HODL is much more suitable for altcoins than BTC nowadays

[Ivystar5]

Well we’ve heard you, please go check out the newest altcoin/shitcoin and see how you can hold it till it becomes 0.0000 then you will understand that bitcoin is not what to be compared with shits that are mostly created for rug pull or scams, in a general word pump and dump shits, of course some coins may be good I mean altcoins which are under performing today but doesn’t have no relation to comparing them to bitcoin in terms of hold.

Altcoins are pumped into the market for a short period of time and some Altcoins are not pumped into the market but are dumped and take people's money. But Bitcoin has been in the market for a long time and has benefited people so far. Those who have traded Bitcoin in the high market will have a chance to profit if they keep it for a long time but there will be less chance of loss. Because there is a high possibility of Bitcoin price increasing later, but Altcoins are constantly coming into the market and destroying people's money.

Most of the altcoins came in as a result of people greed to reap off others and some also came in because some people are greedy too much that why want bitcoin to go back to zero so they can be the super heros like toehrs who bought bitch at a low rate and still hold so they go into altcoins believing it will be like bitcoin and make them wholesomey rich but at the end they get to pick up pump and dump coins and they loss so much.

[Dunamisx]

I don't know what could be as of utmost priority hen it comes to cryptocurrency than bitcoin at first, then followed by other coins, if we must hold, then bitcoin is the best to consider for this purpose, if we don't want to risk too much on our investment, there are shitcoins in altcoins, we don't know which one may perform and which may not, we should because of the high volatility of altcoins chooses them over bitcoin, they can be so disappointing a times.

[Abiky]

I don't think the hodl strategy is more suitable for altcoins. Bitcoin was the best to hold in the past and will be the best in the future. Do you know which altcoins to hold that will give you good profits? Of course not, because there are so many shitcoins in the market, it is difficult to find the best coins among them. There are many who have held altcoins in the past and have suffered losses but have not been able to recover. But Bitcoin has proven in the past that if you hold Bitcoin for a long time, it is possible to make good profits, so Bitcoin is the best to hold.

Well, altcoins aren't giving investors much needed results compared to Bitcoin. The vast majority of alts haven't reached a new ATH, as investor sentiment has shifted into Bitcoin. Things doesn't seem to be bright for alts right now. It makes sense to hold BTC for the long term.

If you still want to hold alts, I'd suggest you leave a small portion of your money into them. Just to avoid the risk of loss due to a sudden crash in market prices. For what I know, altcoins are much more volatile than Bitcoin itself. Which means, the risk/reward ratio is higher than BTC. Spend your money wisely, and you should have nothing to worry about.

[gunhell16]

I don't think the hodl strategy is more suitable for altcoins. Bitcoin was the best to hold in the past and will be the best in the future. Do you know which altcoins to hold that will give you good profits? Of course not, because there are so many shitcoins in the market, it is difficult to find the best coins among them. There are many who have held altcoins in the past and have suffered losses but have not been able to recover. But Bitcoin has proven in the past that if you hold Bitcoin for a long time, it is possible to make good profits, so Bitcoin is the best to hold.

Well, altcoins aren't giving investors much needed results compared to Bitcoin. The vast majority of alts haven't reached a new ATH, as investor sentiment has shifted into Bitcoin. Things doesn't seem to be bright for alts right now. It makes sense to hold BTC for the long term.

If you still want to hold alts, I'd suggest you leave a small portion of your money into them. Just to avoid the risk of loss due to a sudden crash in market prices. For what I know, altcoins are much more volatile than Bitcoin itself. Which means, the risk/reward ratio is higher than BTC. Spend your money wisely, and you should have nothing to worry about.

I agree with what you’re saying there, dude, because some holders really do have the wrong mindset when it comes to holding cryptocurrency especially if they chose the wrong coins. It just so happens that in this industry, Bitcoin is the most trusted long‑term investment, and this is something the majority of the crypto community agrees on and doesn’t really question.

Let’s also say that there are altcoins that are even better than Bitcoin but there are only a few of them, for sure. If you have a lot of money and several businesses, then you’re capable of buying multiple crypto assets and holding them long‑term. It’s really that simple when you break it down.

[Humblevirus]

Nowadays, it is even worse period for holding altcoins because so many altcoins have been created and it has resulted in more scam projects. So it is really very hard to even find a reliable altcoin that will be able to hold value for a long time. Most of the altcoins that have been created just end up becoming dead projects.the problem is that when they first launch, they usually do well, but after a few months the project’s price starts dumping, and shortly after, it becomes a dead project as the price is no longer able to recover. The point is that if someone checks many altcoin projects that were created some years back, you will find out that most of them are no longer in existence.

