Dividend Investor Insights: Four Income Investing Opportunities Offered by Cryptocurrencies

You are receiving this email because you signed up to receive our free e-letters, or you purchased a product or service from its publisher, Eagle Financial Publications. Four Income Investing Opportunities Offered by Cryptocurrencies 12/08/2023 [Sponsored Content [Discover AI Stocks Potentially Ready to Skyrocket in Value!](]( With AI's predicted surge to $2 trillion in just 7 years, now might be the prime time to invest. The most affluent future trillionaires? Those who master AI, says Mark Cuban. Don't miss out on our expertly curated list of the Top 5 AI Stocks set for potential monumental growth. [Act fast! Secure your FREE report now. Click Here!]( [Click Here...]([1pxtrans]( Four income investing opportunities offered by cryptocurrencies are not widely known but can be tapped by those who are drawn by the prospect of profiting from these nontraditional assets. The four income investing opportunities offered by cryptocurrencies feature a technique called staking that uses cryptocurrency to support blockchain network operations, collecting interest and dividends, as well as crypto lending. Additional methods exist to produce crypto-based income in other countries, but this investment column will focus on domestic opportunities. Four Income Investing Opportunities Offered by Cryptocurrencies: Staking Staking is an alternative way to earn income, rather than a direct dividend payout, said Tim Skousen, who takes the lead in offering cryptocurrency investment recommendations in the [TNT Trader]( advisory service. For investors, staking is similar to putting money in a bank and receiving interest that can be compounded. Skousen explained that staking allows investors in certain crypto currencies to collect 3-10%. Those who own those cryptocurrency coins can stake them to produce income but there is risk involved. “Let's say you bought some Ethereum (ETH) on Coinbase and plan on holding it for a long period of time,” Skousen said. “You can stake your ETH on the Ethereum Blockchain Network, which is similar to putting it in the "Bank of Ethereum," where it will earn 3.15% annually and it is compounded every few days. The Ethereum Network will then use your staked ETH much like a bank, lending it out to people looking to borrow ETH for a variety of projects.” Tim Skousen loves cryptocurrency investing and the outdoors. Four Income Investing Opportunities Offered by Cryptocurrencies: Illiquidity Risk A caveat is that it can take up to eight days to un-stake one’s ETH to get it back, said Skousen, who has helped his in the [TNT Trader]( advisory service subscribers profit with cryptocurrency trades. “So, if you needed your money right away, you would be forced to wait,” Skousen said. “The un-staking period for ETH is six days once the request is processed, which can take anywhere from one hour to 72 hours, depending on how much traffic is on the network.” Right now, Solana is paying 5%, while Cosmos and Polkadot both pay over 9%, Skousen told me. Each cryptocurrency that allows staking has a different un-staking period. Some require keeping a cryptocurrency staked for a minimum number of months, while others allow un-staking in 24 hours or less, he added. “The biggest risk, of course, is that while you are staked, if the value of the cryptocurrency plummets, you are unable to un-stake and sell for a period of time,” Skousen counseled. “So, I only stake coins I know I plan on holding through the ups and downs for a long period of time.” Even though staking generally pays the highest interest of the various income-producing crypto opportunities, it poses liquidity risk if the owners cannot “un-stake” in a timely fashion, Skousen said. It sometimes can take more than a week to regain possession of one’s cryptocurrency, he added. [[Four New Retirement Wipeouts Ahead](]( Four new wealth destroying disasters are hurtling towards your wealth. They could crush your estate as soon as next month... next week... even tomorrow. And each has the power to wipe out your retirement savings as well. 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But right now, you can find better places to make interest higher than 1.5%.” Coinbase is just one of many cryptocurrency exchanges that pay interest on cryptocurrency. Four Income Investing Opportunities Offered by Cryptocurrencies: Dividends There are a few dividend-paying cryptocurrencies available to U.S. investors. VeChain is one of them, Skousen counseled. “By owning it, they pay you a small dividend in the form of their VeThor token, which is a token they use within their network,” Skousen said. “The dividend rate is low, but if you like a crypto project like VeChain, which uses blockchain technology to provide provenances for all kinds of products, it's great that you get a bonus.” Their VeThor token can increase in value, as well, Skousen told me. So, if VeChain rises, the dividend increases in value, he added. [[A.I. Is Reshaping Investing: Are You Prepared?](]( Traditional investing is out the window – A.I. investing has arrived. 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Such a result would leave the lender without the crypto that someone else had borrowed. “This happened recently when Three Arrows Capital borrowed millions against their Bitcoin only to file bankruptcy,” Skousen said. “This is more of a high-risk, high-reward situation, so beware.” Four Income Investing Opportunities Offered by Cryptocurrencies: Double-Digit Gains Skousen partners on in the [TNT Trader]( advisory service with his father, Mark Skousen, PhD, who also heads the [Forecasts & Strategies]( investment newsletter and serves as an economics professor and presidential fellow at Chapman University in California. The [TNT Trader]( advisory service produced a 164.8% return on an 86-day investment in [Grayscale Bitcoin Trust]( (OTCMKTS GBTC) that closed in 2021. Mark Skousen, head of [Five Star Trader]( and scion of Ben Franklin, talks to Paul Dykewicz. Another successful trade involved Cosmos in March 2022, when an eight-day trade turned a profit of 3.35%. 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