ETH

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

BraskysAnSOB

lol for me it’s not as bad as it sounds. I had actually taken profits and reinvested. In total I’m up on ETH, but I’ll be holding for a while longer in hopes it comes back around.

baIIern

So instead of selling my ETH for profits, I should keep it until it's worth less. Genius! Something only rich people understand

Notoriously_So

ETH?? Is it 2018 again??

HocusThePocus

Is… is ETH going places??

PutridMarionberry757

Micheal slayer of ETH

baIIern

>Bitmine's average Ethereum **cost basis is approximately $3,446 per ETH**. [link](https://www.kucoin.com/news/flash/strategy-btc-holdings-face-10-7b-floating-loss-bitmine-eth-holdings-down-9-8b?lang=en_US&)

kanzie_blitz

Everyone has their own priorities. Saylor BTC, this guy ETH and I bought 5 LINK yesterday!

ConsistentRub934

You never know with these things. ETH at $1.5k is exactly the kind of price that looks terrifying in the moment and obvious in hindsight. I’m not going all in, but I’d rather DCA slowly here than try to call the exact bottom. Keeping some ETH earning on Nexo and some cash ready has been the least stressful setup for me. If it drops more, I buy more. If it recovers, at least I didn’t sit out completely.

BeyondEvolved

Similar. I was one of the developers for Microsoft's Azure Blockchain resource and did a lot of the ethereum integration for them. At the time ETH was $12 and at the end of the project still only $400. Still kicking myself for not buying in at $12 even though I was intimately familiar with it. Luckily I did still make some money of random alt coins and crap but nothing life changing unfortunately.

Adorable_Ms_G

A lot has changed, but the biggest lesson hasn't: risk management beats chasing profits. Focus on BTC/ETH first, keep position sizes small, and spend a few weeks observing before increasing exposure. The traders who survive long-term are usually the ones who protect capital during uncertain periods. You must check DCA also for low risk tolerance.

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ConsciousSkyy

People have been calling these alts cheap for a long time. ETH is not at all cheap right now it’s still $200 billion market cap

Volgrand

On a general note, Diversifying with cryptos... well, it could reduce slightly the risk, but not too much. You are in a volatile, high risk market. If you don't know what you are doing, it may be time to stop and reassess your objectives. If you truly want to diversify, move part of your inversions outside of crypto market. But if you remain, I'd advise you to divide your crypto funds in percentages: \- 80% on big coins: BTC, ETH, XRP, DOT.... \- 15% on promising projects: Alpha coins (VELO...), new coins with a promising white paper... \- 5% on shitcoins. That bit is pure gamble: If they succeed, you earn big. But you'd likely lose everything. Then decide your strategy. Basically you can focus on three main strats: 1. Day scalping 2. Follow the big market fluctuations 3. Hodl 4. Add DCA to 2 & 3 **"Day scalping"** means you buy & sell fast, for small profit each time, many times a day. Requires a lot of work, market analysis and cold blood. Considering you "don't know what you are doing", I wouldn't recommend that. **To "follow market fluctuations"** is done in three steps: 1. Fine out a good moment to buy a few of the big coins. Remember the price you bought. 2. Decide a price increase in which you will sell. IE: Buy BTC at 65k, sell at 100k. 3. Wait until price reaches sell objective. This requires some analysis, but as you focus on big price changes, it is way easier and more relaxed. You may do a trade today, and not make another one in months or years. **HODL:** Buy, and keep buying, hoping prices will go up. It worked wonders for those who did it for years, but you cannot know if it will work nowadays. The main advantage is that it is simple: You buy and forget you have criptos at all **DCA:** Dollar Cost averaging. But regularly the same ammount of fiat currency (USD for instance) of the cryptos you choose. This makes price dips & surges less step. It avoids the risk of putting all your funds in a moment when price is too high, but the opposite is also true. Basically, you sacrifice a bit of potential benefit to reduce potential loses. Anyway, stop, reevaluate your strategy, and carry on. Crypto is very volatile, no matter how much you diversify.

SeriousGains

Give me a real reason to buy ETH?

