Which is better, staking or investing?

[yhiaali3]

The open blockchain platform Harmony has announced that it will start supporting staking from now, in an effort to create a blockchain-based infrastructure.
source: https://www.harmony.one/
Of course, as I know, there are many exchanges that support staking.
I want to fully understand what is staking and what are the best coins and platforms that we can do staking and give good profits?

My most important question: Which is better, staking or investing?

[cryptoaddictchie]

I want to fully understand what is staking and what are the best coins and platforms that we can do staking and give good profits?

If you head of Binance Academy they gave some lectures on different concept and aspect related to crypto that include staking. Check this out: What is staking If you read this everything you dont know about it will be answered and enlighten.

My most important question: Which is better, staking or investing?

_{I find this question confusing. Staking is a process where you need certain amount of tokens to earn from its timely maturation which classify also as type of investment.}

[Upgrade00]

Staking is the process of investing in a project which is built on the PoS~Proof of Stake algorithm. Your coins are locked on their specified wallet for a period of time and you earn a percentage of your holdings in time intervals. Proof of stake is an alternative to the Proof of work algorithm used by the Bitcoin network to reward miners.
Staking is similar to mining on the Bitcoin network

My most important question: Which is better, staking or investing?

Staking is a form of investing, you'd need to specify what form of investment to compare it with.

[yhiaali3]

_{I find this question confusing. Staking is a process where you need certain amount of tokens to earn from its timely maturation which classify also as type of investment.}

Staking is a form of investing, you'd need to specify what form of investment to compare it with.

I mean, by investing, you place your currencies in investment sites that give you a percentage of daily or monthly percentage profits. I see that staking is very similar to these sites. Also, as you know, there are risks in this type of investment, and my question is what is the difference between staking and such sites, as well as whether there is such a risk.

[Upgrade00]

^ I would recommend you do not use such investment sites which promises to trade your funds for you and reward you at certain periods.

what is the difference between staking and such sites, as well as whether there is such a risk.

In such sites you're handing you capital over to someone else to do with it as they please, in staking you buy a cryptourrency which is used to build a project and you lock it up, this is used to encourage people to hold their currency rather than dump it, hence the value is expected to increase, you also get a fixed reward at specific time intervals, based on the amount of the coins you're holding. Th advantage of staking is you own your coins and can always sell them after your stake duration expires.

[yhiaali3]

^ I would recommend you do not use such investment sites which promises to trade your funds for you and reward you at certain periods.

what is the difference between staking and such sites, as well as whether there is such a risk.

In such sites you're handing you capital over to someone else to do with it as they please, in staking you buy a cryptourrency which is used to build a project and you lock it up, this is used to encourage people to hold their currency rather than dump it, hence the value is expected to increase, you also get a fixed reward at specific time intervals, based on the amount of the coins you're holding. Th advantage of staking is you own your coins and can always sell them after your stake duration expires.

Thanks my friend for the advice first and for this good answer second, with thanks of course to the members who responded before you but you understood what I want, yes this is the difference as I think I understood it, the investment sites take your coins and you do not know what they do with these coins and they may scam, while staking you contribute to maintaining the operation of the network, also you hold your coins and can retrieve it at any time.

[boyptc]

If you stake, you also invest because you'll buy the coin that you will stake.

And if you will stake, treat that investment as dead money of yours because returns there are not that big.

[shoreno]

If you stake, you also invest because you'll buy the coin that you will stake.

And if you will stake, treat that investment as dead money of yours because returns there are not that big.

You invest into someone else and not investing on your own  . I think that was risky and you said the returns are not that big enough but I heard this also take a long time . While in the case of investing a crypto you can freely choose a good coin and the coin can pump easily too but Staking is part of the block chain/crypto system so it's better that we both support them and not just support one  side  . we can invest most of our capital and few of it would be go for staking to help the development  of new crypto projects .

[Assface16678]

The form of staking and investing looks like the same please clarify what kind of investment you will go on it, for me still the investing is one of the most good time right now because some of the market prices of the coins and stocks now falls down and this is a good time to make hold those assets if you are heading towards to make a good market income it is good but if you want to make an investment to their projects to for staking still at the end of the day we want to earn profit which is going for it.

If you stake, you also invest because you'll buy the coin that you will stake.

