The biggest differences between Bitcoin and altcoins?

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Those that are investing in altcoin with the mind set that bitcoin is too expensive lacks knowledge on how to accumulate bitcoin, because as long as you have discretionary income, even if it is as low as $10 you start accumulating bitcoin using the dca strategy so you don't need to have $100k before you start accumulating bitcoin all you need is discretionary income.
 It is only those that fails to understand the worth of bitcoin that will choose altcoin over bitcoin, bitcoin is a potential coin and there is no crypto currency that can ever be compared to it.

First and foremost, you need to realize that it's not everyone that has money to do DCA, some can have money from any where and because they may mismanage the money, they will rather put it somewhere in crypto and Bitcoin might be their first take but the truth is this, you can't DCA with small amount of money like $10, you can't even buy less than $10 Bitcoin in some exchanges, unless you have a source of money where you will be buying $10 everyday till you have enough, atleast $10 for 30 days is going to be $300, that amount of Bitcoin a month is reasonable.

Having such amount lower than that can't give you anything if we want to be realistic hence this is why many of them go for other alternatives of altcoins. They feel like it's possible to get something bigger on altcoins than in Bitcoin which is not false, there are many altcoins that are having a yearly growth than Bitcoin to now but are very few but it doesn't change the fact they have done better than Bitcoin in term of recovery and growth of price since the last bear market. However, not everyone is that smart to know what altcoins to buy. Why buy meme coins as investment? I will use the money to eat good meal and call it a day.

[nullama]

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Just accumulate it and hodl it.
You won't make it alone doing the mining part, today, that is, here I agree with you.

But the thing is, I think in the entire history of Bitcoin, it usually never really made too much sense to mine it, because the price was about the same, so you could just buy it instead.

Think about the times close to Genesis, where you could easily mine it with a CPU, sure, you might get 50 BTC every 10 minutes, but your computer would be running hot and the fans would be very noisy, and in exchange you got something that was valued at basically zero.

Then primitive exchanges started, where they first priced Bitcoin based on the electricity needed to CPU mine them. Again, you would be better off just buying it, since you would skip the hot and noise part.

And now it's basically the same, just at a much larger scale.

[fikrett]

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Just accumulate it and hodl it.
You won't make it alone doing the mining part, today, that is, here I agree with you.

But the thing is, I think in the entire history of Bitcoin, it usually never really made too much sense to mine it, because the price was about the same, so you could just buy it instead.

Think about the times close to Genesis, where you could easily mine it with a CPU, sure, you might get 50 BTC every 10 minutes, but your computer would be running hot and the fans would be very noisy, and in exchange you got something that was valued at basically zero.

Then primitive exchanges started, where they first priced Bitcoin based on the electricity needed to CPU mine them. Again, you would be better off just buying it, since you would skip the hot and noise part.

And now it's basically the same, just at a much larger scale.

It's too late for that, unfortunately.

Alas, we are still in a position to get something out of BTC, we just have different ways to achieve the same goal, basically 

[lixer]

Those that are investing in altcoin with the mind set that bitcoin is too expensive lacks knowledge on how to accumulate bitcoin, because as long as you have discretionary income, even if it is as low as $10 you start accumulating bitcoin using the dca strategy so you don't need to have $100k before you start accumulating bitcoin all you need is discretionary income.
 It is only those that fails to understand the worth of bitcoin that will choose altcoin over bitcoin, bitcoin is a potential coin and there is no crypto currency that can ever be compared to it.

Yeah, people around the world still have some "I can't afford to buy a bitcoin" mindset, we need to educate the market that you can buy as low as ten bucks if you want to, there is nothing that we can do to make sure that it can be removed from there, we need to see how this could change on the long run as well.

If we can do that then we are not going to end up with any issues, because it won't be much of a problem at all, it won't be that troublesome. Obviously things will not be easy for anyone, we can't really make big changes right away, but if we can accumulate and wait a bit more then I am sure that we are going to see this changing and could maybe do a bit better. Obviously things are a little sensitive with the drop, but it will be easier soon.

[nullama]

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It's too late for that, unfortunately.

Alas, we are still in a position to get something out of BTC, we just have different ways to achieve the same goal, basically 

You can still mine at home for example, there are a couple of good miners out there, like the Apollo, and the stuff from GekkoScience, etc.

