Chasing the Next Big Thing vs. Sticking with Bitcoin \ stacker news ~bitcoin

Every cycle in Bitcoin brings a new wave of people convinced they’ve found the “next big thing” to outperform BTC. Sometimes it’s altcoins, sometimes it’s NFTs, sometimes it’s DeFi yield farms promising insane returns.

The pattern is always the same: early hype, insane growth, then a brutal crash that leaves most newcomers wrecked while the earliest adopters walk away richer. Meanwhile, Bitcoin just keeps producing blocks every 10 minutes, immune to the drama.

I’m not saying there’s never innovation outside of Bitcoin, some experiments are genuinely interesting, but the “get rich faster than BTC” mentality usually ends up being a shortcut to losing sats.

In the long run, slow and steady has outperformed almost every hype cycle. It’s boring… and that’s exactly why it works.

What do you think? Are the side bets worth the risk, or is Bitcoin the only real game in town?

10 sats \ 1 reply \ @028559d218 10 Aug

I think AI posts need to go the way of the dodo. Just keep paying to post with zero sats in return that'll go great.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @claos545 OP 10 Aug

If AI posts need to go the way of the dodo, maybe so should all low-effort hot takes. Quality isn’t tied to the topic, it’s tied to the effort and insight behind it. Banning AI posts won’t fix low-signal content it just narrows the conversation.