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My belief was that there was going to be massive altcoin szn in Feb and March this year after Trump got elected.
I could not really anticipate that the tariff issue was going to crash the market like this.
Now, hope for altcoin is really fading and BTC will only stay and go higher in my opinion..
I would like to know how everyone is thinking about altcoins?

I have never seen the possibility of the altcoins season as it is in our minds. It will always be BTC move and altcoins follow. But with the rate altcoins dumped, it might be difficult to see them hit their ATH again. Bitcoin can make a U-turn any moment and it is back to the bull phase.

Meanwhile, there's hope for altcoins on the long run. The effects of the US strategic reserve will play out. Xrp, sol, Ada, ether and others will flourish.

There simply isn't enough money and attention to pump almost everything like in 2017. We have like 3259382% more altcoins now — it would be delusional to expect to have a similar market compared to back then.

Also, we already had some sort of altcoin season — probably just not the altcoins you chose.

I hope the memecoin season passes soon, and people start investing/supporting more utility projects. This meme cycle may have been demotivating for developers working on projects that offer real world solutions/utility driven projects.

Most memecoins are pretty much close to dead already. It's just a minority like the likes of fartcoin are still up and somewhat bouncing bigly.

No one anticipated the tariff war that started by Trump. Don't time the market, you'll just be disappointed by it.

What everyone is thinking that this disappointment shall pass. The market is going to get better soon and it's only a matter of time. Everyone is too patient enough for us to see the better days ahead of us. Keep the faith and don't panic, everything's going to be fine soon.

If altcoins didn't do a massive price as anticipated by you toward Feb/March, don't you think they will still do that massive price as Bitcoin will start to skyrocket any time soon before the end of the year?

The time you should be more scared about your invested altcoin is when you didn't invest in top coins. So long as you invest in them, you don't need to worry much because they will increase as Bitcoin leads the market in a price movement.

I'm glad the market is slowly moving away from memecoins

Look at the charts of total valuations from various sectors below

Gaming

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AI

https://imgvb.com/images/2025/04/11/2fe608ad94a636218a249d3f7c261f73.png

Memes

https://imgvb.com/images/2025/04/11/53903aa6b0c8e56c163cb1e20d47edad.png

Memes is still remain the most prominent asset compared to the other sector such as gaming and AI sector. Yes, money is always shifting, but all of sectors are getting the same trend. It means people are prefer holding case these days.

The valuation from all of sectors in crypto are plunging so hard. It's kinda weird when you ssume money is starting moving away from meme. It should be correct if money is starting moving away from crypto, not meme.

This is understandable, not everyone makes as much profit as you imagine, and alts haven't been doing great lately, so you could have some doubt about it, this doesn't mean you are wrong, it just means you are doing what you should be doing.

If you could get to a better place, then you are going to end up with a ton of profit when the time comes. Waiting is 90% of crypto, because if you can wait long enough time then you are going to make a profit, most people do not wait long enough and that is why they make a loss. Understanding that holding or even "hodling" is the key to making a profit is the first thing newbies needs to learn. If they can learn that, then they are going to end up with a great return as long as they are capable of waiting.

Seconded. I was hoping for something similar to 2017 or early 2021 but I was dead wrong. Got hit hard and I've done away with that hopium. I think it only got harder and now we really have to do intense research in the "DYOR" department and walk to talk in order to pick the flowers from the weeds. It's just harder—not impossible.

Altcoin is like the bad money that people want to get rid of at time like this, basically unnecessary risk, so don't get your hopes too high, although there's news about some alts that will be included in strategic reserve, that doesn't mean we will see altcoin season.
I've personally already reduced my exposure in altcoin, but interested in doing reentry, because it seems we've hit the bottom though i'm not so sure.

everybody is literally caught off guard right now because market didn't go as they expected, seems like less and less money going into old altcoins as well, the altcoins that recovered hard recently always new coin with huge trading volume.

