ETH

HorsedickGoldstein

I’d stick with BTC and ETH

SpontaneousDream

Hyperlend. If you prefer to do it on Hypercore, you can supply HYPE, borrow USDC at 5% and then use that to short ETH on perps. I wouldn't go that route though

Honest-Mess-812

Bitcoin. Maybe a small amount of ETH and Solana as well.

LavoP

ETH probably. BTC is safest but it’s not good if you want to actually enter and learn about crypto. ETH is the right way to get into crypto applications, adoption, and tech.

BZ-go

ETH

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silverGameOfThrones

There is a 1. Real CryptoCurrencies like Bitcoin Dash Zcash Litecoin etc which "has a point" and there is 2 Other ETH clones 🗑( see scam ) which only designed for money go up pump and dump.

SpontaneousDream

Ethereum nowhere to be found, yet ETH sits at over $300B market cap. Borrowing ETH to supply HYPE has been a craazy profitable trade

TheresNoSecondBest

I'm guessing you're in the states. Install Strike and set DCA. Carry on with it for a few years. Watch this to understand the problem. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtFOxNbmD38 Now, I don't like influencers and would say stay away from anyone talking about shitcoins, yes even ETH is a premined and centralized shitcoin. Also, don't listen anyone predicting the tops and bottoms. Nobody knows where bitcoin will be next week, month or year. There's one guy that is worth watching: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJWCJCWOxBYSi5DhCieLOLQ Watch every single video from that channel.

lynchrw

iska is relative. For every USDC the is one US dollar behind it which is audited. After the last short squeeze when BTC had that big runup ithe leveled out . then there was the upcoming cloture vote and pending FOMC intewar rate action. so I played it safe for a few weeks convert a majority of my crypto holdings to usdc and then they the usdc and earned a family steady 6.9%, which ain't bad really, while BTC was meandering around. So right after the cloture vote and the FOMC meeting I convert from USDC back to Crypto in a certain plan Ed distribution(BTC , ETH and SOL). Plus I keep between 15 and 20% of My overall holdings in USDC and that USDC I still lend and and earn interest on. just a strategy that seems to work to help mitigate downside risk. the bottom line for me ustc is a great place to be somewhat safe probably safe as you can earn a steady good interest rate as opposed to a bank which is less than 2% or money market which is also terrible interest rates and not even insured in some cases. oh one more thing I do with USDC or my rationale behind it. as the portfolio grows I'm maintaining that 15 to 20% in there from gains or new money to help ensure I have money to pay any taxes later the year

colemusic1

There has been a significant amount of things that have changed. IBIT is genuinely no speculative BTC ETF anymore. It’s got $100B+ in assets, and we have live data now that is showing us how much inflows/outflows is happening intraday. And that’s a huge deal. And that doesn’t mean cycles don’t matter, they still do. But what it does mean is we don’t have any data on how cycles can/will run when this has only been happening since 2024. ETHA (ETH ETF) is also attracting a significant amount more inflows lately, and they even have ZEC on there now too. This is a big deal for BTC specifically though because it exposes BTC to millions of more investors who otherwise don’t own a crypto exchange account and maybe don’t want to. They simply just login to their brokerage platform, buy some IBIT and call it a day. If you want to know how significant this genuinely is right now from live readings of the top 5 most actively traded stocks / ETF’s: • IBIT (spot BTC) • BITO (BTC futures) • NVDA • INTC • SPCX

anymonero

> If ZEC flips ETH in price at any point It did in 2016

wakerone

Compare the final quote, not the advertised fee. Check the exchange rate, spread, network fee, withdrawal fee, payment-method fee, and minimum withdrawal. P2P can be useful where bank rails are limited or privacy and payment choice matter, but it is not automatically cheaper. I would do one very small transaction first and write down the actual ETH received after every deduction.

LTP-N

You're too emotionally invested. It's all a gamble, nobody cares about use-cases or morals or any BS like that, so ZEC flipping ETH literally means nothing in the grand scheme of things.

CoinGate_Gift_Cards

A dedicated phone helps, but it’s still a hot wallet. For long-term storage, a hardware wallet with an offline seed backup is generally safer. You can use different wallet apps for BTC, ETH, SOL, etc. while keeping the keys secured by the hardware wallet. Also keep long-term holdings separate from any wallet used for DeFi or frequent transactions.

