Having been around crypto since 2013, while mainly focusing on BTC at first I was fascinated by altcoins. Back then there weren't this many around and you could follow most pretty well while having time for other things too. Nowadays so much is going on with adoption and new projects you need a full team just to be able to focus on the big projects development and news.
It has been a surreal experience though, seeing it all unfold and taking this decentralized innovation by storm. Although I always had my hopes up, I didn't expect it to happen this quick.
Through many investments and trades followed by a lot of hodling and reading, there have been some coins that I've had a pretty good timing with when to buy in. One of my proudest purchases, although not as much as I would've wanted to, is Steem.
I managed to buy a few thousand during the 6-7 cents period.
What made this special is that you can do so much more with Steem than just have it lay there and appreciate in value and that's what I love about this currency and still have high hopes for it!
Here's to this turning into an even better investment than what the returns have been so far! :)
What is your best investment, Steemians?
Absolutely no question it's been my investment of time on Steem. As a guy with literally no money to invest, I mean I was living in my dad's basement basically when I joined here, its pretty amazing that I have 1000 Steem tokens to call my own AND the income stream that continues to generate more.
Maybe before that, the smart thing was all of the reading of difficult documents like the bitcoin white paper, then Nick Szabo essays and Vtalik Buterin's stuff and on and on. That wasnt easy but that was probably why I knew steem was such a big deal when I saw it.
Curious to see other people's answers, this is a good prompt.
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I hear ya on this @heymattsokol ! Steem is certainly not my biggest or most successful crypto investment, but it is one of my favorite. I certainly put more time into my Steem investment than anything else. For me, Steem holds the possibility of showing world what crypto looks like beyond just monetary exchange. I've made the personal decision to post all of my short fiction writing (a professional hobby for me) on SteemIt to underscore my commitment to the platform and to hopefully be a positive player in the "proof of brain" space here on Steemit. This platform certainly has its issues, but I'm game, I'm here to do my best to add value to the platform and to show the world that content creators can own their own content and profit off of it without have to pay the intermediary leeches or give up their privacy. Go Steemit!!
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The great thing about Steem is if you use Steemit as a content creator then your investment isn't just paying off when the speculative price goes up, but you can actually make a nice income creating content, like you do. :D
https://steemworld.org/@acidyo
You can EARN several thousand per week making great content AND reap the benefits of the speculative asset on top of that.
People can actually DO SOMETHING with their investment.
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That's amazing. I am not that old in crypto, but I have bought ADA when it was a few cents, sadly I have bought it again and again until the last time I bought it a few days before the crash in January :)
I have bought Steem a few days ago when it was 1.37$
I am a serious guy writing about science, space and engineering and I believe in Steem. I even have a little project to help rural communities by bridging the gap between them. Offer education and reward good use of the education. Eastern Europe, Romania here, I still don't know where you are from but I am reading you usually.
Keep supporting the communities! Cheers!
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I am very new to crypto and steem became my very first crypto holding. Sometimes i wonder which planet i was in all this years that cryptos and the blockchain technology started off.
On the positive side, since i joined steemit in late december last year i have been able to get a little amount of bitcoin, eth, ripple, tron, dogecoin, bts, ada etc. All in little quantities.
Getting to know about steemit has been the most positive thing that has happened to me since i graduated from school. I am hoping to grow here and invest as time goes on.
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This is so real! and this has very good future prospects, the diverdification of the currency is a project that achieves independence and that really is great, in June 2017 was when I met the cryptomoneda, then the btc was around $3000 and I got to buy a small portion, it was great to see that my investment had great results in December of the same year so it has been my best purchase.
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BCH, bought it at $300 :)
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My best investment is steem. Because I didn't pay anything for it lol!)
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Hello Acidyo, _holy-crypto-shit-batman? You bought SBD for 6 and 7 cents??? Dam bro...... YOUR THE MAN! I bought $5000 @ $1
I have been blessed with success in the Crypto's over these past few years.
My best investment was Verge with a purchase of 1 million for $2k.
I sold half @ .25 cents for a hefty profit. 62X = $125K
I will sell 100,000 @ $1 then sell another 200,000 @ $4
I will be up a Million $ by then, just off a $2k investment.
