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Price prediction
A price prediction is someone's claim about what a coin might be worth at a future date, often a round number by a given year. Nobody can know a future price, so a prediction is an opinion, not a measurement.
What it means for you. Cryptominium does not predict prices. The CFTC warns that claims of high or certain returns are red flags of fraud, and not to buy a coin because of a single tip on social media. A prediction tells you what someone believes, or wants you to believe, not what the coin can actually be sold for today.
Sources: CFTC: Customer Advisory Cautions the Public to Beware of Artificial Intelligence Scams, CFTC: Beware Virtual Currency Pump-and-Dump Schemes · checked 4 October 2026
Pump and dump
A pump and dump is a scheme where organizers hype a little-known coin to push its price up quickly (the pump), then sell their own holdings into that buying (the dump). The price usually falls as fast as it rose, leaving late buyers with losses.
What it means for you. Countdown messages in chat groups, sudden spikes in a thinly traded coin, and stories about a famous backer are the signs regulators list. The organizers have usually bought before the announcement, so anyone buying on the signal is buying from them. Coins with little trading can be hard to sell at the shown price once the selling starts.
Source: CFTC: Customer advisory, beware virtual currency pump-and-dump schemes · checked 4 October 2026