Previous_Valuable873

Smiling in XMR. I made 2 good choices regarding crypto ever, out of 4 calls. First one was, to mine btc and LTC in 2013 with 7970's 16 of them. I accumulated 2 btc and 500 ltc, which i cashed out at the local top 1500 on mtgox, 2 weeks before they collapsed. Then said I'll never touch crypto again. Fastforward 2020, where I noticed everybody buying crypto is thinking they are buying XMR, while they are not. Non fungible, traceable, transparent assets galore, which meant for me from that point btc, eth, anything was a shitcoin, but xmr. Started stacking around 150, then binance delisting to 90, all the way stacking, all my friends pay me in xmr, i pay them in xmr, my visa card is xmr backed, life is good really. Whoever is still believing any other coin is worthwile to keep is in for a bit of a surprise the next 2-3 years... I once said XMR will be 5k sooner than ETH ever again, OR that btc will definitely not reach the inflation adjusted 120k ever again (which would be around 150 by now and is getting even farther...) I dont mind if the crypto space shrinks to 1T, with 4 coins having any significant marketcap....

ChangeHeroOfficial

75k ETH for $123M is a serious move. Big accumulation like this from major players could signal growing confidence in ETH heading forward.

unknowngloomth

Instead of spreading your money across many "medium risk" assets the typical diversified portfolio, you split your capital into two extremes: Portion Allocation Type of Assets Goal Safe Barbell 80 to 90% Very conservative (low volatility) Protect capital Risky Barbell 10 to 20% Very high risk, high upside bets Generate outsized returns You completely avoid the middle ground those "somewhat risky but not crazy" assets that usually deliver mediocre results. In Traditional Investing Safe side: Government bonds, treasuries, cash, gold, blue-chip defensive stocks. Risky side: Venture capital, startups, options, leveraged bets, or small speculative positions. In Crypto Context Safe side (80 to 90%): BTC, "ETH," stablecoins Risky side (10-20%): A very small number of carefully filtered high-conviction bets (clean tokenomics, real usage starting to show, not 90%+ down from ATH, etc.). You don’t hold 8 to 12 random small caps just because they "might do something." You stay extremely picky on the risky side. Protects you from big losses (most of your money is safe). Still gives you exposure to massive upside (the small risky bucket can 10x to 50x and move the needle). Avoids "diworsification" owning too many mediocre coins that all move together when the market dumps.

SeriousGains

Nope nope. This time is different. ATH coming soon. ETH to 12k. Buy now for generational wealth.

Kemilio

“the idea that ETH, SOL and BTC won’t be ready for quantum is straight fear mongering” lmao.

SensitiveAd6131

ETH, SOL, LINK, RENDER More risky ones IOTX, Cardano

Oheson

ETH is just another Alt, so yes. There is no "second best".

cryptoanddown

The entire crypto market is still highly correlated. Assets move together. When in a bear market like we are now. Take a look across the different sectors to see the outliers that are still performing well. These tokens that are performing well when everything else is down can give you a clear insight into building a better diversified portfolio. Take a look at the below watchlist I created for L1s and Native Tokens used for Gas. Trx has typically been a consistent performer compared to ETH and others. New additions CC is performing better than most others over the last 3 months. One metric to take into account is that on a percentage basis, TRX and CC are not as far from their All Time Highs compared to every other token. Diversification for Cryptocurrency is looking across tokens that are not highly correlated. THIS NOT INVESTMENT ADVICE. https://preview.redd.it/koia0q28ph6h1.png?width=1236&format=png&auto=webp&s=3856788b7c7b3ce27a1e15614082cbb26048cb7b

darkpool_watcher

This is super common in crypto, a lot of us went through the same phase including me. You’re probably overdiversified, true diversification in crypto doesn’t mean spreading thin across dozens of tokens, it usually means having a core (BTC + ETH) + 1-3 solid L1s you deeply understand, and that’s it. Here is the rule: If you can’t explain in one sentence why you own a coin and what problem it solves, you probably shouldn’t have a meaningful position in it.

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Aerocryptic

ADA and LINK? Not at all ETH maybe but not yet

SeriousGains

Anyone tempted to load up on cheap alts ADA, LINK, ETH, etc.?

Rapetrain20148

Everyone saying BTC over ETH is crazy

itradei

You’ll be heart broken when ETH is sub 1200

AssociateThese6963

Bollocks, Cardano's Ouroboros protocol is of the highest security. Comparing it to shite like Soluna and Eth, you are obviously still living at home with mummy. If those clowns Bankless are selling their ETH.