Logical_Lemming

If ZEC flips ETH in price at any point that'll probably be the last straw that makes me sell all my crypto and never look back.

totalmarc

i think it was BTC3L/ETH3L.

GroundbreakingPage41

This sub is all ETH and then BTC, been that way for years. ETH boys still holding out for their bags to pump.

Impressive-Fig-9532

Not biased at all... /s "If you want me to be completely and totally honest here, about what I actually believe, I think that after just doing a quick Google search, it seems as though some high net worth individuals and hedge fund managers got together and decided they were going to buy Zcash and disclose their holdings, and then that got the other market participants which were mostly retail to join in on the fun, figuratively speaking." right.... What exactly do you think bitcoin is? First few years of bitcoin it went no where. Then Winklevoss, Silbert, Naval, the usual VC suspects got involved in 2012-2013.... Then the corrupt El Salvador government, Blackrock, Michael Saylor the biggest dotcom scammer billionaire creating a ponzi like financial instrument to pump billions into it to bring it to 100K You think all these coins out there, ETH, BTC, SOL, BNC, etc are where they are because of the "community" and not being pumped billions by institutions?

fan_of_hakiksexydays

Knowing ETH, it might not even hit $3K next bullrun lol.

fan_of_hakiksexydays

There's definitely some good reasons for ZEC to pump, but you guys should definitely look at the reasons why ZEC is pumping before jumping in. It's not so much that the news is about anything that exceptional, despite bagholders now trying to call it the "invisible Bitcoin" lol. It's a lot of your typical alt coin news and "partnerships", governance voting, someone famous mentioning ZEC, VC and funds who put money into it, etc...except that it all came out at once. One of the main tech reasons is that the network upgrade should now fix the major security issues, and reduce the block time. So it's not so much that it's doing something exceptional or groundbreaking, it's just that it won't be as shitty. But ultimately the big reason is the ETF. Even in 2026 crypto ETFs are still a big deal. An alt coin getting an ETF is still gonna create a major pump. Whether the pump can sustain is another story. We've seen what happened to ETH, SOL, XRP, ADA, BNB, LINK, etc...

TexasBoyz-713

Who hits $2.5k first, ETH or ZEC?

Aazimoxx

Because the ledger of a privacy coin like Monero is not publicly transparent - only the parties to a transaction get its details. So in the simplest sense, if you have Alice send Bob tainted Bitcoin and get Monero in exchange, then Alice sends that Monero to Steve, Steve has no practical way to tell the tainted BTC had anything to do with that. Steve may then go and convert that Monero back into BTC via his own exchange, for example. Because blockchain and cross-chain analyses are a thing, if each of those transactions were say ~138k worth, and transferred in one lump sum each time within a short period of time, then it would be possible to surface a strong statistical likelihood that the ~133k or so BTC that Steve just got from his exchange, is in fact the 'value' of that initial ~138k of tainted BTC that Alice attempted to launder, minus the various fees and conversion margins that took a chunk out of it along its journey. This is simply from analysis of public BTC activity, with no insight into internal exchange records, or privacy coin transactions, which are opaque. If instead Steve held onto some of that Monero and transacted with it in various other amounts, such as converting 50k to BTC and withdrawing it to his bank account, spending 10k with a computer store via bitpay, and converting 20k to ETH to send to his brother's wallet to pay back a loan, and leaving the remaining 60k in his Monero wallet, then the chances of any chain analysis tying together Steve's money and the initial tainted BTC Alice interacted with, is close to nil.

Peturio

This is a little late reply, but hope it helps. Did run your portfolio through our portfolio risk engines at [Sentralis.io](https://aentralis.io) (free accounts are available so you can play around with the scenarios yourself) and this is the result: At yesterday's prices the eight positions are worth about $29.9K. XRP is 48% of that value and ETH is 32%. The other six coins together make up the remaining 20%. Whether this portfolio will make 2x or 3x, who really knows? But it's possible to measure how wide the range of outcomes is for these coins. I simulated one year forward from their current volatility and correlations, with no price trend assumed in either direction. In that simulation 14% of the paths end the year at 2x or more, and 4% end at 3x or more. In the same simulation 47% of the paths end below today's value, and 11% end below half of it. Four out of ten paths go through a drawdown of at least 50% at some point during the year. If the coming year resembles a reshuffle of the last one, which was a bear market, 1% of the paths reach 2x and about half of the paths end below half of today's value. All simulation figures in this reply are model estimates under the stated assumptions, and they are not predictions. A 3x within one year needs a strong bull market on top of what the simulation assumes. Despite the portfolio holding eight coins, in reality it behaves like one position. Over the past year XRP, ETH, BTC and SOL had pairwise correlations between 0.83 and 0.90. In the replay of the bear market from October 2025 to July 1 every coin in your portfolio fell between 50% and 88%. That period on your current holdings gives a loss of 64%, which would take $29.9K down to about $10.8K. BTC alone lost 51% in the same period. Most commenters told you to swap the XRP for BTC, so I ran that version as well. The loss in the worst 5% of one-year outcomes goes from 61% to 55%. The share of paths with a drawdown of at least 50% goes from 41% to 29%. The share of paths that end at 3x goes from 4% to 2%. The swap lowers the risk somewhat, and it lowers the chance of a 3x as well. The portfolio would still rise and fall with the rest of the crypto market.

