Hello good people,
today I wanna discuss with you a major topic about crytocurrency trading. How to evaluate if a coin is worth your hard earned money. In the following I will NOT talk about short term trading. Short term trading is driven by speculation rather than project value. What I want to talk about is the project value. And one major method to evaluate the codebase.
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Most project that we see that launch an ICO or are already on the exchanges are software projects. As any software developer knows, the code can tell you a lot about a project. Therefore one major thing you HAVE TO DO before you invest into the long-term value of a coin is to take a look into the source code of the Project. I did this for a few project an I will present you my results in the following. I will evaluate them in a scale from 0 to 5 with 0 = no value; 5 = high value.
1. ChainCoin ( CHC)
2. CannabisCoin (CANN)
3. SafeExchangeCoin (SEC)
Long term value: 0
Nice sounding idea but the project in no longer developed. More precisely since 9 months.
Same as above. Stay away for the long term.
4. Syndicate (SYNX)
I did this evalaution by using github.com and looking at the commits. Plz don't let the people fool u. In some cases .
The devs (like CHC) try to hide the non existing commits.
Plz open the commits and take a look into them. Even if you only have a small knowledge about programming you will see that they didn't commit real code. Just dummy text!!!
I would have loved to present to you some real software projects with a nice development. But the first 4 I looked into (mainly because of the YouTube HYPE) are failures.

