My first deep dive buying crypto coins was in 2017. Here's something quick I learned from my own personal experience (which I'm sure many people will disagree with, but it works for me):
Similar to how I'd invest into equities in the stock market, I believed that having a diverse portfolio of coins would allow for healthy returns while also hedging risk. After scanning through different media platforms and group chats I was in at the time, I would research coins I found interesting and then deploy some capital (nothing substantial) into these coins to watch them trade.
Over the years, I bought coins like $XLM (stellar), $EOS, $NEO, $XRP, $ADA, $WABI, $ALGO and a few more. More recently (past couple years), I played with metaverse related coins and some newer coins that were said to be "ETH / BTC killers". Some examples are $MANA, $WRLD, $SOL, $AVAX, $HEX etc. Dabbled in the NFT coins as well - $LOOKS, $BLUR, $APE etc.
For tons of different reasons, most of these investments turned out to be losses (and oftentimes went straight to 0). A few of these coins definitely have strong use cases, but realistically spotting these is incredibly difficult - it's a needle in a haystack. The best advice I would pass on to someone newly invested in the space would be to just buy $BTC and $ETH. Ignore the people telling you "this is the next big thing." It'll be big for a week or two, but eventually it probably heads to 0. Stick to the leaders and you'll probably outperform 90% of the active traders in the space.
At this point, my ideal crypto portfolio would look like:
1) $ETH / $BTC (80%)
2) Meme tokens but SOLELY to trade. Holding long is an auto L. $DOGE $PEPE etc. will never hold any sort of value, but they provide an opportunity here and there, plus it's fun and keeps me engaged (10%)
3) Coins that are trying to innovate, but most likely will underperform relative to eth/btc - sol, $HBAR, algorand, avax, etc. (10%)
Posted this mainly for myself to look back on, but am always happy to chat with others to see their experiences over the years.
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