If I had to start over from $0… here’s how I’d be a crypto millionaire in 12 months

Becoming a cryptocurrency millionaire starting with zero is a 100% still possible I believe. But for every one cryptocurrency millionaire that makes a million, there's probably 99 others that lose everything. So how you do it, the practices you implement, and the patience and the key principles you have mean everything. My name's Austin. I've been in this space for nine years. I've spoken to some of the biggest names on the biggest stages all about cryptocurrency. I've dedicated my life to this space. And if I were starting with zero dollars today with the goal of becoming a crypto millionaire in 12 months, here is exactly how I would do it. Meaning, here are the mistakes that I've made in the past that I've learned from, the advice, the principles I'm taking into 2027 and beyond, and of course, the the coins and the trends that I am allocating everything into. Now, keep in mind, I'm not a financial adviser. I cannot see the future. I have no clue what the Bitcoin price will do tomorrow, let alone 6 months from now, let alone 12 months from now. So, it's very important to make your own decisions. Do your own research. These are just my opinions how I would do it. And to start off, if I realistically wanted to make a million dollars as fast as I could in cryptocurrency, you first need to have realistic expectations on where this space could go. People screaming a million dollars per Bitcoin. I think is achievable, but it's not going to happen next year, right? Let's let's look at the data and history that tells us where realistically do we see this space evolving in the next 12 months and what that means for something like Bitcoin, a digital gold or an Ethereum. And I think it really helps to look at the total crypto market cap, meaning how much money came into the space in 2017. That was the top of the cycle at the time. how much money came into the space next in 2021 from the bottom into 2021 and then how much more money came into the space in 2025 and then what's changed how much money could come in in the next year. So if we look at the data we see in 2017 the amount of money that at the top came into crypto at the time was over $700 billion an incredible amount. That's when Bitcoin went from just a couple thousand a few years ago up to almost $20,000 per coin. Incredible. That was also the first altcoin season. A lot of people said at the time that well the big the big bubble just happened. Crypto probably won't get bigger. We saw the big one pop off. And what happened? No, we were overvalued at the time. There was a lot of garbage in the system. We just had to flush the deadwood out and make room for the new growth. So what happened? Bitcoin over the next couple years consolidated, found more of a fair fair value. went under fair value and at its lowest point was around let's say uh mid 100 one billion mid 100 billion so it went from 100 billion and then wow a new wave of capital came into the market driven by NFTts driven by the debasement trade right they printed a bunch of money and the entire market cap went to almost $3 trillion how much of an increase was that was about a 19x X again from around the bottom to the tippy top, the entire crypto market cap went up 19 times. So, Bitcoin got a a big part of that, but some of the altcoins went up way way harder. And of course, what happened at the top of 2021? It was it was the big bubble. Everybody said, "Okay, this was the big one. The market's done. This was the money has now learned their lesson. We're not going to have any big blowoffs anymore." And the market consolidated. Was it over? Absolutely not. We went down as low as I would say around 800 $800 billion. And then what happened? We went into the trillions. The entire cryptocurrency market cap went to about 4.2 trillion. That is a 5x. So from 2017 or I guess the bare market of 2018 to 2021, we did about a 19x. From the bare market of 2022, that's the FTX collapse into 2025, we did about a 5x. What's a realistic expectation where the entire cryptocurrency market cap can go let's say from one to three years I believe and and to point it out a big a big factor in the last cycle was memecoins just because the market cap goes up that high doesn't mean it's good good money I mean there were pump and dumps a lot of them meme coins got flushed out I think this cycle is different I think this is the first cycle the cryptocurrency market is actually regulated right the CFTC the SEC are regulating this space for the first First time ever, America's the largest financial market and we're seeing literally the entire US stock market now able to tokenize all the US equities bring them on chain. That's primarily happening on Ethereum and Solana. We're seeing stable coins become a big thing more than ever uh uh this cycle versus any other cycle. That's going to bring a lot of money in. And the third one's the debasement trade. Bitcoin's even more relevant because gold is still relevant because they continue to stimulate the economy, print money. My personal opinion is it would be a it would be