ETH

ubermensch1001

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

TheDadThatGrills

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

YogurtclosetTall2558

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

confusedguy1212

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

SpontaneousDream

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

SeriousGains

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

Shadowpinegrowth

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

Tall_Run_2814

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

skyline917

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

GesturalAbstraction

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

ZekeTarsim

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

RocksteK

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

whisperedstate

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

SorryWerewolf4735

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

Alexbobica

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

floppypretense

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

VIXtrade

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

Tall_Run_2814

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

fhwoompableCooper

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

GaRGa77

Stop hating on ETH 🤣🤣🤣

airwavieee

XRP is still down from where it was almost 8 years ago. You can't say that for BTC or ETH.

necropuddi

Which has nothing to do with the topic at hand (which you're the OP of). If this is your evidence to say vaporware, then BTC and ETH function similarly. You're basically saying crypto is all vaporware, in which case what are you even doing here?

Y0l0BallsDeep

Bitcoin’s turn is coming. It’s essentially a Wall Street meme coin, and it’ll be the “asset” dumped the moment the shit hits the fan . On top of that, you’ve got all these crypto-treasury companies levered to the hilt. They’ll be among the first forced to unload their BTC and ETH once the pressure ramps up. Buying puts on IBIT is probably a better way to make money off of BTC these days.

Gubbie99

your question kinda answers itself... Did BTC and ETH lose value? no. 1BTC = 1 BTC 1 ETH = 1 ETH. But you wiew it as a specilative asset compared to USD and as long as people do so stable coins will serve that cause. BTC and ETH is probably healthier than ever. but people tanked the price compared to USD. (replace USD with the stablecoin of your choice) Embrace the BTC cycle. BTC just started entering its hibernation period.

PMmeuroneweirdtrick

ETH is good for trading. Buy it at about 1.5 and sell over 3.

Indianianite

No one in here knows. I bought a large sum at $1,700 in April when people here were saying ETH was dead.

Worldly-Law9012

BTC ETH and SOL are the real gems

Worldly-Law9012

Focus is now BTC, ETH and SOL

Buydipstothemoon

Okay then why aren't BTC and ETH at 0$?

Erocdotusa

Lee has been calling nonstop for ETH to hit 7k by end of year. If he is wrong he needs to never give predictions again

Worldly-Law9012

All other are either scaling BTC, ETH and SOL or a variant of some sort

GroundbreakingPage41

But I was told repeatedly that ETH was going to the moon on this sub? So guess it’s not a good investment after all?

Ill-Chart5778

ETH died when it moved from POW to POS, its pretty obvious ETH simply sees a LOT less interest than it used to. Its almost like several million hobby miners pumping holding and of course mining ETH actually played a large part in the ecosystem, who knew (well a lot of people actually).

semanticweb

When bitmine gets liquidated, i will buy ETH left and right

brucekeller

Looks like their average cost is around $3120 per ETH according to Yahoo finance. But the initial google says $3997 per ETH, which makes more sense to me since they started buying around the end of June and made many notable purchases around the $4800-$5k level.

Xop114

I was told the same thing a few years ago — “just buy BTC/ETH/XRP and forget about it.” So I did. My bag went from breakeven to almost 2×, then dumped right back to my entry… and that cycle repeated 4–5 times over two years. Here’s what I learned: Holding works if you keep adding capital and plan to wait 5–10 years. But if you want actual growth on smaller money, the real gains come from buying the bottoms and taking profit near the tops. Even simple swing trading between obvious ranges outperformed my “just hold” strategy by a mile. Now is a very good time to start looking for entries

GabeDef

XRP is still nearly double where it was z as year ago. You can’t say that for BTC or ETH

SirBuysHighALot

Rate cut was priced in. That’s what caused ETH to pump. Then when rate was actually cut, it was “Sell the news”

fizikxy

It was… not a bull run? BTC went from 20ish to 130ish, ETH to 5k, sol from 10 to 300…. I‘d say that‘s a pretty crazy run. People just got lost in believing the „euphoria“ phase was due for altcoins as always, when in reality it was the 3 months after trump got elected abd it wasn‘t altcoins, it was memecoins all along.