Peturio

This is a little late reply, but hope it helps. Did run your portfolio through our portfolio risk engines at [Sentralis.io](https://sentralis.io) (free accounts are available, so you can play around with the different scenarios yourself) and this is the result: At yesterday's prices the five positions are worth about $49K, split HYPE 36%, SOL 26%, PUMP 19%, LIT 12% and SKR 7%. LIT and SKR have less than a month of price history in our data, which is too short to model. The risk numbers below therefore cover the HYPE, SOL and PUMP positions only,( 81% of the portfolio). Several commenters treated this portfolio as one single altcoin bet, and the data does not fully support that view. Over the past year the pairwise correlations between HYPE, SOL and PUMP were between 0.51 and 0.66, while BTC, ETH and SOL were at 0.86 to 0.90 with each other over the same period. The difference showed in the replay of the bear market from October 2025 to July 1. SOL fell 66% and PUMP fell 78% in that period, while HYPE gained 29%. That period on your current weights gives a loss of 26%, against 51% for BTC alone. The 26% loss in depends entirely on the rise of HYPE. If HYPE had fallen as much as SOL did, the same replay would show a loss of about 69%. The cost of holding these three coins is volatility. Together they run at about 81% annualized volatility, which is close to double the 43.5% of BTC. I simulated one year forward from current volatility and correlations, with no price trend assumed in either direction. In the worst 5% of simulated outcomes the three positions lose 69% or more. Seven out of ten simulated paths go through a drawdown of at least 50% at some point during the year, and one in five goes through a drawdown of 70%. All simulation figures in this reply are model estimates under the stated assumptions, and they are not predictions. You wrote that you can manage a drawdown and would start to DCA into it again, so the drawdown sizes matter for how much cash you keep aside. One in four simulated paths ends the year at double the starting value or more. 97% of those winning paths still went through a drawdown of at least 30% on the way. A 30% drawdown is therefore what this portfolio does even in a good year, and a 50% drawdown is what it does in most years.

fan_of_hakiksexydays

There's even more longs at risk for ETH if we drop. It only needs to go below $2,350 to start triggering some major liquidations. https://preview.redd.it/qpmy75r1i2qh1.jpeg?width=1273&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=04673ada3cf7b334b936bd5febec7c147d84b7c1

RatherCynical

This is a stupid way to frame it. Crypto sources its funds from ordinary banks. People put their savings into DeFi because when banks pay 0-2%, NOT using DeFi is losing money to inflation. That's where all the ETH, DOT, ADA, AVAX, FTM, MATIC, NEAR, and every other NFT going crazy comes from. Without that money, no alt-season. Because we shifted regime from nearly 2 decades of 0-2% interest to a 4%+ interest regime, the death of alt-season happened in 2022. It's never about "crypto being a lifestyle". It's about the money valve getting firmly clamped shut

Despaciito

77k + today. Look at all the shorts. Same with ETH. Just 10 bucks away from triggering 700 mill in shorts

Hanno54

Was a pain but managed to get them out and to an exchange and converted into ETH or a stable coin (again a pain, had to use a bridge and what not) but managed to sell around .27 or .29

ubermensch1001

I don't own any Sol but it's the big alt outside of ETH.

