The situation with altcoins is still very unclear to me. Personally, I havent been able to identify any coins I truly believe in. Ive never had that experience where I invested in a coin and it exploded by x100 or even x10, even though I constantly follow the news, and try to buy or earn coins that seem promising to me. But I really hope Ill manage to "hack" the system and eventually find my own super coin. As for Bitcoin, now is probably not the best time to accumulate it. Its better to wait, since the price is currently high.
Most of the news of people making 100x of gains from altcoins after investing into it are lies. There are real stories but alot of it being spread on social media are fakers looking for people that'll believe them and follow them to stay updated with trending altcoins to invest in. After they have gotten lots of followers, they'll then use their influence to promote and pump any random undervalued cryptocurrency to get quick profits. Bitcoin is the only coin that can decide how the market is going to be because when Bitcoin is pumping, other cryptocurrency will benefit from this as news begin to spread and more investors enter the market.
Yes, you are right. Most of what is promoted on social media is fake. They do this to gain followers on their social media platforms. They confuse people with any currency of their choice, the name of which we have never heard of. Again, we often see that many new currencies increase by 100%, 200%, 500% after their launch. We see this again and hear on social media that new currencies will be launched. We keep trading again and again because we see with our own eyes and new currencies come. If we trade in it, then in a very short time we will make profit. But later we find that we have come to know about fake currencies. In this we have wasted both our money and time.
But if we invest our money and time in Bitcoin, the king of cryptocurrencies, then we will never lose. Bitcoin is the face of the cryptocurrency world. When the price of Bitcoin decreases, the price of all cryptocurrencies decreases. Again, when the price of Bitcoin increases, the price of all other currencies increases. I am not saying that any currency is bad. But we need to stop this trend of jumping into new currencies after hearing about them on social media.
So first invest in Bitcoin for the long term and then try your luck in other currencies.