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Livid-Sundae-8994

Careful with this mindset tbh — most “signals” groups or channels that tell you what to buy are either late or just farming engagement. Better approach is learning the basics yourself first. I actually put together a short beginner guide on how to go from like $20 to $100 in crypto, covers what to buy (BTC/ETH), how to read the market, and avoid scams. For sources though: * Reddit: r/CryptoCurrency (good for sentiment, not signals) * YouTube: Coin Bureau (solid breakdowns) * Twitter/X is where real-time info happens But yeah, don’t rely on “what to buy” calls — that’s how most people lose money.

OkMagician7867

Bro it literally says AI powered — I'm transparent about it. I built the system, I curate the signals, I share the calls. You're welcome to ignore it, but the ETH whale call hit didn't it? Results speak louder than gatekeeping.

Mammoth_Cover_3392

That's a pretty aggressive ETH scoop.

GooodNiightaringding

The point is that it wouldn't work, even without social consensus. There is no "51% attack" on Ethereum. If you control 1/3 of staked ETH you can prevent finalization, and if you control 2/3 you can finalize an invalid chain. In the first scenario you would get escalating inactivity leaks until you don't control 1/3 anymore, and in the second scenario the other nodes would see that it's an invalid chain (automatically, not socially) and simply not recognize it. Am invalid block is like a missed block in that sense. And since you cannot finalize the same blocks of two chains the "hacker" is basically screwed. They cannot return to the honest chain until it can finalize again, which can only happen when their 2/3 stake is reduced below 1/3, which would again happen through inactivity leaks. It would be bad for ETH, an almost catastrophic event, but there wouldn't be double spending or any of the other classical 51% problems.

alxkwl

No, i havent. I can either pay back the USDC or let them keep the equivalent in my supplied collateral at whatever the market rate of eth is at the time. I figure I'll just settle it once ETH is at $3500+ and get a substantial discount on the amount borrowed.

nikedemon

Do you make any payments at all? Sorry if this is a stupid question, but to get your 20.25 ETH back you have to pay back that $15,715 at some point, right?

alxkwl

Worth a gander. I currently have 20.25 ETH supplied at 1.64% APY borrowing $15,715 USDC at 3.55% APY. With LTV at 38% I'm netting a . 48% APY currently. I initially made this move after looking at car loans at 8% APR, or selling some of my ETH holdings. Once I realized I could keep my eth and actually earn interest, it was a no brainer lol.

nikedemon

Which platform are you using that pays you interest on your ETH?

isaacvictory

Same here, didn’t sell either but honestly I’m not too worried. Been staking most of mine on Coindepo and it’s probably the smartest move I’ve made this cycle, no lock up period and with rewards when you deposit more. Instead of just sitting through the drawdown, at least it’s generating something while waiting for the next alt season. SOL and ETH especially should bounce back strong anyway.

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Suitable-Profit231

The problem with the statement is that it suggests you would be safe from unexpected expenses, just because you safe some money... would have needed to safe 100$ a month for nearly 4 years to have 5k in fiat lying somewhere, if he would have bought btc for 100$ a month at the first of every month he would have more btc than 5k. 30 years ago saving was a choice, nowadays whatever you don't invest is dead capital... Also maybe did safe as much as he could and was still 5k short, of what he unexpectedly needed. How does that work? Maybe bought the ETH at 115$ ~2019 for ~1k and now they are worth 12k, but generally does not have enough extra money to even safe some each month...

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footybay12

ETH should be fine with hard fork but i worry for btc

soccerguy510

Always hold BTC. Always hold ETH. Sell when greed is high. Buy when fear is extreme. Use DEXs and wallets to sell & buy. Always have cash ready.

Revenantjuggernaut

That’s what’s up! Dumped my FET Virtuals ICP and ETH to buy more TAO. It’s no f’n joke. Staking in the subnets 😮‍💨⛽️

SpontaneousDream

>Eth did pretty good vs btc in 2021. And Solana did good vs bitcoin more recently. I think at least part of why Ethereum has done so poorly is due to central bank interest rats being high, which sucked money away from the cryptocurrency ecosystem. Lol you are cherry picking one single year. And that was 5 years ago lmfao. ETH/BTC is -8% in that timeframe. Ethereum has not done poorly. I love Ethereum and use it all the time. It has grown exponentially in TVL, transactions, usage, etc. **ETH,** the token, has done poorly, and that's because it doesn't accrue any value from network activity. There are zero buybacks of ETH. There is a *very* small burn but its negligible and easily offset by new ETH being issued for staking rewards. So that leaves you with what? A gas token that has no monetary premium (and never did). You don't need large amounts of ETH to transact on the network. So theres no reason at all to hold ETH. Idk how anyone can hold it, especially given how poorly it has performed against BTC and USD- even worse when you account for the risk of holding ETH. But like I said...keep buying? Lol I need people to take the other side of my short. K thanks!

alxkwl

Similar experience on AAVE except I've EARNED interest by supplying ETH to collateralize my loan, and still haven't paid back my loan a year later, as there are no loan repayment terms. The key is definitely to borrow in bear markets when the value of the asset you are supplying is low to avoid liquidation - I took mine out last year when ETH was at $1600, so my liquidation price would be around $900, and if I did need to supply more collateral, it would be relatively cheap to do so.

