, the more bitcoin value will appreciate and to the point where it will become more expensive, as they keep using and manipulating there market, the supply gap will keep closing up and they will have less coin to manipulate the market with and to buy back will also become difficult because the amount that would be involved to purchase one bitcoin then would be a luxury for them to really afford.

But will we ever live to see that day?

Anyway, we could also look at it this way. If the whales have accumulated hundreds of thousands of Bitcoin when the price was cheap and the value of Bitcoin has already reached $100,000 per BTC, wouldn't it be a lot easier for them to manipulate the market? Time will definitely come that BTC will reach that price. When that happens, instead of manipulating the market with at least 50,000 BTC, they might just be able to do a huge influence already in the market with just 10,000 BTC because that is already equivalent to a very significant amount.

I think the rewards outweighs the risks a lot, I know its volatile and that makes people unease of using bitcoin but if you could someone find a way to put it on your bank account I am pretty sure so much more people would use it.

In my country it is possible to have a bank account where you have the national currency account, dollar account, euro account, stock market account and forex account all in one bank account that you divide, it helps a ton when you want to divide your investment but it is also amazing if you just want to keep them divided until you spend them, so even if it is just 100 dollars you can make 1 dollar from it until you spend it all, so it works until it is all gone and not just as investment but the shape of your money, if bitcoin was an option like that rewards of that would be a lot more than just using fiat money.

Maybe some people are buying some coins without knowing the risk, and luckily, they are making a big profit from the coin. I already saw this, and I asked them about the risk, and they explain that they don't know anything about cryptocurrency and they only buy from their friend suggestion. So I think risk and rewards in the crypto will come to people who know about that, but for people who are not thinking about the risk and they buy by coincidence, I think they have bigger chance to make a profit because they don't think anything.

Risk and rewards of cryptocurrency is sometimes difficult to measure. Investing in crypto is really take a high risk but the rewards is based on what coins we invest because it depends on the value of it. Even if it is risky if the rewards is higher then it will be good. Sometimes the rewards is also base on the hgher risk we put on cryptocurrency.

The rewards of cryptocurrency cannot always produce a good reward and it looks like only a loss if we do not choose the right coin at the time of purchase, therefore the risk of investing in cryptocurrency is very high because of the many scam projects that make the image of this industry plummeted. So, it seems like the rewards that will be obtained will not be number one, because the most important thing is research to invest in the right projects and coins.

It is not so much about choosing the right coin

As it is about the precise timing when you should enter that coin (and leave it, for that matter). In other words, even if you had chosen and let the right one in (e.g. Bitcoin) but at the wrong time buying it at its ATH (e.g. at 20k per coin), you would still be deep in red no matter the past dynamic. On the other hand, if you bought some trashy coin but right before the pump and got rid of it right before the dump, you would reap profits. But profits are profits, and it doesn't really matter what investment they came from. Indeed, investing in top coins is less risky and more bulletproof (or even foolproof if you please) but as I said, it is the timing which wins the game, not the coin as such

Will this opportunity giving us to become profitable but the risk is something makes people sometimes to get worried when the market turns down. There is no absolute value as we know and we can't expect for its stability. However, crypto is something we think good in the future as we started to invest right now and see its results later.

Before trust can come into play in every investment that we make, we must also ensure that we do our own due diligence in the project we invest in, not that we invest in project randomly and then pick scam project and trusting that it will make any difference in our life, we will just keep trusting for the rest of our lives without having any result.

We must first ensure that the project we pick has something meaningful to offer, and that which the team and developers are respectable people, if we can get this out of a project, then we can now base our trust in the project since they are just starting. Good to trust and have confidence in projects, but must be done with great wisdom also because wisdom is really a profitable one to direct when it comes to cryptocurrency investment.

I think its not about risks or rewards but more about the future of our humanity.

I know some people in crypto only got into this because they want to make money but there are a lot of people like me who got in because they want to change the worlds financial system. I want to see bitcoin accepted everywhere, I want bitcoin to be A LOT faster and cheaper (like eth or nano) and I want dollars/euroes/yuans to not be important in global economy anymore.

I want to buy bitcoins in my own country and go visit any country I want and spend it there like it is something normal without changing my fiat to their fiat in order to visit. Basically ideologically there are people who support the notion that economy is under control of the wealthy and we want to disturb it. That is our goal here not a reward.

Sorry for the interruption. When you say you have come into cryptocurrency not for earning and to make a change you should've done it without carrying a signature. Being a participant of the campaign don't put forward such statements.
The change needs to come from you, What initiation you've taken to make use of bitcoin directly without converting it to fiat. Recently one of our forum member started accepting bitcoin on his coffee shop. This is a small incident and this way What we take forward will help in the widening of bitcoin adoption.

I don't see any changes on the risk level because on every investments we cannot sure about how much we can be able to make and the same applies to cryptos as well.Only thing is crypto currency can give unrealistic profit level when compare to the traditional investments.

Yes the risk is high, but we still have everything to control the risk, that is why when we are dealing with risk in cryptocurrency, we should not deal with it with emotions, but deal with it with the risk tools in the market. One of the risks of bitcoin is emotion, and emotion is actually difficult to control.

It is emotion that makes us to place bad order and then sell order prematurely which will definitely result to lots of money, it is also emotion that leads to greed, when greed sets in, we are always blind to take profit when we are supposed to take profit, and it is also greed that makes us to invest in scam projects that mostly look too good to be true, but to control these things, we have to work with the risk management tools that has been provide for the market through our trading platform.

Based on my achievement in crypto, I can say that it's really profitable here.
In traditional business, the risk is lower but sometimes it takes a year or more just to get your ROI, that is provided you are operating with profit.
Crypto is simply not for everyone, particularly those who get used to traditional investment as they can't take a high risk investment, they would prefer a low risk, low profit but steady, here it;s really different.

If only I have a good capital, I may not think of investing here in crypto, what made me invest here is because I want big return with my small amount of money and I'm just lucky I was able to do it at the right timing.

It is profitable here because we are the type of people who got in early, people who got in at around 20 thousand dollars is not as lucky as us and they are still waiting for it. I mean even people who got in later might have made some money because we moved beyond 10 thousand dollars many times, the only people who have lost is the people who bought above 10 thousand dollars at any time. But, profits are truly better than any other place because we are volatile and that volatility causes us to have so much more chance to make a profit, it also creates chances to lose as well but if you are lucky enough there is nowhere in the world where you can make as much money as you would normally make in crypto world, here is the real place where you make a ton of money.

Not really, if you got in late, like early this year, you would have got in at 3k and still today remain at 200% profit. That's a lot of money for a few months. Tell me any other asset class that gives you that much returns. Or even if we take an alt. Got in 2019 and you can get ETH below $100, still almost double the profit now.

It's still a lot of risk, people need to understand this. That's all. And profit is momentary...

Cryptocurrency is attractive for investment precisely because of its great volatility. A decentralized cryptocurrency should always be volatile in nature. Where there is a high level of volatility, there will always be a risk of losing your invested money or getting extra profit. Moreover, I do not think that over time the cryptocurrency volatility will decrease. With the increase in the price of cryptocurrency and its liquidity, our coins and tokens will have a great opportunity for the manifestation of volatility due to the high amplitude of price fluctuations. So this activity is not for the faint of heart.

Cryptocurrency is more on risk than reward. Yes, I admit that some of us here are lucky enough to have huge reward than they risk specially those who are pioneer and knew a lot in terms of assessing their capital and profits. But most of the time, we are all risking in cryptocurrency. We don't know if we lose or gain in each trade that we execute. And that is the problem of every individual in crypto space.

This is the reason why does learning and knowing things are very important before investing on it. Any investment in this world are risky; it depends on a person on how he's going to handle and manage it. We certainly don't need a lot of experience in order to be successful with our investment journey, instead we need to think the same way as or better than someone who benefits and dominant in this market.

I don't think the volatility of bitcoin is something that will stop soon not until there is mass adoption of bitcoin before one can be talking of stable bitcoin market value and possibly less risky for business owner who will now start accepting bitcoin and crypto currency in general as a means of exchange for goods and services.

I bought above 10K too recently out of fomo, but I still have my gains in the sense that I have some investment that I made when the value was still like $4000 which presently, I am still keeping till bitcoin bull run starts and I see my coin grow from that $4000 to $100,000, this particular investment is tied for a really long time.

