Exactly, the majority of the cap of the whole cryptocurrency market is concentrated just on the top 20 coins to the point we can disregard what happens to any coin outside of it as it is not of importance for the market at all due to their size, however while many people see in crash only negative effects the good part of a crash is that a great deal of those coins disappear, unfortunately since it is so easy to create new coins we see other coins emerging really quickly to replace the ones that disappeared.
Then again, one of the most shameless scams in cryptocurrency history (Bitconnect - the crypto Ponzi scheme) got to be in the top 10, and not everybody sits there.
Yeah, you can argue it didn't last long. But it got to be huge, and a lot of people lost their shirts on it. It's true it even showed the classic pyramid on its whitepaper, so it could be argued that those who fell for it ultimately deserved it, because the writing was on the wall. Then again, how many of us can honestly say they never fell for that stuff?
Meanwhile, the point I heard (and the reason I started the thread) is precisely that there are way too many currencies on the market. Right now, CMC lists 14378, which is definitely a lot, in a world with about 200 fiat currencies.
So I keep on reading and learning on fundamentals research, and how to avoid being scammed, or ultimately falling for a coin with no future. Trading seems to be a somewhat "easier" (for lack of a better word) way to start, as the risk of holding the currencies for a shorter period seems to be lower, and there seems to be more ways to somehow minimize that risk, but I keep asking myself if I'm not overreacting.
Am I?
Fakhrulenclix good point. But how many of those people will actually see a profit? True, Bitcoin has shown to be strong and reliable, and today it's like fishing in a fish tank. But the currencies that are in that range are just a handful, in an ever-growing market. To which extent is that sustainable?