Cryptocurrency Investing
Step-By-Step Guide to Benefit from Crypto by Investing Long Term and Trading Short Term Following the Smart Money Strategies on DeFi Blockchains.
by John Bax · 2026 edition · Ebook & Paperback
- Instant download
- Read on any device
- Secure payment by Stripe
Read it, or get your money back
Buy the book. If it is not for you, ask for a full refund within 30 days — no reason needed, no questions asked.
What you will learn
- What blockchain is, and why it changed the world
- Why Bitcoin and Ethereum are unique
- How to use crypto wallets
- What Centralized Exchanges (CEXs) are, and how to use them
- Altcoin classification: layer 1 coins, layer 2 tokens, stablecoins, exchange tokens, memecoins, wrapped tokens and more
- What Decentralized Finance (DeFi) is, and the opportunities in it
- What Decentralized Exchanges (DEXs) are, and how to use them
- The difference between investing long term and speculating short term
- How to run fundamental analysis on a crypto project and pick your assets
- How to assess your own risk tolerance
- How to build a balanced portfolio with a strong crypto presence
- How to invest using Dollar-Cost Averaging (DCA)
- How to rebalance your portfolio
- What Smart Money is, and why it matters
- What on-chain analysis is
- Our 5-step approach to short-term speculation by following the Smart Money
Three steps, in order, each one assuming only the one before
- STEP 01
The basics of the crypto industry
What a blockchain is and why it changed the world, why Bitcoin and Ethereum are unlike everything that followed, and how a wallet works. Then exchanges, and the different kinds of coins and tokens sorted out properly — layer 1 coins, layer 2 tokens, stablecoins, exchange tokens, memecoins, wrapped tokens — before DeFi and the decentralized exchanges built on it.
- STEP 02
How to invest in crypto for the long term
How to judge a project on its fundamentals rather than its noise. How to work out your own tolerance for risk. How to build a balanced portfolio, invest into it with Dollar-Cost Averaging, and rebalance it as things move.
- STEP 03
How to earn in the short term by following the Smart Money
On-chain analysis, explained from the beginning: what the blockchain shows about who is buying, how to read it, and the 5-step approach to speculating over the short term by following what the best investors are doing with their own money.
Smart Money, explained the simple way
You have probably heard the term. Here is what it actually means, in one paragraph, with nothing assumed.
On a blockchain, every purchase is public. Not what people say they are buying — what they actually bought, with their own money, at what time.
Some of those buyers are right far more often than everyone else: funds, professional desks, individuals who have been early several times over. They are the ones the industry calls Smart Money. Their buying is visible weeks before it becomes a headline, and it is visible to you too, if you know where to look.
The book's last part is about exactly that, and it is written in the same plain language as the rest. Nothing here requires charts, indicators or technical analysis.
Where to look
Reading a blockchain: which movements mean something, and which are noise.
Who to follow
How to spot a Smart Money wallet, and how to check whether it has actually been right before.
What to do
The 5-step approach: how to turn what you have seen on-chain into a decision you can act on.
Reviews from every edition, in every language
Take it now for the price of two coffees
The same book, in the format you prefer. The ebook is sold and delivered by us; the paperback is printed and shipped by Amazon.
Read it now
The same book is €12.95 in paperback.
- The download link is emailed to you straight away
- Reads on phone, tablet, Kindle or desktop
- 2026 edition, updated throughout
- Secure payment by Stripe — no account needed
- Full refund within 30 days if it is not for you
Prefer it on paper?
Sold by Amazon, not by us.
- Printed and shipped by Amazon
- Free delivery where Prime applies
- Same content as the ebook
- Available in all four languages