I mean till bitcoin fully develops even if it takes 10 years, then I still have another investment I am using for short term which I sold half of it when bitcoin was $13k, I bought that around $3k, but the one I bought around $13k is what I am still presently loosing on, but I know that very soon, there will be a rebound and I will start making profit on that one when the price of bitcoin falls back above $15000 which would have been greater than what I bought.

There is no sign that it will stop, the market is not so stable, it can easily move with the FUD and FOMO, so unless this will not be eliminate, volatility will remain. For me, we should not worry about that volatility and instead let's accept it as a norms for crypto, there's a solution already for volatility, we have stable coins for that, and if this Libra project will succeed, this would help more as it's more popular.

BTC will continue to serve us, pure users, traders, and investors, because without volatility, it will not be attractive for traders.

Volatility has always been with the crypto market. For anyone venturing into cryptocurrencies is very aware of the issues that surrounds  the  fluctuations that comes with one's  holdings. Accessing the benefits and possible risks is an individual process as it depends on various factors. From my observation, it depends on how an individual would invest his/her funds.

It's not all about gaining money from it.
I know gaining is what most of Bitcoin/all cryptocurrencies investor looks out for when investing in it, but at the end, it's still not about the money.
The risk and gain there should be if world authorities don't make it 'dense' for Bitcoin investors/onwers in the future. At the same time if it will be 'spendable' in the future.

Those trader better get used to not seeing that volatility in future because things will become tighter the moment bitcoin is becoming very scarce and limited, and most people you see will want to just hold their coins and not willing to sell, while we have less mined coin.

Bitcoin has more important role to play on the society than the trading and investment that we have limit it to and when that times coin that bitcoin  will really assume its full payment position, then don’t expect much volatility for trades, because bitcoin will only be used more for payment of good and serves and to trade with it will be difficult because how much will you have to be able to trade 1 btc, and who would want to easily sell to you at the price you are requesting for when miners can no longer help also.

Volatility is not a risk for investors and traders, it's been normal to the market to be volatile because of speculation in the future.
The price could move significantly even in a minute, and that has been proven many times, as an investor, you accept its nature and focus on its potential in the future, hold the crypto you invested and wait for the right timing to sell.

People in the past were able to earn a decent profit during last bull run, we could also do the same if we buy now and just hold until the next bull run will come. It's not easy but we are experiencing the same journey in the past where things are still uncertain, but because they hold, they were successful in reaching their goal.

I'm visual guy , if only i have to put headset on my ears i prefer listening to my jazz and blues playlist rather than listening to some random podcast talking about crypto lol.

Don't you know that people at bbc telling a fish story? Especially when it comes to cryptocurrency,  i don't know why they do that. But it seems they realized it's a hot topic these days .. this podcast is beat the air.

Every investors have different views on volatility,but for me, I'll continue to believe that there's nothing I can do with price volatility since that's been normal in the market, without volatility, we won't be able to attract investors, because they would not find that opportunity to buy or sell depending on the timing of the situation.

Investing in cryptocurrency may have a high risk but on the other hand it is also a potential investment. Technology is definitely inevitable by anyone and cryptocurrency is the fastest and cheapest payment technology to date. But on the other hand there is a negative side to the growth of the cryptocurrency market, which is the increasing number of altcoins that appear without a clear product and this will make investor confidence decrease

Don't you know that most of the time because of the volatility, all traders can able to get profit whether small or big.
Because since the market was unpredictable there are times that the market are in bearish or bull run, now either of these two
both can give an opportunity for us to get profit in the future.

What's more bad about these crypto podcasts is that they won't tell you anything constructive and randomly predict the upcoming movement of bitcoin and altcoins which will be wrong in most of the cases.

Since crypto is hot topic, we see many useless podcasts, trading signals groups and price predictions you tube channels running by those who do not have sufficient information about crypto and trading.

You know that taking risk sometimes is good in crypto because some investor or traders get the opportunity to take a profit.But of course its depend to their ability.So i think cryptocians choosing risk sometimes because they know what will be the reward after.

I can barely find a couple of minutes to scroll through the weel's headlines, much less find the time to go through nice articles.

I'm a freelancer mostly and writing has always been my business, so I won't knock any attempt to create more content in the space but I feel like the industry still lacks storytelling. Which is what I want my writing to focus on.

In that respect, I don't mind the kind of stuff BBC puts out but if this is the reaction on this forum, I wonder if I  on the wrong track.

Are people really just interested in trading articles and trending stuff? Stories not interesting no more?

Fluctuation can be a good risk and opportunity, depending on how you look at it. if you see it as an opportunity then you can certainly take advantage of fluctuations as an opportunity to make a profit, because there are many opportunities from price fluctuations that occur in the market. but if you see it as a risk, then you will be very scared and panicked when bearish or falling prices occur.

therefore before making a transaction we must calculate risk and rewards, and therefore there will be profit and cutlos targets, where the area we have drawn before in the framework of the market. each person will place different risks and rewards, depending on the respective analysis. and I think this is the art of trading

It is long term investors that usually do not see any positivity in fluctuation of market because they are there to just watch the market to continue growing and the only time they can get benefit is when the market really increases to a particular percentage, but most traders are the ones that would really pick interest in fluctuation because those fluctuations you mentioned is actually what could make someone grow his coin from $100 to $5000, even if we had said he leverage, but leveraging would not have even paid or benefit him if there was no fluctuations.

I could remember that as a trader, when bitcoin was fluctuation between $9k and $12k then, it had that fluctuation severally and with the little I was able to grab, at least it got me about $2000.

Volatility is the main reason why most investors and traders do lurk on here.I do even had a friend which is a forex and stocks trader but still he do end up on trading with crypto due to high volatility and high probability on making good or high profit which cant really be equaled or can be gained thru stocks and forex but somehow
when it comes to risk then its an another different story.Lots of investors being wrecked when the market tends to have a u-turn which almost hit up themselves into the ground.For long term aspects on Bitcoin is capable or somewhat be worthy to invest on for future years to come.We have seen how big is the community support of BTC /Fluctuation will always be here because if this feature or characteristics isnt present then im pretty sure that this market wont really be nested in by investors and believers.

it would be wise if we risked capital not at every moment. However, I have seen a lot of evidence of payments and money they receive from investments, crypto is also a very risky investment, but that sometimes becomes a challenge for investing. it's true that there are no real rewards here. Sometimes the prizes in the bounty campaign are destroyed by scam projects ... there are even many that don't meet expectations ... but here's an investment ...

True, but it is same for stocks, bonds, commodities and any other market where speculation drives the price. Organic growth is a rule that will happen always with bitcoin but there will be times when the prices will fall. Its not something to worry about but a time to buy more coins for yourself. Its better not to look for other coins to put your money in in order to get rich quickly because that does not happen.

Dont narrow your focus to only bounties. There are many other ways to getting coins too. The biggest one being simply buying them.

It cannot be avoided, the market will remain volatile, even the stock market is volatile but as massive adoption happens, it's expected that the volatility will be reduce but will remain.

The fact that we are dealing crypto here with limited supply and increasing demand, that would certainly make this market attractive for traders and investors as well, volatility makes this market successful, and since we are now witnessing a high price volatility movement, it means the adoption is still low, and it's still good time to invest.

When you trying become part of cryptocurrency you have ready your source income money to keep half, never put all in bitcoin or altcoin because some time you get bad thing.

I totally do not doubt that buying those coins is the best way to accumulate them, but there won’t be any different from what we get from ICO and what we buy in respect to the authenticity of the project if we buy coins that has no real use case, it would just be like we are scammed because that is what many of the coins that we are holding now is, there is no difference between a scammer that ran away with people's money and a scammer that didn’t run but watching as the coin is gradually being destroyed.

In other to minimize the risk of even buying those coins with our personal fiat, we have to make sure that the project is a quality project and has a real use case that will make our investment in it to be protected and not wasted like other ICO.

I don't think these podcasts can help us better understand the direction of the market, because I just love to read.
But I have a vision for the next 2 years. Our 2019 will focus only on Bitcoin, the altcoins will be greatly eroded in the near future. altcoins may drop up to 20% in the next few months.
But 2020 will be the season of altcoins, when sharks will use bitcoin to buy more altcoins because of the difference.

