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Perhaps I've always been a lone ranger, which sometimes makes me feel lonely. I'd like to connect with cryptocurrency investors from around the world and share our insights and experiences.

Mainstream coins? Do you mean HYPE coin?

If yes, then the answer depends on the trading you are gonna do. You want to do high-risk and potential high chance losing money choose (Mainstream-coin), for long-term and safe risk lose you can always choose top-altcoins.

Mainstream coins just like gambling, always be ready throwing your money to trashcan.

It's better if your question is more specific, especially concerning mainstream, because Bitcoin and even ETH (an altcoin) have now become mainstream and are popular. If you buy coins or tokens simply based on popularity or trading volume, it's like gambling, and you should be prepared to lose your money.

You haven't specified your perception of mainstream cryptocurrencies. From what I gather, mainstream cryptocurrencies typically include only Bitcoin and Ethereum. However, we are all aware that not everyone can afford to buy these expensive coins. Therefore, many of us opt for other alternative coins that are more affordable and offer good value. We often consider factors such as the trading volume of the coin we want to purchase, whether it is listed on top-tier exchanges, and also take into account the strength of the coin's community. Mainstream coins are good to hold for the long term.

There are only two classifications: either Bitcoin or altcoins, as any coin created after Bitcoin is considered an alternative coin. So, I think your question goes like that. Well, I would choose both. Don't limit your investment to just one, as this market is not for Bitcoin only. The reason why this market has grown is because of plenty of altcoins that were created. While most of them turn out to be abandoned projects or scams, there are altcoins that still exist and are already successful. So, it's just a matter of studying a certain project to see its potential in the future. Also, if you want to minimize the risk in investing, you need to diversify your funds, which means you should invest in altcoins alongside Bitcoin.

Thank you for your input, and I greatly appreciate your perspective. In the cryptocurrency market, there are indeed two primary classifications: Bitcoin and altcoins. Given Bitcoin's pioneering status, it has always been in the spotlight. However, the emergence of altcoins has added more dynamism to this market.For me, I tend to lean towards investing in some altcoins rather than just Bitcoin. While many altcoin projects end up being abandoned or scams, there are also several altcoin projects that have shown remarkable promise and achieved success. I believe the key lies in carefully researching and analyzing specific projects to understand their future potential and feasibility.Additionally, the risk management aspect you mentioned is crucial. To mitigate investment risks, I also employ a diversified strategy, which means I invest in some altcoins alongside Bitcoin to balance my investment portfolio.Most importantly, I genuinely wish to connect with cryptocurrency investors from around the world and share our insights and experiences. If you have any suggestions or methods that could help me engage and communicate better with this community, I would greatly appreciate it.
 If you are willing to share some insights on how to connect with other cryptocurrency investors, it would be highly valuable. I look forward to building relationships with like-minded individuals and pursuing success together in the world of digital currencies!

Much better to remain a lone ranger and alone on this market and just browse whatever is happening in the market. I know that it's good to have some peers but when money talks, you'll never know who the actual is you're talking to.

Be careful with who you connect to.

There are folks there that have ill intention to someone like you who's looking for some help. They will inject you with the altcoins that they are supporting but even with that, always DYOR.

Mainstream coins or altcoins?, your question is too ambiguous, friend, you must first understand what the words "mainstream" and "altcoins" mean. Let me tell you, the word "mainstream coins" in crypto means referring to coins/tokens that are often used or known by people in crypto itself, in this case we can define mainstream coins as Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH) Binance Coin (BNB), Ripple (XRP), Dogecoin (DOGE) or Tron (TRX).

Meanwhile, the meaning of the word "Altcoins" on the crypto side is any crypto asset other than Bitcoin (BTC) itself, do you understand at this point? Not only me, I'm sure all the responses that will come in will also talk about the confusion of your question.

I am very confused by your question with mainstream coins? I checked on Coinmarket there are none, so what is the difference between mainstream coins and altcoins?

If called mainstream means altcoins that are on the rise?

Well connected with investors from all over the world, is that what is meant by interacting or wanting to show that we are investors? I don't think that's possible.

A little confusion, if between mainstream and altcoin why not choose bitcoin?

What the hell is this lol. What is the topic name, and what is that OP wrote? This makes no sense at all, I have never seen anything like this ever in my life at this forum. I have seen people end up shilling for stuff, even here I see people shilling for stuff, which is sad to be fair because the topic is irrelevant and why would you want to shill for something that has nothing to do with this topic.

