question for fellow indians here: bitcoin only or altcoin diversify?

[IIrik11]

do u guys only invest in btc or do u diversify in altcoins as well?

me, i only buy btc, usually at the end of every month & as much as i can afford to,, so it is sort of like a sip per month..

but i do not diversify because quite frankly i don't understand these altcoins, btc is much simpler & i trust it more than anything

then i read this article today that said that btc's dominance has started to decline & i start to wonder whether im making a mistake

putting the whole of my investment in only bitcoin as little as it may be? and maybe i should start putting some percentage of my investment in altcoins as well?

here's the article btw & a small snippet from it: https://www.dnaindia.com/insights/report-altcoins-outpace-bitcoin-as-dominance-drops-3179839

Binance France President David Princay recently commented, “If or when BTC prices plateau, institutions and corporations may look to diversify their crypto holdings further. It will be interesting to observe how an altcoin season unfolds in a more mature and regulated crypto market.”

Yet while Bitcoin has reached new all-time highs so far during the second half of 2025, BTC’s dominance relative to the overall crypto market has started to decline, recently falling to around 57.2%.

While it’s still too early to definitively say, this recently-emerging trend does strongly suggest that a market rotation into Altcoins, aka the start of a new “Altcoin season,” may be underway. At least, based on historic trading patterns.

what do u guys think?

should i diversify and do u do it too? if so, what coins? 

[pawanjain]

do u guys only invest in btc or do u diversify in altcoins as well?

me, i only buy btc, usually at the end of every month & as much as i can afford to,, so it is sort of like a sip per month..

but i do not diversify because quite frankly i don't understand these altcoins, btc is much simpler & i trust it more than anything

then i read this article today that said that btc's dominance has started to decline & i start to wonder whether im making a mistake

putting the whole of my investment in only bitcoin as little as it may be? and maybe i should start putting some percentage of my investment in altcoins as well?

here's the article btw & a small snippet from it: https://www.dnaindia.com/insights/report-altcoins-outpace-bitcoin-as-dominance-drops-3179839

Binance France President David Princay recently commented, “If or when BTC prices plateau, institutions and corporations may look to diversify their crypto holdings further. It will be interesting to observe how an altcoin season unfolds in a more mature and regulated crypto market.”

Yet while Bitcoin has reached new all-time highs so far during the second half of 2025, BTC’s dominance relative to the overall crypto market has started to decline, recently falling to around 57.2%.

While it’s still too early to definitively say, this recently-emerging trend does strongly suggest that a market rotation into Altcoins, aka the start of a new “Altcoin season,” may be underway. At least, based on historic trading patterns.

what do u guys think?

should i diversify and do u do it too? if so, what coins? 

It must be tough to select the coins for diversification especially when there are so many options.
But I would strongly suggest to choose only from the top 10 coins.
I am personally following the same strategy and buy BTC every month on whatever I have in savings.
I am holding Solana already and so I don't want to invest more in any altcoin and will just keep accumulating more bitcoins.

[henmark]

Bitcoin alone is more than enough for any investor.

In my opinion, you do not need to diversify within crypto investments but you must diversify your entire portfolio with gold, stocks and real estate investments along with bitcoin.

Before ETH, Litecoin was being considered as a best altcoin to invest with. It means ETH will lose its attraction, when some other better coin hits the market. So, no altcoin would be good for long term plans.

Coloured coins, sidechains, dApps, Defi, memecoins, NFT, Masternode, POS and etc, these are the few of gimmicks used by altcoin devs to lure investors and you can find yourself what are the coins are still surviving out of these concepts based.

I have invested in exchange coins for safer bet but you know the current state of wazirx exchange.

You may risk with altcoins for short term benefits but definitely NOT for diversification reasons.

[Bitcoin Smith]

I buy bitcoin and bitcoin only, and yes it is enough for long term!

Altcoins may be more profitable but highly risk and with the number of new projects popping up everyday then I just have to say good luck finding a project that will actually have a real value or even reaches the exchange for listing process. If you want to make some for short gains then you can play with it, and can be the the top ranked coins/tokens or simply the one following the trend but keep the capital as low as possible.

