Every bag holder in crypto never understood the risk. Crypto—especially altcoins is for speculation only. If you wanted to build wealth through investing, crypto should have been the last asset you invested in. The market isn’t going anywhere, but you must exit or at least take profits when speculation returns, because it eventually always does.

For example, if you wanted to build wealth, you had plenty of opportunities over the past two years to exit with profits and move into blue chips. If you made that shift each time altcoins pumped—in February/March 2024 and December 2024 and moved into blue chips like AMZN, GOOG, NVDA, or even back into BTC or ETH (the blue chips of crypto), you would have preserved your gains and even grown them further.

That’s the issue with retail bag holders in crypto: they don’t shift their risk. They wait for “altcoin season” and hope to get back to break-even or to make 50x 100x returns. When in reality, all you had to do was rotate while you were in profit over the past two years and buy what’s leading the market now. You’d still be 80% better off than the majority.

That’s the beauty of this market: you can invest a few hundred bucks, make a few thousand, and then reinvest into market leaders to preserve your gains. From there, you can build real wealth—or even turn it into a full-time job.

I hope this is a lesson for anyone who wants to stay long-term in the investment market and avoid being stuck holding altcoin bags ever again. When you make money from altcoins, rotate into blue chips and build your wealth from there. Don’t get married to altcoins—you’ve seen how they can move sideways for months or years, just waiting for speculation to return for a month or two.