But at the end of the day, we end up seeing these people and these things in the end. I believe that OP wanted to talk with people because he felt lonely, and that is why he created this topic, you can chat with people at telegram better, this isn't really the place to be able to chat that fast to be fair.

Well if you have followed certain coins then maybe they have their official telegram groups or maybe you have to found it yourself to connect to this investors. But this is the beauty though of crypto as you can go lone wolf and be fine with it?

So I don't understand why you feel lonely? perhaps it could be that you lost some money already?

Regardless though, just do your own research and maybe it's best if you stick with altcoins that is in the top 10.

Maybe you are referring to Bitcoin as mainstream coins? If that is the case then it's good, I mean since this community is obviously focusing on it as the name implies and with a lot of us here into BTC, then I suggest you try it yourself instead of meme or hype coins.

As for altcoins, I do agree, just look at the top 5 or 10 coins in the marketcap right now. Like ETH, BNB, ADA, and invest on them in the long run though, it might be best thing that you will do in crypto, just saying.

Most likely this is what mainstream coins for him, BTC, ETH, the top 2 coins in the market.
As far as buying though, you don't need to acquire like 1 BTC or 1 ETH right away. Did you know that you can used DCA (Dollar Cost Averaging) strategy?
I'm not really sure what you mean by altcoins that is affordable, still though there is a big risk on that projects and so we don't know if it will return big or not in the future.
Of course the best thing is to buy them in top tier exchanges, but don't leave it there, put it it in a wallet that you have total control, meaning you have the private keys and mnemonic phrase.

Or if you still don't get it, Don't invest or don't put money on something you don't know. Not because you've gone through the website, read their Ann thread, heard about the proect online from a random video on YouTube does mean you've already done your research. Truly do your research by asking yourself is it worth taking the risk and putting off my money out there? All or almost all altcoins does 10x or more easiliy because it has small caps thus very volatile to have price fluctuation.

1. Trust no one.  Influencers doubly so. Even your best friend has an agenda in this space and that's pretty transparent agenda. They all want to make money so they will shill the bags they themselves are holding.

2. Random people who pm you in telegram are 100% going to scam you. If you want make contacts from there, chat in the main channel.

3. Hype and pump and dump groups are not worth your time.

I always choose cryptocurrencies with more fundamentals in it.  I do not care if it's a mainstream coin or an altcoin as long as the fundamental of the project is strong.  This means that the cryptocurrency will continue to exist, and will have a promising growth over time. After all, the life of a project is dependent on how strong its fundamentals.


I agree, that when it comes to investment, we must do deep research on the project we are interested in investing in.  Blindly picking a project to invest in will more likely end up in losses.

I think you meant bitcoin and altcoin perhaps? because the other coins that isn't bitcoin is quite literally altcoins.
but in this regard i'd prefer to just distribute my investment across various coins just in case.
many actually thinks that bitcoin is best when it comes to long term investment and thats true because bitcoin has shown the growth over the course of decade until reaching its latest all time high.
while the short term investment is good with altcoins, so you should choose yourself what you really need in this case.

I see that your interest is very high in finding investors, whether you want to create a project or just want to be connected. and from your point of view, you prefer Altcoins (dominant) to BTC which is very familiar to investors big and small. For your method, you have set a good diversification strategy for your investment portfolio, I think it is good.

I like altcoins for returns but I like 'mainstream' as BTC/ETH to secure my returns, depends on market condition, can choose stables too. Investing in alts is high risk, high reward kinda thing.

Usually people here advise to stay away from investing in alts, but if you have risk preference, a good call in alt can give you significant returns which is not possible with prominent coins, also it can recover the cost of other wrong calls you may have made.

DYOR to increase your chances and don't go all in.

Mainstream means the top coins, right? If that is so, the first choice that you should have is Bitcoin. I've learned my lesson the pretty hard way and that's what you need to set on your mind before you proceed with any other altcoins. And if it's just the typical altcoins that you're thinking of, you go ahead and check them first. Always apply the DYOR, if you need a buddy or two, be active in the forum and discuss just like what you've started from this thread. Don't also be too gullible when someone tells you that you'll earn tremendous times from investing into a certain altcoin.

Just buy coins that many people have bought it. Don't isolate yourself by buying altcoins that don't have prospects. Just buy coins that are certain to profit even a few, rather than expecting big profits but full of uncertainty or tend to lose. I've been in your position where bought altcoins that don't have fundamentals but expected the price to increase many times over, where in reality, the prices fell like a waterfall on next month.

