Everyone on this sub is always looking for the next big win, but we rarely talk about the stuff that is slowly dying. If you had to pick one project currently in the Top 20 that you think will be completely irrelevant or 'dead' in two years, which one is it? I’m not talking about small scams—I mean the big ones that people still defend even though the tech is old and nobody is actually using it anymore. Which one are you staying far away from and why?
All memes
That’s putting it very mildly. 99 out of 100 altcoins will never see ath again, and that’s a conservative estimate.
Time to short pippin then ?
DOT. The only reason you still see people bullposting about it is because they're paying like 50 people $3k-5k each (paid by dumping free DOT) to spam social media.
If you're bullposting DOT but didn't get paid, that means you're the suckers that got reeled in by them.
Any other way to scout coins that seem like shills? How can I spot them?
How to you know this? Is it really that way?
do you know who is getting paid, and if there are any traces of these payments somewhere? just curious
I just unstaked today and plan to sell everything for a 70% loss a month from now
Honestly, the real “dead man walking” projects are the ones with no users, no dev activity, and no reason to exist beyond old hype. If nothing’s being built and no one’s using it, it’s probably just slowly fading away.
That's the definition of loopring
MultiversX - EGLD. Once Elrond. Rebranded to the Meta narrative, as that died. Will never get the adoption it needs to survive.. just a slow painful death.. to sub $1.
Mincu brothers took our money
Someone did. My EGLD & MEX at one point had a paper value of £250k… now same amount..now less than £2k….
A friend of mine is completely brainwashed about EGLD, he started brainwashing me about it four years ago... He was so annoying, pushing me all the time to buy some, that I stopped talking to him.
Many still are deluded about it. You only have to look on their Telegram group.. where just because they come up with a new name for the next upgrade..like Supernova that will deliver less than 1 nanosecond of something finality… it’s like that will make a difference.. it won’t…
It’s a dead project…99.99% all crypto projects will die out. BTC, ETH & a few others will survive… but yep.. EGLD holders amongst the most deluded.. SOL came out on top.. & even that is struggling in this market.
Tia celestia. Project has zero potential
Xrp
It’s not a honey pot in the classical sense of coded rugs, and it’s not illegal… but let’s be real… owning about 40% of the supply, and selling about 300 million per month? That’s a honey pot dog
Best way to phrase it: it’s a structural liquidity trap for retail under a tradefi aligned model
Neo. Lrc. Damm some many previous run alts.
Cardano. Completely unnecessary chain. Just utterly dead in the water versus Ethereum.
It underperformed this cycle i feel you.. but its not anywhere near dead, there’s high dev activity on it and i think tech wise its even better than eth.. did you try staking / defi on eth ? Network / gas fees are absolutely ridiculous, you have to basically give away ur eth in exchange for a smart contract or nft, unlike cardano POS tech lets you stake/ defi from ur own wallet, coins never leave ur wallet. Its a much safer tech than eth however the hype is on eth so maybe if ur into trading just stick to the hype
I would like to see this "high dev activity".
Want to see high dev activity? Come to Solana.
Afyer that, then you can say Cardano has high dev activity.
Both of them are at the top of the list. I think the guy was just pointing out that the dev activity on cardano means that it's not dead
I understand.
I want to share ny experience as a developer.
Building for Cardano is Hell. If you are doing it, it's because they are forcing you.
+1
probably cardano tbh. they took forever to get smart contracts working and by then sol and newer chains like sei already had thriving ecosystems. momentum matters and theirs is gone
I'm holding some cardano, just because the last time crypto was in politics ADA was being championed. I expect it to pop with the clarity act and speculate it will hit over $1 again.
That said, I've been averaging down for a good while now and might just end up a bagholder. Who knows.
I'd go with Bitcoin. The lack of a clear roadmap for quantum resistance will kill this cryptocurrency.
I think two years is a bit aggressive but I agree with you it’s a dead man walking.
Not a slight or insult to BTC in anyway but it’s dino-tech at this point. Bitcoin was very influential in getting crypto started but the energy cost for transactions, the fees, the time delays… it’s really not competitive on any of those metrics. Likewise, it is limited in ways that later blockchains are not (Ethereum was a trailblazer in introducing ERC-20 & ERC-721 although many blockchains have similar capacity now).
I just do not see a real use case for BTC outside of the recognition from 1st mover advantage and the bubble created by people who view it as a money machine. I think it will collapse but I’m thinking more of a 5-10 year period. Bitcoin was really cool, but it was ultimately a trailblazer that helped clear the path for later innovations.
It was funny seeing these comments in 2016, and each year it just gets funnier. There’s been thousands revolutionary bitcoin-killers already, every single one of them is dead, and low-tech dinosaur bitcoin is stronger than ever, but it will just go away any day now, you’ll see.
I’m talking about functionality not price.
The price movement that you are referencing is what I was referring to with the “1st mover advantage & bubble” statement. I do not deny that BTC is possibly going to continue growing for a period…. My point is that BTC is these are the only things BTC has going for it.
