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ConferenceForsaken47

ETH holders are still waiting for their10x returns, not realizing that these are currencies and should be treated as such.

__redruM

No, clearly. > AI bubble will eventually come and take down markets. And then the stock market will slowly recover, and fortunes will be made. If you believe in the bubble, and I really don’t, but if you do, be ready to buy the pop. Tech stocks will always recover, ETH who knows, it’s suppose to be a tool with utility, not a speculative instrument.

Any_South_6437

this is the game the rich "really" play. first, they buy a big bag of silver, bitcoin, gold or ETH. next, they advertise to the world that they had bought, making speculative investors feel like they also need to buy. and lastly, he dumps on all the new investors and exits his positions on a +50% profit or more, because they all position themselves with leverage before the marketing starts. this is why you never buy anything based on news. it's all a scam and a game they play, so fuck kiyosaki and anyone else who plays these dumb games.

GranzJ473

for a one-off OTC settlement I usually just run the counterparty wallet through a couple of on-chain explorers before sending. Etherscan for ETH/USDC, mempool.space for BTC. the flags I look for are recent interaction with known mixer addresses, very young wallet age, or a transaction graph that's a one-hop from a flagged exchange withdrawal. paranoia is reasonable for large OTC amounts.

Solid-Individual-913

Large unrealized gains on ETH. Yes. You are right but Im a dumb gambler. I cant deny that.

RWA_Maxi_1

The dominance of ETH is really getting challenges with new incumbents and all Layer 2 have basically not lived up to standard.

Backrus

They can't coexist because no compliance team will allow random validators to handle big institutions business. Good example in smaller scale is ETH L2s which was and still is a disaster, but even here you got ONE clear winner (Arbitrum and HyperEVM). You have no idea how financial institutions and their world work.

No-Tackle-8652

To everyone who has been part of our journey: It is with a heavy heart that we write this letter. Loopring was born from a pure cypherpunk vision – we were coders who believed that zero‑knowledge proofs could scale Ethereum. We poured countless late nights into building the very first zkRollup on the market. That achievement still fills us with pride. But today, we must face reality and announce, with deep regret, that Loopring DEX will cease all trading services effective immediately. The relayer goes offline right now. This is not a decision we made lightly. We tried, we fought, but eventually we have to accept that it is time to say goodbye. Why we are closing To be honest, Loopring never gained meaningful adoption. As the first zkRollup, we lacked a virtual machine – no composability, no real‑world payment use cases. That limitation kept our ecosystem from growing. We are engineers at heart, not business operators. We excel at writing code, but we never developed the passion or skills for business development. External pressures – including major exchange delistings of LRC in 2026 – only accelerated the inevitable. Most painfully, the technology we pioneered has been outpaced. Modern zkEVM solutions are fully compatible with Ethereum smart contracts, while our specialised architecture now feels obsolete. Rather than running a hollow service, we choose to end it gracefully. Your assets are safe – we will send them to you directly We designed Loopring with user protection in mind, and we have decided to take a more direct, user‑friendly route to return all assets. Instead of asking you to generate and submit Merkle proofs yourself – which can be technically challenging – we will handle everything on our side. We acknowledge that this approach is more centralised than the original self‑custody exit mechanism. However, we believe it is the fairest and most hassle‑free way for our users: you will receive your full funds without needing to perform any on‑chain operations, pay gas fees, or worry about proof formats. We will cover all transaction costs. The process – simple and clear 1. We publish final balances – In the coming days, we will calculate and publish a complete list of every user’s final balance on Loopring L2. The downloadable list will be made available via a link shared on X (formerly Twitter). The list includes: - All spot balances (ETH and ERC‑20 tokens). - All liquidity pool (AMM) positions, which we will automatically convert to their underlying token equivalents at the time of shutdown. You do not need to redeem your LP tokens yourself – we will handle that conversion and include the resulting assets in your final balance. 2. Contract upgrade for centralised distribution – We will upgrade the Loopring DEX smart contract to a version that only allows whitelisted addresses (controlled by us) to transfer assets out of the L2 system. This upgrade is necessary to enable batch distributions and prevent any interference. 3. Two‑week review period – The final balance list will remain publicly accessible for two weeks. During this time, you can review your balance and contact us if you spot any discrepancy. 4. Batch distribution begins – After the two‑week review period ends, we will start sending assets in batches directly to your L1 wallet address (the Ethereum address associated with your Loopring L2 account). Only accounts with a total final balance valued at **$10 USD or more** will be included in the distribution; smaller balances will be excluded to keep the process efficient. You do not need to take any action. We expect the entire distribution process to be completed within a few weeks after it starts. We will provide status updates on X/Twitter. Help and support If you have questions about your balance or the distribution process, you can email us at help@loopring.org. This email will become active once the final balance list is published. We will do our best to respond promptly. A final word We are truly sorry that this journey ends here. We remain grateful to every user who trusted us, even for a moment. We hope that the zero‑knowledge technology we helped pioneer will live on in other projects, even as our own chapter closes. It is time to say goodbye. With sincere regret and gratitude, The Loopring Team 28 June 2026

