ETH

CryptoAnarchyst

I made the money because I said Fuck everything but Bitcoin… and the fact you don’t get that is sad. I’ll leave you a nugget of wisdom. There used to be an alt season because the Bitcoin hype would allow rotation of funds into other projects, but it was a money grab for MMs. There was a cycle, BTC ATH, Alt ATH, tether MC ATH, and the cycle would start all over again. There’s no on ramp from Bitcoin to alts. Rotation now is stock market, Bitcoin, stock market, Bitcoin thanks to ETFs. You can see that even ETH is struggling and BTC dominance is climbing. Stop chasing the quick buck, or you’ll lose everything you have.

Suspicious-Cut3237

I know that feeling all too well... I used to do the exact same thing, rotating out of bored bags only to watch them pump later. What finally forced me to stay disciplined was transferring my core BTC and ETH holdings over to Nexo. Because it pays out compounding interest daily, I get that dopamine hit of seeing my portfolio actively grow without having to touch a thing or make a stupid trade.

Davinredit

To spend money on a game, I used venmo to buy pay pal dollars to then transfer to a crypto wallet to then change that to USDC on ETH . Meanwhile I had to upload my pic and ID to PayPal and coinbase. Yea super convenient... Was there an easier way, yes but point is I had money in one place and I wanted to use it to make a crypto transaction and it was 10x more steps than using a debit card and zero advantage

Any-Profit7256

Keeping BTC ETH and TAO like as if I already lost them…I’ll circle back in a few years… HODL cuz that’s always the plan, and DCA always even if it’s a few bucks a day.

Mister_Way

I didn't even defend ETH as an investment.

iamthinksnow

That one was more luck, I suppose. I mention this in another comment- > ETH, I actually bought in shortly after it debuted, at like $12, but sold/exchanged those of along the way. The 2020 buy was strictly to pay around with and I decided $4,100 was good enough after seeing it hit $4,700 and start dropping. No regrets.

iamthinksnow

The IPO or ETH? The news about the IPO was, literally, everywhere- print media, radio, online, email and notifications in my brokerage app. It was impossible not to know about it. ETH, I actually bought in shortly after it debuted, at like $12, but sold/exchanged those of along the way. The 2020 buy was strictly to pay around with and I decided $4,100 was good enough after seeing it hit $4,700 and start dropping. No regrets.

Astrotoad21

I’ve sold about 20% in case of total collapse, then placed to rest in staking. Don’t think much is going to happen the next couple of years. This is ETH though. Shifting focus to trad stocks. There will still be fun times ahead in crypto, but with AI and everything, all the action is in trad stocks atm.

CryptoAnarchyst

Prediction markets? Kalshi uses TRON, polymarket uses polygon on ETH… so your statement is not only wrong but further shows that Solana is shit

hgruber223

Ok then for you to understand, imagine you bought ETH in late 2020 for 100.000$, and sold it for 1.000.000$ in 2021.

GreenBullOne87

I’m only down like 7% on my solana because I just started buying. I bought 1 just to have it on my radar and then it dumped hard like a few hours later, as alts do lol. Always the way it goes. Then I bought a bunch around $60 so I might be up on it now, I haven’t looked. All my small caps are a mess though. I put like $5k into alts in November of 24’ and that was about $500 last I looked. I’ll DCA into some of the better ones a little bit while we’re down and hopefully get some of that back and the others I’ll just hold as lottery tickets. If them moon shot, badass. If they don’t, oh well. I’m mostly all in BTC and ETH now.

SunriseSurprise

Would you rather they have cut it off at 2 years and show ETH falling by over 50%?

St0uty

So why are ETH and Chainlink's price performing so terribly then? Aren't they the kingpins of defi?

