Bitcoin is the King of cryptocurrency
King of cryptocurrency? Where does that come from?
You mean Bitcoin is the "King" and whenever there's a king, there's also a queen so who is the queen of cryptocurrency? Funny logic of yours saying Bitcoin is like a "King". Bitcoin is Bitcoin that's all. No king or prince or whatever you want to call to it. Bitcoin is just at the top cryptocurrency in terms of market cap that's all.
What makes an altcoin really trustworthy ? And why ? Please let me know your opinions.
The team? Community? The use-case of it?
We've seen it all. We've seen a team of a particular project that is very, very good, but their project ended up either as a scam project or a dead project. We've seen a project with a huge community that ended up as a dead project. We've also seen new projects that has a good use-case and very helpful to the people, but ended up as a scam.
In short, there are no trustworthy and reliable projects right now especially in altcoins. I want to say those top market cap coins are more trustworthy, but even those altcoins are ending up as a scam. FTX, Luna, Bitconnect in the past, Centra and many more that are now gone because they are a scam projects. Right now, it's Bitcoin that I can consider as a trustworthy and reliable, but altcoins? Even those at the top aren't trustworthy and reliable to me. It's kind of ironic that I'm saying it where in fact, I'm also holding some altcoins.
Well, a promising team, commnuity and utility are not guarantees to the reliability of any crypto project but there is a higher probability to sucess if any project owns these characteristics. You said you are still holding some altcoins now even though you had all these doubts in the beginning. Why ? Because back then, once you made up your mind to invest in altcoins, all things you had to refer to were just the Whitepaper, dev team or some use case that project may apply to. Based on what you saw and believe, you finally made the decision to invest. See my point here ? The whole process was natural and flawless and we can not deny this. Unfortunately most crypto projects failed eventually because somewhere in the process, something went wrong and nobody realized this. My question might need some correction that even a seemingly reliable and trustworthy project does not guarantee any positive outcome eventually.