Are Altcoins Risk or Opportunity?

[Shineup]

Altcoins can be risk or opportunity depending on the experiences and decisions of holders, if a holder lacks sufficient experience it becomes risky for him but with sufficient experience it becomes opportunity. If you don't understand how altcoins market works it means that you are risking your funds and no difference from a gambler but with market experience you can take advantage of opportunities to predict when to buy and sell. Although altcoins are very volatile and despite your experience and knowing how to take advantage of opportunities you can still lose your funds so always use amount that you can easily lose.

Simply put it is a risky opportunity because experience doesn't answer or crown it all, from my observations even the claim experience person is very much vulnerable to the risk investment and also stands with same opportunities of getting something out of it, I know some one that bought a car as a n achievements from altcoins he sees himself as an experienced and people respect him too but some he do lost hugely making his experience not to save him, it is obvious that the market is unpredictable and it may not favor you all the times even if you sees yourself as an expert.

[danherbias07]

It's difficult to answer this because there's really no assurance with Altcoins.

The number of bogus projects is higher than the real ones, with usage and products to back their claim. It's going to be a long and rigorous research before you can say you are sure with one project.
I have joined many in the past and even bought some during the ICO days, and I can say from my experience that you cannot tell when the product is going to be successful or not.
Some would do good initially and then eventually fall and be forgotten, even though the developer is eager to continue it. Without support, it will be a problem for them. They will just end up in bankruptcy.
There are great projects that I have seen, but marketing can be cruel, especially in this era. They must also do their best to pull the community together and help them market it.

[gunhell16]

Altcoins always have a way to get people’s interest in them and then after a while, their promises are not fulfilled and people tend to have similar beliefs on upcoming ones and put them on the same category over again.

Altcoins potentials can be assessed through what it tends to offer, solving real time problems is the best way and if it is just rebranding old ideas, they won’t get the attention they want. They need to have a good or known developer behind their project to get the interest of the people.

Their tokenomics also plays an important role while assessing them. Market hypes and general perception of the public on the coin can either move or break the project. The risk management of the tokens has to be preserved, like do they have enough liquidity? not regulated and not prone to hacks?

All these are to be put in place while checking the potential of a coin and their inherent risk generally.

Many people believe they can get a bigger profit from altcoins compared to Bitcoin. While it's true that we can get a large profit from Bitcoin if we invest a large amount of it,
if we only invest a small amount, we will only get a small profit in return.

Unlike altcoins, the probability of getting a large profit is higher compared to Bitcoin, as long as we are sure that the altcoin has good market potential,
like BNB, HBAR, XRP, and other top altcoins.

[wakier]

Majority of altcoins are centralized and have no new ideas, they just rehash the same old ideas over and over with a new name and new advertisements. This is why they don't have real potential and any "opportunity" is just short term profit making at a very high risk.

It looks like new Alt coins are launched with aim of just grabbing investors money. Now we have hundreds of thousands of alts in the market and it's natural that worth of alts has to go down due to so many alts circulating in the market. Moreover Alts are launched with claim of novelty and innovation but majority of them failed to deliver that or are either abandon by founders soon after the fund raising phase is completed.

And usually the investors who get trapped are small investors who buy altcoins at high prices and the price immediately drops, large investors only invest a little in Altcoins they prefer to invest in coins that are really good and the hype period does not end, we have to be careful if there are many altcoins circulating in the market but over time the hype will disappear even altcoins that use famous names do not guarantee good like the trump coin whose value is now very low even though many investors bought it at a high price.

[justdimin]

It looks like new Alt coins are launched with aim of just grabbing investors money. Now we have hundreds of thousands of alts in the market and it's natural that worth of alts has to go down due to so many alts circulating in the market. Moreover Alts are launched with claim of novelty and innovation but majority of them failed to deliver that or are either abandon by founders soon after the fund raising phase is completed.