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Post is by: PeeOnDusk and the url/text [ ](https://goo.gl/GP6ppk)is: /r/CryptoMarkets/comments/1u4wgb2/lit_lighter_perp_dex_showing_strength/ Lighter Due Diligence: the highest growth ETH L2? Due diligence: Beta on HYPE: Hyperliquid is amazing right now, and I expect them to do well. Perpification of all assets is going way faster that most realized, while tokenization of rwa’s have taken much longer due to the complexity of regulations, cross chain considerations, liquidity concerns, split order books etc. Perps have become the top choice for people to gamble on commodities like gold, silver, oil, and of course stocks and even pre IPO stocks. Volatility is a tailwind for perp dex revenue, and I expect further volatility this summer and rest of the year. Notice I didn’t even mention crypto perps. Even when crypto has low liquidity and mindshare, perp dex’s will still do well as people trade all assets. Lighter is currently much smaller than HYPE. About 2% of both MC and FDV. $LIT alpha: 1. US based: Vlad, the founder of Lighter, has strong connections to both Silicon Valley, DC heavyweights, and NYC tradfi institutions. He has strong connections to Robinhood, and was an early advisor and HS friend to the other Vlad, ceo of RH. RH was an early investor to Lighter, and I expect some collaboration with them in the future, as Vlad mentioned in a few interviews. I expected some integration of the options market form RH may be able to flow through Lighter on chain, or lighter can help RH with the perps in Us market. Vlad is also friends with Mike Selig of the CFTC, and also with David Sacks. Sacks was an early investor in Lighter before divesting and working for the Trump admin. I expect lighter to receive CFTC approval for us perps market and perhaps tokenization way before hyperliquid Ken Griffin, ceo of citadel, personally hired Vlad when he was 19. Citadel looks to be the perfect partner to provide liquidity to lighter. Citadel would make money on spreads. They also would need to buy $LIT token to be included in the liquidity pool as that’s how the tokenomics are set up 3) token buybacks. Lighter is using 100% of the revenue to buy back the $LIT token, and their buybacks is about 150% higher than $HYPE as % of market cap 4) Vlad also has strong relationships with EF, Lubin, and Vitalik, BMNR and tom Lee. Excited to see where these partnerships go. And I wouldn’t be surprised if these orgs invest in lighter as ethereum community is in their lowest sentiment. They need a killer app. Price action looks to look good with higher lows in the last 5 weeks. Some momentum recently with Bankless podcast selling eth and rotating into LIT. Conclusion: I think this is a high risk, high reward play. Not something to ape into with full port, but good 10% allocation MAX to see how well perp DEX’s do with regulatory tailwinds. *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.*

punkrawrxx

Unfortunately I have SOL, ADA, btc, DOT ETH POL GALA FTM LRC & MANA. At least I’ve got what I put in out of most.

Repulsive-Lake1753

Buy some BTC now, then buy some more later. Look into DCAing, and start only with BTC, maybe ETH. Once you've done that, have an account with an exchange, and understand the basics then.... Be sure to look up total supply and how much is out there already/if it's it max supply. BTC has 21MM max coins, XLM has 50BB. Entirely different supply/purposes. Because there are so many more XLM, it's almost never going to go up as much as BTC, for example. Send test transactions of small amounts for any transfer or wallet use.

FrequentSky5711

I’ll try my luck 😄 If anyone comes across this and feels like funding a crypto enthusiast’s coffee, I definitely wouldn’t say no . ETH: 0x5d99d1E9d8B14bEF0C6FB677bcbC1def16961861 BTC: bc1qtdjy62d3fn8atfu3kj3ezf57nza5vgncwy7hs6

TheForesightGuy

ETH, BTC, ADA (sniff) and BNB, and some of the stables

677ITF

Damn who would've guessed the only crypto to kill ETH would be Solana. Time really does fly

PlutoPlaneta

in this context: remember when it was all about "The Flippening" (ETH overtaking BTC) ?

Reach_Beyond

BTC, ETH, Reddit moons

FriendsMade_MeDoIt

A lot of people in my circle started with a simple BTC/ETH split just so they could learn how the whole process works without feeling like they had to chase every new narrative. The biggest mistake I saw was friends jumping into random mid-caps because Twitter was hyped that week. For exchanges, I'd honestly put more weight on recent user experiences with deposits and withdrawals than marketing claims, since that seems to change faster than anything else.

flyingalbatross1

People chase pump and dumps like crazy. Nobody's actually looking for the best tech or real world purpose any more. Most new coins are ETH fly by night shitcoins.

kyletorpey

Something to consider: ETH is down roughly 78% over the past 9 years when denominated in bitcoin. That's a long time in crypto. Each of the ETH/BTC tops in the past two cycles were also lower than the respective previous cycle's tops. Seems bad.