nriopel

I did find ETH on Reddit at $40

WizofWallstreet

Other than BTC ETH and SOL this is trash

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Clear_Hawk_6187

Let me guess - 95% BTC and 5% ETH? Judging by the style of your comments I doubt you ever had a conversation with financial advisor or anyone who sat near him in the queue. Am I wrong?

Serenaded

BTC has peaked, everyone is out, ticking timebomb because of quantum computing. AFAIK, ETH is the only other asset in crypto that institutions are aggressively purchasing under classic Wyckoff (BMNR, VanEck, SBET, etc). Last cycle was different in that only BTC pumped, I think this time it's going to be Ethereum.

Bilatsibagya

That seller was a scammer. Maybe they offered you a very good price for ETH, which is why you rushed to pay. You've been dealing with P2P for a long time, you should know better.

neofort

Partially agree. While a lot of crypto assets will probably never recover, many were already dead/shitcoins, so culling the herd is a healthy development. I see a shift of focus toward projects that have real-world use cases, think tokenization, stablecoins, and compliant privacy layers. Also, the chains that will eventually power our financial system will survive, such as ETH and SOL. Just my two cents.

Plus-Tangerine2186

The painful part is that Binance closing the dispute is actually correct, and understanding why is the real lesson here. P2P escrow only covers what happens inside the platform. The moment the seller moved you to Payeer with "my bank is blocked," the trade left escrow entirely, so there was nothing for Binance to release or claw back. The ETH was never the thing in dispute, your euros just walked out of the system on their own. That "bank blocked, pay via [other rail] instead" line isn't a one-off. It's the standard P2P script precisely because it breaks escrow. The one rule that prevents all of it: if a counterparty ever asks you to pay or move the chat off the platform, the trade is dead, no exceptions. Anything off-escrow has zero recourse by design, not by Binance being unfair. Sorry it cost 40k to learn. Reporting the Payeer account and the seller's Binance ID to both platforms is still worth doing even if recovery is unlikely, it builds the paper trail.

Timely-Fig2030

ETH is the goat, sir ✌️

UnreliablePotato

Yeah, just stick with BTC and ~~ETH~~

Gangaman666

BTC will survive and thrive as usual. XMR will thrive as we lose our privacy more and more and people realise moneros benefits. I'm not so sure about 90% of the random shit coins though, perhaps ETH will survive too as it has institutional backing. So I partially agree.

Aanetz

ETH, TON because telegram isn't going away. Hyperliquid because defi trading is still big. XMR is definitely getting bigger in the future because the surveillance state is upon us all.

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Radiant-Concern6391

ETH is the chosen one

Demonyx12

DCA + HODL = no timing needed 80% BTC, 15% ETH, 5% (wildcard) Drops mic.

Timely-Fig2030

I start out with ICP, SUI, and ETH. 1. ICP = best tech 2. SUI = many talk about it 3. ETH = cause it's the goat

Tim-Rocket

Who would want the global financial system running on bitcoin? Not bitcoiners, that's for sure. If you're curious, "smart contract" platforms (such as ETH, BNB, SOL, TRX, ADA, etc...) could (And are starting to) handle that.