Even when crypto is highly volatile, and therefore risky, it doesn't mean it's necessarily a downside aspect of it. This aspect is actually quite convenient if your objective is to turn into a crypto trader. The volatile fluctuation it's what makes it an effective trading asset allowing you to buy low and sell high if you follow the market closely and exercise a correct timing. Besides in crypto’s case the volatility isn't manipulated by a single elite and privileged group, like what you have in oil investments, this volatility is influenced by many factors and players, but it’s also resulting of the trading in itself.

In every Bussiness have loss and profit, cryptocurrencies do not differ from it so I think if you take proper education about cryptocurrencies then you enter in cryptocurrencies and get great success  :o

Liquidity and actual product is one of the best thing for you to spot on and you can eventually differentiate it compared to those projects who don't have actual product.

I agree that most of them doesn't have any working product and just being supported because of the hype or just relying on a blueprint of the things that they do gonna supposed to built up.

indeed, most projects that can last a long time and have a large community, they have the products that the community needs, and of course this will shape investor confidence in a project. we take the example of ethereum, which was much needed during ICO. and now it's declining because of IEO, but ETH will innovate by launching Ethereum 2.0, steps like this that should be done

Despite the fact that you are educated, there still lies a risk.

Who can predict the exact price of Bitcoin after years? Who can tell what will happen in the next 6 months? Are we still getting profit after 3 months? How about 1 and a half? A week maybe? We can't tell that, that is why despite the knowledge you have, you can still lose but obviously you know what to do to lessen that losses and get back the next time.

They thought that it is like a Ponzi scheme that would just promise you certain percentage on a daily basis without you ever having losses, and this is what they use to deceive people and make them bring out their money, the real investment in cryptocurrency has its risk, there is a high risk and low risk, we just need to know which of them we want to take.

Investing in cryptocurrency generally and trading is a risk business, but we have some people that are taking higher risk of leveraging trading, but they are still able to carry that risk because they have the proper knowledge, skill and strategy already, and one more thing is that education about cryptocurrency does not stop t one place, many new things keeps coming into the market that we need to keep ourselves abreast of.

If earlier I received income due to rewards for the company's bounty, today this situation has changed for the worse.  Today, using the cryptocurrency market, you can only earn by investing your money in promising projects for a long period and using daily or long-term trading.  But it should be borne in mind that today the cryptocurrency market is almost the same as a gambling game, where you can not spend too large amounts of personal funds or the last money from the home budget.  The risks are always very large.

What are you talking about ? Business has loss and profit regardless of which currency you use in business.
You should not compare crypto currencies with any business. This is the wrong perception and usage of crypto currencies.
If you want to compare, you can compare it with fiat currency.

Risks are much higher exactly in the crypto world. Cyberattacks are the greatest problem here, and literally for all. The hacker attacks are becoming more common, and fraud methods are becoming much more sophisticated. Bitcoin wallets and the large amounts that are traded are extremely attractive to thieves. Crypto exchanges have been hacked constantly, and many of them have to close.

It is possible to prevent them by keeping your wallet keys safe and use a hardware wallet if you the money to buy it. It is considered to be a good security investment for big traders who have a large volume portfolio. Cyberattacks are always there with any digital format commodity or service. You have to learn to protect your funds.

Attractive yes, hackable - not so if you secure them.

Hence dont store coins there after you are done exchanging. You will be in control of your coins then.

That's the kind of experience that we will treasure forever, earning is a privilege here as we are not risking our money to earn and that's the best of making money here.


We can earn or we can lose, that's the only possibilities when we are investing our money here.
Short term or long term, we will decide on how we will manage and we need to understand the risk and reward here that we don't study when we are just doing some bounty hunting to earn.

Investing is way different, we are like gambling here using our skills because that way, we have a chance, unlike blindly investing in the market.

I could not agree more but he also right on the first part. To back up that statement, the rise of online shops made huge companies to file bankruptcy like Toys R Us and Forever21. Cryptocurencies are definitely rewarding when there is a strong bull market but the patience of anyone will be tested whenever there is a bear period and that is where is the risk lies and also the possibility of a scam project.

without the legalization from the government, I think fraud will continue to grow. in a situation like now, we ourselves must take full responsibility for the risks that may occur. therefore calculate our risk before entering the crypto business. if you can control the risk, I don't think there will be a problem

Trading cryptocurrency on the exchange, like trading on the stock exchange, is associated with certain risks. Most strategies are based on statistics, that is, on the dynamics of an asset, an analysis of its current situation, and so on. In fact, trade is the transformation of risks into profits, that is, the higher the probability of a positive outcome of the transaction, the less income will be.

What people need to understand is that every trader loses money at times. What you need is a risky management strategy. You need to learn how to take losses at the early stages and thus cut them short. This will help you avoid letting your losses accumulate into massive ones which puts you in a much worse situation. Your profits will still keep running, which could be massive as well depending on the value of a certain coin at a particular time.

That's somehow possible because whales would not stop doing it if they can continue to make money from it.
The more the price is volatile, the more they can make a lot of money doing day trading.


HOWEVER....

This seems to be impossible, it's not about the number of people matters here, but the amount of crypto you are holding.
Even if you form a group of 100 people that holds a total of 10 BTC, but one person can beat you when he holds 100 btc, that's the logic here.

It really is. I'm grateful to the person who invented the bounty. And although now they are experiencing not the best time and the rewards are not the greatest, but at one time they gave me the opportunity to earn without investing my own money, but only my time. But it was my choice and my risks.

It's good to experience those day's that you will be able to make some good cash by exerting some effort and by investing your time. Many people who do have opportunities to enjoy those valuable rewards that they've received from the bounty job is really nice to remember.

Everyone can still enjoy if they will keep on doing good research and not to stop just because of the current situation. It's hard but still possible if you can get the right project to support.

Cryptocurrencies are more volatile than other assets in the trading market. We must find out the reasons why cryptocurrencies are more volatile in order to be able to prepare investment plans and the right strategy to avoid losses. Crypto has no inherent original value, so we don't have a standard for agreed value, unlike fiat money. Because it is decentralized, not everyone can access or read market fluctuations, only skilled people can do it.

The player who controls the largest amount of crypto money in the trading market will have bargaining power and a large influence on the market. Especially if there is a large gap in ownership of cryptocurrencies. Every action they take by buying new digital assets or selling their digital assets will have an impact on market fluctuations.

So to get the maximum reward with the smallest risk, traders must be technology literate, experts in basic investment, innovate in technology, financial technology and build communities or networks to improve education in digital profits.

In essence, this volatility is seen by investors as an opportunity for profit.

I think cryptocurrencies are thriving and are people interested. In the future, there will be a lot of people investing in crypto like gold or real estate. Crypto will be used by many people and it will replace cash. It is a beautiful fantasy that I can imagine but it seems that this is very hard to come true

Risk???

If You keep money in stable coins this is what i do.

I keep 25% in bitcoins and If the price Goes Down I buy 25% If up I add other 25%






I keep 75% in stable coins!


#sorry but crypto trading has low risk but Good rewards!!



Those who complain about risks...  I just Don't undestood Why You Don't use stable coins?

The only risk here I can see is when you gamble on trading and lose. That kind of risk is much worth it if you have knowledge and basics of crypto trading. Well the rewards are every fruitful of course but if you not tend to more basic stuff then those risk could be a failure and a reward that supposedly be coming is gone. Crypto is very volatile, also dangerous cause you need to mind and keep youre asset from real troubles such as hackers, scammer, and many more.

Invested money can render higher profits only if the investor will accept a higher possibility of losses and there is no investments of today that will guarantee of no risk therefore all types of investments are all prone to risk either crypto or none crypto they are all the same. If you dont like the risk then do not invest plain and simple.

And most of the people who enters crypto don't realize or accept that truth because they only came to get the same roi of the first people who traded and make most of the rewards not knowing by these newbies that those veteran traders also experienced losses first before they made huge gains. Crypto is still very lucrative compared to other investments and newbies should know all the risks involved before they get angry and weep for many years after their losses.

And it is not only that

The wealthier people are (i.e. the more coins they hold) the less likely are they to cooperate with anyone to "fight whales". Such "fight clubs" are formed not to fight anybody but to take money from their members, this way or another (as they are typically organized to "pump" some shitcoin). And it is not unlikely that someone from those 100 people will secretly take advantage of them (most certainly, the puppet master)

great risk of course the results obtained are also great but all of that requires confidence and investors must be clever in utilizing every opportunity in investing, of course, good at analyzing and studying the development charts of crypto currencies and possibly can reduce the risk is very large and requires confidence and hope

My opinion for that is people wants something a less risky but they didn't know that the less risky it is, the less profits there is for them, as a human nature, it is natural to be scared, we have instinct to trust or not to trust sometimes, most likely, people wants fiat because it is "safe" for them (how ironic), but the truth is, there is no such thing as safe, dangers and risks are everywhere.

