Which is better, staking or investing?

[Lorence.xD]

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.

Doing both is much better, staking is the same as investing so there isn't that much to choose from. In my honest opinion, it would be better if you go all the way investing because this are better in my opinion, if you do not know much about staking and things that you should watch out for then you probably should stick to investing.

[suchmoon]

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.

First of all, context. OP is asking about staking for profit, not about staking as a consensus mechanism.

Inflation is inflation no matter where it's coming from. Of course every newly minted bitcoin dilutes the value of other bitcoins but the demand is strong enough to maintain the price, i.e. there is value added elsewhere that outweighs the inflation rate (below 2% annual ATM).

I doubt the same can be said about whatever shitcoin the OP is peddling, or most staking shitcoins TBH. Without demand that creates value, staking "profit" - and therefore the OP's question - is useless.

[traderethereum]

I prefer to stake and investment at the same time because that means both stake and investment can be my additional income in the future, besides my main income source.
But both stake and investment need time before we can make money, and sometimes, we need to wait for a longer time to cash out the profit because the market is not always moving as we want.
If you want to do both stake and investment, you need to have a list of potential coins which can give you the profit, and I admitted that it would not easy to have those list.
We need to analyze one by one of the coins to stake and invest so that we can get the right coins.

[NavI_027]

The good thing in staking is that you can earn passively (as in literally passive) since you let the money work for you and all you need to do is to wait. However, your success still depends on the future of the project you choose. Plus, a huge initial capital is required here unlike to common crypto investing where you can buy small amounts and make it grow as time goes by.

So if I were asked which is better, I still go for crypto investing not only because of its easier availability but also I feel more secured knowing the fact that I hold and manipulate my own money. Well, It still depends on how far can you take the risk anyway .

[iv4n]

Invest in staking? How that sounds? I am saying for year, everything you do is an investment. On your job you invest your arms, brain, legs, and you get paid for that, but much better is to invest money and to earn money, so you can save your body and brain from troubles.
There's no simple math here, with investing in staking coin you will have some passive income, and if the price of that coin rise it can be a jackpot (if you save coins you get from staking). Of course, you need to invest a nice amount of money to have some decent passive income. In the same time some coin can be a lot more profitable if it rises exponentially (you just need to be lucky to hit that coin).

[LogitechMouse]

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

I will share my opinion with this question.

What is staking??LINK

Staking is the process of holding funds in a cryptocurrency wallet to support the operations of a blockchain network.

Base on the definition above, staking is a process of holding funds in their wallet to support the operations. Now in order to hold the tokens, you need to buy it right?? Isn't buying = investing??
Your question is confusing because it is somewhat correlated because if order for you to stake, you need to invest some money to buy that tokens and hold for some amount of time.

[Botnake]

First it's important to know what is the meaning of staking, otherwise, you'll fail with this type of investing.

Yes, I consider staking as investing because you stake your coin for a certain time to earn reward and you are not assured if the value of the coin will rise, if it falls, you will lose as regardless if your coins will increase but if its value will fall, it's still useless.

With that said, I think I'll choose the normal way of investing, not staking.

[BigBos]

First it's important to know what is the meaning of staking, otherwise, you'll fail with this type of investing.

Yes, I consider staking as investing because you stake your coin for a certain time to earn reward and you are not assured if the value of the coin will rise, if it falls, you will lose as regardless if your coins will increase but if its value will fall, it's still useless.

With that said, I think I'll choose the normal way of investing, not staking.

is it the same as the master node? or the more coins you have, the more coins you can make each reward distributed. to be honest, I prefer investment as usual. some coins that have a system like that are very difficult to read the chart. however, investment, as usual, is easy to control and predict.

[Pamadar]

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?

Investing is always be my choice,i Have been in this market for years now and staking is not giving more benefits and besides most of my friends that into staking are now losers and converted their money into investing.
But it depend on the company you invested if they are stable enough to give good stakes.

First it's important to know what is the meaning of staking, otherwise, you'll fail with this type of investing.

Yes, I consider staking as investing because you stake your coin for a certain time to earn reward and you are not assured if the value of the coin will rise, if it falls, you will lose as regardless if your coins will increase but if its value will fall, it's still useless.

With that said, I think I'll choose the normal way of investing, not staking.

Exactly,Investing is still the safer way of putting our money inside crypto as long as we can afford to keep holding for a certain time and not greedy to look in easy money.

[Botnake]

Investing is always be my choice,i Have been in this market for years now and staking is not giving more benefits and besides most of my friends that into staking are now losers and converted their money into investing.
But it depend on the company you invested if they are stable enough to give good stakes.

First it's important to know what is the meaning of staking, otherwise, you'll fail with this type of investing.

Yes, I consider staking as investing because you stake your coin for a certain time to earn reward and you are not assured if the value of the coin will rise, if it falls, you will lose as regardless if your coins will increase but if its value will fall, it's still useless.

