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I was just looking at the coinmarketcap table since 2013, I was surprised in what I saw, many coins topping the charts then are now almost non-existent, we need to be careful of the kind of coins we hodl especially for long term. Most of these projects just die after the initial hype.

I think the top altcoin on the chart has been developing for a long time, and has a solid community. So we will see less changes in the future.

yes, crypto is coming and someone will go and disappear in the market because the competition in the crypto world is quite strict. Don't be afraid to invest long-term, if the coins you have are large volumes and clearer concepts. as a trader, he must believe in the coins he has that someday have a high value.

That is correct before investing in any project it is wise to research them and the community. If they actually bring any value they will stay on top.

Can you give us some of those coins I was not there in 2013 but coins just come and go times are different the competition is very stiff and very hard, if they cannot sustain, they will eventually die if they cannot add more platforms or updates their existing model they will lose support from the community and investors.

Indeed, I have to rack my brain when I tried to choose an altcoin to hold for long term investment. Altcoins market are really cruel, you don't have a little to make a decision to gain profit or to losing your money. Pump and dump frequently happened thus far, rose almost 500% and suddenly its price back to down and almost 500% again.

However, I have confident that when I choose bitcoin to save for long term investment I don't need for excessive worry. Just keep the private keys and back again if you choose an example for five years and you will be regret because you only put a little money five years ago to buy bitcoin.

really a lot of altcoins are now losing their value, but not all coins, there are still many coins that are clearly developers and road maps can still be above, so we just need to be careful when choosing coins that we can't stand..

They'd be back as long as there is trading going on to them, its price will still go up when there really is a altcoin rush coming. Unfortunately this expectation will just end as an expectation. This is why most of those who just hold BTC are just as in the right track as saying BTC is what matters the most. You can reject all coins you think are losing value but stick to those on top.

Do you think it's possible for a new project without any initial source of funding (no ICO or anything like that) to make it?  Back at the start of crypto, it seems like it was possible for a project to be successful if there was a good idea to build upon since there weren't many other projects around.  These days, there are thousands of projects.  How can a newcomer get noticed?  

Of course, the first thing you have to do when you invest in cryptos is to study the market and the coins you are interested

I already invested in a lot of coins, like 15 different coins at the same time, and with this thought I lost some money
Now I prefer to have 5 coins in my portfolio and only solid coins, now I feel better and gaining money

Suggestions for staying cautious when you want to choose coins? We must be more thorough and professional not to choose speculation. You are right, a lot of coins are wasted and then have no value or very far from the first ICO price. Select the top altcoin will be the perfect closing suggestion this time. Don't hesitate with the top altcoin. Thanks.

Even the projects which got so much of success initially faced the same situation just because of not enough support from the project team that is why we need to be careful with the project team as well while picking the project to invest.

Some coins were dumped and faded from this market so you need to act while holding a gading coin or just pick the best of the coin for very long term.

You are right that many old coins are currently dead. I also make long term investments, but the coin that I bought is the top coins. So with top-ranked coins have excellent trading volumes and will definitely continue to evolve. And we certainly don't have to worry about the condition of the coin.

You're right, without it all there's no chance to see it keep alive. We must need to extremely carefull to a new launching alts, mostly they just have price for short time after that, there will be no more volume.

Yeah many coins development are ignored by the team after they got profit, we must be carefully whenever holding altcoins for long term, always up to date with the newest information from that project. Don't you hold some coin that will be delisting on market, that is sign they are no more hope to grow up.

Yea I did the same thing last year 2018 and I saw how bad it really is,many coins have died a painful death after creating a big hype to investors,ive been more careful since then

right now it is in a good coin determination and if the coin is bad coin it will continue to down and will die because it is abandoned by people but if the coin is good the coin will go down and survive because there is a large market trading volume that will keep prices

Things change, just the way it is. And of course be careful of what alts are invested in.

There is no way to know however which coins will succeed or not, but at the least folks
should invest into coins with active development teams. The coins that truly die, like fall into the bottom 500-1000 rankings, are the ones that never really had a plan or a development team to begin with.

that happens all over the world. not only in the cryptocurrency field. many altcoin projects died in past time because of the bad market conditions and because of the project developers couldn't reach the people as the expected. So as investors or as token holders, we need to be more aware of the projects which we holding tokens.

This is so true, most projects have died over time probably because the team members lack good strategies or because they are reluctant to develop the project or they're satisfied with the funds gotten from that project. Let's just be very careful with the coins or tokens we hold for long term, let's also follow the projects closely for updates.

much of altcoin now has not update for their project developtment.no fresh idea and their team have no good skill in blockchain knwoledge.every day we need to check any update from our asset, or we will miss important news that affected to price.

This is a fact, do proper due diligence before deciding to hold some altcoins for long term. Do not hold coins because of hype, hold coins because you think the project development is cool, and they keep updating the community. Hold coins because you think they have great future prospects. Also, keep monitoring the coins you hold, some may not be worthwhile to hold in future.

you should be careful regarding chosen coin, but also follow it since many tokens are swapping and distribution of those news is not that good, so people are stack with worthless coins at the end

Glad you pointed it out "intial hype" that's all they have and only that they offered thus not lasting long term. I have told my friends that no matter what they hear of any project let them make out time to study every project before putting their funds.

This is a great advice. Few years from now or better still when this trend is over for alts some coins will not exist and others that will survive might take forever to recover. Utility and community plus active team equals a strong hodl or hodl Btc, Eth and Bch.

Unfortunately many altcoins just disappear after the first hype. That’s a fact we must accept. Sometimes it doesn’t even matter how good the project is.. But your advice is one of the most important and basic things that everyone should know.

It's better to sell out during the hype rather than holding for a long time. In most cases, the hype era might never come again, so as not to lose on every end.

That was during the time hype was the other of the day, people were doing blind investments and today the evidence is clear. At all times let's be mindful of what we hold, it's a matter of money and should be handled with all seriousness. I still know there are good coins out there.

Really? Well then that's a helpful reminder to all of who still hodle new tokens enlisted last 2017-2018. Given that fact that most of them dies actually, maybe if another hype will come again. I should've waste time and sell it right away without even thinking of waiting for its value to rise even more.

It is indeed disheartening that such  happened during the trying times of cryptocurrencies. Nevertheless, they attained such height because they were hyped and today we have seen the result. Coins like Eth has survived because the team knew exactly what they were after, what they want to create etc and that's what matters.

The truth remains that altcoins are for the profit
When you have them, nurture them and get the best deals out of it

When it comes to long term hodling, target blockchain tokens such as Neo , eos etc

yes, before I invest in cryptocurrency I have to really choose the right project that I want to invest, so that in the future I can get profit from investing in the project, but I also can't avoid the risk of investing in cryptocurrency, because before I invest in cryptocurrency I certainly know that the risk of investing in cryptocurrency is very big, so I have to be ready if one day the project that I invest will fail and not give me profit, because in my opinion it's a risk that I have from the start if I want to invest in cryptocurrency.

Sincerely most altcoins has dealt mercilessly with investors in recent times which have also opened their eyes into going for the good ones. Although there are still people investing because someone said one or two things about the project, but I think such people should have a rethink because it hardly ends well. Let's forget hype...

To be frank, one can't believe that those coins really made a huge amount as of then, but today they are down the drain. This really confirms the saying that any project whose team lacks relevant experience will not go far neither will it last. So on this note, holding only good altcoins is the best even if it's few.