SpontaneousDream

Look at ANY altcoin/bitcoin chart, then get back to us. They all bleed out against BTC. ETH/BTC, for example, had it's ATH back in **2017.** It has literally bled out for 9 years straight. You would've been better off buying BTC with its "diminishing" returns. But hey, you do you. I personally love suckers like yourself because there always has to be another buyer to my short. So thanks for the free money? Lol

drfalconsquawk

I want it to be centralized. Most coins with my intentions like ETH, XRP and literally everyone by pre-mined the coins to gain advantage. I do not want that. So whoever wants to be on the team, will be paid a fixed amount check upon completion of certain goals or incoming investments. No equity, no pre-minting, none of that. I’ll make sure we are paid handsomely for our contribution and are able to walk away with our salary.

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Post is by: Click11Press and the url/text [ ](https://goo.gl/GP6ppk)is: /r/CryptoMarkets/comments/1scggk0/borrowed_against_my_crypto_instead_of_selling/ Had about $12k in ETH last year and needed $5k cash for an unexpected expense. Really didn't want to sell - ETH had already pulled back from its high and I was bullish longer term. Friend mentioned crypto-backed loans. Here's the full story including where it almost went sideways. The mechanics: you put your crypto up as collateral, they lend you cash, you pay it back with interest, you keep your crypto throughout. LTV (loan-to-value) determines how much you can borrow. I borrowed $5k against $12k ETH - about 42% LTV. Kept the ratio low deliberately. What I liked immediately: money in my account same day. No credit check, no bank interview, no explaining anything. Just KYC on the platform and done. Where it got tense: two months in, ETH dropped about 20% in a few weeks. My LTV jumped from 42% to around 53% - still safe, but I was watching it more than I wanted to. Had I borrowed near the maximum LTV it would've been liquidation warning territory. How it ended: ETH recovered and went above my entry point before I repaid. Total interest: around $180 over four months. If I'd sold the ETH to get the cash I'd have missed a 35% move. The math worked in my specific case - I know it doesn't always. The platform I used was YouHodler - Swiss-regulated which mattered for the custody side. I used a 30-day loan rolled over twice; on 30-day terms the LTV ceiling is 90% though I stayed nowhere near that. What I'd tell someone considering it: LTV buffer is everything. Don't borrow at 80–90% just because you can. Leave room to survive a 25–30% drop. The interest rate is secondary. Would I do it again? Yeah, in the right situation. If I'm genuinely long-term bullish and have a specific short-term cash need, it's a real option. If I'm uncertain about the asset, I'd just sell. Has anyone else done this? *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/CryptoMarkets) if you have any questions or concerns.*

epic_trader

>You sure ignored a lot of what I wrote ;) Yeah because you were rambling about something irrelevant. >There's no slashing mechanism of 'stake' ... So slashing only in the sense you're kicked out of the committees and no longer can receive rewards. Let's not pretend like that has anything to do with slashing. >Yes, I believe the protocol handles the trilemma better than anything I know. Really? You wouldn't say Ethereum with $70 billion staked, 1,000,000 validators, slashing, and real time proving is the closest you get? >Which security budget issue are you referring to? Longterm economic security of the network, incentive for stakers to participate and provide ecomonic security against attacks. Relying on goodwill and good intentions doesn't offer any security guarantees. TX fees don't account for enough to pay for this, so how is this funded in the longterm? Right now the value of the total stake on Algo is what, $200 million? Let's be honest, that is very small for crypto if you compare to Ethereum's $70 billion ETH staked. Surely you can't claim to have solved the scalability trilemma when the total stake is fairly insignificant, longterm security is still in question and staking is still centralized. >Of the 1.99B, my understanding is the foundation has about 20% of that online stake. Good to see this % has come down. Still uncomfortably high.

Spare-Dingo-531

Rate my planned crypto portfolio: 70% ETH 20% SOL 10% AAVE Timeframe is to buy in one year, and hold for 3 years afterwards. Good or bad?

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Hot_Payment_3648

Selling ETH at 50.

