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To all those saying altcoin season won't likely happen, in January 2018 altcoin season was able to triggered because bitcoin was done for at 19k to 20k at the time, this time bitcoin isn't done yet, you can see that dominance is increasing too, it might take longer than expect, stop expecting history to repeat itself in same ways like 2017

Altcoin season will also come just hold tight, im sure when btc forms new peak and then settles down at that very point we can expect alt season to take off but seems like we have to wait around 6 months more for that.

Alt-coin season in this new year may not materialize or do more than what it did in 2020, alt-coiner don't think Bitcoin increase or not will bring back alt-coin season, I never first hand followed the alt-coin season I was not in the crypto-currency coven yet, but it may just be something that happened and alt-coiners should get abreast with the reality of it not happening as it did.

Nothing will be different, the whales know what they are doing, it is possible they have not trapped  people into positions they want the way they do in 2018, What I see is that people are not really dumping their Altcoins unlike 2018 because they believe the time for Altcoins to pump is coming

Altcoin season could still be 12 months away, we usually see a crazy alt run AFTER the bitcoin top has been seen & it pops. People run into alts when bitcoin is bleeding out after its top. The bitcoin bull run has only just started kicking in, alt season will come of course but could be 6-12 months away.

Yeah, just as your title says. This time is truly different around. Just as bitcoin have crossed $20k then the other alts should have followed it already. And while it's pushing towards $30k, we've never seen Ethereum pushed for $800 but this time, it will for sure. This is no time to waste for stacking more sats while you can. Bitcoin seems not going to stop and if it ever stops, we'll still see a high price by that time. The support that it gets everyday is keep increasing.

I don't expect altcoins to behave like they do in 2017, back then investors are looking to be an early birds of altcoins so they buy a lot of these altcoins in the hope that it's value will increase just like Bitcoin, but they ended up losing money, now investors knows the direction where Bitcoin is going and they know what coins are they going to support. 

That's possible to happen but I don't expect altcoin bullish trend can happen easily. People were starting to move their assets into the bitcoin and we can see that how ethereum was loosing more and more its value in bitcoin pair.
It's very difficult to attract them all to go back to the altcoins again. There are so many big predictions and the price of bitcoin can easily increasing a lot too.
It seems like we need at least another quarter to see how altcoin will be performing in the market.

Honestly people arent selling their altcoins for Bitcoin this time unlike 2017, how will whales corner the investors? The reason why bitcoin keeps pumping is because new money is flowing into Bitcoin, many are buying, in 2017 many altcoin holders are forced to sell for Bitcoin and whales sees that as an opportunity

People should expect that things could go on differently, if crypto always repeats its history then we'll all be warren buffet but nah things could always went wrong . The main trigger for bull run back then was the massive ICO that spawning sporadically in which pushing alts forward to get those market dominance.
This time around, everything seems more calm and people are cool headed and not randomly investing to any alts out there.

You are definitely right, crypto will remain unpredictable still, no matter what, ICO era is dead gone and there is nothing doing so good for altcoins right now, IEO is even more quiet than ever so all eye are definitely on bitcoin this time around, many altcoin holders are holding on their altcoins thinking altcoin season will come soon but we do need something to trigger it

In order for altcoin season to happen we really need Bitcoin dominance to go down. I think if it could come down to low 50% we would be getting somewhere.

As of now, most of the money is going straight to Bitcoin.

Bitcoin is the main hot cake asset right now, as you can see bitcoin dominance isn't coming down at all, it shows that all money coming into crypto are aiming for Bitcoin right now, altcoins won't stand a better chance if Bitcoin dominance isn't decreasing, we may have to wait for long before we see dominance start going down

What I have learned during these years with crypto is to stop fearing and in the same time to stop expecting, if you do any financial trade or investment just think deeply before hitting the submit order button, once that step is done there's no more thinking, only passionates about crypto will get this point. You can't say that there will be no altcoins season, wait and you will see.

All those who talk about 2017 do not understand what happened, because the price has risen madly in that year, but it has risen stronger in previous years, such as 2013 and 2015.
There are no cycles in which the price repeats and breaks all the peaks, but there are price levels that we need for several years to reach.
Bitcoin will be different this year and prices will not be as 2017 but we will not see rises in 2021

This time it will be different. Institutional investors came to the market with their large capital, which was primarily invested in bitcoin. And we see that his preferences do not change, which is a consequence of such a long growth of BTC. When we see that money from bitcoin begins to flow into altcoins, then the season of altcoins will begin.

History can repeat itself but the situation can be different too. We cant rely on the past history because we need concrete basis to say if altcoin season is near to happen.

It will definitely occur but in no specific timeframe thus its better to have our own analysis on the market. We need to be more wise this time with our investment so always buy low and sell at high price.