Aoi_Haru

Years in crypto have teached me it’s all bullshit. The “cycle” isn’t different from all the other economic ones and the halving seems almost irrelevant. Also, it’s not “crypto” but Bitcoin. And even Bitcoin’s performance is laughable. Like, 2023/24 are green years that can be commented with a “we’re so back”? Lol. Lmao, even. What has Bitcoin done? A 2X? And now it’s back to the price point it reached 4 years ago? What have stocks done in the meantime? Good industries/companies (because yes, we’re talking about real entities which offer a real product) have never been down in the meantime. Sure, everything could fall down with a major economic event (Bitcoin included) but eventually they’ll start going up again. I’ve stocks that went 200% up in price in 4 months. And the cool thing about them it’s their predictable, to an extent, because it’s linked to utility and demand. Crypto? Bleah. Why am I keeping ETH or Solana? It’s just pure faith and their price being linked to daddy Bitcoin’s price. Which is based solely on scarcity.

scottemick

I had the same problem with Changelly and never got my money back. I had DAI from SImpleSwap, Changelly kept it over 2 years ago. I showed them proof from SimpleSwap that I obtained it by swapping out ETH. Can't trust CEX's. At least coinbase is in the USA you can complain to their supervising authority as an MSB and also CPFB, though I am pretty sure Trump Republicans took away CPFB's power to do anything. You may have to sue them.

Solid-Individual-913

I gave up on ETH but the problem is Im afraid to face the IRS with the large gains from buying in the 2017-2018 period

Glass_Ad_2518

I lost like $3K on XRP, SOL, and ETH, and I just watched SYRUP do like +30% in a week after I said it was too risky. I'm the Jim Cramer of crypto. 

LTP-N

Doesn't matter what you think either. All crypto is useless and we're all out here gambling, get off your high horse, you don't know any more or less than the rest of us. Before you cry and reply saying I'm salty because I obviously hold alt coins, correct, but my gamblings are 50% BTC, 30% ETH, 10% XTZ and 10% ZEC.

Historical_Blood_408

the "taking profit vs needing liquidity" split is a good distinction — people conflate those and they're genuinely different decisions. borrowing against the position has a tax logic to it, but it adds liquidation risk right when alts are most volatile, which is the opposite of what i want near a top. how do you think about that liq risk — only borrow against BTC/ETH, or against alts too?

Educational_Cable405

It's not useless, it's underspecified. Dominance going up can mean BTC is pumping or it can mean alts are bleeding out faster than BTC, two totally opposite tapes, and the single line won't tell you which one is happening. I never read it alone, I put it next to total2 or just an ETH/BTC chart so I know which leg is actually moving. By itself it's noise, paired up it's a decent filter for whether I should be holding alts at all that week.

Mundane-Context-3979

BTC and ETH from now easily 4x and 6x, but neither will 2x in a week like an alt might. I believe alts are pure gambles and I am happy with my 3 year 4x+ these days

-Rhymenocerous-

My City & Guilds qualification is verified via ETH Block chain. I sold all my crpyto at the height of the last huge bull run in the pandemic. Sat a course (WH004) recently and when the cert came through and it said it was verified via xxx block with a key ID I was actually pretty happy to see some real world adoption and use.

coindigest

Honest take: the four-year cycle was never magic, it was three things stacking, the halving supply shock, retail FOMO, and leverage blowing up on a rough timer. The reason it might genuinely be breaking is that the halving matters less every single time. The block reward is now tiny next to the coins already in circulation, so the "supply shock" is mathematically weaker each cycle while ETF and institutional flows have become the thing actually moving price. Those flows don't run on a four-year clock, they run on macro liquidity and allocation decisions. So I'd push back gently on the framing: "cycle is dead" doesn't automatically mean "up only with alts pumping." It more likely means longer, choppier, macro-driven moves instead of the clean parabola-then-crash we got used to. Which lines up with what a lot of people are feeling, that this stretch doesn't rhyme with the old ones. On the alt pump specifically, I'd temper that. Liquidity is now spread across thousands of tokens and ETFs are funnelling flow into BTC and ETH, so a broad 2021-style alt season is structurally harder to pull off than it used to be. Could still happen in pockets, but "everything pumps" is a tougher ask now. Nobody actually knows, including me. But if the old clock is breaking, the move is to stop watching the calendar and start watching liquidity and flows. That's the signal that's actually driving this thing now.

Own_Painting7470

ETH or bust.

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Bazaruta

There are. ETH is useful for smart contracts. ZEC and XMR provide privacy on transactions. HYPE is kinda like a stock, like binance and coinbase stock. Just to name a few. But true for the average coin, there is none…yet people throw money at it. When a 5 min google search would tell you that, the thing you are paying for is worthless.