UnitedStatesAirFurs

BTC at $75k, XRP at $1.30, ETH at $2400 The Internet: Is crypto dead? 3:

Carterlil21

Use it. I do leathercraft as a side hobby and make art. Id love it if people would buy from me using crypto. I'd definitely use a platform akin to etsy that provided discounted services / goods to those willing to transact in crypto. I still remember selling something on Facebook marketplace for ETH in covid. I don't think it's up since the transaction, but I loved that someone bought using crypto

Big-Occasion-4682

r/krakensupport Please help! My account is too new to create a standalone post. My ETH withdrawal has been held for 8 days (the stated timeframe was 7 days, so it is severely overdue). The live chat bot blocks me from human support. Can you please urgently escalate my Ticket #22733922 to the relevant team? Thank you!

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anon1971wtf

There's no real security in ETH since mining ended. If I get two Ethereum chains in contention, I have to go to social media to decide whom to trust to follow a chain True chain of Bitcoin has the highest energy signature. It's trustless, you only need surface information about state of double SHA256 and 70MB of block headers to calculate weight of Bitcoin chain you heard in equivalent Joules and dollars, you can discard lighter fork without listening to any social media noise

cyger

Yup agreed, in for like 10 years now, but so glad I sold most of alts, over the last couple of years. The final nail in the coffin was last years 10/10 manipulation. Still holding mainly BTC, SOL, and some ETH, but also went heavily into AI stocks over the last couple of years. AI agents may boost SOL and ETH big time eventually, and maybe soon, but otherwise 99.999% of tokens are crap.

cyger

So glad I sold most of alts, including 50k moons a couple years ago. The final nail in the coffin was last years 10/10 manipulation. Still holding mainly BTC, SOL, and some ETH, but also went heavily into AI stocks over the last couple of years. AI agents may boost SOL and ETH big time eventually, and maybe soon.

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TripTryad

Alt coins for me, were what they were always intended to be. A way to create more bitcoin during bull markets. But that part gets drowned out by the true believers and the ones arguing with them. The vast majority of BTC I own by this point was made from swinging into alts in 2015, 2017, and 2020. ESPECIALLY 2015. Nothing is ever going to top the ETH/Antshares double whammy in 2015 and 2016. WATTBA 🙏🏾

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CG-Saviour878879

I mean just get and hold BTC and watch it appreciate over time. Otherwise stake ETH.

BringTheFingerBack

ETH killer

Meme_Pope

I used all my moons to be 1 ETH at $3400. To have gotten any amount of money off reddit is pretty wild thi

ParadigmPhoenix

A long I entered on ETH \~10k profit. I’ve had messages requesting to join the group I am a part of in the past & a new one is being created. Feel free to PM for his link I’ve spoken to him. Very cool couple groups lead by a guy who teaches alongside shares strategies.

ParadigmPhoenix

A long I entered on ETH 800%+ profit. I’ve had messages requesting to join the group I am a part of in the past & a new one is being created. Feel free to PM for his link I’ve spoken to him. Very cool group lead by a guy who teaches alongside shares strategies.

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GrokM14232

A cloture vote is mostly a test of whether leadership has 60 votes to open debate, not a clean probability estimate for final passage. Even a 58-42 failure can be constructive if the holdouts are bargaining over amendments or jurisdiction, while 60-40 can still leave the bill stuck later. For BTC and ETH, imo the near-term move is probably more positioning cleanup than a lasting regulatory repricing unless the vote exposes a durable bipartisan coalition.

