Is hodling alts dangerous?

[Beremat]

of course there are many coins has dead in recently. But i think it is a normal rule of the economy. when the devs cant do their project well, their coins will dissapear.

[dlastdon]

Hodling Altcoins could dangerous if your are hodling the wrong coin without prospects and utilization
so my advice if you must buy and hodl a coin research about the coin and make sure your are hodling the right coin

[colacat1111]

Hodling Altcoins could dangerous if your are hodling the wrong coin without prospects and utilization
so my advice if you must buy and hodl a coin research about the coin and make sure your are hodling the right coin

Generally, it is very hard to say whether some altcoins are good or bad, what we can do is choosing a promising ICO project and hold for a long time, just like btc and ETH, there were hard time, but it will grow up one day.

[kickdapa]

There is nothing dangerous if you hold the altcoin in the top 10. If you hold the rubbish. really worrying. be careful with them. If bitcoin live forever then altscoin eill remain forever too. But you have to choose good potential altscoin for holding! You may hold DENT, TRON, VERI, VERGE and there has many coins like this. Good luck

[sunnydmd]

invest is a skill that need lots of learning and experience.
lots of new project unveil everyday, but just <30% of all projects since bitcoin survive till today
I think holding is dangerous and also not.
before decide to invest, just make carefully research, so you can have faith on it, and follow the project til you reach the target point.

[Card]

There is nothing dangerous if you hold the altcoin in the top 10. If you hold the rubbish. really worrying. be careful with them

I agree with you dev, if we hold a popular coin we need not worry because this will greatly benefit us in the future. but if we pick up the junk coin it's good we sell it while the coin is on the rise, than we force hold and finally we are sorry because the coin was not able to compete and eventually die.

[mammusu]

It's not dangerous when you holding an altcoins, altcoins is your asset.
just if the price of altcoins is going down your asset is down too. but it is better to hodling altcoins is potential have a features like ethereum, etc.

[MidnightWolf]

There is nothing dangerous if you hold the altcoin in the top 10. If you hold the rubbish. really worrying. be careful with them

I agree with you dev, if we hold a popular coin we need not worry because this will greatly benefit us in the future. but if we pick up the junk coin it's good we sell it while the coin is on the rise, than we force hold and finally we are sorry because the coin was not able to compete and eventually die.

blacksmith If you mean etherium or Bitcoin, then at least you do not need to worry, because these coins will still go up. But how to choose this coin among other altcoin, where can you invest?

[yua_na]

Alt coin 80% of them which created by 2013 is death because its very high risk investment more then half of them is scam project just like ico nowadays. I did not surprise if 90% of ico wil be death too. The only one way to avoid it is always devirsify your investment and only choose legit and strong fundamental alt. Use case of alt also important.

[thend1949]

Last year alts rise a lot. I dont know the average percentage. But when I check coins in the market at year 2013 lots of them dead now (too low ranks). probably new tech coins won them (like peercoin, namecoin, ixcoin etc)

Also we are following new ICO s and most of us expecting too much gain from new coins which are not at the market. If our ICO expectations will happen, when they added to market, current market coins will go down. kind of paradox 

My friend holding alts is not dangerous although the price will accelerate or down below but this is what we called a strategic process to fullfill our income.Its not about dangerous but on how you can be responsible enough in terms of responsible making to make it more successful for altcoins holding process.

[Payne976]

Some alt coins genuinely have technological advances to offer and some real use. Further down you got though you just get coins using the same code and offering nothing original.  Prices will begin to stabilize soon however these whales will continue their game...it's going to be a constant roller-coaster however worthwhile coins will survive.

[xanxus.kun]

I don't think its dangerous though holding comes with a lot of risk, we'll never know when will the price will dump or surge this is why we need to be mindful in holding, specially when its a new coin, I won't mind if its in top 10 like eth or btc but if its a new coin then anything can happen. So holding with care is necessary.

[ckorbba]

I don't think its dangerous though holding comes with a lot of risk, we'll never know when will the price will dump or surge this is why we need to be mindful in holding, specially when its a new coin, I won't mind if its in top 10 like eth or btc but if its a new coin then anything can happen. So holding with care is necessary.

Yes, I'm practically passive here and you do not control what you do. For me, a more suitable type of earning can be trade or investment for a short period. But cold storage is a little scary.

[soloinvestor]

In my opinion, it is better to make your own research and trust your guts.

The most of the privacy coins are undervalued right now.

The best opportunity is to find a privacy-related project with a low total supply (less than 100M), that way the price will be increasing much faster.

I recently found one project called Ethereum Meta, it is related to anonymity and untraceable transaction. They have a very interesting project to build the Anonymous E-Market Place.

They are on ICO stage right now, you can check their website: https://ethermeta.com/
Or even better go through their Bitcointalk thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2659058.0

[Cryptosaphire18]

In my opinion, it is better to make your own research and trust your guts.

The most of the privacy coins are undervalued right now.

The best opportunity is to find a privacy-related project with a low total supply (less than 100M), that way the price will be increasing much faster.

I recently found one project called Ethereum Meta, it is related to anonymity and untraceable transaction. They have a very interesting project to build the Anonymous E-Market Place.

They are on ICO stage right now, you can check their website: https://ethermeta.com/
Or even better go through their Bitcointalk thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2659058.0

Most people avoid holding​ alts because they feel that they can get a better ROI from cheaper alts. This is true but you are fully exposed to the wild swings of bitcoin and and other cryptocurrencies, also risk being left in the dust when bitcoin goes full bull and alts start getting dumped. But considering the volatility I think better choose a good alts when you want to hold.

[gilangIDR]

Last year alts rise a lot. I dont know the average percentage. But when I check coins in the market at year 2013 lots of them dead now (too low ranks). probably new tech coins won them (like peercoin, namecoin, ixcoin etc)

Also we are following new ICO s and most of us expecting too much gain from new coins which are not at the market. If our ICO expectations will happen, when they added to market, current market coins will go down. kind of paradox 

Holding altcoins is a very risky thing, so fast price changes make most people always haunted by panic. Altcoins is still not too possessed. Good public trust, especially nowadays a lot of ico ending with a scam. It further aggravates the image of altcoin, so for me too that holding altcoins for too long can be detrimental. All we have to do is to pay attention to the price of altcoin at the beginning because usually at that moment dev often do the pumping of the coin.

[BLAST2MARS]

If you don't really have enough knowledge on the coin that you are holding then it's a yes. And even if knew that the coin is promising, there's competition, issues, problems inside the team, financial, and schedules that you need to watch that will indicate if it still worthy to hold or it's time to sell.

[patrickj]

No, it is not all the time. Before hodling some altcoins, we should first see the potential of it to grow after years of development. It is important at the first place because if you don't do it, you can't know it can. We should also feel the community supporting it so we can notice the positive feedbacks so the devs behind it can have confidence to continue developing its feature.

[Minecache]

There is nothing dangerous if you hold the altcoin in the top 10. If you hold the rubbish. really worrying. be careful with them

I disagree with you. There is always risk while investing in crypto. Every investor should remember this and be able to manage risks. But investing in the TOP-10 is really not as risky as an investing in shitcoins.

[Condoriano]

Holding alts will always depend on your best decision. Just like you said, not every coins can survive long enough just like bitcoin. Technology is evolving and those who cannot catch out will be left out. Knowing the product you are investing in is very important as well. You need to monitor you coins as well from time to time cause no one knows what will happen. Sometimes you have to harvest the coins when it's ripe before it became rotten.