Trader Mayne: “Bitcoin Is the Only Crypto That Actually Survives”
Crypto trader and YouTuber Trader Mayne is doubling down on a message he’s been repeating for years:
Bitcoin is the only digital asset worth holding long term.
According to Mayne, almost every other cryptocurrency eventually collapses when measured against Bitcoin — no matter how promising it looks at the start.
And he’s not saying this as a theory.
He’s saying it from experience.
“I’ve traded through three full market cycles,” Mayne said. “Mt. Gox. Luna. FTX. And the one thing that survived every time was Bitcoin.”
Why Mayne trusts Bitcoin — and not the rest
Mayne doesn’t see Bitcoin as a flashy tech experiment. He sees it as money, created for a very specific reason.
“Bitcoin was created after 2008 for a reason,” he said. “The banking system proved it couldn’t be trusted.”
Bitcoin’s fixed supply of 21 million coins, its decentralized structure, and the ability to self-custody make it different from both fiat money and other cryptocurrencies.
No insiders.
No surprise inflation.
No founders quietly dumping tokens.
The altcoin problem
Mayne was blunt about altcoins.
Most of them, he said, behave more like inflationary systems than sound money. They often have:
- Centralized control
- Insider allocations
- Governance rules that let early investors dilute supply
- Founders who can exit whenever it suits them
“Altcoins are a lot closer to the U.S. dollar than they are to Bitcoin,” Mayne said.
“No hard supply cap. Insiders can dump whenever it’s convenient.”
Even the altcoins that survive don’t really survive.
“Every altcoin I’ve held long term has either bled against Bitcoin or died completely,” he said.
“The few that lived are still down 50%, 60%, even 90% in Bitcoin terms.”
Retail traders are fighting terrible odds
To show how stacked the game is, Mayne pointed to data from meme-coin platform Pump.fun.
According to the numbers he cited:
- Less than 0.4% of wallets made over $10,000
- Only a few hundred wallets became millionaires
- Millions made nothing
“You’re statistically better off playing the lottery,” he said.
Can you make money with altcoins? Sure — but…
Mayne admitted that short-term trading in altcoins can be profitable. But it requires perfect timing, discipline, and emotional control — things most traders don’t have.
Bitcoin, by contrast, offers something much simpler:
Survivability.
“Bitcoin is the only asset where I genuinely don’t worry about whether it will exist next cycle.”
His strategy is boring — and that’s the point
Mayne’s approach isn’t flashy.
He recommends:
- Dollar-cost averaging into Bitcoin
- Buying more during deep market pullbacks
- Avoiding aggressive trading
“This isn’t about timing tops and bottoms,” he said.
“It’s about accumulation.”
After years of blowups, scams, and collapses, Mayne believes the crypto market is slowly coming to the same conclusion.
Bitcoin isn’t just the first crypto anymore.
It’s the one that keeps standing when everything else disappears.
