{"id":791,"date":"2021-06-03T03:26:25","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T03:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sagaratechnology.com\/blog\/?p=791"},"modified":"2021-11-16T04:19:48","modified_gmt":"2021-11-16T04:19:48","slug":"getting-to-know-cryptocurrency-investment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sagaratechnology.com\/blog\/getting-to-know-cryptocurrency-investment\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting to know Cryptocurrency Investments"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While&nbsp;blockchain&nbsp;as a digital platform continues to be explored, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cryptocurrency#:~:text=A%20cryptocurrency%2C%20crypto-currency%2C,the%20creation%20of%20additional%20coins%2C\" target=\"_blank\">cryptocu<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sagaratechnology.com\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">rrency<\/a>&nbsp;blockchain&nbsp;continues to flourish among consumers. In addition&nbsp;to dealing with transactions,&nbsp;ICOs (Initial Coin Offerings) is also a process that is starting to be found among business people. ICO is a fundraising process to build&nbsp;blockchain-based applications, in various forms ranging from new cryptocurrencies,&nbsp;smart contracts, to&nbsp;smart ledgers<em>.<\/em>&nbsp;<em>&nbsp;<\/em>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Indonesia alone, there are at least three businesses that have tried to conduct ICOs, including Tokenomy,&nbsp;Pundi X, and Vexanium.&nbsp;Each offers different characteristics, with different business processes.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Invest in cryptocurrencies<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Indonesia, there are already several platforms that serve the&nbsp;process of making crypto wallets.&nbsp;This includes making it easier for users to connect the wallet with a bank account such as PayPal for payment processing or redemption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The above process can be regarded as an initial registration mechanism before users can make transactions in popular cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin.&nbsp;By providing a detailed identity, the process usually only takes a few minutes.&nbsp;Furthermore, users can freely make transactions to purchase these digital assets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>A few things to note<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you follow the trends of Bitcoin or other popular cryptocurrencies, it&#8217;s&nbsp;clear how&nbsp;wild, unpredictable value can be.&nbsp;At one time the price may fall, at&nbsp;other times the price may increase&nbsp;drastically.&nbsp;Cryptocurrency investors&nbsp;try to take advantage&nbsp;of this value in the hope of making a profit when making purchases with a smaller nominal value.&nbsp;Unfortunately for popular cryptocurrencies, the value is already very high, so investing requires a lot of foresight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>About ICOs and investing in them<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the fundraising process, ICO bearers usually offer a number of tokens that are priced in cryptocurrency units.&nbsp;To investors, business people assure this token will be of high value along with the success of the project being worked on.&nbsp;According to regulations in Indonesia, there are no definite rules regarding ICOs, generally, investors who are interested only have speculation and belief&nbsp;in future&nbsp;blockchain&nbsp;projects.&nbsp;Ethereum is one example of a successful ICO-based project, offering blockchain implementations for&nbsp;smart contract&nbsp;features.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Still&nbsp;at risk&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the most relevant ways to increase the scalability of cryptocurrencies is regulatory support, in this case, Bank Indonesia.&nbsp;Until this stage, the regulators are still exploring the various possibilities that can be generated by&nbsp;blockchain.&nbsp;The potential is great, the proof of which is still a challenge for the perpetrators.&nbsp;Believing in an investment is not wrong, because every investment always contains risk.&nbsp;For now, the risk of investing in cryptocurrency is quite large with a wide range of possibilities in the market share.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons aligncenter is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sagaratechnology.com\/blog\/get-to-know-a-cryptocurrency\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">See more<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While&nbsp;blockchain&nbsp;as a digital platform continues to be explored, cryptocurrency&nbsp;blockchain&nbsp;continues to flourish among consumers. In addition&nbsp;to dealing with transactions,&nbsp;ICOs (Initial Coin Offerings) is also a process that is starting to be found among business people. ICO is a fundraising process to build&nbsp;blockchain-based applications, in various forms ranging from new cryptocurrencies,&nbsp;smart contracts, to&nbsp;smart ledgers.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In Indonesia alone,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128,10],"tags":[112,139,146,148],"class_list":["post-791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-informasi-bisnis","category-tips-teknologi","tag-business","tag-cryptocurrency","tag-invest","tag-stocks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sagaratechnology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sagaratechnology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sagaratechnology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sagaratechnology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sagaratechnology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=791"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sagaratechnology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":837,"href":"https:\/\/sagaratechnology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791\/revisions\/837"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sagaratechnology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sagaratechnology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sagaratechnology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sagaratechnology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}