My biggest holdings are LTC and ETH these will make me a Billionaire by the end of next year!
Take care bro!
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Apart from bitcoin, i bought electroneum at a very cheap rate.
However my favorable investment has been on neo. I bought at a very cheap rate n sold at a very high rate.
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I got into crypto last November through this platform. It was only normal I started with steem. Though I didnt invest my fiats, I used some of my sbd earnings to purchase steem then at the rate of 0.2sbd/steem. The best investment I have done in crypto so far because few weeks after, steem rose to almost $10.
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Nice to see you here, fellow SteemSTEM writer. Great job with that buy, now I wish I found out about Steem earlier :P
Cheers!
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It's never late about steem to be honest. Just power up more than you cash out and you might be smiling soon. Acidyo has always been my man and you will most of the time find me around his blog. :)
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Nice!
I have a better practice! Just cash in, author the best I can, and never cash out :D
What would make me the happiest would be to be able to give rewards of 1$ and up.
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personally i'll give it to ripple and steem
i got ripple in large quantity last year and sold off when it was above $2, i was able to recoup my capital and started trading. hasnt been a bad journey afterall. so far, so good.
And as for steem, thats why i'm still here. it has been good, it is good and i'm guessing it would still be good
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I actually made a bunch on Ripple in December. Got in at 0.6 and it wen't to almost $4. Now I am considering going all in on Steem to be honest. Things look so good for the future I wouldn't want to miss out on that.
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I really see you have been here since 2013! I have to admit my biggest investment is time on Steemit and guess what i have so far accumalated 500SP from zero in my 8 months which is a great return on investment. I have also learned a great deal about crypto especially you(only that of late you reduced on the crypto lessons!).
In short my biggest investment is joining Steemit,through Steemit am also now have a few altcoins.
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ZClassic when it was at 15 dollars, I posted about it but few people actually gave a shit...Anyway I didn't sold when it reached 240$ and because of Bittrex not supporting the fork I ended up selling at 100$ fml...Anyway I made a couple of grands that I used to invest in EOS and in other projects
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This time that this time is going on, this time is a very good time for Bitcoin because every Bitcoin is worth over $ 9500. I think that all of the time bitcoins will want to use it by changing and it is currently being used as the best winner for cryptocurrency.
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I'm with @heymattsokol here for sure. Almost 7000 SP earned through blogging/curation in almost exactly 1 year being 'active' means that the time spent here is by far my best investment, ever!
Hoping to give the same comment next year with a x 10 all over it!
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@mada got me in to Steemit pretty early; August of 2016. My first post made $1600 and I was fully committed from that moment on. The next few months of posting made less than $10/ea, but I'd seen the potential and knew this was a special revolution. When STEEM crashed, I bought about $300 when it was around $0.07 and by that summer, it'd turned in to thousands of dollars. STEEM was my bridge in to this crazy world of crypto so it'll always have a special place in my heart.
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Wow, I really did missed the boat. I guess better late than never but it would have been good to be you. I got into crypto in 2016, so I got stellar lumen when it was 1 cent or less. I really wished I had known steem earlier.
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My best investment is the one i'm doing right now!!
i moved 1.200$ fro, btc to a 2$ steem ! and look now is 4$ worth, so i'm pretty excited for that!!!
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My best was Verge. I bought in at .0032 and sold out at .09. That's nearly a 28X return. Wished I'd sold out in January.
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All this by year end; I will sell 1/4 of my Verge @ $1 then half @ $4
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I wish I would be on Steemit when it was 6 cents WTF!
My best investment was ICON and WANCHAIN... I could participate with a small amount at the ICOs.
I am really grateful for that.
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Thanks for posting
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for me sbd is my best crypto
I wish have more mony to invest in steem
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I just made a contest on this very same topic! You can see more about it here for your chance to WIN shares of steembasicincome!
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Ethereum.
it was around $700 when i bought it early last year.
was new to cryptocurrency, after all, so i was steadily checking coinmarketcap, I got interested that it was next after bitcoin and i decided to give it a shot.
i got some (buying), also acquired some (mining) and in december, i sold off a large chunk. And it really helped i must say..
And now, its STEEM. the future is so bright
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You got steem that low!!! Huh. It feels good to be you.