So, altcoins are not built for the long term; they are mostly for short term gains. And even when investing in the short term, we still have to be very careful otherwise the person will still lose. Putting money into altcoins just seems like gambling.so, the best coin for long term investments is Bitcoin. The records have proven it, and no other altcoin can be compared with Bitcoin in terms of long-term investment

[Lida93]

Well, altcoins aren't giving investors much needed results compared to Bitcoin. The vast majority of alts haven't reached a new ATH, as investor sentiment has shifted into Bitcoin. Things doesn't seem to be bright for alts right now. It makes sense to hold BTC for the long term.

If you still want to hold alts, I'd suggest you leave a small portion of your money into them. Just to avoid the risk of loss due to a sudden crash in market prices. For what I know, altcoins are much more volatile than Bitcoin itself. Which means, the risk/reward ratio is higher than BTC. Spend your money wisely, and you should have nothing to worry about.

No lie here but raw truth about altcoins in the recent times. I mean just look at the highly anticipated altcoins season that was making the news, the sentiments was that we are gonna experience another altcoins season, and this made a lot of investors shifting their portfolio spreading into different altcoins but they instead got more dump with losses incurred. And since the sudden dip in the cryptocurrency market even as bitcoin has moved somewhat up, many altcoins hasn't made a leap.

It's just as you have it broken down, the best practice to stay safe from huge loss is to have small portion you can afford to lose into altcoins if you must.

[JaanusRaim]

Most of us make a big mistake by extrapolating past (trends) into future.  Because Bitcoin has shown very good results in the past, it is very good investment in 2025 too..... Because many (or even most) altcoins have vanished to nothing, altcoins are bad investment now and forever.....

Remember that we are at the very beginning of cryptocurrencies era, many (or even most) investors think that cryptos have no fundamental value at all because they search it from wrong places (there is no consensus how to calculate cryptos fundamental values yet).... Most of us are not used to treat attention as a value, we are looking some "real" or "tangible" or "technical" things to judge the asset as valuable....

Cryptos 3 trillion USD market cap may not seem extremely small in comparison with stocks 150 trillion USD but if we look at the structure behind these numbers  - there is only one real cryptocurrency now against countless number of stocks... the 100th crypto of the world is worth 433 MILLION USD, the 100th stock of the world is worth 175 BILLION USD. Do you think this proportion remains unchanged ? ?
One stock (for example NVIDIA) is so great that we do not need any more stocks  

I bet that the present time is much more full of crypto related opportunities than was 2010 and that we conclude in the future (for example in 2040) that the Bitcoins race from 0 USD to 2 trillion USD during 2010-2025 was nothing compared to the following countless races of same order of magnitude.
If I made a wrong bet and the cryptocurrencies market do not survive the next decade(s) then there is quite small probability that the Bitcoin will be the exception. But, yes, nothing is impossible - this is the game of probabilities.

[allfriends88]

I don't know what could be as of utmost priority hen it comes to cryptocurrency than bitcoin at first, then followed by other coins, if we must hold, then bitcoin is the best to consider for this purpose, if we don't want to risk too much on our investment, there are shitcoins in altcoins, we don't know which one may perform and which may not, we should because of the high volatility of altcoins chooses them over bitcoin, they can be so disappointing a times.

Bitcoin is the best, but altcoins are not always bad for HODL. If it holds the top 10 altcoins on coinmarketcap in a few years then it is profitable. As long as it is strong enough to hold it because when facing a bear market it is certainly much worse to see the value of the potfolio but since the goal is long-term hodl then it is still good.

[GigaBit]

I conclude that HODL strategy is much more suitable for altcoins than BTC nowadays - just because the altcoins (as a whole market - not every single altcoin in this market) are undervalued relative to their equilibrium long-term price.

Most of the altcoins are not in good condition, which is why if you invest in altcoins and hold them for a long time, then there is no possibility of getting positive results from those coins. Although we have been able to see Bitcoin's ATH repeatedly in the last few years, we have not found anything positive in the case of altcoins. Though there is a possibility of getting good returns in the long term by investing in Bitcoin, there is no certainty in the case of altcoins. Therefore, only Bitcoin can be considered as the best to hold.

