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Ajacs Crypto Guide For Bros
Ajacs Crypto Guide For Bros
janewinnow1131@gmail.com
Alexander Cortes
&
Daniel McEvoy
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Chapters
Introduction………………………………………………………3
Chapter 4: Cryptocurrencies………………………………...19
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Cryptocurrency - My Experience, and my Outlook
As of right now it is 2021. Crypto has gone through another correction, and
Bitcoin is presently at $38,000 per 1 BTC, with articles being written that it’s
“dead”. For perspective, BTC was as low as $3,000 last year.
My first foray into buying crypto was in 2017. Since that time I have steadily
increased my investing, and crypto is now a major part of my overall
investment strategy in the long term. As my business has grown, so too
has my ability to invest. At this stage, I divert a few thousand dollars each
month into buying various coins, mostly using DCA (Dollar Cost Averaging).
I didn’t create this guide to bestow anyone secret strategies and esoteric
insider knowledge. I wrote this guide like I would my training programs
actually. It covers principles, technical but simple understanding, and is
written to teach you how to THINK about crypto. And hopefully buy it, if you
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feel comfortable doing that.
If you are IN crypto, it’s an exciting time. As of 2021, this is the overall state
of the industry (and the world)
There is a term that floats around a lot “adoption”, ie, how many people are
buying into crypto. The estimated number as of 2021 is over hundred
million.
This is still not that many compared to how many people use government
issued currencies obviously, but the number grows daily.
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The current Crypto market cap (basically a dollar value assessment of
ALL the money in the market is) is 1.7 Trillion Dollars as current.
That is A LOT of money. In 2017, the last peak in the market, it was
estimated at $790 billion.
Along with the crypto market, we also have the printing of money which has
gone into overdrive the past year.
At the time of this guide (May 2021), inflation is becoming a reality, the
purchasing power of the dollar has gone down, prices have gone up,
and the current economic talk is talking heads being surprised at how
this could happen.
Your dollar is worth LESS today than it was a year ago. A growing
percentage of the government bond market is currently delivering negative
interest rates. (At one time government bonds were considered as good as
real dollars and investing in them was a guaranteed return. Today there are
bonds that pay you LESS than your investment)
With the amount of money printing done by central banks since March
2020, your money is being devalued, QUICKLY, and you need to find a
way around this.
You cannot afford to be naive. This is not galaxy brain prediction making.
If you’ve been putting off investing in crypto’s, you NEED to look into
it now.
This guide will serve as your introduction to crypto, covering all the basics
you need to understand.
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As you read through this guide, I will be linking to LOTS of external
resources. Books, articles, etc. I want you to learn a MACRO view, so you
feel confident in whatever your personal decisions are. Some of these may
be affiliate links, or links to other products.
The next 5-10 years will be one of the easiest times in history to get rich
Why is it easier? Because right now we are presented with two rare
opportunities that make generating vast sums of wealth significantly easier:
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The last time we saw the former opportunity was the Dotcom Bubble. If you
invested in the great internet stocks as they recovered from their
destructive bear market, and simply held, you were set for life. (Eg
Amazon, Google)
How many times have you seen investment blurbs that say “if you had
invested in XYX stocks when they went public, TODAY you’d be a
millionaire!”
What's really the message behind this? It's that if you had recognized an
opportunity BEFORE it was publicly accepted and adopted, you could have
gotten wealthy.
This is the fortune of FORESIGHT? Can you see ahead to the future?
I have ZERO belief that crypto will magically go to zero because pundits
say so. I don't take these statements seriously at all.
-Read the Bitcoin Standard for a 100,000 foot view of Bitcoin, Money, and a
Philosophical treatise of what makes it so powerful.
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If you really want to believe that crypto is a secret scam by the CCP, or that
it could all go to zero if the internet magically goes away, or it's a scheme
by the new world order...okay cool. I dont know why the fuck you bought
this guide, but thats cool you think that. I presume you are planning on
living on an autonomous homestead with zero connection to the outside
world and using a wood burning stove, good luck to you.
We’re now seeing the same take place right now, except with the
added advantage of excessive money printing.