Bazaruta

There are good alts, ETH, TAO, HYPE are good. ZEC kinda is too. But I agree. Most are trash, if people researched a bit before throwing money at it, they would so much better!

Bazaruta

There are good alts, ETH, TAO, HYPE are good. ZEC kinda is too. But I agree. Most are trash, if people researched a bit before throwing money at it, they would so much better!

Bazaruta

BTC right now it’s basically a high beta tech stock. When people want risk assets with great return they pile in…else they sell or don’t care about it. Honestly most crypto it’s based on hoping for a greater fool to buy off you at a better price. That’s why meme coins are a thing. Meanwhile stuff like HYPE, ETH, TAO doesn’t get as much love as I think they deserve. They bring interesting stuff to the table!

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Timely-Fig2030

All the main blockchains be good picks: SUI, ICP, Algo, VET, XLM, ETH, ADA, etc. Opened yesterday a post on CryptoCurrencies about it: 4.3k views, 0 likes These idiots still think blockchains are dead and want to gamble memecoins. Little do they know, that there are no memecoins without blockchains. The space has become so dumb and uneuphoric that now might be the best time to enter goat blockchains. Btw, fuck memecoins!

ConsistentRub934

My rule is written before I buy: take out the initial on the first big move, trim more when everyone starts calling for insane targets, and never wait for the perfect top. Some goes back to BTC and ETH, some stays in stables. I use Nexo for part of that when I’m sitting out, but the main point is simple: don’t let a 5x turn into a round trip.

HoldCtrlW

Easy short on ETH here. As is tradition

Asleep_Onion

I'll stake your ETH for $5

Mr_Stimmers

Yeah, the majority of that I’m only holding for tax loss harvesting. I have faith the ETH, SOL, and LINK will recover, and hopefully the ADA (looking very doubtful at the moment). The rest are dead to me.

AvocadoDip12

I think Binance would have legal trouble if they halted that ETH without your local police's involvement. They are to blame here. I'm not sure what the crypto tax regulations are in Turkey, but they should do a better job protecting their citizens in such cases.

Flynn_Kevin

People like me with money in tax sheltered retirement accounts that (currently) are unable to custody the asset. I can't get BTC in my ROTH, but I can get MSTR. STRC, and MSTY (along with a good number of other crypto ETFs). I've held long enough that the dividends have already covered the purchase of the stock and then some. When I retire, those gains are tax free. Really, you can say the same for other commodity-based ETFs like those based on precious metals. Why own a stock of gold when you can just own gold and self-custody? The answer is convenience, liquidity, and tax shelters. Don't put all your eggs in one basket. Sure, I have paper BTC, ETH, gold, and silver in my ROTH. I also have some self-custodied. I add to both exchange custodied and self custodied stacks regularly.

GlizzyCannons

Just to add -- There is literal liquidity tying many of these assets together in a concrete way. More so than just same market forces. Order books where ETH is paired with BTC whether it's on a CEX and/or DEX for example. Then ETH is paired with X meme coin in a similar way. This stuff kind of bonds the prices together where thicker liquidity = stronger price bond.

burt-and-ernie

The seller opened a P2P to sell me ETH…..ok I’m already done reading. Brother, that’s beyond stupid. There’s zero reason to buy crypto from another person and I won’t even go into the red flag of his bank account being blocked. Why would you think this was a good idea? Sorry this is your fault

EncrustedBarboach

Check the prices, 13 eth ain't worth no 40k 💀 I would take the loss and move on, you will be looking for those ETH forever

examachine

BTC and ETH are both obsolete technologies Guess what happens to obsolete cryptocurrency

kmmck

I feel like we're at a stage of society where altcoins have been demystified. Especially with AI letting people be informed. You can call me cynical but this is my take on it: In the 2021 bull run, every altcoin basically pumped alongside BTC. If BTC increased 10%, almost every altcoin pumped 20%. If you were in the top 100, you were in for the ride. In the 2024 bull run, only the top 10 to 20-ish altcoins had any decent pump. Even then, most of them barely got past their 2021 ATH. So big names like ETH, XRP, SOL, etc I think for the next cycle at 2028-ish its going to be the roughest cycle by far especially after Trump basically solidified altcoins as a rugpulling tool