Bitcoin sucks in almost everyway and that’s alright. Black powder is a poor propellant by modern standards but man it was one hell of an invention. Metaphorically, we are seeing smokeless powder, TNT, and gelignite make waves. Bitcoin still has some tone on its clock but it’s simply not able to keep up beyond the fact it has brand recognition.
Not trying to spread fud but that tech is old. Even the players we see today may fade before the space stabilizes and a handful arise as the leaders on blockchain tech.
Totally disagree man. It’s perfect balanced tech. Its a store of value. The best ever created. Nothing special. Nothing which tries to solve complicated things nobody asked for. It’s just the hardest money we have right now and it will suck everything in.
Where in the white paper did it mention BTC being a store of value?
The sole force driving Bitcoin up is the belief that the price will continue to go up. The moment that sentiment changes the price drops because BTC solves nothing.
Blockchain technology can do really cool stuff but largely in the sense of record-keeping. There is a strong case for utility in the cryptocurrency idea but it is likely that this bubble will pop like all before it and when all the hype is done; the handful left standing will be the companies that created value.
I hope your conviction rewards you but I have my money on history repeating itself.
Yeah, I disagree. But I don’t have the time or wish to argue now. Have fun
Does BTC follow the white paper or has it been corrupted to ensure miners profits over BTC function?
Iso coins in general.
They all sound amazing on paper but reality is that nothing stops institutions to make their own currency/crypto/whatever to allow fast trading across borders and locally.
They just don't do it because they make far far far far more money with people using their shitty other services.
And especially in the west if retail wants to use crypto for payments, they are drained with fees to buy them.
So it is generally cheaper to just use regular methods to transfer money unless you already own the coin and have paid fees one way or another making it not worth it most of the time.
BTC
99% of all of them
Filecoin
Anything where the main team is no longer actively developing the product, has no roadmap, milestones or never meets targets in a dead roadmap, has no user developer activity, has few connections with potential real world use and outside businesses.
All of them except eth
All the dino coins like ADA, XRP, DOT. They all have basically no users and provide nothing of value in the new cycles
Basically all of them except BTC, ETH, SOL.
Anything’s that’s not BTC ETH or SOL
All of them.
0 real world utility besides the potential to make a profit.
All altcoins yes. Bitcoin not.
BTC has completely failed all of the objectives it was originally created for, it was supposed to be a decentralized, peer to peer payment system and it was transformed into a centralized ponzi scheme.
Also the entire Blockchain technology is basically useless in the real world, it's basically a solution in search of a problem.
No company or government uses it, and never will.
DeFi can't compete with regular finance because the fees are too high and waiting times are too long, not to mention that you risk losing everything each time you transact, which is an unacceptable level of risk.
The only thing keeping this entire market afloat is hype based on the hope of getting rich quick.
It’s amazing how confidently wrong some people can be. Literally takes a 5 second google search to disprove just about everything you just said. “No company or government uses it” bro wake up it’s not 2014 🤣🤣
Please disprove me.
Which big company or government uses Blockchain tech, and for what purposes?
And, please refrain from using AI sklop about companies that use in-house built tech, I'm talking about using the infrastructure of any publicly traded crypto project.
Governments are turning to blockchain for public good—here’s how | Brookings
Georgia Partners with Hedera to Explore On-Chain Land Registry | Live Bitcoin News
Powys company DOVU to run $1 billion US farming scheme | County Times
Press Release: PayPal Drives Crypto Payments into the Mainstream, Reducing Costs and Expanding Global Commerce - Jul 28, 2025
OCBC kicks off $1 billion digital US commercial paper programme | Reuters
Visa Launches Stablecoin Settlement for Banks. Circle Stock Is the Big Winner. - Barron's
Ethereum Leads Wall Street Tokenization Race as Mass Adoption Looms
Just copy and paste into google and read the articles for yourself. Forgot to turn them into links
Kaspa: - $210k daily costs to secure it - $57.88 daily fee income - 6,500 daily users, but that's only its own mining pools and the owners of its > 20k ASIC mining rigs being paid out to - Miner coinbase-reward inflation income halves annually
$KAS is the absolute definition of a dead coin walking.
Yes - I know it's not in the top 20, but it's simply the best example of a zombie. $XRP if you insist on one in the top 20 - zero bank adoption, even though that's its target Use Case.
I worked at 3 crypto exchanges including the largest one since 2017.
All of crypto is a dead man walking imo. Useless technology used by no one but speculators, scammers, viral bandwagon "investors", criminals, and sanctioned countries.
Is there money to be made in the short term? Absolutely. I have a bot actively doing it's thing because.
But I no longer believe in the technology and work in traditional finance now at a big 5 and deeply understand both worlds.
I fully expect a house of cards collapse. No one is the big 5 finance even talks about this shit outside of offering products to appease the crowd. It won't be implemented anywhere. GS, MS, JP, no one. Hardly a mention internally.
That’s weird because institutions like Blackrock disagree with you. Look into their positions and views on tokenization of real world assets. You are clueless stick to your traditional finance and belief in dollars.
What about blockchain technology in general?
Cardano, Avax, Dot and a whole host of previous big flyers
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