Simply put, Bitcoin can be purchased and held indefinitely. However, the altcoins market is not like that and there are risks such as a sudden drop in the price of a token that cannot be recovered later. In my opinion there are many coins that have been in the market for a long time but their token price is dead.
Altcoins can also be purchased and held indefinitely but not all alternative cryptocurency because many of them aren't worth it because of their poor design and only increasing in price because of their community hyping them. some altcoins has been in the market close to when Bitcoin started becoming very popular. Altcoins like Dogecoin has been in the market very long.
Altcoins like Ethereum has also been in the market very long and some of the new altcoins that has been created will also last for a very long time. BNB will be one of the coins because the CEO is working very hard to make the project one of the best in the industry. Altcoins has more potential than bitcoin because altcoins can increase more than Bitcoin in bull market.
We have many altcoins that are currently trading and popular that are bad but we have some good ones that can be profitable and can make you rich in a very short time therefore we shouldn't call every altcoins in the market bad for investments, what we have to do is to filter the market and select the good ones and invest, both altcoins and Bitcoin can make us profits.
But these are the things which we do commonly sees and been suggested;
- Diverification
- Dont put all of your eggs in one basket
- Minding about Bitcoin does give out only few returns
- Risk taking for you to have chances on earning or gaining profits higher
If you are that someone who doesnt really like to take up risks and would really be loving on playing on the safer side then Bitcoin would really be your most viable option for you would be able to stick.
If you are that someone who doesnt really like to earn less despite of waiting for so long, then you would really be definitely looking on other angles on which you would really be that trying to look on altcoins since
these things could really give out that kind of condition on which you could potentially be able to earn up without waiting up for too long but of course it would be depending on what project you are in
and what coins you are tending to make up some short trades.