ETH

BasedToru

Right now in the current market I’d say buy BTC ETH and SOLANA without a doubt, the main thing about crypto is not to listen to those who think crypto is going to zero lol and always make sure your entry points are good so that you don’t really fear or panic when the price dip happens.  If I was the start crypto today I would aim to have 200 Solana 5 ETH and slowly work towards eventually owning 1 Bitcoin, especially with the halving season approaching 

gman2093

Unfortunately I did invest 100$ in ETH in summer of 2020. Cheap lesson, all things considered

SeemoarAlpha

I'll do the math, ETH would have to be valued at $1854 to have kept up with inflation. If all you did was put your $1550 into the S&P 500, it would be worth $3184 by the end of May. On an inflation adjusted basis it would be worth $2504. So yeah, the dildo of crypto consequences arrive unlubed.

GaRGa77

ETH peaked in 2017…

Ruzhyo04

Over the last four years since the merge, Ethereum supply has gone up by nearly 1 whole percent. ~0.275%/yr. Without the switch to PoS, Ethereum would have inflated 14% (3.5%/yr). Thats a difference of about 14.5 million ETH not getting dumped on the market. But I’m sure your feelings are more important than stats.

stonkautist69

better off invested in ETH than NVDA. wouldn’t have enough time to count all the money otherwise

Illustrious-Method71

Uhhhh, no you are lol. They only didn't lose money with respect to USD. With respect to the true cost of goods and services, the value of their ETH has gone down dramatically.

ARoundForEveryone

Oh, you're comparing ETH to USD rather than to any particular good or service. Gotcha.

farcry_x1z

Thanks ETH

ARoundForEveryone

So....ETH holders didn't lose money? Congrats indeed.

Asleep_Onion

This is why ETH and BTC are stupid. ADA is the future! 12/9/2017 - ADA $0.16 6/5/2026 - ADA $0.16

liquid42

Are you guys not selling when the market is at an ATH?? I’ve made a buttload of money off ETH, so thank you. I’ll keep DCA’ing into BTC & ETH.

Choice_Potato_6279

Tether flipped ETH for a second, shitcoin's dead yo, easy dump to $500

Asleep_Onion

One of the top comments predicted $69k bitcoin... he was only off by a few days with that prediction! (but in the same post he was off on his ETH prediction by an order of magnitude)

Choice_Potato_6279

PoS is garbage, it reduced ETH to be like any other shitcoin, newcomers dont even know what ETH is, back then they've mined ETH, gpu mining made ETH every gamer an adopter.

_TheWolfOfWalmart_

ETH just got flipped by tether on coingecko wow

Zealousideal-Bus4712

the fact that cardano was worth 90 billion not too long ago is just insane. complete vaporware. ETH could easily drop to 5-10 b market cap in the coming months

Lordofthewhales

ETH using less electricity but the world isn't so it's bad is truly one of the most retarded arguments I've ever seen.

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pepe_____-

BTC, ETH and Monero maybe the only shit worth something in the crypto space I’ll add solana just bc I used them and it’s the only crypto that actually feels like the most user friendly and “usable” but overall it’s just noise

Jimmy_Trivette

What about 5k in ETH in December 2018?

b1mm3rl1f3

Just bought $6k of ETH. Praying for under $1.5k so I can do another 6 🤭

EatMaTesticles

I you have invested $5000 in ETH back in January 2018 you now have $6800. Congrats.

TexasBoyz-713

I thought selling my ETH at 1900 and putting it into tradfi was a mistake last year… I watched ETH then pump to 4k+, only to fall back down while my tradfi investments are still very much up Moral of the story, get out if you want to get out lol

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Internet_is_tough

ETH dropped 11% today, BTC 6% and we only had $150m in liquidations in the total crypto market. There is no leverage left.

icantbeassedman

I can't see $BMNR collapsing since they have no debt and they can generate income by staking ETH

raye999

Today is the best day to buy ETH in the next decade - mark my words

SeriousGains

How’s that 62k ETH prediction going Tom?

stefansilva_xrp

problem is opportunity costs. BTC in 2021 was 69k Eth was 4.8k last year it topped at 126k and 4.9k today the BTC ratio is 0.026 the low today in 2022 was 0.05 if the high in the next Bitcoin bullrun ETH is at 0.026 then BTC will need to hit 190k for ETH to reach 4.9k again

devCheckingIn

ETH with the -10% daily candle. Wow.

stefansilva_xrp

Look at ETHBTC 2021 0.08 today we are at 0.026 in this ratio BTC has to go to 150k for ETH to hit 4k again

Saffuran

ADA has always been worse and less legitimate than ETH. Cardano was interesting for about its first year or two but it's just not it - the tokenomics aren't there, the functionality isn't there, the adoption isn't there, and its supply is far too diluted.

rk1993

ETH secretly becoming the stablecoin we needed all along lmao

Taraih

Bitmine. More like shitmine after ETH performance lmao

2peg2city

How has PoS affected the price of ETH?