Zealousideal_Rain_79

Next time don’t focus on XRP shit and LINK my a**. Focus on BTC and ETH and that’s it!

MaryyJuanaa

ETH barely broke ATH this cycle, such a shitcoin, i think ETH is dead going forward in the next cycles

watch-nerd

Not that much because I took profits and put a lot in stables. Only about $35k down. Still in the green for now because avg BTC price is $45k, ETH $2k.

Coquito3000

to be honest crypto raises my apathy to life. I worked. I went to college. I got a bachelor degree in a STEM field. I thought I would make 100k/year. That didnt work. I joined the military. I have been a soldier for over a decade now. I now make 100k/year. But that shit doesnt mean jack because I make and lose 100k in just a day whenever the markets flip. My 816 ETH make my entire life meaningless. The highest score is +500k in just 1 day. So far. I have been down a lot very fast too. Life loses a lot of meaning. I have been to a hospital before for different reasons. Crypto doesnt necessarily cause me to feel horrible but it does take the value of sacrifice because I know this life is arbitrary.

EDYJ94

I bought more $ETH $LUSH $PAAL $DSYNC

piggleii

So now Tom Lee is predicting $7k ETH by EOY and all the ETH bulls are just pretending he never predicted $15k to begin with.

anthonyrjwood

There has been the longest ever alt rally. I.e. tokens. Been that way since February 2024 when the Jupiter exchange went up. ETH ICO. NFT mania. Trump Sonic Obama Elon Dog INU 2 era. And SPL and other meme token era. Each cycle sees a shift in retail behavior. If anything, this was the longest alt season I've seen. I mean that dog wiv hat crap went from thin air to billions 😂 BTC from 15K to 125K? Maybe I am blind, but the cycle is over. BTC did super well. Alts did their thing. Buckle up until next time.

North_Weezy

It’s a tough position to be in because in a bear market any kind of dead cat bounce or relief rally will get quickly erased by people exiting their spot positions or traders shorting on leverage. Your options are to either take the loss and move on, or sell your shitcoins and DCA down into larger cap alts like ETH or SOL and wait until the next bull cycle for them to recover. Then just stick to Bitcoin and stocks and forget about altcoins and memes.

FluffyB12

Crypto often moved relatively together, so if you sell some of your down alts to buy btc or ETH, it isn’t the exact same position, but you shouldn’t feel as if you are locking in a loss.

Patient-Process-2565

Could get very ugly ETH, it hardly made a new ATH this run, it’s loosing dominance in the crypto space, it will be in the 100’s is my estimate

noviwu97

If I used $40B of client's money to buy ETH with the average of $3900, I would keep bullposting higher

Polysorbate800

Tom Lee says $20k ETH by end of year

Comfortable-Half5165

Splitting $1K between XRP, BTC, and ETH is low-risk; BTC and ETH likely have the best chance to grow a bit over time.

Comfortable-Half5165

I’m just keeping an eye on solid projects like BTC, ETH, and RYO, and DCA’ing steadily while waiting to see if momentum really kicks in. 🚀🚀🚀

Worldly-Law9012

The top 100 coins by market has been changing gradually since inception of crypto except for likes of BTC, ETH and XRP. Perhaps game ultimately will be BTC, ETH and maybe SOL. Whats the purpose of the rest of coins that cant be achieved by BTC, ETH and SOL?

Worldly-Law9012

Alts losing steam, maybe game is BTC, SOL and ETH and closely aligned L2s and defi in those ecosystems. Bulk of chains that wanted to be the next ETH or ETH killers pretty much didnt come those. Where are all ETH killers now? Bulk of alts losing relevance and adoption which spreads the market thin.

Comfortable-Half5165

I’ve seen some alts fail or never fully recover, but others, like RYO, have shown real resilience. With a strong ecosystem, practical utility, and active community, RYO stands out as one that can bounce back and maintain long-term value alongside BTC and ETH.