Thus if you already fill your bags with worthy coins (even the alt season takes longer time) you're already prepared and just waiting for it to happen.

From my perspective, people who have been in the crypto and blockchain space for years are just expecting history to repeat itself what happened in 2017 because they already learned their lessons, and they don't want to experience having a considerable amount of losses again. It is why many people are all happy today because bitcoin and other altcoins haven't dropped their prices like last time due to mass adoption.

We just have to wait for that to happen and trust that we have invested on the right crypto currency. There are many blockchain games right now like lightbringer that gives good development for Litecoin. As well as many things that will happen with many alts for this year. Indeed this would be a good year for the alts and all we need to do is to continue supporting them. Do not falter as we can definitely be able to make it someday.

The price of Bitcoin at the moment was really has a big different now dude. Yesterday, highest peak price value of Bitcoin was
34k$ almost close to 35k$ each then suddenly the price dumped a little bit in the market and now getting back once more
in the market. So, it is really a better idea to hold bitcoin this year.

Fear is a very natural thing to think about, especially for those who have lost in mid-2018 to 2019, automatically that fear will suddenly appear in their mind when they want to start investing in some Altcoins, even though it is very appropriate to do so at the time this.

This time it's different but there will still be a bear market in time. Today is different they say because there is adoption already which governments had already accepted BTC. But history keeps repeating. I can't say it's completely different but all in all, what comes up will also come down. We'all have to prepare for it so what you need is just to watch out and be ready to turn your profit into stablecoin.

I was not expecting it. That's a wiser way to avoid stress.  ;)
There is no such thing as altcoin season anymore.
How many years had it been?
Bitcoin kept on moving with dumps and pumps but every alt won't even move an inch.
I guess we could say some investors had learned their lessons. Stay with old and lesser risk.

Recently altcoins price have raised perfectly and alt price continuously rising too. Alt season doesn't mean that bitcion will get dump and alts will rise only. The recent price change of many top altcoins prove that they aren't lagging behind. Though compared to bitcion, alts haven't passed it's previous ATH price. But alts aren't far away. Ethereum is a great example for that. As you said 'things will be different this time', we may see both bitcion and altcoin price moving upward together.

Looking at the current market situation and impressive show by the bulls Im expecting bullish momentum to only grow in coming months and due to institutional money flowing in to the crypto market the bulls will be bigger than ever this time around.

You cant blame out people not to have those kind presumptions about history to repeat itself.We cant remove on someones mind into those things that theyve been thinking.
Even myself do still doubt for this kind of rise, we cant just expect that it would continue and able to reach up heights without any some sort of hard correction.
Its neither a yes or no for things to happen after this run.This might be a different or would be just the same on what we had saw in the past.
If we do try to compere the level of adoption and acceptance then its quite obvious and evident.

Which governments have accepted bitcoins? I may not be too updated about this, but if a large company is trying to enter the cryptocurrency world I believe, like Facebook which has its own coins for payment, this is a great development for cryptocurrency compared to previous years.

I don't know myself about this either, with the entry of cryptocurrency into Facebook, of course it is a positive step,
and hopefully it can be followed by other big companies because it's good for cryptocurrency to be able to penetrate others

Nobody can guess the beginning of the season. Bitcoin is growing and even no one understands whether there will be a correction. But it is obvious that a repeat of the history of 2017 will not happen. Some analysts generally predict that in 2021 the collapse of the cryptocurrency exchange rate will begin.

I can make my own prediction base on what it happens before but this saying that history repeats itself as it possible that it never be the same.
Should I have to expect more? Maybe that was the best idea and definitely, the market will grow more as the adoption continues. And with that, we can say that altcoin season will come soon, and yet, we are started already.

ETH price unexpectedly soaring high reaching to a NEW ATH, it significantly showing that people are now bothered to invest with ETH and some altcoins. It was to say that people now are jumping into it and this uplift the altcoin market again.

I don't see any huge different, the only thing I notice is bitcoin growing higher than ever which will prolong altcoin season I believe, it's going to take some time before altcoins really start their bullish trends, dominance is high, bitcoin surge over 41k, all this is new and Ethereum will grow over 1500$ too, patience is needy here

The bullrun I think is only for BTC and ETH, there is nothing much for the other altcoins so if it's something that worries you, it's best that you just have to sell what you have for ETH. Many of us have been hoping to see our tokens to spike up but now that BTC reaches $40k, our tokens instead just go under. Tokens that aren't listed yet to any exchanges are the most frustrating to have.

No one has seen the future right?
So anything and everything can happen. People predicted that BTC will go till 30k, but it’s crossing 40k+.
So many unexpected things happening right now, and altcoins aren’t segregated from it.
ETH has already shown it’s capability.
Other coins will surely do the same.
We just need to wait and watch.