biggest_guru_in_town

*was you mean. It was ETH. Spot bot

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Post is by: _SG9 and the url/text [ ](https://goo.gl/GP6ppk)is: /r/CryptoMarkets/comments/1wgeacz/i_track_perpetual_open_interest_across_four/ Method first, so you can pull it apart: I read the four venues' open interest and funding at each UTC close (Binance, Bybit, Hyperliquid, OKX) and rank the ETH/BTC ratio against its own 73-session window; ETF flows come from the daily fund files; correlations run over 969 pairs of daily closes. At the September 12 close, 23:59:01 UTC, ETH perpetual open interest was $11.910bn against Bitcoin's $16.971bn. That is 70.18%, rank 1 of the 73 complete sessions since July 3, against a window median of 60.9% and a minimum of 54.4%. It happened on every venue. Between the September 4 and September 12 closes ETH open interest rose 6.1% on Binance, 7.0% on Bybit, 12.1% on Hyperliquid and 9.6% on OKX, while Bitcoin fell 7.1%, 6.5%, 6.3% and 3.1% on the same four. It is also not a price artifact: ETH/BTC rose 6.0% over those eight days while the ratio rose 15.3%, and the dollar size of the Bitcoin book shrank outright. Against the underlying asset the ETH book is 3.888% of a $306.3bn market capitalisation and Bitcoin's is 1.086% of $1,562.2bn, so ETH's is 3.6 times as large relative to its own coin. Funding did not follow. Open-interest-weighted ETH funding closed September 13 at 0.005941% per eight hours, about 6.5% a year, against a 31-day median of 0.005682%, the 53rd percentile. That is an ordinary carry cost, and nobody is paying a premium to be long the perpetual, which is what a short perpetual leg inside a delta-neutral carry book looks like from the outside. The ETH spot ETFs took $189.3M on CPI day, 1.54% of $12.28bn in assets, the cash leg such a book needs. Bitcoin's funds went the opposite way, minus $482.4M over four sessions, 0.5% of $93.58bn. Where I would argue against myself: \- Open interest reports size and never side, so a directional crowd cannot be ruled out, only priced. One that wanted the exposure badly would normally bid funding above its median. \- 73 sessions is the whole claim. My constant window starts July 3, when the venue count went from three to four. \- ETH's 30-day correlation to QQQ is plus 0.012 against a 0.476 trailing 252-day baseline, the 1.28th percentile of 548 days, and to the dollar index minus 0.622. Out of a 969-pair scan roughly ten first-percentile hits are chance alone; the cluster means survive that better, 132 crypto against US equity pairs averaging 0.105 and 22 crypto against dollar pairs averaging minus 0.402, both the 3.6th percentile. \- Friday's CPI print cuts against the dollar-channel reading. In the 60 minutes after the 12:30 UTC release Bitcoin rose 0.85%, gold rose 1.27% and the dollar index fell 0.11%, a dollar-weakness reaction. \- Nearly half of the raw ETH exchange-inflow tape over the last four weeks, 47.7%, is one address depositing every day. Every figure above excludes it. Polymarket and Kalshi both read 79.5% for a 25bp hike on Wednesday, stamped 12:58 UTC today. data + full method: [https://kresmion.com/daily-brief/2026-09-14](https://kresmion.com/daily-brief/2026-09-14) *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/CryptoMarkets) if you have any questions or concerns.*

phaskellhall

Are there NFTs that did useful things outside of photos that held up their value, and more importantly, are still being used today for the problem they solved? I’m genuinely interested. What NGTs are holding their value today? As someone who has owned ETH exclusively, I’ve given up on the sales pitch I was given in 2019 that etherium would act as the currency of the micro transaction world. It seems dollars buying tokens have won that game. So ETH itself doesn’t seem to be living up to the hype I originally bought it for. Are NFTs any different?

TheBlacktom

Why is ETH better than any other alternative?

CoinGate_Gift_Cards

If you come from buy-and-hold stocks, don’t feel like you need to trade crypto constantly. A lot of people treat BTC and ETH as longer-term positions and keep smaller, riskier coins to a limited part of the portfolio. The main difference is crypto is far more volatile, so position size matters a lot.

MinimalGravitas

> NFTs have zero use case. You are conflating the entire category of 'NFTs' for just NFTs of pictures. Almost all DEx liquidity positions are recorded as NFTs, the non-fungible token is a record of the type and amount of assets you deposited and the range you are going to provide liquidity over. Many billions of dollars worth of stablecoins and other assets are secured this way. Ethereum Name Service is built on NFTs. These are the 'whoever.ETH' names that people use to designate accounts and avoid typing out the long alphanumeric address keys (0xaBcdD1234etcetcetc) when sending assets. These not only save time and effort, make managing multiple accounts much easier and act as a login for 'Sign-in with Ethereum' sites, they are also great for security as they avoid the risks from clipboard malware that changes pasted addresses. We could go on but I'm sure you get the idea, there are plenty of uses of NFTs that aren't related to tradable profile pictures.

Timely_Food_7352

mexc has been solid for this rally. ZEC volume there actually jumped to #3 right behind BTC and ETH, so liquidity is surprisingly deep. Plus 0 fees and up to 100x leverage if you're playing the squeeze/swings.