Sure, you won't be making a lot of money right now, but you might break even considering costs, at some point in the future...

The thing I mentioned is that it looks like it's always been a bit like this. When it was too easy and cheap to mine, the value of BTC was 0.

Then gradually became more expensive, and also the mining got more difficult.

It's always around the same I reckon...

[Dunamisx]

To me the biggest difference is how bitcoins are created. It takes a great deal of investment in time, effort, money and energy just to mine and produce a single bitcoin.
Unlike altcoins, you can't just print a bitcoin out of thin air whenever you want. Any idiot with a PC can create a new crypto altcoin and print an unlimited or nearly unlimited supply for himself to dump onto the market, whenever he wants. But that's not how bitcoin works.

Well, this are also part of the vital points we can consider over the use of bitcoin, but you can come to think of it this way, from the PoW and PoS, you will discover a massive difference and know why the PoW is more preferred, you can also consider the bitcoin nodes, decentralized and how the bitcoin network transactions fees works compared not other altcoins, with all these, you're going into discover on a perfect way to approach the use of crypto with Bitcoin and any other were just an attempt to copy after it.

[CryptoBuds]

Those that are investing in altcoin with the mind set that bitcoin is too expensive lacks knowledge on how to accumulate bitcoin, because as long as you have discretionary income, even if it is as low as $10 you start accumulating bitcoin using the dca strategy so you don't need to have $100k before you start accumulating bitcoin all you need is discretionary income.
 It is only those that fails to understand the worth of bitcoin that will choose altcoin over bitcoin, bitcoin is a potential coin and there is no crypto currency that can ever be compared to it.

I don't believe people investing in altcoins are ignorant and don't know how to accumulate bitcoins. They may even be people who understand bitcoin very well but are just greedy, impatient and just want to get rich quickly. They are willing to take the risk to invest in altcoins and think that everything will turn out as they expect. But ironically, the altcoin market is extremely harsh and finding a profitable project is not as easy as they think. That is why many people after losing money with altcoins, the majority will choose to return to bitcoin and give up the idea of ​​getting rich quickly.

[Y3shot]

...Is that they are altcoins?

Seriously, I have seen enough altcoins to know one thing for sure, nothing is ever going to come as secondary to bitcoin. They are all shitcoins created to make the creators rich unlike bitcoin whose creator decided to go underground.

Any coin declaring itself to be the next "bitcoin killer" is a FAD. No such thing will probably come in the near future.

Altcoins are created with the concept just t be like bitcoin, and since altcoins are just relying to be like bitcoin it means bitcoin comes first and we have seen that over the years that bitcoin remains the number one.  Their is no altcoin to be compared with bitcoin, altcoins will always be altcoins because they have same similarities and bitcoin remains bitcoin. Investors will freely use bitcoin as store of value without been bothered because bitcoin is reliable for longterm investment but it will be so risky to think of going for an altcoins for a longterm investment because these are coins that anything can happen.

[headingnorth]

People get into altcoins to try to get rich quick, but end up getting poor quick is usually the outcome.
There is no such thing as getting rich quick, and Bitcoin is not a get rich quick scheme.

The only ones getting rich with altcoins are the insiders, founders and influencers who are allocated free or almost free tokens to promote the scam.
Everyone else are just the suckers providing their exit liquidity. Altcoins/shitcoins are just as bad if not worse than penny stocks.

Bitcoin doesn't have insiders, founders, executives or influencers controlling it, which makes it the only truly decentralized asset in existence.
Everything else is centralized worthless garbage, but they appeal to idiots because hey you can buy a hundred altcoins for only a dollar!

These are the same geniuses who will gladly pay hundreds to thousands of dollars for a pixelated monkey jpeg NFT.

[john_egbert]

Altcoins are created with the concept just t be like bitcoin, and since altcoins are just relying to be like bitcoin it means bitcoin comes first and we have seen that over the years that bitcoin remains the number one.  Their is no altcoin to be compared with bitcoin, altcoins will always be altcoins because they have same similarities and bitcoin remains bitcoin. Investors will freely use bitcoin as store of value without been bothered because bitcoin is reliable for longterm investment but it will be so risky to think of going for an altcoins for a longterm investment because these are coins that anything can happen.