Few_Green1142

My portfolio is down by 25%. Shall I wait for it give 10 to 15% profit or selling it now will be the wise decision. My portfolio has BTC, ETH, SOL, UNI, POL

WickedLordSP

I think narratives of many altcoins are dead, except Ethereum and Solana. For Bitcoin, ETH and SOL it's just a cycle

AeroSyntax

Just swap ETH to BTC.. 

ockhams_laser

BTC is the safer long term hold by far. most alts get diluted out or straight up die off over a 3-4 year span, if you want exposure beyond BTC just keep it small and stick to ETH at most

oopssomething

Seems like shorting ETH really is the safest option in crypto.

piggleii

Their cost basis is zero, and they have infinite ETH. What they'll do is work out how much they want to dump in USD and dump the corresponding amount of their free and infinite ETH. So, basically, it doesn't matter what the price is.

oopssomething

You think the ETH Foundation will take this last opportunity to sell above $1.500 ?

Due_Contact_8271

I can’t wait to look back on this subreddit from atop my mountain of money I made from ETH

SeriousGains

Every coin loved by this sub has failed (ADA, LINK, LTC, DOT). Why should ETH be any different?

mcdstod

Well be lucky if ETH ever hits 5K. Forget alt season

ignatious__reilly

ETH is a fucking blood bath

GreenStretch

Why would people rotate money to alts? Wasn't that a thing that happened in the 2017 cycle because there were many fewer fiat on ramps and people had to buy BTC or maybe ETH or LTC to send to an exchange that would trade alts?

TechCynical

"You can technically still migrate after the deadline (the Arbitrum Canonical Bridge stays accessible through the Arbitrum Portal), but you'll have fewer tools and slower help. Don't wait." this is a kinda stupid way to put it as usual with r/cc it doesnt matter if nova goes offline unable to process transactions. it would need to be permanently sunsetted in the truest scene where theres absolutely no nodes or any other software to do things like process withdraw transactions. The only time you will need to care about needing to move your moons off nova is if theyre fully shutting down the chain. Even on "minimized support" (which really just means they dont care about nova anymore but it doesnt cost anything to host stuff so theyll do it for now) you can still forcefully withdraw moons from Nova to L1 ETH. Even if the sequencer to process transactions goes offline, again you can still force withdraw back to L1. The entire chain would need to be shutdown and gone in order for it to matter.

Educational_Cable405

The fake token part is honestly the easy bit, anyone can deploy a contract that calls itself USDT and shows whatever balance they want. The part that actually takes money is the step after, where you suddenly can't move it without 'gas' or an activation fee, so you send real TRX or ETH and that's what they were fishing for the whole time. The pretend balance was never the prize, your gas was.

confusedguy1212

Afraid of MSTR failing, it’s not too late to sell your Bitcoin for Ethereum. Buy ETH.

Mr_Footies

And if you’ll bought ETH in January 2019, you would be up 1,367%.

zenxro

Sellers will get exhausted and there will be a moment where you will see everything tanks except BTC and ETH.

OmensGroup

Buying high and selling low I see. Very nice. (Dude for real hope you’re kidding, don’t sell on the down - I’m sure you’re familiar with the halving cycles but if not check ‘em out. With that said, I’ve come to the conclusion that I should’ve just went in on Bitcoin, little ETH and a dash of SOL instead of going like 70% on shitcoins 7 years ago, lol).

stpauli93

Less BTC, more ETH.

oopssomething

ETH is holding up great though

Izrud

When I joined in late '16 - early '17, before Ethereum exploded and overshadowed LTC, the crypto forums and reddit still had some remnants of a community which was interested in financial sovereignty, in providing opportunities for improving real world technologies and people trying to educate each other. Citing whitepapers and deep, thoughtful, technological discussion was not uncommon and people with genuine passion were investing their time and effort into building meaningful communities behind their coins. BTC was starting to make ripples across popular culture and hope and enthusiasm were arguably at an ATH. I believed and spent many years praising decentralization and trustless tech as the second coming of Jesus. In retrospect it was the dying breaths of the real crypto community, which largely lived in obscurity between 2009-2015, slowly being overtaken by masses of greedy, uneducated and frothing at the mouth population searching for a quick buck. At this point in time, I hold BTC and ETH, but no longer believe they're anything but aother asset I hold in my investment portfolio for diversity's sake. The only real world change I have seen crypto have is to normalize "meme" stocks in the mainstream, that hold no basis in reality, such as all the EV stocks (I'm looking at you Tesla and SpaceEx), GME, AI stocks, etc.

