Guías y explicaciones
Guías
Guías detalladas y en lenguaje sencillo para evaluar exchanges, proteger tu wallet y usar criptomonedas de forma segura.
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Beyond exchanges
Coin guides
Plain-English risk levels for the assets people ask about most — not investment advice, just what to know before you buy.
Bitcoin
Store of value
The original cryptocurrency and still the largest by market value, with over fifteen years of continuous operation and no successful attack on its core network.
Why this risk level
- Longest track record of any crypto asset by a wide margin
- Most decentralized and battle-tested validator (miner) set
- Still far more volatile than traditional stores of value like gold or bonds
Ethereum
Smart-contract platform
The leading platform for smart contracts and decentralized apps — most of DeFi, NFTs and stablecoin activity runs on it or a network derived from it.
Why this risk level
- Large, active developer ecosystem and the deepest liquidity outside Bitcoin
- Moved to proof-of-stake in 2022, cutting its energy use by well over 99%
- Network fees can spike sharply during congestion, and smart-contract bugs are a real risk for anything built on top
Stablecoins
Stablecoin
Tokens designed to track the value of a fiat currency, usually the US dollar — useful for moving value without crypto's usual price swings, but you're trusting the issuer's reserves.
Why this risk level
- Value is only as solid as the issuer's reserve backing and how often it's audited
- Major issuers publish reserve attestations at different frequencies and levels of detail — read them before relying on one
- A stable price is not the same as a risk-free asset; issuer or regulatory problems can still break the peg
Solana
Smart-contract platform
A high-throughput blockchain built for speed and low transaction fees, popular for trading apps and consumer-facing crypto products.
Why this risk level
- Has suffered multiple network outages over its history, some lasting hours
- Price has historically swung more sharply than Bitcoin or Ethereum across market cycles
- Faster and growing, but with a more concentrated validator set than Ethereum today
XRP
Payments
Designed for fast, low-cost cross-border settlement, and closely tied to Ripple, the company most associated with promoting it.
Why this risk level
- Years of US regulatory uncertainty preceded a 2023 court ruling that clarified some — not all — aspects of its legal status
- Price and trading volume are heavily influenced by the issuing company's own actions and announcements
- Real-world payment adoption claims are easy to overstate — read past the headlines
Dogecoin
Meme coin
Started in 2013 as a joke based on an internet meme, with no roadmap or scarcity mechanism comparable to Bitcoin's — its price is driven almost entirely by sentiment.
Why this risk level
- Unlimited supply — there is no maximum cap, unlike Bitcoin's fixed 21 million
- Price history is dominated by social-media-driven spikes and crashes
- Treat it as pure speculation on attention and sentiment, not an investment thesis