If, in the subway, suddenly, along with pens, glass cutters, passport covers and other unnecessary nonsense, they suddenly begin to offer cash bitcoins – in coins, saying that, according to the new rules of economic analysis of digital assets, this is the most profitable purchase … Would you believe it? No, of course, and you will do the right thing. But I give a grudge that you will do it only because you heard about the gypsies who sold just such coins in the underground passages, and not at all because the “new rules” would confuse you. It’s like:

Why did Dostoevsky burn the 2nd volume of War and Peace? – Well, it was muddied: before burning, he managed to shoot everything on his phone and post it on Instagram. But due to copyright infringement, the regulator blocked it (like Durov’s Telegram is direct). But now everything is almost settled, and soon the link will be available. A resonant piece will turn out.

It is worth being brief: there are no new rules for the valuation of assets, whatever they may be, as well as new rules of logic, there are no! It is important. Let’s just try to figure out the old rules for new assets.

Profitability
With regard to cryptocurrencies, namely, they are now called “new assets”, investments are possible in two directions:

mining;
work on organized sites.
I remember that even before the end of 2017, the cue ball had more than $ 2.5 per 1 Th / s – such a profitable combination was the “exchange value / complexity”. Since then, the rate has dropped threefold, and the difficulty has doubled. We now have more than six times the rate of return (and rate of return) per unit of hash rate. But this is Bitcoin, and there are other tickers. Alas, following the locomotive currency, other currencies fell. But not everyone experiences a phase of exponential growth in complexity.

With regard to mining, the new / old rule of analysis is to consider the situation with profitability not only in connection with a change in market value, but also in line with the assumed trend of growth in mining complexity.

Working on organized sites is somewhat akin to a fight on the roof of a fast-moving train (like in a Hollywood movie): you need to dodge enemy strikes, resist the headwind, and remember bridges and tunnels in time so that your head won’t be blown away for an hour. But she is just very much even demolishes at times. Now the global trend of the cryptocurrency market is downward, but this does not mean at all that volatility has been canceled. It still gallops like a mad goat, and quite impressive “shots” happen among the little-known coins.

So, for example, during the last attack on the Binance exchange (which, by the way, was carried out from Lipetsk), hackers intended to use client accounts, to which they acquired access by phishing, to start buying up the poorly promoted cryptocurrency VIA, and they themselves had stocked up on this crypt themselves. It was supposed to drain its own reserves after a multiple increase in its rate. The operation failed because the administration figured out the coordinated management of other people’s user accounts. But if would-be hackers were not greedy and attacked not on client’s money, but on their own, then they would have made some money!