Patient_Craft2195

3 years out is decent timing tbh. we now have spot ETFs (BTC and ETH) which changes the game. less exchange risk and more institutional flow. if you're starting out small, DCA BTC for a couple months as you get a feel for the market. don’t chase the alt action. there’s more sophisticated bots and on-chain plays now compared to 2022. what’s your appetite? long holds vs. active trading?

darkpool_watcher

I Bought ETH at $4,300 in November 2021, told myself I'd sell at $5,500. It never got there. Watched it go to $1000. Still holding. The worst part isn't the loss -it's knowing exactly the moment you should have sold and choosing not to.

sylsau

>Bitmine has been systematically accumulating Ethereum throughout 2025 and 2026, building what the company calls its “Alchemy of 5%” strategy, a goal to accumulate more than 5% of the total Ethereum supply. Bitmine’s Ethereum treasury now sits north of 5.4 million ETH, comfortably exceeding that threshold. No surprise there. Bitmine remains committed to its strategy of accumulating as much ETH as possible. We'll see how this plays out over time...

Wildwildworld123

ETH will be around in 5 years, but i dont expect any new ATH. Just my opinion of course. Im only holding BTC at the moment.

I_Stabbed_Jon_Snow

No, we don’t agree. There is no reason for central banks or major companies to adopt XRP as a medium of exchange when they can simply fork ETH or make their own hyperledger and XRP clone without while skipping out on elevating Garlinghouse to quadrillionaire status. 

Suspicious-Can-7079

Xrp crazy price targets come from cult like propaganda that pretends it's going to be the world currency. They're using the Ethiopian calendar for their predictions because their date has already passed.. That's all you really need to know. Incoming AI slop on 1k xrp "Pure math first, then the narrative requirements. The math XRP has \~62B circulating supply and a max supply of 100B.  At $1,000/XRP: • Circulating market cap: \~$62 trillion • Fully diluted: \~$100 trillion For context, total global GDP is \~$110T. The entire US stock market is \~$50T. Bitcoin’s ATH market cap was around $2T. XRP at $1,000 would be the largest single asset in human history by a massive margin. What would actually need to happen 1. XRP becomes the dominant global payment rail. SWIFT processes \~$5T/day in cross-border flows. For XRP to justify that valuation, it would essentially need to capture a significant share of all global financial settlement — not just cross-border payments, but FX, trade finance, sovereign reserves. Even then, the question is whether XRP needs to be held to move value, or just used as a bridge (the velocity problem — high velocity = low holding requirement = lower price). 2. Massive supply reduction or burn mechanism. Unlike ETH (with EIP-1559) or BTC (21M hard cap), XRP was fixed at 100B at launch with no burn mechanism built in.  Without destroying supply, the per-token price ceiling is structurally lower than scarcer assets. 3. Ripple stops selling. Ripple controls \~42% of XRP through escrow reserves  and releases tokens on a schedule. That’s a persistent supply overhang. At $1,000, Ripple’s escrow would be worth \~$38 trillion — they’d be the richest entity ever created with enormous incentive to sell. 4. Regulatory and geopolitical tailwinds at a civilizational scale. XRP ETFs launched, SEC clarity arrived — that’s a catalyst for a $3–10 price, not $1,000. The jump from here to $1,000 is \~850x. Even the most bullish XRP scenario (replaces SWIFT, global adoption) struggles to justify more than low-to-mid three figures. Bottom line: $1,000 XRP requires a market cap that exceeds global GDP. It’s not a price target — it’s a thought experiment about whether a single crypto asset could become the reserve settlement layer of the entire world economy, with Ripple somehow not being a seller at those levels. Theoretically possible in a science fiction framing, practically implausible within any investable timeframe. If you’re bullish XRP, the realistic high-conviction range to debate is $10–50 (solid adoption, ETF flows, ODL scaling) vs. $100–200 (dominates global FX settlement, becomes quasi-reserve asset). $1,000 requires premises that would restructure the global financial system entirely."