And usually the investors who get trapped are small investors who buy altcoins at high prices and the price immediately drops, large investors only invest a little in Altcoins they prefer to invest in coins that are really good and the hype period does not end, we have to be careful if there are many altcoins circulating in the market but over time the hype will disappear even altcoins that use famous names do not guarantee good like the trump coin whose value is now very low even though many investors bought it at a high price.

Unfortunately all those pump and dumps end up with small investors being dumped on and that hurts them a lot. Most people do not know what they should be doing and because of that they end up with wrong moves. I understand it may not feel great, but that is just the truth and nothing can be done.

Those big whales just end up pumping whatever they want with their money and/or influence they have over the market and then they get out the first and they think it's the best thing ever, which it's not true at all. I believe in this to get better over long period of time and it should feel like there are ways that we can do a lot more with it. I understand it's not that complicated, but unfortunately many small investors still fall for it.

[markm]

Plan to be dumped on.

That is, having decided what you would like to have a bunch of, place lowball buy offers, actively hoping someone or someones will "dump" the price way way down to where your offer lurks waiting precisely to profit massively from "dumpers" by being already in place to be the lucky person they "dump" on!

Split the amount you can afford into a lot of pieces so as to place buy offers going as far up toward the "spread" (gap between highest buy offer and lowest sell offer) as you are comfortable going, to increase the chance that some dump will dump deep enough for at least one of your offers to get "taken".

Do this for each coin or token you think might be worth having some of if it wasn't so darn high in price right now.

Then when someone does buy some, put it back on sale, eventually building an ascending column of sell offers going up even beyond the highest price you think might actually happen just in case it does better than you hope thus maybe even most of your sell offers will get taken but hopefully not all of them unless you held some back or really seriously expect another "dump" will re-stock you by "dumping" onto the highest buy offer you have left.

If a sell offer gets taken, that re-fuels your buy side and vice-versa; presto you are in business profiting (within that trading-pair) in both directions.

If both sides of your chosen pair go down, your gains of both sides of the pair within the pair can offset that at least somewhat and over time can/could/might even far more than make up for it.


-Mark-

[allthebitandbobs]

This will be the same situation in almost every aspect or earning. Even we have seen people win millions in gambling and a few loose everything they have but this does not stop people from gambling. It depends on our perspective how we want to look at it. People have made really good profits out of altcoins and this is something which can maybe give you more profits as compared to bitcoins. All you need to do is find that perfect altcoin and keep holding it patiently until you see gains.

People will mostly be sceptical in terms of altcoins and this is what will make them panic in terms of a dip but they should keep having faith if they have chosen one of the top altcoin as the markets will always go in both directions and will only give us any profits if we stay firm on our decision.

[markm]

Yesterday I had a good example of my above strategy working beautifully in BTC/XLM pair.

A whole lot of things dropped drastically, but it is the relative change of price within the pair that profits you within a pair.

Suddenly XLM price-in-bitcoins dropped by ten or so of my buy-offers dumping ten offers-scale of XLM on me cheaper and cheaper and cheaper, then jumped back up so soon I had not even seen the drop and reacted to it by putting the bargain XLM back on sale; by the time I noticed it was back up so far that not only had I a bunch of XLM waiting to be put back onto the sell-side but also a bunch of BTC from the up part having already chewed into my own sell offers, in effect "dumping" bitcoin onto my "buy bitcoin using XLM" offers aka my "sell XLM for BTC" offers.

So in effect the "spread" was much larger than the gap I usually leave between my buy-side and my sell-side, so as I reconstructed my columns of buy and sell offers I was doing so at greater percentage profit per offer-and-back than happens when I react to each buy or sell immediately by placing the proceeds back on the other side.

A nice day for nowadays, though nowhere near as volatile as a 10,000-dollar day long long ago in BTC/DVC when in one day DVC went from 30 satoshis up to 300 satoshis and back in one day, chewing through my sell-DVC offers all the way up then through my built-under-that column of reconstructed buy-DVC offers I had followed it upward with when it chewed its way back down, leaving me with 1000 bitcoins profit and more DVC than I started the day with and bitcoins were "worth" ten bucks a pop.