But questions from newbies about this market seem to abound, like what's the best? what's the worst? Which one should buy?....

I think the main problem lies in the most basic concepts, and you can completely research the history of market development yourself through modern projects present in the top10.

And I also want to generalize a bit about the components inside this market, mostly Bitcoin and Altcoin (also stablecoin).

Still want to remind about the starting journey even if you don't understand what it is but If you have heard about it, I still recommend focusing your research on bitcoin and then moving on to other opportunities from altcoins, this market has strong fluctuations, it is both an opportunity and a risk, be ready to accompany that change.

Mainstream altcoins such as eth, bnb, ltc, sol or the top 50 coinmarketcap are good for investment. Why, because besides the top mainstream altcoin, it also has a solid community, experience, roadmap and what's more, the altcoin project has been running for approximately 3 years or more, which means it has a small level of risk because it has been able to face critical bearish periods before.

Always DYOR before you get in.

It feels like entering a candy shop for the first time. You carefully consider which delectable treat to buy with your hard-earned money. Knowing nothing about crypto might be scary, especially when others ask "Whats the best?" or "Which one should I buy?" Start with Bitcoin. Why? It is the first and oldest. Before exploring Altcoins, learn about Bitcoin. Discover its purpose, benefits, and intriguing history. Altcoins have potential but also risk. You were right - the crypto market is a balance of risk and chance. Be flexible and ready to turn as the everything changes swiftly.

I don't know what you're referring to as mainstream coins, but if you meant Bitcoin or altcoins, then it is definitely Bitcoin for me, it has an actual utility and it isn't going extinct like majority of new altcoins. Having said that, investors who like to gamble with their funds would prolly choose altcoins, though more often than not they have no utility and survive just on hype, but they usually have the potential to pump pretty high and fall back fast as well, that's why i likened it with gambling. Looking for good altcoins is almost impossible, so buy Bitcoin, you're certain it is a good coin and its use cases are pretty obvious.

With this,  I don't think you have make any statement yet and since you haven't started what you mean by mean stream coins because a lot of us are already have a misconception of the fact of what you want.

To me when you say mainstream,  what you mean is coins that are in the Bitcoin category and if that is what you meant then you may have to state it again so that we can make appropriate comments on the topic.

Altcoins is a wide spectrum of things from garbage to somewhat interesting tech. So no one can really say that you should invest to altcoins without naming what altcoins you should invest into. As even the top marketcap coins in there vary a lot in quality. Some of them will totally die off and there will come new one replacing most of them.

Your statement is not clear to me. Do you mean BTC, ETH, BNB by Mainstream coins? If that is the case then I will definitely support Mainstream coins. Because other altcoins have less reliability like LUNA.

You are comparing Nike shoes with some non-branded shoes. They may be similar in nature and type of goods, but they are not the same. When one provides secure and big support from the community, another lacks both. There are altcoins that have real value in the market, and their contribution is noticeable. This number is very small; most of them are just money-grabbing honeypots.

you can only count valuable alts in the market, and usually, you can find it in the top 20 alts. do some research about their background and you will understand why such performance in the market. also, you will have an idea if they will survive long or if the dev team behind it is doing something to improve their services to their community.
for now, it is better to consider the top alts or at least with btc in your portfolio. with the top currency, you have the confidence that it won't disappear overnight. but the chance of increasing its value is high because of halving, adoption and others.

Up to you? I mean you're an investor, you don't need other investors' opinions as to what you want to buy. If you wanted to join the mainstream, then there's the word already, I think you can find mainstream coins yourself (they're pretty obvious as well in one lookup really). I usually just go for mainstream coins though, I rarely try the risks of new coins due to a lot of them being a scam or just a throw away project after a few weeks-months of release.

I don't know what you mean by mainstream coins because that kind of word had not been used here before until now. I wish you could explain what is the meaning of that in your second post but I didn't see anything too.
If you mean the coins that are on trend then please avoid them if you are thinking about long-term investment. Short-term they could be profitable but you have to be a good trader if you want to take advantage of them and you know the timing of when to sell because most of them are dying coins.
Go altcoins if you want an asset and I prefer the projects that are on top namely Ethereum, BNB, and more. These type of coins can keep their value for the long run and maybe even better when they are pumped.

whether you should invest in mainstream coins or altcoins depends on your investment strategy. Mainstream coins like Bitcoin and Ethereum are often considered safer, more stable investments, while altcoins offer the potential for higher returns but come with greater risk.

