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Luno Referral Code: HFCCY
This is a full-on Luno Malaysia Review. If you’re here looking for a referral and promo code to use for your sign-up, you can use my code HFCCY, you will get RM75 worth of Bitcoin when you buy RM250 or more. That’s an instant 30% return on your investment. This is valid forever as of now so don’t worry. I will update this if and when it is no longer available. Sign up hERE.
ETH Staking is finally here!
If you do not understand ETH’s staking, which takes the form of PoS – proof of stake, you can find out more hERE. You can understand the basics here and of course, there are more technical ways to get your ETH to work for you out there ie. Liquid staking. Some exchanges even provide you with a pegged token once you’ve staked and you can then use said pegged tokens for other uses. But for Luno’s case, it is a straightforward proof of stake.
A keyword to understand:
ARP (Annual Rewards Percentage) – This is your net returns per annum, fees will have already been calculated and what you see is what you get on Luno.
For more information on staking and rewards on Luno, try this link hERE.
I will be clawing back and moving the ETH I have around the crypto-verse and hard wallets and moving them to Luno. Staking is a huge step for our local exchange. Why Luno? I’ve got the protection of our SC and personally, I know how hard it was for Luno to get staking set up on our shores.
I’ll also continue to share the staking returns monthly or bi-monthly here.
How to Stake on Luno
- Go to your wallet then select STAKE
- Create an Ethereum Staking wallet
- Enter the amount of Ethereum you’d like to stake then select NEXT
- Confirm the amount of Ethereum to be staked and click STAKE NOW
- Earn Ethereum rewards every week.
If you’re new to Luno and have been waiting for staking to come to us, please feel free to sign up using my link hERE.
My Luno promo code: HFCCY
You get RM75 when you purchase RM250 worth of crypto. I’ve included more information on this below.
My Crypto Portfolio on Luno
My latest Luno portfolio, which makes up the bulk of my crypto assets will be updated here. Previous updates can be found at the end of this article.
Moving forward, I’ll be updating my crypto portfolio on a monthly/bi-monthly basis here.
2025 Crypto Update
January update 🚀
Gross investment: RM46,000 (moved RM30K ETH to Luno)
Market value: RM150,415
Capital gain: +226.98%
Previous profit: RM50,000 (approximately)
Not much change in total value since the end of last year. However, I’ve sold another RM10K worth of bitcoin and currently holding only 0.18 BTC.
I think we’re looking at a significant positive change for crypto in the coming years, with the US being very crypto-friendly. I’ll be looking to use my RM39K in cash to buy into more crypto when the price is right.
Really bummed that ETH isn’t performing as it should be as a significant portion of my crypto portfolio is in ETH. I’m sure it’ll catch up though.
If you’ve been missing out and think crypto’s future looks good, it may be time to go ahead and sign up with Luno. Don’t forget to use my referral code! Make sure to do your own due diligence though.
As always, volatility is almost synonymous with crypto. I’ve documented my returns all here on this page itself.
Luno has also upped its sign-up rewards. It is now RM75 for new registration and you only have to spend RM250 on an instant buy transaction when you use my code: HFCCY. That’s 30% guys!
We were at RM50 for RM500 previously. Please take advantage of this if you haven’t signed up.
You can find my previous portfolio updates at the bottom of the page.
My stock investment portfolio can be found hERE.
My Take – Luno Malaysia Review
Who Is Luno Malaysia?
If you’re into cryptocurrencies and you live in Malaysia, chances are you’ve heard of Luno Malaysia. They’re the largest cryptocurrency exchange in Malaysia.
As of May 2021, Luno Malaysia offers the following cryptocurrencies:
- Bitcoin (BTC)
- Ethereum (ETH)
- Ripple (XRP)
- Litecoin (LTC)
- Bitcoin Cash (BCH)
Is Luno Safe? Is Luno Legit?
Safety-wise, Luno is the first regulated cryptocurrency exchange in Malaysia. And that’s saying something.
They’re regulated by SC so there’s really nothing for us to worry about fraud from Luno as an exchange.
A cyber attack however is something entirely different. Attacks and hacks on an exchange can happen and has happened in the past. But then again, there’s really nothing we can do about it.
As of now, if you’re a Malaysian and looking for a crypto exchange, I’d say Luno is your safest bet. I have the majority of my coins stored with Luno.
Moving your Crypto to Luno
I have recently moved all my coins – Bitcoin, Ethereum and Bitcoin Cash to Luno’s platform.
The process was surprisingly simple and easy. Bear in mind that this is my first time sending / receiving coins.
It took around an hour for all my cryptocurrencies to arrive as they require confirmations on the blockchain.