Back then there were so few "altcoins" that likely it was much the same kind of volatility folk are hoping for nowadays in memecoin gambling, but the thing to me is it was not gambling, in fact all the BTC and all the DVC I had on the exchange was not even what I could afford to lose it was just a part of what I had already won, after already having taken home oodles upon oodles of profits.

I would not even bother looking at meme coins to speculate on whether they provide a similar environment in which to work, indeed last night someone proposed to me that they want my blessings as it were to issue a meme they characterise as a "commemoration" of the wonderful classic coin DVC but that will be a totally worthless piece of crap they were hoping to "justify" by claiming some of the profits would go to the DVC (DeVCoin) project....:

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Mark Metson, [10/10/25 9:41 A.M.]
The important thing is ensuring each and every DeVCoin represented by a token (an IOU) is truly backed by a real DeVCoin on the DeVCoin blockchain.

Mark Metson, [10/10/25 9:43 A.M.]
What I do in the https://MakeMoney.Knotwork.com/ Galactic Milieu is first issue a HZDVC token on the HORIZON blockchain, only then do I place a number of those HZDVC tokens into a "Stellar Holdings" account on HORIZON showing how many of those I have created DVC tokens on Stellar representing.

Mark Metson, [10/10/25 9:44 A.M.]
Thus technically my DVC tokens on Stellar are IOUs owing HZDVC tokens on HORIZON which in turn are IOUs showing I owe real DeVCoins on DeVCoin's own blockchain.

Mark Metson, [10/10/25 9:46 A.M.]
I do however buy and sell both types of token, the ones on HORIZON and the ones on Stellar, for and back to real DeVCoins on DeVCoin's own blockchain, so the ones on Stellar can in practice be treated directly as IOUs for reacl coins on the real blockchain despite my accounting-practice of using what is in my Stellar Holdings account on HORIZON to track how much of each asset I currently have over on Stellar rather than actually still in HORIZON, as it were.

xxCudo, [10/10/25 9:47 A.M.]
Wow, so did you end up keeping those 100 bitcoin? Haha. Thats a very cool story. I am honestly just honored to be in contact with you!

Mark Metson, [10/10/25 9:48 A.M.]
If I were to issue a DVC token on Solana, I would first make a "Solana Holdings" account on HORIZON, then move some number of HZDVC tokens into that account, one HZDVC token per DVC token I issue on Solana, so that each DVC token on Solana technically would represent an IOU of one HZDVC token but in practice I presumably would also be willing to trade directly for a real DeVCoin or for a DVC token on Stellar.

Mark Metson, [10/10/25 9:49 A.M.]
From the very start of all that though, I only issue half as many tokens as I have real coins.

Mark Metson, [10/10/25 9:51 A.M.]
That way I can have half the coins, the ones the tokens directly represent, "buried in concrete under my swimming pool" as the saying goes, where hopefully even my great-great-grandheirs will never need to dig them up because the other half of the coins can be used to "buy back" all the tokens without needing to touch the "deep-frozen" ones "buried under the swimming pool" at all.

Mark Metson, [10/10/25 9:55 A.M.]
This method helps keep number of real coins hitting the markets to "dump" downward the prices on spot markets lower, thus helping value

xxCudo, [10/10/25 9:58 A.M.]
I am going to be honest, the project I was “proposing” was not intended to be an actual fork of DVC on Solana. That is something that I would certainly be interested in but is above my level of understanding. I was more so interested in launching a commemorative project that represents the idea and principles of DVC as you guys previously stated. To help creators, etc.

Mark Metson, [10/10/25 9:58 A.M.]
If you want to issue DVC tokens on Solana yourself you could do much the same thing, that is, put X number of real DeVCoins on the real DeVCoin blockchain into some kind of cold-storage and issue that many tokens, then either have to dig the real coins back out of cold storage to "redeem" those tokens aka IOUs with the real coins when someone wants to go back to the real blockchain or lke me have another whole real coin per token you can use to redeem each token without needing to dig back out of cold storage to do so.

xxCudo, [10/10/25 9:58 A.M.]
I am very impressed after reading that document.