NorthHaverbrookNate

In the absence of clear indicators more data is needed, hard to tell with subs like this sometimes since the line between true despair and playing into a bit can get a bit blurred in times like these. Particularly this sub, as it seems to be fairly critical of crypto at times. I appreciate the clarification, I only have a small amount myself (BTC, ETH, and some LTC and even a little doge from a while back) and tend to be very boring with my finanxes since I do not have a lot of excess income, but one of the things that fascinates me about crypto is the interplay of sentiment, demand, broader monetary pressures, and just crypto as an asset class in general. Mind if I ask when you first started buying? I first bought in 2020, though I followed the 2018 bull market pretty closely

Backieotamy

No, not at all. But my answer to his question is factually correct. The only thing I am starting to lean into is that bear/bull four year cycles are starting to get shorter and some alts are decoupling from BTC. I have been accumulating ETH, SOL, XRP, hbar, DOGE (dont judge me), and ADA which I finally sold because it is not following that pattern at all and every low and every high for the last 8 years have only declined so I removed it. The only given is BTC and even thats still questionable on its ability to not start a global financial meltdown at this point in investment capital. Some ath still haven't reached the 2021 levels which that bear run took a lot of wind out of the crypto sails and has continued to keep a lot of $$ out of it however that retail investor drop is finally being replaced with commercial capital and a lot of it. But there is no guarantee other than rich people will get richer regardless of market performance, a lot of us normal folks will lose a lot of money on get rich quick ideals, corrupt/mismanaged crypto firms, scam tokens, or cashing out at the bottom of a bear because they dont have the stomach for it (and I don't blame them other than shouldn't have got in to begin with) and then some retail investors will make money. The only thing I am assuming is that the market will recover but tbh, DJT is a wild card and everything he touches turns to shit.

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KateR_H0l1day

What you have to remember is that over time a Crypto Market has developed, there’s no doubt that BTC is the big dog, and whichever way he wags his tail the market will follow. Yet, if people didn’t buy Alts, including ETH, the market would cease to exist. If this happened, BTC would drop significantly. Today there’s a symbiotic relationship, of which Alt’s play a valuable role. Best not to denigrate and try to be superior, just buy what you want, but as always, you do you 🤷‍♀️

itsckomi

After the initial ETH withdrawal got stuck, I got 2 more withdrawals in initiating status afterwards. The moment I saw that these weren’t in “Reviewing” but in “Initiating” status, I opened a new ticket and contacted Cyril (admin of the Telegram group) and kindly asked him to check the ticket number. When he checked it, he would say “please be patient” and similar things. Within 12–48h, my withdrawal was cancelled and the funds were returned to my spot wallet

itsckomi

After the initial ETH withdrawal got stuck, I got 2 more withdrawals in initiating status afterwards. The moment I saw that these weren’t in “Reviewing” but in “Initiating” status, I opened a new ticket and contacted Cyril (admin of the Telegram group) and kindly asked him to check the ticket number. When he checked it, he would say “please be patient” and similar things. Within 12–48h, my withdrawal was cancelled and the funds were returned to my spot wallet.

Piccolo-Complete

Every time I've discussed the actual nuts and bolts of crypto believers: "But, don't you understand, it won't be like that someday because, Digital Gold and, streets paved with ETH and, and, uh, Have Fun Staying Poor!" Years ago, Sam Seder took a call from a crypto enthusiast/Libertarian and asked him to fill in the blank of, "You would sell your crypto at the local **what** if there was a global financial collapse?" His answer: "boat."

unknowngloomth

80% BTC. XRP outperformed ETH last cycle. I didn't look into HBAR yet. Isn't XLM a XRP 2.0? I know a friend of mine who holds XLM

coinaugur

What I did was start with a small amount of money i could afford to lose, like 20 bucks, and just started messing about. 5 bucks ETH, 5 bucks BTC, etc. Just see what happens and how things correlate. You’ll slowly get an understanding of your app/broker, swings, etc. Then move onto bigger numbers. Though this is not financial advise. Crypto includes a ton of risk. Just sharing my personal learning experience.

mememan212

ETH still extremely overvalued. will buy in at $800

Reach_Beyond

I took it down to zero crypto holdings between Jan 2025 to December 2025. I didn’t think Trump was good for crypto was my thesis. DCA’ing from 2018-2023. I figured I’d also sell all and pay taxes within 1 calendar year to make it easy. I’ve now re-deployed all funds BTC between $61k to 66k and ETH $1.7k to $2.5k. I certainly did not time the top or bottom. In the end I probably gained an extra 40% to holding, but the risk was high and I got lucky. In the future just HOLD.