As of today, my total crypto portfolio stands at RM3,808. For a roughly 1.5 year period, my return is about 200%.
I’ll be using Luno as a wallet to stash all my cryptocurrencies from this point on as well as an exchange to buy/sell.
The user interface is spot on and the support I’ve received from them with my inquiries has been outstanding.
Luno’s Wallet
Keeping your hard-earned bitcoins and other cryptos on Luno Malaysia itself is something all users can do. I myself do that but as my holdings grow in size, I will be thinking of moving them to a standalone wallet, maybe even an offline one.
Luno’s wallet is what is known as a custodial wallet. This means that your private keys are stored by a third party, in this case – Luno. Placing your coins in a custodial wallet is similar to the principles of placing your cash in a bank. The money remains yours, but you do not fully control your money when it is in their hands.
Advantages
- Interest generating. Some exchanges/custodians are giving you money to store your coins with them. Think of your coins as being used as a sort of money market fund. Hoping to see this come to Luno in the near future.
- Convenience. You’re able to manage all your funds in one place and at any time.
- You won’t lose or forget your private key and access to your coins.
Disadvantages
- The custodian has control over your money.
- Your coins can be seized by a court decision.
- If the wallet gets hacked, you may lose your coins.
Before you cry foul and move all your coins to your own private wallet, Luno actually has three layers of security for their wallets and your coins. The first layer is the industry standard where an external custodian secures the keys. This is for practical reasons otherwise moving funds would take too long.
The second and third layer is where the security intensifies and where the bulk of the coins are stored. Luno actually practices what they term ”deep freeze storage”. Essentially, the private key is broken up and stored in different places around the world.
For the reasons above, you may want to have a percentage of your coins with Luno and another in your own private wallet. If you plan to just hold for a very long time, keeping it on your own wallet would make more sense. Just don’t forget your keys.
However, if and when Luno announces the interest bearing feature, I think a lot of bitcoin holders will see value in keeping their coins with Luno.
As for security on your own side, please, please set up 2-Factor Authentication for your accounts. Better safe than sorry especially if you’ve got a significant percentage in cryptocurrencies.
Luno Malaysia’s Fees – Post Order Only
First off, sending and receiving your cryptocurrencies. When you receive, Luno doesn’t charge a fee. When you send, you’re charged a fee.
When actually buying and selling on Luno’s exchange, to save on fees, forget instant buy/sell and instead, do a post order. Tick the ”post-only order” and you’ll see the difference in your fees.
Right at the bottom, tick that. You won’t instantly get your coins if you’re buying, instead, set a price close to the market price. Creating a post-only order ensures that you won’t have to pay a taker fee. An order will only be added to the order book if it does not match with a pre-existing order. If it does, it will be canceled.
Besides that, to get a full picture of other fees, you can visit Luno’s page on it hERE.
Why Bitcoin?
As always, prior research and due diligence on your part is required before making investments. For any asset class.
I’ve been monitoring cryptocurrencies, especially Bitcoin on and off for a few years now and I have my reasons for investing in it.
My first venture into cryptocurrency was back in December 2018. I invested USD 288 (or approximately RM1,256) back then.
Back in August 2020, my portfolio stood at RM3,808.
Cryptocurrency investment has been one of my biggest regrets. I regret not having put more money here. Of course, hindsight is always 20-20 but nonetheless, it is one of many regrets for me.
BITCOIN AS A STORE OF VALUE
Firstly, I see bitcoin as digital gold. As we transition to a digital economy, bitcoin will eventually challenge gold as a global store of value.
Like gold, bitcoin is limited in its supply. Bitcoin is limited to only 21 million. Forever. Not only is bitcoin scarce and durable like gold, but bitcoin also improves upon many of physical gold’s characteristics. Bitcoin is divisible, verifiable, portable, and transferable.
If bitcoin were to take just a 10% share of the physical gold market, we could see its value increase 5X to $1 trillion.
With the continuous printing of money, bitcoin has been viewed as an asset similar to gold in the modern world as a hedge against inflation. A good article on this can be read hERE.
BITCOIN’S POTENTIAL
My next reason for investing in bitcoin is its sheer potential upside. There are many theories and thoughts on bitcoin’s adoption as a currency. Or even as a global settlement network for banks as businesses.
We’ve already seen PayPal recently move in that direction. Payment systems like Square Inc have bought into bitcoin. The potential is there. Unlike gold, gold has already plateaued whereas bitcoin’s potential is still vast.
I’ll be looking closely at Bitcoin and Ethereum especially moving forward. Although volatile in nature, with bigger upside potential, I’ll prefer buying Bitcoin to Gold when it comes to hedging.
