Shark Tank star Kevin O’Leary said investors only need to own Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) and Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) to capture 97% of crypto market volatility, dismissing thousands of altcoins that “collapsed last October and never came back.”
The Two-Coin Portfolio
O’Leary said he dumped all his altcoin holdings after the October 2025 crash and now holds only Bitcoin and Ethereum.
“So what’s happened to the poo-poos is they collapsed last October, and all of them, thousands of them, never came back,” O’Leary said. “So I dumped all my coins, and I own those two.”
O’Leary cut his holdings from 27 cryptocurrencies down to just three: Bitcoin, Ethereum, and USDC (CRYPTO: USDC) stablecoin. As of April 2026, …