ETH

hynreck7

Last time ETH had a +6% spike was on November 9

HoldCtrlW

Every ETH pump I open another short. Easy $1600 target

Distinct-Thanks-6477

Congratulations to all the ones that bought ETH dips. Waiting on AIOZ, RENDER, TAO, SUI to really go on a massive run too.

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jwinterm

Hi Monad people, It seems like there is a but of new L1 malaise currently, with more recent entrants like TIA and SUI and berachain...not doing great. Do you think new technology and consensus methods are enough to drive adoption on yet another L1 and pull folks away from BTC, ETH, or even soylana (which maybe even ETH and SOL suffering the malaise)? What is the goal of the team launching this would you say? To overtake ethereum in users and market cap and usage? Or overtake Bitcoin? Or more like overtake Cardano or SOL?

AryanPachhai

Yeah, it’s rough out there right now. A lot of exchanges either nickel-and-dime you with fees or bury the simple stuff under five layers of menus. I’ve bounced between a few and honestly ended up mixing tools depending on what I’m doing. For basic buying/selling, a CEX with “pro/advanced” mode usually gives better spreads than their beginner UI. For on-chain swaps, I stopped using single DEXs because the prices can be wildly different — an aggregator tends to surface the cheaper route without me hunting around. In my case, Rubic has been easy enough to use for that, and folks in Rubic compare routes if you want to double-check a trade. If you say whether you mostly trade BTC/ETH/SOL or smaller tokens, people can point you toward the cleaner setups.

YourMatt

I'm sorta heavy in ETH, starting in 2017. I took profits a few years ago, which gave me back everything I've ever put into crypto across failed alts and everything, plus enough money to buy myself something nice for the trouble. I'm at a point where I'm happy with what I got out of it. There is potential for the remaining bag to pay off my house, so of course, I do keep a side eye on the market. I don't have Coinbase on my phone or have any price change notifications though. I just stay subbed here and expect a bunch of excited posts to come around if things start to pick up.

SecureWriting8589

>Been hearing about how it can generate a steady source of income *if done right* This is simplistic at best. Markets can go up, and they also can go down, as we've well seen this last month. A rising tide lifts all ships, and everyone's a genius when the overall market does well, but no one can reliably predict when that will occur or for how long since markets are by nature chaotic. Myself, I recommend dollar cost averaging in major crypto (BTC and ETH), diversifying into other investment vehicles such as stock funds, praying regularly to your deity of choice, and trusting no one on social media. Will this strategy win in the end? No one knows.

Coquito3000

Because I could have sold 4 years ago and gotten out of the military 4 years ago. Instead, I gambled 4 years on ETH and reenlisted to cover my bills during that time. And now I'm on a paper loss instead. Adoption is still elusive. And it's all looking like it was a hustle from day 1.

coinfeeds-bot

tldr; Bitcoin's price recovery led to a peak of $88,000 but faced immediate rejection, dropping to $86,000. The total crypto market cap is nearing $3 trillion, with Bitcoin's dominance at 57%. Larger-cap altcoins showed mixed performance, with ETH above $2,800 and XRP above $2.00. ZEC saw a 7% decline, while HBAR and MemeCore posted gains. The market remains volatile, influenced by hopeful comments about a potential US Fed rate cut. *This summary is auto generated by a bot and not meant to replace reading the original article. As always, DYOR.

Numerous_Ruin_4947

ETH was a way better swing trade than Bitcoin this year. It went from $4k → $1.4k → $4.9k → $2.5k all within about 11 months. You could’ve played that beautifully - buy low, sell high, rinse, repeat. My problem is I never see these crashes coming. I’m always too bullish on Ethereum, so I just hold through everything. And honestly, with how many swings we got, I could’ve grown my stack a lot if I wasn’t so stubbornly optimistic about ETH’s long-term future.

