Cryptocurrency Experiment - New Set of Coins, End of Year Update

Originally posted on Amdall Gallery, jonamdall.com. The posts on this Blogger site are condensed; check out the original website for the full write-up and images.
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As we approach the new year, the cryptocurrency markets are booming once again. It seems like all major altcoins are surging, and Bitcoin itself is approaching $20,000. At this point, my cryptocurrency purchase experiment is approaching the five month mark. I had purchased coins in three separate batches, but now I’ve just added a fourth. I had some cash that was just drifting in a Scottrade account, so I decided to move that into cryptocurrency. I’ve now got 35 total coins involved in this experiment. Before I go on about this update, let’s touch on some background.

Previous articles on this cryptocurrency experiment:

• Original article, August 2017
• Three week follow up, September 2017
• Three month update, November 2017
• Thanksgiving update, November 2017

I originally purchased 16 different coins in August 2017. A few weeks later, I bought five more bringing the total to 21. At the beginning of December, I made two more purchases. Adding the Bitcoin Gold I received from a BTC fork, that brought my total to 35 coins! Quite a few more than I initially planned, but I feel pretty good about this collection now. There were some coins, like Ripple, Waves, XLM, ADA, XSPEC, and others, that I just couldn’t stand by and not purchase; there was too much positive buzz on forums about them.

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