a sad cycle if the cryptocurrency market just went to $6 trillion. I think we're going from 10 to 12. That's my median case. I think it would be uh you know my my my bare case would be 6 trillion. So again, where does that take us? Where are we right now? Right now the entire crypto market cap is 2.8 trillion almost three. Let's call it that. Although it was probably two. Yeah, it was two down here. My very middling case is a 3x. I think Bitcoin takes at least from 30 to 50% of that. I also think altcoins do better this cycle than they did in uh the last cycle cuz memecoins will always still be a thing 100%. There's they're popping off on Robin Hood chain right now which is on Ethereum. But this is the year of regulation. So so sticky money is finally entering the space. The point is that number one, these 20x, 19x, even 5x big money gains will not last forever. The reason big money is coming into this space is because this is a new technology. It's the technology that AI bots, artificial intelligence is probably going to use. We're already seeing that. It's the money people are choosing. The people are losing trust for the American dollar, the American government. Bitcoin has never been more relevant. decentralized uh tech like Ethereum, decentralized AI has never been more relevant. Um but it's not going to last forever is the point. So don't think just because it has happened the last few years, it's going to keep happening. I mean, we're already seeing AI start to take a lot of that money. Now, the difference is in order to get rich with AI, you got to be an insider. You had to invest in the early rounds that we don't have access to. Cryptocurrency is global. Anybody can invest. Now, what coins am I choosing to allocate my capital for? Not only the fastest gains, but also the safest gains. Right? If I just want the fastest gains, we'll head into the meme coins. Now, I want my goal is to buy and hold assets that I believe in long-term and bet on the mega trends. So, the assets I'm choosing to hold as well as the mistakes that I'm learning from and made along the way. Here are the three big things I wish I knew when I first started investing in crypto. Number one, everybody. Everybody, including me, we're all just shilling our own bags, right? I'm a holder of Bitcoin. I hold some of the coins I'm going to mention today. And it's not because I don't believe in them. I just want my bags to go up. It's because I do believe in them. That's why I chose to allocate money into them. And I believe in them so much I'm going to talk about them, too. So, of course, they're going to be backed up with data. But the point is something I wish I knew when I first started. Everybody on X, everybody on social media, everybody on YouTube is just showing their own bags. Understand that and then make choices based on just you having all the information. It's not illegal, but you should know. And by the way, Altcoin Daily always lists 100% of our portfolio allocations in the video description on YouTube. So, we'll always be transparent with you. I think that's why we built such a such a big audience that interacts with us uh so greatly. Number two mistake that I wish that I made that I wish I knew I understood when I first started is dollar cost average truly is the best way to get wealthy with a long-term outlook. The biggest hedge funds money on earth. They cannot time the bottoms. They're certainly not going to time the tops. So what do you do around the bottom? You start if you have a $100,000. Let's just say we're imagining here. You put in $20,000 this month, $20,000 next month. You think the bottom's it's bottoming sometime this year. We saw that this year, right? Everybody's screaming we're going lower. No. Whatever your allocation is, you you take it out around the bottom. Hold long term. And of course, if you get a paycheck, don't even worry about where the price is. 100 bucks every week, 200 bucks every two weeks, whatever it is. Dollar cost average with a decade long time frame. That's how I do it. That's how the big money does it. And number three, advice. mistakes I've made, advice I'm taking into this ne next cycle. As the price gets more bullish, as the news comes out that just is so much more bullish than you could have ever hoped, your price targets in terms of if you take profits shouldn't change just because the excitement changes, just because the price changes, right? If if Bitcoin goes, let's say, hey, Bitcoin's around $70,000 today. If it hits 140, if it doubles, why not take half off the table and just have the house of money, right? Uh, but let's say we're going to 140 and everybody's screaming, "Whoa, we're going to 200,000. Well, I don't want to take profits because Bitcoin's price may go higher." No. Have a plan. Stick to it. And just because the price changes because your excitement changes doesn't mean your plan should change. Just like, you know, I planned to buy Bitcoin around the bottom. But when it was around 58,000, $60,000, everybody was screaming it was going lower. If this channel would have waited, if I would have waited, I'd still be waiting, right? Bitcoin's