Bluejumprabbit

The move this week correlates directly with the stablecoin regulation news. Markets repriced ETH and DeFi tokens as soon as the revised CLARITY Act yield compromise language started circulating. Crypto TVL has been tracking regulatory clarity signals all year. It's institutional positioning ahead of a probable Senate markup in late April. The "sentiment shifting" framing undersells what's actually happening mechanically.

fan_of_hakiksexydays

Officially they are accepting stablecoins and yuan. There are also rumors that they accept other cryptocurrencies and euros. We already know the Iranian government has funds, and has wallets that have been using and accepting BTC, ETH, USDT, XRP, LTC, and TRX.

franktrollip

Hi, sorry but I don't know enough of those alts to be able to offer advice. May I ask how you've structured your portfolio? You say these are just the alts, so what % is BTC & ETH and any other big ones. You have quite a lot of alts. Did you research each one or are you following someone or something that suggests alts to buy. The only suggestion I can offer is that you look at what's included in some of the crypto indexes, like the CoinDesk 20 token that's made up of 20 top Cryptos. Maybe top 20 is a bit small but I don't know if there are others

PVKT

Pussied out of the ETH ico because I didn't understand crypto enough. I was one click away from being an initial investor and then decided against it with the thought of "what the fuck is an ethereum and who the fuck would ever care".

jekpopulous2

You're not wrong about any of this but tbh I don't think it matters in the long run. Ethereum and L2's will be fully quantum resistant in \~5 years... but here's the thing. Even by the most progressive estimates it will take \~9 minutes for quantum computers to break ECDSA-256 signatures once powerful enough hardware exists. An ETH transaction is confirmed in about 15 seconds (soon much, much faster). A quantum attacker cannot see your transaction in the mempool, crack your key, and send a fake transaction fast enough to outrun a real transaction before it's confirmed. I have nothing against QRL (I think it's cool) but in reality by the time a real threat emerges ETH and all these other chains will also be fully quantum resistant. Even in their current states quantum computers wouldn't pose much of a threat. Basically... I don't think it's worth investing in quantum resistant coins.

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Post is by: Classic-Direction778 and the url/text [ ](https://goo.gl/GP6ppk)is: /r/CryptoMarkets/comments/1sbczvy/were_in_peak_fear_territory_and_im_not_selling/ Fear & Greed sitting at 29(CMC data) and I'm not touching a single sat. BTC held through actual Middle East airstrikes rattling every risk asset on the planet. It dipped when the news broke, then recovered. That's strength, not weakness. What I'm currently watching: ETF inflows are still coming in steady, CLARITY Act is sitting at 72% odds on Polymarket with Senate markup expected mid-April, and the SEC and CFTC just formally classified XRP as a digital commodity last month alongside BTC and ETH. The regulatory clarity we've been waiting years for is literally arriving right now. AI tokens went from $14B to $19B market cap in a single month, with Bittensor up 67% and FET up 44%. That kind of rotation doesn't happen in a dead market. Ethereum's Glamsterdam upgrade is hitting in June and historically these have been major catalysts, so I'm not selling before that. While everyone's panic selling I took a loan using BTC as collalteral (good rates from nexo btw) and bought more. Fear is just a discount if you know how to use it. Held through all of 2022, not about to fold at a Fear index of 29. NFA. *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/CryptoMarkets) if you have any questions or concerns.*

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Post is by: SliceOfBread3 and the url/text [ ](https://goo.gl/GP6ppk)is: /r/CryptoMarkets/comments/1sbcro4/borrowed_against_my_crypto_instead_of_selling/ Had about $12k in ETH last year and needed $5k cash for an unexpected expense. Really didn't want to sell - ETH had already pulled back from its high and I was bullish longer term. Friend mentioned crypto-backed loans. Here's the full story including where it almost went sideways. The mechanics: you put your crypto up as collateral, they lend you cash, you pay it back with interest, you keep your crypto throughout. LTV (loan-to-value) determines how much you can borrow. I borrowed $5k against $12k ETH - about 42% LTV. Kept the ratio low deliberately. What I liked immediately: money in my account same day. No credit check, no bank interview, no explaining anything. Just KYC on the platform and done. Where it got tense: two months in, ETH dropped about 20% in a few weeks. My LTV jumped from 42% to around 53% - still safe, but I was watching it more than I wanted to. Had I borrowed near the maximum LTV it would've been liquidation warning territory. How it ended: ETH recovered and went above my entry point before I repaid. Total interest: around $180 over four months. If I'd sold the ETH to get the cash I'd have missed a 35% move. The math worked in my specific case - I know it doesn't always. The platform I used was YouHodler - Swiss-regulated which mattered for the custody side. I used a 30-day loan rolled over twice; on 30-day terms the LTV ceiling is 90% though I stayed nowhere near that. What I'd tell someone considering it: LTV buffer is everything. Don't borrow at 80–90% just because you can. Leave room to survive a 25–30% drop. The interest rate is secondary. Would I do it again? Yeah, in the right situation. If I'm genuinely long-term bullish and have a specific short-term cash need, it's a real option. If I'm uncertain about the asset, I'd just sell. Has anyone else *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/CryptoMarkets) if you have any questions or concerns.*

TimeTraveller2020

Sending USDC on Base for the first time. Coming from years of watching ETH transactions cost $40 in gas and take forever, seeing a transfer confirm in 2 seconds for a fraction of a cent felt almost suspicious. Had to double check it actually went through. That’s the moment I understood why L2s matter. Not from a whitepaper just from sending money and it working the way it should have always worked.

