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Oops, we did it again, 500% gains, bulls & bollocks

The Bostoncoin bull run continues

When we first started Bostoncoin in 2016, we had one basic aim: “taking the bite out of Bitcoin”. We knew that diversification is a fundamental cornerstone of investment, whether you are buying crypto, stocks, property, bonds or anything else. Holding one asset is risky; holding several different types of asset is safer.

The younger among you will know that airline stocks plummeted when the 2019 pandemic hit. Those of a certain age will recall that airline stocks also dropped after the 9/11/2001 plane crash.

The terrorist attack and the global pandemic were bad news for many people. If your investment portfolio was heavy in travel stocks, it was bad financial news as well. The good news was, that when airlines and travel went south, other stocks increased eg. Zoom, AfterPay, telcos and grocery chains. This is where diversification really pays off.

The aim with Bostoncoin was to invest into a variety of cryptocurrencies and technology stocks, to take advantage of the blockchain boom, whilst safely diversifying to remove the risk associated with any single asset.

When Bitcoin dropped 60% at the start of the pandemic, we thought Bostoncoin would drop, but by less, due to our diversification. Bostoncoin ended up gaining 50%; a massive outperformance.

Bostoncoin did not aim to outperform Bitcoin. It was just a happy accident.

 

Oops, we did it again

In the last year, as mainstream crypto adoption continues, Bitcoin prices have risen yet again. Bitcoin is up some 429% over this time last year. Bostoncoin is up a little more, since August 2020, sitting on gains of 502%.

Of course, we cannot guarantee that the diversified Bostoncoin portfolio will always outperform Bitcoin, but we can hope that our diversification strategy continues to provide outstanding returns with less volatility.

Tell your friends that Bostoncoin has been outperforming Bitcoin, not just for a month or a year, but for three years in a row. Who knows, your friends may choose to join the puppy pack, and you may receive some Bostoncoin swag as a reward (see puppy shop to choose your preferred reward).

Warning: Greed, FOMO and TGTBT

As cryptocurrency is now owned by billionaires, large corporations and even some entire countries, the topic of crypto is increasingly noticed in our social media, traditional news sources and social discussions. This notoriety can lead to an increase in scams, Ponzi schemes and other illegal or immoral activity.

Remember that crypto is an unregulated industry, so there are no chargebacks, no reversal of funds if you send to the wrong person, no insurance if an investment goes bad, and nobody who can get your funds back. Crypto is far more lucrative an investment than stocks, and a far more cost-effective funds transfer than banking, but there is zero protection if you get scammed. Be warned.

Online scams increase in proportion with crypto prices

In the last few weeks, we have heard from several clients and friends who have been scammed because they fell for a good-looking ad, clicked on a dodgy text message, or received a suspicious phone call. We have also seen many more of the online scam ads which use different Hollywood or TV celebrities to endorse a “trading system”. These are overwhelmingly fake, and as fast as we report them, two more take their place.

Many scam investment sites appear to have Facebook or Google reviews, but these are fake (spoiler: if you cannot click on the review to see the author’s profile, it is fake).

There are also an increasing number of fake auto-traders, trading bots or automated systems being advertised. Some promise you 1% per day, which sounds conservative, until you do a compound interest calculation and realise that it is impossible.

An investment that gains 1% per day, compounded, gives an annual rate of return over 3678%. Remember, for you to receive an income, someone has to pay it. Yes, you can earn up to 12% interest (in a year), because someone else may be paying 20% interest on a car loan or credit card bill. But who is paying over 100% interest?

Hypothetically, if you could invest $1000 and leave it to compound at 1% per day, within one year, you would have over $36 000. At the end of year two, you would have over $1.4 million. In year three, $53 million, in year four, over $2 billion, and in year five, over $77 billion.

If these types of returns were really possible, do you not think that every billionaire in the world would have one?

Warren Buffett vs Charles Ponzi

The greatest investor of the past century, Warren Buffett, sometimes sees returns of over 100% in a year, but even the Oracle of Omaha cannot sustain returns like this for five years in a row. Every stock market chart you have ever seen has ups and downs; the same for property, bonds and every other investment. Markets are irrational: sometimes too good, sometimes too bad, but they never proceed like clockwork. If anyone claims to deliver 1% per day, run; run far away with both hands over your wallet.