They are not trying to copy BTC, in most cases, but be their own thing.

They are alts for a reason - if all of them were like LTC, we would see fewer scams and such on the market 

[Abiky]

To me the biggest difference is how bitcoins are created. It takes a great deal of investment in time, effort, money and energy just to mine and produce a single bitcoin.
Unlike altcoins, you can't just print a bitcoin out of thin air whenever you want. Any idiot with a PC can create a new crypto altcoin and print an unlimited or nearly unlimited supply for himself to dump onto the market, whenever he wants. But that's not how bitcoin works.

Imagine having a money printer that prints an unlimited amount of dollars anytime you want. You don't have to do shit to earn it. Just enter the amount you want and press the print button. Voila! You are instantly rich. That's basically how garbage like dogecoin, ethereum, solana, XRP, fartcoin, pepecoin, clowncoin, etc. all work. They are just a digital recreation of the unlimited fiat money system but worse, with no discernible value beyond being a high-tech Ponzi scheme.

What are other differences?

"Printing money" is easy with tokens because you don't need any coding/technical knowledge to launch your very own scam coin. But in Blockchains made from scratch (native cryptocurrencies), it's another story. Although, anyone can create a clone off Dogecoin or Bitcoin's codebase and launch it for his own benefit. But you'd have a hard time convincing centralized exchanges to list your coin. With tokens, it's much easier because decentralized exchanges don't have as many requirements as centralized ones.

Anyways, the biggest difference between Bitcoin and altcoins (besides the supply) is that BTC is decentralized, while most other coins are centralized. Security and reliability is what makes Bitcoin a "winner" among the rest of the pack. Bitcoin also has an anonymous founder/creator, which makes it truly censorship-resistant. Not like the zillions of "shitcoins" you see out there with publicly-known founders. Everybody knows ETH was created by Vitalik Buterin, Cardano was created by Charles Hoskinson, Tron was created by Justin Sun, and so on. This creates a single point of failure as governments will be able to prosecute such individuals to meet with their demands. Why do you think nothing can beat the "King"?

[SuperBitMan]

...Is that they are altcoins?

Seriously, I have seen enough altcoins to know one thing for sure, nothing is ever going to come as secondary to bitcoin. They are all shitcoins created to make the creators rich unlike bitcoin whose creator decided to go underground.

Any coin declaring itself to be the next "bitcoin killer" is a FAD. No such thing will probably come in the near future.

Altcoins are created with the concept just t be like bitcoin, and since altcoins are just relying to be like bitcoin it means bitcoin comes first and we have seen that over the years that bitcoin remains the number one.  Their is no altcoin to be compared with bitcoin, altcoins will always be altcoins because they have same similarities and bitcoin remains bitcoin. Investors will freely use bitcoin as store of value without been bothered because bitcoin is reliable for longterm investment but it will be so risky to think of going for an altcoins for a longterm investment because these are coins that anything can happen.

I don't think Altcoin are created with the concept to be like Bitcoin in all aspect the reason why I said so is because Bitcoin is a decentralized coin and most or all Altcoin are centralized so if they really wanted to create Altcoin with the same concept I think they would have started by making it a decentralized coin, however in some areas they are created with the concept to be like Bitcoin but it can never be like Bitcoin because they have failed in following the same steps Bitcoin followed, a lot of Altcoin that is created today are created in other to enrich the creator and that is why it is difficult for them to make it a decentralized coin, Bitcoin has a limited number but some Altcoin coin don't that means coin of that shitcoin coin can be created again and again this quality alone shows that it has no value.
No Altcoin can be compared to Bitcoin and if anyone is holding Altcoin for long term investment then he is at big risk because that Altcoin coin can lose it value at any time, yes Bitcoin is a volatile in nature but this those not stop Bitcoin growth, right now there's a dip in Bitcoin and some investors are panicking but this is a time to accumulate with less price not a time to panic, this is not the first time a dip like these is happening in Bitcoin go through the history of Bitcoin growth and see for yourself.

