No, your shitcoins are not likely to survive the next bear market. 72 out of top 100 coin in Dec-2017 are now out of top 100. DYOR and don't HODL blindly into hopeless projects. But there are a few gems, hard to find, but good to buy.

I just review a historical snapshot on 17/12/2017 - this is the day when BTC reached the top of the last bull run at over $19,000.

A staggering 72% of top 100 coins back then are now out of top 100. Of course looking at ranking is a relative perspective. However, even if you take market cap into account, the vast majority of these coins do not actually gain anything significant. Little upgrades, lack of funding, little innovation to keep it up with the current market needs - sending these coins into oblivion.

Top 100 back then, not now - the forgotten

18 Bitconnectttttttttttt

19 PPT (Rank 392 now, market cap dropped from $1.75B to just $99M today)

21 LSK (Rank 138 now, market cap dropped from $1.56B to just $480M today)

25 STRAT (Rank 164 now, market cap dropped from $1.11B to $349M today)

26 BTS; 27 ARDR; 28 HC; 29 BCN; 30 NXT; 31 MONA; 32 XVG; 34 ARK; 35 SNT; 37 STEEM; 38 VERI; 39 DCR; 40 EMC2; 41 SC; 42 SALT; 43 KMD; 44 REP; 45 PIVX; 46 GNT; 47 PAY; 48 GBYTE; 49 ETN; 51 VTC; 52 QASH; 54 FCT; 55 DGD; 57 KNC; 58 MAID; 59 GAS; 60 AE; 61 INK; 63 BTM; 64 POWR; 65 SYS; 66 SAN; 67 WTC; 69 BTCD; 70 ICN; 71 ZRX; 72 CNX; 73 XZC; 74 RDN; 75 GNO; 76 BTX; 77 GXC; 78 NEXUS; 79 FUN; 80 PPP; 81 DATA; 82 MCO; 83 REQ; 84 GAME; 85 DRGN; 86 DENT; 87 MTL; 88 NAV; 89 CVC; 90 ETP; 92 PURA; 93 PPC; 94 SUB; 95 EDG; 96 STORJ; 97 BLOCK; 98 REVAIN; 99 BAY; 100 COB.

The honorary mentioned

53 DGB* (now 108th). Market cap did grow from $341M to $832M now.

62 NANO* (rank 110th now). Market cap did grow from $278M to $745M today)

The survivors - Top 100 then, still top 100 now, but not much talked about these days

8 DASH (now 61st); 9 NEM (now 70th); 11 BTG (now 90th); 17 QTUM (now 86th); 20 OMG (now 87th); 22 ZEC (now 67th); 23 WAVES (now 50th); 39 DCR (now 64th); 56 BAT (now 92nd); 68 MANA (now 75th)

The outliers

24 USDT (now 5th)

33 DOGE (now 9th)

The gems

36 BNB (now 4th) - back then $5.76 for a BNB, now $409! - could be considered the outlier as well

50 VET (now 28th) - back then VEN, now VET. Market cap grows from $346M to $7.2B today!

91 LINK (now 15th) - back then $0.42 for a token, today price is $28.36

The ones that remain strong; or at least still have significant ongoing upgrades; or hypes as of late

3 BCH; 4 XRP; 5 LTC; 6 ADA

7 IOTA now 38th

10 XMR now 34th

12 XLM; 13 EOS (now 32nd); 15 ETC (now 27th); 16 TRX (now 26th)

The boss

2 ETH

The grandpa

1 BTC