Before holding coins for long term, you should do proper research about the project so that you don't bag shitcoins which will be worthless in future. Let's be guided.

DYOR is the key. Most of the altcoin holders including me has to do research to the extent including the teams and possible the history as well. I've invested in different altcoins before and lost a lot due to my negligence and now I'm sharing what I've learned from my bad experience. It cost me money and I'm extracting it with valuable lessons that I could share with others. To the altcoin investors, you must be aware of how much more volatile the altcoins market than bitcoin.

it's a different scenario, many of these old coins had nothing new to offer and the market cap was too small.
The market is much more competitive now. The top 20 can change, but I don't see those coins dying soon.

It was a disturbing sight when I looked through. Only about 250 coins are currently active in the cryptocurrency market the rest are dead or near dead. Something has to be done about these altcoin Proliferation which defaces the cryptocurrency market 

I hope you didn't buy bitcoin bitconnect and took a leave thinking it was going to be the next to bitcoin! lols. Some shitcoins do pump their projects and after a while will just fade away. Lending coins were infamous for this unholy act. It's better to invest much on proven coin in CMC.

Yes, indeed. My perspective on alts right now is pretty negative, for me they are just intended to be made for "pump and dump" purposes. They can't sustain in the long run and die later on simply because people are only up to its price not the vision of the coin itself. That's why I advice some of you especially the beginners to avoid alts as much as possible. Just stick with btc or at least those outstanding alts in the market.

With investing in altcoins, you need to have a short term investment plan and strategy rather than thinking of going in for a long term plan. Altcoin market is very volatile comparing that to Bitcoin. You can easily lose about 50% of your investment capital within a matter of seconds if you decide to go in for a long term plan.

if I personally will invest and hold cryptocurrency for the long term, I will definitely choose coin that are in the top 10 coinmarketcap, such as Bitcoin, ETH, BNB and LTC, but if for trading then I will definitely choose an altcoin in the top 100 - 500 coinmarketcap, because the profit that I can get is very big but of course the risk is also very big, therefore I never hold altcoin in the top 100 - 500 coinmarketcap and I only use it for trading.

What altcoins are you talking about that we need to be careful? You must be specify what it is, so that everyone here will become
aware of it. Because for me if the altcoins you hold was listed on top of the coins at the coinmarketcap I think you don't have to worry about
it, especially it is belong to top 10 coins in the market.

there are coins that was in the spotlight before, but now it was abandoned and it turns out scam or devs are inactive anymore..

Cryptocurrency is really volatile. Then always be careful with any sell, buy, or hold decisions you take. Never invest money that you can't afford to lose. Loss is a risk, profit is a gift of hard work analysis and luck. My advice is to always monitor the latest news and market developments so that you are in the right decision and not losing money.

You are absolutely right. We should do a good research especially for long term investments. Also we should follow the news about that coin / token after making our investments. Because as you mentioned, many coins that are currently in the market may disappear in the future. And if we want to make a profit in the future then we should choose coins carefully.

What caught my attention is that you have been here during 2013. That was a very long time ago and I want to hear more from you. This a good advice specially for those who wants to invest and hodl for a long-period of time. We really need to be careful, we should do our assignment and do extra effort on researching about the tokens or coins we wanted to buy and hodl.

so just like u said that i fully agree with, we need to be more careful about what kind and types of alts we choose to hodl. Because if an altcoin only tops the chart just because of hype, then most of the time that alt is going to die and not gonna hold on for a long time. Choose those alts that got good projects and good team behind it.

now there are a lot of such coins. the teams quit because they can no longer develop and instead of telling the truth to investors they just run away with money

Yeah! Some of those projects just comes for the investor’s money, and later, they are nowhere to be found. With this information, one has to be more careful and make necessary research before buying. I hope some altcoins like quack chain, EOS, TRON wouldn’t fall in this category.
Actually, apart from Ethereum, I do not have much confidence in other altcoins. Just hope.

Giving our trust to newly created coins/altcoins is something not easy. We've been seeing a huge number of altcoins existed around that still hiding from the dark. Hope still there but I don't if it will be working by then. The market is so selective and investors never look those coins that they feel unprofitable.

Of course, because developers do not develop them. This problem is this market. And we will see another 100 projects that will close. How to kill a project, withdraw money.

That is why we should be wise selecting altcoins that we should invest. There are so many coins that are just created for fund raising and were abandoned and keft behind in the long run. Most of them were considered as dead and failed because they just produced it for the purpose of scams.

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Very true, one thing that you must have when you join the crypto world is caution. In this case, it could be in the form of caution when choosing and sorting altcoins, finding the right altcoins for trading and holding. Don't get wrong by choosing coins that tend to be dead coins or shit coins in the future. Do more research on the coins that you will invest in the long term.

yes it is very regrettable and also now more and more new altcoins that can kill  the old altcoins that we already know if they do not make progress on their projects the altcoin will probably be eliminated by the new altcoin that have good inovation.

Thats almost impossible to happen  . so far i have never seen an old coin that dies because of the dominance of the newer coins  .  sure new coins can shine and if they show their worth they can remain but older coins will also remain too because they already gain reputation to the public  . only those real bad coins will come and go   . @op  , how can we be careful on the alts that we hold if we already hold a bad coin ?  Prevention is better than cure , we must prevent our self from purchasing unecesary coins because you cant do any care once you already bought them.

Altcoin works without a product, and without application will die. There are many altcoin that have died since I came to know this market. And it is best to find and choose which altcoin is really good and have the product and hold

Yes, this happens especially to low market cap coins that are not active at social media sites and github, investors are losing their patience and selling coins for very low price.

I think that what investors do is very rushed. why they sell the assets they choose for investment. they should already know how and when the project will develop. except in the plan that has been created by the developer and it turns out that the project is not running.

You are right, we have be careful to save altcoin in the long run, there are currently 2 altcoins that I have bought cardano and tron, I have researched two coins, the volume of their project concept is also very popular. I believe that holding coins long-term is very profitable

I once saved the Titanium Bar (TBAR) token for a year from the bounty. When I receive the token the price is still around $ 7,000 and I don't sell it right away because I still want to save it. After a few months, I checked the price again and it turned out to be ash. I don't know what caused it, but from this, I began to diligently check the progress of the projects that I had followed.

I get that experience too btw. Because i hold some tokens since i join bounty campaign from first time. And it not really good at development. Maybe holder altcoins or maybe tokens for long time is not a good idea.

2013 is a developing year for the Cryptocurrency, it is in its infancy and some of these are a clone of Bitcoin that cannot generate support from the community because there are too many coins coming in the market, the source code is open anyone can create their own coin.

When there is no story to save coins in the long run. But I'm sure ETH can survive. But, I hesitate to last long term. Apart from ETH coins, I did not dare to survive.

You are right. A lot of coins have a price only while high btc rates.
A lot of projects doesnt have real value

Also to note that the market capitalization is relatively low compared to now that's why the changing of position between the alts top ranks are very common although the code for bitcoin is open source but most of the time they are just cloning bitcoin with different name.

That's very common thing in this kind of market. Thousands altcoins born to replace bitcoin, and now, where are they after all
Just bitcoin standing, even eth and xrp, 3 years ago they just nothing but some shit coin, but who knows, some day there will be another coin that replace 2nd and 3rd, but 1 thing for sure, bitcoin would not be replaced so soon

That's right. What should we do to avoid that situation? I really want to hear from you about this. I joined Crypto 2 years ago but i didn't a good player. So, Can you tell me what the tokens i should choose to buy?

