Don't Invest in These Coins, Dangerous!

By Irfan Zidney | Pandeva Institute | 31 Aug 2019

I'm sure some of you have heard the term ICO which stands for initial coin offering. Simply put, ICO is an initial public offering process carried out by a group of individuals or a business entity to introduce a new cryptocurrency to the public and then withdraw investment from them. A group of individuals or a business entity offering cryptocurrency is called coin offerer.

At a glance, there is no problem with ICO if we only look at the definition above. Yes, there really is no problem with it. It is just a stage that is actually required to be carried out by a coin offerer to introduce their project and then look for supporters, both morally and materially. That is why at that stage, a coin offerer usually provides several coins to be distributed free of charge. This is in order to seek moral supports from the public, especially free lunch seekers.

Not a matter of the ICO stage, the "mistakes" that we will examine together in this article are the mistakes of most of the coin offerers in the concept of the cryptocurrencies they offer. What and how is those mistakes? Let's examine them together.

1. They think that cryptocurrencies only require users

This mistake is still in their minds but it will actually manifest in bad cryptocurrency projects. It is true that users are very important for cryptocurrencies but they are not the only important ones. There are still other variables that are not less important.

They think that the only thing that makes cryptocurrencies valuable is the presence of their users. That is a fatal mistake because it will result in an unfortunate consequence, i.e. the creation of cryptocurrencies that does not have sufficient fundamental aspects to back up their value.

Not surprisingly, we often find cryptocurrencies that explode at the beginning but then become worthless at the end. This is because there is no reason to make them remain valuable especially in the midst of cryptocurrency projects that grows like mushrooms in the rainy season. Countless people have lost their money as a result of this kind of bubble investment.

2. They assume that cryptocurrencies are merely products for raising public capital

If the first mistake is more due to intellectual misunderstanding, then this second mistake is more due to the desire to gain wealth by shortcuts. Many coin offerers build cryptocurrency projects only for becoming 'sultans' from public capital. Of course this is a very fatal mistake.

Raising public capital with a cryptocurrency project is indeed not a problem. The problem is that they are raising public capital for their unilateral interests. After the public capital is collected, they leave investors to have fun. Investors are left alone to take care of the coins they buy. It's still fortunate if there is an exchange available to resell the coins. What if not?

Even though there is an exchange, just be sure that such coins will lose its value shortly after it is offered. The investors will lose their money as fast as lightning. That should happen to such cryptocurrencies and their investors.

3. They sell something of no value with the lure of a noble project

This third point emphasizes on the 'lure of a noble project'. Yes, they just made a project that looks noble as a cover to sell something that is truly worthless. This is certainly something that is deceptive when there really is no correlation between the so-called noble projects and those worthless things.

This third point wants to emphasize that a cryptocurrency must have a reason to be considered valuable, not just based on any lure. A cryptocurrency must have a fundamental aspect that is absolutely inseparable from it. A cryptocurrency must have a value backup that keeps it valuable even if there is less demand.

In closing, I advise you not to invest in any cryptocurrency that does not have a strong fundamental aspect. Invest only in good cryptocurrencies. Then what is a good cryptocurrency? Let me answer: