🪙 What is Altcoin Season?
Altcoin Season (short for “alternative coin season”) is a period in the crypto market when altcoins (any crypto other than Bitcoin) outperform Bitcoin in terms of price growth and returns.
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📊 How Do You Know It’s Altcoin Season?
✅ BTC Dominance Drops
– If Bitcoin dominance falls, that means money is flowing from BTC into altcoins.
– Major altcoins start moving up faster than Bitcoin.
✅ Meme Coins & Low-Caps Boom
– Retail investors jump into small coins, causing big pumps (like $PEPE, $WIF, $FLOKI).
✅ Altcoin Season Index > 75
– Blockchaincenter.net tracks it. A score over 75 = true altcoin season.
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📈 Why It Happens:
Bitcoin stabilizes or cools down after a strong rally
Traders take profits from BTC and rotate into altcoins
News or hype fuels momentum in smaller coins
Social media + memes amplify FOMO
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📌 Example:
In 2021, Bitcoin topped around $64k, then coins like:
$SOL went from $30 to $250+
$ADA went from $0.10 to $3
$DOGE pumped from $0.008 to $0.73
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