SomeonesSecondary

I lost all hope for “crypto” after dabbling in the ecosystem for awhile and realizing being in crypto is such a lifestyle, most people are just never going to dive in. That being said, I will continue to stack BTC and I keep some ETH I don’t have strong conviction for but figure it’s will enough established, might as well have some exposure

Ordinary_Ad3705

Well, it can go down or up, who knows. As long as it's technology doesn't develop or gain more value in different markets, it's price will always depend on BTC and ETH.

outoftownMD

I forgot my codes, didn’t protect them & lost almost 12BTC & 80+ ETH in 2017. I had forgotten I had bought ENJ at ICO at 4c. Happened to find it on an exchange years later and it was 100x’d. Sold immediately into BTC for revival

Ok-Box-918

noticed something weird in BTC but specially in ETH-- every September the last few years so last 6 Septembers: -16%, -11.6%, -12.3%, -2.2%, +5.3%, -5.6%. only one green (2024). thought it was just "sell in september" nonsense until i checked what the Fed was doing each time. every single one of those months had an FOMC meeting mid-month and the tone of it basically called the direction. 2023 they held but talked hawkish -> red month. 2024 they cut 50bps out of nowhere -> the one green one. 2025 they cut again but it was already priced in and ETH still bled after. this year we've got the Sept 15-16 meeting coming and it looks like the sketchiest setup of the bunch. hike odds (not just hold, an actual hike) sitting around 70-87% depending on source. haven't seen that in any of the last few years. new fed chair too, apparently more hawkish and less predictable than powell was. if it actually hikes, my gut says something like 65-70% chance the month ends red, 30% it doesn't, mostly depends on how hawkish/dovish the presser sounds after since the hike itself is basically priced in already. not a call to do anything, just thought the pattern was interesting. anyone else been watching this or am i just seeing noise...and i think BTC also did same from past few years

moonRekt

I don’t think there’s any such thing as a good altcoin. But I bought some cashcat, might DCA into laptop if it stays dropping, and I’ve had XRP/LTC/XLM since my first year of holding ETH is a good altcoin?

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enryold

I'd separate the regime trigger from confirmation so one composite score cannot hide conflicting signals. For the regime, track BTC dominance alongside ETH/BTC and an equal-weight basket of ALT/BTC pairs. For confirmation, add breadth the percentage of that basket above its medium-term average and spot-volume participation, then require the condition to persist across more than one close. Stablecoin inflows can provide context, but they do not show whether capital will rotate into alts rather than BTC. I've built a trend following algo that I released public few week ago (TrendingCoin.blog) that helps with the per-coin relative trend check. It compares systematic trends in both USD and BTC. It does not ingest dominance or stablecoin flows or send Telegram alerts, so your script would still own the macro trigger.

Schapsouille

Yup. Sold a little in EU last year. The whole process, from proof of source of funds to tax declaration was a pain in the ass. And those were "clean" coins from an adress that just slept and never touched defi. Still got the funds held up for more than a month. At any step they can decide to stop you. I really don't know what I'm going to do with my main ETH address that has 8 years of carelessly playing around.

MelangeBot

It's just a bart. Soon BTC will go back to 60k to close the bart. But alts have already closed their barts, so when BTC dumps back to 60k they will all go even lower. There is a slow consolidation happening from alts in to BTC, the last alt will probablly be ETH. BTC can maintain a 50k price point as long as the money comes from alts getting further wrecked. But once all alts have been wrecked then what?

Paratrooper2000

Should I convert my ETH to BTC if I plan to hodl for 2+ years?

Bibibis

Which cannot be said for BTC nor ETH. So who's the meme coin here

pb__

Where does the 'nova moon -> eth moon' bridge get the gas fees from? I have 0.00004 ETH on arbitrum nova and the gas fee is 0.000024836, but metamask blocks the transaction saying I don't have enough ETH, I'm confused. I had 0.00005 but spent 0.00001 on approving the contract and that went ok.

Preme2

I’m hedged either way but the bears are running out of runway. If we don’t see a stock market correction forming by late September (in 2 weeks) the bottom is in for Bitcoin and definitely ETH. By mid October I’m probably going to be almost fully deployed. I will keep a little cash and won’t be buying after October so if a black swan occurs, I can take advantage.

Griimbald

$50–100/month is totally fine to start. I’d keep it simple with BTC/ETH rather than spreading $5 across 10 different coins

DeadPhish-710

Litecoin is shitcoin #1 and has performed much worst than ETH

unknowngloomth

ETH the most pathetic alt so far. Maybe it will change. But last cycle this coin barely hit new aths. SOL and BNB crushed it even XRP blew ETH out of water..sad.. now Zech and hyperliquid been blowing this coin out of water for 2 years and counting

Traditional_Most105

The real answer is that nobody knows. There could be another altseason or there could be BTC and a few alts only dominating and the rest nothing or a completely new scenario nobody could think of. Speculation on whats happened before could also make it a self fulfilling prophecy so it could come again if people wait for it and act on speculation... In the end its what you believe and speculate... if you want the safer bet its either BTC or ETH. If you want the higher upside you go for the alts you believe in. You just have to accept whatever the outcome is... it might hurt either way. It might hurt losing money and it also might hurt selling alts that later would go to the sky and thinking what if i didnt sell... so choose whatever you want and accept its consequences. Just make sure not to put money you cant afford to lose...

