Investițiile în criptomonede și NFT

Abstract

Criptocurrency is a digital currency in which transactions are verified and recorded by a decentralized system using cryptography, rather than by a centralized authority. This ones attracted people from simple investors to academic people to do many researches about how this market works and how can be a modern alternative to our actual currency market which is formed from currencies of each traded country. This market started to develop in august 2008 and has a real growth in 2011 when apeared other criptocurrencies near principal currency – Bitcoin. After that, in january 2021 on this market the global cap exceedes 1 trillion dollars and was in a continue growth durring the first qurter of 2021 until his global cap reached the number of 2 trillion dollars. After all, in 2015 apeared the first mention about NFT in blockchain register of Ethereum. This ones has a special particularity compared to existing cryptos until then- the lack of need to store or hold an asset, which leads to a certain degree of anonymity south by a large number of investors, and the speed of training of assets. Therefore, the goal of this is to find the main factors that determine the growth of investments in this market, especialy when this market is a little bit sensitive after the fall from May 2022, when Terra token fell in 48 hours by approximately 99.8 %. In this context, the results once again convinced us that many of investors see this market an oportunity to invest where and when they want, to make fast transactions whithout paying exorbitant bank fees, anonymity of transactions and last but not least curiosity. CZU: [336.74:004.056.55]:657.422.1 JEL: M41, M13, M14, F18; DOI: https://doi.org/10.53486/issc2023.49