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Post is by: OkMagician7867 and the url/text [ ](https://goo.gl/GP6ppk)is: /r/ethtrader/comments/1sb4q2n/fear_greed_at_12_weve_been_in_extreme_fear_for_30/ I've been running an autonomous on-chain analysis system for the past few weeks and wanted to share some findings from today's scan: \*\*Market Snapshot (April 3, 2026):\*\* \- BTC: $66,981 (-1.81% 24h) \- Fear & Greed: 12/100 — Extreme Fear territory for 30 consecutive days \- 71% of top 100 is red today \- BTC dominance: \~56% and climbing \*\*What on-chain tells us:\*\* \- ETH showing 10.4x volume spike — could be institutional accumulation or capitulation \- ETH net exchange inflow +45,687 ETH today — selling pressure increasing \- SOL and altcoins bleeding: UNI -13.5%, ENA -10.6% \- BTC hash rate decline suggests miner stress \*\*The contrarian case:\*\* 30 days of Extreme Fear historically marks significant bottoms. BUT — there's no catalyst yet. NFP data coming April 3 could move markets either way. \*\*What I'm doing:\*\* Currently 100% stablecoin. Watching BTC $65K support and ETH volume for confirmation before any entries. Not financial advice. What's your positioning right now? *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/CryptoMarkets) if you have any questions or concerns.*

OkMagician7867

one more tip for today: OPEN INTEREST STATUS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ├ BTC OI: 90,146 BTC (+0.95% 24h) — Stable, slight increase ├ ETH OI: 2.14M ETH (-6.65% 24h) — Speculative positions being closed ├ SOL OI: 9.96M SOL (+7.23% 24h) — OI rising but liquidations also high └ Note: SOL's rising OI + high long liquidations = new speculators entering while old longs are getting wiped out. Dangerous mix.

GaspingLeprechaun

What's stopping highly centralized liquid staking coins like ETH to simply upgrade their encryption protocols on the chain. Or what about dexs just airdropping new post quantum encrypted wallets for everyone?

confusedguy1212

ETH and Bitcoin.

randallmauel

Im actually getting ready to start accumulating again. BTC, ETH, SOL, AVAX, LINK. Prices look pretty good compared to 6 months ago and I was buying at that time. Now might be a good time to open small positions in HOOD, COIN, and MSTR and begin some accumulating. There should be plenty of time to build decent positions since my budget is limited and I DCA. Im down quite a bit but actually quite confident the coins and stocks I listed will come back strong.

InvestAISavvy

This is basically what the social data confirms. I track activity across about 10 platforms and the difference between the top 20-30 coins and everything else is night and day. BTC and ETH still have thousands of unique creators posting daily — actual organic discussion, not just bot spam. Even SOL and a handful of others maintain real communities. But below that top tier? Most altcoins have engagement that's either dead flat or entirely driven by 5-10 accounts pumping the same talking points. Once you strip out the coordinated stuff, a lot of "active" coins have basically zero organic social presence. The rotation will probably come — it always does. But I think OP's frustration is really about holding coins that were never going to survive the filter. The social data usually tells you which ones those are way before the price does.

Tricky-Battle-9138

wild how it always ends with them just buying ETH anyway

account009988

ETH to 15k bro

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Post is by: yxxshomaanxx and the url/text [ ](https://goo.gl/GP6ppk)is: /r/CryptoMarkets/comments/1sal3lx/is_eth_actually_decoupling_by_hovering_over_2k_or/ The broader economic picture looks pretty rough right now. We are dealing with sticky interest rates, geopolitical tensions, and zero regulatory clarity. Historically, such an environment crushes risk-on assets. Yet, ETH refuses to break below $2,000, and BTC is still casually hanging out in the upper $60k to $70k zone. A few years ago, this exact macro setup would have triggered a massive crypto dump. But lately, the market is brushing it off. It isn't entirely independent from traditional finance, but the reaction is way softer than I expected. I used to ignore the ""crypto as a hedge"" statement, but seeing ETH stay this stable makes me reconsider. On-chain metrics also seem to back this up—long-term holders are essentially just sitting on their hands right now. Personally, I gave up trying to catch every swing. I am just holding my core ETH bag on BYDFi and tuning out the panic. It keeps me calm and won't dump my coins on a sudden red candle. It feels like ETH is finally growing into a sturdy asset. Or maybe the correction is just taking its time. What is the consensus here? Does it feel like ETH is finally growing into a sturdy asset? Or maybe the correction is just taking its time? *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/CryptoMarkets) if you have any questions or concerns.*

Bakkus1987

He supported ETH from the get go which never sit quite right imo.