We both can't understand each other's perspective because the other side is not listening or paying attention because they are insisting that fiat is more better to use, all we can see is a tornado of opinions.

The volatility of cryptocurrency add ups both excitement and fear for the investors. You can consider it as a risk already from the very beginning you enter the crypto world and invest on it. Its volatility can be a source of fear whenever the price is going down continuously and has a high gap from the former price but you can consider it also as a source of excitement whenever the price is starting to grow while you have high holdinhs and bought  it for a really low price. Just stay careful here in crypto always to make sure you make the most from it.

Majority of the hard working people look for safe investment rather than taking risk as they do not want to see their life earning to go to dust so there is a fine line in trading in high risk market and the safest option, you can see many people investing in bonds and majority will not even dare to invest in the stock market and you cannot any of those category to invest in a high volatile market like this. There are risk in every market but the less profit you get the lesser the risk and vice versa.

People before entering the cryptocurrency world should understand the risk there is so they are not frustrated when their money is lost in business.
They also have to set the future plan to neatly arrange our plans made so that they are not at risk in the future.
No word beginning and end only people should adapt the current taste in which the 4.0 digital industry develops.

I hate listening from many information talking bad with bitcoin excatly news paper from united state, they want to give bad reputation to bitcoin and make many people afraid for investing with bitcoin, you have see and check with your self what is bitcoin and how is bitcoin working to get much profit, when you got experience how bitcoin give us profit you will happy for investing in bitcoin.

that must be owned by every investor in conditions and situations such as now belief is that capital is needed in investment and in my opinion a large risk is also a big profit but as investors we must be able to minimize any risk we will get and get profits in invest

risks and rewards, two sides that are always thought of by cryptocurrency users. everyone knows that with crypto people can benefit, and with crypto people can get rewards when they want to work. but we must never forget one side of the other, that is the risk that will certainly always be in cryptocurrency. crytocurrency volatility will always be discussed, because volatility can make crypto users happy when prices soar, and will make someone panic when prices fall. and I'm sure the future of crypto will definitely be bright, because more and more people are using it.

I know some people who like listening to podcasts, no matter how long and boring I feel that they are. These are mostly people who listen as a secondary task, while on a bus or train, go to or from work.

I haven't listened to this BBC podcast myself because I don't even know who those people are and how relevant they are in the Bitcoin/cryptocurrency scene but I do agree with the opinion that more institutional money = less volatility. It could be good for crypto if it happens.

if we could manage risk involved,high risk will not follower by high risk.this is only for beginner trader that thinking if themy want to earn profits they have to prepare high risk that may suffer them.but for some trader,this word was totally wrong.they able to change percentages between risk and reward.only investors that have good preparation will able to do this.

I think that bad news are made by those one who consider bitcoin as a threat for fiat currencies. Also, bad news can be done to dump a bitcoin price to allow whales to rebuy it low.

Actually the volatility of Crypto prices are two sides of mutual benefit, you can benefit if you have Crypto then the price goes up, it will benefit for you, whereas if the price drops then you can use that moment to buy more Crypto. Crypto price volatility is indispensable in the world of trading.

Many people want to get safety investment although with less reward or profit with their investment, only bitcoin and altcoin investors brave for take big risk to invest with bitcoin and altcoin. Maybe when we are talking with other investor think one more time for investing with bitcoin and altcoin because big risk with bitcoin price could be dump and they will disappointed when looking bitcoin and altcoin have higher price and get big result.

Risks and rewards in the world of crypto currencies totally depend on the crypto coin chosen for investment. Choosing the right coin in aspects of potential, security, anonymity and support is the first thing to do. For avoiding risk, an investor should choose bitcoin. Volatility, in my point of view, is not anything like risk. The whole reason why bitcoin produced millionaire was its high volatility.

Bitcoin has outperformed other traditional assets in term of ROI this year by huge margin.
It has given returns of 200% over the investment. If you had sold at high of this year, the returns would have been 300%. No other asset came even near to it. So, rewards are pretty high in cryptos. I would like to talk about risk. BTC isn't as risky as many stocks or shares. It has decent marketcap and it isn't going to go extinct in a jiffy. Volatility could be problem. But that could be managed. So risk rewards is oretty good in Bitcoin at least.

cryprocurrency investment contain high risk when we didnt understand in which  coins we have to buy.this marker give us alot opportunity if compared with another market,we  could trade in many coins that maybe have good potency.there is no limitation in how much profits we could earn ,although we will face big risk too.investors could adjusted portofolio that they want to choose,in high risk or low risk.

There are a lot of risks and rewards you can gain from investing and trading in cryptocurrency. Once you entered investment in crypto, you are already making your self committed to risks. Whenever you invest, there's always a probability that the value will rise or fall. If the price rises up, then you can consider it as a reward but if not, you need to accept the fact that you wasted your time for nothing. You can actually secure your future in terms of finance if ever you get lucky here in crypto and I think that is one of the greatest reward it can offer.

We have a very bright future wait on us ahead especially if we continue and make the most out of the cryptocyrrency space. This includes the huge market adoption in the future, and us being the early adopters will be the key for others to adopt easily. From fiats to cryptp, we maximize our resources and transactions are seamless. From banks to crypto, more security awaits us and the door to an easy investment will be opened.

When there's a risk, there's always a rewards and to achieve rewards we need to take risk. We cannot remove them from each other. They are connected. So if you're really afraid of risk, you're not a good businessman nor cannot be here in crypto. It's a part of it, as well as losing. When we lose, don't stop. Learn from it. That's how a business will work.

Traditional assets are nothing in front of bitcoin. Golds and diamonds have existed with us for centuries now while it has hardly been a decade for bitcoin to be with us and yet the later one has produced millionaires and physical assets failed pathetically in this matter. Bitcoin is not risky at all. Just because it is volatile, does not mean it can be doubted. It is altcoins that can be a risky investment.

Don't know what kind of mentality you do had.Bitcoin investment is not risky? I don't think so.Nothing is certain even if we do believe on bitcoins potential
but doesn't mean that it is completely safe when it comes to our investment.Everything is risky but if we do compare it to alts then we can see the difference.
Traditional assets and investments are completely different though.Yes, btc might able to surpass it when it comes to value but when it comes to security
and assurance then those traditional assets is still preferable.

Well we have different opinion since even though bitcoins bring good fortunes to the people who can't afford much physical assets but still they are good passed be investment since there's no doubt that value of gold's and diamonds will became more expensive as years goes by and we cannot really know if bitcoins will stay on ecosystem since we all know that any funds can kill the price of the Bitcoin we experience that for so many times and for sure that is the fear of all Bitcoin holder since if bad volatility or price dump strikes for sure many people will get broke.

Many times we've been broke to that disappointing situations, but I wonder why these people who have been there for bitcoin prefers to stay behind and never left the system which Bitcoin belongs to. Indeed volatility made worst market fall upon it's undertakings, strong holders stayed on their principles, and never lose hope that someday bitcoin will be back at the top most peak of its value. I just don't care on those physical asset,  I'm only focused with digital currency this time as bright future awaits for us.

   There are thousands of crypto currencies in the market and present all over the exchanges. I will not disagree with the fact that the most important aspect of making huge money through digital currencies is simply by choosing potential coin for investments. Bitcoin has the maximum number of happy investors and record of generating unbelievable revenues. It is the best choice for long term trading.

Risks could be as a volatile investment, if you buy close to all time high and sell low, then you can loose a lot of money. and Rewards could be make money easy if you are patient, buy at the right time and invest only what you can afford to loose.

However, What most people don’t get is that the maximum risk is losing $500 and the reward is getting $20,000 or even $40,000 with some smart investments. Simply, don’t invest more than you can lose. If you're a bitcoin maximalist and are 1000% sure it will break ATH sometime again, sure just keep increasing your coin count. the downside is very small and contained, the upside is very big. That’s definitely a good opportunity to invest.

Not just in Value, even in security, and assurance, bitcoin surpass traditional assets, these two only differ in our likes or taste. With bitcoin, or other cryptocurrencies, the risk is high but the return is even higher, unlike to traditional assets that has low volatility, meaning, you have to wait two times longer than waiting when you have cryptocurrency as your investment.

