I don't mess with many altcoins to be honest, only a handful. I like bitcoin because I think it is too embedded globally at this point to fail. So, when you have something not likely to fail and has 10-20x potential over the coming years, it sounds like a pretty great investment to me, even if some altcoins blow by it in percentage terms.
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