What do you prefer to invest token or coin?

[bgaf]

I have this curiosity before about which one is efficient and more attractive investment. When it comes to blockchain, which do you think is far more superior? Or can gain more investors about the two?

Usually tokens are using smart contract platform such as ethereum, neo, stellar but on the other hand, the coin has its own blockchain and could be related to mining. Well vice versa for the other one.

I never see any IEO conducted that is coin type means every exchange out there prefer token accwsibility cause its very handy. So your vote goes to? Technical aside, investment is very efficient to tokens but only for short period of time through trading and IEOs but when they proceed to their own blockchain then thats the start of progress and the real deal. Any subjective thoughts?

[Little Mouse]

It depends on the use of the coin/token, demand in the market and market size. If a certain coin has their own chain but no usage, investing on such coin make no sense. The same goes for token too.

[Teraboy]

I have this curiosity before about which one is efficient and more attractive investment. When it comes to blockchain, which do you think is far more superior? Or can gain more investors about the two?

I prefer to go to the token for short term and coin for long term. I thought that both have the same possibilities to gain more investors but investors will be seeing based on the how strong the fundamental of coin.
This is still abstract to me but the key point is about the fundamental value.

So your vote goes to? Technical aside, investment is very efficient to tokens but only for short period of time through trading and IEOs but when they proceed to their own blockchain then thats the start of progress and the real deal. Any subjective thoughts?

The problem is not on the what kind of crypto (token or coin) but it must be the utility usage that offered by the token/coin. IMO the bold statement must be subjected into the usability of token/coin.

[GreatArkansas]

There are differences between a coin/token especially for their uses as what @Little Mouse said.
You should not worry about it, there is a lot of nice tokens out there even using some other platform like some ERC20 tokens using the Ethereum network. A lot of ERC20 tokens project there got interesting projects since token or coin is does not matter for me especially when one project will be made some upgrade on their project like token swap to their own network, like from ERC20 to their own network.

[Tipstar]

Have tried different things but as I prefer less risk, now I've reduced my coins to just bitcoin and Ethereum.
I don't recommend to do the same for everyone but if you are a passive investor who don't want to miss the crypto hype but are not ready for quick trades and strategies, bitcoin and Ethereum would work for you.

[Reid]

It actually doesn't matter as long as the great features is within one good project.

But if there is a need to pick then I will go for a coin.
As you said, IEO's are using tokens and for me most of them are unsuccessful. I am not saying all of them, but mostly failure is at the end.
So I just pick coins for new projects instead or if it is giving me a hard time to look for a good one, I would just invest it with bitcoin or Ethereum .

[mahilchii]

To me both are good investments, I would recommend investing in top coins like BTC, ETH could be a good investment while token like BBD will be a good one.

The thing is there are lot of coins and tokens being offered you need to research and do a proper judgement on a right coin or token to avoid loss, at the end it depends on your decision.

[jessyj48]

Some tokens are better than some coins and some coins are better than some tokens, it all depends on their use cases, the disadvantage of token is they are easier to build and that's why most scam projects are tokens running on ERC20 smart contract

[Kaonashi1993]

I think on my side, it is on the punctuality of Coin or Token and it also depends on the consumer who want to try some of this tech, different type of product attract different type of costumer IMHO, we will witness the rise of this asset and see what the standard we would be using in the future Neither Coin or Token, 

[Bitbtc8]

Coins are better to me, they have separate blockchain and Algorithm, this makes them more serious, I know their are scam coins too but not as many as scam tokens today, ethereum makes scammers work alot easier

[TheUltraElite]

If you wish to take the altcoin/token route be prepared to lose money like anything. It has been seen even though denied by delusional trolls that altcoin trading has lead to more losses than gain. How many of the altcoins performed as good as bitcoin did in the recent few years? If you held bitcoin you would always have a chance at making some money back whenever a pump arrives.

The thing is that in last 2 years bitcoin pumps have been followed by quick dump and the altcoins since they rise after bitcoin failed to rise enough before the dump. So imagine the trader who was holding their tokens to sell at that price just to break even and finally exit that worthless coin. Right then the price dumps and they are back to the holding cycle. This is frustrating for any trader and buying an altcoin just because they seem to have a good team or whatever only leads to this problem and a never-ending cycle of anxiety and depression.

So go with bitcoin at low price and be happy.

[bgaf]

You should not worry about it, there is a lot of nice tokens out there even using some other platform like some ERC20 tokens using the Ethereum network. A lot of ERC20 tokens project there got interesting projects since token or coin is does not matter for me especially when one project will be made some upgrade on their project like token swap to their own network, like from ERC20 to their own network.

I observed it too. But mostly depend on major network lile ethereum or neo. If you noticed those IEO using erc20 tokens most of them drop after few weeks right? So chances of losing investment is high, I wonder if there is an exchange offering launchpad for coin and not tokens. Maybe none as of now cause its maybe hard to do some preparations.

But I believe also tokens have interesing usage but cannot ignore the fact that coin type has a little risk of degradijg and example of these are old coins such as eth, neo, ada, right.

[Doranile432]

I don't like holding tokens, most times they are always bad news, there are few very promising tokens but 80% are crap projects, some projects starts their early life as token and later migrate to full blockchain but many stays on the ERC20 smart contract

[Mighty_crypt]

Both are good, scams exist on both blockchain, but token is the perfect tool for scammers that's why most scam projects are tokens,  all you need is  to keep doing research no matter how good a project appear to be, but when it comes to tokens pls do more deep research

[Kvalentine]

Do not worry too much about tokens vs coins, they are both nice, we have very good tokens if you can spend more time on coinmarketcap, like data token and refereum token, what matters is the team experience

[Reatim]

I have both mate and some are from the ICO i use to invest in the past.

Some thinks they are scams but i tend to trust that in future those tokens will give me income since until now the teams are still active and updating even at least once a week.

Regarding Those coins that i have bought directly in exchange mostly from top 20(though others now falls to below top50) and i know that in time i will be a successful Holder.

[azarharus]

I have this curiosity before about which one is efficient and more attractive investment. When it comes to blockchain, which do you think is far more superior? Any subjective thoughts?

I think that your question makes sense only if we imagine two identical by usage currencies, both of them listed on exchanges and has some market cap, but one is coin and other one is token.
In this thought experiment I'd rather buy token, because I personally believe that ethereum (and other token "providers") grant a lot of stability and makes the process way easier for developers so they can focus on updating their token

[TravelMug]

It actually doesn't matter as long as the great features is within one good project.

This. Doesn't matter, as long as the project itself are going to offer something unique in the crypto sphere and not just copycat.


So there are no secrets here, we should do our research and not trust random people advises.

(1) There could be tokens that are profitable in just short amount of time.
(2) There could be coins that is good for long term investment.

[michellee]

I don't know much about tokens, but I prefer to buy coins that already exist on the market. Sometimes I feel too confused to buy tokens because not all token has listed on the big exchanges like binance, bittrex, or other exchange. Even if that token gets the listed on the bigger exchange, that can make me confuse to buy because I need to gather their information before I decide to buy that token. But if you buy the coins that listed on Binance, that coin can have listed too in other exchange such as bittrex or poloniex or kucoin.

[$anounimus$]

The general view, today both coins and tokens circulating in the market are lots of choices, now we just have to choose which tokens or coins have economic value and have a minimum registered market, although not a large one. Normally, most people choose to invest has a name and  familiar at market like BTC and Etherum.