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Post is by: Fortknightdad2231 and the url/text [ ](https://goo.gl/GP6ppk)is: /r/CryptoMarkets/comments/1u4p8k2/the_hardest_part_right_now_is_not_chasing/ A lot of people suddenly sound done with crypto. I get it. BTC looks tired, ETH is hated again, and every second post is about AI stocks or how crypto had its run. I’d be lying if I said I don’t look at some of those charts and think maybe I should move money there instead. But I also remember making that mistake before. I bought a decent part of my ETH during 2021, then kept adding in 2022 when everything looked dead. I also had a few alts that I got bored of because they did nothing for months. Sold some, moved the money into whatever was moving at the time, then watched the old bag finally wake up after I left. That was not a strategy. That was me being impatient. So now I’m trying to be stricter with myself. If my only reason for selling is “this other thing is going up right now,” I probably shouldn’t sell. I’m not married to every coin. Some alts deserve to be cut. But for BTC and ETH, I’d rather stay boring. Add when I can, keep some cash aside, and let part of what I already planned to hold earn instead of forcing a trade just because Twitter is depressed again. Maybe crypto really does stay ugly for a while. Fine. But I don’t want to look back in 6 months and realize I sold my main bags only because stocks looked more fun that week. Anyone else trying not to chase the new shiny thing right now, or are you actually rotating crypto money into stocks/AI? *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.*

Tossmefamfr

Damn I remember thinking Nano was gonna replace ETH and BTC, how time flies

Hqjjciy6sJr

A moment of silence for all the ETH bag holders still alive today. the tragedy is that they will be ETH bag holders forever...

didnt_hodl

it's not diversification when you buy a ton of shitcoins over the years, you learn one simple thing: the longer you observe this market, the more of a bitcoin maxi you become. it's just how it goes takes some time to realize that the only goal of every single shitcoin out there was to get your bitcoin. and unfortunately even ETH started the same way, the initial offering was literally you get ETH in exchange for BTC

Perfect_Interest6239

XRP already got clarity from the SEC my brother and its now a dead coin as its not being adopted bu financial institutions. If you do a bit of research rather than believing influencers that don't know what they are talking about. CC Canton coin is what you should be looking at for this use case , look into it yourself and make a call. If you want long term money growth BTC , ETH and SOL are the coins you should be looking into. This is not advice please do your own research and for the love of God do not listen to anyone making crypto videos on social media.

Polmax2312

It wasn’t 0,31. It was 1BTC per 2000ETH and later for 1337 ETH.

HellboundLunatic

>SpaceX was a fully functioning businesses, with tens of thousands of employees and a proven ability to deliver. ETH at ICO was just an idea. A business that has a schizo price evaluation with extreme operating losses, vs a crazy idea.... who would win?

shiny-iseult

I bought more ETH and BTC today instead of SPCX lol

mrplanner-

Not apples for apples though is it. SpaceX was a fully functioning businesses, with tens of thousands of employees and a proven ability to deliver. ETH at ICO was just an idea. ETH 6 years ago was far closer comparison in terms of proven use case/ability/team than it was at ICO.

Local_Math_5512

I mean ETH is up 530,000% from ICO. ETH isn't a stock. It's a network. Match you're expectations to the Asset being traded. Gold, for example, remained stagnant for nearly 20 years around the $350 price range. Now it's worth $4500 an ounce. Don't treat a commodity like a stock. Don't treat a crypto currency like a stock either.

hkeyplay16

Buy the top 3-5, but not all at once. Heaviest (more than 50%) on BTC, then 25% on ETH, then a few others. DCA in and buy extra on the big dips. Take a little off the table during the big bull runs. Like if we get 20% or more past ATH, maybe start to DCA out and DCA back in again when when we're down 40% or more from the ATH. Do this for 10 years. Keep most of it safely off the exchanges and backed up in multiple places, but also encrypted.

SeeWoke

Been holding xrp for years. It’s trash. Buy SOL or ETH and stake it.

matthegc

ETH is a stable coin

Justinformation

Safest bet are still BTC (and ETH). My shill is TRAC. currently hovers around place 200 on market cap. It has been around since 2017 I believe. Its non-inflationary and capped at 500M tokens. They basically deal with interconnected data on their decentralized knowledge graph, but the technical stuff you can read up on yourself if interested https://origintrail.io/. In the coming weeks they should come out with V10, which will allow us to stake again. In previous versions rewards were up to 15%. Big opportunity is a client/partner-company of theirs which should be scaling up called [Umanitek](https://umanitek.ai/). Umanitek got some big name investors and [apparently already have celebrities](https://x.com/otnoderunner/status/2054976492916891803) in their client-list (This is from a video). They're working on expanding worldwide. That should bring more usage and value/rewards. Those should be happening 'soon', but you may remember what 'soon' means in the cryptospace. Ok that was my best shill attempt, thanks for listening.

