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Like the title says, how would you decide to invest in a coin or not especially a new one with a low cap marketcap. What information about crypto should you know before you look into these new / low cap coins too? And what would you look into these coins to know they are good to invest in.

Any guidance is appreciated.

With my little experience i will advise you not to rely 100% on any project because their main intent is only known to them, only few once has a good conscience not to scam, so this now depends on how you were able to carryout your research, you can also be on a look at some parameters during your research such as:

Liquidity
Market cap
Their address
Their history or past records
Purpose and aim of the project
Those in charge of the project
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Like the title says, how would you decide to invest in a coin or not especially a new one with a low cap marketcap. What information about crypto should you know before you look into these new / low cap coins too? And what would you look into these coins to know they are good to invest in.
It's not a pretty easy question to answer, especially if you're a crypto user who likes to experiment with new coins and projects, but personally I've taken all/most altcoins to be very short term projects and pump and dump coins, so I more or less stay away from majority of them, ethereum is prolly the only exception, and it has done enough to present itself as a worthy and good investment, thus i always either choose Bitcoin or ethereum, cause after having done my research, they are the most reliable and productive to invest in if we're talking about long term profits.

Having said that, if your concentration is on low marketcap coins, I'm afraid you'll not easily select the good ones (if there's even any), all you just have to do is to withdraw your money as soon as you have accrued profit, these sort of coins pump and dump pretty fast, so you'll also have to be fast whenever you want to sell off, if you hodl on to them for so long, they'll more often than not, dump, and you'll lose.
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Me like many chooses only Bitcoin and other top Alt-coins and rarely buy coins with low Market cap, not that I am ridge in exploring other up and coming alt-coins but the rate of scams, fake influencers, shillings and even scam motivated white paper, you hardly see a new project with low Market cap doing well and those that does will still end up dropping because it was all built on fake foundation, for now I am not investing in any new,low Market cap project.
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Like the title says, how would you decide to invest in a coin or not especially a new one with a low cap marketcap. What information about crypto should you know before you look into these new / low cap coins too? And what would you look into these coins to know they are good to invest in.

Any guidance is appreciated.

When you choose a coin with low market cap, then you are risking yourself. But yes when you choose such coins and that are new to the market, find out the project they are focused on and the team behind it. If the coin is listed on a best exchange then yes you can hope for its growth. But better choose a coin that have a good trading volume and invest. This is advised than going for a coin that are with low market cap.
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That's the thing actually should decide for yourself, we can't suggest you in that case. We can share what we do usually when choosing a coin to invest in. For me, I take a look at the project development and use case. If a project continues its development process as they promised, means they have good intentions and they are keeping a role in the crypto economy. If there is a real use case for a token or coin means it would give you good profit in near future. So that's how actually I choose a coin, now you can decide for yourself what should you do.
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Identity of the developers should not change anything about the project. Look at bitcoin, nobody knows who Satoshi is and yet it is the only viable cryptocurrency that exists in real world. Now look at loads of altcoins with known developers that only exist in exchanges to be pumped and dumped.
It's hard to say but maybe Bitcoin is more special. Bitcoin is the first generation of blockchain technology. Some argue that if the inventor of bitcoin is correctly found then its value can reach 0. Hopefully that doesn't happen and Sathosi will remain anonymous. Bitcoin is becoming a mom and dad to other cryptos. That's why the current direction of altcoin movements tends to depend on btc price movements.
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I personally believe that the context it is important, times are different since Satoshi were amoung you all here in the forum and a proyect being launched by anonymous creators should be a yellow flag, but not a deal-breaker on its own, scams are more common nowadays and so we shall be more cautious.

Again, just my oinion.
Yeah but it doesn't have to be scams though. We are talking about investing and viability of projects. There has been a lot of projects with known developers and even big "foundations" with a big team that turned out to be the worst projects of all times. They basically use their faces to advertise the "shitcoin" and gain popularity for different benefits.

For example I'd say one of the oldest coins that is without any innovation is Litecoin and the developer used it as a stepping stone to gain a resume and join companies like Coinbase to make a lot of money.
Or Ripple which created a useless garbage which they used to create partnerships with banks and make money that way (among other things).
The list goes on...

That is why it is only one of the things I consider worthy of checking out when picking a coin to invest, it is not a 100% deal-breaker whether a developer is anonymous or not.