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And Chainlink has been one of my best performers with a sub $7.50 average price buy. I can easily see it going up to $30+ along with Btc going up. Hyper will hit $100 easy with some time. Solana will crack $250, ETH will finally break $5,000, TAO will clear $350 and likely go higher to $500 while staking for a minimum of 6% while holding it, AAVE will see $350, and the monero I see going above $900

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Yes it will raise crypto prices if you are invested in BTC ETH CRCL

Systemonly69

Specially the shorts for ETH

EirianWare

Ahhh long time no see 2600 ETH

b1mm3rl1f3

Bye ETH bears 👋 see you never

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He isn't the only one, there were several other posters on here that were arguing with me about this. This was a reply I made to another poster more or less arguing with me about the same thing pertaining to buying ETH vs. ADA right now. "Let's say we go into 2027; the market is starting to get into a bullish environment and BTC is trading at 90k+. Let's say ETH at this point is trading at 4k, so a little over a 50% move from here. What do you think would happen with the rest of the alts? In this environment, do you see ADA at best matching ETH's performance by only being at 30 cents? Very short term price action is impossible to predict and pointless. For instance, in the fall of 2024 ADA was trading around 35 cents while ETH was at a similar price to where we are currently, about $2400. After the 2024 election hype ADA traded as high as $1.30 while ETH peaked at about 4k. I'll use XLM as an example from that same time period. Right before the election it was trading around 10 cents and then climbed above 50 cents at it's peak, so a 5x. A weak example would be LTC, it was around $65 and peaked at a little over $100 in this same time period. Another one is Bcash, both of these had very little price movement for years leading up to this, at least relative to the rest of the alts out there. The whole point is that when we do get bullish phases with alts, ETH leads and many of the alts with smaller market caps will OUTPERFORM it. IF someone were looking to do this, they need to be able to identify the correct time to be buying. I'm not saying people should do this, the point is that when ETH pops hard relative to BTC the broader alt coin market follows along even stronger. It has nothing to do with fundamentals of the coin lol. If you aren't aware, virtually all alts, including ETH, are primarily driven by hype and speculation. Picking the horse that runs the fastest is honestly going to come down to luck. What is NOT luck is identifying when these alts are low and where they could be making large gains for profit. What you are seeing now is NOT a bullish phase in the market, it's a bear market rally. This is not the same as the Q1 2024 ETF pump, the Q4 election pump or the spring 2021 alt season. When this occurs again, and it will, you will see what I'm describing here play out."

adsus4

Always go for BTC and ETH.

Rich-Independence466

Bitcoin ETH and Zcash are the safest and most stvale plays. Everyone was calling me crazy when I was screaming to buy zcash around $12….now its over a thousand and I believe it will be $50k eventually. In 2016 zcash was worth more than Bitcoin. Zcash is what Bitcoin was supposed to be its faster and has true privacy. Screenshot this post and come back in 2-5 years and say thank you.

faisal_yk26

Nobody's asked the actual question: is that $100 a week money you can afford not to see for a few years? Coming out of the mines with irregular income that matters way more than which coin. A first timer who buys BTC with money they need in eight months still sells at the worst moment, and then the coin choice was irrelevant. If it's genuinely spare, weekly buys into BTC and ETH is the boring right answer and you can ignore most of this thread.

DimeCandie

The Big Three BTC SOL ETH - also HYPE

magus-21

"Keep it basic" means putting it into VTI, not a shitcoin like BTC or ETH.

GreedVault

BTC AND ETH. nothing else

Suitable_Acadia_190

In this cycle now, ETH & LINK

NoBrosCrypto

BTC and ETH are the two to stick with. I would advise against 2 years, you’d likely want longer to get the real upside BUT if your aim is for a trade then you’ve timed it well and you ‘should’ do well on a 2 year horizon as you’re catching the tail end of the bear market. I say should as nobody can predict the future. Re BTC mining - unless you’re hobby mining or have access to cheap electricity it’s probably not worth it.