Your goal is to find the market where the barriers to entry are Low and the
Lowest Common Denominator can enter and profit. You want to get in
BEFORE it becomes “common knowledge” that something is valuable, and
before larger institutions and the public narrative change.
This is NOT only about crypto. This is every kind of market. No one took
Ecommerce seriously 20 years ago, today Amazon is the biggest company
in the world.
Today the price of Lumber has skyrocketed. But if you had bought acres of
timberland 10 years ago, people would have scratched their heads.
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5 years ago having a twitter account meant nothing and it was a platform
for reporters and techies. The idea that you could build a business from it
was laughable.
But you need to get onboard before the space becomes over
regulated.
Once the regulation hits, institutional investors all hop onboard, causing the
returns to normalise and the opportunity to diminish. And the prices to go
UP, and then the barriers to buying and investing start to emerge.
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I do not believe you can understand crypto without understanding
how money works, so that is where we will start. This first section is
philosophical and written to expand your thinking on how money
works, and its role in human civilization.
What is money?
Money is a concept.
1. Store of Value
2. Widely accepted
3. Transportable
4. Limited supply
You can spend those dollars, hold them on your person or deposit them
into an account, and those 20 dollars are a tiny fraction of the overall
supply of US dollars worldwide. So you can transport them, and the supply
is not infinite. If dollars were infinite, they’d not be worth anything.
There are many forms of Money in the world. Japan uses Yen, Mexico uses
Pesos.
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Money is a Shared Idea
Because we use money every day, we take for granted how it works. How
did the first people to use money actually create money? How did they
decide what it's worth? How do you make everyone accept that sea shells,
or coins, or pieces of paper are now “money” and have value?
Money is not REAL. It’s a BELIEF, compounded and expanded many times
over.
The Story we Have about Money affects the Perceived VALUE of that
Money. This is why whenever the stock market goes down, or any country
goes through economic turmoil, the value of its currency declines. Why?
Because the STORY about that country has changed. Maybe we can't trust
it or rely on it so much, it's not doing very well economically. So that must
mean its money is not worth so much either.
Debt is another weird idea to think about. Debt is something that is OWED.
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If the Reserve prints more money, then its debt the public owes at a
hypothetical future date (this can be pushed out for a very long time).
When you combine with fractional reserve banking, in which banks can
issue loans far beyond the actual supply of money on hand, then you have
a system in which your dollars are issues of debt, backed by debt,
expanded on banks issuing debt, and then finally backed by...more debt.
When you learn this, it's a mindfuck. Taken to the extreme, it leads to
situations like Weimar Germany, where the currency is simply not WORTH
anything anymore. The debt is too great and it doesn't matter if the
government prints trillion dollar bills, it's been debased.
This is not doom and gloom. I don't expect the US economy or global
economy to crash down to a barter system, but there is no denying inflation
either.
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When You Understand that Money is an IDEA, and that forms of money
have been created thousands of times throughout history, NOW you can
see how a “digital” form of money could exist. Like...BITCOIN
What is Bitcoin?
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Bitcoin is essentially the first ever digitally native version of money that
actually worked. You can read the white paper of how it works.
I'm going to link to it, and you should really READ IT.
This is obviously NOT how the modern money supply works. You cannot
make your own dollars, or be your own bank. The system is centralized,
and there are middlemen (ie, banks and lending institutions) that mediate
the transactions.
Bitcoin is controlled by the people who use it. All of them together at once.
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The Decentralization and Blockchain Protocol
This idea of using blockchains that follow protocols was one the most
revolutionary ideas to come out of Bitcoin, beyond BTC itself.
What is a blockchain?
Let’s not get into the rabbit hole of the complexities of blockchain. If this
subject intrigues you and you want to dive into it, read Mastering
Blockchain, by Imran Bashir .
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EVERYWHERE, there are always enough ‘nodes’ (computers synced
to Bitcoin) online for the network to function.
Each block contains the transactions of the Bitcoin network (Eg Sam
sending Joseph 1 Bitcoin). The blocks are ordered in chronological order,
and saved on thousands of computers worldwide.
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Why is Bitcoin revolutionising the financial world?
As the demand for digital money increases, the demand for Bitcoin will
increase, but the supply will stay the exact same. The same supply with
more demand = higher price for Bitcoin.
