Selling Crypto Now is as Crazy as Selling Apple in 2001, Be Careful

in #cryptocurrency6 years ago

There is a lot of FUD pressure to sell right now, are you getting caught up in it? Try to avoid making decisions where at a future date you think back and kick yourself in the ass for making a foolish decision.

Crypto is crashing!
It's the next "great depression" for those who are holding crypto!
It's just a bubble!
You're going to be ruined holding worthless digital tokens!

Is that so?

Despite falling prices, more people are still investing. The same was happening in the dotcom bubble too. But like the dotcom bubble, you might be cashing out on some killer investments for the future.

Yoni Assia is the CEO of the trading platform eToto, subtitled on search engines as "The World's Leading Social Trading and Investing Network". Instead of join in on th FUD and hysteria, Assia is not speaking against crypto but is relating crypto startups to the .com companies from 1995 to 2000. Despite not many making it, many did and became giants.

As transformative as the internet was for the new millennium, now it's time for a new technology to revolutionize the world. From the early days to now, Facebook and Google went up by 1,000%, and Tesla went up by 2,000%. Cryptocurrencies are in that early phase. Investing in Facewbook, Google or even earlier with Apple would have been smart, but people have to make the decision one their own.

There are many cryptos out there, and only you can choose which one to get into. But selling it now when you got in earlier just to take some profit from uncertainty about the future of crypto, is being short-sighted. You might need the money, but if you don't, don't do it, as Assia says:

"My long-term view is selling crypto now is like selling Apple in 2001. You do it if you have to do it, you don't do it if you don’t have to do it".

Once someone learned about the internet, they wanted more people to use it. Once people used about a cool Apple product, more people wanted to use it. Blockchain is having the same effect. Once you learn about blockchain technology and how it can change the world, you want more people to use it, and want the world to be changed just like it was with the internet.

Blockchain is being pumped into many sectors, like the medical and engineering industries. Blockchains transparency and decentralization makes it an ideal solution for electoral systems where hacking and voter fraud would be a thing of the past. Will all these hopes and dreams pan out? Many people are working on making it happen. Like the dotcom industry, time will tell if it's a success or not.


Thank you for your time and attention. Peace.


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that's so encouraging, it helps me think a lot

....You might need the money

Sucking my small amount out of steem this last 2 months has literally stopped us from starving..
https://steemit.com/blog/@lucylin/dealing-with-finance-companies-is-a-pain-in-the-arse

That being said, there is now some light at the end of the tunnel, and once sorted, I will be putting back what I have taken out.

I have no idea about crypto, I really don't, but I'm hopeful about the future of it. Steem is a good place as any. Nobody knows where any specific crypto is going.

(and totally inadvertently, my withdrawing and putting back if the prices stay suppressed, means I will have done well out of it, if it then goes back up)

Hehe, yeah, sell higher then buy lower...

Weak hands always easily swayed by the FUD but strong hands were still on the grip - HODDDLLLL!

Every winner are always taking risk and survive :)

I agree. Many people lose their heads over this. One should never invest more than they can afford to lose. Many of us waste money (even when we can't afford it) on eating out, buying crap we don't need. If one was to only divert some of this into crypto it wouldn't be worrisome what the prices are doing.

And, if one doesn't speculate wildly on pumped coins and only buy quality projects on the dips, even better. It is not unreasonable to believe actions can be duplicated, and I will use Ethereum as an example (the photo was snapped just now by me from Coindesk).

Ethereum.jpg

On Oct 21st, 2016 you could get it as cheap as .45 each. Imagine if over a few months you had bought a couple hundred even with an average price of 1.00 back then. That would be worth a little over 100k now, that 200.00. If you had cashed out last January more than double that.

I am thinking with the upcoming regulations that will result in big money flooding in, the quality projects will never be this cheap again. Not only will those panic selling regret it, I believe anyone with money to scoop up bargains right now that isn't will be regretting it as well.

Good point. You think regulations will mean more money and huge rises all around?

I'm really getting tired of the old Dot Com comparison. From my point of view, these two events are nothing alike.