Have a nice day bro!!

We need to do serious research on long-term investments, constantly follow the market and have a wide knowledge about our portfolio. Especially in today's market conditions, it is necessary to think very carefully that many projects have lost value in price. On the other hand, if we look at the market history, we will reach the conclusion that we should never invest in a single option with all the money. Unfortunately, there are various damage options, such as nearly 100% depreciation, the loss of tokens or coins from the market, or scam projects.

Alts are more dangerous than Bitcoin when it comes to volatility and dumping, the hardest is that they hardly recover quickly after dump unlike btc, most alts are yet to get to 1/3 of their all time high while btc has done more than half and remained relatively higher above it. Hold but me smart about it.

There would be always a lot of coins that won't make it in the future, thats why it is very important to monitore every single asset that you are holding to be up to date and not to lose a lot of money if something gets worse.

Agree, there are many altcoin that are not real value. A few days ago I read an article, they said that the real value of XRP is only about $ 5 billion. I'm really bewildered if altcoin continues to collapse in the coming months.Even the price may drop 5-10 times from the present

yes that is what we need to be aware of before investing in the long term, not just investing with dead coins. my advice if investing in the long term you need to invest in altcoins that are already listed in the top 10 at CMC. but you also have to always remember to always look at the market situation and the coins that you have invested.

we have to be very extra-careful now in choosing alt for our hold, because there are currently too many alt down. but we also should not be too negative on alt, because in reality there are alt that have a pretty bright future.

That is why when we hold unpopular coins, especially new coins, we will need extra effort to follow the development of these coins, if not, we may be late to make the necessary decisions. It will be different if we hold popular coins / coins that are already well-established, which of course will be convenient to maintain because news about such coins will be easier to obtain.

That's a cruel situation for altcoin holders! my advises for holders no need to hold for long-term all alcoins, most of altcoins will can't survive for long time! you can hold just prime coin like ethereum litecoin bch etc.

I too invested on altcoins before that are now dead. Most of them are only active on the first but when the bear market came all of their development stopped. This is why we need to be more careful on altcoins that we are going to invest in.

In my opinion, the choice of the altcoin is rather important, cause there are many criteria that matter a lot. And as for you, what do you pay attention to?

As for me, I start with evaluating the idea, then proceeding to team, then to value product brings. And in my opinion, there are some very advanced projects these days

Generally, I agree with you, but I also evaluate the innovations. And as for now, are there any advanced projects you follow?

Well, there are 2 main ones, but the most advanced is pukkamex - have you heard of them? The guys are rather popular and are very widely discussed these days

Pukkamex sounds very familiar, must have heard of them from several friends. But would be great if you can briefly remind me what they are bringing

Well, pukkamex is the world’s first leveraged cryptocurrency derivative trading platform that shares its revenue with its token holders. And it is easy to use for the beginner and powerful enough for the most experienced trader. Basically, pukkamex offers features never seen before ;)

Exactly mate to minimize and avoid loses holding some shitcoins we need to regular monitoring if have an improvement to get decision quick if we need to sell it quick before too late to deleted into exchange market list. Holding shitcoins is very risky but some of this is give more chance to get earn huge profits.

Yes, it may become nuisance to HODL too much Alts. If you don't want to get stressed, you should choose wisely and limit your ALTs on your portfolio. Why would you waste your time on monitoring unstable Alts. You can have from top 10 to top 20 as an option to bag.

This is precisely the reason why I am trying to minimize my altcoins right now. I am also making the same constant monitoring of altcoins. And I notice that altcoins are dying as easily as they are also multiplying easily. They are replacing one another too quickly. I therefore think that HODLing of altcoins is very risky. The competition is very tight and the technology is also very fast. One huge altcoin today could be replaced tomorrow.

It is a matter of our choice and I have to decline also those coins that aren't performing well even it belongs to the top 20 altcoins in the market. We have to be practical and ain't gonna be in good to hold for many years with zero percentage inclement. It is better to put some more in a single coin or two rather than of spreading into numerous coins. It'll be safe by then.

Too many people look at what the coin promises rather than the development team and actual technical information.

I think it is better if we are making ourselves updated on the coins you have. If you think that that coin losses its price and can't reach your desired price, let it go and find another coin. Be a good investor and being a good investor is being updated all the time.

we have to move on from  old coins to new coins to recover our loss there.as traders we have to quicky changes strategy if something wrong happen in our portofolio.don't just hold it till its value in cheapest price.

yes. It is true.
it is very difficult to predict coins for a long time.
a coin is certainly very difficult to be in the top position, especially when there are so many new coin coins. of course the competition is getting harder.
for altcoin I think it's better to set up day trades to be safer

that's a common thing in the crypto world, some coins that die because they are no longer able to compete with new projects, but some are still surviving until now because they continue to make the latest investment in their coins, I have a few coins that are indeed quite famous in the past 2 years, but until now the token shows no improvement at all.

Can you show what the coin is, because if I noticed that the coin in the top 20 is always good for us to make a long-term investment. I believe if we choose coins in top 20 at coinmarketcap and hold it for long term Investment then we will get the profit.

Yes always, lot of scams and people cheated, for safety of your money still the best to hold main coins and some good alts.

I am focusing now on(which I always hold)

BTC
ETH
LTC


While investing some resource on alt projects that I strongly believe to be strong players in their own field later in the future

Monero
Zcash
Ebakus

Absolutely not all coins are worth holding just  look into the future of the coin you try to hold for the future and see it uniqueness in the upcoming years and draw your conclusions. Most coins  we hold are worthless.

I agree, when we choose altcoin as an investment, we must be careful. Many altcoins are not supported by a product or are supported by a strong team. Safe options for altcoin are those in the top 10 coin market because they already have products and are also traded in great value

Ever since i got blown out on some altcoins, i have decided not to follow hype but to take my time in carrying out due research on the project before joining the investors. Most investors suffer from hypes and are blinded by the promises made the team rather than go extra length to know more about the project and the team of developers.

I think long term investors should be more concern about the subject matter because some project(s) team do not really care about their investors; which is very bad.

Investors should look out for potential projects with a real and usable products.

one thing I have always know for sure is that many of this project will die off either in the long term or short term. Soon, we will only see stronger projects with good use in the market.

Holding some of these coins or tokens we have is take a very high risk because some of them  are not going to survive in the long term and keep holding them is going to  make you lose the whole of your investments on those coins. I remember that I invested in a coins in 2017 during the cryptocurrency boom. Today the project is dead and when it was listed in the market if I sold then I could have made huge profits then. Bitcoin and some few coins  are going to survive especially when the libra coin hit the market and that means you will lose if you hold till those coins became valueless.

not the emergence of new coins that can compete in Coinmarketcap is a current situation, where no single coin penetrates the top 10 born above 2013, on average new coins die and disappear in the list, I think, there must be new innovations if want to go to the top 10 at the moment, the biggest opportunity I see in many coins is BNB, maybe this coin will achieve success to shift other coins that already exist in the coin marketcap.

be strategic, thats the only thing you should do

You should know that over time, projects that are not invested in development will regress compared to other projects. Many projects are born but there are very few successful projects. I believe that very few people hold those altcoin from 2013 until now

2 of my holding alts is turn to scam, i will be more careful in my next investment, holding altcoins nowadays is really like gambling, my advice is to stick to bitcoin, in my future investment i will not buy altcoins anymore

I completely agree with this reasoning. Personally I sold all the altcoins that had the most hype / fomo in 2016/2017. And I bought only promising new lowcap! 90% of my portfolio is made up of new lowcap.