[pawanjain]

Bitcoin alone is more than enough for any investor.

In my opinion, you do not need to diversify within crypto investments but you must diversify your entire portfolio with gold, stocks and real estate investments along with bitcoin.

Before ETH, Litecoin was being considered as a best altcoin to invest with. It means ETH will lose its attraction, when some other better coin hits the market. So, no altcoin would be good for long term plans.

Coloured coins, sidechains, dApps, Defi, memecoins, NFT, Masternode, POS and etc, these are the few of gimmicks used by altcoin devs to lure investors and you can find yourself what are the coins are still surviving out of these concepts based.

I have invested in exchange coins for safer bet but you know the current state of wazirx exchange.

You may risk with altcoins for short term benefits but definitely NOT for diversification reasons.

In today's date, only BNB is an exchange coin which is performing well in the altcoins market.
Every other exchange coin have not gained much traction as much as BNB.
I guess you would have BNB or is it any other exchange coin ?

[henmark]

Every other exchange coin have not gained much traction as much as BNB.
I guess you would have BNB or is it any other exchange coin ?

Unfortunately not in BNB. I have received significant amount of WRX tokens from their initial airdrop which was based on trading volume. And after the pump by binance up to 20k satoshi for a WRX, it started falling down and I started slowly accumulating.

I have bought around 10k satoshi and 8k satoshi and then 2k satoshi but right now it is trading around 45 satoshi (approximately for 0.05 USDT).

I am not a big follower of altcoins for investments but due to airdrop I got WRX and started tracking it. When it was available for 50% discount from its ATH, I got tempted and decided to risk (at those times, Wazirx was advertised during IPL matches as India's No:1 crypto exchange).

[pawanjain]

Every other exchange coin have not gained much traction as much as BNB.
I guess you would have BNB or is it any other exchange coin ?

Unfortunately not in BNB. I have received significant amount of WRX tokens from their initial airdrop which was based on trading volume. And after the pump by binance up to 20k satoshi for a WRX, it started falling down and I started slowly accumulating.

I have bought around 10k satoshi and 8k satoshi and then 2k satoshi but right now it is trading around 45 satoshi (approximately for 0.05 USDT).

I am not a big follower of altcoins for investments but due to airdrop I got WRX and started tracking it. When it was available for 50% discount from its ATH, I got tempted and decided to risk (at those times, Wazirx was advertised during IPL matches as India's No:1 crypto exchange).

I know, even I had some WRX tokens that I received from the airdrop back when it was launched.
I sold all my WRX tokens and got a decent amount of money from it but never bought it because I knew it is not worth to invest in it.
Since you mentioned you bought it since 10k and downwards, do you mean to say you are in a loss currently ?
I just hope you sold your tokens before the WazirX hack because they are not allowing to trade on the site currently.

[M47AK16]

what do u guys think?

should i diversify and do u do it too? if so, what coins? 

Well, I would recommend you to diversify your investment hence invest in well-known coins up to 5 coins. This might serve you for lesser risk hence better option instead of just investing into bitcoins. Bitcoins themselves are a good choice of investment but it is always better to have a variety of eggs in your basket.

I would personally love to diversify my portfolio not only in top coins but also in a lot of stocks via mutual funds.

Treating bitcoins as a SIP investment every month is a good plan of action. That's just like DCA over time. If you follow the same for maybe 5 to 7 years, you should be wealthy enough to buy a nice house or a luxuries car depending on your need. Just try to diversify your crypto portfolio a bit.

[LucyFurr]

Indians are heavy on the altcoins than crypto, you might hear one of your friends or colleagues mention crypto possibly a memecoin that he came across social media or reddit posts that said this much guaranteed returns and he ask about the opinion whether to buy or not and decides that he wants to throw some and decided to take the gamble.

This give us what we are into but it should be heavy on bitcoin and if you made some profits or can afford to lose the capital then risking some with altcoin is okay but never start with altcoin which will end in a disaster and they will claim crypto is scam thereafter.