Lufia321

Most of my investments are down 99% with crypto. I'm only sticking to BTC, BNB and ETH nowadays.

Negative-Scheme6035

Everything ETH does but at the cost and speed users expect. I'm not going to stan for it or anything and I understand there are some trade-offs on the spectrum of decentralization and all that.

Best_Celebration809

Put your ETH in a liquidity pool

Vaginosis-Psychosis

Sell all the alts, including ETH, and just buy Bitcoin.

whatwilly0ubuild

That unstake delay isn't a product you can shop around, it's baked into the protocol, so no setup makes it vanish for real staking. Solo stake 32 ETH and later exit and you sit in the validator exit queue then wait for a withdrawal sweep, that's the chain protecting itself, not your client running slow. For someone parking it three years and not touching it, that delay is a non-issue, so quit optimizing around it. Solo staking your own validator gets you the full reward with no counterparty and nobody able to freeze your stake, the price is you're running real infrastructure and a sloppy node gets you slashed. If you go that way, look at distributed validator tech like Obol or SSV so one dead machine doesn't sink you. Liquid staking tokens like stETH or rETH are the only thing that gives you instant exit, you hold a token you can sell on a DEX anytime instead of queuing, but you swap the queue for smart contract and de-peg risk, and that token can trade under ETH right when you want out. For a true long hold you don't need that escape hatch. Run a proper validator, test your exit on a testnet first so you're not learning queue mechanics with live money, and ignore the timer because it costs you nothing the way you're playing this. Too many damn people skip that test and find out the hard way.

Ruzhyo04

I \*only\* crypto for its utility. DeFi allows me to do everything my bank does, but I keep control over my money. I can save it, spend it, gift it, exchange it, lend it, borrow against it, or even delete it, and I don't need anyone's permission to do any of it. I can keep my money in USD or GBP or gold or ETH or whatever I like. And I also use web3 style accounts wherever possible, for example on [Farcaster.xyz](http://Farcaster.xyz) or [ddocs.new](http://ddocs.new) . I'd much rather own my account than have Elon Musk or Sergey Brin or \[name-your-billionaire\] own it for me. This is basic stuff. Its the only reason I'm here. To be frank I really don't understand why anyone who doesn't care about this stuff is here. It can't possibly be to make money, because... look around man.

HoldCtrlW

Easy short here for ETH as we go below $1500

Backieotamy

Look at the life time of most cryptos and you will see the cycle and you will see that with the cycles the lows are higher than the last cycle along with the ATH usually increasing with each bull run during its cycle. e.g. even ETH, XRP and SOL fit this example perfectly.

Logical_Lemming

ETH, UNI, WLD. Holding XMR but not buying more because it didn't dump enough for my taste.

Flowa-Powa

I have never bought ETH I never will buy ETH regardless of what price it is

SeriousGains

You mean ETH cockroaches swarm with downvotes anytime TRON is mentioned due to fear they are being threatened.

verified_canadian

I used to be big on ETH, but it didn't even hit a new all time high this time. I won't be buying any more.

Spare-Dingo-531

20% Solana, 16% AAVE, 64% ETH. Basically I think proof of stake tokens will perform well, better than Bitcoin. I'm not sure about whether ethereum or Solana will dominate so I have 20% Solana and 64% ethereum. The arrangement is based on market cap, specifically the relative market caps of each at their all-time high. I have AAVE because it is the biggest lending protocol on ethereum and also has very strong tokenomics relative to Morpho. Lending seems to be the sector in ethereum that performs the best during bull runs and stable coins are rising which should help that sector. So it's 1/5 Solana 4/5 ethereum with 1/5 of the ethereum being AAVE.

Perfect_Interest6239

I dissolved all my alt coins months ago while still in the green and stuck the lot in BTC. Even ETH aswell there is allot going on behind the scenes there and its not positive.