Globally, there are over 2 billion people without a bank. Bitcoin, but more
specifically DeFi, is giving these people access to create and manage their
own finances, and access to participate in the global economy.
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Government free: Bitcoin is detached from any government oversight or
control.
Global currency: Bitcoin gives anyone around the world access to a global
platform, and a currency which can be spent anywhere. No longer do you
have to convert between different native currencies with their high
conversion fees, you can simply pay with Bitcoin.
Double spending: Bitcoin solved the double spend problem that many prior
digital monies had. If you go into a coffee shop, and pay with Bitcoin, that
money is spent, and cannot be used to try and 'double spend' with another
transaction.
To understand why Bitcoin has value, let's use an analogy, and look at why
art has value:
The Mona Lisa is worth roughly 850 million dollars. The Mona Lisa is
valuable because it is incredibly scarce, only one of them exists. But
scarcity by itself means nothing. Scarcity must be backed by demand.
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The Mona Lisa has value because there are enough people who have the
combined belief that this piece of art is worth something in the future, as a
store of value for the long term.
Bitcoin has a STORY attached to it. It's a form of money that's NOT a form
of government issued debt.
When you own a bitcoin and it is in your wallet, that is YOUR bitcoin. It is
not debt issued by the Bitcoin Reserve. It is not money your bank owes
you, though you could bridge over to the banking system and redeem that
bitcoin for dollars from someone willing to buy it for dollars.
The supply of Bitcoin is fixed at 21 million. Once all units of BTC have been
made, that is it.
Bitcoin is considered “Sound money” for this reason. Not because it can't
change sharply in price (as of now, it is changing all the time because of
the rise and fall of people using it daily) but because it cannot be
DEVALUED by inflating the supply. A government cannot print more of it
because it needs more of it to pay back debts from the last time it printed
money.
But the only way for people to get crypto is to buy them in dollars?
Isn’t that exchanging debt based money for cryptocurrency?
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You are 100% right. IT IS. But here is the kicker that might blow your
fucking mind.
When you buy crypto with Fiat dollars, you OWN that crypto, and you just
took those dollars out of the market of the fiat system entirely.
Imagine you’re a federal reserve bank, with a debt based dollar dependent
on the GDP needing to keep growing, and the IOUs of taxpayers.
And then people start taking the dollars, they put them into a brand new
monetary system that is NOT based on debt, but on shared trust between
users, and the unit of currency they use is a deflationary supply.
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Chapter 4: Cryptocurrencies
-Now that you have some understanding of money works and how a
cryptocurrency (Bitcoin) could come to exist, lets cover cryptocurrency from
a Macro level
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You can View Cryptocurrency as a Technological Evolution of Money:
The earliest form of 'currency' was the trade of goods. For example, a
farmer would trade amongst another farmer, giving his cows for fruits and
vegetables.
Next up, we evolved to trading precious metals (gold, copper, silver), which
were stored away in vaults, and traded amongst individuals through paper
notes.
Then we had paper money. Initially this paper money was backed by gold
(it inhibited the ability for money to be printed endlessly, as each note had
to be backed by an equal sum of available gold.)
The Dot Com Bubble ushered a new found demand for online payments.
This led to the creation of platforms like Paypal (digital money)
Just over a decade after Paypal was created, Bitcoin, and subsequently
other cryptocurrencies were born.
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Unfortunately, the project failed, and was followed by newer iterations such
as 'e-gold', cybercash and beenz, adding slight tweaks and improvements
to try and build a digital cash that could survive and gain adoption.
During the same time period credit cards were gaining serious adoption,
and Paypal was created, which quickly destroyed these alternative forms of
digital money at the time.
1. The Conception Era: This marked the birth of digital money in 1994. No
'usable' money, mostly ideas.
2. The Trial Era: This was when creators tried not just to create concepts,
but real and usable digital money that they hoped to become adopted in
society. This lasted till 2008.
In Crypto, the goal is to do everything that this traditional system does, but
make it better, and native to a digital world, ie crypto currency.
