There are more and more new cryptocurrencies with proof of stake that not only increase in value but also pay for hodling. I own NEO, Lisk and Steem that are quite different between each other but all allow to earn some extra buck of passive income.
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Before hard fork I bought some amount of these tree coins. Lets just say that I spend the most money on Lisk and the least on NEO. Ok, now let's look how much are they worth.
| Coin | Bought at | ROI |
|---|---|---|
| NEO | 6-7$ | +420% |
| Lisk | 1.7-2.4$ | +45% |
| Steem | 1-1.7$ | +4% |
Looking at the data there is no doubt than NEO is the clear winner by far. Lisk provided with also quite nice grow for less than 2 months, while steem didn't move much.
Now let's compare passive earnings. NEO for example pay for stacking in GAS that can be then sold back to NEO, Lisk delegates pay you some percentage of their earnings, while steem provide many ways for income. One can write post, comments, videos, get paid for upvote, resteem, delegating power and so on. When it comes to NEO the situation is clear cut. You hold NEO in wallet and get GAS as reward. It's similar with Lisk, while I'm not sure my calculation is 100% correct since I did some changes with my votes not so long ago. I will post update if anything changes. In a way it's difficult to measure Steem because we can do so many things, but if I have to stay true to my word and compare only passive income then I can take into the account only the amount I get for delegating my steem power.
| Coin | earnings per day | earnings per month |
|---|---|---|
| NEO | 2.43$ | 73$ |
| Lisk | 2.16$ | 65$ |
| Steem | 1.68$ | 50$ |
It's interesting to see that NEO despite huge ROI difference provide just little bit more of stacking earnings as the other two. looking back it sure would be best to buy more NEO but looking forward I'm not so sure. I just can't see it increasing more than 5 x in a year while I can imagine Steem en specialy Lisk increasing up to 7-10x in same amount of time. If this happen passive earnings would surpass NEO. This does't mean Im planing on selling my NEO any time soon, but I probably wont buy more.
Keep in mind this is not investment advice. You should do your own research before investing.