Striker3737

ETH did set a new ATH, but not inflation-adjusted. I believe it hit 4900, which passed the ATH by about $100

inShambles3749

Yup like xrp,sol and everything except BTC and ETH

Renowned_Molecule

Big picture is to follow the fundamentals. Once we get a Market Infrastructure Bill signed into law then crypto becomes legalized in the largest economy in history. This will lead to many other countries adopting similar laws for a globalized blockchain economy. .. I hold a basket of 20 different digital assets (no BTC or ETH because they have utility issues).

ConfederacyOfDunces_

I agree with everything you said, including the idea that ETH will fade over time. I think we’re about to see a major shift in crypto, and a lot of the old ways, alts and all. are going to disappear completely. Along with that, a few legacy players will eventually fade out as well. Honestly, that’s not a bad thing. We’ve been in the Wild West for far too long, and the era of scams and corruption is finally nearing its end.

nitroacid411

DCA in or out. Remember taxes, gains, and pure pain from ripping 125k. Now, Remember the time Donald was elected 1 year ago today. He wasn't acting president, but the number was 69k. This was a great number at the time, almost the new 115k average. That being said, calm down, take some time to evaluate your losses if you have sold. Remember this is the long game. Either your in or out. We have our gold BTC. We have our silver ETH. Lots of liquidated cartels accounts in the long in the past 14 days. Ask yourself if that magic 100k was your breaking mental point? What was your panic? It's a long game. Stay in the game.

hemorrhoid-tickler

BTC, ETH, DCA and go watch TV

MariachiArchery

This is why it is so important to go into the market with a plan. Looking at the charts should not make you anxious. It will lead to bad trades. As the market cycles, it is OK to adjust the plan, but you shouldn't abandon it because you got anxious. Trump's presidency will end in 2028 (well, '29), it is extremely likely we'll get a Democrat in office. Dems *always* pump the markets. This event will coincide directly with the next halving. It should come around a year after the next halving, which is typically when we see the market really take off following the halving. Over the next 3 years, the markets will be in the dumps. All of them. The writing has been on the wall for years, SP500, NASDAQ, Crypto, AI, everything has been overheated for years. They need to time cool, and that will happen over the next few years, and we will enter a recession. Coming out of this recession, we'll have a general election that will coincide with the halving, the AI bubble will have popped, the war in Europe will likely be over, and the markets will rally. BTC and ETH will be primed for explosion. 2030 is my exit, and I'll be buying during this 3 year crab.

the_superbatman

I don't think that retail demand is enough to fuel another leg up. Its institutional demand thats racking up new ATHs. Really depends on what institutions like and as far as I've understood institutions are looking at Btc, for its simplicity and store of value status. While ETH does have some digital assets treasures its not simple enough that institutions are willing to pile money into it yet. The other dont even get to investment consideration stage at all.

substandard2

I am down 900k, this is from the all-time high. I never said I lost 900k, I haven't lost any money in crypto. My worst sale was 1.2 million worth of siacoin at .0035 then watching it go to .04. I still made a boat load of money from it. I was on the first batch of siacoin miners and we had 80 of them. I also ran 62 eight rig amd 580s dual mining. I still hold almost 50% of the large amount of ETH that was mined. I have been very profitable. Even with the z9 minis I turned enough profit to buy several rentals.

WrathofTitus

I appreciate it. I'm not a cultist by any stretch as evident by my allocation....see link since I can't upload a picture here for some reason. I used to have a little of everything, but in the past 2 years or so, I've really downsized the amount of tokens. You just need 50% BTC, 25% ETH or SOL, couple of protocols, and one moon bag. https://photos.app.goo.gl/uJzcY2jkEPsuZAsr9 Anyways, I hope you're successful. Just remember, it doesn't matter what price you bought BTC at, it only matters how much you have; which usually is never enough.

andys811

I respect that. And I almost agree except from I do think a handful of alts will survive, most of crypto is definitely dead, that's pretty standard for most crypto. But I also think genuinely good coins like ETH or SOL get put into the same category of shitcoin when I personally think they will continue to do well with BTC

CaffeineComaMode

Still is, bought ETH when it dumped to $1500-$1600 back in May, also bought a nice bag of BTC at $77k before it pumped

CaffeineComaMode

Sorry to break your illusions, but yeah - it does. What you're seeing rn is temporary and nothing more but market manipulation. As soon as it ends, you'll see BTC, ETH and all the other big projects breaking new ATHs.