I don't blame you since this is what you are currently seeing, on my own part I see things differently, ETH and bitcoin isn't the only digital currency that's surging presently, they deserve to take the lead since they are the top coins, first and second for that matter, it means they control the highest volumes and liquidity in the market so things will surely start from them

in fact, currently the altcoin price is going up as bitcoin price has hit a price of $ 41k. In terms of bitcoin, currently there are no altcoins that really pump. Well, I think that currently very large price growth is only happening for bitcoin, but the altcoin season hasn't arrived yet. Even so, I think a lot of people have started selling their assets little by little.

but there are thousands of altcoins. I don't think all of them will be good. lots of them dying everyday. but yeah. this time things will be different for altcoins too just like bitcoins. I have watchlisted some altcoins in my private investment box and I am going to full my bags with them because I am very hopeful that they might be the best altcoins. and can get huge gains just like bitcoins.
the XRP is playing underdog. you cane expect anything from it.

Just wait for the time that altcoin season will happen. It is slowly happening as of now, just look at the price of every altcoin as of now, growing as bitcoin also doing its good movement. I am good at investing in altcoin right now because the price of bitcoin right now is too high for me, I am not good at trading especially short term trading, if I am able to trade like that may be I am good with bitcoin but as of now since altcoin is also rising, I'm good with it.

Altcoin season could at present be a year away, we generally see an insane alt pursue the bitcoin top has been seen and it pops. Individuals run into alts when bitcoin is seeping out after its top. The bitcoin bull run has just barely begun kicking in, alt season will happen to course however could be half or a year away.

now it's bitcoin season, the dominance and price increases are steadily increasing, don't expect an altseason to happen in a short time if bitcoin still dominates the market. the state of the market cannot be judged from history, there must be at least the old altcoins that are within 10 CMC experiencing a significant increase for other altcoins to follow.

Many people still waiting for the altcoin season. We believe that when the altcoin season comes, we will make a big profit from the altcoin. But now, it seems, people still invest their money in bitcoin because many of them already invest in altcoin from a long time ago, and many of them still have held their altcoin and wait for the bull run for the altcoins. We can hope that the altcoin season will have this year, and even if the price can not jump or moves fast, it will be better than stay at a low price.

This is not the bitcoin season but this is the crypto season. People have started to realize how potential the cryptocurrency is. There are so many companies rushing for bitcoin while the small traders are FOMOing altcoins.
Altcoin season already happened and didn't you seen that the majority of altcoins were getting more than 150% increase in a short time?
You must see the market again dude.

You are right, the more people keep expecting altcoin season to start the more Bitcoin keeps growing and of course the dominance as well, and with the dominance being that high, altcoins will find it extremely difficult to have a good bull run, but it is also seen that some altcoins like Ethereum are still increasing in value but not the sort of value that would have been witnessed if there is altcoin season. Also, I agree with you in the aspect of 2017 not repeating itself, this is because price increase of Bitcoin can be seen to come from fresh Institutional investors who have understood the potentials, benefits and gains associated with Bitcoin in the future, hence the reason it keeps jumping back after dumping thus setting new ATH beyond the expectations of everyone. In addition, since no one can predict the crypto space, I wouldn't say there will be no altcoin season, but it might happen the way we didn't expect.

Altcoins should be pumping big right now, Ethereum is already at 1200$ and bitcoin is already at 40k, I'm just wondering why whales aren't taking the advantage of altcoins yet, maybe they bitcoin sti have a long way to go? It seems majority of altcoins will be left behind this time for real

2017 keeps fond memories of the cryptocurrency world, price dominance continues to increases and bitcoin can break the record high prices at that time.
2021 has just begun, we have been surprised by the tremendous increase in the price of Bitcoin. In my view, 2017 to be more precise was a wonderful year for ICO, while 2021 will be the year of altcoins.

I'm still going to stand on my words that 2021 will be the year for all altcoin holders, bitcoin have shown true power and potential and whales will end up been satisfied and start moving out their funds into altcoins, it's definitely going to happen

We can not blame them because maybe they have their information about what they believe. We hope that we can profit from each coin that we have, no matter if we have different altcoins, so we can use the time to make a profit from the altcoin. But focusing on the big coins such as ethereum and bitcoin could be profitable for them, as if they still search for the altcoin, they will have a hard time to find the right one.

So you need to wait for that, while you can enjoy this moment by buying and selling bitcoin so you will have the opportunity to make a profit. The altcoin season will come, but we should wait and prepare. Right now will be the year for bitcoin because bitcoin can hit the new ATH for now, but that new ATH will be broken by the other ATH this year. But the situation will not be the same as the previous years.

