Tempora mutantur, et nos mutamur in illis — times change, and we change with them. But some altcoins — no. They are simply dead.
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It’s very simple. Altcoins are dead. And that’s… wonderful.
I’m not talking about the entire market right now, but about that huge pile of tokens you saw in 2021, didn’t manage to buy at the 'bottom', bought at the 'bounce', and sold at -90%… or are still holding. 😶🌫️
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💀 Who killed the altcoins?
Not FTX.
Not SEC.
No fiat restrictions from banks.
Altcoins killed:
• Bots that pump the chart in the first 15 seconds after listing.
• Narratives that live shorter than stories on TikTok.
• Influencers explaining why your purchase is a 'gem', while they have already sold.
And the main thing — millions of projects without a single product.
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📉 CMC is no longer a market, it’s a graveyard
In 2017, there were about 1300 coins on CoinMarketCap.
In 2021 — already more than 9000.
And today — more than 18 million tokens. Not coins — tokens. Just think about it.
It wasn’t so easy to get on CMC before. You had to build something, pass a check, at least a basic validation.
Now — just pay from $5000, upload a template on BSC or Solana, get bots for the first wave of trading — and voila, you have a 'gem'.
But all this noise does not add liquidity to the market. It just spreads it out. And this leads to the inevitable:
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🧠 Altcoins are not dead. The rules have just changed.
The cycle is not broken. An altseason will come again. But...
An altcoin no longer lives for years. It’s a campaign, a flash mob, a window of 48 hours.
Holding the 'top of 2017' and waiting for a new ATH? Forget it. No one remembers it anymore.
In the new market, 'the fittest do not survive, but the most adaptable'. It’s like TikTok — whoever made the meme first gathered the audience.
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✅ Why is this good?
Because dead projects no longer hold liquidity.
• Funds do not invest in garbage.
• Traders are withdrawing money from 'zombie tokens'.
• Attention focuses on something real.
When the garbage clears the space — new projects will have a chance. And not just a struggle for volume with 18 million fast runs.
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🤷♂️ What should you do?
1. Review your portfolio. If it has a token from 2021 and the website is no longer accessible — that’s not an investment, that’s a memory.
2. Stop waiting for a 'comeback' of a dead project. This is not a Netflix series. No one is coming back from the grave.
3. Start thinking like an early user. Being first in a new narrative = opportunity.
4. Don’t buy 'at the highs' just because someone said “this is the next SOL”.
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🎯 Conclusion:
Altcoins are dead — those that did not make sense.
And that’s good. Because only those who can still show something remain.
Or at least live longer than two pages on Twitter.
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