It\u2019s never fun when crypto goes\u00a0down.<\/p>\n
You look at your portfolio losing value by the hour. Hoping prices will turn around. But they just\u00a0don\u2019t.<\/p>\n
All you want to do is press SELL so the pain can be\u00a0over.<\/p>\n
Please don\u2019t. You\u2019ll be selling at the worst possible\u00a0moment.<\/p>\n
The price of bitcoin right now is\u00a0$84,000.<\/p>\n
Data shows BTC could reach $113,000 by\u00a0May.<\/strong><\/p>\n We\u2019ve looked at all the instances when bitcoin crashed by at least 25% during this bull\u00a0market.<\/p>\n Here are the\u00a0results:<\/p>\n In the last two years, this happened five times. And every single time bitcoin price recovered and reached new\u00a0highs.<\/p>\n On average, BTC gained 38% over the next 3-months.<\/strong><\/p>\n If anything, this crypto crash is a huge buying opportunity<\/a>.<\/p>\n The \u201csweet spot\u201d that\u2019s typically produced the biggest\u00a0gains.<\/p>\n BTC prices have followed a \u201c3 up, 1 down\u201d pattern. We call it the bitcoin 4- year\u00a0cycle.<\/p>\n Every fourth year, crypto prices plunge. The last time that happened was in\u00a02022.<\/p>\n Markets then recover slowly, with the biggest gains being handed out in years 2 and 3, as this table of bitcoin\u2019s annual returns\u00a0shows.<\/p>\n Year 2 was 2024, and year 3 is\u00a02025:<\/p>\n In August 2023, when bitcoin was trading for $27,000, I told members of my premium crypto advisory RiskHedge Venture<\/em><\/a> <\/em>it was headed to $150,000.<\/p>\n Bitcoin price more than tripled\u00a0since.<\/p>\n Based on how much the price has already risen, and my analysis of past cycles, I believe BTC could possibly run to $250,000 in\u00a02025.<\/strong><\/p>\n I prefer to own smaller, fast-growing cryptos with higher\u00a0upside.<\/p>\n I first heard about bitcoin in 2011 when it was trading under\u00a0$5.<\/p>\n Didn\u2019t buy any. Big\u00a0mistake.<\/p>\n But from this mistake, I learned to appreciate the unique trait of crypto. We all had the opportunity to buy BTC from the very beginning, when it was only a\u00a0pup.<\/p>\n This is the opposite of how the stock market\u00a0works.<\/p>\n Former cyclist Lance Armstrong was an early investor in Uber (UBER). <\/strong>He invested $100,000 in 2009 when the company was valued at less than $4\u00a0million.<\/p>\n He would see gains on his initial stake of around 25,000X\u200a\u2014\u200awhich would turn $100,000 into $2.5\u00a0billion.<\/p>\n That\u2019s great for Lance. But he only got that opportunity because he was a rich, connected celebrity. Although an average person could have mathematically turned $1,000 into $25 million investing in Uber, no one did. Uber wasn\u2019t available to invest in for regular folks until it IPO\u2019d in\u00a02019.<\/p>\n By that time\u2026 it was already a giant\u00a0company.<\/p>\n Bitcoin went live in early 2009. That very same day, investors could buy it for fractions of a\u00a0cent.<\/p>\n Most cryptos work this way. Their tokens launch alongside their businesses on Day 1 when they\u2019re tiny, early-stage startups. It\u2019s like investing in Steve Jobs or Bill Gates tinkering in their garages, long before Apple (AAPL) or Microsoft (MSFT)\u00a0IPO\u2019d.<\/p>\n Crypto lets ordinary investors truly get in on the ground\u00a0floor.<\/p>\n You notice how many of the people who got rich in crypto were nowhere near Wall\u00a0Street?<\/p>\n You\u2019ve surely seen the kids driving Lamborghinis\u2026 or the 20-year-olds who turned a couple thousand dollars into a couple million dollars in\u00a0crypto.<\/p>\n Think about how unique that is. Typically, big early-stage gains flow straight to Wall Street because it controls the deals and access. The rich get\u00a0richer.<\/p>\n In crypto, it\u2019s different.<\/p>\n Anyone could buy Ethereum (ETH) when it launched in 2014 for 30 cents. Today, ETH is trading around $2,300. Where else can a regular investor throw $100 into an early-stage startup and see it balloon to $7.5\u00a0million?<\/p>\n It\u2019s the same for Solana (SOL)<\/a>, which launched in early 2020 at less than $1. It\u2019s up 140X since\u00a0then.<\/p>\n But you don\u2019t want to buy just any small crypto. I wouldn\u2019t touch 99% of them\u2026 Especially meme\u00a0coins<\/a>.<\/p>\n But the other 1% have the potential to change the\u00a0world.<\/p>\n I just released a report writing about 3 early-stage cryptos to buy in\u00a02025<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n They all have real business models making real\u00a0money.<\/p>\n One of them is disrupting Google. Second one built an Airbnb for AI chips. And the third does business with big brands like Disney, Netflix, HBO, Apple, Nike,\u00a0etc.<\/p>\n Best of all, thanks to the recent crypto crash, they\u2019re all trading at a discount.<\/p>\n Click here to access the full\u00a0report.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Stephen McBride, Chief Analyst at <\/em>RiskHedge<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n 3 cryptos to buy during this crash.<\/a> was originally published in Coinmonks<\/a> on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Bitcoin (BTC) just crashed\u00a025%. It\u2019s never fun when crypto goes\u00a0down. You look at your portfolio losing value by the hour. Hoping prices will turn around. But they just\u00a0don\u2019t. All you want to do is press SELL so the pain can be\u00a0over. Please don\u2019t. You\u2019ll be selling at the worst possible\u00a0moment. The price of bitcoin right […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48473"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Big picture: We\u2019re in what has historically been the best time to own\u00a0crypto.<\/h3>\n
But I wouldn\u2019t buy\u00a0bitcoin.<\/h3>\n
Cryptos are different. They basically \u201cIPO\u201d on day\u00a0one.<\/h4>\n
The point is that the crypto market is still so small and so new, there\u2019s plenty of room for exponential growth.<\/h4>\n