Hundreds if not thousands of new cryptocurrencies launch monthly. All with big promises of use case, flashing tech and a stock-standard wide mouthed YouTube guy telling you how high it will moon. With these new tokens and coins also comes many initial coin offerings (ICOs) that are often scams. The demand for these have grown, even despite the fact that many people get rugpulled. This mostly unregulated market makes for a perfect place to scam innocent people out of their money, with little consequences to the thieves. With crypto scams rampant, it's easy to get mixed up in a scam coin whose ultimate goal is a liquidity drain (slow, stair-step bleed down). Here's my top advice to avoid diversifying into bad projects / scams:
- Research the team. Perhaps the single most important success factor for any ICO or cryptocurrency is the developers and administrative team behind the project. The cryptocurrency space is dominated by major names. For that reason, it's increasingly common for scammers to invent fake founders and biographies for their projects.
- Check the whitepaper, twitter account and website. You want to see the background, goals, strategy and timeline for implementation for any blockchain-related project. This can be incredibly revealing: companies that have a flashy website may reveal they lack a fundamentally sound concept. On the other hand, a company with a website containing spelling errors may que that they lack a professional and qualified team and the website was built by someone's cousin's brother.
- It it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. The idea of getting rich quick on an investment in a hot new project sure is tempting. Remember that projects sounding too good to be true , likely are. Spend time scrutinizing every detail, and assume that the absence of a piece of crucial information may be an attempt to hide an unsound model or concept.
- Note the name. I can't stress this enough. Baby Doge, Baby Shib, pizza coin, bulldog etc... These are all coins that are obviously meme coins and you can almost expect to be rugged if you buy into a coin with a weird or funny name.
Final Rule of thumb : Always be CAUTIOUS when investing in projects that have retraced more than 90% from its ATH.
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