My best investment was ripple which I bought so low last year. And it shot to more than 1000% in weeks. I sold it and got some good profit I can't forget upto today.
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All I want is to buy more Acid from you Mr @acidyo. I will pay by Steem or Steem Dollar.
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ITS F**KING STEEM MEHN,,
Quite a lot of us started out here with zero capital.
Today, its paying some of our bills..
I'm not missing words, STEEM has helped me the most Bro
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only SBD, when sbd was $1.67 i invest 100 US now its huge for mine.
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@acidyo I wish i knew about steem early enough, but just as the saying goes better late than never. I have a couple coins like rebl, electroneum but i think steem is the best for me so far because just as you said, one can buy and still mine on the steemit blockchain. Wow!! I can see you pouring acid on those platforms, funny
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I have invested on Steem just 1 month ago after I have met Steemit platform... When I have done a deep research on Steemit, I have seen how a social & innovative platform it is and how valuable it is in real daily life not only in virtual life. Considering the value of Steemit, then I though that Steem should also be a very trustable & profitable crypto currency... Steem did not disappoint me.
I have also BTC and XRp, but Steem is my favorite.
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I made some investment on bitcoin around early last year and i made some major profits on it. Though i lost the money in the end in othet nad investment it was cool
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Maybe, the smart thing was all of the reading of difficult documents like the bitcoin white paper, then Nick Szabo essays and Vtalik Buterin's stuff and on and on. That wasn't easy but that was probably why I knew steem was such a big deal when I saw it.
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EOS by far is the best for me, and it hasn't even begun yet! It will do what steem does, but much better, and so much more. It was a good buy at $0.50 and it's still a good buy at $20.00.
EOS will be the #1 cryptocurrency by 2020!
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It's good to know someone at first hand, that steemit is profitable, apart from other features that I like. Thanks for the info. regards
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I like ur post
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The adoption of social media scheme or lemme say blogging makes steem one of the best altcoin. Like you said, you don't just have to buy steem and hodl for it to appreciate. A lot more can be done with it.
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After finding Steem late why wouldn't you invest with it. It's a coin that will go up in value but can also be used while you hold it to invest here and make you money at the same time. No other coin can do that so makes perfect sense monetary wise.
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Does putting all of my time and effort into Steem count? I've got a lot of faith in this platform and trying to build something for myself has been about my only aspiration of late. I'd really like to turn this into something great, where I don't have to work shitty jobs in between my bouts of medical problems. That's about the only positive experience I've had with crypto trading honestly, lol. That's what happens when you invest right before the markets start to bleed though, I suppose.
Though your title says "crypto purchase", which could imply something you've bought with crypto. In that case I would say the engagement ring I got my fiancee was pretty dope. But, I guess that would be up to your interpretation :P
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I think my best move in crypto was getting into crypto seriously just a few months before the major bull run we had last year :-D and wow, you where really lucky to get Steem at those prices!
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My best investment is the fact that I try to write/post/interact and curate on steemit. The writing is therapeutic to me regarding the difficult topics I write about, so that's a win especially when I earn some SBD for it. And the other posts I read from people keep me motivated to try new things, and to become more creative again. I want to use as many skills I have as possible while I am active on Steemit, and find a good balance for the things I post about.
The fact that I can cash out with a few clicks is amazing to me. The first time I had to cash out, was such a good day for me. Finally earning money again, and getting paid for the hours and hours I put in it.
Which I don't mind, because I love it, but everybody likes to get rewarded for their efforts right?
I find new positive people daily here, and this is also something that I value a lot!
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My best investment was bitcoin in 2014 when i bought like $200 in and later sold @5 times @200 i bought it . i was very happy for that
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A cryptocurrency might be high today and then you wake up the next day to find it dying.
This is probably the most important factor to look at when deciding whether a cryptocurrency will survive into the future or not. Some cryptocurrencies, apart from acting as coins and trading assets, also provide platforms, serve as the fastest means to move money across the globe, try to solve a certain problem in society or in the cryptocurrency ecosystem, and do a lot more.
so the advice I will give is that any cryptocurrency that is not just there to serve as a coins or a trading asset but provides more services is bound to survive and you can invest in it in the long term. Such cryptocurrencies are springing up everywhere.