Imagine if all those dot com companies were open source. Imagine if money from the top dot com business constantly trickled down to the smaller projects. Imagine if some of those dot com companies got so much funding that they could work on their projects for the rest of their lives. Imagine if the dot com businesses were trying to solve the biggest problem the world has ever seen: the control and subsequent corruption of currency.

Until proven wrong, I will maintain that the outcomes of these completely separate events will diverge into a totally unexpected series of events.

crypto has no history to go by, a big part of investing is historical data. This crypto market is trailing the tech boom with 87% accuracy, and at this point is around 1995

As you say, there is no data, so using another data-set and lumping them into the same group under the banner of "tech boom" is going to yield some very incorrect extrapolations.

Not only is the tech completely different (doesn't matter that much), it's the very foundation of the economy that's being disrupted (matters a lot). Competitive capitalism is a completely different sphere than cooperative capitalism. You can't mush them together. Cooperative capitalism is a model that has never been seen, ever.

Cryptocurrency becoming mainstream would be like watching the Native Americans develop technology without having to worry about getting slaughtered by imperialists. They didn't even understand the concept of land ownership. The world has only ever known competition and debt-based slavery. To claim to know how this is all going to turn out is ignorant and delusional. Ignorance and delusion are business as usual if you consider the times that we are living in.

There not the same. The analogy was about one specific aspect: selling before it goes big and missing out.

A lot of people think they are pretty much exactly the same.

Well, honestly it depends on what you are holding. If you bought into a scam and got burned trying to make a quick profit, then hopefully people will learn a lesson. Because you aren't getting that money back.

Lots of projects are going to disappear the longer this rampaging bear is on the prowl. Even Steem might be on the docket. But that's cool with me. I love uncertainty and doubt. Certainty and confidence aren't as fun.

I really don't see how Steem can get taken out so easily. It was running just fine when coins were 8 cents a piece. Steem needs competition to get removed and competition in this uncharted territory is good for everyone but the exploiters (might be good for them as well in the long run).

Sure Steem runs fines as cryptocurrency with social media clumsily attached when some potential to be fixed by expanding the protocol layer, but technology isn't important with regards to money. Feelings are. Nothing is certain. Steem will survive, but maybe my bar for success isn't simply survival. We'll see where we are in six months. Probably lower.

You think Steem is on the docket to fail/disappear?

Failure and appearance need to be defined. But it is definitely a possibility that Steem has already seen it's peak in daily active users and monetary value. Who knows?

A lot of money from crypto world has been recently flowing towards hundreds of weak (but hyped) ICOs. This money exits the crypto market as soon as token sales ends (or rather during the sales). Many people are losing invested money and even more will lose them. Dumb capital is flowing to fraudsters and opportunity seekers, while leaving the prospective and established blockchains like EOS, CARDANO, NEO or STEEM. There's a big bubble being pumped in the ICO world and it's going to burst as soon as investors realize, these 'super' projects can't deliver on promises as they simply can't compete with superiority of 3rd generation blockchains. The bubble must burst to clear the way for future crypto gains.

Yeah, they buy into false promises, then they will lose, fooled themselves by trusting blindly in the hopes of making quick money.

And the worse, the poor and hyped ICOs put a bad light over all cryptos.

Great post! Surely I'm one of that person who is concerned about whether to sell or not. But based on what you are saying here I think I will think about it twice.

I'm using the crypto's to finance my family but there's some that are left and I will surely save them!

Thanks, Krnel awesome post as always.

Yes, save, and try to find another way to get money ;)

It's true that Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have amazing potential, but only time will tell if it will become a giant. Remember Google Glasses?

BTW I do believe in cryptocurrencies, and i am Hodling for dear life!

Well google is great, google glasses in like a crypto project, while google is like crypto as a whole ;)

It’s times like this that I really wish I had the disposable fiat to delve into crypto to the fullest extent. Blockchain is a disruptive force that is not to be reckoned with. Just because it’s a bear market at the moment doesn’t mean a rebound isn’t on the way. Based on the current market standings it wouldn’t be far fetched to see an immense rebound. The crypto revolution has only just begun!

Yup, let the games begin :)