Emotional_Perv

Fuck bitcoin, it’s too late. That tulip is gonna drop dead and leave people holding empty bags. ETH SOL are better long term bets IMO. Do your own research, look for crypto that has uses: smart contracts, d’apps, look into crypto that supports DeFi. Don’t gamble on shit or meme coins. Don’t follow my advice or anyone else’s.

Deehund

OP is so salty lmao. They must have bought ETH at the peak .

Abc125698

I would invest in bitcoin, ethereum, and less in Solana. Read something about what were left after 5-10 years and it’s only really the top 5. Throw 50% in btc, 30% ETH and 20% Solana

idliketoseethat

ETH hit ATHs during those 6 years. It was your decision to hold an altcoin. Trade altcoins...HOLD Bitcoin!

BookOfKingsOfKings

Explain? Both are cryptocurrencies? ETH being a native token to a network doesn't somehow make it not cryptocurrency, or remove its monetary value.

carsonthecarsinogen

lol ETH and btc have more differences than similarities. It’s bc ETH is crypto currency, btc is money.

botle

If you go a bit further back in time, yes. But almost exactly 6 years ago ETH was pretty much where it is today.

BastianHS

Wasn't ETH under 900 6 years ago?

iamthinksnow

I was in at $135, and sold at $165 two hours later. Quickest 20% gains I've ever had, but it doesn't come anywhere close to having bought ETH at a flat $300 in 2020 and sold at $4,100 last fall.

rcbake

Oh well surely ETH will recover

NonVideBunt

lol bruh you’re tarded. ETH is dead. RIP to you and your phat bags.

Original-Read-6475

I bought ETH at 200/coin 6 years ago. Your post makes no sense.

Emotional_Perv

And what if you bought ETH at its ICO? Wasn’t it something like 80 cents a coin then? I mean if we’re gonna compare, seems like this is a more apt comparison.

Mister_Way

Okay, but what about holding ETH for 10 years?

HoldCtrlW

Because SpaceX market cap is 2.1 trillion and ETH is 200b with 0 use case

No-Conference5664

BTC remains the only safe bet long-term. Most alts bleed against it forever. ETH has real risks from AI audits and quantum threats. Stick to native Segwit BTC, no address reuse. That’s your edge. The rest is gambling.

No-Conference5664

Crypto is bleeding, but it's not over. BTC near $60k support hold or drop to $50k. ETH under $2k looks weak. Alts are dying, but good projects survive. This is a normal cycle crash, not the end. Stop panicking. Don't overleverage. DCA slowly. Keep cash ready. Wait for real bounce above $67k. You've seen this before.

Beginning-Tax-8473

All of crypto is a fkn joke!! Worthless and seems like every crypto we thought would be legit was just a fkn rug pull. Even BTC is a shitcoin , ETH is useless, SOL is worthless, XrP dont even get me started on how big of a fuckery xrp is..  The whole market, stocks and crypto is rigged and completely market manipulation.. The 9 families that created the Central Banking system are at war with anyone or anything that could make one $$ or self reliant.

krakensupport

the team will follow up via email with more details, but in short: native ETH on Unichain is supported, wrapped tokens aren't 👍

Blackiris-Code

The things is, ETH and SOL already have solutions for quantum security. Afaik the devs are now trying to figure out the optimal balance between impact on network performance and smoothness of the transition (compatibility with old protocols notably). But it is not a priority at all. It's very unlikely that we start to see a shadow of a real threat within the next 5 years. Improving the UX and increasing adoption is much more urgent because being the first on a market gives a huge advantage. So refining existing protocols, developing dApps, finding TradFi partners... those things are put before optimizing quantum security implementation. But it will happen in time for sure. So for the networks that already have quantum security, the question is: What is their advantage compared to other major chains that already figured out a solution? If a network can't bring something more than quantum security I'm 99% sure that it will disappear in a bear market in the 2040s. I will be shorting the coins of those networks very aggressively.