It will come soon, no need to worry because the crypto market slowly rises again from the last year. We already see many highest prices broken, even for bitcoin and altcoins, so there will be more chances to see the other highest price soon this year. We hope that our opportunities to make a big profit will arrive, and I am sure that some people already recover their losses from a few years ago.

History always finds a way of repeating itself, whether we admit it or not. I think it will this time around again. Bitcoin is still having a good run and doesn't look like it wants to slow down a bit. Corrections are quickly eaten up by the buy orders like sell orders don't matter. Alts season will only commence when Bitcoin is done and this will be evident in BTC dominance. The flicks of price increase we see in alts now should not deceive anyone that alts rally have begun. These are just regular traders buying. The real whales are yet to start making purchases. Once that begins to happen, we shall experience what happened in 2018.

BTW, alts rally was in 2018.

Things does look different this time around, last time when Ethereum was at 1400$ every single altcoins I know of are already bringing 200% to 2000% profits to all investors, this time around only very few altcoins have grown big after Ethereum reached 1300$, yes things are different this time around

Last time one of the reasons why altcoins flourished was BTC network congestion and high fees as a consequence. I don't see why this time it will be different. BTC transaction fee is about $5-10 now, meanwhile TRON transaction fee for example is less than $0.02. If bitcoin will go to 100k tx fee will be about $10-20 or even more.

The altcoins season has already begun at the beginning of 2020 and many altcoins are still growing in price, so whoever wanted to make money on altcoins has already done this and now it is better not to take risks and better wait for the correction, and then it will be possible to re-invest in altcoins.

This is because investors' perspectives are different when compared to 2017 or 2018. In this trend investors are more careful in investing, besides that the structure that is now more established makes investors not easy to waste their money inconsequently, just like in 2017. maybe altcoin season will still happen, but not necessarily for all altcoins, only altcoins that are really useful and also have value will follow this positive trend

If you remember, we had the biggest altcoin season when bitcoin hit 19800$. The same could happen this time. I am waiting for december 2021, when bitcoin will reach its peak and then we will see an insane bull rally in alt coins.

It is most probably Bitcoin dominance ain't done yet.
I can see a $50,000 Bitcoin price sooner because of this
 https://www.forbes.com/sites/billybambrough/2021/01/09/elon-musk-the-worlds-richest-man-wants-to-be-paid-in-bitcoin/amp/   (https://www.forbes.com/sites/billybambrough/2021/01/09/elon-musk-the-worlds-richest-man-wants-to-be-paid-in-bitcoin/amp/)
That guy will surely give extra boost for Bitcoin to continue the surge even further.
While alt season may take longer to occur, obviously because everyone is focused with Btc.

If you can check the charts for 2017, then you will be able to find that the altcoins were rallying much more than Bitcoin for the most part of the year. It is not like Bitcoin went up first and then the altcoins spiked when BTC went down. The Bitcoin dominance was around 85% on January 2017, and this figure has come down to 38% by June 2017. It was around 33% when the altcoins peaked on January 2018.

I think the same, only thing I am not sure is when will it happen. Like others, I have some of my own predictions, but Bitcoin showed me again how wrong I can be, and that no matter how experienced you are in crypto, crypto is still capable of surprising us here and there.
Alt season is coming, and some alts will make their new all times high. Questions are which alts and when, but that will happen! Bitcoin have this moment, but when things cool off a bit, alts will take the stage!

It looks like not all altcoins will surge this time around, I'm still confused why so many altcoins refused to surge high already when Ethereum is already over 1200$, what the heck is going on? I think Ethereum will have to reach a new ATH this time around before other altcoins really start been bullish for real, maybe 2000$ or 3000$?

Even earlier people were saying bitcoin will drop to the 1000$ it won't happen So like this once bitcoin start consolidating I believe Altcoins will also rise but I won't say shit coins will also rise. I believe high potential Altcoins will  also move till then we must be patient.

at the beginning of the emergence of cryptocurrencies, many people on earth were pessimistic, over time until 2017 was a very fantastic price increase from the previous price, so many people invested heavily in crypto exchanges, but disaster came in the period 2018 to the end  2020 and many people went through a great depression, but who would have thought that investment in crypto exchanges was not exhausted and everyone was stunned to see the skyrocketing price of bitcoin and altcoin and making many people believe and believe.  and it's time we have to focus and be consistent in cryptocurrencies.

You have a point, I believe that things won't go same way as that of January 2018 where even shitcoins with no use case surge crazily, this time only useful altcoins will bring huge ROI for investors, so let's hunt for useful altcoins only and wait patiently

As practice shows, altcoins with high potential collect funds and grow in the market even in the darkest times. When it comes to predictions, it's easy to talk about things that have already happened.
Could Bitcoin really be worth $ 1000, or couldn't it? Many said that it would not even fall to $ 5000, but it fell to $ 3000.