price has pumped 40% in the last few months. So, take emotion out of it. Price changes, don't let the plan change. And then, of course, the numbers. Which coins am I looking at? Which mega trends am I betting on? And truly, if you're starting with zero dollars, let's be realistic, right? This channel will always keep things realistic with you. If you've made it this far in today's video, comment down below, carrot, because we got to be healthy. Carrot. If you made it this far, some people click click clicked off in the first five, but not you, not us. I think if you're starting with zero dollars, you can't make a million dollars in 12 months. That's not realistic. In fact, that's stupid. Number one thing you should honestly do is get some recurring revenue. Up your income because if you don't have discretionary money, if you have debt, then you're not doing anything and you should not be investing in cryptocurrency. Um, let's say you've gotten that job, you now have $1,000 of discretionary income. I still do not think becoming a millionaire in 12 months is realistic. I think if you can get that 1,000 to 8 to 12,000 10,000 that would be a huge huge huge win. Just like if you're starting with 10,000 to let's say 25,000 then your goal should be 100,000 in 12 months. If you want to become a millionaire, unless you're going to get lucky and yolo on the meme coins, you really can't do it unless you're starting with 100 to $200,000. That's my opinion. If you have something else, if you don't think that's realistic, comment down below. That being said, whatever you have, keeping those realistic expectations, I still think that the basement trade Bitcoin as a digital gold, it is not too late. Bitcoin maybe won't make you rich, quote unquote, but it's not going to it's it's your bank. It's my bank account. That's how I think about it. It's where I take profits into. I always want to keep my Bitcoin position. So, I would put 40% of my portfolio. I would keep 100% minimum in Bitcoin because that's what I have the most belief in belief in. It's going to be here in 10 years, 20 years, I believe. Um, so I always want to keep a Bitcoin position. That being said, after that, I'm going to get a basket of six. I'm not going to have 20 coins, not gonna have even 10 coins. I'm going to have six coins with the most money so I can keep tabs on that and all these coins mentioned today uh we're going to keep tabs on that with every single video. So you can always subscribe here for the for the news every day, good and bad. But I would bet on mega trends and that those mega trends would be tokenization. So that means means smart contract platforms. Where is the US equity market being tokenized? Stable coins and tokenization. That's smart contract platforms. Examples of that would be Cardano. Solana, Ethereum, Near Protocol Algrand Avalanche I personally am betting on Solana and Ethereum. Even if one other random one does better, I think those two will continue to accumulate the majority of the money. Um, those are smart contracts. That's tokenization. I would also bet on decentralized AI. I think the three big bet on the blue chips is my strategy. Bet on the blue chips and ride the wave. Ride the mega trend over the next one to three years. I think that's near protocol. I think that's Venice token and I think that's Bit Tensor Tao, you know, on the channel. I personally choose I would rather bet on the infrastructure. Meaning, oh man, I know decentralized AI is going to do good. But if I pick this coin and actually this other coin does well, why did I just pick one coin? The better thing is invest in the plumbing, invest in the infrastructure. Again, that's why I personally chose BitTensor is because robotics and early AI startups, early stage companies are being built on the Bit Tensor uh blockchain and even if just one hits, maybe 99 will fail, one or two hit, Bit Tensor will benefit as opposed to some of the other coins. Um, so invest in the infrastructure. That's how I would honestly start from whatever amount of money I had to be become a crypto millionaire or get very very wealthy in these next 12 months. Of course, if we go into a recession, if we have some black swan event, some you know bombing of whatever country, whatever thing dips are going to happen, but that does not invalidate the mega trend. That does not invalidate the fundamentals, right? COVID happened and that didn't invaluate the fundamentals. Everything got a repricing and we found out what actually had value. Uh but those were buying opportunities. The easiest the thing you can do right now that's completely free. It costs you nothing is just stay subscribed. Right? If you have a friend, share this video with a friend. You don't want to become a millionaire alone. But also just keep tuning in every single day because I want the altcoin daily army to be better investors. We're going to do better. We're going to big we have some big big big big big guests coming on the channel that are going to talk about cryptocurrency and I want you to understand the information first. 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