[ndutndut]

Those that are investing in altcoin with the mind set that bitcoin is too expensive lacks knowledge on how to accumulate bitcoin, because as long as you have discretionary income, even if it is as low as $10 you start accumulating bitcoin using the dca strategy so you don't need to have $100k before you start accumulating bitcoin all you need is discretionary income.
 It is only those that fails to understand the worth of bitcoin that will choose altcoin over bitcoin, bitcoin is a potential coin and there is no crypto currency that can ever be compared to it.

I don't believe people investing in altcoins are ignorant and don't know how to accumulate bitcoins. They may even be people who understand bitcoin very well but are just greedy, impatient and just want to get rich quickly. They are willing to take the risk to invest in altcoins and think that everything will turn out as they expect. But ironically, the altcoin market is extremely harsh and finding a profitable project is not as easy as they think. That is why many people after losing money with altcoins, the majority will choose to return to bitcoin and give up the idea of ​​getting rich quickly.

I agree with you. Actually, not everyone who invests in altcoins is someone who doesn't really understand bitcoin. In fact, most of those who invest in altcoins are those who really understand bitcoin, they know that bitcoin halving not only benefits bitcoin but also has a big impact on altcoins, so they shift some of their assets to altcoins.

However, only those who focus on altcoins need to be pitied. They are tempted by altcoins because they want to get rich quick, because sometimes altcoins when they go up can be higher than bitcoin in terms of percentage. That's why many are trapped in altcoins, they buy them when the price is high. I myself don't hate altcoins completely because there are some altcoins that do have strong fundamentals like ETH for example. But if we talk about long-term priorities, of course bitcoin is the best.

[Churchillvv]

Altcoins can be traded with Bitcoin in an attempt to earn more crypto. You are in an exchange market competition against other traders where a small % of skilled traders win long term and most other people lose. This exciting competition helps identify the rare altcoins with long-term value and utility based on unique features which Bitcoin lacks. People who hate all altcoins frequently have a blind rage which is similar to racism against other humans, since they fail to see some things cannot be done with Bitcoin alone.

I had to come back here to quote you, basically I know you have been correct and have been put in place but you might not have accepted the notion that was narrated to you but however I’m quite curious to know what exact cryptocurrency has a long term utility feature that bitcoin does not have or which is better than bitcoin in terms of its features, of course you can be way more intelligent than OGs in the forum and just because you have a low rank you have been assumed to have less knowledge but I’m here for you, you can talk to me, since we are not smart make me smart at least, give me a currency that has better features than bitcoin.

[red4slash]

I agree with you. Actually, not everyone who invests in altcoins is someone who doesn't really understand bitcoin. In fact, most of those who invest in altcoins are those who really understand bitcoin, they know that bitcoin halving not only benefits bitcoin but also has a big impact on altcoins, so they shift some of their assets to altcoins.

However, only those who focus on altcoins need to be pitied. They are tempted by altcoins because they want to get rich quick, because sometimes altcoins when they go up can be higher than bitcoin in terms of percentage. That's why many are trapped in altcoins, they buy them when the price is high. I myself don't hate altcoins completely because there are some altcoins that do have strong fundamentals like ETH for example. But if we talk about long-term priorities, of course bitcoin is the best.

In short here is they can not distinguish about the obvious differentiator in terms of utility that makes them too much affected by something that is not necessary.
Investing in altcoins for a long period of time is a waste of time and this I say based on experience because I don't want to deny that I was once stuck in altcoins when I started but the result of several years of being there was not only wasted time but money burned in vain.

Even though our money is our control but still when we want to try to make the future better then it will be great when we try something more useful things and being in altcoins it will only waste your time.

Price is always the benchmark but they do not realize that precisely by focusing only on quantity and price, it will make the quality of our investment worse because we like to put aside the ones that are more worth it like bitcoin and choose altcoins just because of the price difference. We are busy comparing prices but do not realize that the future is actually ruled out here.

[MRY]

In short here is they can not distinguish about the obvious differentiator in terms of utility that makes them too much affected by something that is not necessary.
Investing in altcoins for a long period of time is a waste of time and this I say based on experience because I don't want to deny that I was once stuck in altcoins when I started but the result of several years of being there was not only wasted time but money burned in vain.

Even though our money is our control but still when we want to try to make the future better then it will be great when we try something more useful things and being in altcoins it will only waste your time.