I do think the alt coin season is going to come we just do not know when that will be. We still need Bitcoin price to go back up and then the alt are going to go back up too.
The global economy right now is not good. It will maybe need to take some more time for an other alt coin season. But we must not panic sell and just hodl so we can get our gains back.

Don't blame the meme and assume utility projects are being dumped because of it. Crypto is a speculative market and even more like a gambling, so wherever there is money flow and profit potential, investors will go there. Therefore, projects that are said to have many utilities but do not attract investors need to reconsider themselves.


Many people look down on memecoin but I think it has become an important part of the crypto market and has become part of the culture when it comes to crypto. So if anyone is expecting it to go away, I think they're going to be disappointed because it's not going to happen.

Only bitcoin is a reliable investment and worth holding for long term, the rest of the market whether top altcoins or memes...are all the same and unreliable.  They can disappear at any time without notice to you.

Hope is the driving force we need to stay strong and having to capitalize on our streak winnings in the system. Although there's always something for us that have failed woefully because we can plan to bag coins while the market is planning bullish run which is never a good motive to buy during the bull. I understand if one is finding it hard to understand let alone believe the system. It's been one hell run for the team because there have been some dump and pump in the market, I'm never going to relent when there are more opportunities in the market for everyone.

In my personal opinion, it is time for us to erase the word "altcoin season" from our minds. Because the market has changed for this cycle, it is not the same as what happened in the previous cycle. So there will be no more Altseason like before. This is just my opinion. Because for now the market is getting more mature, the number of coins is increasing, liquidity is spread across thousands of assets. We used to only focus on the top 20, but now? Choose the wrong one, so liquidity runs out.

In addition, the word Altseason makes us lazy traders. Because we will think that everything will go up together. So we only think about buying and making a profit without doing research, This mindset is the same as a structured loss. Therefore, stop using the Altseason mindset, start learning how the real market works. What is certain is that when Bitcoin goes up, altcoins do not necessarily go up, but when Bitcoin goes down, altcoins definitely go down.

Saylor is buying Bitcoin only, there's nobody left to pump your bags

There was never any real hope for altcoins to fade away now. That's because 99% of them are completely useless and without any meaningful innovations that can get them into the real world. The only thing you could ever hope for were as it still is pump and dumps.

As for the altcoin season, I have to say the chances of it were never high because the recession that started 3 years ago due to NATO-Russian war has only gotten worse (even before the Tariff War) and recession is a preventing forces for bitcoin's rise. And when there is no long bitcoin bull market, there is no newbies coming in to also invest in altcoins. Therefore no altcoin pumping season...

Well we can do that but it but it does not mean it is not a real thing still. Altcoin season is something all us investors hodl our coins and we wait for it to come back.
When price of Bitcoin does go up then the alts will go up with that. We will have an other alt coin season we just need to hodl and do not worry about price of coins right now.
I still do think altcoin season is going to arrive. But we do not know when that will be.  https://www.tronweekly.com/best-crypto-to-buy-now-as-prices-soar-has-altcoin-season-arrived/

The truth is none of us know how the rest of this year is going to go.

You might have lost hope but I still think there will be altseason. It may not be as big as 2021 but i still think we will see many altcoins 10x from current prices and that will be good enough for me.

All we can do is wait and hope once all this tariff mess is sorted out that we can have some good news like rate cuts etc and have crypto and stocks pumping again like we saw end of last year.

I have been getting very bored of it all lately to be honest but I am not selling these lows, just holding and waiting patiently for Bitcoin to start heading towards $100k again.

This happens during every bull market. Market Makers want to shake you out via boredom or fear. Don’t capitulate & give them your coins for cheap. There will be a big Altcoins run this year, you just need to be patient.

Maybe don't expect it for now, but you can still buy altcoins that you believe can give you profit in the future, just make sure they are included in the top listing in the crypto market.
Just keep going and don't lose hope.

Let's imitate the whale investors in their patience and willingness to wait and have a target for when they will sell and this year, now since we are in a bull run and the moment is when you notice that the bull season is ending, sell if you have any profit at all then you can do it again when the bear run enters.

