Almost everyone thinks that by entering the crypto space, they will get wealth instantly, even if they have to take huge risks. That's why many big investors who invest in several altcoins even buy DeFi coins to get big profits.
It's all about making profit, we don't put effort in buying or researching each coin if we're not into having profit, we should take advantage of these chances that we know how to trade or how crypto works so we can use it as our advantage being a early investor like what happens to those who buy bitcoin earlier and been able to prosper the gains of its price now.
The biggest mistake you can make is thinking that being an "early investor" in some shitcoin is equivalent to being an early adopter of Bitcoin.
Your chances of large gains are still better with Bitcoin than with any altcoin even if you get in at the ground floor of that altcoin, unless you're one of the original scammers pre-mining it.
Sure, the days of 100k-fold profits (like buying for $0.25 and holding until it reached $25k) in Bitcoin are long gone but there's still lots of room for the price of Bitcoin to increase 20-fold.
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There is only one Bitcoin. Everything else is a scam.
When Vitalik Buterin first spoke in January 2014 (at Decentral in Toronto) of his plan for smart-contract-based Ethereum, my alarm bells started ringing when he talked of pre-mining. I could have gotten in at the start but he wanted real Bitcoin, not dollars, and the whole affair seemed so sleazy. I'm glad I kept my Bitcoin. Bitcoin was based on decentralized peer-to-peer networking and limited supply. It was never conceived as a get-rich-quick scam. It was the child of honest cypher-punks.
Yes some people got quite rich from Ethereum. Anthony Di Iorio, who hosted that talk, reportedly became a billionaire at one point from being the principal backer of Ethereum, but how much real Bitcoin did he have to spend to do it?
Of course Vitalik made a ton of money but he was the principal scammer.
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The main reason any shitcoin increases in value is because its price is valuated in Bitcoin. Eventually Bitcoin leaves everything else behind.