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NeonMaxi

I’d get some BTC or if you want to get active in DeFi get some ETH

Specialist_Top_8480

For a 5 to 7 year hold I’d keep it pretty boring personally and lean much more toward BTC or ETH than trying to find some tiny coin that might 50x. The shorter-term stuff is a completely different question. I’ve had a few small Moon experiments running lately just to test different market scenarios but I wouldn’t mix that mindset with a long term portfolio. For something you want to forget about for years, simplicity probably wins.

cali_dave

Lots of stuff. I can't consolidate years of research into a Reddit comment, but I'll start with a couple things: Liquid non-custodial staking. On Ethereum, for example, if you don't have 32 ETH to run your own validator and you want to earn a passive yield, you have to send your ETH to a third party like Lido. You then get rewards in a separate token which you have to convert if you want to exit your position. In addition, the tokens are locked up in the smart contract - you can't move your ETH around freely. With Cardano, your ADA never leaves your wallet. You receive rewards in ADA, not a rewards or wrapped token. You don't have to trust that Lido or whoever is handling your tokens correctly. There is no slashing. The eUTXO model. There is no variable gas fee. You know exactly what the fee will be before you submit the transaction. You know that the transaction will succeed. You don't need a smart contract to launch a token. Cardano is big on trustless systems. You don't need to trust all these third parties to do things because the blockchain handles it natively. Midnight is going to be even better. Selective disclosure (the bouncer at the bar doesn't need to see your whole ID with your address, birthday, and weight on it, he just needs to know you're of legal drinking age) - privacy where you want it. Holding NIGHT generates DUST which is used to pay for transaction fees. In other words, transactions are free unless you're exceeding your DUST generation. There's a lot of really cool tech in Cardano that doesn't matter to people who are only looking for a quick buck.

North_Ad_9999

Buy ETH And don't BitCH

Active_Monitor_6925

Seems like the only cryptos with promise are BTC, SOL, XRP and ETH. Everything else is either a scam or useless.

QuaternionsRoll

\>Technically you can trace it with reasonable sureness, if you have that metainformation that it came from an ETH swap This is exactly my point. They didn’t *just* give the Z->Z txid, but also the knowledge that a T->Z transaction immediately preceded it. This is more-or-less equivalent to giving a Monero txid along with the knowledge that an ETH->XMR swap immediately preceded it. In both cases, privacy was not compromised by the ability to perform a public transaction, but rather by information connecting the public transaction to the private one. Simply executing T->Z transactions as soon as you receive funds to a t-address (rather than just before you want to send them from a z-address) is sufficient to eliminate this concern, just as swapping ETH for XMR as soon as you receive ETH (rather than just before you want to send XMR) does.

anymonero

No, that comparison is wrong. The ETH-XMR swap is public, yes. But when I donate my freshly acquired XMR and give you the txid, you couldn't determine my ETH address from it (which is what happened to the Twitter user) Caveat: Technically you can trace it with reasonable sureness, if you have that metainformation that it came from an ETH swap, but that is due to ring signatures and an implementation detail of Monero, and not due to not having transparent addresses which we're discussing. It's actually an argument AGAINST transparency and a reason why you should use Monero-only. It's why I recommend & use Monero, and nothing else. And once the next hard fork launches, I can finally stop adding that caveat whenever I mention Monero's privacy guarantees.

Pleasant_Maybe_5523

For 5–7 years I’d honestly keep it pretty boring. Mostly BTC, maybe some ETH. I’ve seen enough altcoins disappear after a cycle to not bet too heavily on them long term.

Temporary-Cause730

Wtf i BDAG??? Invest in BTC, HYPE, ETH, SOL, stop buying these random craps.

Temporary-Cause730

And the weirdest thing is that you can actually love both! These Monero shills think that you can only have one coin in your portfolio, it's so bizarre. I have a lot of ZEC, but I also have XMR, because I believe the privacy narrative will be profitable in the next few months/years. I also have BTC, HYPE, ETH and SOL, four different L1s.

QuaternionsRoll

\>This user thought he was safe by using a shielded address: This is basically equivalent to exchanging ETH for Monero on Hyperliquid, immediately transacting it, publishing the transaction ID, and then being surprised that it is relatively easy to guess your ETH address. Unshielded transaction support is fine, but freely converting between shielded and unshielded is not.