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I just visit my wallet now and I find out that many of them are in a bad shape.  Coins like litecoin that went as high as  $300 is now below $40 and ethereum which host many tokens is currently struggling to remain above $100. Most of the tokens that are closed to $1 have lose over 95% of it December value. I think for some of us that invested in some icos especially the services one we are now regretting as many of them has been abandoned by the developers.
If the current trends control I believe about 80% coins and tokens that are listed in coinmarketcap will not be in existence by 2019. I will also want to here your views on this.  Thank.

Not all in bad shape but they are almost dead. Not only on your portfolio but on all investors on this crypto market had left out some serious scar or situation of our ports.
Recovery isn't a sure thing or guaranteed but we do know that market wont just be like this on dump state.We might see increase but it would be much preferable to be on gradual state than
on sudden pump.

Everybody was talking for the Ethereum that it would fall below 100 dollars, I think it could be fall to 50 dollars by the end of the year.

Litecoin is $29.
Ethereum is $96.

I regret of not selling my coins when they were quite better half quarter of this year. But that's it, I'm thinking of getting better with this market and these coins will surely recover somehow. They might not recover completely but at least they will.

They'll surely recover, following Bitcoin recovery. Just enjoy the ride, if you can't take the pain forget crypto for a while. See your portfolio later in 2020. Personally, bear market like this is very great to increase your ability to trade, pick an ICO and so on. I just make 3x profit (in ETH) from my previous ICO.

Well, just take a look at Coinmarketcap in 2013, and every year after that since. Many coins are gone even from today's top 100, some coins have completely died. The only thing that has been constant and at #1 is Bitcoin, so that should tell you a story about survival.

Altcoins will always be around. Alternatives are what we all want, but the sorry truth is that not all altcoins have purposes that people really need. I will say Litecoin as you mentioned is almost below 90%, but that's what the founder Charlie Lee said would happen less than a year ago. He knew the market and he knew history. We should too.

History repeat itself. But there is also a story when the entire market is dead after a hard blow. At this time, reading post from Murad Mahmudov is really enjoyable. Give you a lot of insight about the future of Bitcoin (and indirectly altcoins, in terms of price and speculation).

I used to own some Litecoin back in the days, but right now half of my portfolio is Bitcoin, with some interesting alts that looks pretty solid next year. They'll rise again, I believe so.

You are comparing something to what? When did you buy your coins?

ETH is up 800% since Jan 2017 and BTC is up 400%, thats not bad for 18 months investment.

EOS, BCH, LTC other other shitcoins and forkcoins dont deserve to be there, they are just false promises, watch out, and invest only in what you understand. Buying on hype is not good, not in crypto, not on real stock market.

Maybe the market is will worse than ever because people still think the market will improve. After the hopes are exhausted, ascension will begin.

I second that to 100%

This is so sad! we really affected with this fall! No way to buy BTC nor altcoins now adays.. hopefully good thing will come  :)

for coins or tokens that are already well-known maybe this is only temporary. If you look at the history of the price of bitcoin, bitcoin was rumored several times so that the price dropped, but after that the price rebounded very high. This is just a game of investors who want to drop bitcoin then buy at a low price.

I really hope so, to be honest I am losing a lot of the value of my assets at the moment, but I realize this is a risk, and not only do I feel this, almost all crypto asset holders have felt very sad lately because the market is very low . hopefully the price will recover soon.

There's worser year when the market has been down by almost 90%.

No need to think anything bad with the market, if you've been here for few months you'll understand that this will get better soon. For someone who's good in analyzing charts, you'll see them hopeful that the market will get better after this tragic loss.

the altcoins will recover eventually but for more than 90% of them the highest price they reached last year was the one and only time they saw such high price and that will never be repeated. which is whty i don't think you can make what you lost so far back at all. all you can do is to wait for a small recovery then sell to get your money out with minimal loss.
then start investing in fresh coins that get pumped instead of the old pumped coins to replace them.

Just like bitcoin, we just wait until it will recover in time.

On second thought, I guess we won't have that much headache if we just invest what we can lose. Maybe 80% of projects at this moment will fail, but maybe not. I can't wait to see how will Altcoins recover in the next 1-2 years.

I think not all coins is on bad shape maybe the coins what you have is affected of bearish market. Don't lose your hope because everything will be alright again just a little more patience is needed.

What's wrong to the new investors.

After investing the market will just moon without any corrections needed. They invested after they saw bitcoin mooned so they think that sequence will never stop and this is the wrong idea that they've got thinking right now which they have to start realize that if it goes up, it will go down, rinse and repeat.

If you check the coinmarketcap website you will see some altcoins that has made a record on this bearish market like Gochain , although most of the altcoins are in deep but some of them are growing too , I think it depends on the project and its team , does not depend on the market so much .

