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Altcoin season might never return.

At least, not how you know them. It may be that the next altcoin season will be more of an altcoin glow-up. 

No more aping into random buzzy coins and turning a profit by the bull market top. Only a dozen or so high quality projects might give massive returns — coins with sensible tokenomics, realistic narratives and few enough vested interests that normal people stand to benefit early on.

How depressing.

I have an alternative theory: altcoin season is destined to return at size, purely because “crime season” is inevitable.

There’s been an…

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