If youâre a crypto investor, take a lesson from Jeff Bezos. [RiskHedge Report] What crypto investors can learn from Jeff Bezos [Chris Reilly] By Chris Reilly - RiskHedge ***Â A lesson from Jeff Bezos
***Â Crypto fundamentals are off the charts
*** Stephenâs top crypto for the next 10 years  In 2001, Amazon stock was in freefall. Shares had plummeted over 90%. From its peak of $113 in 1999, it plunged all the way to $6 a share. And yet⦠founder Jeff Bezos wasnât breaking a sweat. He explained why, per CNBC: I liked our business, and I liked the fundamentals of our business, but I also knew that the stock price was disconnected from what we were doing on a day-to-day basis⦠â¦I had all the internal metrics on how many customers we had and I could see⦠People thought we were losing money.... I just knew it was a fixed cost business, and as soon as we reached a sufficient scale, we would have a very good business. Bezos reminded shareholders to focus on the big picture⦠not on AMZN stockâs wild price swings. FROM OUR PARTNERS. [FREE VIDEO REVEALS: Mauldin analyst answers, "What are Wealth Accelerators?" and how they could have transformed a $2.5k investment into a 7-figure retirement.]( The business was stronger than ever. But the price wasnât reflecting that. Investors who recognized this disparity and capitalized on it made a fortune. AMZN went on to soar 68,500% from its 2001 low⦠â¦turning every $1,000 invested into $685,000. And Iâll repeat what Bezos said above because itâs so darn important⦠Bezos knew AMZNâs stock price was disconnected from the companyâs fundamentals. It wasnât a time to panic. It was an opportunity to buy shares cheap⦠in order to profit from the companyâs explosive growth for years to come. Today, RiskHedge Chief Analyst Stephen McBride sees something similar taking place. Not in stocks⦠But in crypto. - In fact, he recently told Disruption Investor members: âIâve never seen as big a gap between price and fundamentals than I see right now.â Iâm sure you know itâs been a rough few months for crypto. Over $1 trillion has been wiped off its total market cap since November. Bitcoin, the worldâs largest crypto, has fallen 15% this year. Ethereum, the next largest crypto, is down 25%. And many smaller names are down even more. Stephenâs guidance? Similar to Bezos back in 2000â2001. Donât stress over price swings. Instead, focus on the big picture. Crypto FUNDAMENTALS are stronger than ever. Just look at Ethereumâs latest âquarterly resultsâ¦â Of course, Ethereum isnât a company, so it doesnât have true âresultsâ like a publicly traded stock. But as Stephen says, it is a real business, making real money⦠And right now, the business is firing on all cylinders. - Ethereumâs revenues hit $4.34 billionâa 17X surge compared to Q4 2020.
- Total transaction volume jumped 9X to $3.2 trillion in Q4 2021. Ethereum now handles more volume than Visa, Mastercard, and PayPal.
- MetaMask, the leading Ethereum wallet, has over 21 million monthly active users. Thatâs up from just two million at the end of 2020.
- Decentralized finance (DeFi) apps built on Ethereum have $115 billion in âassets under management.â Thatâs a 3X jump from $35 billion last January.
- Non-fungible token (NFT) art sales, most of which happen on Ethereum, soared over 50,000% to $36 billion last quarter, compared with $72 million in Q4 2020. And yet⦠Ethereum trades at roughly $2,700, the same price it was last September. Of course, you canât âchartâ fundamentals like you can price. But according to Stephen, if you could, itâd look something like this: The price is a roller coaster. Thatâs a given in crypto, the most volatile asset class on Earth. But if you value Ethereum as a business, youâll see itâs stronger than itâs ever been. And itâs not just Ethereum. Stephen explains: You see this incredible growth across quality crypto assets, like Helium (HNT). Helium is a crypto business building a new type of wireless network. Its hotspot routers reach about 200X further than a standard Wi-Fi connection. Helium started last year with just 15,000 hotspots. Thatâs surged 35X over the past year to 520,000. Yet, Helium is trading at a 50% discount to where it was back in November. Bottom line? - If youâre interested in investing in crypto, nowâs the timeâwhile the gap in price to fundamentals is so wide. Stephen recommends Ethereum as his âslam dunk, no brainerâ crypto rec. He told meââIf I had to buy and hold just one crypto for the next 10 years, itâs Ethereum, hands down.â Ethereum is worth about $345 billion today. Bitcoin is worth roughly $765 billion. Stephen predicts 2022 will be the year Ethereum overtakes bitcoin as the #1 crypto asset: Bitcoin allowed anyone to send and receive money on the internet, without middlemen, for the first time ever. Thatâs revolutionary. But bitcoin is a finished product. All itâll ever be is digital cash. Ethereum, on the other hand, is a fountain of innovation. Itâs the âbase layerâ on top of which programmers are building world-changing disruptive businesses. Even better, Ethereum makes money from all this activity happening on its blockchain. Roughly $25 billion of value settles on Ethereum every day. It now collects $40 million in daily transaction fees. Thatâs 40X greater than bitcoin. If you do buy some Ethereum, just remember one key idea. Donât stress over the day-to-day price swings. Have a long-term outlook. And keep the fundamentals front and center. - And if youâre after even more upside in crypto, youâll need to look beyond Ethereum⦠Thatâs where RiskHedge Venture, Stephenâs crypto advisory, comes in. In Venture, Stephen targets tiny âPhase 2â cryptos that have the potential to appreciate by at least 1,000%. This means heâs not recommending bitcoin, or Ethereumâtheyâre far too large. Most Phase 2 cryptos, some of which trade for less than a penny, donât trade on popular crypto exchanges⦠This means RiskHedge Venture readers can get in earlyâbefore most of the public knows these cryptos exist. There are currently seven Phase 2 crypto recommendations in the RiskHedge Venture portfolio, and each one is a strong buy today according to Stephen. If youâd like to discover more about Phase 2 cryptos and how to join RiskHedge Venture, [click here](. Chris Reilly
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