if you want to be safe buy hardware wallet. if you don't want to buy you can do simple things. avoid clicking suspicious links especially the shorten links. you don't know where they will lead you. if you use mew use metamask to open your mew. download malwarebytes it can block suspicious sites like metamask.
just bring money it is the easiest way to buy a cup of coffee. transaction is within seconds, no transaction fees and you just paid what you order and coffee will still be hot.
their company is successful without crypto involving. with many negative news toward crypto it will affect their company. companies or group that need funds mostly run ICOs to supply their project. Apple and Microsoft have a lot of funds.
governments in my country regulate exchange site so every time we cash out it includes tax. there is money in bitcoin and it will not affect the community. those that against tax don't know where the tax goes and they they don't know want to know it either. they think only for themselves and not the other side.
i have a job and i do signature campaign in my spare time. if you got paid and it got value then it is not a waste of time but if it has no value then you can think you have waste your time. if you don't want to waste your time search for a good project.
how many years are you in crypto? pump and dump is a part of it. crypto is very risky you should know this before investing but if not you will be hopeless. not all the time you will earn profit here sometimes or many time you will some or all of your money.
last year i own xrb/nano coin but i sold it and then the next month the price goes up. i could have earn more if i hold it longer. that was my biggest mistake not holding.
it will not stop. hackers are smart and they will find a way to hack the site. many of this hackers are educated people. there is always a loophole that they can exploit.
with stakes you will not know how much you will get until the ICO is finish. your rewards depends on how many participants join and many coins are sold. there are fix reward but there is a limit in the participants. if i want to run an ICO i choose the stakes with no limit to participants. the more to join the more it can help advertise the ICO. in the end the ICOs team will decide what will be helpful to their project.
putting a large amount of coins is very risky. better put is your own wallet if you don't want to sell it. if possible separate each coin that in case it get hack your other coins are safe. exchange site are not safe and there are many exchange that got hack already.
KYC is good but what would happen if manager sell it? there are many good manager here but there are also bad manager and they will take advantage of this. for those dumpers they either sell it because they need money or they sell it because the price is high then after that it gets lower everyday.
they continue to invest despite its risk because of profit. there are ICOs that have potential and may give them profit. there are coins that will fall but there are also that will rise.
what would go wrong if you invest without knowledge? learning is important before you try to invest. any mistakes can lead to losing all your money. learn what you can learn and continue it to gain more. it is useful if you know more.
this is your opinion and what about the government? what they get is tax from people in order to fund various public expenditures. cryptocurrency is risky and government allow it but they warn people of its great risk.
How risky for beginner to invest in cryptocurrency? What kind of risk factor and what are the precautions?
as a beginner you don't have enough knowledge and experience yet so it is very risky. you may lose all your money if you are not careful. even old investor suffer lose sometimes.
most ICOs today are scam. most of them looks real and you can't distinguish real and fake. scammer are smart and they learn to improve their way of scamming people. it gets harder to know if it is scam or not.
cryptocurrency is volatile and price change every time so if it goes up it can also go down. crypto will not stable because it relied in supply and demand. that amount is huge what do you expect when you invest it in crypto? to earn more? investing is very risky. for now best is to hold it.
if you can do all campaign in a bounty then do it. make to look for a legit bounty campaign to make your time worthy. research which bounty to join to avoid scam.
uneducated people can join as long as he/she can read and write. having a basic knowledge is needed in cryptocurrency. but educated people have more advantages compared to uneducated.