How To Make Money Trading Alt Coins...

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How To Make Money Trading Alt Coins An Introduction to Alt Coins The success of Bitcoin has opened many people's eyes to the possibility that virtual currency could gain mainstream acceptance. It offers a wide range of potential advantages over regular currency. These include lower fees for merchants (hence cheaper prices for consumers), the ability to transfer money to anyone, anywhere in the world without high bank transfer costs, the fact that it is international and not controlled by a national government, the opportunity to wrestle power and profits back from the wealthy bankers and put it into the hands of ordinary people, and the additional benefit that it is not inflationary - meaning that it does not lose its value over time like the dollars, pounds or other fiat currency which you own. Bitcoin itself, however, is far from perfect; it is the trailblazer, but perhaps not the finished product that will hit the big time. The distributed nature of Bitcoin, with no owners or central management team, whilst providing many benefits also means that there are limits to how much Bitcoin can be changed to reflect our growing knowledge of how virtual currency can be used and how we would like it to work. Problems include potential security concerns, slow transaction times, uneven distribution, the fact that one coin costs so much - a result of the limited number available - which means that small payments end up being a tiny and hard to read fraction of one coin, and limited functionality compared to what we now know is possible. As a result of this, a range of other virtual currencies have emerged which aim to solve the problems with Bitcoin and extend its functionality. Most have very small user-bases currently, but some are growing fast and could easily provide real competition for Bitcoin. If a virtual currency does become mainstream, it may well be one of these new alt coins rather than Bitcoin. Making Money as an Alt Coin Trader The growing, but still relatively undeveloped market for alt coins presents many opportunities for traders to make a profit. I should know - since becoming fascinated with the whole virtual currency phenomena just a couple of months ago I have started earning the largest part of my income from trading Bitcoins and the alt coins (the rest comes from writing on blogs and sites like Hubpages, and the odd freelance job). You can start trading and making money with just a small investment, and personally I think it is great fun. It is also much easier than forex trading or day trading on the stock markets - something which I tried a year or two ago and failed at miserably. There are two main reasons for this - firstly the fees you pay to trading platforms (or 'exchanges') tend to be quite low, and secondly you are not competing with financial institutions and professional traders (except the home-grown variety like me!). In this article I will walk you through some of the best ways to make money from trading alt coins. Before you start trading, however, you will obviously need to have some virtual currency to start trading with. Because there are more places to buy Bitcoin for regular fiat money it is probably easiest and best to start off by buying Bitcoins and then transfer them to an exchange where you can trade a good range of alt coins. Personally I think the best exchange for trading alt coins is Cryptsy, as the fees are very low (0.2 0.3%), there are over 60 different coins available to trade, and you earn reward points for being a


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