It is safer because it is more likely stable, but, that's just for cowards, I mean not risk taker people.

That's why Bitcoin considered as a good source of income compared to gold which will just give you less profit, and you cannot do things that you can do in Bitcoin. As Bitcoin has a lot of function and advantages that gold cannot do, so it is somewhat called the hidden gem nowadays.

We are already aware of the risk and rewards, we should be able to overcome our fear if we really want to take the risk in investing, be smart, never stop learning and keep yourself updated all the time.

Not only that, while I like gold and I think it is a good investment those that are fanatics of gold leave many of its defects out of the picture, one of the greatest problems of gold is that governments can confiscate it and it is difficult to move from one place to the other especially if you try to move it between different countries, but this is not really an issue with bitcoin you can always bring your bitcoin with you in any electronic device and if things get so bad that all electronic devices are monitored you can always remember your seed words and bring nothing with you.

It can considered risk if one is providing their identity over the network which will impose threats in some reasons. Even in providing identities to exchanges as it is proven that exchanges can work even without the use of identities. On the other hand, thinking about the rewards of cryptocurrencies are mountains of opportunities for people to earn and to learn as well. One main example of rewards is being open to the world news and updates because of cryptocurrencies situation. Thus, learning allot in terms of economic aspects.

I don't think you can be called a coward. many investors diversify risk on several levels. ranging from large risks to small risks. with the aim of their assets will be safer and accelerate its growth. therefore depends on the comfort of investors to choose which level of risk

There is no such thing as being coward when it comes to investing in crypto as this is not a battle or a competition.
We are investing for one reason, we believe that crypto is the future and as it progresses we also like to get the benefit when its value will grow.

Also, we have our own strategy on how to use the money to give us a positive return, so it should be based on our idea only, and it doesn't matter if its a high risk or low risk that we are taking, as long as we are comfortable with it, we should do it.

I agree with that. As long as you know what you are doing then you are fine and you don't need to listen to other people's opinion. Their opinions doesn't matter because you know yourself better than others and you are knowledgeable enough to handle any consequences of your action. It is all about taking risks and then trying again once you fail until you reach the success that you want.

It has similarities as being a coward, we can also call it as minimizing the risk out of their investment.
Without facing the risk, there will be no progress that will happen.
Investors are becoming more cautious day by day, they invest depends on the level of risk, they can't blame them but more likely becoming a coward in the long run.

decision back to us again ,no one could intervene what decision we will take for our life or trading..we have different purpose that we have to achieved,and also our experience totally different with other people,and we could not generalize it.with different purpose ofcourse we will take strategy that suitable and  easy to do.maybe risk and reward ratio will adjusted with our trading plan.

Gold, in terms of profits is nothing ads compare to bitcoin. No asset in the world, whether physical or digital, can be as beneficial as bitcoin. the digital market does not even have a poor copycat of this coin. Honestly, there are no more risks involved in investing in bitcoin. We have left that point far behind us where trusting bitcoin was not an easy task. Now we all know how bright a future this digital coin holds.

There’s nothing sure in the cryptoworld if your long enough. Though if we look at long term then we could see that it would be beneficial but if we were looking for short term then there are many unexpected things that would arise. We should always think rationally i.e. beyond our emotions especially when you want to venture in trading which would definitely give you profit as long as you educate yourself by taking advantages of the high volatility of the cryptomarket.

Like everyone else's point of view I hate listening to a podcast and analyzing it, I'd rather read an article. In terms of risk, risk is everywhere in your life. Going to the street or staying at home is also a risk.
If you want to be rich or win when investing in cryptocurrencies, you must take risks and manage it well. Because the greater the risk, the higher the profit, it all depends on yourself.

After a decade of crypto currencies with us, if still some people think that these can be risky investments then I would advise this kind to do some research on their own. It will be best for all of us. For instance, questioning the strength of bitcoin in the beginning makes sense but now after witnessing how people became millionaire due to bitcoin, still doing the same thing just means we are being ignorant.

I think wherever you are and whatever you do you will have risks while the risk depends on how courage you face the risks that exist, if you can face all kinds of risks and can think calmly then there are many benefits that you can get, whereas in the world of cryptocurrency the risk is more high because cryptocurrency price movements no one can predict it.

The thing is that the crypto market works on basic principles like supply and demand, fear and greed etc. So this is the sole reason why the market shows sudden movements in very small intervals of time.
This implies that one day you can be a winner and other day you can also loose half of your savings in Crypto.

Indeed. So before you start to adopt cryptocurrency, you should be ready for it's risk because this risk will definitely pull you down that you always feel anxious or worried when the market goes down that makes you to sell it and have losses. But always remember that this risks could lead you to success, so you better continue to trade and invest in crypto to earn huge profit and get rich.

When you have started investing with bitcoin and altcoin maybe you have know how much you can increase your money with bitcoin and altcoin investing, after you have ready for investing you know with how to faced with big result for investing in bitcoin with higher price on the top, many investor like with bitcoin as investing assets for the future.

It is very nice to read such words when cryptocurrency users still believe in a good future for the cryptocurrency market and invest their funds in order to not only be able to make good profits in the future, but also to provide opportunities for promising companies to develop.  But today, nevertheless, most cryptocurrency users believe in earnings due to price manipulation on exchanges and consider cryptocurrency as a valuable asset, thanks to which you can get very good quick profit and nothing more.

I am not aware of any risks that are involved in crypto currencies. If a person will invest in the right coin, then the chances of any risk gets eliminated. Risk is involved when something is totally new. it’s been years now since blockchain and crypto currencies were created.  For newcomers, they can invest in bitcoin and then ethereum blindly. There is zero threat involved in these two coins for sure.

I love bitcoin but this is false, there are risks when you invest in cryptocurrencies, just look at the way the price of bitcoin moves and you will understand what I mean, even if you are  a long term holder buying at the wrong time can be an easy way to lose a lot of money, just ask those that bought at the top of the last bubble, despite the profits bitcoin can give we need to be smart and know a thing or two before investing in it otherwise your timing is bound to be wrong and you will suffer because of this.

It is risky and this is clearly known by know when people see the historical prices how once it had reached till 20k and fallen back to 3k levels . Though it had bounced back and now it is trading at 9200 $ around. Only invest some amount in good coins for long term basis .

In most cases, analysts and economists have an already defined argument, they are generally very negative in terms of cryptocurrencies and bitcoin, they always use the terms such as: Very risky, not recommended, it is totally dangerous to take it as an investment.

This type of thinking must be updated by the inclusion of Blockchain in the higher study, in Spain it is being implemented, perhaps with this new way of study it is begun to accept that the Bitcoin market is different from the Stock Market market.

Volatility is usually the main enemy of every traditional economist, but for those of us who study this market we see volatility as an accelerator of movements, unlike the Stock Market that moves every 8 or 10 years, Bitcoin market movements are usually minors, and with many more emotions included, is the future market.

Partially yes, a lot of money can make the price more stable for cryptocurrencies. But where get these all money? The most controversial thing that people don't want to invest in cryptocurrencies by high volatility and fix this volatility could a lot of people with a lot of money :)

A lot of people join with crypto to be faster rich person, they think bitcoin and altcoin are the best way how to get much profit in short time, maybe many people lucky by choosing an altcoin and get much profit, when you make mistake with get bad coin you have waiting more than one year for getting back your investing and stop for dreaming much profit.

And that is wrong thinking. Bitcoin and altcoins are not the way to get rich over night and as soon as some realise that they end up deeply disappointed. If you are smart and experienced trader and investor you can make decent profit over reasonable period of time but it's not likely that you will become rich. Dealing with Bitcoin you are exposed to risk all the time and occassionaly you will make some mistakes too, so that should you count on.

I agree with that. Cryptocurrency are also like the stocks in the stock market that you need to be patient on because it will take a lot of time before you can declare that you are a successful cryptocurrency trader or investor. It takes patience and determination before you get what you want but even though it will take a lot of time, you should enjoy the journey because you will learn a lot of things.

He is not a expert because experienced traders know the risk factors and rewards. The current market is rapidly moving so pump and dump will happen so every traders are disappoint one time, But they can manage all the time because volatile currency is a great earning platform but few times it will moving backwards.

The risk of cryptocurrency is mainly about losing money due to the volatile nature of it. Apart from this risk of instability of values, other risks can be avoided when you're careful.