At every market bubble, you have to start from scratch. It was necessary to take advantage of this bearmarket to analyze again all the new altcoins which did not have the bubble effect of 2017. All those who have not yet exhausted the potential of hype (rebranding, new tech, big exchanges, ... ).

I am on about 7/8 new promising lowcap, and I have no doubt about their future performance! and something else I do not invest in absolutely any ICO or shit token!

You are right long term HODL is not a good strategy for altcoins because of altcoin inflation. Especially for small matketcap altcoins. Even you have to think twice for the biggest marketcap altcoins like ETH.

For me nothing should be kept long term except BTC, and maybe ETH, LTC, XMR.

Everything else is safe at all, and the market works only by speculation. The biggest perfomancs of yesterday will not be those of tomorrow. Dogecoindark (Verge), Pivx, Raiblocks (Nano), Antshares (NEO), we must clear all those and find the next projects that will perform as well.

We must not stay asleep in this market, we must work, and analyze all the time. Take a lot of risks too. It's not by staying on old stuff that you are going to make money .. Look where are Ark, Pivx, Verge who is also starting to go back to the marketcap, and so many others! good luck to you!

yes there is indeed true, we must be careful to drop the choice of coins that we hold. now a lot of good coins at the beginning but on the way they disappeared. we must be able to choose and research before making an investment.

I want to rephrase this and say

Be careful of every token that you hodl; either bitcoin or altcoins
Pumps and dumps are quick; which is why you need to stay up to date information wise

Be smart and get your profits each time

Even altcoin is in the top 10 now, if four years later one of them doesn't grow better to compete with other projects, it will also be eliminated and gradually forgotten. Just as Yahoo had and lost

There have even been many alts no longer working and we should really find out before buying and holding them long term.
We need to learn more about blockchain technology and its related trades in the crypto market.
The more knowledge, the less mistakes will be.

As there's no real assurance if what future direct the movements of our investment, yes even those who are inside the top Alts can't assured anything, but with an investors mindset who really believes that the market will bring something better holding is still one of the best choice from this industry.

I agree, be careful when HODL altcoin, especially cheap new coins, because if it is eliminated in the trade, the coin has no value, meaning your money will be lost.
It's better to buy altcoins such as TRX or XEM which are overcrowded on exchanges where the price is also good for trading. Even the profits obtained are not inferior to bitcoin investments, because less capital is needed.

Yes, be very very careful. It is either you choose the few ones that have been on top for a long time time or do not hodl any at all. There are only a handful of great altcoins. The rest are, as what a lot of experts say, mere shitcoins. Many altcoins are just jumping on the crypto bandwagon for the sake of money.

Yes, it is true
there are a lot of dead projects then altcoin becomes shitcoin.
and I agree with you, so it will be very risky to invest in an altcoin in the long run. except for a few altcoins such as the top 10 altcoin.
in fact, I see that there are many projects that have died from various campaigns that I participated in. although the token has not yet been exchanged. it's like a scam and there are many

What coin do you mean? to hold coins we must really choose coins, like I chose ethereum as the coin I hold

I think investing with the top altcoin is indeed not too risky. I mean, you are not too worried if you hold a coin because most of the coins listed in the top 10 in CMC always have price developments, besides that there are many users who have investments there.
yes ... the project is dead, the team doesn't care about developing their work map or coins are difficult to develop in the end they will become shitcoin.

There are two types of holders:
- Well planned holders: they are people whom choose good projects to invest, and wait for low price to enter. Hence, they will not worry by holding their coins/tokens that bought at cheap price, and they actually know that there are very low probability to see those projects end as dead ones.
- Un-planned holders: they are people whom buy arbitrarily and stucked with their investments, then they have to hold unintentionally to hope that they might get their capital back.
They are very different kinds of investors. And the second type investors should be careful with their investments.

the topicstarter is quite right. if we speak about alts, i prefer investing in alts with a practical use. the second thing i always pay attention to is how much time since the tokensale has been passed. the last project i found that combines both i mentioned is taklimakan network.

I agree with you. If you took only one year interval you could see the same thing you don't have to take since 2013. Many coin which is in the top are losing its marketcap constantly. There is many problem regarding it the main problem is development when they placed ICO the hype was good but when it comes to the development nstage most of the project failed. That's why community started to avoid them. I saw many projects like this. One more problem is alternative everyday many alternatives comes and the old one not upgrade themselves whth time so in they started losing popularity. Plus mis management or marketing is also a big problem. So it's good if you always aware about what you hold.

That is why if we hold coins we must always check the progress at any time whether or not to move actively do not be careless because information is very important to determine the short term decision that will be taken

Infact, their is no coin or token worth holding for most of the new project as long as I am concern. It is better to sell off during the HYPE and protect your capital. Most of them will failed to surface after a period of 5 years since they don't have strong fundamental. We need to be extra watchful and careful on the type of project we choose to hold for long and not for short period

That's if you are looking at short term because for me am looking at long term investments but all the same your observations are so real and pure.. One must be careful which ever place he place his investments

yes you are right some without progress we have to be really careful if we hold alts make sure we check frequently,if the project does not have updates immediately take off before it's too late,and I personally for long-term investment, I chose the top alts.

You are right, you know this is one of the disadvantages o see with holding cos at time you can't tell what will happen in the nearest  future and that's why once I see I have made enough profit, I sell off

Its just shows that only the valuable alts will stay and not all altcoins are able to maintain their position especially if investors are dumping to take profit.

Hold well-established altcoins to ensure its not going to be a shitcoin in the future. Conduct a research and dont rely with others suggestions.

What coins are you talking about, at least you can share your experience with others about the coin and maybe the cause of the coin is almost non-existent. Indeed, we need to be careful with the investments we make, it is very necessary to observe the market movements from day to day to decide the next step we will take with the coins we are holding.

I don't think holding too long alts to be a very smart decision, their tend to be huge volatility around alts than Bitcoin and it is known that during dump, altcoins hardly recover faster than Bitcoin, so one should be careful of how much alts he intends to hold and how long. Have seen someone whose total alts portfolio dropped from about 2btc to less than 0.03btc

Do you believe it's feasible for another undertaking with no underlying wellspring of subsidizing (no ICO or anything like that) to make it? Back toward the beginning of crypto, it appears as though it was workable for a venture to be fruitful if there was a smart thought to expand upon since there weren't numerous different projects around. Nowadays, there are a large number of projects. By what method can a newcomer get took note?

I prefer to use top10 coins, other coins are the bulllshit, which was created during the hype around crypto industry

The problem with holding altcoins is that at times we let our emotions before our senses, we feel attached to a certain altcoin that even when it becomes illogical to keep holding we still make excuses and keep believing that it will moon soon.

Most altcoins failed woefully and as such where overtaken by others; this is one of the signs that shows that blockchain is growing. There are many projects coming up nowadays, if they fail to bring in more innovative solutions they will not last long term because this space is now highly competitive.

Usually this happens due to the fact that developers simply do nothing with the project, do not produce a work product, but it also happens that they simply cannot, due to lack of funds or time.