With that said, I think I'll choose the normal way of investing, not staking.

Exactly,Investing is still the safer way of putting our money inside crypto as long as we can afford to keep holding for a certain time and not greedy to look in easy money.

Actually if it's for long-term hold, staking would give more advantage to you as long as you believe that the coin you are staking with is good for long-term hold. Why? because when you are staking, you can grow your coin, just like investing in a casino's bankroll, and overtime as the project gets more successful, the price will eventually rise as well and that would be very rewarding in your end.

[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.

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 .

In every investment risk associated so expect that. But with lower returns, the risk is minimal.

It's fair to say that we have to support those kinds of investments such as staking but the question is, are you staking? There are investors that prefer to stake but at the same time, they also hold. Understanding the concept of staking is needed because others are thinking that it's an easy and quick money. Well, it could be an easy money but it requires you decent amount of money.

[slapper]

Both are good. There are several ways to have money in this world. Why not just try all of them so that you can have a better chance to earn money. If I were you, I would split my money into 2 parts and try both investing and staking. One for the long term and one for the short term earning. However, if you have just a small amount of money which you do not want to separate, I believe that investing is more suitable for you cause it can help you to earn more money in several months

[Yatsan]

Both are different and I think both should be applied as an investor here in crypto. You can invest in one coin and stake it! that alone will combine the two and will produce a better or worst result, that is going to be a double edge sword since some of the staking on exchange have a lock in period and you can't sell your coin on a specific price that you want.

And I just want to share that if you want a not so risky type of staking, I know that Crypto.com is offering a staking for Tether with 10% p.a interest   That is going to be a really good investment/staking passive income. And compare to real world banks then, that is a rock solid one.  

[Febo]

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

PoS coins gets created by staking. If sole usecase of a coin is staking then that sounds ponzi to me. It will end badly sooner or latter.

[Sanugarid]

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

Staking is a form of investment, the common things are the capital , time frame and return

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

lol I bet you haven't done staking yet. It really depends on the project of what you are staking, some fails to commit to their investors because of poor handling, what's worst with staking if the project go fully dead that they can't even give back the capital of the investors. These two are great source of profit in the long run, they are both great when it takes so much time. But when it comes to availability, cryptocurrency investing is ahead than staking.

[dothebeats]

I'd stay clear from places which asks to keep your funds for you and promise a % return over time, especially those connected with cryptocurrencies.

As for staking, you need to have a huge capital in order to get something that is substantial, or at least that can be considered as something 'worth it' for the time your coins were idle. Perhaps you may already know the concept that involves staking, and why it's a safe form of investment. The downside however is you would be relying on the profitability of the staked coin/asset itself and that it remains stable in the long run for your coins/asset would still be worth something.

[Zackgeno96]

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?

If you hold the majority of staking power of a coin then I say staking is better or maybe if you want to hold that altcoin for long terms then staking can give you some extra return. But I always prefer investing in IEO or for a short period of time as it yields higher returns than any other method. But these days it has become tough to find a good project even with this many number of IEO rating websites as these websites have most probably started giving fake ratings to those who pay them nicely.

[CryptopreneurBrainboss]

I think it makes no sense comparing staking to Investing since staking it technically a form of Investing. Probably if you're comparing owning masternoods, staking or buying alts then it would be more realistic since that's what most enthusiast consider to be the difference forms of investing comparing to typically owning bitcoin.

Staking isn't that bad but a very risky form of investment especially when you don't carry out proper research and invest in a worthless shitcoins that's just been hyped and when that hypes dies down they give poor ROI as a result of the price of the coin declining massively.  Also you should rethink the mode of staking your investing into as giving your coins to a third party or not owning the private key to the wallet the coins are been staked in is as foolish as storing your coins on an exchange.

[wozzek23]

Seems like OP is concerned about one coin's staking which could be an attempt to shill on what they have invested or where they are being affiliated. It would be good if OP removed the links they have included as that is not a good example for staking as staking is an old concept and almost all the people on this crypto space might have been aware of it already. So, I guess for example purposes including one particular coin is not at all appropriate in my opinion.

Let me talk about staking and investing.

Both do not have big differences on ROI perspective as both are providing same kind of results for investors these days.

In some sense staking is seeming better than investing because it is like you are starting up a business venture to generate a passive income stream. Investing must be same kind but here you are fully depending on market value of your asset and no other factors are influencing your level of profits.

Staking get you more shares (coins) to increase your chances for get good ROI. But, investing will not impact the number of shares you bought hence you market value is the only factor for good ROI.

[Stedsm]

If you are willing to hodl for longer and can "stake" your coins for at least a year to get the decided amount through its staking, and you do all this after understanding the risks clearly that the value of that specific coin could be worth anything tomorrow (or the day when your stake matures and you get your share). Investing has three phases - short term, mid-term and long term but the difference here is that, you have your coins with yourself and need to trade yourself to gain anything on it.