I assume by mainstream coin you mean Bitcoin, however, you should have specified your question in the starting post as well because titles can be confusing sometimes. Anyway, I don't really need to make a choice between the two since I can always have both. Bitcoin will be the first choice, without a doubt, but altcoins will also get their place in my bag because I believe in diversification and there are also some altcoins that I like and that are trusted.

Ethereum is my second choice after Bitcoin when it comes to long-term investments because I believe it is the most trustable altcoin in the market, it has been around longer than every other altcoin and it has never faced any problems such as extreme crashes or anything, so that makes it a good coin.

What do you mean by Mainstream coins? it is a coin? I Don't find any coin with this name. Altcoins always huge profitable in short time but also huge risky. Altcoin prices go up and down quickly and if you hold an altcoin long term, the losses outweigh the gains. So short term hold or day trading has to be done here.  It is possible to make good profit from altcoins through day trading but it requires previous trading experience and proper understanding of market analysis.

If you mean established coins or Altcoins, I think it still depends on the type of investments you have either trading or buy and hold. For me if you have huge money to invest go for Bitcoin, Ethereum or BNB. Though not a financial advice but I can see these coins going so far in the future as what they were today. Just always remember that cryptocurrency investment is too risky. Things will go against you in just a second so beware make sure you have the financial education or DYOR before jumping into something you are not familiar with.

There's always a risk behind whatever project you take, but what is important is you know the kind of investment to place your money, if you have a good amount of investment and you are not a fan of always checking the market, taking BNB,ETH and BTC especially might be the best option in terms of support and potential to grow, though market is unpredictable but as long as you are holding and waiting for your target you may earn the profits that you wanted to have.

A lot of people bought SHIB and DOGE. Does that mean he will as well follow it? I think that was a wrong strategy. Just because many people have bought it does not mean it is already a good coin. What we need to be successful here is not instincts or luck but it is knowledge.

The OP didn't say that he was once an enthusiast of pump and dump coins but I think he is not only updated with cryptos, and that is why he is asking for a good recommendation here. When he say mainstream coins, I believe he is referring to the fiat or on what we can see in the forex market. They are still useful and you can still make a profit out of them but altcoins has it's own advantages as well. Balancing is only the key here.

This would end up in disaster if we blindly follow what other are doing and if that was the case then users will not lose any money in crypto as people usually tend to follow the trend and still end up losing money. FTX, LUNA, SHIBA INU & Doge are some of the coins which users adapted but still ended up on the wrong side of crypto market hence it's better to go for coins which has better stuff to offer in terms of technologies as such coins tends to be profitable on longer run. But if we are looking for a safe investment then BTC & ETH will be the best option. 

Investing on mainstream coins gives the assurance of profit and have the track record for the same. With new altcoins into the market it is like a gamble or a way to just try our luck. There are good number of altcoins and new projects that have provided the investors with the best profit than what one can earn out of mainstream coin investment. With new projects the spending should be what one can afford to loss.

When the focus is on memecoins, we should be prepared enough with alternate plans. Only then it is possible to profit good/avoid loses.

You should check the historical coinmarketcap rank. There have been lots of changes in that rank over the past few years. Luna had better technology, big funding, and a better community, but it still failed when projects like BTC, ETH, LTC, and XRP is still rocking the market. Luna provided a big return to his early investor, and their investor took a big loss after it collapsed.

So it is secure to be with mainsteam coins if you don't want to take any unnecessary risks. But if you want to make insane gains from your investment, you need to find the right altcoin, which is not easy to do.

What do you mean by mainstream coins or altcoins? There is nothing like mainstream coins in crypto except if you have another personal name is slang that you call it but I don't think there is anything like that or maybe it's a new thing. We have two type of coin by existence, they are bitcoin and altcoins. Bitcoin was the first crypto currency coins that was created and then, any coins that were later created to date step regarded as altcoins and in altcoins, there are coins and tokens. Tokens are crypto built on another chain while coin are those crypto that has their own blockchain like the way bitcoin has its own blockchain.

Furthermore, my little warning about you connecting with people here is that, if you are not careful on the kind of friend to make, you will only be making friends with scammers that will take everything you have. If you have a specific language that is been spoken on the forum, it's better to connect from that boards than a random person you know nothing.

