Clear Introduction to Cryptocurrencies + Sparkster = an Ideal First Investment + MEET UP

This article is for all the beginners in cryptocurrencies. If you prefer to watch the video version (less complete) please click on this link:

You probably heard mainly about bitcoin that some people made a lot of money some became millionaire and you would be happy to win a lot of money as well or you are simply curious about this new technology.Whatever your reason is you don’t understand cryptocurrencies very well but this article will change this at the end you will know the most important.

Let’s start with why bitcoin was created? If I have to summarize in one sentence I would say “to stop the banks to steal money from you, me and everybody like the have been doing since more than a hundred years and will continue if we don’t stop them”. You heard well steal your money and this is not some conspiracy theory it is just the reality. If you want to understand in details how they do this watch the video number 4 of a serie called “The Biggest Scam In The History Of Mankind” it is a good video very well explained:

Once you have understood this you understand why cryptocurrencies are the future because at some point especially with internet enough people will know the truth about dollars/euros and all the other currencies how the banks control them to become richer and make us poorer. And why would you expect the contrary banks are companies most companies care first about making a lot of profit for them not about what is good for everyone. This is why we need to stop this madness of letting private companies control our money. Thanks to the genius who created bitcoin we are on the good path to change this: with a decentralised money not controlled by private companies. More and more people understand this reason why Bitcoin is already so solid, now the 6th currency in the world as can be seen on:
https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-is-6th-largest-currency-in-the-world-by-circulation

This is already one of the biggest revolution of this century but it is not all. Decentralization is the key word. The decentralisation of banks can be applied to so many other companies thanks to the technology behind bitcoin: the blockchain. You have plenty good videos to understand how the blockchain works but here is one example to understand the global concept: imagine if we can decentralize google. It means that all the money that google wins when you use google because they sell your info to companies for marketing, all these billions could be shared between all of us and we could win money by using google, Facebook, Airbnb and so many other companies. Blockchain is a revolution like internet was who did not understand this did not understand blockchain.

Now important question is it too late (at the date of this article) for me and you to make a lot of money by investing? The answer is no. Why? It is always the same thing the more people buy cryptocurrencies the more the value goes up. And now we are far from the maximum for 3 good reasons/sources of growth:
Source of growth 1 = in the 7.4 billions of people of the world only few have invested and on top of that
Source of growth 2 = institutional investors like banks are starting to invest which means that the value will go up:
Source of growth 3 = More and more emerging countries where the national currency is very instable are using cryptos. Like Venezuela… : http://www.news.com.au/technology/online/venezuelans-seeing-bitcoin-boom-as-survival-not-speculation/news-story/b4ee91a802ed265a237699aa2ed4dd44
Conclusion: the question is not is too late but do you want to miss this like you missed all the gain on bitcoin?

If your answer is no and you want to invest immediately the next question is which cryptocurrency also called coin are you going to buy? There is currently 1644 different coins some will not make a good gain some will and it is really hard as a beginner to know the difference.

The coin I advise you to invest in is called Sparkster. I advise it to you because it belongs to the best category of coin to make a lot of money: they are called infrastructures like Ethereum, Zilliqa, Ontology. You can see that they all made huge gain 30 or 40X that you can see in red means that your money is multiplied by 30 or 40. Imagine if your money was multiplied was 30 you could turn 1000 dollars into 30 000 dollars! And if you do it again 30000*30 = 900 000 you will almost be millionaire. This is simple facts and maths not a dream many people already did this as for example Ian Balina who became a celebrity in the crypto space:

And if you don’t believe him believe the stats from the website below showing you that infrastructures like Sparkster called Zilliqa or Ontology did X30 or X40:
https://icodrops.com/ico-stats/

The reason why infrastructures like Sparkster are making more gains is because other cryptocurrencies which do not have their own blockchain are built on infrastructures. Let’s take an example: let’s say you want to build a new
Decentralized application for example a denctralised Airbnb where people can rent each other’s property without having to pay Airbnb in the middle.

