Do you mean of being stable is like stablecoins we have like USDC/USDT etc stablecoins we have which are pegged to some fiat currency?
If yes, it does not make sense because Bitcoin will only have a specific supply will exist in the world, and the demand and supply will be compromised.

And if you mean the price being stable like only small pumps only or small dumps or less volatile, then for me it is much better. Maybe in the future, especially once the market will become more like doubled/triple and more than, thats' the time we can experience this.

The bear market is always there. It's like a part of every cycle. Not always we go UP only. Not always we go DOWN only.
Even on non-crypto markets, there are different markets; bull market and bear market.
Bear market for me is important because that's the time the correction happened, and another thing is a lot of projects in cryptocurrency will be indetified during bear markets or their own quality, if they are legit or not or they are well established project.

In short Risk Management. Risk management comes with stop loss, price target, capital preservation, or trade size.
On the negative side, stop loss is also possible here especially if you are trading, if you don't get bankrupt, then do risk management.
Stop loss is a must just in case what will happen in the market and just re-enter just in case. This is to avoid underwater position or much worst liquidation.

The most important thing here is how you stick with your strategy, even if your strategy comes with other people or a lot of users using it.
Because strategies will not always work, that's why there is stop losses or risk management. It's like there is no 100% for everything, even how strong your strategy is.

Yeah, if you want your funds to be taken care of by these huge companies or centralized entities, then you can use them, especially Lido. Or on some exchanges, staking became famous with APY.
But for me, the APY to these exchanges seems very small and not worth it, especially what will happen to your funds just incase there will be incidents or hacks on their exchange. Even though they are popular or reputable, there are still could possible because they are centralized exchanges, they control.

Exactly, last March 2020 crashed the whole market, not only the cryptocurrency market was a sign because after that, we saw a huge rally on market and we saw multiple all-time-highs.
So for me, what we are experiencing right now is some pullback or correction for the last bull run we experienced.

The additional thing is you can stake the altcoins/Bitcoins you bought from spot trading to some platform like a centralized exchange or some DeFi platforms, because here, on spot trading, you will literally hold the real coin you bought, compared to derivatives like the futures market, which will only stay on the exchange.
Especially in a markett like these times, it's very risky to trade with high leverage if you are doing long, so spot for me is the safest.

Ethereum


Bitcoin


Solana


Here are the additional details you can use to identify. You can check the All-time-high price and there you can see the percentage from its all-time high.
Among the list, Solana is the highest which is 87% as of the moment. The lowest is Bitcoin which is around 72%, very close to Ethereum.

So, let's say if you bought these 3 and they will go back to their all-time-high prices respectively. Then you will get high return on Solana. Just my 2 cents.

You still cannot guarantee this. This is already proven last bear season, even how quality your project is, once the market is devasted, it's no excuse, this is already tested even by top market cap projects over time.
What project is being quality is on the recovery phase, where how they recover from the bear market and their project still continues. There are some projects that only good at beginning, after that, they started to vanish or become no use at all or in price, they keep dumping.

Manipulation. There are some people or teams behind this. They are using the current issue with Terra Luna, especially the issue of Do Kwon with interpol. Since the hype is still there, it's their time and a good opportunity to make money by scamming other people.
Expect that there are still lot of projects out there that related with this, and newbies must be aware.

I already got out on Polkadot. Polkadot was one of my biggest loses recently when I started to buy some altcoin gems last year. I was able to participate also on their network and conducted some para chain auctions on some projects. Which for me it was also a bad timing because after those we experienced a massive dumps, I remember the ICO fever last 2018 because of this.

Price really matters here for sure because even how much development or innovations or any fundamental news will arrive but the price is getting rekt or devastated some people will lose interest, which a very red flag for me. If they really support cryptocurrency, they will become consistent and stay no matter what. These people for sure are only here for money which we can't blame them.

I think is the $CRAMER altcoin mentioned by OP: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/cramer-coin/
Website: https://www.cramercoin.com/

Another thing I observed is that this altcoin is already down around 62% from its all-time high (based on coinmarketcap),  very volatile and risky for me.
This is clearly a shitcoin/meme coin. Not recommended to buy for me. But if you are a gambler, you can have small stakes here.

Bitcoin now is safer but has less Return on Investment (ROI) as you said. I agree but I will go to a safer one even less profitable in the future just incase we will still pump.
Altcoins you mentioned are good, SOL and BNB are new altcoins that ETH has already been here for ages. These altcoins got a high market cap which is also a good choice.

For OP, you can still buy Bitcoin of some portion and buy some altcoins, which I suggest are high market cap too like what diminizio mentioned.

Precisely! This is the most common mistake of people who are starting to trade. They thought that they will become millionaires in just 1 day or 1 week of trading or they though that when they start trading, they don't lose money. Also because of what they common to see on the internet or social media which advertise by some influencers or content creators.
I can relate to this when I was newbie before.

I think during the bull run 2017-2018 when started that hash tag or trend. I think that is only a niche where very bull run there is a new trend, just like recently where we saw Decentralized Finance (DeFi) or Non Fungible Tokens (NFT).
As I remember last 2017-2018 where ICO fever happened, any altcoins which got ICO they are just flying even how shitcoins they are, there are lot of people lost money during that time.

It's my first time hearing Metis Dao and I just checked it and seems also a quality project just like Optimism as a layer 2 project.
But my vote is for Optimism, even though these 2 projects started during the bear market, they are both superb as they are built both on top of Ethereum.
I'll still go with highest market cap which is Optimism.

1. First, I am using Bitcoin not only for investment but also for innovation of it and the future, that's why I do not a guy that is into an investment, I always expect Bitcoin will still regain it's all-time-high.

2. I will still not sell my Bitcoin not unless I need some funds that are in an emergency. Will still continue to be cheap once we will again drop below $10,000.

3. Yes, I will never sell even how dip we are or dump we will experience as I already huge drop around 2018-2019 before.

Yeah, depends on usage. As far as I know, there are lot of prohibited by their religion, especially gambling, so if you do gambling using Bitcoin, for sure it's not legal based on their religion.
I have a friend of mine that also mentioned I think about doubling your money or somehow joining non-legit platforms.

Basically, Bitcoin is like fiat that they are using daily, you can use it anywhere, legal or non legal.

Lol. Why? Why do they don't trust these legit and reputable exchanges more than using other platforms that we can't trust at all?
Besides Binance, there are a lot of trusted and reputable exchanges too, just like FTX, Bybit, Okex, etc.
There are some traders who uses different exchanges for their different purposes or the one they used to be.