There are some who say that cryptocurrency lacks acceptance and that's why they don't want to make use of it, well that used to be true, but right now there are lots of businesses that are starting to accept the crypto payment such as bitcoin. Though another problem is that you have to be careful with them or just don't use your bitcoin for buying things online.

The next thing is theft: cryptocurrency wallets can be hacked, but you can still avoid this by being careful and securing your wallet with the proper security. These are the only risks I'm sure about and they can be avoided except the price instability.

risk that caused by volatility actually could be managed by doing some risk management suchbas cut loss or martiangle.some traders use this strategy caused they think price could back to initial price or buying price.most of them still believe crypto market could give them profits.


Wallet hacking be main problems beside fake projects.we often forget about for key and sometimes access wallet careless.we should not open strange link in our mail or other source.any hacking  cases due this reason.

Losing money will only happened depending on coins/tokens, we should set goal, what type of coins/tokens do we want?Are we willing to hold in long term? or are we just willing to hold in short term as we wanted to trade it.

Let's always remind ourselves that there is risk in everything we are doing especially in investing, so we should be emotionally and financially ready when we are investing, as this can help us in our decision making, but before that make sure you have invested time to learn about what you are investing at.

Market is volatile but not that much as you are saying, at least not at the present moment. Everyone knows about the current situation. Bitcoin is going through a dip and so is the whole digital coin market. Moreover, it is just bitcoin that fluctuates a lot in all types of time. So the bitcoin holder that are basically day trader are supposed to keep an eye on the changing values. Other can take a break.

There is no reward that easily getting in specially in this industry. Many people are walking in a hole of needle before they become millionaire. That is why risk is equivalent in reward. No more risk, no more chace to win. We just like in a playground where bullets are going to us and we only need to do is to escape.
Bearish season is the most hated part of the traders and all those coins going down is the bullet that striking us, our capital. We should escape ourselves from it until we finish the fight.

Everyone already knows that the risks involved is that you can lose your money. If you're lucky you will be able to make lots of money. Anyone who is investing in cryptocurrency should always be aware of the risks that are involved.

When I started cryptocurrency I was never aware that Bitcoin can be really volatile and I was using a Xapo wallet then and the price if Bitcoin was $250 or so. So, I received some bitcoins from someone and left it in my Xapo wallet with plans to sell it the next day. The next day I opened the wallet and logged in and realized that the price dropped down to $240+.

I contacted support and questioned them about what happened to the money and they told me that that's how cryptocurrency is, that your money can go down at any time. Don't blame me for it, I never knew that cryptocurrency is something volatile. I was looking for a payment method to use and I searched on Google and Bitcoin came and I checked and it was available in my country, I didn't take out time to research more about it since people said it was legit. It was after this incident that I decided to do further research on Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies in general.

Most of the new investors concentrate on making money but they forget to do some research and develop understanding of their asset and digital coin market first. Due to this, they face more problems than the educated ones. No doubt. Crypto currencies can make us rich within a year but having some sound knowledge is required. With time, they will cover the holes by gaining experience.

Today there a lot of websites and country that supports the use of bitcoin or the other cryptos because it is fast and easy to use for the transaction and also less hassle for both party, but like the details said earlier the price of the cryptocurrency is very volatile. It quickly affects the market and the price every time; it is not fair to the workers if the money or the coins given to them are decreasing every time. Its favor of them if the price of the crypto is stable or good, but in fall, it has an impact on their salaries.

That's why I think that was not good for buying product because that was good for keeping in the future because of its volatile, the bitcoin can give you a huge profit in the future by increasing its demand by using introuduce from other country who do not know about bitcoin.

You think that all the investors are blind while investing, you cannot have a ton of education in the new market and some people learn through mistakes, when new projects appeared everyone invested in those to make profit and majority of the token projects turned out to be a scam and you cannot find any investors in the ICO projects.

My request to you Webetcoins is not to link all these posts as it is irritating to the eyes while reading and i have no idea why you are doing so .

And that is by far one of the biggest problems in this market, the mentality of the new investors that come to this market, instead of treating bitcoin and altcoins like any other investment they treat them as a way to get rich really quickly and do not take the appropriate precautions, then when they predictively fail they claim that cryptocurrencies are a scam and scare away potential investors that do not want to go through that not understanding that a less risky approach will work wonders in this market.

In a business like this, risks are your weapon because it is the one you before winning or even losing a battle. In order for you to win, you must take a risks making a decision that makes your goal possible, but if you lose why not take another decision and make better ways than ever before, most important part of your journey is learning not trying, because all of your loss will be nonsense if your mistakes have been occurred multiple times, we should learn at our mistakes. There are rewards if you already make your decision and it makes you possibly get what you want.

The risks of cryptocurrencies are that these are the same risks as in any investment. You must objectively understand how sum you can set, so that in case of failure, you can safely part with it. And awards are an opportunity to operate cryptocurrency practically all over the world with minimal time and financial expenses.

Risk is a weapon and just as you can use it against the market the market can use it against you and that is a problem, there are many traders out there that have taken huge risks to reach their goals and while some of them have been successful while doing this the majority have lost everything that they had, and when you think about this it is fair to ask who are the ones that took away that money from them? And the ones that obtained those profits are those that took very low risks.

Once again, I am convinced that cryptocurrency is a place where the concentration of risks just rolls over. And to blame for all the volatility of the market.
They turn the market as they want. It is impossible to predict something all the time. You have to rely on those things that the market is manipulated by those who have large volumes and they may want something.
In fact, it is very difficult to set and make forecasts of any kind in such a market. In view of this, the only less risky strategy is HOLD. Everything else is gambling.

It is very different in forex or stock market, here in crypto, the price can be dropped anytime without our further knowledge, without any valid reason, and this is because crypto is controlled by whales wherein you don't have any idea what is on their mind, when they will buy and when they will sell. The reward is that if we will take risk we will have a good profit unlike to other form of investment.

Forex and stock market is actually the same thing. If you don't believe there are so many people out there talking about their stories that they got drained and ended up broke after trading forex. It's basically the same thing but forex is draining slowly and lure you deeper and deeper.
Stock market also prone to the market manipulation that could drive down your entire portfolio to nothing just becasue there's internal conflict or various factors that could affect the stock. Have you seen some company after they got exposed into something their stock suddenly drops hard? there are plenty of such cases happened.

It's the same in the sense when you understand what you are doing, there's really risk but if you go deeper and you seek for more knowledge the chance for you to enjoy and take advantage is high. It's a matter of how much you are willing and how far you can proceed according to your proper understanding. It's profitable once you learned everything around.

I think that in every investment, business or opportunities there are always corresponding risks and rewards.  Just like in cryptocurrency, there are a lot of risk since most of the projects are start-ups and we don't know if it gonna make it or fail. There are a lot of scam projects as well.  The big reward is if the project you believe in will accept and prosper.  Cheers.

Indeed, although cryptocurrencies are only 10 years old, it is still a very young branch of the economy. Cryptocurrencies can have a future if society realizes the benefits of digital money and governments will loyal to cryptocurrencies. As for the blockchain technology on which cryptocurrencies are based, it definitely has a very good future. This technology optimizes processes not only in the financial sector, but also in any other areas. Already, blockchain is being actively implemented at the level of States in their infrastructure. Blockchain is one of the most amazing useful technologies in recent years.

I think we will go on a financial freedom. which there is no more about the cost of the transaction, about the length of time the transaction, about too many rules in a financial transaction. the crypto industry changes everything. everything is instant and profitable.

I am not sure about that. You cannot achieve financial freedom just because you have cryptocurrencies because you need to put some work in order to get what you want. The transaction in cryptocurrencies are not instant because most of the cryptocurrencies that we have need to undergo certain confirmation in the blockchain in order to pass through. Yes, there are benefits of cryptocurrencies but it is not instant transaction or instant financial freedom.

crypto industry could reduce all of that. Blockcchain will give us efficiency  and save many cost that occur.  Financial freedom only happen if we hard work and take every opportunity in around us . maybe it could come from reall business or from crypto market.  Its will be hard to , need our struggle and hard effort from us and maybe not every people could do this.

Considering the risks and the potential reward before putting our money in an investment is important. My mentor in cryptocurrency trading told me that I should know the risks that I taking for me to handle it very well. I identified it and that's why I didn't suffer any major losses. I know what I am doing and that's why I keep surviving in the market challenges.