To make this decentralised Airbnb you need a blockchain also called infrastructure. But because you don’t want to pay an engineer to create a blockchain you use an existing blockchain like Sparkster. This mean that anybody who uses your application will have to buy Sparkster coins. And like you there will be many applications using Sparkster so the value of the Sparkster cryptocurrency will increase a lot. This is why if you look at the top 10 currencies what you see is mostly infrastructures like Sparkster and anybody who invested early made a huge profit:
https://coinmarketcap.com/

To invest in Sparkster now you need to participate to the ICO have a look on their website they are some things you need to do for that but it takes time. If you don’t want to spend this time then no problem you can just buy Sparkster as soon as it is sold on an exchange. The exchange is where you can buy cryptocurrencies I recommend Binance to start it is a very good one:
https://www.binance.com/

Website and whitepaper of Sparkster below:
https://sparkster.me/try?r=dBrYoZ0j
https://sparkster.me/?utm_source=cryptodiffer
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_341kbDEDc9PWn4lbsCGpAmcqDqcggUq/view

To finish help you to avoid the most important lessons I have learned and mistakes hard to avoid if you don’t know:

1. Diversification:
   It is one of the first reflex you will have to limit your risks when you are not sure of which cryptos to buy. After all the banks have diversification strategies to limit their risks so it sounds like a good thing to do. It is important but it is tricky to find the right amount of diversification for your portfolio. So I am going to help you, first what you don’t want to do is to diversify completely without doing research on the cryptos you buy. Buy a little bit of many cryptos that sound good for example because a Youtuber said so. Don’t do it because you will lose a lot of money I know because I did it fortunately I only put 5–20 dollars when I was not sure so did not lose a lot but imagine if you put more and have this type of losses 80 % like you can see on the pictures below:
   
   

You can notice that also those cryptos who performed awfully have in common that most of them are applications Dapp so not an infrastructure like explained for Sparkster.
But as you can see below when I actually put a lot of money into a crypto it is because I am sure that it will increase and you will see that my best investments below are all infrastructures like Sparkster or at least a protocol like Arcblock but never a Dapp:

The conclusion is you need to have the right amount of diversification, don’t diversify in cryptocurrencies you have not a good reason why you think they will increase in value but don’t at the other extreme put all your money in one cryptocurrency. The ideal is after a lot of work (crossing information, thinking by yourself…) to find few coins that you think will go up in value the best opportunities of the market basically and to diversify across those few. And of course DO NOT TO BE TOO GREEDY. If you have any doubt a good coin already reached its potential and think could go down after making you a good profit SELL don’t expect for something that will never happen. It all depend of the market and coin some coins will hardly give more than a 3X some can give a 30X depend also how long you are willing to hold the money for and other investments you miss during this time.

And if you really don’t want to take too much risks don’t only invest in ICOs partially invest in the top 10 market cap cryptos as these are probably the cryptos that institutional investors will choose exactly because they are less volatile so they still have potential to grow.

1. Timing is everything:
   If you bought bitcoin at the beginning many years ago you would be rich by now but if you bought it beginning of 2018 like me you lost money on bitcoin it was too late but it was the right time to buy Zilliqa to multiply your money by 30!!!
   So finding a very good technology with few competition, good advisors, a good team and everything perfect is not enough if you buy too late you will make a poor Investment. If you realise that a crypto has already increased a lot and are disappointed you missed it the worse thing to do is to insist and buy because the people who bought low will sell to take their profit and you will only lose money. Wait for the next good opportunity it is the best thing to do there will be others.

And I will give you the best tool to know WHEN TO SELL. It is all related to market Capitalisation you need to sell when the crypto you bought could be at the max market cap it that can reach by looking at similar projects on :
https://coinmarketcap.com/

Because timing is important you also want to avoid as much as possible lockups of your money for too long because you could miss opportunities of new better ICOs if all your money is locked up. Better to do a 3X sell then another 3X and so on… Your gains increase exponentially!

1. Investing in ICOs VS buying cryptos on the exchanges:
   First what is an ICO? Initial Coin Offering meaning that you are among the first investors of the crypto and as it is not yet a recognized cryptocurrency it could be a scam but it could also be the new ethereum a very good crypto with a huge return. Like investing in Google at the beginning when it did not succeed yet very risky but potentially you could win a lot of money.

When I started I did not want to invest in ICOs because I did not want to take too much risks so like many I invested only in exchanges buying cryptos already more famous to avoid the scams. But what I came to realise is that appearances can be misleading. Indeed when I look at all my investments across 2018 the ICOs I invested in are by far the less risky investments they almost made good profits some huge profits and very few poorly.

Compare this to cryptos bought on the exchanges most of them did poorly!!!! And the reason is simple if you buy in exchanges you are making profit for those who bought at ICO before you and sell after making a good profit.
The only exception is if you buy as soon at it hits the exchange before that the crypto has reached its full potential.