Mark Metson, [10/10/25 9:59 A.M.]
Sounds like you are talking about just doing yet another meme-coin pump-and-dump scam if you are not actually "backing" your tokens with real value

Mark Metson, [10/10/25 10:01 A.M.]
If you want it to help the real project you need to have its users provide you with one real DeVCoin per "whole DeVCoin" token basically, even if you don't actually buy the real DeVCoin to "back" the token with until someone trades to you something for the token that you can use to buy a real DeVCoin with to be able later to redeem the token for.

Mark Metson, [10/10/25 10:04 A.M.]
You could for example issue "I bought a real DeVCoin!" memes or NFTs or "accomplishent tokens" or something and give them out as commemorative tokens to folk who buy real DeVCoins...

The 100 bitcoins I might have kept comment refers to the 1000-bitcoin-profit day story but either dropped a zero or maybe that day had been when bitcoin was 100 bucks a pop and profit was only 100 bitcoin. I'd have to go find a post from closer back in history to be sure now but I had thought it was 1000 bitcoins at $10 not 100 at $100. Easy now to get confused, must be going senile.

They obviously recently read the story elsewhere so might be more right than my unreliable memory, as I had not mentioned the story they brought reference to it into the chat from gosh knows how old a page or post or something they must have come across elsewhere.


-MarkM-

[MAAManda]

As someone who has seen a lot of the altcoin side of things, I consider altcoins an opportunity, but only as an economic opportunity, nothing more. When it comes to technology, Bitcoin (BTC) is undoubtedly the leader. However, since Bitcoin (BTC) MC is already too high & it's difficult to multiply, altcoins have emerged as an alternative. They're born with low MC, which easily increase as more money flows into them.

[gunhell16]

As someone who has seen a lot of the altcoin side of things, I consider altcoins an opportunity, but only as an economic opportunity, nothing more. When it comes to technology, Bitcoin (BTC) is undoubtedly the leader. However, since Bitcoin (BTC) MC is already too high & it's difficult to multiply, altcoins have emerged as an alternative. They're born with low MC, which easily increase as more money flows into them.

It really just depends on how individual investors look at Bitcoin or altcoins. That's because what one community sees as an opportunity may not be an opportunity for another. That's why it's crucial that we study and research the potential of the coins we might buy for short-term or long-term holdings.

We simply cannot separate risk and opportunity when the topic is about investing in Bitcoin or cryptocurrency, and I believe the same principle applies to other business opportunities as well.

[Emitdama]

Altcoins can be risk or opportunity depending on the experiences and decisions of holders, if a holder lacks sufficient experience it becomes risky for him but with sufficient experience it becomes opportunity. If you don't understand how altcoins market works it means that you are risking your funds and no difference from a gambler but with market experience you can take advantage of opportunities to predict when to buy and sell. Although altcoins are very volatile and despite your experience and knowing how to take advantage of opportunities you can still lose your funds so always use amount that you can easily lose.

Yes, altcoins are quite volatile but that also means that they can give us opportunities to make really good profits if we have basic understandings and ability to make market research.

Research is the key player with any kind of investment. Investing just because of the hype or just because we want to see good profits is not what we all expect. When it comes to altcoins, we need to spend a lot of time only to find that specific altcoin which shows us potential. Later comes market study, fundamentals and technical analysis which will show us the exact entry and exit points. Just blindly following altcoins is a big mistake even though they have high potential.

[Cyber_warrior]

Exploring altcoins critically teaches how innovation and market perception interact. Each project offers lessons in risk management, ecosystem growth, and the dynamics of supply and demand.How do you assess an altcoin’s potential versus its inherent risk?

Lots of newbies see altcoins as opportunity, no matter how you try to explain the risk in altcoins, they Won’t believe, they believe altcoins are the coins that can make then get the kind of profits they need within a short period of time, so they always thinking altcoins are opportunity, but after losing big, that’s when they going to realize that altcoins are just risky and not opportunity.

