Our CEO and personal finance expert Jasmine Birtles recently hosted an Instagram Live to discuss how not to lose money in crypto and NFTs. She was joined by experts Boaz Shoshan and Gary Nuttall.
After all, crypto can be confusing, so it’s good to get as much help as possible!
You can watch the full video on our YouTube page or check out the summary below!
An NFT is not the same as another NFT – they are unique
NFTS in general have been around a long time – since around 2014
In the past year, the market has grown – the value of around 40 billion $
Some NFTs can come with rewards like access to special discord channels to communicate with other NFT owners
Need to know what it is that you’re buying, understand the value proposition of it for example if it comes with a utility, it might be worth now
Know what you’re doing before you risk any money on it
Crypto and NFTs are very volatile – but there is treasure out there
What scams have you seen and what advice do you have?
Gary says:
There are several ways of losing money such as making mistakes, there’s volatility so the value of crypto can go up and down.
In terms of scams – there’s a mix of things, someone may have made a mistake in the computer programme that may allow exploiting.
Red flags for me – if it looks too good to be true – it is.
If anyone is guaranteeing a profit – that’s a red flag.
If you do your research and you only find bad news around the people involved – there’s a reason for that.
What is the safest platform to use to invest in crypto?
Gary says:
Safety is relative – crypto always carries risk
Coinbase has a good reputation if things go wrong
Kraken and blockchain.com are good
Nothing is 100% safe
Have you seen any ridiculous scams?
Boaz says:
Never let somebody else look at your private keys.
In the NFT space, people get drawn in by scammers who offer to add a hat to their yacht club ape and they end up giving away their NFTs worth 6 figures.
Gary says:
The best one I know of was called Ponzi coin
Ponzi coin was an out and out scam, they even said it was a scam
At the end of it, they returned the money to the people as they wanted to see how stupid people were
What happened to DogeCoin?
Boaz says:
It seems to have gone down, you get these trends that appear and disappear.
What can we learn from the GameStop fiasco?
Boaz says:
There’s all manner of things you can take away from it
Some of the narratives behind it are incorrect
Public opinion on short-sellers can change in public opinion very quickly especially after the film The Big Short.
We’re starting to see the millennial generation and activist investors express themselves in the finance markets.
You should never be swept along by FOMO
What’s your sense of the Crypto market at the moment?
Gary says:
Bitcoin is trading around $38,000, if you’re a pessimist it’s dropped, if you’re a realist is grown by 50% this year.
I don’t know if it’s going to go up, down or sideways
If you hold onto crypto for more than 4 years, you end up ahead
Be calm, don’t buy into the fear and panic, you’ve not lost anything until you sell.
is crypto more open to manipulation?
Boaz says:
It is, not to say there isn’t manipulation in traditional financial markets
Its broadly speaking very unregulated so it is more prone to manipulation.
In a free market, you will find people trying to push things around
What is your opinion on Bitcoin vs Ethereum?
Gary says:
On a tech level, they are different
Bitcoin is a payment method, Ethereum is a programmatic platform
How do you compare the US dollar to the British pound?
They’re just different
are banks preventing payments for crypto?
Gary says:
They’re stuck between a rock and a hard place, because of the laws they must follow
If banks do something wrong to enter the crypto market they can get in trouble and lose their license
The government and regulators need to be more crypto-friendly
any advice for those looking to invest?
Boaz says:
If you’re interested, learn as much as you can before you start
Start with a small amount of money before you invest loads
Gary says:
Don’t put money in you can’t afford to loose
Do not borrow money to do it
Don’t listen to social media
Join crypto communities to learn more
Have fun
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“Jasmine and her team have replied my questions, the site as a whole has been good with ideas and important info. its all really helped me and people I know as I pass the info onto others.”
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