Altcoins future has now turn to a more scary unknown future and its already spreading on the news that altcoins may never get back to their all time high ever again even if bitcoin hits 100k,scary indeed

Yes, we must be careful in choosing Altcoin that we will hold for the future, we must invest in Altcoin which is really good, like Ethereum, BNB, XRP and Top 100 CMC which I feel have security and have a strong team in inside it.

I think we shoul be aware what we hodl or we stay updated from time to time on what we hold, because it is important so that we are aware what is going on and what is happening in our coin we hold. If we are not updated then there would come a time we didn't expect that some of we hold is non existent alredy in the market, or the coin is delisted. So we should be following their social media accounts and other sites so that we know what is new abou what we hold.

So many shitcoin in 2017 when ICO booming, i think top 20 altcoin is good for long term and IEO coin right now still good for short term investment and risky for long term..

Coinmarketcap might have delisted the coins due to lack of volume, but it doesn't mean they are out of the market.
Things will change once the market will again be as good as in 2017, or even better, then suddenly we will see them added back again in the coinmarketcap.

Risk is already present in the market, everyone should be careful all the time, not only with altcoins but also with bitcoin.

Right, maximum altcoins that i hold are now almost vanished. I am undone by holding altcoins. Previously we knew hold is gold but now hold is the main cause of becoming loser. If altcoins doesn't started to stop decline, maximum altcoins will be ruined in the near time.

I agree. altcoin which has no potential for more potential to exit the coinmarketcap because of its minimal volume. although this applies to all coins, including bitcoin, but I think bitcoin is the safest, because it has the greatest liquidity.

We really need to be careful when making a choice to pick altcoin so we don't get devastated at the end,we should do some serious research, we also need to know the team backing the project before investing. Once you know you are holding a potential coin, then you will have the feeling of security.

Cryptos are developing, old projects replaces with the new one.
By this reason most of projects now gone from the market.
Others gone because it was simple scam

This is very true that many of the ICOs that were evolving in the year 2027 is now abolished and no of their data is available anywhere whether it be the Coinmarketcap or any website. One of the coin which I remembered very well named as Prospectors Gold is now maybe vanished. But, then I get the profit from it well. So, be careful of your investment upon the cryptocurrency which you are going to invest.

And also be Careful to the Place you checked prices because some of them are misleading with fake trades just like what CoinmarketCap does  ,maybe some of the coins that exist is not real and same thing with those non existing

But you are right because good coin today is bad tomorrow,the legit now tomorrow is scam

Better to buy the top 20 currency instead it’s more safer and you will be confident to hold for long

Yes, you're right we all have to be very careful to hold of altcoins because every altcoin can't give you profit for the long term. There are many altcoins but few are trustable for long term benefits like Moozicore WORLD’S FIRST MUSIC STREAMING SERVICE ON BLOCKCHAIN https://tokensale.moozicore.com/

I always keep this in mind. Alts are risky if you dont know what you're doing.

If the domination of bitcoin will grow at a pace such as now, the altcoins will continue to fall. Too much has been lost in the alts in 2018 and nobody wants to risk more.

Part of being careful is to HODL your coins at the same time exerting some effort tracking down their progress every now and then. You do not just buy altcoins and then leave it idle in your wallet without even getting some news as to its development. That is utter foolishness! Lest you will find out later on that the altcoin you have been HODLing has already long been decomposed.

Yea you are absolutely right. Because of the coin/token inflation, even many good projects are going to die. I always say that HODL is not a good strategy for altcoins, especially for small marketcap alts. Of course, you can HODL ETH or XRP. but HODL mainly BTC.

I just hold several altcoins in 2 years.
2 years ago my assets were estimated 1000$++ and now just 50$  :-\

Yeah, your investment story discloses the fact that there are losers among investors. Not all investors will get profits from their investments. Now, let's tell us the truth, because I believe (from what you disclosed) you invested in so many shit altcoins with hope that they will rocket to the Moon. Unfortunately, the opposite scenario happened, and you got losses.

yes you are right, and this is a learning for all of us, even though I am still a newbie but some of the coins that I saw also experienced a very drastic decline and this is very worrying for everyone who still holds lots of coins.

yes it is true, the altcoins that you invest in the long run do not mean you do not have to monitor, because the development of the project behind the altcoins has an effect on the price of the coin in the market, if the project is stalled, of course the coin price will decrease due to missing its trust and attractiveness of investors

Marketcaps went up considerably. So coins that were topping the coinmarketcap in 2013 still exist and are much more expencive then back then but that dont make them stay on top of coinmarketcap anymore. Lately a lot of non mined or premined or btc blockchain forks come on CMC and normal pow coins just cant compete with them.  If you want to have proper picture you need to slice CMC by some  criteria.

If we're keen in doing research, that could provide us better inputs regarding what type of coin you're holding. The community it belongs always give us the opportunity to gain confidence along with its growth in the marketplace. Somehow we should be careful with the unknown alts that didn't have good reputations, probably you'll be holding and growing it worthless in the future because it won't gain a profitable price.

THere are so many alts whose not in CMC but they are good to invest in.
Remember that dont look at CMC as it is an additional step for a project to get notice and demand.
What you should go is for the alts and its team to be in the future.

CMC and EXCHANGE is agood thing to have for more than 50 percent pump before, but hey! we are not in 2017 anymore. WAKE UP! get on the project!

It's the truth. We can say that each season has its own altcoins, but then they die and are replaced by new ones. I have always believed that altcoins are most suitable for trading, and for the long term it is best to use bitcoin.

You are absolutely right about whag you observed it's a fact a lot of those who too the chart then have gone into extinction, we have to be mindful of coin we hold.

You are very correct, we need to be very careful when it comes to investing in Altcoins. I will advise that is better to be on the side of caution by investing in the top coins, especially those that fall between one and ten.

Nearly all altocoin are garbage and are unable to increase value in the long term.  You need hold Bitcoin and the rest of the market should only choose 3-5 Altcoin and only spend about 20% of the money available to them.

Most altcoins are really worthless and a lot of them are already delisted in their respective exchanges. Be careful in altcoins that are pump and dump. More than likely, you will be left as bag holder with crap tokens or coins. Bitcoin is I guess still the best coin to hold in long-term. No one beats the original!  ;D

Correct.Most of the coins died after initial hype.But most of the coins as of now has  a good value just like ethereum and bitcoin.I recommend hold these coins for a long term for sure this will be a good profit in the future.

I have the same idea, buying exchange coin like BNB, KCS , and Houbi coin is a great investment, this exchange would continue to operate and make money and that would make them compete which would result to improve on the exchange. Also, considering an increase of adoption over time, the coin value might grow.

2013 may as well be an eon ago in the world of altcoins--I don't know how many new altcoins have come to market since then, but I'm pretty sure they number in the hundreds.  Thus it isn't surprising that those once "popular" on Coinmarketcap 6 years ago no longer are.  I don't care for the market cap metric when it comes to cryptocurrency anyway.

As far as being careful with the coins you hold, there's no way to tell which ones are going to retain their value, their popularity, or their developer support over time.  A lot of them promise great things, but in reality most are just get-rich-quick schemes for the people who crank them out.  My advice would be to hold off on buying any brand-new coin entirely and wait until there's some history behind it before even considering a purchase.

I'm happy with the few PoS coins I own, because even if they don't increase in price (or even decrease), I'm still earning more coins.  That's the investing philosophy I have in the stock market as well.  If a stock doesn't pay a dividend, I'm not interested in it.

