I scraped together the little money I have and dove into bitcoin. My ambition is to make money trading altcoins and keep a bitcoin reserve. Can I even make it anywhere starting with such a small amount of money?
Just find a Bitcoin ATM, buy $25 worth of Bitcoin, then hold ( hodl ) it for 5 years.
Nope, This is not recommended and not advisable. Apparently, Bitcoin is rising and price dip is highly possible and it may result into your loss, This move have high risk. As for me, I recommend and suggest that you can grow your $25 by trading altcoins, it may take time but surely Altcoins will grow specially to the altcoins that can easily be affected by Bitcoin's price, there are lot of Altcoins that have low prices, you can buy them but make sure you study everything on that coin and also make sure to know the risks of it.