Dude, there’s definitely risk if you’re thinking about putting real money into pi cryptocurrency. I know people love the idea of turning $100 into a ton of cash, but with pi, it’s honestly not clear you’ll get anything back. From everything I’ve read and heard, you can’t even actually invest cash straight into pi right now the way you would with Bitcoin or Ethereum. The point is to mine coins for free on your phone.

If someone online tells you to send them money to "invest in pi," run the other way. That’s super sketchy, and you could totally lose it all. Even once pi becomes tradeable on exchanges (whenever that actually happens), there’s no guarantee the value will even go up. There’s just a chance all those coins will end up being worth almost nothing.

I’ve seen “investment” pages promising crazy profits with pi already — those seem way too good to be true. There’s always risk in crypto, but with pi, it feels extra uncertain because it’s not even out yet for real trading. My advice as a fellow teenager: don’t risk any money you can’t afford to lose. Play it safe and stick to stuff you actually understand.

Life is alll about risk