Curiouso_Giorgio

What's the average daily price of ETH for the past 5 years?

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radiationholder

its not there yet. in the coming years, ETH, HBAR, XMR, and BTC are different types of coins that do very different things. Right now even though these are, technology wise, very different coins, pricewise they are very correlated in that they are generally following BTC. The bear market is determined by BTC. The bull market you can have different performance levels for all alts, even different performance levels (but all bad) during the bear market as well.

VincentvdA

I too would buy 25,000 ETH…. If I had the money

bimbobandit2016

It is good that Binance is facing competition from all sides. We have a marauding Hyperliquid below it in market cap, with a weak Ethereum above it in market cap. This creates the perfect incentive structure for Binance not to drop the BNB price too low, but also try pump it to overtake ETH. Also creates incentives for more staking rewards and active development of Binance. I'll trust the Chinese to win this one, they have the highest IQ in the world.

HoldCtrlW

Sold all my ETH for SpaceX. Easy money, will 2x Today

jawni

Actually they do kind of matter, and are starting to matter more and more. Look at any of the most important "fundamentals" or metrics, and the top of the list will also be the most valuable protocols. ETH, SOL, BNB, TRX, HYPE, these 5 are kind of in their own league and what do you know? They're also some of the most highest valued chains. The highly valued projects with bad fundamentals? Those are starting to drop off. I mean, it's not perfect, you have projects like pump.fun that make $1m per day and have value accrual to the token, but the token seems dead regardless.

darkpool_watcher

This is exactly what a healthy mid-cycle shakeout looks like after the post-halving euphoria. We’ve seen this movie in 2017-18, 2021-22, and now again. I’m doing the same as you, strict DCA on BTC and a bit of ETH, staying patient, and keeping dry powder for when real capitulation or better macro setup appears. No hero moves, no revenge trading. The $58-60k zone is key for BTC. If it holds, great. If it breaks, we’ll probably get one more scary leg down before the real recovery starts. Either way, the people who make it through these periods are the ones who don’t panic sell and keep stacking.

OptimalBabato

I have hope we can bounce from here. Just DCA and buy BTC ETH!

TomasTTEngin

Altcoins are like a series of islands being taken by a rising tide.  ETH is the second tallest island. When it goes under, its former holders flee to Bitcoin.  Their wealth makes Bitcoin island taller.  But. That tide...

pretend_to_be_normal

In the past, I liked the concept of a bucket of different cryptos. But have a look of the chart of your favorite alt compared to BTCt: It usually looks like a disaster if you zoom out to max time. Unfortunately, this also seems to be true for ETH. I had hoped in the past, that ETH would be important for DeFi. But nowadays I am afraid of bugs found by AI or potential quantum computer threats. I have no better solution to this than only BTC in native Segwit addresses (bc1q) which are not resused. Any thoughts?

Life-View-1757

BTC is still king honestly. ETH is still around but the ecosystem is way bigger now than it was a few years ago.

orion_icnv

fellow swyftx enjoyer, it’s okay my portfolio looks legit the exact same. ETH will recover

vohltere

Can't spell meth without ETH

Serenaded

\-36k usd in ETH here, checked before. RIP.

Zacker000

all on black (ETH). was up by $5500 AUD in the first 2 days. didn't cash out. then came the big fall. the fall has continued for 3 months. the graph may be skewed as I put more money in to invest further and average it out, and then decided not to. graph may be inaccurate as it could be showing that withdrawal of money from wallet it does add dramatic effect tho.

pretend_to_be_normal

ETH is an alt coin as well ;)

Educational_Cable405

A lot of it was boring treasury management. Most 2017 projects raised in ETH and just sat on it, then ETH drew down 95% through 2018 and their runway evaporated, devs stopped getting paid, repos went quiet within a year. The ones still around either sold a chunk into fiat near the top or had a foundation with multi year funding locked. Tech quality barely entered into it, plenty of mediocre chains with paid teams outlived genuinely interesting projects that just ran out of money.

GreenStretch

Is ETH anybody?

HSuke

Bitcoin, SMH, AI Private Equity, ETH

SeriousGains

This sub very ETH-focused. It should really be named ETH and Friendly Altcoins.

valcyclovir

https://preview.redd.it/zhlwdd8a7p6h1.png?width=570&format=png&auto=webp&s=2f83adb942fdf54d326a850ad6783619b1e3987a I'm all in on TRAC, it outperformed every other AI coins, BTC and ETH and has never ever had inflation, generates real revenue from real world companies and are more active than ever. It's my only holding left, if it goes to shit I'm out of crypto.

