Yes, I did say that blindly holding just Bitcoin is not worth it. It's always a bad move to move into an asset class without diversifying that part of your portfolio, unless you literally don't care about potential losses or missing out on profits elsewhere.
Blindly holding Bitcoin and a couple of other things certainly isn't for everyone but it has served me extremely well so far.
The thing that separates this from almost every other 'investment' is the absolute unknowability of its eventual fate. The people who end up penniless and insane via crypto are the ones who spout the most confident predictions and opinions which almost always are total clueless shit.
I was already diversified before I got in and there's certainly not been any worthwhile profit elsewhere that I've missed. That's partially down to markets but also my own indifference to investigating other things.
I'm sure it has served just about anyone who ever held Bitcoins and didn't sell them (or lose access to their wallet) so far. But that's still very dangerous and could turn ugly really quickly. Which is fine, it's the high risk involved that allows Bitcoin to be highly profitable, but we shouldn't start fooling ourselves into thinking it is or ever has been in any way a safe investment.
And yeah, it's quite easy to spot the future losers from miles away. They might get lucky for a while, but will almost inevitably end up shooting themselves in the foot somewhere down the road.
Yes, I did say that blindly holding just Bitcoin is not worth it. It's always a bad move to move into an asset class without diversifying that part of your portfolio, unless you literally don't care about potential losses or missing out on profits elsewhere.
Well it has so far been worth it for every single person who has ever done it, just sayin'.
And diversifying in crypto is a bit different than diversifying in say the stock market. Because bitcoin is THE coin. There's no one stock that everyone is trying to get, the way Bitcoin is for cryptos. Not saying diversifying is bad or anything, but when it comes to crypto diversifying into altcoins raises the risk of the investment rather than lowers it. With that increased risk sure you could make even a lot more money than just holding bitcoin, but because of the increased risk you could also lose some of your bitcoin.
Holding bitcoin has so far for everyone always been worth it. Investing in altcoins carries much higher risk and works out for some but doesn't work out for others.
In crypto its bitcoin for safe massive profits, altcoins for risky possibly even higher profits but also possible loses. 99% of the altcoins out there are not gonna go anywhere long term (I'd certainly call that risky which is the opposite of what diversification is supposed to give you), and at this point in time the only coin we know is likely headed for major adoption is bitcoin (the safe bet in crypto).
Just because it worked out in the past doesn't mean it will keep working out in the future. And it definitely wasn't obvious in the past either. Don't get me wrong, I'm heavily pro crypto, but it's still one of the riskiest assets that currently exist.
And altcoins carrying higher risks (which is only partially true) is rewarded with greater upside potential. It balances out.
And just because everyone knows about only Bitcoin today, doesn't mean this can't change very quickly in the future.
In the near future we will be seeing more and more serious and successful companies that started up through the blockchain, regardless of whether or not they directly implement any of its technology in their business. And people will start gravitating towards them in greater numbers as they start proving successful. This will inevitably get to a point where Bitcoin is left largely untouched by success stories in the altcoin scene, unless Bitcoin is directly required to invest in said companies.
So far it doesn't seem like Bitcoin will lose its position as the "crypto gatekeeper", which means that it will keep benefiting from altcoin investors. But that could change quite rapidly in this market, which makes it important to hedge against that very real risk, even it's not extremely large.