It seems you have chosen the wrong word "financial freedom". There is no correlation with your exact explanation that might be the freedom and efficiency of transactions using cryptocurrency.

Financial freedom is a condition where a person reaches quite a lot of savings and is relatively safe, and the results meet his needs to live the desired lifestyle. Financial freedom can also be defined as a phase when we are in peace and the choice not to work anymore for money, because money is working for us (passive income). What is meant by passive income here is money that goes in without us having to work. while active income is income earned from working and then paid or earned wages and if it does not work will not get income.

The essence of financial freedom is that your passive income each month can meet your monthly expenses. For example, spending per month is USD 1000, then you are financially free if your passive income every month is USD 1000 or more.

Financial freedom can only be achieved through passive income, ie income earned outside of work that can support you, with enough passive income, you can be financially free for life even if you resign from your job.

I disagree.

The risk that we are taking when we are investing in cryptocurrency have much higher risk than investing on real state properties, or in a business, why is that, because we are talking about volatility here that could spikes, either it goes up very wild or goes down very wild, like as of now, bitcoin's price dropped again to $7,500 and it is still very puzzling when will be the next bull run going to occur to recuperate our losses.

Although the rewards of bigger risk are always big, that is what I am sure about.

Taking a risks isn't enough to have a great rewards. You also need to work hard and smart for you to be able to become more successful doing cryptocurrencies. How can you say that cryptocurrency is a life changer?

 There are a lot of sectors that need to be affected and helped by this crypto. You're saying life changer in an individual aspect, what if we help other people using this cryptocurrency, we should share the best reward to those people who are lack of necessities in everyday life like people in Africa.

When you can manage and control with bitcoin situation I think less risk with your investing on bitcoin and altcoin, by joining cryptosurrency you have increase higher profit with your investing. Don't worry when you lost your chance with selling bitcoin on higher price because there are still have once chance how to get back your profit with bitcoin and altcoin for next time.

The volatility of the cryptocurrencies are the real deal. The price of the bitcoin can easily change because of the demand and supply in the market. Many people thought they people is easy money and they are not considering the risks, it is the reason why many people are losing investment in the market.

Well, that actually remains to be seen

In fact, you are making sweeping generalizations here. First, investing in neither business nor real estate is a guarantee of stable income of any kind (as far as volatility is concerned). Further, these investments are not guaranteed to succeed at all. Your property can lose all its value due to a multitude of external factors up to a point where it will start to generate negative money flow as you will still have to pay property taxes on it, regardless of its market price. And then most businesses fail in their fresh year

The point is, investment reality is very distant from how you see or rather imagine it. To sum it up, investments in Bitcoin are overall less risky unless you are a genuine expert in the field where your are going to invest in (real estate or whatever). Bitcoin is already firmly established, and it is not going to kick the bucket any time soon, no matter how high its volatility can be. And volatility works both ways anyway, so you can ride it and earn a couple of bucks here and there which would amount to a handsome percentage annually

The higher the risk, the higher the reward. That is the name of the game for cryptocurrencies. In order to make a lot of money, you need to take a lot of risk. All of those people who loses their money in the market are misinformed with the opportunity that the cryptocurrency has, they thought that cryptocurrencies are all high reward without risk.

if they are only concerned with profit without thinking about risk, it's called gambling, of course in crypto currency the more you have a lot of money to trade and if your analysis is right you get a lot of profit, but if you don't have knowledge about trading knowledge everything will be useless

The term of higher risk and higher rewards can be coined with coins that can be trusted and there are a very few number of coins in the market that can be trusted and then there are token projects that are like hit and miss, earlier people used to wait to dump everything once the market opens and now majority even does not get listed in the market.

For a very speculative asset like bitcoin, there must be risk presently the price of bitcoin is down at the moment and many that bought at a high price are in loss now, but the high risk and volatility of crypto makes it more rewarding if managed well. In a twinkling of an eye cryptocurrency can provide good profit which makes it also rewarding.  The ecosystem of cryptocurency makes it a high level risky investment and also a highly rewarding investment if managed well

Once you enter the world of cryptocurrencies and start investing on it, you should look forward already with the risks and rewards you may encounter. Just like in life, most of your decisions is a gamble. You should learn how to find the best choices to be successful with your investments and make sure you are knowledgeable enough before entering the market. Knowledge is a crucial necessity here because it gets to determine whether you'll be able to handle the risk you will be involved with and the range of rewards you may get from your investment as you get to choose a good one.

Those who had purchased the coins at high levels would be at a loss now. But the most important thing to remember here is that these losses are not realized. Until you sell your coins and book losses, it is not right to claim that you have suffered a negative return from the cryptocurrency investment. And with a volatile asset such as Bitcoin, we can't expect the prices to go up all the time.

You can still make money in the markets even if you cannot predict them all the time, it is very common for people to believe that only if you can predict the market perfectly then is impossible to make money in those very same markets, but that is not true, as long as you can predict enough of the movements of the market and you use very strict money management techniques which reduces your losses when you are unable to do this then you will become a successful trader regardless of the manipulations of the market.

indeed, there is no reward for the shy, lazy, wanting to be acted upon by the big guy, that's what everyone knows. Electronic money is a good investment, it really helped my life a lot and to win big in this world you need to be persistent because it is still new.

Financial freedom is not just about having a lot of money it is about how you manage your money, there are many financial illiterate in my country and they do not know how they will manage their money if they have high paying jobs and that's why they keep experiencing financial problem. 

Higher risk does not mean greater reward. For example, you can invest in the TOP steadily developing cryptocurrencies with less risk to your investments and get a good capital gain in the future. But you can invest in a very risky new coin, which will soon be thrown by its developers and its price will fall forever, and you can lose the money invested in it.

But not all of investment that have high risks are good to take. Do not just invest your money because of the high rewards, you should remember that you should know and you should handle the risks first before you put your money. In an invesment, risks are matter so considering it is part of the process.

Not the same risk with cryptocurrency and other investment because with bitcoin and altcoin investing have big risk when price down, we don't know when bitcoin and altcoin goes down, for other investment I think can give opportunity to get profit but with little amount because have waiting for long time to get much profit later.

This is completely true, many of those that are looking to achieve financial freedom are thinking of a life in which they can spend all the money that they want without any consequence and the only ones that can do something like that are the ones that have a lot of money, the rest no matter how much capital do you think they have saved in their accounts have to exercise money management techniques all the time in order to keep their debts in check and to slowly but surely rise their passive income.

Definitely the industry is still at its young state,  that is why the potential risk is kind of more high, as the risk is high likewise the rewards too is also very enormous
Perhaps in future, regulations might help to curb such so as to interest more investors to have full confidence in the market

Most of people are just being too greedy enough, they wanted to have everything in the world, they wanted to become the famous, the person that would like to worship by most people because he has a lot of money, they don't realize the other true meaning of abundance or the contentment. We are all aiming for money and we deserve and it is fine to become rich, but let us also remember that we can't bring to heaven the money, so the rich in heart is what's most important.

Risk of cryptocurrency when price of bitcoin or altcoin have lower and we bu with higher price, many investor and trader always allowing with what people said and they investing with coin suggestion by the other, when you buy some coin by recommendation from some one you make mistake because he has sell his coin and make you buy it.

That is so true. Risks has nothing to do with rewards. In addition to that, there is no more doubts regarding old coins but new projects cannot be trusted. Old coins are also much more beneficial than the new ones. So choosing bitcoin over any new altcoin will definitely bring more rewards with zero risk factor. With knowledge and trust, a person can avoid all sorts of uncertain situations.

in my opinion, risks and rewards in crypto are things that will be in trading or investing in crypto, because volatile crypto prices cannot guarantee good luck will always be with us, so we must be prepared with whatever happens

I agree, we don't expect what gonna happen if we take a huge risk investing and take big rewards. the market is very unpredictable and as of now the price is very bad and everyone is in panic mode. I can't say that this month is good or not but you can accumulate if you want to take a risk. for me if possible we may take a hard time to read all what we need to know to avoid big loosest.

This is another important lesson, while there is no doubt that there is some correlation between risk and reward they are not perfectly correlated, which means that you can get a lot of rewards with very low risk and an example of this is to invest in coins like bitcoin or ethereum, and you can take a huge risk and get no rewards at all and the perfect example of this are all the icos and ieos that have failed through the years and that have given no profits at all to those that risked their money.