So in Crypto, we have:
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- Coins competing to become particular financial services leaders
(AAVE is trying to become the leading lending platform, Binance has
become the leading crypto exchange)
Only a select few coins are actually trying to become currencies. Most
coins are actually assets, which are designed to be used within the
services they are trying to offer.
You pay for a stock in dollars of course, but the stock is a share of that
company. Hopefully that company's value goes up overall, and your share
becomes worth more. So now your asset is worth more.
When you own a stock, often you receive dividends, or the company will
do stock buybacks to push up the stock's price.
When you own a crypto asset, often you receive the crypto equivalent of a
‘buyback’, commonly in the form of what is called a ‘buy and burn’, which
is where the protocol will take a % of their revenue to buy their token from
exchanges, and burn it.
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For example, the team behind the token AAVE have built a platform that
allows permissionless borrowing and lending. Users of this platform who
own the AAVE token receive trading discounts, while users who borrow
AAVE are not charged a fee to use the platform. AAVE holders also gain
governance rights over the AAVE network, based on the amount of AAVE
that they hold (they can vote on what the protocol does). 80% of protocol
revenue is also used to buy the AAVE token from exchanges, and remove it
from the market forever by ‘burning’ it.
As you can see, ‘cryptoassets’ like AAVE are quite similar to traditional
business models, simply adapted to the crypto industry.
What you will find as you explore crypto is that MOST crypto
currencies are not intended to be used as currencies. This is why
understanding a project's “use case” or utility is important for any
investment decisions you make.
This is also where “Decentralized Finance” comes from. There are many
projects/protocols that have been created to do various kinds of lending,
and they all have their own accompanying tokens.
Why do we need all these different forms of money and tokens? What
exactly are these projects all doing?
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1. Lack of privacy: If you want to create a bank account, the institution will
ask for extensive personal details, photo ID, passport and much more. For
every transfer that is made, the bank knows exactly who is receiving and
sending the money.
2. Central bank control: Central banks control and dictate what happens in
the monetary system. Throughout history, when too much power was in the
hands of a small group of people, they ultimately became corrupted and
abused their position of power.
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social media platform may have the ability for users to pay micro sums of
money to access particular pieces of content. A highlight video of the latest
surfing comp could cost users 5 cents to watch. Right now, this is not
possible with our current monetary system.
The STORY of Crypto, the VISION of crypto, is a world in which people can
transact privately, where their money is their money and not at the mercy of
a bank. It's a world where the money is not being devalued by quantitative
ease, ie, the money printer going brrrr. It's a world where contracts of any
kind can be stored safely and securely, and where doing business doesn't
require paying off corrupt officials because they control all the paperwork
and what gets done. It's a world where you can travel to another country
and do business, and not get shafted by exchange rates and someone
taking their cut out of your money. It's also a world where you can pay and
support people you follow and do business with DIRECTLY, peer to peer.
Understand that the VISION of crypto is very utopian. I don’t think anyone
can argue that it’s not.
Read that again. The adoption and growth of crypto will not be a perfectly
clear process.
I don’t expect crypto to make banks and dollars disappear. The most likely
scenario is a world in which there are multiple financial systems you can
participate in. This world has come to exist already to a degree, and is
being created further as we speak by developers.
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I’ve had the privilege of meeting crypto developers and programmers who
are brilliant people and are extremely passionate about what they are
creating. They see a future and are building towards it.
I’ve also seen how crypto is like any other financial domain, filled with
degenerates and speculators and noobs who hope to get rich quick and
have no real clue how anything works.
Crypto is still the Wild West this way. It will be YEARS before it matures.
Keep this in mind with any kind of investments you make. Think long term
and keep a cool head.
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Alright, now we are getting into the practical stuff as to how we actually
acquire crypto.
KYC Exchange eg: Coinbase - Trusted exchange so KYC - they have your identity
or Binance your funds are safe (not anonymous)
-Low fees - Third party - you have to
KYC=Know Your Customer -Access to lots of trust them with your funds
liquidity (can buy with
large sums at a good
price)
-Can buy/sell at any
time
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Non KYC exchange eg: - Decentralised, no -You can’t buy/sell with huge
HodlHodl way for any funds to amounts
get lost, stolen or - Orders all must be done
hacked (unless you manually
yourself mess it up)
- Completely
anonymous
- No KYC required, so
can buy/sell straight
away
Exchanges - My Recommendation
Here is a full list of crypto exchanges which are regarded as the safest
places to buy and sell cryptocurrencies:
Understand that when you buy crypto on a major exchange, you are NOT
being a secret 007 operative with hidden money. Get that bullshit out of
your head. These exchanges all report to their respective home country
and they pay taxes and are legitimate businesses. This is not black market
shit.