BraveUnderstanding15

Hell yeah I still have BTC I acquired through mining, ETH too!

WrathofTitus

They literally say the same thing every cycle. Remember the beginning of the last bear market when they tried to paint BTC as some energy monster that is destroying the planet. Kevin O'Leary famously said he's selling all his BTC that isn't carbon neutral. Then the ETH bros tried to get onboard saying they're carbon neutral. Fast forward years later and BTC printed an ATH years before ETH did. The point in trying to make is BTC will always be top dog.

WrathofTitus

Saylor is about 7 million from being in the red and most likely will be in the red very soon. Did he fail in crypto? What about Tom Lee? His ETH company deep in the red. Did he fail? One thing you need to learn, is you haven't lost money till you sell.

AceKittyhawk

I sold whatever alts I had (including ETH) in early 2022 half to fiat half to BTC when I realised things were not bouncing anytime soon and roundtripping alts would be a lot worse than roundtripping BTC and i am grateful I did. It was psychologically difficult since we had just come off off ATHs, but looking back it was good for me both financially and emotional well being wise to not hold alts bleeding all those years (and never even get back to where they were back then this cycle… though this was unexpected for most!) We don’t know what will happen exactly but rotating into BTC gives you still exposure to crypto but minimizes the risk of holding an alt that may never come back (still have a tiny bag I couldn’t sell at the time and held on to that is a painful reminder, fortunately it’s tiny….)

MakCapital

No long term L1 investor cares about whatever Trump political hot topic there is of the day. If anything global instability is bullish for Bitcoin long term. We do care about the regulatory changes Trump's admin accomplished for crypto which positively altered the mechanics of capital flow and adoption of Web3 in general. Down to us racing to add privacy into major chains before the end of Trump's term, real legislation/guidance, extremely pro crypto regulators ready to communicate/assist, and lawsuits against anything Web3 dropping. We went from "Touch Web3 and expect jail or endless lawsuits" to "everything gets tokenized". This saved the US crypto industry. The event that happened on 10/10 was the announcement that there would be serious consideration to remove crypto treasury companies from stock indexes if they hold over 70% in a single asset. This means no more guaranteed buyers of Microstrategy and related from large indexes like NASDAQ 100. Translates to dats having much less buying power across BTC, ETH, SOL. One of the largest buyers of L1s. DAT game ends, and tradfi buyers shift to ETFs as they should. Only reason why we needed dats, is the previous admin refused all crypto products. Ended up with crypto bags pretending to be companies 🤣.

AidoKush

I usually reply to idiots in a harsher and more insulting way, but since you called me an idiot I will be just balling with you. So here we go. First, I can assure you I have succeeded in many businesses and I am doing very well financially and I never bankrupted. I am pretty sure I must be doing better than you but nonetheless I don't wanna judge you and your wealth or mental being because it doesn't really matter. In my books bankruptcy is not 'smart' in any way, especially if done continuously because you simply are a failure. **You are defending a pedophile because you secretly like the pedophile, you are showing empathy towards the pedophile and its failures.** I didn't pour money in shitcoins. I bought BTC at 3$ in 2011, 10$ later and 700$ in 2017. And ETH at 3$ before the big jump in 2017, Render at 0,09$, Bonk in January 23, and SOL on ICO and many more ICOs like Tezos, Stacks, Mina etc. To me BTC at 80k is a delight, to you it is a market crash :) And as you might be drooling around these numbers and doing calculations, and they might be hard for you to believe, it is true, I exist and people like me exist. People smarter than Donald, Barron, Eric and all the shitshow company. Bro, I bet you still own a $Melania coin with -99% value crying in bed every night. And yes my friends love be because some of them got crypto riches too as I got them involved early. FYI, as an idiot, I read, I study, I analyze, I execute and yes, I sometimes fail - true, but I take them as lessons and learn from them and do not become an arrogant shit calling people idiots on the internet for no good reason.