In my opinion, our year 2019 will not change much, the price of Bitcoin will fluctuate around $ 8000k - $ 6k5. This is considered a time of accumulation for many major investors. they are buying more bitcoins, the strategy is still the same as in 2018. when the whales deliberately pushed the price of bitcoin to $ 3k3, it was also the time that they bought more bitcoin. We can predict a very beautiful future of Bitcoin in 2020, its price could rise to $ 20k. how do you think ?

It's needed to have more knowledge regarding to this venture of investment, you need to make sure that you are willing to take the risk and prepare yourself for the bigger picture. Time will come and the value will surge up again. But while everyone are on the panic mode make sure to have a good funds to accumulate more cheap coins and wait for another bounce up.

Well that's what happen most of the time but I'm sure that there are some good advices coming from other professionals which usually are paid advice however following someone else's suggestion is the same as letting other decide whether your money will grow or opposite and people with right mind will never do that.
If you want some suggestion try to seek professionals with no motives otherwise it's basically the same thing.

It happens for a very natural reason, market is speculative. Seeking professional's help is a way of making your decision based on what the other's view on the market which I totally not recommend. Another thing is, one's view depends on the experience and affordability to lose, I bet these professionals had also lost and already have an idea what the market could be which everyone would not uderstand.
I don't see professional people here, imo, just experienced ones. Not talking about the financial advisors though. Seeking professionals with no motives? what do you mean by that?

This is a great opportunity the price is having problems moving up and after it reached 7500 it began to go down once again and now we are at 7200, the price is moving in a very tight range so anyone that is looking to get bitcoin for a fair price has an opportunity that may not last long, personally I think the price could go even lower but nothing like what we saw one year ago so in my case I am holding off buying more bitcoin until we reach the absolute bottom.

Risks are always in cryptocurrency and what is said in the video confirms this.

It is not just the case with crypto currencies. There is no investment market in the world which is free from risks. We all know that people are aware of the risk they have in any market and invest accordingly. If we talk about estate market, at times the taxes increase and people stop buying selling properties which ultimately result in losses. Crypto is not an exception to this risk thing. Every business has risk.

The volatility of prices in Crypto market can not be reduce by this money thing you said. The market might increase with this but later, it will balance and the fluctuation will begin again. The best to do is just to still invest at the right time so that you could gain. The market will always be volatile.

just listen to what is necessary, it is not possible that everyone will listen even though there is a name experienced in the crypto world.
I don't really agree with this, it's like they indirectly ordered us what they said.
for me arghh it's very annoying.
none of them knows for sure how crypto will develop, this is just my description, no offense.

People will never be satisfied with the stability of crypto currencies because they were attracted to it because of its volatile nature. This is the reason why this market appeared unique to rest of the regular investment markets. If there would have been any way of making this market stable, people would have already done so. I personally feel that whales would not let it happen by any means.

Gaining experience in this market means a lot. You may not be able to predict the movement of prices. But you need to learn some habits. For example, the price that has gone too high is surely making a comeback. You can calculate at what rate this will happen.

It is also because of the number of its supply and demand that makes its price high or low. Supply and demand for me is always opposite at each other, when there is an increase in supply there would be decrease in demand and if theres is a decrease in supply there would be an increase in demand. Take for example in the normal market wherin it is time for holidays like Christmas and the demand for good and services are high so it would mean that the supply would definitely decrease and the price would be high or would pump drastically.

I for one don't think it is so much about volatility itself

On regular markets you can get comparable volatility as there are a multitude of investment instruments that are specifically designed to be volatile (for example, so-called volatility indexes, abbreviated as VIX). The difference between regular markets with their volatility tracking indexes and cryptocurrencies is twofold, and neither aspect or factor has anything to do with volatility as such

First of all, cryptomarkets are easily available to regular folks which is not the case with regular markets (the ironic pun seems to be inevitable here). And then, the instruments that such markets offer have a rather short life span as they quickly expire forcing you to liquidate, no matter whether you are in the red or in the green. With crypto, you can just sit on your hands and patiently wait out the bad times (not always helps, but the option is available at all times anyway)

There are a lot of possibilities we should have to think with regards om cryptocurrencies. We should think about the supply and demand of our economy because it helps to decide on how our economic growth been stable in it's status.There are many possible ways on how we should be satisfied on our income and daily earnings because of working online. Like, having a stable and concrete investement in some particular currency that will help you a lot with regards in your money.Gaining more knowledge is the best way on how you will get more rewards and stay away from possible risk in our way on achieving our goals in life.We should be wise on our decisions and make our life better with the help of our prior knowledge.

There is problem with this evaluation, if there is a decrease is supply mean you cannot expect a demand especially because the demand depends upon the coin, if you take ETH do you have an idea about the total circulation and still the price is above $100, when it comes to bitcoin the amount of coins that can be mined will be reduced by halving and it will have an impact on the market and that is what is expected and hence the price will increase and that is the idea behind halving when Satoshi introduced and if you follow his path then we expect the market to move higher after halving.

Of course, it would be nice for the supply of coins in the cryptocurrency market to decrease and then Bitcoin's performance would improve several times, but how to create such a situation is not known.  So far, speculators manipulate the cryptocurrency market in this way, regulating the amount of bitcoin in the market and getting exactly the price that is beneficial for them to buy or to sell.

many hope that by halving the amount of bitcoin, it will increase the price, let alone coupled with increased demand. and for its global effect all altcoins will follow suit, as happened in 2017. and that is what is expected of crypto holders, this will have a positive impact on the recovery of people's trust in cryptocurrency

of course the risks and rewards that users will get will be comparable,
when you get a lot of prizes then you will also lose a lot, this is like a natural law

The high price volatility of cryptocurrency is one of the features of this market and you need to get used to it, since the high volatility of a decentralized cryptocurrency will not disappear. It is also the instability of cryptocurrency in the price that attracts investors and traders. The high price volatility of the cryptocurrency must be used to make a profit, but for this you need to know the cryptocurrency market well.

It is the reason why we should identify both rewards and the risks before we make investment. I only take a risky investment if the rewards is greater than risk. We should also know how to compute risk and rewards ratio in order for us to be aware if the investment is worth taking or it is just a shit investment that can make our portfolio to become full of losses.

There are good and bad aspects of everything such as cryptocurrency and Working in crypto such as risk is easy to reap If the cost of investing in crypto fluctuates you can make good money if the price rises and you will be at risk if the price goes down a little. It depends entirely on your investment.

 I actually took the risks when I jumped both feet in to crypto, now I am a full time crypto writer and I kinda enjoy my work, of course it comes with its challanges because here we are used to writing very casually but when you write for somewhere important you write very carefully and that takes a lot of time, I know it takes me one full day to write a blog article for example but in the end it all worths it because you get to see people reading what you wrote (there is a viewer count but no reader count so I assume some of those viewers must be reading as well) and also economically its a good job as well. However the risks involved me not being employed or have any kind of insurance and if anything bad happens to me there is no plan B for this business, which is why its quite risky as well.

Well there's risk in everything isn't it?! Bitcoin and crypto has risks too, but in the long run, these are proven to give solutions to many problems of life and hence we should consider the risk as collateral tension for a better profit in future :)

There was a 2-year decline. The market entered a period of accumulation. Many altcoin charts are deemed to have returned to their starting points. I think a new story might begin. New investors may come to the market. In addition, the internet is becoming more and more common. Trust in banks is decreasing. What will happen in this case. Bitcoin pumppp

The risk and reward  are interwoven.

Well that's cryprocurrency for you, we'll encounter lot more risk situation tham a success one because of the volatility of cryptocurrency so it is very important to analyze which coin will you invest your money, if it's worth taking the risk then don't doubt to take it but if the profit that awaits you is way to low than the risk you'll take then drop it but always prepare for the worse so that you'll always be prepared when risk cross path with you and be able to escape and always remember the golden rule, do not invest what you cannot afford to lose.

The volatility is mainly because there isnt a larger community and there are people who hold a big chunk of a coin. These people will try to manipulate the market by creating volatility with their large chunk. If the common man starts using the crypto and holds a small piece of it then we may not have this much volatility.

especially with the current tensions between the world, I think it's a trigger to use bitcoin, we can see many people buying gold, to secure their assets. and I think bitcoin will be the second option after gold

yes it will be the second option. The only problem is price volatility unlike gold that the movement is not so much movement. If you buy bitcoin and store it in the time you want to use that money will be  difference in price  and that was the main advantage of bitcoin if the price will increase you gain while just storing it .