And if you will stake, treat that investment as dead money of yours because returns there are not that big.

Tho all the things we are doing into investment is full of risk and not quite sure if we are going to receive a good outcome which is we are going to make an investment to a project does not sure if we are going to win or not still there is a huge market income if you going to success that business.

[Coin_trader]

And if you will stake, treat that investment as dead money of yours because returns there are not that big.

It depends on what token you stake. Like for example the Harmony(One) token which has a lot of potential to price pump in the future. The Apr of staking Harmony is a whooping 25% and that is huge as a passive investment compared on banks time deposit. When you are lucky, The coin value itself might pump in the future so you can have more gain. The chance of losing on your investment was very low because you have lifeline of 25% on your stake.

[Pectivark]

staking needs a lot of capital to verify profits as you need confidence in the platform that they will not deceive you as they will pay all the obligations that they have in short. It needs capital and confidence to succeed and therefore not a good investment method.
YOU SHOULD AVOID IT.
I prefer investing in digital currencies by buying and selling and speculation, you do not need a lot of capital and a lot of profits have been achieved.

[vaultman]

In my opinion, investing, especially in cryptocurrencies, carries a very big risk. Therefore, I would not consider this option as a profit

[suchmoon]

My most important question: Which is better, staking or investing?

Staking doesn't produce anything of value, it's just useless inflation. For every "free" coin you get by staking your portfolio is depreciating by a similar amount (or more, if some other bagholders have masternodes or some other contraption that produces more inflation).

[dady12]

My most important question: Which is better, staking or investing?

Staking doesn't produce anything of value, it's just useless inflation. For every "free" coin you get by staking your portfolio is depreciating by a similar amount (or more, if some other bagholders have masternodes or some other contraption that produces more inflation).

Staking does not produce any value, investing is not that of a stable.
You better use both to minimize possible losses I guess

[harizen]

My most important question: Which is better, staking or investing?

You will able to answer this as soon as you understand what staking means. We can't just say "go" and push for it.

Staking might be a simple term but it requires a number of coins. In other words, you will put some investment here that might surprise you about the cost.

Come back here for some questions after you understand the basic knowledge of how staking works.

[Questat]

If you want some real action then choose investing, when you are investing, you have the freedom to move your coins anytime you see an opportunity to buy or sell.  Mostly those who are into staking are investors with good amount of capital in their pocket, they do staking and investing at the same time.

[Zemomtum]

With staking, you lock your asset for a certain period and you cannot immediate withdrawal. Some take 7 days after you initiate the request, while some take two weeks. With the investment, you are in control, when you see a nice price movement, you can sell immediately and look another way to invest.

[Kasabus]

With staking, you lock your asset for a certain period and you cannot immediate withdrawal. Some take 7 days after you initiate the request, while some take two weeks. With the investment, you are in control, when you see a nice price movement, you can sell immediately and look another way to invest.

Staking is somewhat has a broad meaning which is closely similar to investing because capital is still needed for it. Better to understand more about staking so you can decide which is the best way to do. Investing is what most of the people do here because they can totally control it especially when they are at losing times.

[Aveatrex]

Staking doesn't produce anything of value, it's just useless inflation. For every "free" coin you get by staking your portfolio is depreciating by a similar amount (or more, if some other bagholders have masternodes or some other contraption that produces more inflation).

This is wrong on so many levels imo. Is bitcoin mining also useless inflation with no value added? Does uour Bitcoin holding depreciate every 10 minutes when a block is mined? Obviously not. Staking/Masternodes are just a form of mining with a different consensus of course.


Back to the question, if you don't trade/ don't know how to and you are just holding cryptoasset, it's best to stake. Otherwise, trading will always be more profitable. My 2 sats.

[Kemarit]

My most important question: Which is better, staking or investing?

Depends on your risk appetite, let's say ETH, it is required that you have 32 Ethereum to participate in staking and became validator, are you willing to shelter out that kind of amount? As compare to investing wherein you can start small and gradually build your portfolio, thus you have total control, you can shift funds around or move your investment in the hottest trend. So there's a lot of cons/pros and nobody can really answer which one is better. For average joe, it's better to go on investing initially, but for whales who have so much money and has deep capital, they can go staking and then investing at the same time.