ETH

lifeiswutumakeit

Really? Still believe in shitcoins when even ETH has 0 use case in the real world? 🤦🏻

brkinard

So ETH is done this cycle....topped at $5K.....two months ahead of BTC....right at its 2021 highs. That's what you guys think? ETH ain't done yet, not by a fcking long shot. On your left

Nahzpersonal

Once the Senate passes the CLARITY Act, ETH will find its zing.

jwz9904

btc.d is 60%. Reminder to myself for next cycle: Do not hold ETH. use it as gas.

Numerous_Ruin_4947

ETH was 50 cents in 2015, and just about $5k a fee months ago. BTC was 6 cents in 2010, and went up to $126k. Way more crazy than gold. The dollar is a shitcoin.

DBRiMatt

> Like I know someone I'm running a little experiment. Got 1 ETH lending on aave. Got 1 ETH that I trade. My aave balance is up to 1.0066 ETH My trading balance is up to about 1.22 ETH Now I'm trying to see how long it will take me to trade 1 ETH into 2. :D

Th3FinalStarman

So bizarre these large players don't DCA, like why buy tens of millions in a single trade? If your whole business is just being an ETH Treasury what're you doing like...the other 23.99 hours of the day?

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aaj094

Personally, I think ETH has the second spot unassailably in the bag. Some other coin sure can pump and dump but won't actually come anywhere near eth as far as real significance is concerned.

Medium_Change4574

What a pathetic bounce even though stocks are up today. A single fucking percent. ETH even down.

AhSparaGus

A massive % of the entire crypto ecosystem runs on ETH. ETH killers have come and gone but its still running. ETH is the tracks that all the other trains run on

GrailThe

After a lot of research, (I will be pummeled here because its unpopular) I believe Hedera is destined to be one of the winners, for a variety of reasons. It is not a blockchain, it uses a DAG hashgraph architecture that avoids many of the problems of blockchains (congestion, variable gas fees, front running, high energy use) . It has security (ABFT), proven velocity(10K TPS), speed (<3 sec finality), fixed, low cost (.0001 / transaction), proven scale (71B completed transactions (no including voting as SOL claims), very low energy usage (\~0.000017 kWh per transaction), it is EVM compatible to connect with ETH DeFi, ISO 20022 certified for financial use cases including RWA tokenization, a governing council of 39 global enterprises including Google, Boeing, Dell, Mondelez, LG, IBM, etc.). Hedera has never really played the press release pump game of other cryptos and it is not well known or liked in the retail crypto gambling space. Its current market cap is a tiny fraction of SOL or ADA. In my opinion, it's the "AMZN" of the crypto world in 10 years.

Longjumping_Lab_4515

I entered this market in early 2020 and exited at the end of 2024 , i realized my other investments are steadily growing in these past years (e. g. US stock market and gold) while my crypto investment in BTC and ETH just go up and down wasting my time and health waiting for it to go to the moon 🚀😬.. I left when ETH hit 4,200 and never looked back

TuxRuffian

> With anything really. Gonna have to disagree here. For BTC HODLing is all I do, but w/allot of the smallcaps, I don't HODLing is always the best move. I agree that checking balances too often is more likely to hurt then help, but you can manage risk w/o constant interaction. For smallcaps or MCs that I don't intend on HODLing, I utilize margins with predifined SLs, TPs, TSs, etc. via OTOs _(Buy when prices hits X and sell when it reaches your TP or drops to your SL)_ and trailing stops so I can set it and forget it. It stops your emotions at any given point in time from clouding judgement and you can always edit open orders if you want. Just apply good old fasion Risk MGMT. BTC and other large caps are a different story though. They stay in my Trezor. I seperate the SOL and ETH that I HODL there as well and never mix it w/the SOL/ETH I use for token swaps, etc. TL;DR: HODLings great for some things, but not others IMHO. There is no one universal rule that is best.

BacchusAndHamsa

I only see news where they "planned to accept" by now, but never that they did it. Some of JP Morgan's "analysts" were the "to the moon by end of 2025" hype mongers, well instead BTC and ETH are in the crapper. Maybe they won't do it. Maybe some analysts are updating their resume....

LambertIsMyName

Yes, but still down ~7% overall with coins like ETH down 14.

1990sshin

Yeh I somewhat agree but don't forget there are so many chains ETH is competing with now. ETH is the first chain so you can't dismiss it as any other chain. They will catch up, they may be like dinosaurs but they are getting things done over time.

mrjune2040

"Having to explain to users why they need to hold a special gas token has held back Ethereum years. Imagine your bank telling you "sorry Bob, you cannot transact, you need $Santander tokens first"? Lunacy." - I'm not really sure about this and/or the point that you're trying to make here, because every transaction that I make with one of my various banks internationally use the local fiat currency as a fee basis. So literally, if I go to my bank and say 'hi, I want to buy a currency, stock, make a transfer/withdrawal' then I always pay in the base currency. That's really no different to how ETH functions in terms of the broader assets available via the protocol.

iMakeUrGrannyCheat69

ETH is half shitcoin sadly. It barely made it to its all time high from the last bullrun we had if i remember correctly.