Zealousideal-Bus4712

i can see ETH at 800k. i clearly have better eyesight than you.

Eppursimuove1633

Z cash crash is funny and predictable. All the crypto brows been pushing it last several weeks to pump their bags and now look. Always ignore them. There has also been a coordinated FUD campaign on these groups against crypto in general (except for Z cash and former shit like Sui) for two to three months trying to get everyone to sell their major blue chip crypto like ETH and BTC and buy tech stocks at their peak instead. Sell crypto low, but stocks at historical high. Soon those stocks will dump and money will cycle back into crypto. Fun to watch the coaster, lot easier than chasing it.

Dangerous-Bed-5885

I wouldn’t let it scare you away from crypto as a whole. Crypto is still the future. Right now the AI Stocks are booming so they’re sucking up all the money from everything else and it’s being invested into AI. I think crypto will continue to crash until October possibly which is totally normal compared to previous crypto cycles. I wouldn’t stress it but I would start looking at some of the other coins such as XRP, SOL, XLM, HBAR. I think it would be wise to diversify your crypto holdings and not have all your money in 1 coin, it’s kind of risky. A lot of people that were invested in ETH switched to SOL, it’s faster, cheaper to use, and more reliable. It basically. Just something to look at. And you probably only own like 1-2 ETH but if you diversify, then you’d be able to hold a bunch of other coins since they’re cheaper. It’ll be like investing in ETH when it was only a couple dollars. Research some of the coins I mentioned

counterboy12

Bitcoin IS the shitcoin. Proof of work is the past… ETH might sound better on paper because of Proof of Stake, but they don’t have a multi node approach within their chain and lack scalability too

IndustrialPuppetTwo

What you are saying is 'forget crypto' in general. Because there is Bitcoin and the rest are shitcoins with the exception of ETH but even that is an altcoin.

Daisy-Bucket8512

Ohh. Yes, that is what I’m talking about in terms of people freaking out about ETH specifically when everything is down. Now I get it.

whisperedstate

The BTC maxis are the most delusional out of all of them. The thesis for alts like ETH is pretty straight forward. It's a tech play, betting that finance will be on crypto rails. The thesis for BTC is number go up.

Fun-Journalist2276

same sentiment when ETH hits this low 2 years ago... we will pump soon

LegalCollege5593

But if you compare ETH to the BTC 20k to 3k drop, ETH repeated that for the third or fourth time now over the last 5 years without ever exceeding the initial ATH.

104MAS

Damn ETH is lower than it was 7 years ago

Sufficient-Rent9886

if they specifically need USDT on Ethereum, a lot of the extra cost is probly coming from network fees and the spread when you buy. i'd compare the actual buy price you're getting versus market price, because sometimes people focus on gas and miss that they're losing more on the purchase itself. Also double check that your vendor really requires USDT on ETH and not just USDT in general, since the network makes a huge diffrence in cost. If you're sending often, even small fee differences can add up pretty quick.

biinjo

What if.. we all strengthen our ETH position, then you exit, the rest of us profits, and we’ll cover your losses with a little extra for helping out? Everybody wins! 🥳

Cosmic___Anomaly22

Man I want to get out of ETH forever but I know as soon as I do it'll 10x.

NonVideBunt

There is none… it’s just a casino. ETH is worthless.

chillhopmusic13

POS knee capped ETH. Switching to POS was a terrible idea for any monetary growth

linux_n00by

i still ahve 3070s from ETH mining. where can i rent those out to AI ?

man_without_wax

God I'm loving all this ETH FUD. Very promising despair.

unknowngloomth

It can't be worse than ETH, damn..

beanbalance

>obvious for everyone from the start wat? these is literally tens of millions of people who are just BTC maxis who still believe that BTc is the shit. Then there are ETH believers, ZEC, solana,... and then there are gazillion of all the shitcoin holders who though crypto is more than pump and dump. maybe YOU were among those few who knew it was "obvious from the start" but then what are you doing on this sub then?