Aside from specific altcoins in the market, I believe it’s mostly Going to be about Bitcoin now with the largest movements, and it’s going to affect the market negatively. It’s hard to type it, but I think knowing the right coins would help you recover in profit. Right now, I think it would take a long time and wait for the bull run.

The election of Donald Trump to the presidency should be a breath of fresh air for crypto investors, especially Bitcoin, however, the reality is inversely proportional when he is inaugurated as president, his economic policies have a significant impact, not only on the economies of other countries, but the crypto market is also affected, this makes things worse.

So far the market is just pump and dump, the recent tariff war has made holders take cautious steps which causes price movements to be very volatile, for prices to return to ath is difficult, the altcoin season has low potential to occur.

We are a couple tweets away from a bull market and alt season, same for also bear market and years of pain.

Altcoins have been crushed and are now in disarray. I am trying to be positive about them but I think the expected rise in the spring is over.
When Trump was elected President, there was a very clear rise, then I wanted to close my eyes to the tariffs and other trade uncertainties, my wallet melted away.
I was optimistic about the altcoin season a few weeks ago, but now I can't be that optimistic.

I believe an altcoin season will require a Fed pivot to QE. Altseason has already occurred in this cycle, just not as much as most people expected. If the Fed is to pivot on policy, it's very likely that the top altcoins will rise again. Fed easing will also likely boost other speculative markets, such as collectibles.

It can all change in a matter of days - If US agree tariff deal with China and we see rate cuts over the next few months then up we go towards $100k again.

If this US and China mess carries on then chances of alt season will be small.

All we can do is wait and hope this tariff war can be resolved in the next few weeks or so. 

I can't wait to sell and be done with it all personally, it is all manipulated heavily and I'm tired of it. Soon as we see next big pump I am selling most of my bags.

Two months ago, this same topic became an argument between me and someone. When Bitcoin was pumping and some other altcoins also followed it, I told the person that after this general price movement, there's no going to be a different altcoins season because many coins have already experienced the bullish price impact. He doubted, saying that there's going to be a massive pump for altcoins, I am not investing in any altcoins but based on my experience in the space, I doubt there's going to be any altcoin season. If Bitcoin pump again, other altcoin might follow suit.

It is only normal for you to feel this way, but look at the past and the crashes and how it recovered from that, to realize that you are not doing a bad job by keep holding at the moment if you can. Because if you check the previous bears and pre-bull runs, you will see that we are living through something pretty close to it and not going to end up with anything worse, so we should be considering the same thing at the moment and not feel too bad about it neither.

Yes, it is not really a bad run at the moment but we need to consider how this could be a good one and not a bad one at all. If you could make some money from it, then you should not be worried about it. I believe in this to work and I hope we can move upwards again.

I think we are going to have altcoins season but this time it’s will be different from that of 2020 or the previous bull markets. Not all altcoins will pump all at once. It is going to be a few altcoins doing really good. Memes and shitcoins have over saturated the altcoin market so most liquidity flows there and not to altcoins

I've guessed differently. When I saw Bitcoin can easily cross $100k and it even reached $109k at that time, there should some big declines following. And it really happened, so I'm not so surprised with the current market condition. However I am still confidence with altcoins season, it should happen although it can be a bit late. We may still have red market until Q2, but I assume we will have green market for all crypto coins in Q3 or in the early of Q4. That will be the possible time for altcoins season.

There is no longer much hype on meme coins. It has been over already for meme coin season. People surely focus more on established coins, that's why people prefer Bitcoin than altcoins at this time.

You're right, mate. Even if there is a pump on few meme coins, it is just temporarily. It is no longer the same as in the few months ago when many meme coins were pumped. Now, Bitcoin is the only coin that constantly has a pump although it often dropped quite significant, too.

I think we’re in the last few weeks of consolidation & chop in this tight range. It happened last year too, then we finally broke out to new highs. I think we will follow Good soon, crypto is like a ball being held under water at the moment. As soon as it’s go time, we will know about it.