At this time, investing is preferred. For you to be rich in cryptocurrency, you have to put your eyes when the price has gone down. Investing in such time is always profiting because price might have touched the buttom and getting ready to leave the bear mode.
Collecting and investing is quite similar, bear market are supposed to be the stop light of investors to choose short term coins, and is better to buy and hodl long term coins such as bitcoin, ethereum or in other terms the top five coins in the market. If bear market last for a week then an uptrend will come after it just like up and down but do not know when.