On the other hand, there are projects with known developers which are quite good, being ETH the most obvious one.
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I personally believe that the context it is important, times are different since Satoshi were amoung you all here in the forum and a proyect being launched by anonymous creators should be a yellow flag, but not a deal-breaker on its own, scams are more common nowadays and so we shall be more cautious.

Again, just my oinion.
Yeah but it doesn't have to be scams though. We are talking about investing and viability of projects. There has been a lot of projects with known developers and even big "foundations" with a big team that turned out to be the worst projects of all times. They basically use their faces to advertise the "shitcoin" and gain popularity for different benefits.

For example I'd say one of the oldest coins that is without any innovation is Litecoin and the developer used it as a stepping stone to gain a resume and join companies like Coinbase to make a lot of money.
Or Ripple which created a useless garbage which they used to create partnerships with banks and make money that way (among other things).
The list goes on...
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- Check whether their developers are anonimous or not
Identity of the developers should not change anything about the project. Look at bitcoin, nobody knows who Satoshi is and yet it is the only viable cryptocurrency that exists in real world. Now look at loads of altcoins with known developers that only exist in exchanges to be pumped and dumped.

I personally believe that the context it is important, times are different since Satoshi were amoung you all here in the forum and a proyect being launched by anonymous creators should be a yellow flag, but not a deal-breaker on its own, scams are more common nowadays and so we shall be more cautious.

Again, just my oinion.
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Like the title says, how would you decide to invest in a coin or not especially a new one with a low cap marketcap. What information about crypto should you know before you look into these new / low cap coins too? And what would you look into these coins to know they are good to invest in.

Any guidance is appreciated.

A good question. Yes when new tokens/coins come into the market, we decide to invest based upon the project they have taken up. When BNB, Matic were new to the market, we believed in it as they were the exchanges and as we believed, they captured the market with their best services. Like wise, analyse the base of each coin. Just make sure if the team is true and they have team with high profiles working towards its growth. These details usually will remain in their sites. But yes their growth journey of mininum 90 days, will confirm if its worth to be invested.
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- Check whether their developers are anonimous or not
Identity of the developers should not change anything about the project. Look at bitcoin, nobody knows who Satoshi is and yet it is the only viable cryptocurrency that exists in real world. Now look at loads of altcoins with known developers that only exist in exchanges to be pumped and dumped.
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Like the title says, how would you decide to invest in a coin or not...
If there's a possibility of linking up and surrounding yourself with people who are more knowledgeable in the field of crypto than you are, it will be of an advantage to you. Such individuals are already professional researchers when it comes to crypto and can give you credible information on which to invest, in such a situation, your research process has been made easy, and all you will be seeking to confirm is the tip from your professional/experienced crypto friends.
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These are some of the things I have would consider:

- Does the new coin actually solve a problem?
- Check whether their developers are anonimous or not
-Check their road map
-Use a blockchain explorer to look for the whale concentration, if there are a few people who can dump the price, it will likely happen
-If it is a token, check its liquidity in DEFI, if the liquidity is low or if it is provided by few people it would be easier to exit-scam
-Check the partnership with actual exchanges /services
-See how much of the treasury is intended for the developers to keep
-Make sure it is an open-source and decentralized project
-Check the volume and see how much risk may represent in case of pumps-dumps
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Like the title says, how would you decide to invest in a coin or not especially a new one with a low cap marketcap.
I think that this is the answer.
I will not invest in a new coin with a low market cap because it is too risky. It is like betting where we may get very high profits by the pumped price. But on the other hand, we may lose more because of the dump price. That is how commonly new coins with low caps work, the pump and dump cycle.
It's quite risky to invest because a low cap is also prone to the pump and dump which is we commonly witnessed from a pump and dump group.
For sure the safest for now to invest is in Bitcoin because even top altcoins follow the price of Bitcoin.

If it is about a new coin with a low cap, I will not expect too much for a long-term investment.
If you invested in a low cap altcoin, it seems you gamble your money and that's not for a long-term investment.
But if you're willing to risk an amount that you can afford, there are new coins that is worth it too but you need to have a deeper research first.
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Like the title says, how would you decide to invest in a coin or not especially a new one with a low cap marketcap.
I think that this is the answer.
I will not invest in a new coin with a low market cap because it is too risky. It is like betting where we may get very high profits by the pumped price. But on the other hand, we may lose more because of the dump price. That is how commonly new coins with low caps work, the pump and dump cycle.

