My advice to newbies reading this now is to stick to Bitcoin. The reward to risk may not be much but their investment will be intact and in expected increase. However, anyone investing should invest what they can afford to lose. Don't over risk it.
The problem with newbies is that they want quick money. They don't have the patience required as a bitcoin holder. I was talking to somebody the other day and the person was saying Bitcoin would only give you X2 of your investment while some altcoins would give you X10 of your investment.
I made him understand that most of those coins they were investing in will remain shitcoins and his money would be lost.
People just hop on the train of any new trendy coins and hope they worth something in the future.
Altcoins that are worth something would only work for the short term but when you want a long-term investment, Bitcoin it is.
So what do you think about ETH since it is also an altcoin? Even though ETH is already much bigger than many other altcoins, I believe it will still bring us bigger profits than bitcoin in the upcoming bull season. Furthermore, I don't think ETH will become useless or die soon because at least it has existed since 2014 until now and has always brought great profits to many investors.
In general, not all altcoins give good returns but also not all are scams or will die after a while. Investing in altcoins isn't so bad if you know how, and you will be able to grow your capital significantly if you know how to optimize your altcoins investment.
I made a big profit on my altcoin investment when bitcoin most recently hit 44k, I converted part of the profit to bitcoin and it was a long term investment for 2030 not for 2025 upcoming. I don't understand why so many people miss out on that opportunity.