[malekbaba]

HODLing today makes more sense for a small number of strong, high quality altcoins than it does for Bitcoin alone. Many altcoins are still in earlier stages of development and can offer asymmetric upside if their fundamentals and adoption improve over time. Bitcoin, however, has matured into a more stable, macro-driven asset, making it the most reliable long-term hold, but with lower explosive growth compared to past cycles. As a result, pure HODLing is no longer as optimal for BTC as it was in earlier cycles. Overall, the idea is partially right, but it only applies when altcoin selection is highly selective and disciplined.

[uneng]

I don't think altcoins are suitable for long term holding. I've read many complaints from investors who invested largely in altcoins and ended losing their money without recovery chance, as such altcoins are already dead or don't have potential chances of reaching new ATHs. Meanwhile, Bitcoin is much more reliable, has maintained its position cycle after cycle on top 1 of crypto market and has always hit new ATHs every few years. That is the best alternative in this industry.

If you don't believe, check the charts and the history of the main currencies of this market. Doge is a good example that you shouldn't rely on altcoins, as it was unable to hit a new ATH in 2024-2025, despite the bullish run we had. Its ATH is still in 2021 due to the speculative hype launched by Elon Musk. Everyone who invested on that moment is still in losses.

[ultrloa]

I don't know what could be as of utmost priority hen it comes to cryptocurrency than bitcoin at first, then followed by other coins, if we must hold, then bitcoin is the best to consider for this purpose, if we don't want to risk too much on our investment, there are shitcoins in altcoins, we don't know which one may perform and which may not, we should because of the high volatility of altcoins chooses them over bitcoin, they can be so disappointing a times.

Bitcoin is the best, but altcoins are not always bad for HODL. If it holds the top 10 altcoins on coinmarketcap in a few years then it is profitable. As long as it is strong enough to hold it because when facing a bear market it is certainly much worse to see the value of the potfolio but since the goal is long-term hodl then it is still good.

But only limited alts are also good to HODL but if I'm going to choose which of those alts I can say ETH somehow is best option to HODL, other alts below is somehow questionable if we talk about long term growth.

Because even if we can say that they are performing good and platform behind them is so reputable there are chance that one of these days a chance for sudden collapse might gonna happen.

Remember Luna incident? This is supposed to be a good coin but it give lots of issue to its holders, the aftermath is scary since it wipes out billions and leave lots of financial damage to people.

[o48o]

I conclude that HODL strategy is much more suitable for altcoins than BTC nowadays - just because the altcoins (as a whole market - not every single altcoin in this market) are undervalued relative to their equilibrium long-term price. Equilibrium price of the asset is determined by its value (in the case of cryptocurrencies this means image, perceived usefulness, acceptance rate). Altcoins prices are generally lower than their values at the moment.
As Warren Buffett says — 'Price is what you pay. Value is what you get'.

Altcoins market is undervalued (and many single altcoins in this market are strongly undervalued). Bitcoin is clearly overvalued.


HODL is suitable for undervalued coins.

You think they are undervalued just because their prices were higher in the past? I am fairly certain that coins or tokens that you buy can still drop -90% after you buy them and -90% more during next years.

How do you define "good" image? Or "perceived usefulness", when it's basically all meta use inside the bubble of that crypto's economy. And cryptos will get accepted to the end, as long you can turn them into money. When buy walls eventually get smaller and smaller, it's already too late to trust some "hodl" method.

[Churchillvv]

HODLing today makes more sense for a small number of strong, high quality altcoins than it does for Bitcoin alone. Many altcoins are still in earlier stages of development and can offer asymmetric upside if their fundamentals and adoption improve over time. Bitcoin, however, has matured into a more stable, macro-driven asset, making it the most reliable long-term hold, but with lower explosive growth compared to past cycles. As a result, pure HODLing is no longer as optimal for BTC as it was in earlier cycles. Overall, the idea is partially right, but it only applies when altcoin selection is highly selective and disciplined.

You made a lot of since for real but however the difficulty in finding this crypto that will have a high level of explosiveness is one thing that has now turn the truth in to a lie that holding is suitable for altcoins, not every one will agree that but however you can also agree that there is currently no crypto that has exploded in the last 4 year in a very high level like the way bitcoin was doing in the early days, rightly no crypto is holdable as bitcoin.

