In fact, it is very difficult to identify whether an altcoin is a shitcoin when it is still being developed. However, there are several things that are identical that these altcoins might become shitcoins in the future. The things I noticed were that there were no recent developments in the altcoin. Even the admin is silent and never goes online or communicates with the community. In addition, the quality of the product has decreased drastically, and the price of the altcoin tends to decrease over time.
Altcoins are considered as shitcoins when a coin is in the market but the trading volume and marketcap are low and its price is highly volatile then it is too risky for investment then that coin is called shitcoin. And Shitcoins are slowly dying from the market. so those who invest in Shitcoin have the possibility that their investment will become zero at some point. so it is better to invest in Coinmarketcap's top 50 coins to avoid shitcoins. Because Shitcoins can hardly come to the top position in terms of market cap.
Of course, to identify a shitcoin, looking at market capitalization is the main thing we have to pay attention to, and if the capitalization is very low, for example the capitalization is less than 100 million or lower than that. This is a shitcoin which means not much money is invested in it, and this shows that shitcoins are not a good or questionable investment.
And if over time the market capitalization continues to decline or even falls significantly, that is a bad sign and it will eventually die. And having top atlcoin is the best choice especially top and oldest altcoin.