I truely admire your patience for holding those tokens for such long time. The decision is really up to you. It depends on whether you are lost or profited holding these coins for the last few years.
If I were you, I would sell or dump all of those tokens no matter if I loss or gain, except for Power ledger, Syscoin, Siacoin, Digibyte and 0x. Power ledger, Syscoin are famous for regular pump and dump. Check out the market frequently and sell them at nice prices. Likewise, Sia and Digibyte have increased a lot in the last few days, I don't understand why missed such great opportunities. Only the last one - 0x is a serious project with active developers and good for long term hold.
I guess you got those tokens/coins from bounties or airdrops. If you were to invest in altcoins, there are many more better choices for you. It's ETH with PoS to come, LINK or XTZ with top volumes on Binance or even a centralized shit like XRP (/USDT) would be a better option.
Okay Siacoin, Digibyte and 0x I will keep in mind but out of these three only 0x is still active with its developers?
You sure Power ledger and Syscoin have regular pumps and dumps? As all I see is one ATH pump for both of these coins from the charts.
You mean ETH will get Proof of Stake?
So you suggest me adding LINK & XTZ & XRP to my portfolio. I understand XRP is popular however are LINK & XTZ active with its developers for the long term?
You can find some activities on Siacoin or Digibyte but 0x is the worthiest coin to look into.
Of course you only found one ATH for each coin in accordance with bitcoin's ATH in late 2017. Look at their tiny volumes on Binance and hourly chart then you can see how they were pumped and dumped with 20-30% range each time.
Yes ETH will move to PoS, you can find more information here:
https://github.com/ethereum/eth2.0-specs.
I didn't highly recommend you to invest in such a centralized coin like XRP, it was just a comparison. Meanwhile, LINK and XTZ are two of the best emerging coins. Their volumes are always among top 10 on Binance. You can look into some more traditional coins like LTC, DASH or ZEC but I would go for XTZ and LINK for more profits, risks are higher too.
Can new Altcoins that recently came into the cyptomarket that is 2019/20 surpass old established altcoins from through years back? Does the excitement of a new Altcoin entering the market always bring it in the top 100-200 rankings? I see the old altcoins from the list above being pushed back out of the top 100 rankings that they were originally in back in 2017?
Like I said above, XTZ (ranked 10th) and LINK (12th) are two new emerging coins that climbing onto top 10. Old coins with no new achievements will be kicked out. Some examples of kicked out old coins are NEO, IOTA, ADA...
The choice is yours to make, I think you should keep keeping the coins that appreciates in value after Bitcoin starts surging, I personally like coins that follows the market uptrend whenever such movement happens
Isnt only the popular altcoins that move with the btc uptrend? And rest of the lower cap or lower ranking altcoins get their time to shine when bitcoin price stabilises in a bull market?
When bitcoin moves, altcoins follow its step. Problem is some altcoins follows faster, some slower. Top altcoins always closely follow bitcoin's movement. Yes, lower cap altcoins will be slower but not all of them shine when bitcoin stabalizes.
Your first list seems a bad list and it needs to be removed from your list. I may think to replace it with better altcoins. it looks a better think to replace coins like ubiq or gulden with the solid coin like chainlink or another top 50 CMC.
It caused by those coins are bad coins.
Can the existing market caps of the top 50 ranking coins apart from the top 3 increase by at least 1000-10000% in the next promising bull run or is it only the risk penny stocks with lower market caps, lower rankings bring such rewards when a lot of volume goes into them?
Generally, the lower the market cap is, the easier to pump. From my point of view, it's virtually impossible for a top 50 altcoin to increase by 1000%. Shit coins with tiny market caps tecnically can, but it's been a long time there's no such a coin increases that high after a few days.
P.S: You'd better gather your multiple replies into one long post.
You mentioned LINK & XTZ. I see LINK is a older coin from 2017 that managed to keep in the top 20 rankings. LINK is similar old age to the coins that im holding. Whats promising about LINK that separates it from the coins that im holding that managed to maintain its position in the top 20 through the past bear markets? I see LINK and XTZ are near ATH's now which is a bit risky for me as they might turn out to be like NEO, IOTA or ADA crashing to like 10 or 20 cents or something if this economic collapse brings another bear market.
So why the likes of NEO, IOTA or ADA crashed but LINK and XTZ didnt? The visual difference I can see between them is NEO, IOTA & ADA look like pump and dump coins in the historical charts but LINK and XTZ historical charts look totally different. Bitcoin once looked like a pump and dump coin in 2018 but the current charts changed that outlook. So is it the matter of investing in old altcoins in top 100 that has no history of pump and dump in the charts?
Lastly who will be the market participants be or who will the new investors be that will push the next altcoin bull run? And in the next altcoin bull run will we see new ATH's or will altcoins look like bitcoin charts now?
Will the new investors for the next altcoin bull run be?:
- Unemployed people from this economic collapse?
- People or businesses with government bailed out cheques?
- Middle class people who lost faith in Fiat money and like to hedge in crypto? Obviously they gotta buy BTC first before they trade it for altcoins.
- Rich people or Businesses with capital who like hedge their fiat capital in crypto?
- Big Mega Corporations & Governments who pushing for a cashless society? But then again they will have their own centralized coins or will they adopt the existing XRP coin? How does a centralised coin like XRP Ripple with all the hate its getting keep its no.3 ranking for past years and also through the bear markets?
- Back in 2017 there was no economic collapse like today so im thinking who will be the new investors be coming in for the next altcoin bull run this year or next year or the year after that? Who is buying bitcoin now because it cant be the millions and millions of unemployed people who lost their jobs recently. Who has the capital nowadays thats buying bitcoin now? Back in 2017 there was FOMO with the masses general public in crypto. Now the masses public are unemployed so who will be the new FOMO people with capital to spend be?
Hopefully with answers to above will help me decide whether to hodl or dump