Quote from: Hawaii2020 on February 04, 2018, 01:55:07 PM

Quote from: bohr on February 04, 2018, 04:15:37 AM

Quote from: Hawaii2020 on January 20, 2018, 10:47:58 PM

Quote from: bohr on January 18, 2018, 09:18:28 PM

some may decide to still buy coins at high prices because they think it is a safer investment

did these people not go to school, never learn about millionaires and how to win?

At the end it depends on what you are looking, some are looking to make fortunes with crypto but some other are just looking for better returns than the ones the stock market can give, the stock market can give something between 6 to 10 percent per year and bitcoin and ethereum give way better returns than that, so that may be enough for them since they are not willing to take greater risks.

yeah i can understand your point. but the risk part makes no sense at all. everyone who bought bitcoin at $20k or eth recently at $1400 only lost money. even mcdonalds makes more money. so does amazon. those are established companies and have very low risk. eth is somewhat established but in an always changing, developing market where every day new, better technologies than eth can come out. its the highest risk in such a market to go into the expensive projects as dotcom bubble has proven. thats where 95% of the value can get taken out.

there is many small, low cap coins now where you basically have a guaranteed return of x2, x3, x5, i mean many icos already make that, PLUS you have the upside of being able to make x50,x100 or even x1000 if you are really lucky and early. with almost no risks of losing everything as in eth.

That is the issue, yes you can make a lot more money with icos and with cheap altcoins but the risk the coins go to zero is quite high, more than 90% of the blockchain projects fail in less than a year, ETH may be down right now and the same is true for any major coin but the chances it goes to zero is very low compared to a new project that is why the risk is lesser than with the other altcoins.