Tojo_Ce

Which bear market? My VVV is up nearly 15% and my ETH barely moved at all in the last week.

facaila888

If you are not a gambler who wants to get rich overnight, then the best approach is to buy BTC or ETH and hold them long-term. When trading, you must use low leverage, never go all-in, and don't listen to the nonsense from so-called 'experts.' The most important thing is to be prepared for the possibility of losing everything and have hedging strategies in place. Learn more, accumulate experience. These are the basics

TomorrowLow5092

Over a billion dollars of BTC, ETH, etc have been stolen in last few years and they are getting better at it.

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Post is by: Reasonable_Ad9452 and the url/text [ ](https://goo.gl/GP6ppk)is: /r/CryptoMarkets/comments/1sah0nl/is_eth_actually_decoupling_by_hovering_over_2k_or/ The broader economic picture looks pretty rough right now. We are dealing with sticky interest rates, geopolitical tensions, and zero regulatory clarity. Historically, such an environment crushes risk-on assets. Yet, ETH refuses to break below $2,000, and BTC is still casually hanging out in the upper $60k to $70k zone. A few years ago, this exact macro setup would have triggered a massive crypto dump. But lately, the market is brushing it off. It isn't entirely independent from traditional finance, but the reaction is way softer than I expected. I used to ignore the ""crypto as a hedge"" statement, but seeing ETH stay this stable makes me reconsider. On-chain metrics also seem to back this up—long-term holders are essentially just sitting on their hands right now. Personally, I gave up trying to catch every swing. I am just holding my core ETH bag on BYDFi and tuning out the panic. It keeps me calm and won't dump my coins on a sudden red candle. It feels like ETH is finally growing into a sturdy asset. Or maybe the correction is just taking its time. What is the consensus here? Does it feel like ETH is finally growing into a sturdy asset? Or maybe the correction is just taking its time? *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/CryptoMarkets) if you have any questions or concerns.*

CozyverseStudios

All are going down and will never recover except ETH and maybe SOL

Confident_Hunter7506

Cut your losses. None of those coins are recovering. SOL maybe but ETH didn’t even hit a new ATH last cycle. SUI can’t attract liquidity and the other 2 are useless. BTC is the only play and maybe HYPE.

crazypetealive

So that whale lost $2.5 million+ lol. He bought $53 million in ETH before Trumps address, then the ETH dipped 4.8% in the next 24 hours. They picked an unlucky time to buy the ETH dip, it's down 56% since OCT 2025.

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WiseChest8227

I don't see how buying ETH before the address has any correlation.

NoodlesOnTuesday

Glad it was useful. The stablecoin distortion is one of those things that once you see it you cannot unsee it. If you want a quick way to sanity-check the real alt exposure, CoinGecko lets you filter by category. Pull up the total market cap, subtract BTC, ETH, stablecoins, wrapped tokens, and liquid staking derivatives. What you get is a much smaller number than total3 suggests, and it moves differently during rotations. The other thing worth watching is whether dominance is rising because BTC is pumping or because alts are bleeding. Same number on the chart, very different implication for what happens next.

soliejordan

ohhh so this is why ETH is pumping.

Fear_Blind83

$53M of ETH for those wondering... Not a Trump token.

tedttm73

ETH. But this was maybe the worst article I've ever read.

NotAnotherRebate

ETH unfortunately tells us nothing. I would rather know if they bought oil, stock, or made a huge bet on Kalshi.

Erocdotusa

53mil in ETH and it didn't budge?

Confident_Hunter7506

Keep in mind all the Digital Asset Treasury (DAT) companies that are underwater with their holdings. They all bought ETH and BTC near the highs of the last cycle. The bottom will be after their business model explodes.

Shrijit27

You could look into Delta Exchange India if derivatives are important for your strategy. From what I have seen, quite a few traders here use it for BTC/ETH derivatives, and the FIU registration gives some level of regulatory comfort from an India perspective... One thing to keep in mind is that deposits and withdrawals usually happen via INR rails, so many people end up using a mix of platforms depending on whether they prioritize USDT transfers, derivatives access, or long term storage.

Byro1218

Honestly look for solid project or proven crypto. Right now you need to know we are in a bear market. Best thing to do is DCA, expect down trend but continue to DCA. IMO buy Bitcoin ETH SOL and Litecoin. Once you understand the cycle and crypto better you can buy DEFi coins and use there protocols

defeater33

ETH and or BTC. 5% or less in anything else. Use charts so you can buy low and sell high. You do not need to make the most money just a lot.