Numerous_Ruin_4947

Ok, here’s my issue: I’m just way too bullish on crypto. I always feel like everything is undervalued, which makes it almost impossible for me to sell tops… because I never actually sell - lol. Take Ethereum. People keep saying we’re entering a bear market, but ETH has already been bleeding forever. It’s had 9 red months out of the last 12. In 2018–2019 it had 14 red months, and honestly 2024–2025 is starting to rhyme with that. Sure, 2018 had those brutal down-wicks (-53.7% in March, -42.5% in November), so it was worse. But you can make the case that ETH’s basically been in a slow bearish grind for 2–3 years now. There hasn’t been a clean, obvious bull run. And that’s why so many people didn’t sell near $4.9k - they got tricked because they expected $10k+ after waiting this long. And honestly… that could still happen. The whole 4-year cycle thing is just a theory. It can break at any time.

Commercial-Shape5561

BTC’s importance is not just as a settlement layer. It’s as a unit of account that is beyond anyone’s control. If the settlement layer you described came into existence, it would be settling the same dogshit fiat currencies that will continue to be printed into the ground. Or, if it was a new permissionless blockchain with its own coin/token, it would suffer from the same problem as ethereum: it would be younger than BTC and thus would be fundamentally unable to ever catch up to BTC’s distribution. ETH will always be several market cycles behind BTC in terms of distribution. The settlement layer you are describing is, in essence, ethereum. And we have all seen how that’s been going relative to bitcoin.

Coquito3000

In the new...you clowns make me laugh. I have been doing this for 8 years. Im holding 816 ETH. What are you talking about? Stop being so patronizing. Holy shit.

piggleii

Tom Lee: "Told you ETH would be 7k by EOY."

piggleii

Massive ETH candle, just as Tom Lee the master investor/trader predicted.

BlindDriverActivist

I think Bitcoin will be around in name only. It will be a heavily modified fork of the current version like ETH vs ETH Classic. It’ll be more similar to some of the higher tech, faster, cheaper, quantum resistant layer 1’s we see already.

loupiote2

This is post is repeated in multiple subreddits... Software wallets are unsafe by nature, because the seed phrase (that they need to store and use, e.g. to calculate addresses and sign transactions) can be captured by malware. The only safe option is to use a so-called hardware wallet or hardware signer (like a ledger, trezor etc). Now, the front-end that is used with a hardware wallet does not matter much. Ledger offers one called ledher live (now called ledger wallet) that supports many cryptos, but does not have advanced features like other, more specialized ones (like Electrum or Sparrow for BTC, Rabby or Metamask for ETH and EVM compatible networks, rtc). It's a matter of personal.preferences.

CrazyAppel

There are some factors, like Metamask only supports a few networks (mainly ERC20) while Trust Wallet supports a lot more. Then again Trust Wallet is closed source while something like Electrum is open-source, less chance for getting fucked by some random bug or centralized bs. I personally use Trust Wallet for most of my stuff, but I do have some ETH related things on Metamask. It really depends and you will end up using multiple wallets if you dive deep.

Wonderful_Fun543

My last ten transactions on ETH main net are all sub 10 cents....how small is this lunch of yours?

eleetbullshit

There’s also institutional investors buying BTC every time it drops below certain thresholds, so I can’t imagine it’ll drop too low for too long. With quantum encryption being necessary pretty soon, BTC seems to be one of the safest from a QRE transition standpoint. Sold all the ETH and ETH-derived tokens in September, because I don’t think they’ll be able to survive quantum computing.

defeater33

Where do find it? Might work on ETH to🤔

Odysseus_Lannister

COYB, I think we have a shot tomorrow against United too. Also, I'm not trying to be a cuck or anything. ERGO was heavily shilled here in the previous bullrun on speculation that it would inherit a lot of miners after the ETH merge and it just didn't happen. It also looks like we're either starting or about to enter a bear market and a low cap alt like this is going to likely get obliterated. Just my opinion though. I hope I'm wrong, but I'm very weary at the moment.

Odysseus_Lannister

COYB, I think we have a shot tomorrow against United too. Also, I'm not trying to be a cuck or anything. ERGO was heavily shilled here in the previous bullrun on speculation that it would inherit a lot of miners after the ETH merge and it just didn't happen. It also looks like we're either starting or about to enter a bear market and a low cap alt like this is going to likely get obliterated. Just my opinion though. I hope I'm wrong, but I'm very weary at the moment.

partymsl

ADA was seen as one of THE blue-chip Cryptos in 2021 competing with SOL and ETH even with their hype. Now its just nowhere...

