99% of People Losing Money in Crypto Fall into These 2 Traps: Are You Falling for Them?


In the crypto world, most people who lose money fall into the same two familiar traps.
One is to hold onto the "zombie coins" waiting for a revival, and the other is to get stuck with the "infinite inflation coins" that suck the blood of investors. I almost lost 20,000 USDT just because I didn't see the nature clearly. Today I share directly — so that you no longer fall into this trap.
1. First Group: Zombie Coin
This is the type of coin that you can tell at a glance… it's dangerous.
Clear identification signs:
Obsolete technology, code not updated for several years.
The community is in a state of clinical death: Telegram has had no messages for a week, and Twitter is all about "hanging a goat's head to sell dog meat" — one day boasting about AI, another talking about the Metaverse, but in reality, there are no actual products or real progress.
The risk of being delisted at any time.
Last year, I held an altcoin, and one morning I woke up and opened the app to find a delisting notice. The price plummeted to 0 in a day, and I didn't have time to sell a penny.
The fate of zombie coins:
No team, no development, no liquidity.
The longer you hold, the capital does not increase but only… gradually wears away like a "digital souvenir" ticket.
You don't lose because of the market, you lose because the project has been dead for a long time.
2. Group Two: Unlimited Inflation Coins – Invisible ATM
This is the type of coin that causes most investors to "burn their pockets."
How they work:
The project team releases tokens like printing paper money; whenever they are unlocked, they are sold.
Early investors are also rushing to withdraw, leaving retail investors to bear the brunt.
Tokens are continuously inflating, the longer you hold them, the more they lose value.
Practical example:
OMG dropped from 20 USD to 0.2 USD — down 99%.
STRAT is even worse, almost disappearing from the market radar.
Every time FIL is unlocked, investors are "slaughtered".
You think a low price is an opportunity to buy the dip. But in reality, the money you invest is the profit of the manipulators.
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