As long as you add more information about the project you mentioned, people here will help you, but I have these thoughts about
I want to know how I can determine / what kind of questions I should be asking to know if its a real 100x token? Any advice?
do you understand it?
do you have faith in it?
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There are a lot of factors that I'm sure you don't really understand, so for a newbie, I think they need time and money to experience new things, advice is considered superfluous because most new entrants don't like to listen to the opinions of their predecessors.