How do you find out cons of altcoins?

[bluebit25]

(...) Does anyone know of reliable sources that can provide unbiased overview of limitations and potential problems that a coin and their devteam is facing?

There is no fixed source, and you should research and synthesize the information you get about the project you follow. Depending on the scale to determine the project's ability to demonstrate, I have some experience that most of the top projects receive trust from the community because of their potential based on money, dev, relationships,... decentralization to smaller projects, those things also fade away.

I know some people on X (https://twitter.com/bantg ) , and you should also experience other forms of ponzi, hype, scam,... to understand how they work and take preventative measures. In this space, we know the potential for great opportunities, so there will also be people with bad intentions, so be alert and responsible for all your actions.

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[Essential10]

Currently it is very difficult to determine whether new projects are scam or legitimate. You can see the white paper of the project to see if there is a clear and well thought out plan for its implementation. I have seen a lot of new projects these days scamming projects even after having whitepapers, roadmaps. Be wary of projects that promise high returns with little to no risk. Always your personal decision and don't invest more than you can afford to lose. I am not saying there is no risk, stick to established cryptocurrencies and top altcoins to minimize risk. Always be aware and cautious when looking for new investment opportunities in the crypto space.

[Ben Barubal]

Devs are one big red flag if many of them have a bad history.

Does anyone know of reliable sources that can provide unbiased overview of limitations and potential problems that a coin and their devteam is facing?

You have to gather every information that you can. Being unbias isn't in the term of many reviewers and you can only find them rarely that provides insights that are for the sake of the people. But most of them are only giving them biased reviews and thoughts about project whether they like it or not.

        That's right, it's hard to trust developers who have a bad history, because why would you trust your capital in the project they're
going to do in the crypto space if they already have a bad background in their past?

        It's a shame when you put or allocate funds to the project that they will promote in this field of cryptocurrency.
That's why you should really know how to do proper research on a project in reality.

[God bless u]

Don't depend upon the resources brother nowadays the market is very volatile especially when altcoins are considered. It's completely a game of luck if you want to invest in new projects. Yes you can predict the coins by seeing its relevancy related to the use case but to say something for sure is not the case.

If you have spare assets that you can absolutely afford to lose then I would recommend you to invest only rather than try to invest in Bitcoin and other well established altcoins and after getting good profits then use that profit to learn and earn.

[fapar]

I don't agree with you. Without understanding the final product (its technical component), but only on information about the project team, it is short-sighted to make investments. There are quite a lot of talkers and “effective” managers who only talk, but cannot implement the product for years so many. Of course, it is necessary to study the project team, look through the Githubs of programmers, and find out the list of investors. Therefore, many factors must be taken into account, even if it seems complicated.

I believe I have mentioned about following up on the developments of the project to understand whether the team and the developers are serious about the project and whether all the developments are going according to the plan they have provided publicly. I don't think that a person needs to understand the technical side of a project to understand whether it has potential or not, and by the technical side I mean the technical stuff mentioned by them like in the whitepaper or GitHub or anywhere.
If you understand the vision of the project, what it aims to offer, and whether it is going according to the plan and the roadmap with complete transparency, that is enough for you to determine whether the project has got potential or not.

In this case, it is better to rely on the opinion of other people who are better versed in technology, since a beginner does not understand anything about the whitepaper of the project, but wants to become a low-bank investor and make money quickly. Because relying only on reports from the project team that it is achieving some success and following the roadmap is stupid.

[mdzahed134]

Actually, there are no specific way to find out a good project. Of course you have research your own way, i can share about my way as like, always first of all i am checking which project website, if you see their website is looks poor then i got a week point because you can also make a project website by spend a few dollars so good quality website is mandatory for a project, than i see their team members then project roadmap & white paper then their social media activists.

[evichi]

In my opinion, the technical competency built behind an altcoin is just one aspect of determining the performance of an altcoin. Another, but the most important, from my understanding, is the credibility of the team members. Team composition/profile is crucial in determining how well an altcoin will perform. Team members with good track record have the potential to excel on projects, and of course coupled with the utility and community support. For example, Meme coins are in most cases short lived because they bask on the euphoria of hype, such that, as soon as the hype dies down, that will be the end. Most meme coins have no utility/technical ability built to solve problems.

Each project have their own peculiar challenges. It is important to carry out extensive and detailed research on projects to figure out specific project challenges, limitations and potential problems faced by the development team. Watch out for comments and reactions from social media, it could be a pointer to detect issues with the token/coin.

[LLCrypto]

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Without shilling any coin names, I've been eyeing some relatively newer altcoins to stake a bit in and everytime I try to find information, most of what I find is the official sources or diehard supporters which make every coin sound like the next best thing to takeover the entire market. That's obviously not true. I've tried looking through coin-specidic subreddits too but obviously the mods aren't always going to leave criticism up under the banner of FUD.

I know there was multiple focused discussions on this sub on how to do your own research, but I either can't find them, or I find the ones that are too technical about trying to calculate market cap potential and coin estimates, which does not really matter to me. Does anyone know of reliable sources that can provide unbiased overview of limitations and potential problems that a coin and their devteam is facing?

Ideally if the project has a working product out already the analysis would be a lot easier. Nothing beats using the product and learing for your self if it has a future.