Small_Appearance2014

Aside from BTC and ETH, I’m eyeing RYO. Solid ecosystem, real utility, and a good long-term build. 💯🚀

piggleii

Is it any wonder that the hero for ETH bulls is someone who is heavily underwater? Makes complete sense.

csmflynt3

Long-term, this has proven to be correct 100 times over now, unfortunately. I think a few other altcoins could be added to this list now, so it should be safe with BTC, ETH, SOL, and BNB. As someone else said, it unfortunately doesn't correlate to which has the better tech anymore. In the short term , altcoins have way more upside than BTC if you know when to get out

chief_erl

I mean…. Does anyone remember REQ and how big they were gonna be? I had a nice bag that tanked and never recovered. Also had a bag of WTC that was a scam. I bought into ENJ during the ICO. That seems to be a dead coin that will never recover. Many alts die during the bear market. It’s true. Luckily I bought enough BTC and ETH to still make a good profit despite my losses.

AceKittyhawk

It’s not obvious at all that any altcoins will recover at all when even ETH couldn’t regain previous ATH… if this cycle ends like this with no altcoin season and blow off top, people will have little reason to buy altcoins ever again. I’ve been in a similar situation to you and OP in 21-22, but I sold my alts (including ETH) half to fiat half to BTC when I began to think things were not going up again for a long time. Best thing I did re crypto because look at it now…. It felt horrible selling 20-50% down from recent ATHs but the alternative would be holding them for years on end and never even see any return! Roundtripping BTC is one thing but alts another. So OP if you see this, idk the right answer for you and I know it’s hard. You should definitely consider how to not round trip your alts. If you’re worried about losing all potential upside by selling now you can sell part of your portfolio or convert to BTC, which has a much higher chance of recovery than altcoins. Bear markets arent kind to alts, the tech or the fundamentals wont matter and they crash harder than BTC and many of them never recover (and this time around possibly all of the alt market). I’m sorry you went through this as so many people do. I hope whatever you do you can find some acceptance. It’s impossible to time the market and this cycle rather bamboozled everyone…

MaxxGawd

The bottom is triple digits. The time to buy is next year at the earliest. Don't buy ETH anymore tbh. This cycle it really underperformed BTC. You're more than likely in a Crypto bear market now, so just buy BTC when it's 50% below ATHs. It will perform better than ETH for 2028 cycle.

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Django_McFly

ETH went like less than 10% over the 2021 high. First cycle hits like $1400ish. It's second it does a little bit more than a 3X over that. The next one, sub 10%. If that trend continues (trend of one, I know) it might not make it back.

BTBL1

There’s no buying pressure, and the liquidity sweep that happened during the Asian session doesn’t seem to have been enough. In the worst-case scenario, BTC could possibly reach 75k and ETH around 2.15k from here. Could be great trade setup

andys811

I bought XRP around 0.4-0.6 range, I'm still holding onto it and I'm not sure why, it made sense in that range but now it just feels overpriced because no-one really uses the XRPL for anything (enlighten me if someone uses it other than buying memes that suck) so something big needs to happen (which it could but more uncertain than just buying BTC or ETH which have more clear reasons to buy. Also people that do use XRPL for whatever reason, apparently everyone just uses the default UNLs which effectively means the same few people validate all the transactions on the network, which isn't exactly what I would call decentralization. To me the biggest reason and why I don't buy more is because of the initial distribution of XRP and how it was all pre-mined and given to Ripple and the founders, all 100 Billion tokens (80B to Ripple, 20B to the founders). There's no reason Ripple should have so much imo....

VariatCA

Companies/Treasuries are thinking on timelines just a little longer than a couple months. With no immediate need nor desire to sell any time in the near future, they can also put their ETH to work and stake it for a yield... a privilege Blackrock doesn't get to enjoy as a custodial ETF.