The statement that you say is true that we should be careful with the altcoins that we have. Some of the altcoins that I have are dead and this is the result of Bounty coins. Before we buy Altcoin, we must be able to do some good research and learn to be smarter. Not to get stuck in a coin that does not have a good prospect in the future.

Is there any sense in holding altcoins or better to exchange them immediately on BTC? And what altcoins better to mine?

Hey, no sense in exchanging to BTC, bro. Altcoins are more perspective. I personally mine ETH, great volume of trade and fast payback on ETH

What miner do you use for such fast payback ratios? I bought myself a Z11 model but only one piece.

I have 5 S17 Pro models, bought from globemining com. A decent asic selling site, have you seen it?

Oh, I have purchased there as well, but standard S17 model, not a pro. Did you bought a long time ago?

They are selling in US? Or in EU? Is it possible to order outside us?

exchanges coins like mentioned above have good future.if market totally recovered and many huge investors came in, they will operate more services to investors and traders.and ofcourse it will give them more fee transactions and profits that could provide more feature to their customers.if traders and investors satisfied with this, they will buy this exchange coins.

Globemining is selling worldwide, however I have bought in US. I guess in EU shipping is a bit more expensive.

And why you recommend globemining over other sites? Or used options on crowd markets?

That's because globemining was the only shop I have ordered to. There are not so many such stores in fact, especially in US. But I can strongly advise to rely on their professionalism

I wish they had a free shipping cost... As when I ordered I have paid 100 USD to see my order being shipped to my location  ::)

Altcoin is indeed high risk and many factors cause it. One factor is that the project does not work according to the roadmap and the developer team starts leaving the ongoing project so that the project fails. This makes investors start selling at any price

It can drive us crazy, I think it's not just me but for the majority of the crypto market participants. Its growth and dump are too sudden and fast. It seems that long-term investment will be better for our mood. Should keep calm before everything happens.

There aren't many altcoins that can last for years. This is because altcoin is a risky investment and investors always choose new projects as an investment tool to gain profits quickly. Usually a coin that can last for years is a coin traded on a large exchanger and has good liquidity, but even then it is also not a guarantee that the project is good

I have countless coins in my portfolio whose value fell from ATH to 1 sats and most of them raised loads of money during the ICO era.

the basic question is simply what is the reason for keeping these ALTS.

when it comes to fast profit, the best possible time to sell must of course be caught.
when it comes to adaptation in real life, there is no good time for the sale. because then you have to hold and use them until the end.

First, why should you listen to your friends? Learn everything about cryptocurrencies and take a decision about what to do with them further yourself. At least, even if you lose, you will not have any reason to blame buddies and quarrel with them. This is a positive moment.

The negative moment is that you need to be ready to spend really much time on all this stuff. But it is needed for sure.

Be careful if anyone intends to hold. See some considerations before that is done. If the coin is unclear or still not well known, I don't think it's the right solution at this time.
The right Ethereum altcoin is for hold...
Good luck always...

I think we shoul know what we hodl or we stay refreshed now and again on what we hold, since it is significant with the goal that we know what is happening and what's going on in our coin we hold. On the off chance that we are not refreshed, at that point there would come a period we didn't expect that some of we hold is non existent alredy in the market, or the coin is delisted. So we ought to pursue their web based life records and different destinations with the goal that we realize what's going on abou what we ho

It is best not to hold altcoin for too long. BTC and ETH are the best option for long term holdings. I saw a lot of altcoin in the top 10 from 2013-2015. and until now all of them are dead and no longer appear in coinmarket

I always see the prices of altcoins that I hold, so I can be sure when I will sell and buy. the point is not to hold the altcoin for so long, because it's quite risky. unless you hold the king altcoins "ethereum".

This is very true, before investing in any coin one should be able to do a very thorough investigation and research to know more about the coin, also knowing the team behind the project is key, after your research, if you are convinced, then you buy else you ignore.

I have also noticed many of these coins which have been hyped in the beginning and vanished all of a sudden. WeAreSatoshi is one of examples of such hyped and scammed coins. Crypto market has become a good place for scammers to scam people. We all must discourage scamming.

Which is one very big reason why you should never buy and hold any token or.coin because of the hype surrounding it, thankfully there is something called Stop-loss that people tend to ignore these days. It helps a lot but ensure you never keep your funds in unsecure exchanges.

 Many of those alt coins that do not work well or projects that do not come true are seen at the end of the day scam. They should be real projects and coins for many years as a top coinmarketcap and must be invested well. Should be verified and invested.

there are not many new projects that can maintain their existence on the market. the altcoin has finished trading, it may disappear from the talk of the person after one year the project is running. then the developer disappears and no one will know about it.

When I hold an altcoin for a long time, then I have to know the risk, there are many altcoins that die in 2018 and now I have seen many new altcoins, I will sell the altcoins that I hold if the price continues to fall for several reasons and will buy return if there will be signs of an increase from the altcoin that I have sold. This situation is difficult but the crypto price can change at any time

some altcoins even die shortly after they are listed on the market and raised by investors. those who can survive are those who really have future progress to be accepted by the market.

We must be careful with the coins use to hold for long term and always up to date with new information from the project. Many altcoins projects died in the previous time because the project developers could not reach the people as the expected.

This is a very good observation. Most altcoins are vanishing by the year. So one has to be extraordinarily careful as most developers are interested in making their profit instead of working on the project to improve the price

yes of course we are all always vigilant in every investment we have made, not only investing and then waiting for prices to rise but always monitoring the coin price charts and market conditions every day, so we can know the percentage of the coins we invest, if there are no more price developments further certainly exchanging and buying with other coins.

This is not that much surprising I think because many of them didn't succeed in building a vibrant ecosystem, but that is what you need to succeed.

Just dont look below top 20 on market.

Yeah, indeed we have to be careful with the coins we hold and we have to be aware of what coins we have. Other than that, if we do hold coins then every day on a regular basis or at least two days ago we must see the development of prices in the market. This aims to get the best chance. We must not lose the opportunity to get a big profit. Indeed something big is certainly balanced with a big effort so you must continue to be patient.

There are hundreds of new altcoins that release almost every day. People can easily make it without thinking about the use of their coins.
I suggest investing only on Altcoin who stand on top of Coinmarketcap like BNB (Binance) who can keep the value stable.

Those altcoins that died or became a shadow of themselves are hyped coins thus trending at the time being and dieing off at the long run. On the other hand, those who had something solid are waxing strong even till today and this is the type of projects we should be looking at or holding; projects with long term sustainability.

The projects with real working products will be considered by the crowd but the scam projects will continue to scam as much as possible sufferers. Invbesting to the proper projects have some requirements from each investor. An investor should understand and accept the risks associated with the volatile financial markets.

As i also suggest that don't hold unknown or not well reputations coin , you should always hold top 20 coins and should set your stop loss sothat you don't need to hold long run.

Little by little the old altcoins give way to the new. Therefore, it is important to get rid in time of coins that in the future do not have much chance of growth compared to their newly minted counterparts.

But there  are still who dominate until now it still exists, those are coins that  we need to benchmark, we should study why it exists that long, how the roadmap being developed,  it is our guide in selecting real coins that don't just vanishes by the time.

