I invested an amount of money I wouldn't miss in various cryptos last spring. I teach high school econ and some of my students are all over it or have questions, so I look at it as continuing ed I was shocked at how many different crypto options there are, and it remains difficult for me to differentiate their actual functions, many are etherium based. I also noticed how the entire group of them seemed to rise and fall with Bitcoin. This is troubling to me and I'm still not sure what to make of it. Is the entire crypto universe susceptible to automated investment algorithms that large numbers of investors employ? China's big impact in early summer was troublesome as well. Anyway, when I first got into it I tried to find a crypto that was doing something different or doing it differently. I zeroed in on Algorand initially and it remains the only one I'm still invested in currently (got rid of others and consolidated in ALGO). I liked it because it was built differently than other crypto, had interesting uses, boasted comparatively fast cheap and secure transactions, and claimed to be carbon negative. Earlier this year it was selected by el Salvador to build it's new Bitcoin based economy on. That is going live this week. Interestingly, it is doing well this week so far, when others (including Bitcoin) have retracted a bit. We'll see if that separation and growth continues, especially if volatile el Salvador struggles. They are reportedly heavily marketing to other countries as well. I'll be watching closely.