OverlordBluebook

Yep Fidelity lets you buy BTC, ETH, Solana, XRP I think one more directly. Just did it last week while everything dropping.

Suspicious-Skill1934

So far ETH did shit, asking myself what would happen to him if BTC go to bear. No new ATH nothing...

Indi_Cat123

If XRP keeps going down, then it won't outperform shit on the yearly chart. That percentage if decreasing fast for XRP. BTC/ETH performed much better this year. That's of course talking if everybody played it right by taking the profits near the ATH, which... Most did not (Including me).

crypto_trust_fund

“Buying or not depends on your risk tolerance, but splitting between major assets like BTC/ETH/XRP is a common beginner approach. Just remember the most important part: how you store your crypto matters more than what you buy. Exchanges aren’t designed for long-term holding, especially with new tax and regulatory changes coming. If you need help understanding safe storage or how to protect your assets, feel free to DM me.”

iTzSonicHD

All we can do is hope and prey that our Alts don’t crash and burn. Otherwise next cycle I will only invest into BTC / ETH

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9jal

Yeah, those were the days...the days where I lost 70%, sold ETH at $400, and swore to never touch crypto again lol

wmrsion

I buy some ETH because of the relationship with JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs. Both institutions have been offering investments and stable coins through ETH only. Ripple was supposed to dominate this space for American banks. It’s too hard to understand where crypto is going with the end of QE, money supply being increased, and the eventual inflation… be cautious and do your homework.

Impossible-Weight852

I won’t consider putting in a single dime until BTC breaks below $60K. I started selling off a percentage when ETH was at $4.2K and BTC at $115K a few weeks ago. This was when it bounced up. Why? One reason was because cryptosrus said we would have a huge rally. As you know, he’s always wrong like Kramer is wrong about stocks.

GardenKeep

Sell and do what? I don’t need the money. Buy stocks? I already have a significant amount of my portfolio in stocks. Buy a Lambo? I’m good. I believe in ETH and have no need to sell. Why would I sell? Long term it will go up. If everyone just bought crypto with money they were OK with losing, then people wouldn’t be in total fucking panic right now lol. Tbh I get second hand embarrassment watching people react to what’s happening right now.

j0ker31m

Im still holding 100% im in the red, and it'll probably get worse. But I'm DCA'n all the way down. I dont buy the "crypto is dead forever" hoopla. I've been collecting bitcoin for years, and if i take out on a downtrend d, it always reverses on me immediately. My bags have shrunk from chasing dips many times so I just accumulate. Im currently holding BTC, SOL, and ETH and I'll just collect more with these black friday prices

thatmanontheright

At least BTC and prob ETH will recover. The rest will all fade and some new coins will take their place

baIIern

>Main cryptos (BTC, ETH, XRP, ADA, etc) will certainly recover from this bear market I bet people said that about NEO, NEM or whatever coins we had in 2017

Volgrand

Okay, I was in the same situation some years ago. SO first question is: DO YOU NEED THIS MONEY RIGHT NOW?If the answer is "Yes": Sell now, and stop losing. It sucks, but if you need the money, accept your loses and carry on. Let's say you DON'T need the money right now. What to do? **HOLD.** I'm not a guy of "hodl" no matter what. Let me explain: Back in 2021 BTC reached 65k give or take. I sold, made profits. OH YEAH!. Then it dipped to roughly 60K, I bought again thinking (among other coins) thinking prices would keep rising... And well, they crashed. My wallets were at -80% benefit. So I decided to let it be. At the end of 2024 I started seeing some greens in my profits. And just a few months ago I sold to stablecoins, recovering my whole investment and getting profits. **SO WHAT'S MY ADVISE?** Well, I moved away from ALTs long ago. They are like chasing a golden goose. Main cryptos (BTC, ETH, XRP, ADA, etc) will certainly recover from this bear market, but it may take time. You need the money? Sell now and don't lose more. You don't need the money right now? Wait. It may recover. Or not. **Never invest money you can't afford to lose!**