Apart-Annual6268

That’s what people said a a couple years ago, and then it hit over $126K. More than any crypto and precious metals in the world. If you don’t buy bitcoin during the huge clearance sale, you are dead. As a matter a fact, ETH, XRP, SOL, LITE, and XCN are probably the most affordable options there is but will be up there in the future for the most valuable crypto assets to invest in.

CyberWeaponX

ETH also went up at the beginning of 2018 and people were calling the flippening to happen. What followed then was a classic BOG.

slasherzx

Erg is a fair launched POW L1 coin that has Smart contract, no VC, bridged to top 10 coins with their decentralized bridge (BNB, BTC, Doge, Ada, ETH and Bitcoin-runes), dapps, dexes, has their own version of USDT which is overcollaterized and new Gluon which is pegged to Gold price. Subblocks will be implemented that would increase TPS to seconds, as current block time has an average of 2 min.

MusaRilban

Ergo is one of those projects that will either explode or die, no middle ground. Founded by the same guy who made LINK. It's got zk proofs, it's eUTXO like BTC, proof of work, a great mixer, true fixed supply (coins that don't get used for years get redistributed to miners as fees, it's the only crypto with a true fixed supply so figure can't go up or down - BTC and others ultimately trend towards 0 as coins are lost). Smart contracts, DeFi, not on any tier 1 exchanges. The devs just non-stop build. I think it's pumping rn because of BTC Runes. The Rosen Bridge team (a bridge on Erg to BTC/ADA/ETH/BNB/DOGE) have just introduced BTC Runes+ which essentially lets you turn BTC into a playground for custom tokens. There's so, so much more. It's honestly a hidden gem waiting to rip your face off.

biba8163

There is very low interest in all these Altcoin ETFs. $100 Million is a threshold number even make managing an ETF viable and these ETFs are not drawing large amounts of money. - LTC $7 Million - HBAR $54.8 Million - XRP $283.1 Million - SOL $644.92 Million This is why it wasn't worth the effort for a bigger player like Blackrock to launch ETFs for coins. The vast majority of the money and interest is BTC and not much more outside of ETH. - ETH $17 Billion - BTC $120 Billion

MrMogz

Last cycle didn't have ETF and billions of dollars of institutional ownership, it's different now (for BTC). The 4 year cycle is also broken, so we don't know that next year will be a "bear market" when we've basically just had a 1 year bear market for almost everything not named BTC, ETH and a handful of random coins, 99.9% of the market was in a bear market this year.

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tldr; BitMine has added 21,537 Ethereum tokens worth $60 million, increasing its total holdings to over 3.5 million ETH despite $4 billion in unrealized losses and a 47% drop in its stock price. The firm attributes Ethereum's recent price struggles to market liquidity shocks rather than fundamental issues. BitMine plans to launch a US-based validator network, MAVAN, in 2026 to generate staking revenue and offset losses. It aims to transition from passive ETH holding to active yield generation, including an annual dividend for shareholders. *This summary is auto generated by a bot and not meant to replace reading the original article. As always, DYOR.

nettbotchhunn

Always a place for BTC in the market. If you trade from 5-7 and know what ur doing it’s easy to find Influx pockets. Made $35k of ETH literally from a half buy yesterday

frozennorth0

This is the first cycle since 2017 that I’ve gradually sold out of my position. Ironically I sold 25% at the top, 25% at BTC 120k, then 90-95k. Sold most of my ETH in 4-4500 range. Taking risk off the table, even if it goes higher makes me sleep better at night.

Salty-Ad6128

Baylor was right Tom was right BTC to 150k by year end ETH to 7k by year end

IndustrialPuppetTwo

Depending on what you mean by alts you might be best just taking the loss. If you mean ETH or BNB as alt then hold it but if it's some dumb meme coin based on farts or something, history clearly shows that they never come back.

dlethe3133

The newbs are panicked. Granted I have some $300 ETH and $0.19 XRP, so I’m still way up. Let them panic. I don’t care as i am at a happy place

neo-caridina

Yeah what sets Zcash apart from Ethereum once ETH has zk privacy?

