I get it. Maybe all the interesting terms that start with 'smart' impressed me much. I am not invested in any alts personally, and yes, I ve seen this 'pooof' phenomena over the years. I shall no more speak of alts.
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About the top altcoins, they can also disappoint. Ethereum all time high in 2021 was $4891 but its price today is still less than $4000.
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One last comment about the thing that should not be talked about.
The move from POW to POS for ETH was a dick move. Probably that explains why its stalling af. As a little study on cryptography and blockchain, you don't necessarily need any monetized tokens to do contracts. So that's about it I guess.
BTC on the other hand, I see as a new age parallel to reserve value, to top it off it is capped at 21M which will cut any chances of inflation.
But sadly, most people - majority of the middle aged adults relate
BTC to silkroad or terror funding, which ofcourse is there. I hope the new adaptation by govt.s will make big changes towards it. Even though we poop on alts, the biggest scam of all is USDT in my opinion.