But first, a word of warning: buying cryptocurrencies and decentralised finance tokens as well as stocks and shares is a risky business.
Squid, which marketed itself as a "play-to-earn cryptocurrency", had seen its price soar in recent days - surging by thousands of per cent.
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The first cryptocurrency was bitcoin. The bitcoin domain was registered in 2008, but the first transaction took place in 2009. It was developed by someone called ‘Satoshi Nakamoto’. However, there is speculation that Nakamoto is a pseudonym as the bitcoin creator is notoriously secretive, and no one knows whether ‘he’ is a person or a group.
But the hacks didn’t stop. In 2016, the DAO–a blockchain organization that was based on Ethereum–lost what was worth $50 million at the time, due to a technical error someone seized upon. This, once again, sent shockwaves through the community–but also had the unfortunate impact of normalizing these types of hacks for some people.
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Lettau, M. and S. Ludvigson (2001), “Consumption, aggregate wealth, and expected stock returns”, The Journal of Finance 56 (3), 815–849.
Last year, a California man pleaded guilty to a mining fraud of at least $722 million through the BitClub Network. In February, a New York man pleaded guilty to running a Ponzi-like hedge crypto fund that stole about $90 million from more than 100 investors.
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Cryptocurrency can gain value on exchange platforms. It increases in value based on supply and demand.
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Typically, meme coins don’t gain on fundamentals. Instead, they are usually driven by an internet-based joke.
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However, you’ll likely misplace your virtual wallet or lose your coins. There have also been thefts from the websites that exist to store cryptocurrency on the internet. Because the value of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin can fluctuate dramatically, some people are hesitant to convert “real” money into Bitcoin.
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