Yes, that is right. I have a few coins who reached a good price in 2017 but suddenly just disappear and decided to not continue. Even those coins who are existing until now but the price is very very low compared to what I bought them. It is a big factor why this happened because of the sudden decrease in Bitcoin's price.

Getting rid of shitty coin value cannot be stopped and since we're still not recovering from that worst situations, we cannot move on. If we're carefull and decisive enough during 2017, maybe we're not this kind of hopeless right now. You're not alone thinking this way mate, because many of us felt the agony.

You are very right. The best thing to look out for when choosing a good altcoins to hold (especially for long term) is a good product and the longevity of the project. Most projects are just after the initial profit and then go into extinction.

This is a very good advice, although am a newbie but when I got started my friend was quick to advice me on the type of tokens to hold and I followed his direction. What I have learnt is, most altcoins have nothing to show for they are just hype and that's all; reason most die off sooner than later.

Always do a research first on the coins you want to invest and hodl, Coins with active developers and supportive teams will surely stay long in the cryptomarket. These developers keep upgrading or innovating their coins to meet the challenges that lies ahead thus keeping also their coin on the top of the market.

You should be very careful with alts. Back in time I had many altcoins and I had no time to monitor each of them. So I lost a good part of my holdings

No need to store all altcoins for a long time. Sell them as soon as the price rises and you have the opportunity to earn. You can also sell and fix losses if the price is constantly falling and there are no prospects for growth.

Only altcoins from the top 20 list can be stored for a long time.

Projects that are working products and real uses, will certainly always innovate and develop projects. Then the analysis is very important to determine the right time to sell and hold. By understanding the roadmap, we will also find out the team's seriousness in developing the project.

It is meaningless to think about the loses. I don't invest in the small projects that never will reach the goal of the whitepaper. Projects usually have goals which they don't reach in the bear market and they take responsibility after blaming the bad market circumstances.

I think before going in for the hodl, you have to read well about the alts and see what they aim for on the long run and how they aim to acheive that.

I also made a mistake like that before, and now that altcoins are gone and have no value at all. We have to take care always because even the strong altcoins can also go down, so watch always. If you have many coins better to reduce it with the most effective coins that you have, more holdings meaning more stress to me.

there are lots of shitcoins in coinmarketcap,  Cmc is more concerned about the trading volume,  irrespective of if the coin is having a good team or working products,  so I won't be surprise if lots of coin on coinmarketcap are no longer there

It's not fair to take 2013 as a point since back then, cryptocurrency was quite young and immature. Not many good coins back then so there's a reason why they've gone if we looking at today.

if you want to invest in the long run, make sure you choose the top coins or altcoins in the top 10 at CMC, most of them have further price developments, but you also have to pay attention to the market situation including the coins you invest, and not recommended if you invest in dead coins or don't have price developments. this is very risky

New technologies always come and old go , I think you should not keep many coins in them because there is always the risk that the coin will disappear and will cease to develop.

You should not keep more than ~25% from your holdings in altcoins.

Crypto market is cyclical, bull and bear periods will come, but overall altcoins will not behave better than Btc on longterm.

To be honest; I regret hodling most of my altcoins for long. They should be sold as soon a possible.

I spent weeks studying each of the altcoins I hodl, even going as far as identifying use cases. They all seemed prospective solid team and idea, but just take a look at CMC.

You made alot of sense, one need to follow the progress of any altcoins which they hold,especially if it's not among the Top 20 coins listed. Go through their Telegram Community, visit their social media pages and find out new information about them.

Some projects really surprise me as to how they turn out to be shit within a very short time. We need to be very careful with the coins we hold, if you don't believe much in a project, convert the coin to a more stable one instead of holding a coin that will turn out to be shit.

It is true ,there are too many coins from suspisious projects on the market, I prefer investing my money only in solid projects with a honest CEO and a good team.

a number of tokens die after the initial hype because they cannot strengthen the tokens after listing, this is necessary because they do not have budget funds when starting a project because we know that after registering the market moves to buy tokens they have a lot of inventory. so to choose a long-term project you must look at the number of supply tokens before holding the tokens.

Well, there will always be a natural selection as it is on every financial market, so why the crypto one would be an exception. If you really want to optimize your portfolio, you have to constantly be up to date with the projects that you are holding, so you can eliminate them if they are under-performing. 

Way back in 2017, I worked hard to make money but I ended nothing. All tokens I'd recieved from my previous campaign has lost its value. The team and developers neglected their responsibilities in their project.

I hold my tokens before because I believe that the longer you hold, the value will increase but I was wrong. I know all of us regret it for holding the token for a long time. I wouldn't say that all tokens are the same, it is up to you on how much you believe on alts.

I want to agree with you that there is a need to be absolutely careful with regards to the coins that one is holding for long period of time. Some coins whose prices were initially high on CMC during their first launch in exchange are actually worthless now. Majority of them kept going down even when the market is rising gradually. It will not be a thing of surprise if after a while they are no more in existence on CMC. We need to monitor our coins and that we have been holding for a long time. If need be, we may sell them on time so as not to loose on both ends.

Holding altcoins can be a real danger as most of them turns out to be come shit coins. I was holding several altcoins back in 2017 but now they are worth nothing and the lesson that i have learnt from this is to hold much of Bitcoin and few other altcoins probably Ethereum. For the upcoming ICOs and IEOs it is best to hold them for a while and sell it off once its price increases over the market.

I strongly agree with you, because not all coins have a good development and community, and in the end the coins will only end up disappearing, because investors will definitely sell all the coins they have, so that development and community are very important in the survival of a coin

thats why we must do our deep research first before decide to invest on any cryptocurrency my friend
and dn't forget to think about the risk and rewards,
anyway, for me the safest alts to invest in long term is the TOP 10 alts in the coinmarketkap

You are correct mate, We must be sure about the altcoins for long term.  Majority of them actually are good in hype but in the end it turned into nothing. Always look for the top coins in the market that listed at the coinmarketcap in which is top 10 coins. And one of the good for long are Ethereum, ADA, Waves, Pundix, Vet, and Nem.

I think, you are right. Before going to hodl alts, you need to read well about their plan, aim and how they want to acheive.

Basically, the tokens of many projects obtained from the bounty, I try to transfer to BTC, ETH or other coins from the top ten.  Or tokens of new projects, which are long and thoroughly analyzed.  I certainly have little experience, but the strategy is already bearing fruit, although there have been many losses and disappointments.  The main thing is to move forward and not despair.

You have made a very good point. If we hold the Alts for long term and does not look for it's updates, there are chances that project is not moving  or dead.
I have observed another situation of token swaps. If we don't pay attention to the updates, there are chances that your Alts gets swapped with other platform and thus your tokens and Investment can become obsolete.

You are absolutely right. Many coin's jump in the market and after couple of months there's value drop so much. Actually you need to check very carefully that project which you interested. Watch their movement, analysis there road map, see their social activity and more thing. If you think things going to wrong don't to be late sold your coin. We all know about Bitconnect.  ;D ;D ;D

With price movements in the crypto market over the past year, I was finally convinced that it was not worth keeping altcoins for a long time. As soon as they become higher than the price at which you bought them, sell better and do not wait long.

That's the right thing to do, I should have made a good profit if I sold early but we can't go back to the past or undo our wrong decision.
Also, it's not smart to sell it now because altcoins are down a lot, we need to be more patient and wait until it will have its own rally.
Investing is really unpredictable, we think past trends will repeat but it didn't but still we need to be patient all the time.