MetaMaskSwifties

NBA NEWS. SPURS, TO PLAY AT HOME ON SAT!!!!IF they win, they go back to New York on TUESDAY #2 SPURS at #3 KNICKS | NBA FINALS GAME 4 HIGHLIGHTS | June 10, 2026  [youtube.com/watch?v=4WzuI2GntPc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WzuI2GntPc)  SPURS lost 2 games by one point How to use base Network the easiest way possible. Install Meta Mask, MetaMask, takes about 5Minutes. On a new installed meta mask, click at all networks and only select base. You will see Ethereum with a base logo. For beginners. Base is a layer added to Ethereum network. Next, click at Add funds. Select token Market place, procced to buy, meta mask will filter for you to only buy Base making it easy. How to swap, note ETH base at top area with Max, and USDC at the bottom area, click at USDC to bring up search box, at the search box, search for Degen, select Degen base first choice and swap. Why Degen, the founder and the programmer do a weekly live stream with 8K views, with other programmer or community members giving inputs to make Degen the top crypto projects ever made. Note, new changes announced this week, price is going up every other day, people love the community efforts.  TIP. Only buy real Base projects listed on multiple crypto exchanges. Currently DEGEN is ranked number one across all social media: TIP: If you buy a token on meta mask and can’t see it after a swap, do not panic, add the token contract using the right network

Desibuddy995

Holding ETH, SOL, ADA, Litecoin, Dogecoin with 50% loss :(

account009988

Don’t buy alts. BTC/ETH only, nothing else ever

valcyclovir

Higher conviction has always been my way in crypto, I don't believe one bit in the promises most of these teams promise, then delay, then change narratives, over and over. I have been 100% on $TRAC the past year or so, and it has worked out great, outperformed both BTC and ETH, and stood its ground against other AI coins. Never putting money into memes or coins that generate no revenue. https://preview.redd.it/x1x9b7wa3p6h1.png?width=1199&format=png&auto=webp&s=92d848c92681bd04a05a15026057d25c22fa35a4

EbrithilUmaroth

3 digits? Is that for ETH only or other coins too? Because BTC hasn't been in the 3 digits in almost 10 years and tons of other coins will never reach 3 digits because their supply is too high for that.

Adventurous_Wrap_712

Good questions and yeah its mostly stablecoins, USDT specifically not BTC or ETH. The numbers are from [oobit ](https://www.oobit.com/news/crypto-at-the-checkout-what-americas-spending-data-reveals)and the NYC data was interesting. To your point about what crypto payments actually means here, its stablecoins at visa terminals. Works like apple pay but pulls USDT directly from your own wallet at checkout, you keep custody until the moment you pay and the merchant just gets fiat. So no ones buying lunch with ETH and sweating the price a week later lol and yeah 100% agree, bitcoin for savings stablecoins for spending, different tools different jobs

HedgehogOk664

BMNR has about 4.7M ETH staked, which generates about 0.6-0.7M each day. It also holds 444M still in cash, a bit less after recent round of purchase of ETH

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Post is by: ChillGuy383 and the url/text [ ](https://goo.gl/GP6ppk)is: /r/CryptoMarkets/comments/1u336ph/coins_from_2017_that_are_still_here_vs_the_ones/ Been thinking about this a lot lately. Everyone's asking which projects will survive this cycle, so I went back and looked at 2017 as a reality check. That bull run had hundreds of coins pumping and it felt like you couldn't lose. Then the bear came and the graveyard filled up fast. Most of them had great whitepapers and absolutely nothing behind them. No real users, no actual development, just hype and a Telegram group. The ones that made it through had one thing in common, they kept building when nobody was watching. BTC, ETH, XRP,. Nexo also comes to mind, launched right into a brutal bear market and just kept developing their product while others were dying around them. Chainlink is another good one, people forget how many times it was written off, but they just kept shipping integrations and expanding the oracle network quietly, and now they're basically infrastructure for half of DeFi. That's what survival looks like in this space. The market is pretty good at filtering out noise eventually. It just takes longer than people expect and it's painful to watch in real time. If the project you're holding doesn't have a real reason to exist beyond the current hype cycle, that's worth thinking about. Not saying sell everything, just saying be honest with yourself about what you're actually holding. *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.*

fugit185fi

My investings are ok, because my strategy is ECA. The more cheaper BTC and ETH go the more I get them