Price is always the benchmark but they do not realize that precisely by focusing only on quantity and price, it will make the quality of our investment worse because we like to put aside the ones that are more worth it like bitcoin and choose altcoins just because of the price difference. We are busy comparing prices but do not realize that the future is actually ruled out here.

Low prices do lure a lot of the people into mistakes where they select property just because it appeals cheaply. The Altcoins are not always as good as it might appear, in the long-term perspective. That practice has shown that it is better to concentrate on such a valuable asset as Bitcoin. Between the low prices and quality to have a secure future, one should know about quality but not merely to observe and notice low prices.

[Outhue]

OP, Dogecoin is not a shit coin, I repeat, Dogecoin is not a shitcoin, if that coin is a shit coin it will reveal in its chart since launch, it's a Proof of work coin just like Bitcoin with different algorithms and the only difference is max supply and yes this doesn't still make it Bitcoin because their utilities are different.

Bitcoin is complete decentralised and it uses sha256 algorithm instead of scrypt algorithm in doge coin, but the chart has all the answers, Dogecoin chart looks better than even Ethereum, alternative coins have so many shitcoin but not these ones that you mentioned, Ethereum and DOGE for example are far from shitcoin like you claimed. Example of shitcoin are those with utilities that slowly bleed to death, because they lack adoption.

[Johnlomape]

To me the biggest difference is how bitcoins are created. It takes a great deal of investment in time, effort, money and energy just to mine and produce a single bitcoin.
Unlike altcoins, you can't just print a bitcoin out of thin air whenever you want. Any idiot with a PC can create a new crypto altcoin and print an unlimited or nearly unlimited supply for himself to dump onto the market, whenever he wants. But that's not how bitcoin works.

Altcoins are not to be trusted and investors had been losing their money due to so many altcoins they needed to select from when investing their money. The altcoins market has thousands if no millions of altcoins including those ones that are in circulation and the once that have lost their value. When investing, ww should always think of the long term benefits not just about the profit that will be made.

 If you invest in altcoins because you wanna make profits, you can make mistakes that will take years to be corrected due to huge lost of funds. Investing in Bitcoin is the only way we can be optimistic about the future without being scared if the price will collapsed.

[Fivestar4everMVP]

To me the biggest difference is how bitcoins are created. It takes a great deal of investment in time, effort, money and energy just to mine and produce a single bitcoin.
Unlike altcoins, you can't just print a bitcoin out of thin air whenever you want. Any idiot with a PC can create a new crypto altcoin and print an unlimited or nearly unlimited supply for himself to dump onto the market, whenever he wants. But that's not how bitcoin works.

Imagine having a money printer that prints an unlimited amount of dollars anytime you want. You don't have to do shit to earn it. Just enter the amount you want and press the print button. Voila! You are instantly rich. That's basically how garbage like dogecoin, ethereum, solana, XRP, fartcoin, pepecoin, clowncoin, etc. all work. They are just a digital recreation of the unlimited fiat money system but worse, with no discernible value beyond being a high-tech Ponzi scheme.

What are other differences?

Well, your post shows how ignorant you are about altcoins and how they work, first off, seems to be like you didn't even know or have the idea that ethereum was once a proof of work, (POW), which simply means that ethereum was onces mined exactly same way bitcoin was mined before it had to convert to proof of stake due or high number of users that often got the blockchain congested and raising transaction fees to as high as over a thousand dollars..

Many other altcoins used to be POW but converted due to one reason or another, today, I think the likes of litecoin is still operating on the POW algorithm and that's an altcoin.
When talking about altcoins, always remember there are different categories of altcoins, meme coins are completely a different category.

[purple_sparkles]

If you have doubts or strong reservations about altcoins, even the ones that have already proven themselves to be reliable assets, then don't buy them. I think it's a mistake to put well-established altcoins and meme coins in the same category. Many meme coins can be created easily, and their supply can often be increased without meaningful limits.One advantage of holding quality altcoins is that they can deliver much higher returns during bull markets than bitcoin. Bitcoin has continued to reach new all-time highs each cycle, but if you look at its performance relative to the previous cycle's bottom, each cycle has generally produced smaller percentage gains than the one before. Well-established altcoins can potentially offer greater upside in that respect. By choosing projects with a proven track record, you can reduce the risk of major losses compared with investing in meme coins.