Pristine_Kangaroo527

Pretty much agree. There’s a reason I only buy BTC, ETH, SOL. Nothing else really has fundamentals, and when I was talking about fundamentals I was talking about out these three. XRP is dying by the way, it’s never going anywhere in my opinion.

Just_Me_in_Gib

Kraken platform is slow as a turd. Only you Kraken if you accept 50% cpu usage and 4GB of your ram being sucked up. Test the platform with very little money and you will notice how ridiculously slow and buggy the entire site it. If you have an IBRK account and focus on BTC or ETH, just go with IBRK. Not only are their fees lowest, but it is fast and easy without the other gimmicks

theonionknightGOT

I get it man, I’m back in the game after making similar mistakes with Ethereum in 2017-2018. I went all in and ended up with a 10k loss when South Korea banned crypto for a bit (ETH dropped from $1300 to $300 if I remember right) and I panic sold. If I would have just held until today I would be way in the green. That loss made me avoid all crypto for 5+ years…. Another mistake. The only way I’ve been able to get back in is to suck it up and DCA this time around and guess what I’m in the red again but this time I have a plan I’m going to stick with knowing that in 10 years I’m more than likely going to be way in the green.

Tall_Run_2814

People have been telling me this for years now. FYI, my current BTC cost basis is $34k, my current ETH cost basis is $350 and my current SOL cost basis is $56. Time in the market is better than timing the market. Lets check back in 10 years and compare portfolios.

Ubique008

This comment was a good thought on crypto BTC eventually will recover. There is nothing that guarantees it, but it has always recovered eventually and if you follow crypto crypto both fundamentally and as a market, you get the general ideia that in the long run, BTC will be higher. That is not the same for alts though. Most alts created that lasted in 2017 has good projects and made all time highs in 2021. They didnt recover at all in 2025. We had 3.5 bucks ADA, 50 DOT, 5 FTM, etc etc, and they never got any close on making new all time highs. You can now only hope to time and trade them, you can never count on them as investments again. Even ETH disaponted. Touched previous ATH and is now wrecked again. Only BTC decisively surpassed previous ATHs and held. For now

Hidden5G

Sure, ETH and other smart contract platforms do have real use cases, but they’re still not designed to replace the core infrastructure of the financial system like XRP is. XRP is battle-tested, built for banks, and designed to move trillions efficiently, whereas most other coins are either speculative or limited to niche applications. Utility matters more than hype when it comes to long-term staying power. Especially for the new financial system as regulations/clarity arrive.

goingofftrack

I think we see another crypto take the top spot at some point. I had to sell everything so I’m not a homer for something else but shouldn’t ETH or multiple others that have use cases, like smart contracts, lower transaction rates and defi be worth more?

GlitteringLock9791

Because BTC has hit new ATH since 2022, ETH at least reached previous ATH, all others like SOL are still down from the last ATH years ago.

Dark_Raiden_

Didn't Oct 10th show that only BTC, ETH, SOL & BNB have real liquidity.

Johan_Laracoding

Almost 40% down and I only had the less risky ones (BTC and ETH). It stings but I'm not in trouble since majority in invested in stocks and property and I have income. I'm glad I didn't invest more and I am not sure I'll ever buy crypto again. Not selling at a loss but this will likely take years to break even.

MACD_CandleSpicyWrap

If you want to buy and forget just buy BTC, because few ALTS will make it. ETH probably will be one if nothing better overtake it. XRP has really a use case ? Unless they find a way to apply they coin with US gov, i doubt they will have any relevance in 10 years. So if you want to have a bit more upside in ETH would consider the below BTC - 80% ETH - 20% XRP - forget XRP will this exists in 10 years ?

Kind_Cheetah_1289

XRP and ETH too with smaller positions. BTC is 70% of my crypto wallet.

