When you read that title, you pretty much understand what this article will talk about. If there are pump and dump schemes in the stock market, there are 10X the amount of schemes in the cryptocurrencies space. The penny cryptos are so easy to manipulate and the amount of dollars is so high and volatile, that makes it for an easy target for manipulation.

Back when Bitcoin cash started going up in value (while killing bitcoin core) a lot of people were suggesting that there was a pump and there would be a dump. So people aren’t exactly ignorant of reality. Now, in that case, it proved that in fact it was serious investors that believed Bitcoin cash had a better future than bitcoin core. But that’s a discussion for some other time.

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The Christmas holidays are coming up, and all you can hear and read online is blockchain, cryptocurrencies, bitcoin, ethereum and the list goes on. You are probably just focused on building up your real estate investments based on the advice provided in previous articles, but all you hear about is this blockchain technology taking over the world.

Is it really that way?

Well…I don’t know about taking over the world, but when Wall Street starts adding bitcoin futures to their market, then you know things are starting to get serious. There are so many cryptocurrencies that are used for monetary transactions, in a similar way bitcoin works (or Litecoin and all those other mimic coins.) If you have been reading articles such as this one here, you probably have heard of tokens being created that allow for transactions in the grocery industry, or sporting bets online, or even the stock market. We are witnessing the “tokenization” of – literally – everything.

But what about real estate?

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