Luno Malaysia Best Referral Code (RM75)
As part of a collaboration with Luno Malaysia, we’ve come up with the perfect promotion for new users wanting to invest in Bitcoin.
Using the following referral code – HFCCY, you will get RM75 worth of Bitcoin when you buy RM250 or more. That’s an instant 30% return on your investment. Sign up hERE.
If you’ve been wanting to own some Bitcoins, now is really the time to start.
Unfortunately, this promo and referral code is for new users only. Also, make sure you use Luno’s instant buy (instead of a post-order) function to be eligible for this code.
After signing up, you enter the promo code as follows:
For mobile users, head to the Rewards tab at the bottom and enter the code: HFCCY
For desktop users, the Rewards tab is on the top right, enter the promo code: HFCCY
In short, to be eligible for the RM75 promo and referral code, you have to:
1. Register as a new Luno Malaysia customer;
2. Enter my Luno promo code: HFCCY (BEFORE you make a deposit into your Luno account);
3. Make a purchase of at least RM250; and
4. Make sure the purchase is through Luno’s Instant Buy feature.
The full promo rules can be accessed hERE.
Please go through them carefully to meet the criteria for that RM75.
My Verdict – Luno Malaysia Review
I’ll be moving more of my cash into Luno and increasing the size of my crypto portfolio in the future when the price is right. At least that’s the plan right now.
Just as how I prefer to purchase a mother share over warrants and how I prefer to buy shares of the main company over its subsidiaries, I’ll be focusing more on Bitcoins compared to other coins.
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Previous Updates
2024 Crypto Update
November/December update 🚀
Gross investment: RM46,000 (moved RM30K ETH to Luno)
Market value: RM151,212
Capital gain: +228.72%
Previous profit: RM50,000 (approximately)
One month in after Trump’s win and we’re up by another RM40,000. Looks like I wasn’t so smart to sell about RM30K worth of BTC earlier. I will however continue and sell a little as BTC just hit USD100,000.
Really bummed that ETH isn’t performing as it should be as a significant portion of my crypto portfolio is in ETH. I’m sure it’ll catch up though.
Consolidated my other crypto holdings and switched them out for ETH and staked them on Luno for now.
2023 Crypto Update
December update 🚀
Gross investment: RM14,441
Market value: RM38,372
Capital gain: +165.171%
Previous profit: RM50,000 (approximately)
End of the year update to my crypto. As mentioned in November, I sold about half of my BTC holdings.
Whatever remains now is pure profit and I will continue to add bit by bit every month when (I think) the price is right.
We’re sitting on a nice 165% in profit right now for the crypto portfolio. We’ll see where the ETFs and halving events bring us in the next few months!
2022 Crypto Update
October update 🚀
Gross investment: RM22,379
Market value: RM35,827
Capital gain: +60.1%
Alright! As you may or may not have noticed, added about 2k worth of BTC in October. Didn’t pan out so well as BTC dipped again. But I’ll be continuously adding in monthly or bi-monthly for now.
I do believe we are almost at the bottom already and that crypto has established itself as an asset class over the years.
2021 Crypto Update
December update 🚀
Gross investment: RM10,273
Market value: RM67,004
Capital gain: +552.23%
Let’s see where the next wave will take us.
2020 Crypto Update
RM111,907 per Bitcoin. I actually made a short term trade, selling at RM79K and buying again at RM77K. A little profit there to add to my crypto portfolio.
Gross Investment: RM13,808
Market Value: RM34,424
Capital Gain/Loss: +149.30%
Of course, a little remorse and regret at not having put a little more money in. But, seeing as it is within my target of 1-10% of my investment portfolio, I’m grateful.
First Started – September 2020
I’ll calculate my gross investment as RM3,808. It’s a rough estimate as this includes mining and unfortunately, I did not keep track of those properly back when I started in 2019.
Gross Investment: RM3,808
Market Value: RM5,528
Capital Gain/Loss: 45%
Bitcoin’s price today is at RM44,876 per bitcoin.
My total crypto portfolio stands at RM5,528.
It comprises of:
- 0.083395 BTC – RM3,742
- 1.200000 ETH – RM1,781
- 0.003866 BCH – RM4
Update 30 April 2020
As of 30 April 2020, my crypto portfolio worth RM3,808 consists of the following.
- Bitcoin – RM2,763
- Ethereum – RM1,039
- Bitcoin Cash – RM4
Crypto Mining in the Past
Older readers of mine may also remember my crypto mining days.
My most recent update of cryptocurrencies was back in December 2018 when had about USD 288 (or approximately RM1,256). I have not made any additional investments since then.