[vs2014]

I think you can get lots of good quality tokens from cmc which will be best for investment and less risky. Moreover many tokens will drop in price in connection with the upcoming bitcoin break down so at this moment you should keep an eye on some tokens that should be waiting for a right time to buy. As i am practicing trading now most of the time because my holdings are mostly tokens i have sold with profit. I don't want to go in the direction of losing money due to which the success rate of new projects is less.

[snowpega]

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hmm, it should be need to check before investing in any of the altcoin projects as investing in altcoins is the very picky part which is why you have to check the pros and cons of the desired project you are going to invest. Well in my opinion there is a very rare chance you may find such a project that has all the qualities you want so that you can invest into that particular project without thinking all projects have some cons but those projects that have more pros must be considered to invest.

On the other hand, you may think about how I check the altcoin project before investing so I check if he team is actively working on the project ecosystem, project should have a strong community and actively participate in the community, is the team is collaborating with other good project to make their own project more successful... these are some thing i keep in mind before investing and i know there are also many other stratagies you guys may have must share your strategy of checking project.

[Miles2006]

What you're mistaking here is the offer these coins give, I can easily smell when something is wrong or a made up story. When something is too good to be real you should investigate more like what's with the holders regardless the testimonies you see online sometimes those testimonies are not to be trusted but it's best to make real investigation. As an investor going for a coin you must be able to identify the community strength and their next move, except the coin is a new token or else you should determine the value range like how far have this coin gone cause some coins just remain stagnant. Identifying a profitable coin is just too difficult

[Troytech]

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Without shilling any coin names, I've been eyeing some relatively newer altcoins to stake a bit in and everytime I try to find information, most of what I find is the official sources or diehard supporters which make every coin sound like the next best thing to takeover the entire market. That's obviously not true. I've tried looking through coin-specidic subreddits too but obviously the mods aren't always going to leave criticism up under the banner of FUD.

I know there was multiple focused discussions on this sub on how to do your own research, but I either can't find them, or I find the ones that are too technical about trying to calculate market cap potential and coin estimates, which does not really matter to me. Does anyone know of reliable sources that can provide unbiased overview of limitations and potential problems that a coin and their devteam is facing?

To do these research you need to be technical in some way so you would know the right points to look out for when yoir are doing your research and looking gor these alreafy made research onljne are so hard unless project is open source.

Relying on sub Reddit and social media groups are the worst cause their information is meant to make everything look like the best and trying to filter from those information would only get you lost, my advice as a beginner that have little technical knowledge just go for popular meme coins like pepe coin and try to buy when they are low than now when the bull is already on stage.

[Dailyscript]

Don't depend upon the resources brother nowadays the market is very volatile especially when altcoins are considered. It's completely a game of luck if you want to invest in new projects. Yes you can predict the coins by seeing its relevancy related to the use case but to say something for sure is not the case.

If you have spare assets that you can absolutely afford to lose then I would recommend you to invest only rather than try to invest in Bitcoin and other well established altcoins and after getting good profits then use that profit to learn and earn.

My own consideration is that people forget to invest in short term with altcoin rather they choose to invest and hold for long just like they do for bitcoin. Which is very much risky. I have nothing against altcoin its just that i cant keep my money in it for years or 6 months. The maximum i can hold an altcoin is 3 months then am out. Although some altcoins are worth holding which is the top altcoins like BNB, SOL and ETH. Anything aside from these altcoins count me out for long term.

My opinion is memcoins, metaverse and web3 are mostly hyped coins so they should be traded and not invested on. They are likely pump and dump tokens which at anytime can go off the market.

[Reatim]

I know it’s overwhelming to do your own research sometimes.
Especially if you aren’t that fluent in computer language or math language.
But the thing is, looking at altcoins could be different for each person.
I always say that it’s highly subjective.


The potential a person sees in a coin might not be seen by another.
There’s really no guaranteed way to check who is correct and who is not.
It is all speculation and no website will ever get that right.

[oktana]

I don’t think it will really work unless you do the hard works of researching by yourself. People will only review what it’s known. So you’ll have to look up the project and do the average proper check that needs to be done. If you can, it’ll be best if you can engage in conversations in their telegram group (if any), and try to see what you’ll find out. It isn’t always easy and may take some time before the truth comes surfaces.

[AnonBitCoiner]

I think you can get lots of good quality tokens from cmc which will be best for investment and less risky. Moreover many tokens will drop in price in connection with the upcoming bitcoin break down so at this moment you should keep an eye on some tokens that should be waiting for a right time to buy. As i am practicing trading now most of the time because my holdings are mostly tokens i have sold with profit. I don't want to go in the direction of losing money due to which the success rate of new projects is less.

Bull runs or the times around them are never good for investing in new cryptocurrencies or new projects mostly because a lot of scam projects are launched in the market during these times and if you are always eyeing new projects for investments, you might become a victim of these scams unless you do a lot of research before you make your investments which a lot of people don't do these days as they are always in a rush.

When bull run is around, we should invest in projects that we know have the potential to perform very well during the bull run so that we don't have our invested capital wasted and get some good returns when Bitcoin starts moving up, and it's not even difficult finding such projects because a single look at a marketplace or a website such CMC can give us a general idea about the top cryptocurrencies beside Bitcoin.