DBRiMatt

Moons pumping so hard, even ETH is starting to follow it upwards! /s

New-Load9905

I think it is fake $3.7 B unrealized on ETH ? Doesn’t fit in.

Elean0rZ

>a decentralized version of tether Algorithmic stablecoins tried to be that. They were very hot a few years ago. The problem is, they only worked as intended *most* of the time. That's no bueno for something whose literal MO is stability. There are also crypto-collateralized stablecoins like DAI/USDS or DigiDollar, and those have worked out better, but they have a hard time scaling consistently since their collateral is subject to so much price fluctuation. Things are fine when number go up, but when number go down maintaining the pegged value potentially requires liquidation of the collateral. They also require aggressive overcollateralization to begin with, plus can only be redeemed for $1-equivalent of the collateralizing asset (e.g., ETH or DGB), as opposed to an actual $1 of fiat, which is a crucial distinction if things are really hitting the fan. To extract your intended value you still need to be able to turn around and trade that $1-equivalent for $1 of fiat, which may be difficult/impossible. In other words, yes, they do work in the sense that they keep their $-equivalent value, but the limitations inherent in how they work mean they aren't as practically useful for some of the core use-cases you'd want a stablecoin for in the first place (or at least not consistently and predictably so, depending on current market conditions). Not to suggest they have no use, especially if decentralization is paramount, but their utility can only be fully realized in a more limited set of circumstances--let's say that. All of that said, if we're talking centralized stablecoins, Tether isn't the only show in town. USDC centralized but at least it's simply and transparently so. And ones like PYUSD are also reputable.

OkIndication3968

Nobody knows whether this is a bottom or not. At the end of the day, selling because you need to, or because you want to take profits is very normal. I've seen inexperienced investors screaming on this forum about HODLing and bullying others about "panic selling". Selling for personal reasons based on risk tolerance, or for profit taking is a regular part of investing. Same with market corrections -- they happen.  My recommendations are generally the following: 1) No leverage ever. You'll just get liquidated. 2) During corrections, if you miss your selling point, ask if you need the money within the next three months, if so, then sell.  3) If you did the above, don't feel bad about selling, you are recovering your principal. 4) If you can hold, great. Consider DCA'ing. 5) Sell anytime you feel you need to take profits. 6) If it's a bear market, be prepared for a few years of sideways trading or further corrections. 7) BTC and ETH are the safest of the cryptos. Other alts are higher risk assets within a broader risk asset.  

ComplexWrangler1346

I would just wait …..in April I first got in again when it dipped under 2000….once ETH goes under certain support levels it will keep dropping a few hundred that same week usually …so if it dips under 2000, I will wait to about 1750 or 1800 to get in …then lower my average if it drops 200 or more after that …I got my average down to 1650 in April …I had a stop limit sell at 4000 and sure enough it hit that mark in August ! I have NEVER carried an average over 2000 on ETH since it has never hit 5000 before …

Buk_Danger

Sell BTC buy ETH

SubstantialPlenty301

ETH is all I've got eyes on.

tornavec

Why is Litecoin's creator's brother buying ETH?

Competitive-Walk8419

it absolutely does. You can use BTC as loan collateral, to make purchases, to validate stablecoins, etc etc. In fact ETH and most of the big coins have a solid use can, even if it is on chain in many instances. You need XRP in order to.... thats not a sentence I can finish, perhaps you can.

chonbhoy

1100 is a good mark if will be tested, 1200-1400 to be safe. It will always go as low as previous support before etf involvement and probably just a percentage lower in order to shake out the low stake holders aka weak hands. Too many things to explain in this reply but if the whole crypto market bleeds then ETH will be no exception so expect a wick of 1100 to be swallowed up, good luck!

adoodas

FYI last time ETH was at 4600, it bottomed at like $1000 and the process took roughly half a year

FidgetyRat

Recovered on its own and healed as designed. Unlike ETH. 😬

Stryker9110

Holy sht ETH god candle

Stryker9110

Wow ETH pumping like crazy

Thomasthetrayne

Absolutely insane calling ETH and xrp trash and then recommending a meme coin

HoldCtrlW

ETH is pumping so hard wth

JeremyLinForever

Lol Tom Lee. lol ETH. lol 💩 coin. Stay in Bitcoin only kids

cryptOwOcurrency

ETH is accepted

ecnecn

In business it lost reputation due to NFTs... the whole NFT hype / scams ruined ETH a bit and the million meme coins running through ethereum as 0x contracts are not better

admin_default

Pretty sure I sold a tranche of ETH to Tom Lee at $4,600.

