If you have been trying to make extra money on the side in the past few years, there is a good chance that you have at some point looked into cryptocurrency.
Although the major currency, Bitcoin, has taken something of a nosedive in recent months, the fact is that many of them remain a fairly lucrative way to make money, so long as you know what you are doing. In most cases, this will mean trading between the various currencies and banking them against each other. In others, it might be a case of buying coin early on and simply letting it sit there until it develops into something much more valuable. But there is another, hugely powerful, ways to make money from the world of blockchain economies: to make your own.
Creating your own cryptocurrency might seem like something of a dream. For some people, it could even look like something that is far too complex to bother with. You can certainly expect there to be a learning curve, and for it to take quite some time before any returns come back to you. But nonetheless, the fact remains that creating your own cryptocurrency is relatively easy, and the kind of thing that is worth looking into if you are keen on trying to make some extra money on the side.
So what is actually involved in the process of creating a cryptocurrency, and is it really true that anyone can do it? Do you need any special equipment or software, or is your laptop enough? And how do you make sure that people are actually going to trust in your new currency? Let’s look at some of the answers to these questions.
Create Intrigue
While you might be mistaken for thinking that the first step is to create the coin itself, actually that’s not quite right. In fact, the very first thing that you should think about doing is to start to create some interest and intrigue for your coin, so that you can make sure you are actually going to get the ball rolling with it with a decent amount of community interest. There are plenty of ways to do this, and many of the best methods amount to basically marketing any other kind of business. The more that you spread the word around amongst people you know in your local area, the quicker it will spread – and the more internet marketing you do on the side as well, the more it will get taken up in all corners of the world.
To attract miners, you need to establish a lot of trust, so do everything you can to make your crypto clearly legitimate and worthwhile. Investors will generally look for a serious approach, a white paper published early which they can peruse which outlines all the details of the system as well as the surrounding philosophy, and an obvious community of keen individuals who are happy to work together to make it a reality. If you can’t provide all of this, you will find it much harder to attract miners, and for the coin to grow.
Be careful not to oversell your coin either, for in the end that will only result in a backfiring situation where the coin gets dramatically reduced in value. Think of Bitcoin’s inbuilt system whereby it does not allow for inflation: something along these lines is generally going to be a pretty good idea, to stop anything drastic happening to your currency. As long as you get the balance right here, you should find that it all works out pretty well.
Be diligent and clear, and you should have a cryptocurrency which has the potential to do well. You never know whether or not it will really succeed, or whether it will take the world by storm, but if you have the right ingredients and approach, you can make it more likely.
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