My question now is, since this bull run has been tagged with major speculations, how can a potential investor navigate his or her way through a long-term, meaningful and financially impactful projects as against those riding on just the hypes?
Before every bull run happens there is always signs because if I could remember before the US election there was speculation that the price will hit 100k but it was a very difficult situation for people to believe because they were trying everything possible to invest more that is for those that actually believes in bitcoin. We all know that the price of bitcoin is always determined by price its either its going up or down they are always determined by news and hype and even before hitting 100k there was serious hype.
Buy the number one trusted coin, so too say bitcoin. Big institutions will not look into many choices since its hard to buy with a lot of comolication on token legality so pick a coin that is massively accepted and btc has etf. So this is a wise choice for investors or big groups. If you are retailer investor then go explore your options on some major and hype altcoins that got solid narrative and good market sentiment.
When it comes to buying of coin there is no need to want to choose only bitcoin but you can do exploration that is what they are there for because when you focus on only bitcoin you will be limiting your self so there is a lot for us to explore but if you don't want to explore then the best thing will just be for you to invest in bitcoin, and for it to be easy you can just hold. And save your self a lot of stress. But you want to embrace stress you must even be ready to learn.
I agree holding Bitcoin is the safest though but trying other safe altcoins is also good as long as the person has done their own research.