MinimalGravitas

> they had to fork it, then in practice it got hacked. Firstly, it's worth noting that Ethereum upgrades through forks, the most recent hard fork was 4 months ago (Fusaka). The term 'fork' isn't considered a sinful word in Ethereum in the same way as in the Bitcoin community... in fact the EF website that tracks Ethereum upgrades is called ['Forkcast'](https://forkcast.org/). Secondly, the DAO wasn't integral to the chain, as demonstrated by the fact that fork didn't save the DAO, it just returned the funds of those whose ETH was stolen from it. You are right that it could have been a problem for the attacker to have had so much ETH years later when the chain moved to PoS, but there were multiple ways to resolve that, such as soft forking to freeze the stolen ETH rather than hard forking to return it (or I guess even doing the 'rollback' that for some reason half this thread seems to believe happened!). I really don't think it is reasonable to claim that 'in practice it got hacked', unless you don't really care what words mean?

evoranger2018

Check it out.. it doubled in price in the last two years. What has ETH done 🤣

SM-

Comparing SOL to ETH - why is it so insanely behind? Is SOL dying or what? The difference in price movement is crazy.

Seth-Octopus

I'm trying to withdraw my ETH but lost my ID lol . 😂🤷‍♂️

North-Exchange5899

Bought some ETH as my first crypto. Still holding, small profit. Then wallet is Ledger, Metamask, or LIFE Wallet... I just use what I feel like using

TheMaharishiEffect

Well for me I was just an NPC and thought BTC was too expensive because buying a whole one seemed expensive... so I bought ETH and other stupid alt coins instead. Then when ETH went nowhere I decided to research BTC and was orange pilled immediately. I realized the value it holds and its anti inflationary properties.

SpiritedWay5745

Had the same thought when I started working right out of college a few years ago, and I’ve been maxing out my Roth IRA with FBTC ever since. I’m already well diversified through my brokerage account and my 401k and I hold additional crypto on a hardware wallet (mostly BTC, along with some ETH and SOL). Altogether, about 20% of my net worth is in bitcoin. At 24, I’m comfortable taking on that level of risk. My thinking is simple, Roth IRA is one of the most tax-advantaged accounts available. Why not use it for a higher-risk, higher-upside asset? If bitcoin continues to grow the way it has over the past decade, the tax-free gains could be insane. And if it doesn’t play out that way, I’m fine with it. I’d rather take a calculated risk now than play it too safe early on.

admin_default

Markets are still ignoring the downside risk. An energy crisis would pop the AI bubble which would drag crypto to the depths of hell along with it. There’s a real chance that we see BTC in the $30K range and ETH under $1000.

evoranger2018

Tron is destroying ETH

MinimalGravitas

907,000 ETH per year vs 909,500 ETH per year. It's like worrying that carrying a bottle of milk home in your car is going to cost you more in petrol due to the extra weight!

MinimalGravitas

> effectively reversing every transaction that happened since'' This is EXACTLY what happened, you have described the fork... No, that isn't what happened. Only transactions related to the DAO hack were reversed. Everything else was entirely untouched. The chain wasn't wound back to an earlier block. If you had sent ETH to Coinbase, or registered an ENS name, or set up Gnosis Safe multisig, or whatever else you were doing on Ethereum back then it was totally unaffected. > but this is publicly available knowledge. It is, but it seems like you haven't actually looked it up? The hard fork is detailed here: https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-779 ETH was taken from the attacker in an 'irregular state change', 116 addresses were impacted, no blocks were wound back, no other transactions were impacted.

MinimalGravitas

You didn't bother to do the maths, even though I linked you to the exact formula you needed... instead you just assumed a new 3% gets created for every bit of ETH staked? The more that gets staked, the lower the reward percentage drops for staked ETH. The total increases proportionally to the square root of the number of validators. Currently there are 928,959 active validators, leading to about 907,000 new ETH per year. If we stake another 167,000 ETH that works out to about 5,218 new validators. 928,959 + 5,219 = 934,177 validators total, which gives an issuance of about 909,500. 2,500 ETH more per year, or about $440,000 per month to use your measure, or about an extra $14,000 per 24 hours For comparison, about $5,800,000 worth of ETH is currently being issued each day, and the volume of ETH traded in the last 24h was $19,200,432,520. $440,000 per month (or $14,000 per day) is nothing to the ecosystem.