Duster526

He would be down if he chose BTC too not only ETH

GroundbreakingPage41

Tbh this whole sub is mostly ETH maxis, they’re in extreme denial about the fact that it’s not BTC 2.0. It just doesn’t have the reputation or brand value of BTC, it also is inferior technology compared to newer chains. Why would anyone choose ETH as a safe cryptocurrency to invest in when BTC exists? Why would they choose ETH for defi/trading when it’s slowly losing ground to Solana? This sub loves to shit on SOL but numbers don’t lie, it won the volume game this past bull run and just performs better. ETH barely beat its ATH and its days are numbered, those who can’t drop it are in for a rude awakening.

ecnecn

I got spammed by someone that talked about the great swap from Bitcoin to ETH and that ETH will win etc...

Flashy-Butterfly6310

Why not both? Put your BTC as collateral on AAVE, lend ETH, swap for rETH. You're done.

104MAS

Which is why they’ll pump like crazy next cycle, particularly ETH.

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7101334

Yeah that's the key I think. For ETH, being useful doesn't translate to price action. I think ALGO had a similar story on a smaller scale but also had absolute morons spending money on things like advertising. NANO / XLM are other good examples. They do what they do perfectly and with basically no network fees... so the price doesn't move even though they provide a valuable service (zero-cost remittances, or at least often cheaper than banks if you consider exchange fees)

ilikecrispywaffles

Nice, I'm 60% BTC 20% SOL 20% ETH Oh.. and tiny bit of XRP

ExtensiveBattling

Unrealized losses only matter if they sell. Tom lee still thinks cycle top is months away and they're still buying more eth. Bought avg at 4051 means they believe in much higher prices longterm, polymarket odds on ETH hitting new ATH this cycle probably way higher than people think. Conviction play not stupidity

Away_Entry8822

Bitcoin maxis and alt L1 speculators have allied in their ETH hatred for years and now it is ETH holders who hate ETH. Makes perfect sense.

ubermensch1001

I don't think we are going into a bear market like everyone is expecting. I still am holding to my thesis of this going into next year given the variables I mentioned. I've added a bit to my positions since the October 10th crash but nothing crazy. The only thing I'm holding from last cycle is BTC, I also added more aggressively to this the 2nd half of 2022. and a little here and there along the way. This is more my long term hold, so I don't obsess too much about this. My main alt pick for this cycle was ADA, I bought it up aggressively in 2023 and 2024 and added during the lows of this year, my average is under 40 cents. It's been a relevant alt for a couple cycles now, was/is well off from it's highs of 2021 and I really like the staking with it. ETH is another one for me. I had some of this last cycle but exited that quite a while ago when it was still trading strong compared to BTC, so I converted it over into that. Most of this cycle it really wasn't worth touching in my opinion. Even in early 2024 it was still trading above .05 to BTC. However, I bought some back in April when it was at cycle lows at under .02 to BTC AND at $1400. At this point, I'm already well positioned and not all that worried.

TheDadThatGrills

Three years from now you'll be calculating his daily stalking yield and feel green with envy. Everything is dropping right now, these losses aren't crypto specific and it's certainly not directly related to ETH.

YogurtclosetTall2558

Start with BTC and ETH, buy on a schedule, learn custody. If you dip a toe into alts, keep it small and pick utility. Ocean for governed data access, Akash for decentralized GPUs, Render for GPU work, Bittensor for AI services.

confusedguy1212

If you aren’t following developments with ETH proofs you should. Study ethproofs.org

SpontaneousDream

Putting their ETH "to work" by it's very nature devalues their ETH holdings. You need to sell some of that ETH to actually realize net earnings from staking or DeFi, because no one in their right mind sees ETH as actual *money.* That's why they sell to stablecoins or BTC...