There is no doubt that Bitcoin is the most mainstream currency in this field and has a vast dominance on the market with a high percentage, but do not forget that there are also promising and mainstream altcoins that have a high market value in exchanges and have adoption on a broad level.

First and foremost, the investment decision is up to you. We only exchange opinions, views, and ideas, not investment advice.

From my point of view, Bitcoin should be an essential investment for any investor, along with a number of top altcoins in the market. Your choice of these altcoins depends not on the ideas and recommendations of the investors you want to connect with but on your comprehensive research of the altcoin project, technical and fundamental analysis, and experience in this field. Diversifying your investments is a good thing instead of putting your entire capital in one mainstream currency, whatever it may be.

What does this mean? Are you just venting to interact with fellow investors or do you really want to ask about the mainstream? Mainstream means something that is mainstream. What this means is that perhaps you are asking about what coins investors usually hold, is that right?

If yes, then this will depend on the investor. However, I am sure, if they are long term holders, they will choose a coin that has had a very good response in the market, has had significant technological developments and projects, and is still running and developing the potential of the coin. The altcoins that they usually take are those that already have a fairly high market cap and are top coins. Maybe these include ETH, BNB, Matic, SOL, XRP, and others. These are altcoins, because Bitcoin is the main crypto investment.

However, there are also those who like to invest in high risk coins, namely new projects that are likely to be hyped so that they can get high returns quickly. but this is very dangerous for newbies who don't really understand the steps.

Well, whatever you mean, the only thing I could say to you is that be careful in choosing coins to invest. The market is flooded already with altcoins and more of them are worthless and scams. But if I were you, I'd rather take Bitcoin and the leading altcoins for some profit assurance. Because if you are looking for a profit, you will also know how to choose coins and are able to determine them from numbers of hyped and shitcoins. Otherwise, you'll end up alone again and in regret.

Take time to discover more in the crypto space and you can find the answer.

I think most of us are pretty much lone rangers in here, OP like wandering stalkers or investors. I would appreciate connection with you, OP but you gotta give us first on what coin does interest you the most and there might be people around here that had the same interest in coins as you.

Me as one, am only interested in Bitcoin though since that's where my comfort lies now. I encountered way too many losses in altcoins back in 2017 that's why I do not do altcoin tradings and hodlings anymore. The least and best altcoin I could invest anytime would be ETH for obvious reasons.

ofcourse major tokens in this industry would promote less risk of losing money and higher tendency of earning profit. These cryptos are having large scale of community which creates demand and trigger price increase in a long run. However, if it is with bigger profit then there are altcoins having high rate of market price increase due to market manipulation and/or bullrun occurs. But altcoins are naturally volatile especially new ones which are having high levels of market price volatility. Therefore, as an investor you should have a preference whether it is high risk and high demand or lower levels of risk but ain’t much of drastic price increase. Shitcoins are a good example; There’ll be times the market prices of meme token are suddenly increasing once it touch the buyer zone or ‘bottom’. Since I am not that good with DCA and market price analysis, I prefer to play my assets safe from sudden price dump and pump.Most of us are indeed lonewolf in this industry; trusting our own hunches and price movement biases. There are people who shares their own “work” but due to differences with capital and risk tolerance, it won’t work that easily. Altcoin trading is still alive but the market in general became more unpredictable, so better choose ones who have better recoveries.

Here is my answer to the question in your topic title, what kind of trader you are and how much technical and fundamental knowledge you have. I will advise long-term traders in the case of bitcoins and alternative coins or new coins that are meant to invest in those coins, I think you need to have a lot of fundamental and technical knowledge, otherwise there is a possibility of facing losses in this case.
But my suggestion will be that if you have lazy money then invest in Bitcoin for long term because Bitcoin can give you maximum security and with good future profit.

And that is how it should be, the job of a trader is to literally watch the markets on their own, compete against millions of other people like him and then beat them by obtaining more money than when they began their session, and in order to do that you need to have a very specific kind of personality, and when we also consider that if you happen to have a successful strategy you cannot brag about it or you will have people bothering you all the time to reveal it, then it is natural most traders deep inside prefer to be left to their own devices and not be bothered with other traders.

I would say that buying stuff like bitcoin and ethereum would be the smart way to go, and you would be able to find communities for traders on telegram to chat about it as well. Just go to telegram, write on the search bar "crypto trading group" or something and I am sure you will find a bunch of it. I get that it is not an organic way of finding people, you will be forcing it, but at the very least you will not be alone.

