Recently, San Francisco hosted a financial conference MoneyShow, where the speaker was the well-known analyst Charlie Schrem. He believes that those who invest in cryptocurrencies need to keep their investments for at least five years.
"Choose something from the top 10 or top 20, choose carefully, study and then invest. Any cryptocurrency that you buy, keep at least five years. Just fix your portfolio for this period. There is a high probability that its value will grow during this period, as bearish and bullish trends in the market usually last about 2 years.”
Cryptocurrencies are the most volatile asset of all known. Daily growth or fall of 10% has become the norm, and similar movements of 90% for the year are still possible, at least so showed the current and previous bear markets.
And although bears sometimes take precedence over the crypto market, but every two or three years there is still a rally that takes bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies to new heights. Thus, if investors follow the advice of Shrem, they are likely to earn.
Schrem was one of the first crypto-enthusiasts. He started investing in bitcoin back in 2011 and is a co-founder of the Bitcoin Foundation. In addition, he founded BitInstant crypto-exchange, which held 30% of all trading volumes in 2013. It even invested Roger Ver and the Winklevoss Brothers, but later she was forced to pay a fine of $1 million for the fact that someone used bitcoin to buy illegal psychoactive substances on Silk Road. Because of this, he also spent a year in prison.
But despite all this, he remains an ardent supporter of bitcoin and is now the head of crypto.iq-a company that gives investment advice and provides the necessary resources. He believes that the emergence of more than a thousand new cryptocurrencies is undoubtedly a good thing, but bitcoin will always be the king of the crypto market.
"These 1600 koin are "guerrilla marketing". They all appeared on everything ready, built by bitcoin in the first days of its existence. They entice people, they care about them, but bitcoin will always be a "daddy": the gold, in which most of the crypto-investors keep most of their portfolio. After some time, you will see that the total number of bitcoin transactions will fall, as people will use it more to store savings, because it is known that if it fails, then all cryptocurrencies will fail.”
I do agree of the idea of holding for a long period of time but be realistic and do not expect of that much increase just because it is a 5 long years. Keep in mind that consistency is lacking on every crypto so increase won't be totally comtinuous. Given that cryptos are being adapted by different countries, issues may suddenly appear as years are passing by which may be against the cryptoindustry or may also be in favor for it.