If you’re merely dipping your toe in cryptocurrency, it can be hard to imagine your crypto as something worth talking to an estate attorney about. But that $100 in fun money could grow to a significant percentage of your total investments, sometimes overnight.
Notes: This figure plots weekly averages of log price and log network size (log of unique active addresses) of Bitcoin and Ethereum over the period from August 2015 to January 2019. We normalise both the time series by subtracting their mean and dividing by their standard deviation.
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Altcoins are alternative versions of Bitcoins, but with minor changes. They are often a result of a Bitcoin fork. There are many different types of altcoins.
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Cryptocurrency can be mined by people by using computers. By mining cryptocurrency, people are rewarded small amounts of Bitcoin or another crypto for doing so.
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There can be plenty of new cryptocurrency that can pop up and become popular all of a sudden which can confuse investors and those interested in cryptocurrency. One of the newest cryptocurrency that has come to the scene is SafeMoon which has seen a massive increase in interest lately.
SafeMoon is not yet listed on Coinbase or Binance. However, the currency does hope it will achieve this in the future.
On the other hand, cryptocurrencies come with a host of risks and drawbacks, such as illiquidity and value volatility, that don’t affect many fiat currencies.
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And that, we regret to inform you, has led to some rather silly thinking (highly unusual in the crypto community, we know), specifically of the chart-crime variety:
This gives sellers an incentive to charge transaction fees, since they get paid faster by doing so, and so it’s fairly common for cryptocurrency transactions to come with fees.
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