Buying the biggest name coins opens the door for a lot, and it is great way to make a profit as well, bitcoin for example is still ranked first even after so many other stuff that has better blockchains came up, why? Because it is by far the best decentralized coin out there no matter what others do.

For newbies its really better.if they could just buy bitcoin and other top so they can practice there trading skills on this coins and they will not get worried about if they might be scam since this coins are giants in the market. But I may not recommend him to go to telegram since there are so many scammers there. Much better if he stays on trading discussion and altcoin boards since he can learn a lot there.

Sometimes there are group of people that pumps the price like a closed groups in Telegram, I haven't joined one but surely there are like social circles that do those kinds of things. It is going to be a pain in the ass though since usually they would share each other's profit in the end like "contribution earnings" so that no one's blamed in the end if their favored coins gone.

I had stopped altcoin trading long time ago just like I mentioned in your quoted part, but I am pretty sure that there are more skilled if not lucky traders that can take advantage of the altcoin's volatile nature.

It's usually the default coin anyway since it's like the safe way to go while they learn. Virtual trading could be the play as well, but the newbie should still learn the emotional discipline that many traders are missing these days.

Better to stay with top assets and continue to study the market, it's not easy since even those coins can be shaken but along the way it will bounce compared with a pump and dump project which most of the time will dump and die after some time. You need to be precise in working on studying the project that you are buying. There are many available coins but only a few will survive, especially when bear season is ongoing. Take time and not to rush yourself in placing your investment.

there's always a good timing, just slow yourself and continue analysing the market and once you are already convinced that you are good to go, then invest the amount that you are willing to risk.

Yeah right especially if we are anticipating a bull run brought up by halving or any season that can give good market price to majority of crypto's. This two coin is for sure the first one to pump unlike other alts especially random altcoins in the market where we think we just gamble our money then hope for it to pump. So if we want to hodl on great seasons top coins is the most ideal compare to meme coin or other hype coin since they don't prove anything yet.

Mind you that there is no investment whatsoever with an assurance/guarantee of profit, quite rightly some investments are more risky that the other ones, for example, Bitcoin has an actual utility, so its risk is quite lesser than when one is gambling with altcoins, but it still doesn't mean there is an assurance on any of them, because you can lose your Bitcoins or sell at a loss because of real life financial problems.

In fact, there are those who follow only BTC and there are those who keep only alts in their portfolio. But in fact you can combine them, in principle btc is better to use for long term investments, for example for retirement, and alts allow you to earn large sums of money faster, but at the same time the risks are higher, but for this you need to do your research and look for the coin that will bring you money consistently, that's how I was lucky with TFS token, I still earn on it, you can find another token, it all depends on you.

When we are in situation that there's high chance to gain its better to select those coins which have high chance to gain so its better to select those top coins rather than those altcoins which we don't know if there devs will do some good hyping methods to create noise while bull run is happening since its important to see which coin will get a hype when good events slowly occurring.
There's really a good timing on everything so we make sure not to mess around so that we will not missed any possibly chances to gain especially last bull run where many people missed the opportunity to gain since they are easily afraid for possible downfall that unexpectedly happen.

What you suggest to start buying bitcoin and top altcoins is good advice and is also used to practice trading skills. This will be quite better and safer than following an unclear shitcoin project and of course there will be more risk of losing it. One of the dangerous places for beginners is Telegram because many scammers target new users to carry out fraudulent acts by offering projects that are profitable by up to thousands of percent and several other fraudulent methods. You should be alert when you get private messages from anyone you don't know.

There is a high risk when investing in crypto, basically we have to do everything possible including when there is a long bearish entry, no coin is able to recover quickly unless we ourselves can survive it until the market is completely normal or bullish.
That is a good choice on bitcoin, I will not rule out other altcoins such as ETH which has the same potential and the usefulness of its widely used ecosystem, there are actually other choices and options and for any guarantee we should not expect more except as a true holder.

And that risk is often ignored by traders thinking their skill is enough to overcome it, not understanding that instead they should use their skill and knowledge to avoid those risks to begin with, as the majority of altcoins out there are not worth holding for any length of time and you should always be ready to sell them as soon as it may seem a huge dump is coming, a recent example of this is PEPE, which was promoted as this amazing meme coin but in fact it was just a shitcoin, and now anyone that invested at the peak will probably never recover their money.