Altcoins are the coins that can give you insane profits within a short period of time, but you should know that within a short period of time, you can lose everything which you have also. The main reason why people invest in altcoins is just for quick profits, and I don’t think there is anything more than that, but whenever they are investing in, they always forget about the risk.

[GeorgeJohn]

Altcoins like Cardano and Avalanche provide alternative approaches to scalability, governance, and decentralization. Yet their success depends on adoption, community support, and real-world utility.

Exploring altcoins critically teaches how innovation and market perception interact. Each project offers lessons in risk management, ecosystem growth, and the dynamics of supply and demand.How do you assess an altcoin’s potential versus its inherent risk?

It is obvious that altcoins is a very risk coins that someone can invest, we need to understand that hot coins if you don't take your time for investing in some of them that does not to have a potential it might lead you to regret investing in cryptocurrency.... so anyone who is investing in altcoin need to make a proper research of that Project to know if the project will be the one to survive or not because so many of them have not survived and so many also survived during the time there we are launched

So people who investing Bitcoin I think they need a proper investigation in any of them before they invest and they have to make a decision if they will invest for shot term or long-term, mostly any coin that you are having doubt on a particular Project I believe that your investing on it it should be on short term investment instead of long-term investment.

[Odusko]

Altcoins like Cardano and Avalanche provide alternative approaches to scalability, governance, and decentralization. Yet their success depends on adoption, community support, and real-world utility.

Exploring altcoins critically teaches how innovation and market perception interact. Each project offers lessons in risk management, ecosystem growth, and the dynamics of supply and demand.How do you assess an altcoin’s potential versus its inherent risk?

In terms scalability of the crypto community we must give that kudos to altcoins and for that reason we acknowledge them as the alternative coin community which is designed to provides and solve scalability problems and that is what altcoins are doing right now, although we have hard a few other coin that their projection and ecosystem failed to meet the desired alternative role that altcoins are meant to provide, which make to to fail and investors losing money which have affected the motivation of Many investors.

[Fredomago]

As someone who has seen a lot of the altcoin side of things, I consider altcoins an opportunity, but only as an economic opportunity, nothing more. When it comes to technology, Bitcoin (BTC) is undoubtedly the leader. However, since Bitcoin (BTC) MC is already too high & it's difficult to multiply, altcoins have emerged as an alternative. They're born with low MC, which easily increase as more money flows into them.

It really just depends on how individual investors look at Bitcoin or altcoins. That's because what one community sees as an opportunity may not be an opportunity for another. That's why it's crucial that we study and research the potential of the coins we might buy for short-term or long-term holdings.

We simply cannot separate risk and opportunity when the topic is about investing in Bitcoin or cryptocurrency, and I believe the same principle applies to other business opportunities as well.

You are absolutely right! We can't seperate risk and opportunity but we can balance both if we have proper unsderstanding, if we do have the right knowledge and skills we can take our opportunities, better to carefully study your actions before taking steps into this venture, just like what you just said, it's not because someone manage to earn or to gain fortune it's not applicable that if you follow him you can have the same outcome, not unless you take your time to research and study the whole thing and practice what you learned, there's also a strong chance that you may gain success in the long run.

[Kavelj22]

It's hard to achieve meaningful decentralization in an altcoin. Most of them have only a single protocol implementation. Therefore, for all but a few the risk management is mostly a regulatory question, not a technical one.

This is the problem of almost major altcoins actually in the market. I would support them myself if the were submitted to decentralization based protocol. There is a category called privacy tokens contains few  projects, like all other altcoins are fully centralized including big ones like Ethereum or Waves...

Unfortunetly, most of them aren't careful about providing more blockchain based privacy, while the majority are centralized more than Fiat money in many aspects.

[Junii]

opportunity for those people who don't have enough money and risk for those people who have a lot of money

[bettercrypto]

Altcoins can be risk or opportunity depending on the experiences and decisions of holders, if a holder lacks sufficient experience it becomes risky for him but with sufficient experience it becomes opportunity. If you don't understand how altcoins market works it means that you are risking your funds and no difference from a gambler but with market experience you can take advantage of opportunities to predict when to buy and sell. Although altcoins are very volatile and despite your experience and knowing how to take advantage of opportunities you can still lose your funds so always use amount that you can easily lose.

