Altcoins doesn't actually suck at all. Market price may be low as of now, but its a great way to diversify your portfolio. If you invest everything you have to bitcoin, then it suddenly drops, tendency is that you lose everything you have. And the saddest part there is that you don't know when it'll rise back up again. But if you actually split you money to different alts and btc, that will lessen your chance of losing and definitely more % of earnings for you.