- Binance
- FTX
- Kucoin
- Coinspot (For Australians)
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- Bitfinex
- Gemini
- Kraken
- Coinbase (careful as high fees)
Binance is the world’s largest crypto exchange, and is the simplest way to
get your fiat currency (from a large number of options) into crypto at a low
cost.
https://www.binance.us/en/home
https://www.binance.com/en-AU/register?ref=13890136
If you register through the above link, you will receive 10% off all
trading fees on the platform
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Once verified, you are now ready to purchase crypto directly through
your bank account.
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Chapter 6: Safety and How Do You Store Crypto
Millions of Bitcoins have been lost forever by those who simply didn’t take
good care of storing their coins.
Hundreds of millions have been stolen from exchanges being hacked, all
because users trusted all their funds with a centralised party.
How you store your crypto MATTERS. Read this section carefully.
Public Key: Your public key is your public address, and it is what you send
to those you wish to receive funds from.
0x8076c74c5e3f5852037f31ff0093eeb8c8bb8d3
They are random strings of letters and numbers. Different chains have
different numbers they start with, but overall the keys are randomly
generated
Private key: Your private key is the equivalent of your passcode to access
your wallet. DO NOT share this with anyone. Anyone with your private key
can from anywhere, gain access and withdraw your funds.
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Private keys do not look any different from public keys. They are the
random string of numbers and letters. The difference is your private keys
access your wallet.
With any wallet that you create, whether it be a hot, cold, hardware, paper
or brain wallet, they all create the same wallet, just in a different form.
I shall explain, because I know this confuses people. Let's back up a bit…
When you receive crypto, it's recorded on the LEDGER, and only YOU
have the code/key to access it.
That's not what's happening. This might upset you initially, but understand
that this is what makes Crypto SECURE. A well designed protocol (like
BTC for example), its a record that can NEVER be changed.
This is why BTC and other tokens are called “transparent”. No one can
secretly alter the chain and “cook the books” to use a phrase that refers to
fraudulent accounting.
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Back to Wallets...
When you create a new wallet it will give you a seed phrase, which
combines a random sequence of words you MUST remember. This
combination of words can be used to regain access to your private
key, and thus your wallet.
The seed, like the private key MUST be kept safely away from others. `
Types of Storage
Exchange wallet-This is Easy to hop on and manage, It’s on the internet - and
where your crypto is and swap to other funds. An potentially can be hacked
accessed from the exchange exchange like Coinbase is It’s stored on an unsecure
you are using, say coinbase designed to feel similar to exchange - you don’t own
for example you logging into your bank your private key, and thus
account you don’t own your funds,
the exchange is acting as
3rd party and will often
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deduct a fee for your
withdrawing
Software wallet. This is a You own your private keys, On the internet - which
wallet that exists online and thus your funds means it can still potentially
be hacked
Can send your
cryptocurrencies anywhere,
and use it as a digital wallet
to pay for goods/services.
Hardware Wallets-these are Most secure option for They cost money obviously.
basically little storage drives storing your cryptocurrencies And if you lose your wallet,
that you can use to store private keys you lost your crypto
your keys.
Can be recovered with a 24
Best hardware wallets 2021 word seed phrase if lost,
damaged or stolen. If you
were to break it, you can
simply order another one,
and load the seed phrase
onto the new device.
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The onus of security and storage is on YOU the user
This is where crypto very obviously differs from traditional banking. If you
lose your debit card, you call your bank. You lose your keys, there is no one
to call, and you are FAWKED. Don't lose your keys or seed phrases,
people.
2 Factor Authentication
This can get annoying at times, but this protects you against being hacked.