Not all business succeed, 5 years maximum for some, if they pass through it, they probably made a great one, there's a lot of cryptocoins out there, commonly ERC tokens climb up its price when it hit the market and eventually goes down lower than its original price, but looking on the bright side, some coins succeed and helped people gain profit.

in 2017 almost all altcoins i was holding are shitcoins because back then i dont know how to find out if a project is a quality project until many of my altcoins died while holding them

none of that was unexpected. and not only you who experienced it, I also experienced it. and I realize that all of this happened because of our own mistakes in making that decision, and I think not all new or old coins will continue to grow well in the future because I am sure there will be a time when they are truly worthy of investment or will die become worthless shitcoin.

Holding promising projects will give a decent return on the investment, otherwise, you will get nothing at the bull run. Quality projects are not much and choosing good projects with real working products takes time. Shitcoins are there just for one reason: Pump and dump.


Red is the colour of the dumpers who have no patience to see the green. BTC value doesn't have the 100% correlation with the market price, altcoins also have a 50% of project vision and 50% of other aspects like the index price of top cryptocurrencies.

I was also surprised to see the coinmarketcap ladder. Everything changes from the first...
Now it's not good to hold a coin. Only certain coins have an increased chance of being suitable for hold like ETH. Other coins seem to me not good for holding.

Agree, let's choose coin with solid tech and a team who know how to do business development. Lack one of these 2 elements can REKT you

All the pointers has to be followed, however, the hardest part is to verify if the team really has the capability to run the project, their reputation alone if they have will not ensure success to the project, we are still at a high risk in that matter, so it's advisable to not just focus on limited projects, but hold more.

As you know most of the project is launched their own profit and interest that the reason most of the coins are dead now after launching into exchanges and coinmarketcap.

I think that's the destiny of a crypto. indeed like that they will continue to rise and fall in price. there are when they are above there also when they are below. but when we want to make or buy crypto for a long-term investment, we can often read the news and check developments in the coin marketcap first so we can conclude and find out whether the coin we invest in is good and will be profitable in the long run later.

it depends on how the coins you invest in, if they have a strong team and many users tend to produce good things. long term investment is highly recommended with potential coins or altcoin like ethereum, BNB is one of them. I am very confident in the development of this altcoin

the market is indeed in a confusing state. sometimes it goes up but there is also a decrease that occurs. I was afraid to invest, but if I did not take risks, then I would never get trading experience and profits.

do not hold too long altcoin that has no credibility. we recommend holding altcoin king "ethereum" much better. Don't get caught from Altcoin junk or shitcoins.

yes we will always be careful with this investment, I mean not only cautious but we also have to always monitor the market situation because at any time the coins you invest can experience sharp price drops, but if you invest with a few potential or registered coins at the top 10 at cmc I think you don't need to worry because they always have trading volume every day and there are lots of holders too

Over the time I have always been having issues with holding altcoins, if at all I wanna hodl any altcoins, believe me it has to be ETH or LTC, anything apart from that,I will put my money on BTC

Of course, if you are a holder, you should always look at your investment or monitor market conditions. otherwise you won't know when to sell or keep holding with your coins.

You always need to know when to sell and for what purpose , and then with any coin you can stay in the eternal investor , as the market is very strong and fast changing , and coins in the top as well.

The crypto ecosystem is full of unexpected surprises in terms of instant increase in the market value of altcoins.  But I think it is advisable to hodl altcoins with good market cap and volume. Such coins have a lot of potential of increasing their market value...

I couldn't agree more. After ICOs, some of them are just gone. That is why I only hold a few coins belonged to the top 10 in market cap and hold more Bitcoins. Because I trust Bitcoin that will last when everything is backing out, these new coins, even they are a good one eventually die because they do not have strong dedication for their project to succeed.

I was only lucky with long-term investment. Since then, I began to invest more money in this direction, but so far, luck is not on my side. I have been storing some tokens for more than a year and so far the price for them is less than the price at which I bought them.

This is exactly why you need to be selective with your altcoins, because 70 percent of all altcoins that are now on CMC will not overcome the next five years. Try to think about perspective of those tokens and not about profits of tomorrow.

that is the law of nature, new projects overlap. Better, stronger will replace old projects. And also because it is the tactical change of sharks, they no longer collect and push old coins, so it dies slowly. 
In order to earn money in the crypto market, you need to adapt to this, and should only hodl the top 20 coins because it is harder to die than the garbage coins.

When we hold a coin then we will immediately continue to monitor price developments, well when ROI has increased very high, of course we must make a sale first before buying it again to save it for the long term, so by doing so the risk of losing assets is very small because if we see it from 2013 until now there are indeed some tokens that have lost their ATH moment so they are very difficult to get back up especially because there are many new tokens.

I couldn't agree more. I've started following and getting altcoins last 2017 but I am not sure where they are now ;D I don't even know if they are still trading. Seems like I've threw away my investment by joining the hype that year, I loss all my hopes after BTC and altcoins value dropped. Anyway, I am trying to revive my love for crypto now but probably I'll just focus on one or two coins, so it won't hurt me like before  :D

so you need to be vigilant and also be careful before making a decision by investing in the long term and to minimize the risk you need to invest with potential altcoin like ethereum or even better it is highly recommended with bitcoin.

If we look at it since the advent of the altcoin. There are most altcoins that are dead, but there are also high altcoin prices. I think the altcoin that we hold must have influence for the future. Suppose that altcoin creates a blockchain, market, etc.

Therefore, you should choose and research altcoin you need to invest. But I think choosing altcoin to invest is always a wise decision when investing long term. Be careful in selecting altcoin, check carefully.

Point is, how do we know the tokens to hold or not hold?  The market is full of surprises because sometimes the projects you think will underperform starts doing good. So I my opinion this is a hard decision to make

Of course, you should always be careful, especially when it comes to investments. And investments in cryptocurrencies are even more risky, so soberly weigh all the risks. You need to hold only promising coins of projects that have already established themselves in the market. Unfortunately, many altcoins are weak projects with a weak idea, so their life cycle will be short.

Alts are not for long term my opinion. You take a profit from a alt, you move to next. If you are not a trader, risker then stay with bitcoin. Safer but slower profit.

No Risk, No Gain!

don't hold altcoin too long ... because many altcoins can't grow properly so many altcoins are lost in market turnover ... moreover you've been holding altcoins since 2013 ... this is a very long time to hold altcoin ... especially altcoin that doesn't have good growth and doesn't have a consistent developer in launching the latest products from the projects they have developed .. so be carefully of alt you hodl..

The risk of each altcoin holder is a dump, you should be more careful with bitcoin price movements.
because the price of altcoin is determined by the issue and demand for bitcoin.
at least you have a target buy, sell.

for altcoin it must be a little careful because the hype at the beginning is painful, especially if we are too sure to make them a long-term investment, I myself often get stuck because I can't compare the proper alt and the improper alt.

I remember coins which were hot a few years ago like blackcoin and earthcoin. Gladly I sold all my altcoins on time. there are just way too much altcoins to pick out the right ones.

Definitely. That's why its important to know the kind of alternative coins you are investing. Don't follow the hype and crowd and regret later. Research about the particular coin you want to invest.

In my opinion, the cryptocurrency market is so risky and unpredictable that the most correct strategy is to make a profit for short periods of time. In the long run, many tokens can change their position in the rating lists several times or disappear altogether.