Solid-Individual-913

The problem with being this level of delusional is that the internet in 2000 was useful and crypto is still useless. Do people even talk about Web 3.0 anymore? Decentralized social media, ID, PIN, media, etc? Web 3.0 got replaced by DeFi, NFTs, RWA and a bunch of other useless shit that only serves to keep the scam going. At this point smart contracts from ETH SOL ADA or whatever are no different than any of the promises of bitconnect. More than a decade and nobody knows what the hell crypto does or what it will do. At the same time AI has revolutionized the world. AI is doing it all. War, cybersecurity, hacking, your homework, etc. We don't need a delusional conversation. If you have anything to say, use coherent arguments rather than aspirational commentary.

dev_mht

The ATH 9 months ago point is underrated. People forget ETH was at $4k+ not long ago and act like it's dead. The "ETH killer" narrative has been recycled every cycle since 2017 — ADA, EOS, Solana, now whatever's next. ETH is still the only chain where serious money actually deploys.

dev_mht

PoW vs PoS is a valid debate but the comparison with BTC isn't really fair — they serve different purposes. BTC is a store of value with fixed supply, ETH is a programmable settlement layer. The merge reduced ETH issuance by \~90% and made it deflationary during high activity periods. Whether that's better or worse than PoW depends entirely on what you think ETH is supposed to be.

oopssomething

Nice to see some relief pump on ETH, there is still hope.

dev_mht

The chart is doing exactly what it should for a base layer asset. ETH went from £0.27 to £1,224 — that's the growth. The question is whether you're comparing it to BTC dominance, to its own ATH, or to your entry point. The real debate is whether ETH's value accrual thesis (fee burn, staking yield, L2 settlement) still holds when L2s capture most of the activity. That's a legitimate concern. But "where's the growth" while looking at a 53,000% gain is a weird framing.

Saffuran

With ONDO you can basically buy any major stocks you want over ETH or Solana as well.

PeachScary413

Lmao imagine buying ETH in march of 2021 and be down all time 🤌

qwertydcf

I like ETH, but Bitcoin to ETH is crazy. gl

Seri0usbusiness

ETH sub in shambles trying to justify buying more cause it’s “a good entry point”

Queasy-Artist5211

Buy KASPA, fck ETH

qwertydcf

Now post ADA the ETH killer

Taraih

Bear markets last longer yes but the bottom is in early. Its true for BTC the bottom came in later in 2022 but for ETH for example the top was Nov 2021 and bottom Jun 2022, so exactly now.

Objective-Street-957

Remember the whole ETH is the new oil, SOL is the new eth narrative?

SeriousGains

TFW you realize your NFT from 2021 that was worth 5 ETH is only worth 0.05 ETH and ETH is only worth $1.6k and $1.6k isn’t worth what $1.6k in 2021 was.

matthegc

ETH is a stable coin

borg_6s

Bitcoin doesn't have as much innovation as ETH and SOL so I don't think the AIs actually find much to exploit in there

FrugalPeanut

It can provide good returns. If you bought ETH in April 2025 and sold in September 2025, you would have beaten gold and stocks.

Spare-Dingo-531

Lol, 7 years ago was 2019 and Ethereum 7xed in price from then. ETH has remained top of the altcoins while expanding its layer 2 bandwidth and stablecoins transacted on its network. When Bitcoin fails in the next 5 years, Ethereum is poised to take its place.

oopssomething

I don't think the ETH Foundation minds selling at these prices. They can always print more if needed.

TrustInNumbers

Look into what ETH has done in last 5-7 years and tell me how it's the future. It has done nothing

Educational_Jello239

If you don't need the money, hold for 10 years. Banks, institutions, even wallstreet will transition to crypto based which comes with ideas like open market 24hrs not only for futures. Our national debt is being push even higher to force a transition from petro dollar to crypto dollar since Saudi sarabia started trading with Chinese money in 2023 and since 1973 they were only supposed to trade with dollars. We're moving into a new era trying to save the value of the dollar and bitcoin/eth is in the middle of it. It's about holding for years, bitcoin didn't turn into a 100k coin in one year. Don't mess with alt coins that's scam. Solana only represents 10% of ETH's market. If anything I'm waiting for bitcoin to hit as low as 30k and probably will buy it, my neighbors buy and sell banks and they managed bitcoin.

TrustInNumbers

ETH is trashcoin just like the other altcoins.

antiquespaceship

I’m gonna say this because nobody else has - but I genuinely am losing confidence in BTC after being Long for 9 years. Not because of the recent Price movement, but because stable coins are seemingly the 1st crypto product that will gain mass adoption. With the CLARITY act and L2 ecosystem being built to accommodate stable coins, it’s starting to look like stable coins will be the thing that actually gets people to use crypto, and that bitcoin won’t be a super critical part of the crypto ecosystem. I’m not saying that bitcoin will have no future, I just think the return you make by investing in bitcoin might be less than if you invest in the S&P 500 or other tech stock. I have personally divested 1/2 of my crypto over the last two years because I realized I would’ve made way more money investing in any of the top 10 biggest tech companies than my crypto portfolio made me over the last 7 years. (I was heavily indexed in ETH) Basically, I feel like there’s more money to be made investing in the stock of crypto companies than the change in price of their coin itself, if that makes sense. Price volatility is one of the biggest barriers to mass adoption for crypto products, so a lot of the more successful products are not designed to have monetary value, but rather to provide a specific network function.