AidenTai

Technical superiority or versatility matter less for an asset whose entire place in financial markets is due to trust. I mean, there are elements rarer than gold that are also inert and even less heavy (and therefore 'practical'). But for millenia gold was the standard. For the simple reason that it basically established the standard and people could trust it. Bitcoin might get pushed aside with time; that's something hard to predict and it's still early enough really. But hard forks exist (and I'm sure there will be one to update the cryptography used, for example). But it really only needs to do a couple things to stay where it is: remain a trusted medium of exchange of value and retain the technical capability to exchange and store value. If ETH bests it at some other thing, great, but then what stops any other one from dethroning ETH? There's room for a 'silver', or secondary mode of exchange in the crypto space. Right now, that could arguably be either stablecoins or something like Monero that provides privacy. But neither can act and the default 'standard' simply because they are not the 'standard'. It will take a whole lot of time, and perhaps even some fault in Bitcoin before the standard changes, since Bitcoin appears to be doing what it needs to rather well.

brobbio

**Securing Elliptic Curve Cryptocurrencies Against Quantum Vulnerabilities — Babbush et al. (Google Quantum AI / Ethereum Foundation / Stanford), March 2026** Core findings: * Shor's algorithm can break 256-bit ECDLP (the cryptographic basis of Bitcoin and Ethereum) On a superconducting architecture, this translates to fewer than 500,000 physical qubits and ~9 minutes of runtime. **Roughly a 20× improvement over prior estimates.** **Bitcoin vulnerabilities** * ~1.7M BTC in P2PK scripts exposes public keys directly; ~6.9M BTC total are currently at-rest vulnerable * P2TR (Taproot) reintroduced at-rest vulnerability; P2PKH/P2WPKH protect against at-rest attacks only if keys are never reused * **Proof-of-Work consensus is not meaningfully threatened** **Ethereum vulnerabilities** * All accounts that have sent a transaction expose their public key permanently (Account Vulnerability) * Admin keys controlling smart contracts, stablecoins (~$200B), and RWAs are at-rest vulnerable (Admin Vulnerability) * L2 rollups and bridges using zkSNARKs inherit cryptographic vulnerabilities (Code Vulnerability); ~15M ETH at risk * BLS12-381 validator signatures vulnerable; compromising 2/3 of validators would allow chain rewrite (Consensus Vulnerability) * KZG trusted setup for blob data availability is susceptible to a one-time on-setup attack (Data Availability Vulnerability) **Dormant assets problem** * ~2.3M BTC inactive for 5+ years cannot be migrated via software updates; likely includes Satoshi-era coins * Three community options: Do Nothing (quantum attackers eventually take them), Burn (protocol destroys them), Hourglass (rate-limits spending) **Migration to Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC)** * PQC signatures (e.g. Falcon, ML-DSA) are 10–20× larger than ECDSA, creating bandwidth and consensus challenges for Bitcoin in particular Algorand (Falcon), QRL, Abelian, and Solana (experimental) are already deploying PQC **Migration must begin immediately; the authors estimate the window is still open but narrowing fast** *The quantum threat to cryptocurrency is closer than commonly assumed, affects active transactions (not only dormant holdings), and requires urgent PQC migration across all major blockchains.*

s74-dev

\> attacker would lose billions in slashed ETH while gaining only the ability to temporarily delay transactions. in ETH there is only one button and it is go slower loollll

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Azatis-

Will make another 4800 ETH generation per month

MinimalGravitas

Cute, so I assume that means you have no idea? There are currently 38,447,267 ETH staked. Why not have a guess how much difference adding 167,578 to that total will make? If you would like to find out the real answer (and maybe learn something rather than just make silly comments) then you can find the calculation to follow at: https://eth2book.info/capella/part2/incentives/issuance/#overall-issuance

Street-Brush8415

Can we at least get one more decent pump so I can dump my ADA and PEPE bags? I've learned my lesson this time, honest, and will only hold BTC/ETH going foward.

oopssomething

ETH is flying today

ItsAConspiracy

That's not what they mean by "slashing." You can only do an attack like this by staking a vast amount of ETH. Then if you do the attack, the protocol destroys your ETH.

socksockshoeshoe

> Ethereum currently has around 30 million ETH staked across validators. *At roughly $3,200 per ETH*... Dang I wish it was there too

ma6ic

| Token | Jan 1 | Current | YTD | vs HYPE | | ----- | ------- | ------- | ------ | ------- | | HYPE | $25.44 | $35.99 | +41.5% | — | | XRP | $2.08 | $2.09 | +0.4% | -41.1% | | BTC | $87,520 | $66,696 | -23.8% | -65.3% | | ETH | $2,967 | $2,046 | -31.0% | -72.5% | | SOL | $124.52 | $80.83 | -35.1% | -76.6% | | HBAR | $0.268 | $0.163 | -39.2% | -80.7% | | TAO | $440.21 | $223.65 | -49.2% | -90.7% |

MinimalGravitas

How much difference do you think staking this much will make to ETH's inflation?

EarningsPal

It’s more efficient and has many redundancies. Visa and MasterCard, Nasdaq, NYSE, with brokerages among others worked, why can ETH, SOL, L2s, among others also work? It’s much more efficient to have blockchains handle transactions than banks and brokerages with centralized systems, lots of buildings, people, and resources to do something easily done by blockchains.