whatwilly0ubuild

The unstaking delay is baked into Ethereum's consensus layer. If you run your own validator or use any native staking solution, the exit queue is unavoidable. It varies from a few days to potentially weeks depending on how many validators are trying to exit at the same time. The way around this is liquid staking. Instead of your ETH being locked until you exit the queue, you receive a token (stETH from Lido, rETH from Rocket Pool, cbETH from Coinbase, etc.) that represents your staked position. That token can be sold on DEXs or swapped instantly if you need liquidity. You're not actually "unstaking" when you sell, you're just selling the derivative to someone else who now holds the staking position. The tradeoffs between running your own validator versus liquid staking: Running your own validator (solo staking). You keep the full staking yield with no protocol fees. You maintain full custody of your keys. You contribute to network decentralization. The downside is you need technical knowledge to run the validator properly, and you're subject to slashing if your node misbehaves. Liquid staking. No technical setup required. Instant liquidity via the token markets. The tradeoff is a fee to the protocol (typically 5-10% of rewards) and smart contract risk. You're trusting the liquid staking protocol's security. For a 3-year hold with 32 ETH, solo staking makes sense if you're comfortable running infrastructure. If you want simplicity and liquidity, stETH or rETH solve the delay problem by giving you a tradeable token instead of a locked position.

Juni20201

You know nothing bout ETH😂

tudorian95

Had 10 million HEX during the AA days. Also 20 ETH and 2 BTC. Gambled it all on Stake in the span of 2-3 days. This was in June 2020. Hex was like under $20k at the time, but later in 2021 bullrun it was 50 cents a token at the top (so $5 million). Doubled down on Pulsechain, down 99%. Good times. Learned my lesson, only DCA bitcoin but changed jobs so often (cause I couldn't hold any, thinking that I'll make it any day/week/month/year now; ditched that thought, now it's slow and steady) and still pay old credit I opened to buy that initial crypto that it won't be easy, but with time anything possible. 31 yr old rn, so there's still time

allg33k

I feel like the likelyhood of ETH performing as well as some other alts in the next bull run is less likely due to it's market cap. Because of that I'm buying different coins at this low.

LivingShine83

How about ETH?

Local_Math_5512

Oracle networks like CHAINLINK and PYTH are likely to stick around too. I'm not personally invested, but that's because ETH, BTC, and SOL are already probably too much crypto exposure for me and my portfolio. I think the Oracle Networks have value, but I'm sticking to the top trilogy of crypto for now. Hyperliquid, Tron, and Zcash also have legs despite the recent Zcash 'Orchard Pool' vulnerability.

Important_Neck_2122

I purchased ETH for $1,200 in 2023. Also purchased BTC at the same time for about $24k

wazerpp

Bought a little under 5000 ETH in its presale. Sold them all day 1.

Itchy-Box-7378

I think people are not bullish enough on ETH We went to 4k trading overvalued monkeys on chain but now that we entering tokenization with 1000 of institutions, we going to 0$ ?!

AlternativeTiger4302

Biggest fumble in crypto was deciding between XRP, ADA and ETH back in July 2019 when I first got into crypto. I chose XRP and watched ETH and ADA go nuts. Would've had 1m+ in ADA. Biggest fumble in stocks was buying and selling TSLA in 2012 for a quick 10% gain. Would've had 100's of thousands.

No_Knee3385

Its tech, if you're unwilling to learn how it works, why even bother investing? Just buy ETH and BTC and chill then

xPaulsBalls

I was trading bitcoin when it was in the $100-500 range. Didn't have much money to my name as it was a teenager so when i made 5k I stopped and bought yeezys and nice clothes for high school. Did the same thing again when I was in grade 11 and bitcoin went to like 25k around Christmas time. I sold a full coin and said I would buy back in when it dropped but as a dumb kid I spent most of it and by the time the price was really good to buy back in (I think 5k range) I was going paycheck to paycheck to buy a coin again. During the start of covid, i was pushing friends to buy in with me. Then my mom freaked out that I had all my savings in bitcoin instead of my tfsa, so I did off about 80% to max out my contribution room to make her happy i was making the safe investment play. Had i not made all these mistakes with spending money as a kid, and trusting in the risk I was willing to take with bitcoin, i think they last time I estimated the value of all my buy-ins, i would have roughly over 6mil (Canadian). As it currently stands, my net worth as a 25 year old is not even 3% of that. GG, ready for the next cycle (buying in all September and October) and planning to make a 1 year hold before profiting one last time and leaving crypto for good. Side note in my story, I was also a huge hourly trader when ETH was bouncing from $7-9. I remember being so happy I made $500 in a day off of a swing of 50¢... Never ended up holding any into the bill cycle when NFTs popped off