Understand that if you are simply buying Bitcoin through coinbase for
example, your level of risk is low to nothing. The biggest risk is YOU
messing up a public key and losing your own coins
If you get deep into crypto though and start using software wallets,
doing swaps of exchanging one crypto for another, and doing
transactions with less secure exchanges or from questionable
projects…
Then yes, getting hacked can be a risk. So do what you can to minimize
risk.
If you don’t use 2FA, you are simply a sitting duck waiting for your
funds to be stolen.
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Recommended Wallets:
What’s a VPN?
VPN stands for Virtual private network. A VPN gives you online privacy and
anonymity by creating a private network from a public internet connection.
When you use a VPN you are masking your IP address so your online
actions are virtually untraceable. IP address=Internet Protocol address,
which is sort of your virtual mailing address for your computer.
Using a VPN protects you from being hacked, and keeps your data
secure (check out this great article from Life Math Moneys website
that covers VPNS in depth)
VPNs also allow you to access websites that you would NOT normally
be able to access if you are based in the USA.
Using a VPN allows you to change your location to any that you desire, and
thus get around the issues of being US based.
Hypothetically.
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You can’t use a VPN to purchase crypto with a debit/credit card, but if you
have already acquired crypto, and you have crypto in a wallet obviously,
you can send it anywhere you want. You can send your money where you
please, into whatever coin you want, and with the VPN, as a US
citizen/resident, use any exchange at your disposal, and not be restricted
by the harsh regulations. Hypothetically.
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So when should I buy? This is the question on everyone's mind when they
first get serious about investing in crypto. Do you wait for the market to
drop? Will it be lower a month from now? How do you know when it's going
low?
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metals, or any financial asset class, the concept of greed and fear, buyers
and sellers, euphoria and despair ALWAYS takes place.
Now, if you compare the first picture to the second picture (The Dotcom
Bubble) the similarities
become very clear.
So what typically
happens in a market
cycle, is there are
different emotional
states.
At the bottom, the market is depressed, and full of despair, and it is the
period not only of maximum pessimism, but maximum financial opportunity.
The initial price drop is felt with complacency. The market has gotten used
to pullbacks and dips, and thus view it as ‘just another temporary setback’.
As the price drops further, market participants begin to get anxious. Why is
this dip still dipping? It should have bounced by now?
Eventually, price drops so much that most of these market participants who
bought near the top finally capitulate, and sell their positions at the bottom.
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Now as you can imagine, separating emotions from your investing, and
instead using a strategy behind how you invest will position you powerfully
to get great returns.
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about. When prices rise during a bubble, they go far beyond their
fundamental value. The market becomes over optimistic.
3. Plateau
At this point, the market is flat. This stage of the market happens after the
prior price boom. At this point, the uninformed investors look to exit the
market. They enter based on emotions, and they thus exit based on them
too.
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The Flow of Money in a Crypto Bull Market
(The information below is based off historical data, and thus it can change
in the future)
‘Alt Season’ is a period in the market, where after many new market
participants enter crypto, move their funds away from Bitcoin, and into
riskier and riskier coins, looking to make big multiples on their money.
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Why does this occur?
Historically, Bitcoin is the first coin to pump in a bull market. Bitcoin makes
major news headlines, and attracts new investors to the space. These new
investors obviously buy Bitcoin first, as it is the biggest and safest crypto,
and it is the one they saw slandered all over the news.
Once in Bitcoin, they’ve felt the gambling itch that is crypto. Crypto is
indeed the largest and most addicting casino in the world.
After feeling like they ‘missed out’ on getting rich during the Bitcoin bull run,
they search for smaller coins that have much more upside potential. These
coins have a variety of narratives attached to them, including “The next
Bitcoin” “A cheaper Bitcoin”, “The next big blockchain development” “This
coin was created by a team of Facebook executives!” etc etc.
These smaller projects also often have bigger, and more aggressive
marketing budgets that Bitcoin does.
It is easy to sucker new investors, as they have no idea what is good and
bad for a project.
It is very easy for crypto ‘influencers’ to take big paychecks from these
projects for sponsored video content, where they ‘shill’ the coin (promote it
to their followers).
The way I invest in crypto is highly boring and I don't have to think about it.
Its called DCA, Dollar Cost Averaging. I am obviously not the first person to
do this.
