Last week got an Ignition cashout for several grand at around $14,150 and I was thinking is good I'll just make a few bucks off it when it hits $15k and sell.. well that play obv hasn't worked so now I'm holding on with the bumpy ride ahead.
As mentioned several times in here the other coins success and demise are based on what bitcoin is doing. Some of these crash so hard way worse then BTC is doing when it dips but when it thrives these coins can really go up faster. This is why you hear all the hardcore enthusiasts begging you to hold on to your BTC because they either have so much of it or a lot in alt coins too where they need you to just buckle up for the ride.
Last week I had a transaction tied up for a bit cuz I didn't go with the expensive fee and dropped it slightly then an hour later they were wanting much more to send it which didn't help. I waited about 15 hours and went on one of the bitcoin talk forums where people will try to push it for free. A guy did and I got confirmations rather quickly but my fee I paid was much more then what some people were only trying to pay.
When I clicked on a few links from a thread last week I couldn't believe how cheap some people are. I wish I would have saved the blockchain link to post it here but one guy had over 40 bitcoins tied up for 10 days because he set what was equivalent to a 50 cent fee on the transaction. I mean just wow at trying to send what at the time is like $600k worth of btc and lowering the fee that low. Even Druff is going to pay the suggest rate to be sure he gets that much money quickly.