NoodlesOnTuesday

BTC dominance at 56% in a downturn is capital seeking relative safety within crypto, which is normal. The question is whether this cycle is comparable to previous ones. One thing that changed structurally: stablecoin market cap is much larger now than in 2022. A significant portion of total3 (market cap minus BTC and ETH) is stablecoins, wrapped assets, and liquid staking tokens. These are not risk-on altcoin bets, they are infrastructure. That means the "real" alt exposure is thinner than the dominance chart suggests. What I watch for rotation signals: BTC dominance peaking usually coincides with BTC hitting a resistance level and consolidating while money starts flowing into higher-beta assets. But the timing varies a lot. In 2021 the dominance peak was months before the alt season really kicked in. In 2024 the rotation happened faster because the narrative shifted quickly. The honest answer is that dominance alone is a lagging indicator. By the time you see it clearly reversing, the first move in alts has already happened. I find it more useful as a risk gauge than a timing tool. High dominance means the market is defensive. If you are holding alts in a high-dominance environment, you are fighting the trend.

Trader_for_earner

Over the past three days, the cryptocurrency market has exhibited a prolonged sideways trend characterized by limited volatility. This stagnation has significantly impacted my ability to execute intraday trading strategies, which inherently rely on market movement. Major assets such as Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) are mirroring this consolidation phase. I am actively seeking to understand the macroeconomic or technical catalysts driving this lack of momentum across the digital asset markets.

Calm-Professional103

ETH first, then other majors, then select groups (privacy, utility, etc) and then ultimately memes. Typical alt season deployment (although this alt season has been very atypical) as lemmings chase the yield curve before liquidity dries up

GBeastETH

Nobody on earth would be dumb enough to try this. “… a PoS attacker on Ethereum can only disrupt liveness or censor transactions. They cannot steal user funds or produce invalid blocks that the network would accept. “Consequently, the cost-benefit calculation for any would-be attacker is extremely unfavorable. The attacker would lose billions in slashed ETH while gaining only the ability to temporarily delay transactions.”

Skillerstyles

with amounts like that i’d mostly focus on learning the market and avoiding overtrading. a lot of beginners lose money trying to jump between coins instead of just slowly building positions in stronger ones like BTC or ETH. another thing that helped me early on was splitting my strategy a bit. i keep some crypto just holding long term, and some in places where it can earn something instead of doing nothing. for example platforms like Nexo let you earn interest on stablecoins or certain crypto while you hold, which can make your portfolio a little more productive over time while you’re still learning the space.

Low-Razzmatazz3932

honestly you’re already off to a decent start with ETH and SOL, no need to rush into anything else. at this stage it’s more important to learn *who to trust in the crypto space* rather than chasing new coins. a lot of top crypto experts and Web3 thought leaders to follow focus on basics like risk, security, and understanding the market before adding more positions. you’ll see people like Evan Luthra, CZ or Vitalik! They talk more about building conviction over time rather than spreading small amounts across random coins. with a smaller budget, keeping it simple and learning slowly usually works better than trying to diversify too fast tbh.

immortalismmmm

damn 3.31M ETH is insane, they're just quietly becoming one of the biggest ETH holders out there

RoseOasis

The only ones I'm accumulating are BTC, ETH, and SOL. The rest are just for trading.

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Jetblack_Heart

Are all these gray staking ETH commercials cause for concern or HODL?

LeVraiMidian

Funny still but a lot of this is less true today than it used to. I hold 80% of my crypto in BTC but some other coins (mainly SOL and ETH) have merits. You can also hold ETFs if you just want to make money and increase your tax free space (if it exists in your country). Day trading is bad, but you can DCA in bear markets and sell some, progressively, when we reach new peaks. Taking profits is fun. Just make it rare at obvious bull/bear markets.

Ill_Opportunity_419

solid list for someone just starting. BTC/ETH/XRP as your base is the right move. One thing I'd add - before you start buying, check where liquidity actually is. I use [Coinlobster](https://coinlobster.com/crypto) to see aggregated order books across exchanges. Helps avoid buying into a wall or getting caught in a liquidation cascade. Free for BTC

shoecellar

I’ve got my DCA set heavy when it is under $66k. Same with ETH under $1,990. Buy daily regardless but triple or quadruple when it is under those markers

SpoonPlateAndAFork

Main thing. You invest with the expectation that the price will go higher than it is now. That can happen, the only question is when. Another thing that can happen is the price will go lower. You have to be mentally prepared for the lower price. There's no certainty in crypto. You can lose 50% temporarily. I think we are going lower both ETH and SOL. And to that is the answer. Buy when the price is going down. Just don't go all in. Dollar cost average. Hold at least 3 years and then decide to sell or hold.