lrgfries

The mistakes that stand out the most to me are that I had the opportunity to hold 1,000’s of BTC and ETH since 2010, and to buy shit like chainlink presale at 0.09

lrgfries

The mistakes that stand out the most to me are that I had the opportunity to hold 1,000’s of BTC and ETH since 2010, and to buy shit like chainlink presale at 0.09

BioRobotTch

SOL should not be concentrating on PQC, publicly deciding leaders (block producing nodes) up to 2 days in advance means a relatively cheap DDoS can take it out, that should be a priority to address. For ETH Vitalik is seriously considering the problem and is planning for it For BTC there will likely be forks and the best fork will win in the long term. It will be fine but maybe it will end up with a new name. Just HODL and wait till the issue resolves itself.

mmoney20

Could he even cash out on these positions - these shitcoins seem too illiquid for him to really realize that much in gains. what major platforms were they trading on that would taken BTC/ETH or USD for these shitcoins?

Good-Book-6912

I thought about buying ETH before it was even on exchanges. I could see there was something special about Vitalik. In a good way. Could have gotten ETH at like 1 or 2 dollars.

Confident_Hunter7506

Dude bridges are hacked regularly. Humanity protocol just got hit for $30m. Hacks and scams account for billions lost every year. Quantum is not the threat and the idea that ETH, SOL and BTC won’t be ready for quantum is straight fear mongering. But AI is already exploiting bad code and that’s quickly disappeared will get worse. I’ve only gotten into crypto since COVID and one thing I’ve consistently noticed is how rapidly the narratives change so that there’s always something to talk about. Remember NFT’s, all but dead

Deliverz

Still buying memecoins instead of straight BTC/ETH when BTC was around 6-8k and ETH under 100$

coolfarmer

ETH beat its ATH by $100. So technically, you're wrong.

Rickard403

322 ETH in 2017. Had i held till $4k that'd be over a Million.

Purple-Wall3847

In 2017 I was on a flight to San Francisco and the guy across the aisle is working on a blockchain presentation and telling the guy beside him that Ethereum was the next big thing, the next Bitcoin, new tech. I told myself this is when I would get into crypto, then I decided it was too difficult to buy it... 😭 ETH was about $50

Rip_Jorbenson

Got sim swap hacked back in 2016 (this is how they got around 2FA on my phone). Watched in real time as my coin base and bank account got gutted. Lost about 60 ETH, some btc, and about $1000 worth of monero and ltc. I was fresh outta college at the time and was broke. They called into my university tech support line (which ironically, I used to work for during college), got issued a password reset which got them access to my uni email - which they then used to gain access to my cellular account and Gmail. The $3000 had in my bank was refunded within a week. Had a caught the hack a minute earlier I probably coulda stopped it. This also came after a 2 year period of trying desperately to find the key to my old btc miner wallet, which at one point at hundreds of BTC on it. Bunch of us had been using the uni computers to mine. Realistically would sold in 2017 or 2018 and paid off my student loans or bought a house. Water under the bridge. Sure it sucked, but I don’t sweat it anymore. Not a type of sadness worth holding onto. Came blame a dumb kid for being dumb. Of my dozen or so early adopter /btc nerd friends, the vast majority of us blew our btc of pizza and steam games. none of us got rich.

tomfoolery77

I had over 4 BTC and 30 ETH stolen from my Exodus wallet. At the time, they emailed you a single link you could use to recreate the wallet. Email got hacked I guess. To this day, I still think it was an inside job.

Prnce_Chrmin

> Coins have short lives, and they rarely beat their first ATH established during previous cycle. So like ETH, SOL or BNB?

Anonymo123

My best friend bought BTC when it was $100. He dumped a few grand into it and when ETH came out , he sold BTC to buy ETH very cheap. Sold BTC when it was over $100k and ETH near the ATH... and retired. I was going through a divorce at the time and had no money to spend.. wish i had figured a way to get a few grand of BTC at $100 and HODL til $100k as well. still working..sigh.

