A lot of people, even the experienced guys, are still stuck in that conjecture and its rather unfortunate. Like you explained in one of the threads, using the term cryptocurrency to represent all digital assets including Bitcoin without adding some clarifications/distinction could send a terrible signal to the uniformed.
Someone could be swayed to buy into a shitcoin, only to loose his money and blame cryptocurrency for his loss and someone might take note of this, only to resist and criticise any discussion of Bitcoin siting that cryptocurrency is scam as many feel comfortable saying.
I am yet to see someone who bought Bitcoin that is regretting but there are countless number of terrible stories about losses in shitcoins and I posted about mine yesterday when I checked coinmarketcap only to realise that a token that raised over $8 million in sales died and left us with a bag of shit.
So, I feel it is very important we make that clarification when using the word "cryptocurrency"
Sometimes I feels so pettied go those who are yet to understand the difference between this whole concepts of investment, well from the time I understood the language bitcoin and altcoin I knew there are something phishy and this often happened to those who are engulfed with greed and profits making. I began to understand that altcoin is more riskier to venture or told for a longer period of time because as you keep holding the more the owners keeps money and when they successful sold out their holding then they have no options than to leave an empty token that is cheaply called coins to the hands of investment, that is why you fell among those with worthless tokens trying to hold for long to make a huge profit.
But believe me if that your funds which you used to invest in that project was channelled to bitcoin investment I bet you wouldn't have been this emptied with your tokens or with your investment, so maybe next you can at least learned from your mistakes and I believe you can also makes some corrections and that could enable you to gear yourself up should you have any one related or wanting to know about altcoin you would give them a good counseling concerning the theorems of altcoin and it modifications. That is why whenever JayJuanGee speaks he talks with experience and from his comments you will learn the truth.
We are all started on being a noob and this is why its not really that shocking that mistakes and errors are something that common whether because of those wrong information been read up or really just that simply blindly following on something which it is really just that too good to be true.We are really that easily getting hooked into something specially when we are just starting up. Sooner or later once you do have that sufficient experience in the market then you would really be definitely be able to gradually understand on how this market works and behaves and with that then you do already have the idea on what you should gonna do.
Investing or dealing up with this market is risky and something not that easy and this is why dealing with caution and making use of your own common sense would be the key on surviving yourself into this one.