In recent months I haven't seen a altcoin in good shape, just xyo network . Others are about to die. I don't think the market now has the potential for growth

but I felt a big impact with the very high crypto price drop, and I held the altcoin from the first time I thought they would go up and it was very disappointing for this year, eth, litecoin and xrp and price tokens dropped very dramatically, but I waited for years Hopefully it will come back like last year.

I do not really expect high in the current situation, I just surrender, all my asset values dropped dramatically and I also realized that all of this was not only me who felt, it was clear I still believed in crypto world.

Well, what did you expect? Yes, indeed, many Altcoins have fallen in price, but you need to understand that this is a temporary phenomenon, because remember how it all began then cryptocurrency was not even considered an asset, but then everything changed so much now

I feel you bro, even my wallet from $9000 last december but now its only 700$. My only mistake is i did not sell them when btc is around 19,000$

not only do you feel all the altcoins are down, but I also feel the same way now in the wallet there are only a few dollars left, if I just wait for the beginning of the year waiting for good news, because I'm sure altcoin prices like eth will be as stable as before

I am waiting from April by holding few altcoins, luckily I have sold some of them in June and July But for few altcoins I decided to hold till they reach their ICO price. The total amount of that altcoin was 1500$ in May and now they are at 40$. I am about to break my patience. If it does not recover in new two months.   

Agree with you, may be even more coins will go away. And only with real use cases and products will remain. I think more regulations will be in 2019 and exchanges will be delisting coins to save themselves. Interesting time )

No one can know. Therefore, it remains only to observe the information and follow the news. But I still hope for the best and I think that the course will be the same, for example, ethereum is growing

I would not worry too much about Ethereum, it's a good platform, frequently used and accepted. Maybe ETH suffered because of the countless scam ICOs which lead to lost trust but this won't affect ETH as a platform longterm.
LTC is far more concerning, the founder dumped all his coins in late 2017 and it's always a negative sign if the founder does such things. Imagine if Satoshi would dump all his coins. I would not invest in LTC anymore.

I agree, many shitcoins will go down near zero, but others will rise. It's up to you to pick the few rising projects, this will be most of the big ones but maybe there are some we don't know yet.  :)

Then, if your altcoin still only $40 in the next 2 months, will you sell it? Does it make sense to sell your token while you already 97% lower than your initial token's value at $1500? Rather than sell it, might be better to HOLD and forget about your token for long time

Of course, they will be restored, since the problem of the fall in the course of most altcoins is that after collecting funds the project takes time to develop a product, and it is for this that the rate of many examples of altcoins in the market falls a lot.

alot of Erc20 coin got killed last 2018 .
I think it's how the team of the ICO help their token to be notice again . So many Er20 coins got dump and still hopibg for them to recover. Maybe if the Bitcoin starts to pump and then ethereum will be proportional as bitcoin pump . It will help the tokens go rise again

Only the projects that has a working product and use case will survive in this battle of cryptocurrencies and erc 20 tokens. I want eliminate those shit tokens  and altcoins .

Eventually most of the exchange continuously eliminating many shuttled tokens from the exchange trading pairs. Here we need better demand over the cryptos but number traders increased they are moving around all the cryptos minute by minute.
If  this happen we will find good price for cryptocurrencies.
Once we can see the price changes on single coin and other coins fluctuate somewhere but nowadays it bump and dump close equally.

Still not all the coins are going to recover when the price of bitcoin bumps that is why you have to hold the tokens only if it has potential to grow when the market is in good shape.

Exactly, you are right because if a company don't have any working product will lead to losing their value. We are seeing these kinds of project from 2016 losing their value due to there are not active developments from the team, that's why while investing we need to be very careful with the coin and we have to research very carefully.

Generally it depends on the team not giving up on their project, holders holding and not eventually dumping their tokens and moving on and if new people are willing to invest. If these three points are in check, that altcoin will definitely shoot up

Main reason for a successful recovery will be the developers in my opinion. A coin without good developers and if the coin has nothing special I don't see investors buying the coin and instead all holders will sell. A dead coin is dead when the developers stop developing and improving the coin. 

Not all of them will recover as their owners will abandon the projects leaving you their useless dumped coin while they take away all of your BTC and ETH.  Dont expect too much for altcoins, but watch over the top 1 to 10 crypto coins. BTC, ETH,....

Many of the shitcoins have been filtered out. However, ethereum and litecoin have continued development so all that is needed is patience. Prices will return but it might not happen this year

What do you mean by filtered out ?  Remove ? Well yes some of them are removed but not totally because until now shit coins are still regaining a dominance over the legit alts  .  and what you are saying tht etherium and litecoin are only contiuing to develop . what about other altcoins ?  There are lots of good alts out there not just eth and ltc  and they are also continue to develop  .  


Prices are already returning and i believe that they will continue to increase  as the time passes by  .