And what would you look into these coins to know they are good to invest in.
If it is about a new coin with a low cap, I will not expect too much for a long-term investment.
This is also not recommended by newbies to invest r trade in this kind of new coin, once more, too risky. If we have been usual with the new coin with low cap, we can utilize its pump price to take profits, but never use them for long-term investment because commonly the price will keep dropping after pumping. Many people have achieved very high profits because of utilizing these pump price coins. But many other people also have experienced bad losses because not know the right time to enter and out.
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Even you've checked all stuffs to make sure the project is legit, as long as you're not the core team you could be scammed if the project turn to be rug pull.

Here's some stuffs usually people checking the projects:
1. Whitepaper
2. Use cases
3. Team
4. Roadmap
5. Achievements
6. Real or forked coins
7. Social media

At least this would save you from shit and unprofessional projects, but there's no guarantee 100% you'll safe.
1. The white paper can be good for novice but the project may not be that successful in term of bull run. What someone should be most careful about is a plagiarised white paper. If plagiarised, it is a fake project.
I think some people don't understand how promising and incredible the white paper looks, it doesn't justify the project not being fake. I could project name Karatcoin which their whitepaper looks so promising but the team abandon the project after raising the hard cap.

 
3. These have helped many people to find good project especially the team but not all teams of a successful projects are always celebrities.
This reminds me of Avalanche, when the project was launched altcoin enthusiast welcome it with an open arm and the early adopter of the project now make an awesome profit.
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Like the title says, how would you decide to invest in a coin or not especially a new one with a low cap marketcap. What information about crypto should you know before you look into these new / low cap coins too? And what would you look into these coins to know they are good to invest in.

Any guidance is appreciated.

Old time traders doesn't really know the exact or accurate things upon investing on crypto since it was stated that upon investing we cannot guarantee any return. But we can see how good the project if the team is transparent, they have good plans written on their whitepaper lastly the team is experts on their field and they are not anonymous. Although we can see this but still we need to be careful and always DYOR if we talk about newly created coins and tokens.

Low cap coins are also quite risky since those coins is already dying so its risky to throw some investment on them since for sure there are so many bag holders of that coin and just waiting for their target to sell got hit by new investors so it will be crazy if you became a holder again of those low cap coins.
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Like the title says, how would you decide to invest in a coin or not especially a new one with a low cap marketcap. What information about crypto should you know before you look into these new / low cap coins too? And what would you look into these coins to know they are good to invest in.

Any guidance is appreciated.

You check the basic who are the people behind the project and what are their capabilities and what they are bringing in the industry, we have seen projects promising to do this and that but are they capable to do that can they do AMA and webinars and gives the best answers to every question that comes along the way, what I mean is transparency all the way, they should not hold on, also check the community, it should be a community of investors and true supporters, not bots, buying bots by developers are so rampant nowadays.
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If you look at alts objectively, none of them are worth investing into. Time has proved that there are no problems in real world to which altcoins/blockchain/tokens are a good solution. And there's market data to support this, because if you look at the top 100 coins from 5 years ago and see where are they now, you will see that alts were a terrible long-term investment.
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First of all, you need not look at it as purely a coin, but what does the technology behind it bring to the community, and if that's something you would like to support. Check the info on the whitepaper and if the development supports the general idea.  Then check their social channels, if it looks like a serious and if the development team is genuinely interested in developing a quality project. And only then look at it as an investment, when and how you will get a return. Nothing is certain and projects do fail even if all of the above requirements are met, but at least that would be a good start.
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First of all, you have to ask yourself does it it even make sense for this coin/token to exist, I mean if there is a real need for tokenization. In 99% of the cases answer is no, meaning its just being used as a gimmick to raise funds.

Problem is, even if token makes sense, team is experienced and they have a good idea, they will most likely fail as its in the nature of startups to fail. Somewhere I read that startup failure rate is 90%+, and we are talking about non crypto startups. And when you add something as crypto that is not mainstream yet  in equation, that number goes to probably 99.99%.
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Like the title says, how would you decide to invest in a coin or not especially a new one with a low cap marketcap. What information about crypto should you know before you look into these new / low cap coins too? And what would you look into these coins to know they are good to invest in.

Any guidance is appreciated.

My crypto positions are not very substantial, to be honest. Generally, I have no problem playing in this space, and I am comfortable with the risks involved in these markets. However, I am aware of the fact that new cryptocurrencies are created every single day, and these coins have no reputation whatsoever.