Mainstream coins or altcoins.  I mean it's bitcoin and then everything else is altcoins so I think you need to figure out what you are asking first.  But if you are talking large cap vs small cap coins it all depends on your goal and appetite for risk.  There is not one size fits all answer here.

Top coins that follows Bitcoin market movement most of the time provide decent profits, not that much compared with a new coin that really create big pump but better enough than risking with an unknown team which most of the time can create short pump then the project die after, I also agree on that part where timing is important, while value still low and you have a good amount of spare money, buying portion by portion of your chosen asset may increase the chance of making money once the market start to pump the value of the coin / project that you select.

Yes. That's right, crypto assets do have fluctuating price movements that can change very quickly, making them a target for traders and their price movements are very much influenced by supply-demand conditions. So, if OP want to have quantity, choose Altcoin ar meme, but if you talk about quality, choose BTC and that is very mainstream because of its fundamental aspects.

It's up to your risk tolerance and how much money you have to invest. I'm poor so I go for newly launched projects only... Shardeum, Lamina1, Layer0, Q Blockchain, Zeta, QUAI, Mantle, Monad, Scroll, Taiko etc. Lower cap means higher potential returns. I need a moonshot!

Choosing the best coin like Bitcoin is preferred if you are a long-term holder. But if you are aiming for the short term, we can take the opportunity to make a profit from the price fluctuations and hype that these meme coins do. It is important to know and get familiar with the market situation as it corresponds to opportunity as well. That is why I don't just accumulate BTC alone as I also buy a few altcoins because, in this way, I could generate more profit. But I would say that it all depends on our risk appetite, some can't take more so they will just focus on BTC alone.

Yeah bitcoin is the only coin that needs to be bought. Not sure what OP meant by mainstream coin but both popularly known newly launched coins, memecoins and shitcoins are not worth the time nor money. Bitcoin is mainstream enough in my opinion, heck it is the only one that is globally recognised as a notorious new currency.

Large cap always over small cap. You can never get a good long term output from small cap coins with small factions controlling the demand supply and why bother to crack your head over it anyway when you have bitcoin at hand.

I'm confused about Mainstream coins, are they coins that are often mentioned by name like ethereum, bnb, or something else? or coins that are currently hyped?
However, you should know that, apart from Bitcoin, other coins are generally referred to as altcoins. So, chances are your question leads to a comparison of two similar things. However, if you want to know which coins are currently good enough to be an investment, and most people choose these coins as an investment other than bitcoin, then you can go to the coinmarketcap site and start looking at coins with high positions. You can start your research from there. Personally, I prefer ethereum and bnb in altcoins, and I focus on accumulating those if I want to invest in the long term.

You mean coins that "are well known and used by everyone" or random altcoins? Of course if you are going to invest, go for coins that are well known and has been in the market for years. Best example is Bitcoin. Another example of your "mainstream" altcoin would be Ethereum. Investing in these two coins means you will very unlikely be losing money unexpectedly in the long run. These are the coins that has the minimum risk of holding when compared to other random altcoins. Never go for coins that promises you 1000x returns in few days. Think twice before investing in any "meme coins". And if you are going to invest in another altcoin, do your own research and see what is something new they can offer to the current crypto market.

I don't understand why people keep saying that a low-cap token has a higher potential for growth when it basically doesn't have anything to do with the growth or potential of the project behind that token or coin. How can you be so sure that a token will perform well just because it has a low cap which is basically because the price of the token is low or the supply is extremely large both of which don't really prove that it will grow very high in the future?

It's a different thing if you first evaluate the project and then check and see it has a low market capital and you think that it might go up because the project is good, but just because a token has a low market cap it doesn't mean it is going to get significant success in the future and a lot of people think that way.

It's important to know all the risk behind, not just the intention to earn but more on how you can maximize the full potential of the asset that you will going to acquire, if you are also capable to explore with short-term investment aside from BTC and those solid projects that you study, there are also meme projects which can provide in a short investment process, though the outcome can be quicker but there's always a big risk in it.

And that is a problem, no one can really know the full extent of the risks they are taking, and because of that people should try to be more conservative with their strategies, as a coin they thought could be a great investment can all of the sudden turn into a scam and drop to zero without any warning sign that could have allowed you to steer away from that coin, but often this train of thought is ignored and we see the consequences of doing so almost every day on the forum.

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