Simply put it is a risky opportunity because experience doesn't answer or crown it all, from my observations even the claim experience person is very much vulnerable to the risk investment and also stands with same opportunities of getting something out of it, I know some one that bought a car as a n achievements from altcoins he sees himself as an experienced and people respect him too but some he do lost hugely making his experience not to save him, it is obvious that the market is unpredictable and it may not favor you all the times even if you sees yourself as an expert.

The risk in altcoins will never disappear, so any investor must be aware of the risk and be ready for it. Because if they aren't ready, they shouldn't even attempt to invest here.
Furthermore, all investors who invest in altcoins are truly risk-takers.

We won't find any successful investors in the crypto space who didn't take a significant risk; there's no such thing. No matter how much research others do,
the truth is that most investors are genuinely willing to take risks."

[CoinAge.Cash]

It's hard to achieve meaningful decentralization in an altcoin. Most of them have only a single protocol implementation. Therefore, for all but a few the risk management is mostly a regulatory question, not a technical one.

This is the problem of almost major altcoins actually in the market. I would support them myself if the were submitted to decentralization based protocol. There is a category called privacy tokens contains few  projects, like all other altcoins are fully centralized including big ones like Ethereum or Waves...

Unfortunetly, most of them aren't careful about providing more blockchain based privacy, while the majority are centralized more than Fiat money in many aspects.

Could simplify this to a very basic understanding to understand it fully with someone who has no knowledge but wants to start a Token (Altcoin)?

What are some of the steps you would take? Keep in mind I want it to be used with the real life currency like purchasing precious metals and abinding with taxes, laws and regulations.

[markm]

Could simplify this to a very basic understanding to understand it fully with someone who has no knowledge but wants to start a Token (Altcoin)?

What are some of the steps you would take? Keep in mind I want it to be used with the real life currency like purchasing precious metals and abinding with taxes, laws and regulations.

I think the big thing to watch out for when considering launching a coin, token, currency or asset is what you are going to "back" it with.

It is basically an IOU, just like a bank balance is.

A bank balance shows how much, of what, the bank owes you.

Similarly a coin token currency or asset shows how much its issuer or minter owes you.

Unless it is a commodity in and of itself, of course.

Bitcoin is more a commodity than a coin token currency or asset because just like gold or gasoline or eggs or bacon or butter or pork-bellies it is the thing itself, the uses to which it can be put, and the cost of manufacturing it and shipping it to you that is generally taken to be its "value".

A generic token or coin such as anyone can at almost-no cost mint arbitrary numbers of is until imbued with value just another almost-worthless data-structure, possibly representing nothing whatsoever.

It is a medium, media upon which can be recorded things like how much, of what, who is going to give you for it.

Thus a first consideration before launching should be how much of what are you going to buy them back for?

Once you have decided that - I recall you indicating you were thinking of redeeming yours for metals? - you can simply divide the amount of what you are going to buy it back with by the number of units you issue of your IOU (coin,token,etc) to assign a value per IOU.

A big motivation for people "floating" their IOUs on markets is the hope someone somewhere sometime will buy one for more than the value that the original issuer of it put into it.

That applies to commodities too of course not just to IOUs; bitcoin miners are at least partial motivated, usually, by a hope someone will someday pay them more for the bitcoins they mint than it cost them to mint them.

With IOUs, costing almost nothing to mint, what is put into them is mostly how much the issuer of them is expected by other people to buy them back for.

That leads us to the idea of total-bullshit coins tokens etc, which go farther even than IOUs:

With the total-bullshit crap the only supposed "value" they have, since it is known or should be known that the issuer is one of the least likely persons to ever even consider buying them, is the hope or dream or fantasy that some other idiot will buy one or more of them...

Hence ponzi schemes, the greater-fool theory and so on...


-MarkM-