Since I have seen so many huge "pump and dump" events in these markets, I am much more cautious in this space, especially with very low-cap coins. Every time I am introduced to a new coin, I spend some time reading  about the coin and searching around about the team behind the coin. Who does it belong to? What does it stand for? What is their background?
If I like the project and the idea behind it , I will usually do some further research into the team to get an idea of how legit and stable the project is. I've found it's often really helpful to read some of their social media accounts on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. The fakes are usually very easily spotted. Also, I think whitepaper is very important for any new project, if developers do not write a whitepaper explaining the concept and fundamentals behind the coin then I usually skip it.
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Like the title says, how would you decide to invest in a coin or not especially a new one with a low cap marketcap. What information about crypto should you know before you look into these new / low cap coins too? And what would you look into these coins to know they are good to invest in.

Any guidance is appreciated.

Currently, I am invested in 3 low cap coins and for me the things that I look into before investing are.

-It's use cases - will it help me and everyone in the future and is it viable in the long run.
-The Dev's - I tend to look into this too much, I don't like an anonymous developer and I want a developer who are proud and passionate to their project.
-The Maximum supply - This will greatly affect the price of the coin so a low cap coin will low supply will be much more expensive when market cap goes higher.
-The inflation - Together with maximum supply inflation does a great role with regards to the price of a crypto, For example SLP of Axie Infinity, it does have an unlimited supply and tremendous inflation so the price plummets non stop even while I'm creating this post.

That's it for me, feel free to talk to me with regards to this and if somebody can share more about their way to look into a project please also quote me so I will be notified.
Thank you so much guys!!!
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Like the title says, how would you decide to invest in a coin or not especially a new one with a low cap marketcap. What information about crypto should you know before you look into these new / low cap coins too? And what would you look into these coins to know they are good to invest in.

Any guidance is appreciated.
Depends on thr project building. If I like their doing and the idea is good well i definitely invest on that. With good team, and has community then its good to invest on that. Im also sometime have degen mood, investing on some hype coins and tokens and check out when there is a gains incurred. Also you must learn the basics and fundamentals of such projects. Dont ape easily do your dd thats all.
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Most of the time, people would tell you to look at the fundamental features of the project the coin belongs to. They would tell you to take a closer look at the project's whitepaper, its tokenomics, the real-life problem it attempts to solve, the partnerships it enters into, even its development team, among others.

However, crypto history has it that many good projects have died and many shitcoins have thrived. Whether the success is merely because of hype or its strong marketing is probably not the question. It might only bring you closer to risk. So it's probably best to just stick to the coin that has proven its worth. Of course, Bitcoin is the coin. Whether there's more, it depends on your research.
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What are the things you should check before investing in a brand-new coin? Everything!

First of all, what is the use case?
Why do we need that particular asset?
What problems does it solve?
Is there a reason for it to be on blockchain at all? Even if the idea is good, developing it on a blockchain might not be the best way to go.
Can the same problem be solved with Bitcoin or one of the other altcoins that already exist? If the answer is yes (and most of the time it is), the project doesn't have a great future.

After that, you read everything you can about the coin.
Who created it and why?
What experience do they have in the field they are working in?
Past achievements and results of the devs and team members?
Can you check and verify their biographies, do they even have any?
Who are they backed by?
Do they have partnerships with big companies and institutions or are they hyped by celebrities and social media "stars". (Stay away from the latter one).
Do they have a working product or app or are they just giving promises that they will create one in the future?

Many new coins are just a quick-get-rich scheme for their developers and you and me, we are not invited to the party.
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Even you've checked all stuffs to make sure the project is legit, as long as you're not the core team you could be scammed if the project turn to be rug pull.

Here's some stuffs usually people checking the projects:
1. Whitepaper
2. Use cases
3. Team
4. Roadmap
5. Achievements
6. Real or forked coins
7. Social media

At least this would save you from shit and unprofessional projects, but there's no guarantee 100% you'll safe.
1. The white paper can be good for novice but the project may not be that successful in term of bull run. What someone should be most careful about is a plagiarised white paper. If plagiarised, it is a fake project.

3. These have helped many people to find good project especially the team but not all teams of a successful projects are always celebrities.