SeriousGains

Seems considerably worse than that, as ETH will undoubtedly go back down to at least 1.7k and it’s long term value is seriously in question. I don’t believe BTC’s really has been, despite the drawdowns.

Shadowpinegrowth

Tom Lee’s avg for ETH is like $3900 I dont trust his judgement lmao

Tall_Run_2814

People say the exact same thing EVERY CYCLE, lol. Forget about the price action and what people are saying and just look at the metrics. BTC is now held by corporations and countries. Even projects like ETH and SOL are earning $4 million a day in revenue in the mist of the market plummeting. Crypto is just code my friend and code is not going out of business.

skyline917

He said the bottom for ETH was 4,000. He also has consistently bought, and has been buying whilst the price has been declining. He could have waited to buy at these levels. Instead he is sitting on a loss at the moment. So tell me. Why I should care what he says?

GesturalAbstraction

3 or 4 months ago I sold half my ETH at around 4,200 and bought GOOG with the proceeds, wanting to diversify into some AI stocks. So the other half has gone down but GOOG is up almost 75% then leaving me net positive.

ZekeTarsim

Same, buying. Not buying ETH though, and never will!

RocksteK

Sold around 40% of my BTC and 100% of ETH, some at near the top. Now I think I’ll wait at least six months to buy back in at what I hope will be much lower prices. Then, in 2028 I’ll sell again. Do this with stocks as well.

whisperedstate

Well, ETH also buy backs, as do other chains like Tron.

SorryWerewolf4735

It's a choice that the decentralized community can make. They can continue on whichever fork they think is "right". They can completely fork the code to maintain the old blockchain. This happened with BTC/BCH. This happened with ETH hack. This happened with SIA miner fork. This happens all the time.

Alexbobica

BTC is a safe investment. Honestly, ETH is the biggest disappointment of the circle. However, the entire game is now centered on ETFs. Could be good investments. Good luck.

floppypretense

Stablecoins aren’t killing crypto. They’re finally giving it a real use-case. They’re the infrastructure, not the competition. BTC/ETH don’t need to be currencies to matter. BTC is a store of value, ETH is the settlement layer for everything being built on-chain. Their volatility doesn’t make them useless, but it just means they’re not meant to replace day-to-day money. What’s actually happening is that institutions are shifting from pure speculation to productive on-chain assets: tokenized treasuries, bonds, real estate, revenue-sharing… all the “real world” stuff. And this is where stablecoins are the fuel. Once you have stable on-chain money (USDC, USDT, etc...), you can invest it into actual assets, which is why platforms like Fractionvest, Ondo, etc... are popping up. So no, stablecoins aren’t destroying crypto. They’re the bridge to the phase where crypto becomes useful, not just volatile charts.

VIXtrade

You're not wrong about the growth in stablecoin market cap and transactions. Major financial institutions and governments are very interested in this trend. \>Could the current dive in value of BTC, ETH, SOL, ADA be linked to institutions timing the market and exiting ? does smart money unload their bags onto dumb money at the peak of the cycle? \> whats left to hope for in crypto? It kind of depends what your goals are. Want to see widespread mainstream adoption of blockchain technology? Its coming, but likely not the way you're hoping for. Hope to see BTC reach 1 million? Don't hold your breath. Hope to see the crypto market cap recover to 4.27 Trillion? Could take a year , 5 years, or never happen. Nobody knows. Maybe the crypto market stops crashing soon, rips higher for a short time before crashing further.

Tall_Run_2814

No one will ever know the exact lowest price, but you can clearly tell we're in a free fall right now. Just let it fall. Eventually things will get boring again and everyone accepts that "whatever amount" is the new price. I for one DCA, every week I buy BTC, ETH and SOL regardless of price. When there are major corrections and moves downward I increase my buys.

fhwoompableCooper

LMAOO BRO BOUGHT ETH at 5K https://i.redd.it/q82akuwlwt2g1.gif

GaRGa77

Stop hating on ETH 🤣🤣🤣