MisterBaked

I started buying DOGE in 2016-17. Accumulated around 150k doge by 2021. That same year I got back into stocks and joined some trading groups. I sold all DOGE to buy stocks two days before the musk tweets started (stocks which eventually fell over 50%). Would've been over $100k. AUDIUS token. Got airdropped around 50k tokens on the first round. Sold half for ETH and staked the rest of AUDIO. Weeks later, the price jumped to $4.50 but I couldn't sell due to a 7-day unstaking period. Also would've been over $100k.

3-ide-Raven

I made generational wealth by putting everything I had into BTC in 2013. Then quitting my job and cashing out my 401k to build a hydro powered ETH mining operation in Montana in 2015. And I was wise to keep those assets largely untouched. But that doesn’t mean I didn’t miss a bunch of other ops. For example, I bought $100k worth of DOGE in 2015 which I sold for a 2x on Poloniex the following week. My calcs put that at over $100mm at peak. I also crushed it in the 2017 ICO boom. My altcoin port value in BTC peaked at 2,400. But illiquid order books and hopes/dreams of world changing chains prevented me from securing a lot of those gains into actual BTC. Either way I’m doing fine. Mainly because I’ve never used leverage. And I’ve never played in the shitcoin casinos. I have everything in institutional custody now and I borrow against my assets to make business and RE investments. And I’ll do that until I’m dead.

xianthus

BTC, BNB, ETH, and SOL. Any other alt coin thats mentioned is just people hoping you to buy their bag. Source: DOT bagholder

Hopeful_Meeting_7248

Outside of the biggest coins like BTC, ETH, SOL or BNB there's absolutely no point in holding any other older coin in hope that it'll blow during next bull market. Coins have short lives, and they rarely beat their first ATH established during previous cycle.

unknowngloomth

I put like $10k in a coin back in 2024. Some PoW coin I won't named the coin because I don't wanna be accused of shilling. Good tech and stuff. You know. BTC and ETH killer narrative bullshit. Long story short, the coin had a massive pump back in December 2024. I watched my 10k turning into $100k. Then it crashed all the way back to $10k and 99% below. I was neck deep in the tech cult. I doubled down and averaged down expecting the same massive pump back. I got stuck 1 year patiently waiting. So, the day came, my patient started to wear off. I was neck deep in that coin echochamber. I was full on hopium and copium mode. I woke the fuck up. I researched the coin in depth. It turned the pump was artificially engineered. The founders got insanely rich as the bagholders like myself lost money. I eventually dumped the coin at a massive loss, and that's why I became a mercenary in the crypto space now https://preview.redd.it/swftcc9ih86h1.png?width=1516&format=png&auto=webp&s=5f3a1caf06bce49a33639d86cc42e9f3d5edd063 . I managed to recover some losses. The thing is it's a scam but it's not obvious. The coin is still around the team is "building" but the price is a disaster. The volume is thin. It's a zombie coin now. But there are still believers to this very day hanging out in that coin echochamber socials. What it's more striking is if you check the GitHub and stuff. The team is really building it. They actively launch new projects onto the chain and stuff. But nobody gives a fuck. It's a ghosttown.

merryfasos

I had 1.3m in December 2024 mostly in Pepe and ETH + few other memecoins (wif, sigma, etc.) . I thought that when Trump gets the office we will keep pumping and I'll get a 5x or more + get tired of winning Original invested amount: $160k (basically almost all savings loooooool). Never gamble kids.

valerioshi

BTC for Ordinals. ETH and SOL for the NFTs.

Oaker_at

I was talking with my dad about crypto a few days ago, during that conversation I remembered that I was mining some ETH und BTC back when it wasn’t really popular yet. Forgot about it, sold the PC. Was around 2015 or 2016, when ETH released. I wonder how much I did mine back then.

Solid-Individual-913

I didn't sell my ETH at the top in 2021. Then in 2025 I had a second chance but nope. Diamonds hands.

CM19901

ETH is the Future, not Crypto per se.

d155l3

I bought 1365 ETH at €4 and sold it after the DAO hack..

ethboy2000

Bought just under 3k ETH back in 2016 (hence my username). HODLd well for a few years, but a combination of inexperience, bad luck, shitcoins and NFTs saw it evaporate slowly but surely. Hindsight is a wonderful thing.