It can be hard to know a fake coins and pump and dump coins, this is a way many people have been scammed before, but most fake project can will have a fake white paper but some might be real but become pumped and dumped.
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Like the title says, how would you decide to invest in a coin or not especially a new one with a low cap marketcap. What information about crypto should you know before you look into these new / low cap coins too? And what would you look into these coins to know they are good to invest in.

Any guidance is appreciated.
That's already the clue, you've said it already. I don't invest in low cap coins. I know that there are those low-capped coins that have the potential but it's better to be safe than never.
If they happen to become popular and they've increased their cap then that will be the time that I'll be investing. That's my very first standard these days, I don't invest with the very low market cap coins.
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Even you've checked all stuffs to make sure the project is legit, as long as you're not the core team you could be scammed if the project turn to be rug pull.

Here's some stuffs usually people checking the projects:
1. Whitepaper
2. Use cases
3. Team
4. Roadmap
5. Achievements
6. Real or forked coins
7. Social media

At least this would save you from shit and unprofessional projects, but there's no guarantee 100% you'll safe.
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I came across a subreddit post[1] that basically gives a pointer to the things you should look into before putting your hard earned money into newer crypto, and for me, most of them makes a lot of sense especially if you are fond of reading and researching about that particular coin.

However, if you're gonna follow this, make sure that you're only trading them on a short-term basis because even if all the requirement have been met, there is still a chance for the coin to become useless in the long run. Just take it with a grain of salt. Or if you are a conservative type of person, then simply holding bitcoin is your best bet.

[1] Not every new coin is a shitcoin: How to spot the real GEMS inside the sea of shitcoins.
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I generally check for news about that project. This helps me to determine whether the project is getting hyped or not. If there is a hype then it is better to buy it for a short term gain. Another important thing that I check is the whitepaper and roadmap of the particular project. Always remember risk is very high so the chance of you losing money in such projects is also high. Therefore invest with an amount that you can forget if the project fails.
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This is one of the reasons why I never "invest" in altcoins and only "trade" them. It is impossible to tell the long term situation with altcoins because they are either garbage which makes any rise unreasonable (but possible) so you can't count on it or they have some potential but they are being ignored because of lots of other pumping shitcoins so again you can't count on the rise.

But trading, even though very hard, is a lot easier than investing. You can see the pumps build up and you can make a quick profit. Not to mention that you precious limited resources (funds and time) aren't locked up in one investment, so you can jump around from one pumping coin to another and maximize your profit.

Keep in mind that it is not easy to trade altcoins.
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There's really nothing specific. If you want to put(a.k.a. risk) money into something, then you definitely really need to learn almost everything about that certain project. It's going to take A LOT of reading and research, which a lot of people aren't fond of. For the huge majority of people, simply just holding bitcoin is the right play.
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Like the title says, how would you decide to invest in a coin or not especially a new one with a low cap marketcap.
New coin is like a new environment that everything about it is totally strange, so for you to master the environment, you have to observe very good to know the loopholes of the environment, it's applicable to coin that you don't know.

What information about crypto should you know before you look into these new / low cap coins too? And what would you look into these coins to know they are good to invest in.
what you have to do in cryptocurrency before going into any kind of investment is to verify the coin you are about to work on as investment coin, you have to know the potentiality of the coin and the level of comments of the coin via negative recognition and positive recognition of the coin From reputable investors, before you can adventure into it.
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What you're doing isn't wrong by researching new coins because it's certain that not all of those projects will be useless.
but on the other hand things like this take time in my opinion. because we are like looking for a needle in a haystack. coins and projects are popping up every day and maybe even every hour and every minute and we're going to have a hard time finding anything new and really good in the shitcoin bunch.
I personally prefer to be in proven coins like ETH and BNB for alt and Bitcoin of course.
but on the other hand it doesn't deny that I am also in some new coins which I think are quite good including matic and luna.
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What information about crypto should you know before you look into these new / low cap coins too?
What I have noticed is individuals tend to look away from new and low capped coins the more they know about cryptocurrency as they realize how risky the investment is and choose to stick with safer alternatives.

And what would you look into these coins to know they are good to invest in.
There is no guarantee despite how thorough your research could be cause there is not much history to go by and all your research would be based on what the presents. Also, majority of them turn out to be scams, shit projects or just poorly executed.
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Like the title says, how would you decide to invest in a coin or not especially a new one with a low cap marketcap. What information about crypto should you know before you look into these new / low cap coins too? And what would you look into these coins to know they are good to invest in.

Any guidance is appreciated.
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