[nomenclatur]

I conclude that HODL strategy is much more suitable for altcoins than BTC nowadays - just because the altcoins (as a whole market - not every single altcoin in this market) are undervalued relative to their equilibrium long-term price. Equilibrium price of the asset is determined by its value (in the case of cryptocurrencies this means image, perceived usefulness, acceptance rate). Altcoins prices are generally lower than their values at the moment.
As Warren Buffett says — 'Price is what you pay. Value is what you get'.

Altcoins market is undervalued (and many single altcoins in this market are strongly undervalued). Bitcoin is clearly overvalued.


HODL is suitable for undervalued coins.

Altcoins are almost all affected by Bitcoin. Looking at the current market, Bitcoin is down drastically. Altcoins are also experiencing a decline, which is causing the market to decline even more sharply. Bitcoin clearly plays a bigger role here, and its impact is very rapid on the exchange. Holding coins that are currently hyped is still a good strategy. I personally buy altcoins when the market is down, so now is the right time to buy them.

[zeuner]

Then be sure to have a strategy for reviving an altcoin which is inactive and has no running nodes left.

[Accardo]

But only limited alts are also good to HODL but if I'm going to choose which of those alts I can say ETH somehow is best option to HODL, other alts below is somehow questionable if we talk about long term growth.

Because even if we can say that they are performing good and platform behind them is so reputable there are chance that one of these days a chance for sudden collapse might gonna happen.

Holding alts isn't always the best answer to grabbing the best value of time and patience, look what is with eth, it's not making much prosperous moves, alts, a lot, moved away of pow to pos, ever since, their worth dropped by far, Bitcoin is the only coin suitable for hodl, that gives a rest of mind, eth is great for its long existence, yet the growth is much more stunted than anything else.

[Felicity_Tide]

You made a lot of since for real but however the difficulty in finding this crypto that will have a high level of explosiveness is one thing that has now turn the truth in to a lie that holding is suitable for altcoins, not every one will agree that but however you can also agree that there is currently no crypto that has exploded in the last 4 year in a very high level like the way bitcoin was doing in the early days, rightly no crypto is holdable as bitcoin.

Perhaps, it would have been best if OP could actually come to a conclusion using real track records, and comparing between Bitcoin and altcoin. Maybe a lot of people are not even asking this question, if we are to write out the number of years that it took Bitcoin to hit the $100K, and we gave that same number of years to the entire coin market, I can bet that none of them would hit such height. Bitcoin is definitely a good asset, so saying that holding altcoin should be far more suitable is definitely not a wise suggestion. I won't discredit the fact that some altcoins are actually doing well, at least for their level, but prioritizing them to Bitcoin in terms of holding is certainly not a good choice.

[Churchillvv]

You made a lot of since for real but however the difficulty in finding this crypto that will have a high level of explosiveness is one thing that has now turn the truth in to a lie that holding is suitable for altcoins, not every one will agree that but however you can also agree that there is currently no crypto that has exploded in the last 4 year in a very high level like the way bitcoin was doing in the early days, rightly no crypto is holdable as bitcoin.

Perhaps, it would have been best if OP could actually come to a conclusion using real track records, and comparing between Bitcoin and altcoin. Maybe a lot of people are not even asking this question, if we are to write out the number of years that it took Bitcoin to hit the $100K, and we gave that same number of years to the entire coin market, I can bet that none of them would hit such height. Bitcoin is definitely a good asset, so saying that holding altcoin should be far more suitable is definitely not a wise suggestion. I won't discredit the fact that some altcoins are actually doing well, at least for their level, but prioritizing them to Bitcoin in terms of holding is certainly not a good choice.

To further buttress OP has disregarded the fact that bitcoin is a paradigm shift that brought about all other coins hence even if we give all the coins same opportunity to start at 2009 as bitcoin did they wouldn’t have gotten this far because the cryptocurrency development never started with them so, if you hold any altcoin that started since 2012 or 2010 till date you will never have such a profit as you would have if you hold your bitcoin from that same year till date, so how is altcoin more suitable for holding than bitcoin? Op is just spr asking fallacy in my honest opinion.

[Oshio-man]

It depends the strategy you apply on the altcoin that will make you to earn suitable income than bitcoin op, For short term on altcoin you will earn income that will make you celebrate which bitcoin will not give you in the short term holding, if you are holding altcoin for long term it will not be suitable like  long term holding in bitcoin because bitcoin gives altcoin opportunity to increase whenever bitcoin price is increasing in the market,  there are some altcoins that are not good for long term holding and if you apply long term holding you will not like what will happen when the altcoins disappoint you because they don't have strong team like bitcoin teams,