Adorable_Ms_G

The whole market is weak right now, but ETH gets extra attention since many expected it to outperform this cycle.

Dangerous-Bed-5885

Totally agree, I think ETH will go back up because it has such huge fan base / support group but after this upcoming bull run, I don’t see ETH having the same success it once had. If I was the OP, I’d rotate that money towards more promising alt coins. There’s so many better coins than BTC & ETH. Those two just had first mover advantage.

DrCrazyCurious

I'm a long term hodler. I'm still green with my BTC, XRP, and HBAR holdings even after all these red candles. My ETH and DOGE are a little red but I'm holding DOGE is for lolz and my ETH is staked so I don't care about the price any time soon anyway.

Dominant_Man1

Great buying opportunity for ETH.

Low_Carpet9764

I’m down that much in last day lol, just hold. Your entry is dogshit but ETH underperformed last cycle so decent odd you are in profit with holding

ComplexWrangler1346

Out of everything else ?? Really ? ETH is literally the engine for all alt coins ….its only 1760 right now which is insane entry .

ComplexWrangler1346

Take a 20k loan right now ! That will give you over 11 ETH at its current price ! You will have that loan paid off in no time and some !! We live once !

Suitable_Acadia_190

You're not wrecked. ETH at $4,600 average is underwater right now but ETH has recovered from deeper drawdowns than this multiple times in its history. The real question is whether you need that $8k back within a specific timeframe. If this is money you can leave alone, time does a lot of the work. If it's money you need soon, that changes the conversation entirely. Don't sell into panic. That converts a paper loss into a permanent one...

tj78492

Cardano dumping and Charles taking a break, SOL in the dumps, Bankless selling ETH, Saylor selling BTC, ZEC exploited... this is a shit show

Dangerous-Bed-5885

ETH typically performs better than BTC but hasn’t this cycle. Also ETH has MANY developers leaving this year to join other crypto projects. ETH founder has sold about 600,000 of the 700,000 ETH he was holding lol I don’t know what you heard but ETH is having a bad cycle this time around compared to previous cycles. I would stay far away from ETH. It’s slowly dying.

MinimalGravitas

Ethereum L1 has: * More DeFi TVL than all other chains combined; * More value in stablecoins than all other chains combined; * More value in RWAs than all other chains combined. * Just in the last month we've seen new projects built on Ethereum by Fidelity, JPMorgan and Blackrock. * There are more developers working in Ethereum than in the next 4 biggest ecosystems combined. * The chain is being used more than ever before, with daily gas used sitting at pretty much an all-time high. I'd argue that the main thing holding back the price of ETH is that weirdly few people know any of these facts.

KrustyLemon

As opposed to what? I am asking OP to try and understand what made him have the conviction to put 8k into ETH out of everything else out there. Through self reflection will OP look back and understand where he went wrong.

Firewaterdam

They can just print more ETH and that dilutes the value of all ETH, just like printing dollars dilutes the value of the dollar

Daisy-Bucket8512

Why is it troubling? Sorry, I really don’t know much about this. Also, can you explain about sharing the profits? Doesn’t anyone who owns ETH have the ability to sell it and thus, profit from it?

daily-trader-365

I personally concern about ETH , the company is great but the coin holders do not seem to share in any of the profits. Also the unlimited coin supply is troubling

TheresNoSecondBest

>Thinking about selling my E*H and moving everything into Bitcoin Bad idea or smart move? Smart, IMHO. Vitalik premined 72 million ETH, before he let anyone else to use the network. He keeps slowly selling and retail pays for it. **Dump the shitcoin**, mate.

ConsciousSkyy

Imagine seeing that dude and thinking “yea, I want to buy ETH now!”

MinimumRight3911

I use the same would i buy today test and its brutal but it works. At Merehead we actually had to formalize this for our treasury because devs kept holding dead tokens from 2021. My personal rule is if i havent thought about the project in 3 months its a bag not a hold. the borrowing thing is spot on too, i only collateralize BTC and ETH because i know i want them in 5 years. Everything else i should have sold already. The hardest part is just clicking sell and accepting the loss, but every time ive done it the money went into something better

devCheckingIn

Great... now Tom Lee is offering preferred stock in BitMine with a 9.5% dividend similar to Saylor's STRC. I guess you figure at least BMNR has revenue from ETH staking yield. But depending on how many shares they sell, will it be enough to cover dividend payments?

Remarkable_Scheme888

If youre going to own crypto - buy BTC. Crypto is already gambling so going to anything other then BTC, ETH and MAYBE SOL/XRP (those are still WAY below BTC/ETH) is just degenerate gambling. BTC is king. If you want to play in Crypto most money should be in BTC

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