ETH

shiny-iseult

I bought more ETH and BTC today instead of SPCX lol

mrplanner-

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

Local_Math_5512

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

hkeyplay16

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

SeeWoke

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

matthegc

ETH is a stable coin

Justinformation

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

Emotional_Perv

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

Deehund

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

Abc125698

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

idliketoseethat

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

BookOfKingsOfKings

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

carsonthecarsinogen

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

botle

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

BastianHS

Wasn't ETH under 900 6 years ago?

iamthinksnow

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

rcbake

Oh well surely ETH will recover

NonVideBunt

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

Original-Read-6475

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

Emotional_Perv

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

Mister_Way

Okay, but what about holding ETH for 10 years?

HoldCtrlW

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

No-Conference5664

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

No-Conference5664

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

Beginning-Tax-8473

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

krakensupport

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

Blackiris-Code

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

Curiouso_Giorgio

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

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radiationholder

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

VincentvdA

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

bimbobandit2016

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

HoldCtrlW

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

jawni

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

darkpool_watcher

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

OptimalBabato

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

TomasTTEngin

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

pretend_to_be_normal

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

Life-View-1757

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

orion_icnv

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

vohltere

Can't spell meth without ETH

Serenaded

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

Zacker000

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

pretend_to_be_normal

ETH is an alt coin as well ;)

Educational_Cable405

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

GreenStretch

Is ETH anybody?

HSuke

Bitcoin, SMH, AI Private Equity, ETH

SeriousGains

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

valcyclovir

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

MetaMaskSwifties

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Desibuddy995

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

account009988

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

valcyclovir

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

EbrithilUmaroth

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

Adventurous_Wrap_712

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

HedgehogOk664

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

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fugit185fi

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

DecisionBubbly5623

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

ProbablyANoobYo

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

Adventurous_Wrap_712

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

GreenBullOne87

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

InvestaHepps

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

GreenBullOne87

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

CryptoGuy89

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

ProceduralTaco

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

calamaritis12

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

Swimming_Brush9038

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

Smart_Bench_9914

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

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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Post is by: AIautoagent1 and the url/text [ ](https://goo.gl/GP6ppk)is: /r/CryptoMarkets/comments/1u288dr/cbdcs_are_becoming_the_default_policy_pathhow/ The most important monetary story right now isn’t another ETF or halving — it’s that CBDCs are quietly becoming the default policy path for most major economies, and that fundamentally changes the game for why Bitcoin and real self-custody matter. If you look at the Atlantic Council CBDC tracker and recent IMF/WEF material, the direction of travel is obvious: China’s e-CNY is already live at scale, the ECB is deep into the “preparation phase” of a digital euro, India is expanding wholesale and retail pilots, and a whole cluster of EMs (Nigeria, Bahamas, Jamaica, some Caribbean states) are already in production. The IMF is literally running training programs on “Macro-Financial Implications of CBDCs and Non-Bank Private Monies.” This isn’t experimental anymore, it’s institutionalized. Meanwhile, the UN/WEF crowd is explicitly talking about CBDCs as part of a more “multipolar” financial architecture – i.e., a slow erosion of pure USD rails in cross-border flows, not some overnight dollar collapse but a structural shift. For crypto, that cuts both ways. On one hand, CBDCs are a state-backed competitor to stablecoins for payments and settlement. On the other, they’re a giant advertisement for why you might want an asset that doesn’t sit on a revocable, permissioned government ledger. As fiscal deficits and debt loads stay structurally high, the pressure for financial repression and soft debasement doesn’t go away; CBDCs just give policymakers finer tools to direct credit, control capital flows, and “nudge” behavior. At the same time, US institutions are normalizing Bitcoin as a macro asset via ETFs and balance-sheet exposure. So you end up with an interesting barbell: CBDCs for compliant transactional money, Bitcoin/crypto as the exit and optionality hedge. Personally, with CBDCs accelerating, I keep everything off exchanges in self-custody on a Ledger — the whole point of crypto is the exit: https://shop.ledger.com/?r=earning-hq&utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=cbdc&utm_content=ledger and I use Coinbase for regulated exposure and fiat on/off ramps because it’s still the most compliant US ramp: https://coinbase.com/join/earning-hq?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=cbdc&utm_content=coinbase Curious how everyone here is thinking about CBDC risk in their portfolio construction. Are you adjusting your BTC/ETH/stablecoin mix, or treating CBDCs as just another payments rail that doesn’t change the core thesis? Ledger and Coinbase links are affiliate links. *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.*

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.