1. HODL VS short term investment:
   Because so many people became rich with cryptos by Holding for a long term what they call the HODL strategy you will find plenty in the crypto space including youtubers advising you to HODL. But here is the problem : they advise to do a strategy that worked in the past but has no guarantee to work in the future. It could work but it could also not to work now here is why:

• First the cryptos are not going to increase in value forever no this is impossible the bubble is coming it will burst the day there is no enough new investors to pay the profit of past investors. As a result HODL strategy was not risky at the beginning of cryptos but will become more and more risky as we approach to the end.
• Second at the beginning of cryptos they were few cryptos available so they increased a lot in value because anybody who wanted to buy crypto had to buy these. But now there is many new cryptos every week. So who tell you the crypto you bought is not going to be replaced by a faster one in one month? You can’t just HODL you need to make profit now and always do your research to stayed tuned.

1. Don’t chase a pump : Never buy on rapid upswing on the candlestick chart if you’re not sure why it happened and can’t figure it out. The reason is likely that it is a Pnd. PnD is “Pump and dump” and it refers to a trading scam where people organize to coordinate the laddered purchase of an asset, then wait for others to come in at some delay and further increase the price before coordinating the unloading of their position once a specific price target is reached. This is illegal in the stock markets, but since cryptomarkets are unregulated such schemes are rampant. There are many PnD groups and today they are largely organized on Discord channels. They are now structured into tiers where the top tiers get a signal earlier than the bottom tiers and usually by the time the bottom tiers get the signal its too late, so unless you pay money to part of the top tier or have a connection with the admins its not even profitable. They are bad for the market as a whole and they prey on those who are looking for short term moons to latch onto.

2. Hype:
   Hype is really important it is not advised to invest in an ICO or crypto with very little hype because you will make profit only if some people are ready to buy at a higher price than you did and that will not happen if nobody knows about this cryptocurrency.
   BUT HYPE IS NOT ENOUGH Friends ICO taught me this it had enormous hype but look at the losses 60% on this picture my worse ICO:
   

So what I advise you is to invest in an infrastructure with a lot of hype at ICO stage this is the best investment possible and reason why I advised Sparkster.

1. Stay tuned on new ICO and choose one to invest in:
   I only look at ICOs which are advised by most of the channels listed in this very practical website : https://cryptodiffer.com/ and only invest in infrastructures with a lot of hype.

2. Prepare yourself before the ICO so you don’t miss it:
   Very important during an ICO you need to be there as soon as it opens because everything will be sold sometimes in minutes sometimes in seconds!!!! So prepare everything have the address of the ico owner to send to and know the maximum and minimum contribution but also the maximum gas limit if there is one or the transaction will fail. You will probably miss some ICOs because big investors pay a lot in gas to be sure that their transactions are processed first and they leave nothing for you they buy all the tokens. Your best chance will be ICOs with a max cap per participant because the owner know this problem. If you miss some keep trying.
   To learn about gas and gwei : https://steemit.com/ethereum/@tomshwom/ethereum-gas-how-it-works
   https://media.consensys.net/ethereum-gas-fuel-and-fees-3333e17fe1dc
   Here are some rules to respect to avoid to fail a transaction:
   Don’t send before the allowed time send just at the time authorized so be READY
   Don’t send more than eth/btc max and min limit
   Don’t put more gas / gwei then authorized if their is a limit fixed by the ico owner
   Procedure below with MetaMask, simple and intuitive add-on that enables everyone to send tokens easily and securely:
   
   Click on the add-on icon in your browser
   Click “Send”
   Now, make sure you copy the address from Sparkster and paste it in the “Recipient Address” field
   Enter the amount of ETH you want to send
   Click “Send”.
   Set gas limit to X and gas price to Y Gwei as advised on the Sparkster telegram group.
   Submit the transaction.

My bitcoin talk profile is “Seigiyuu”:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile

MEETUP:
I organise a MEETUP in London the weekend 16–17 of June 2018 to discuss about Sparkster and cryptocurrencies or get more explanations for those who want. Please contact me on my Youtube channel or telegram (@Samy_Barnat) to organise ourselves (we can vote for the time and place desired could be my home or a bar…).

And for those who want to go even more in depth about how cryptocurrencies work watch this video:

Enjoy ;)