The biggest difference is that you can’t get rich off bitcoin anymore so you invest in altcoins instead and hope you picked the right choice.
However very seldom do they work out. Some got lucky investing early in Ethereum or Solana or Ripple however how many don’t last even a single cycle.
Now this cycle it’s meme coins. You got thousands of meme coins released every day and maybe 1 works out a week. Why do people invest in it? Because if you pick the right token you can 100x instead of gaining like 25% like bitcoin.
I will say this:
bitcoin is expensive try altcoin, then you will end coming back to it.
The picture has shown the difference before bitcoin and altcoins if i have been investing in altcoins before and i saw this image i will stop taking such risk and invest only in bitcoin, there is possibility that bitcoin will keep growing as the year go since the price we are seeing today was not what we saw in some years back, in Altcoins you can loss everything in a minute.