crypto currency investing, anyone?

For the dummies in the room, can someone even explain what the heck cryptocurrency is? How does it even have a value? It seems like a made up commodity of sorts.
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I researched crypto currency’s awhile back. It is pretty mathematically complex. I didn’t understand most of it. From what I understand, crypto currency’s exist on a world wide network of mostly private computers that process crypto “transactions”. These transactions are the movement of crypto currency. These private computers process complex mathematical equations necessary to maintain the security of the currency.

The private computer owners get paid in crypto currency for processing transactions on their computers. So more money is “printed” daily.

The crypto currency is backed by nothing, but then again so is the dollar…..

Meh i disagree with that sentiment. Granted, a year ago, I was completely in agreement with you. Heck 7 months ago I was. Until I began to research it heavily. I spent several months reading and learning about it. Some are ponzy schemes for sure, others aren’t.

Digital currencies like Bitcoin and Etherum are legit and are here to stay for the foreseeable future. These two actually offer a service and return of that service.

now the other random alt coins and meme coins like Doge and Shib will be lucky to survive another year because they don’t actually do anything or offer anything.

Keep in mind too, the US Dollar only has value because it’s widely accepted as a payment for goods and services. In actuality, it’s just paper, 25 percent cotton, 75 percent denim. And some special ink. But it’s backed by the belief that it holds some sort of value and that the value is transferable from one person (or entity) to the next. But in actuality, the dollar is just a piece of paper that says the Federal reserve owes the holder of that piece of paper, 1 dollar. The currency we have now is for all practical purposes, a piece of debt.

anywho, as more and more places pick up cryptos like Bitcoin, the only difference is that instead of having a piece of paper, you now have a unique, several hundred character long, hyperlink.

bottomline is this, anything outside of the Bitcoin and Etherum coins, is a gamble. But those two are only going to go up in value.

Ehh in some coins yes. Doge and Shib and the other countless “meme” coins are definitely that way.

Bitcoin and Etherum, no. Not entirely. Only a portion.

Bitcoin and Etherum actually offer a service. It gets into computer programming, but a large portion of the value of those two are in the services they provide. Etherum runs on a protocol that processes millions upon millions of banking transactions for minute. This service is paid from the banks and credit card companies in the form of Etherum coins which are then sold for cash .