That advice goes double for any crypto which has a multi-level-marketing (MLM) or direct marketing (DM) component. If a platform entices you to bring in several friends by offering you a cut of what they invest, it is not an investment, but a Ponzi scheme.

Imagine if a scheme asks you to put in $1000, and says it will pay you $300 for everyone else you bring in. It sounds great, as you could bring in four people and have made your money back. But if your friend brings in nobody, they only have $700 (allegedly) working for them, and would have to make a return of 50% in order to make their money back. Ponzi schemes seem great on paper, but if you try to withdraw your money, all you will receive is the run-around.

When crypto markets reached all-time highs in 2017-2018, we had several MLM scams, such as BitConnect, USI-Tech and others. They often promised returns of 1% per day. Some made it onto the nightly news or “60 Minutes” for all of the wrong reasons. Bitconnect disappeared with $250 million of users funds, leaving behind empty promises and a half-decent audio meme/catchphrase (turn your speakers DOWN before watching).

Cash rewards for referrals are not all bad

Not everyone who offers you cash for bringing a friend onboard is a scam. Several legitimate platforms may offer you a reward of $10-20 for introducing a new customer, but this is paid by the company’s marketing and advertising budget; it is not subtracted from the account balance of your friend.

Banks do this for new account openings, AirBnB does it, PayPal did it, and several large crypto exchanges offer nominal cash rewards instead of paying for ads. This cash comes from the company’s profit or budget, not from your friend’s account. Understand the difference, and if a reward seems too good to be true (TGTBT), have someone else check it out for you.

We released our proprietary “C.O.I.N.” system to the general public in 2017 instead of keeping it for ourselves, as back then, CoinTelegraph reported that “92% of crypto ICO’s were scams”. Many things have changed in Cryptopia in the last four years, but the four-step protocol still works; please use it and share it with your friends. It’s free and it could save you from substantial losses.

Enough negativity and warnings; give us the gold!

Back in 2017 there were around 850 coins on the market; now there are over 9000 crypto projects. With a tenfold increase in coins offerings, there may be ten times as many scams, but there are also ten times as many opportunities.

We used the proprietary “C.O.I.N.” system to select some winners and enjoyed watching them run.

XYO: We chose XYO around two years ago as we liked the underlying technology: it is basically parcel-tracking but more advanced and on the blockchain. Companies such as Amazon and the US Post can track a parcel to the customer’s door, but that is it. What if the item is stolen by a neighbour? What if the customer claims they did not receive the item, and requests a dishonest refund?

XYO can track the package and see if the customer took it inside of their house, solving the problem and potentially saving businesses millions in lost inventory. We bought XYO when it was 0.0005 and patiently waited as it sat flat for most of 2019 and 2020. This year we watched it climb to 0.014 for around 2700% gain. Most of the gain took place in just the last four months, so we were well rewarded for our patience.

LINK: We chose ChainLINK in mid-2019 as the ‘oracle’ project promised to be ‘blockchain agnostic’. This basically meant that it could run on the Bitcoin network as well as the Ethereum network, and allow both separate blockchains to communicate with each other, as well as with the outside world. We believed in the project, we did our four-step process and we bought in around $1.30. LINK is now over $30, after briefly reaching over $52. We believe in the long-term for this one and are sitting on over 2000% gains whilst we wait for more.

Other winners include:

Elrond Gold up 1380%

AAVE up 691%

Solana up 605%

LivePeer up 577%

Origin up 457%

 

Yes, Bitcoin gets all the publicity and it made ‘only’ 429% in the past year. Bostoncoin and several other coins made over 500% this year and receive very little coverage, but there is no jealousy. Bitcoin created an entire cryptocurrency industry; not only would Bostoncoin not exist without BTC, but neither would 99% of the other projects in which we invest. We are nothing without Satoshi Nakamoto. All hail Bitcoin: may it live centuries longer than the Fed…

See you next month

JB

BOS NAV 27/08/2021

196.436682

BOS price 216.08035

MOM 8.01%

YOY 502.61%

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