DecisionBubbly5623

I think this is one of those stats that sounds bullish, but needs a lot more context. If true, it’s actually a much healthier signal for crypto than trading volume, people buying groceries or paying bills is real utility, not speculation. But I’d also want to know what “crypto payments” actually means here. Is this mostly stablecoins (USDC/USDT)? Because that’s a completely different story from people paying for coffee with BTC or ETH. Stablecoins make way more sense for daily spending since nobody wants to buy lunch and realize they spent 20% more a week later because of volatility. Personally, I still see Bitcoin more as savings and stablecoins more as payments, different tools for different jobs.

ProbablyANoobYo

No. I researched the coins I wanted to invest in thoroughly before investing. While not everyone was a winner, collectively they greatly outperformed a simple BTC/ETH strategy.

Adventurous_Wrap_712

Three cycles in and my portfolio went from 20+ coins to basically BTC, ETH, and stablecoins. Every cycle I tell myself I'll be more disciplined and every cycle I end up chasing narratives. The trick was finally admitting that holding 15 altcoins isn't diversification it's just gambling with extra steps

GreenBullOne87

I did the same thing. Every time I would see them go sideways for awhile I would think “okay I think we must have bottomed” I would add more to my position and within a week we would dump hard again. I’ve only been buying BTC and ETH while they’re down as well. I had a weekly buy and once I was sitting in profits I stopped the weekly purchase so I wasn’t averaging up and I’m glad I did now that we’re back down. I dumped a lump some into each of them and turned my weekly back on till we start heading up again.

InvestaHepps

I think most people learn this one the hard way. Diversification in crypto can look sensible at first, but if everything is just a higher beta version of the same risk trade, you’re not really diversified. You just own more ways to underperform BTC when liquidity dries up. I’ve become much more selective over time. Less interested in owning every narrative, more interested in whether the market actually has enough liquidity and structure to support risk outside BTC/ETH.

GreenBullOne87

I started buying mostly bitcoin and Eth around the beginning of the year. I got heavily into alts in November of 24’ with about $5,000 and that’s about $500 now. I chased so many small caps trying to get those huge returns. Got a few right off the bat and was like “this is easy!” So I dumped all that money into it and then we’ve done nothing but go down. I’ve started to slowly DCA into some of the larger caps alts and just been leaving the small caps alone. They’re just lottery tickets at this point. If they do 100x, that’s fucking awesome. If not, oh well. I mostly hold BTC and ETH now with almost equal amounts into them and then I have some SOL, SUI, ONDO and one or two others I have added too. I definitely learned a lot from getting wrecked like I did though (it may be a small position to some but to me, especially at the time, it was not) and I’ve learned patience that I didn’t even know existed.

CryptoGuy89

Now I am just holding BTC and small amount of ETH and SUI. Considering to increase position later for those alts. But I think I am done with small caps

ProceduralTaco

Tom Lee makes his money from managing money so he is kind of a shill. He has a big ETH position with a paper loss. Convincingly retail that this is a positive sign is the point. Tom Lee will be fine. I have no idea what the price of ETH will be.

calamaritis12

It’s a Ponzi scheme. They use BTC or ETH as collateral to borrow more money and buy even more BTC or ETH, and then repeat the process. They take on debt, use their holdings as collateral, and borrow again. It can work as long as prices keep rising, but if prices fall significantly, at some point it will collapse and could take down the entire industry with it.

Swimming_Brush9038

If you can't explain why you own something, that's your answer . Simple rule: if a position is under 5% of your portfolio and you have no strong thesis for it, it's just noise. Trim down to BTC and ETH as your core, maybe one or two L1s you actually believe in, and that's a real portfolio. 12 coins isn't diversification, it's just confusion with extra steps.

Smart_Bench_9914

Almost down to 25K 10/10 liquidated me I had some future position on XRP,ADA,AVAX,FART,ETH And BTC,SOL after that again got liquidated on the Feb 2026 Again I tried ,opened some more positions with less capital again got liquidated .It's too much winning for me Mr. President