Want examples? Let’s look at these ones:
Bitcoin: This is the first every peer-to-peer network, provides coins and trading platforms, also has its own blockchain, (the current market cap, it’s price, its scalability, and popularity are hard to ignore) and so will stay for a long time.
NEO: Apart from being a cryptocurrency, NEO is known for its niche smart contract feature just like Ethereum’s. Smart Economy, Digital Assets Storage and Exchange Automation are achieved through Neo’s smart contract. And coming from China, if it gets to receive the welcoming use that the Chinese always give to their startups, it’s bound to make it big in the industry.
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@acidyo help me with a vote in my video about world of warcraft
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Best Coin Come on Steam
I hope to invest in it and I bought it
Great article I wish you every success, my friend
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My best investment is 401$ in 25 days!! https://steemit.com/crypto/@longtime/how-to-earn-401usd-from-73-5usd-in-25-days you have my upvote and follow ! good job
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I bought Steem at 1.6 and now it went to 4.0 .
EOS as well was a good buy at 5. Wished I bought it earliers but can't complain.
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My best investment is that i joined Cardano ICO, That was my first ICO i joined and it was huge success, After that i have joined many ICOs that have failed or scam.
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I invested in some shit coins last year but it didn't pay off. I invested lil amount into EOS not too long ago and I plan to increase it. So far i want to say EOS is the best. Still thinking about buying EOS with the lil BTS i have.
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I made my first investment on bitcoin in 2014,at a cheap rate but that same month I lost everything to a scam, later reinvested in ethereum but with just a little amount, sincerely I have devoted so much time for steemit which I have hope of being like you someday,so that I can help the upcoming minnows.
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I bought my initial Steem at 0.12 ETH/Steem, now price is at 0.005 ETH only 24x higher back then. Life :(
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what you say, but I'm a little afraid to go shopping
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EOS all theee wayyyy
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Money wise ripple - 15X profit
Time wise Steemit - can't even calculate the profit :-)
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I am fascinated with your experience, I really hope to be able to invest as you do, when you mention that the time is turning too fast for you, meaning I feel the independence you have so far, my passion is huge to be able to invest in steam, maybe I am more to invest the power or steem power, how to do it, I need your guidance @acidyo
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Dogecoin
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Really, besides stellar lumen, I also got some dogecoin at $0.02 but it hasn't gone up much.
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For me Dogecoin was the best because I bought and sold at the right time like 4 times in a row. It is so predictable. You just need to buy at the right time and have some patience and when it rockets I sell increasingly more as the price approaches and goes above 100 satoshi.
Other than Dogecoin. Stellar Lumen and EOS would be my best I think. The funniest thing is if you see percentage return on investment, Stellar would be my best investment because I got it for free because I had bitcoin. xD
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Got to watch it & pay more attention next time. But do you think Dogecoin will ever go up as high as stellar lumen? Is it with hodling or just buy the dip and wait, then sell the high?
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amazing
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That's amazing. I am not that old in crypto, but I have bought ADA when it was a few cents, sadly I have bought it again and again until the last time I bought it a few days before the crash in January :)
I have bought Steem a few days ago when it was 1.37$
I am a serious guy writing about science, space and engineering and I believe in Steem. I even have a little project to help rural communities by bridging the gap between them. Offer education and reward good use of the education. Eastern Europe, Romania here, I still don't know where you are from but I am reading you usually.
Keep supporting the communities! Cheers!
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You entered early in crypto, very good!
Cool Steem investment yours!🔝
I entered in this world one years ago, till now i think my best investment is dragonchain, I partecipate to the ICO because I saw that Disney was behind It and i think that they have a big potential, what they touch became gold usually...so with 100$ during ICO now I have 1500$...not bad!🙂
I'm a long-terme investor and I hope that will grow up more!
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ZCL bought 5$ sell 100$ 150$ 170$
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Continue to thank @acidyo for the information
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i think originally not crypto was Sirus XM mobile at 0.04 cents in 2007 ended up selling at over 5 bucks and bailed my parents out for 250k on the house my dad grew up in as a child on long island, its still in the family to this day. $1500 investment.
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That would be my purchase of EOS
CLEVER MOVE!
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It is from 2013! It is early.
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I like ur post
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