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DCA is simple in premise-you simply make small investments ALL the time,
and don't bother trying to “time” the market. You do this under the
presumption that in a long enough time, that market/asset/investment will
go UP in value.
You might be down at times, you might be up at times, you may not make
as much money as someone that tries to time the market and buys at
critical moments, or sells at critical moments, BUT you minimize your risk.
And you are essentially making a long term bet, which means you have a
long term mindset.
I think of investing like exercise: what matters for long term results is
consistency over time. That is making the right decisions over and over
again. And not interfering trying to over optimize the process.
This is not sexy or glamorous, but over 10-20-30 years, I'm betting it pays
out. People do this with stocks, they do it with real estate, and I'm doing it
with Crypto.
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What is DeFi?
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In traditional finance, you have businesses like banks, insurance
companies, lending providers, structured products, etc.
They have their own set of inherent disadvantages which the crypto
equivalents are trying to tackle.
If you’re wondering whether to buy coins and lock up into yield farming to
grow your investment, here is what you need to consider:
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- There is smart contract risk, and the possibility of impermanent loss.
You shouldn’t put money into DeFi that you can’t afford to lose.
- If you do plan to sell eventually, there are issues associated with
doing so. Eg on a market crash, it could be difficult to sell as the
spread available could lead to increased losses.
- Yield farming is confusing. If you don’t seriously understand what is
happening to your money when you are farming, staking and
providing it as liquidity, then you shouldn’t be risking much, if ANY of
your capital.
- Yield farming projects with insane ‘1000% APY!’ are still zero sum.
There is no such thing as ‘free money’!
However, saying this, the upside potential is huge. The big money won’t
be made in Bitcoin anymore, it’ll be made in the DeFi ecosystem.
The site is very simple to use, and the rates are competitive with other
options on the market.
Lending certain coins keeps you open to the risk of losing the value of your
investment.
If you lend Ethereum, and the price drops 40%, and you made 10% that
year from the yield, you STILL lost 30% of your overall portfolio size.
If you instead lended USDC (which is a stablecoin with its value pegged to
1 US dollar), you would capture that same upside from lending, without any
of the potential downside.
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So you need to ask yourself: With the funds that I am lending, am I happy
simply to collect yield without the risk, or am I looking to own a crypto that
will likely rise in price, while also collecting yield?
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Trading Investing
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Investing fundamentals for remaining rational in an irrational market
1. Anyone can make money in a bull market, you are not special - stop
thinking that
5. When trading, ALWAYS consider which price movement would fuck over
the most people. This is often the path taken.
6. Pin the wall street cheat sheet to your wall and look at it EVERYDAY - so
you don't get caught up in the media mania and irrational exuberance.
8. -Buy dips in bull markets till it stops working, sell rallies in bear markets
till it stops working
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Having the basics sorted, is equally as important as keeping updated with
information from the best crypto related accounts.
Twitter
Krugermacro
Loomdart
Travis Kling
Larry Cermak
BowTiedBull
LightCrypto
NyuuRoe
Kyle Davies
Arthur
Cole Garner
Bob Loukas
The Crypto Dog
Willy Woo
Classic Macro
Crypto Quantamental
Zhu Su
Alex Saunders
Moon Overlord
AngeloBTC
Youtube
RealVision
NuggetsNews
Anthony Pompliano
Podcasts
Anthony Pompliano's "The Pomp podcast" for crypto
insights from wall street - Advanced high level
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The Wolf of All Streets, Scott Melkor - High level
Dan’s Newsletter
He also run’s an exclusive VIP Crypto Channel which offers his day-to-day
teachings and application of his investing strategies to achieving financial
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‘Making Money in DeFi’ is by far the best resource we’ve come across to
maximising your returns in the crypto space. The creators have personally
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Summary
I hope that this guide has given an increased understanding of
cryptocurrencies, how to think about money, and any future decisions you
make are now done with confidence. Even if you elect not to invest in
crypto, you have gained greater understanding of money, finances, and
decision making that can serve you. Always approach any new subject with
a paradigm of finding first principles and learning the fundamentals. Crypto
may be intimidating today, but I believe it is the future for human freedom
and innovation. I look forward to seeing you there.
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