Jedii12

It’s bought BTC, ETH, and SOL

Jedii12

I’ve only invested in bitcoin and ETH, one point I did invest in a meme coin but withdrew soon after. Not much was invested there

Bluejumprabbit

Buying ETH here makes sense if you think onchain dollars and tokenized stuff keep settling on Ethereum. If that keeps growing, $1500 is cheap because ETF holders still do not get staking or onchain yield and spot holders do.

Prior_Parsley3960

# Bottom Line **This looks like a major operational security failure, not a protocol failure.** Based on Humanity founder Terence Kwok's statement, the breach resulted from a **compromised private key belonging to a Humanity Foundation member**, not from a flaw in the Humanity Protocol itself. # Key Details * At least **17 wallets** were reportedly drained. * Estimated losses grew from about **$5 million** to roughly **$32 million**. * Of the stolen funds: * \~$23.7M was swapped into ETH. * \~$7.9M remained in H tokens. * Humanity founder Terence Kwok says a Foundation member's private keys were compromised. * Security teams and exchanges are reportedly assisting with the response. # Market Impact * H token fell approximately **89% in 24 hours**. * The market is treating this as a severe confidence event regardless of whether the protocol itself was hacked. # Why This Matters There are two very different possibilities: **Best case** * A limited number of Foundation-controlled or Foundation-linked wallets were compromised. * The protocol itself remains secure. * Damage is primarily financial and reputational. **Worse case** * The affected wallets share some broader exposure tied to Humanity's infrastructure, tooling, custody processes, or wallet generation methods. * Additional wallets could potentially be at risk. At the moment, the founder's statement points toward the first explanation, but investigators have not yet released a full forensic report.

Sad_Significance2541

Having trouble deciding between buying ETH or XLM. ETH has been around a long time but XLM looks very promising despite recent announcements with DTCC, which would you guys go with?

Sad_Experience_2516

That’s a good point and probably one reason ETH ETFs don’t behave exactly like BTC ETFs. If the product doesn’t capture staking yield, there’s a real opportunity cost for longer-term holders. I still think ETF flows matter for directional demand, but I agree the no-staking structure makes the ETH ETF trade less clean than the BTC one.

FishBait22

ETH? Never heard of her

Educational_Cable405

The thing that gets lost in the sell the news debate is that the ETH ETFs launched without staking, so holding through them means eating spot ETH minus the 3 to 4 percent you'd get just staking it yourself. I moved most of my longer term stack into a staking setup for exactly that reason. Until staking gets approved into the products, big money has a built in reason to stay lukewarm, and that weighs on the action way more than any single headline.

Scared-Metal9294

Lummis personally holds both BTC and ETH and continues to receive funding from crypto lobbyists.

FloralSunset2

Which ETH projects in big banks? I have not heard of any. With the rest of your BTC analysis I agree. Bitcoin is vapor, cool idea by tech people 15 years ago but no fundamental value is there.

Ge_Yo

For me, conviction comes from understanding why a project might still matter five or ten years from now. That's why I'd still start with BTC and ETH, but I'd also want exposure to projects like QANX that are building around long-term challenges such as post-quantum security.

Sammy262

How can ETH be hard money with an unlimited supply?

MaximumGenie

I'd focus on the fact that crypto can earn passive income, not just sit there. Staking ETH through something like etherfi gives you staking rewards plus restaking points while keeping your keys, compared to a bank account at basically zero percent.

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Ok_Freedom3290

The chop is standard accumulation behaviour. If you look at spot exchange reserves for ETH over the last 48 hours, there's been a net outflow to cold wallets, which tells you that spot buyers are absorbing supply despite the stagnant price. The best way to cut through this noise is to track the Z-score of exchange net flows alongside the perp funding rates. I built a tracking dashboard called [AlphaSignal](https://alphasignal.digital/) to monitor these metrics in real-time. If spot reserves keep dropping while perps remain neutral-to-negative, it's usually the precursor to a massive squeeze once BTC consolidation clears out.

devCheckingIn

All that hard work has to be paid by ETH token sales.

bimbobandit2016

To be honest the ETH valuation is not the best measuring stick in this market. The Bitcoin valuation is and that just broke out into bullish territory for BNB