Party-Brief3166

I agree with your take, however there's always a point in the cycle where people say nothing will ever go up again except BTC, yet again most of them end up being wrong. I remember last cycle BTC 20k, ETH 1.2k and sol 15$, some normies I know were grave dancing and saying that crypto would NEVER go up again, that was the bottom. I'm fully into altcoins since 2020, did I take profits? Not as much as I should've taken but I'm here for the long haul and I'm not fucking leaving until I experience another alt season during expansive monetary policy. I took a lot of risks and looks like I kept taking them since I did not take a decent amount out of the table, idgaf I either make It or get rekt until I die.

hoppeeness

Agreed. Anything with actual use cases and only the leaders in those areas. Sad for AVAX and such as SOL and ETH are the chosen winners. There are others like HBAR or maybe XLM that are being accepted by major industries and don’t compete directly with SOL or ETH.

jawni

>ADA Community is not on Reddit. Well I don't know who else would be commenting in /r/cardano if not the ADA community, especially since this thread is making it pretty obvious that any people with negative opinions are being banned. >It's somewhere between X and GitHub. lol thanks for the laugh. Relatively speaking the Cardano community on X is large compared to here, but that's only because X in general has a much larger crypto community then reddit. Relative to other altcoins, Cardano is easily one of the biggest alt communities here, or at least it's been that way from 2017 to recently. I've noticed it drop off a bit in the last year or so, but it's pretty obvious that there is a pro-Cardano bias in this sub compared to other alts. It's the only altcoin that ever has posts about minor protocol upgrades or really just any largely inconsequential shit that still gets upvoted. Any other alt coin, even with major news, will rarely get upvoted and rarely have positive comments. If you're ranking the bias of altcoins from positive to negative in this sub it goes: ETH, then ADA, then a big gap, then ALGO/DOT, then ICP/HBAR, and then you have a massive gap and it's SOL being mostly hated, then another massive gap and it's the purely hated projects like BSC, XRP, TRX, etc.

OkBuy4754

Gold hedges, crypto swings pay. Rebalance: 70% BTC/ETH, dump illiquid alts like yours. Liquidity traps kill exits. $20k last month on vol plays.

Background_Dare2951

convert to ETH for at least 3-5x. your 30k with bitcoin max reach 2x

LongBeachJohn

I would like to see BTC and ETH up 30 %. That's something that hasn't happened for some time now. It seems like crypto only goes down.

3tc4tc

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ThrowRA-hamburger

Honestly, BTC at 5-10 years, you're probably fine. I'd personally split future buys between BTC and some other solid stuff like SOL, or SEI, even ETH, for more upside potential, but that's just me

SenorGreenGo

Weeding out the loser coins down to just a few for their new World Order Currency. Now which ones will they choose? BTC, ETH, or WLFI?

biba8163

> "A Fat Orange Man haveth a greater chance to pass through the Blades of a Windmill than ETH haveth of reaching $5K" - Genesis 42-69. **(Feb. 2025)** https://np.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/1i0amu5/ethereum_whale_offloads_33_million_in_eth_at_a/m6xbsy8/

cnhuyaa

Technically you are right, but i am kinda sure they dont even have half of the impact that DCAing on spot would have. Why? Because lets say I offer you 100 eth for 200000$, we accept on the deal, but the price doesnt really reflect that why? Because I got the ETH by making a third party deal by Y Exchange, that they will give me 10% cuts from all OTC deals. So technically he is removing bitcoin from circulation, but still thep rice doesnt increase. It only helps because the supply is tightnening but in really supply shock is a myth that will most likely truly never really happen, because people hold their crypto in exchanges, as long as people do that exchanges can do shady stuff, and suppress prices heavily. Even tho they say they dont do that ofc whjy would they publicily admit it, but most of them is doing that, because there is no way a human with iq of 90 thinks btc is at 70k with ETFs + saylor aping billions every month. But BTC can freely pump insane numbers in just couple of days few years ago without ETFs and without company treasures.. Just take 5 mins and think about why.

whataboutbenson

At some point in the first half of this year there will be a day that is just absolutely brutal. If you’re in the market you’ll feel overwhelmingly cheated to the point you want to cry. If you’re not in the market you’ll grit your teeth and clench your asshole and thank your lucky stars that you got out. You’ll see a few posts with titles like “I lost everything.” When that happens, get on tradingview and check the volume. If it’s the biggest red candle in crypto history (in volume not price) or comparable to other record setting days, that’s when you start to buy in. Congrats, you’ve just bought the bottom. Don’t go all in though as there will be another brutal sell off in like September time. You’ll be wondering when you’re gonna catch a break. People on Reddit will be making convincing arguments that crypto is a sucker’s game and if you’d have just invested in gold or the S&P you’d be up X%. This is when you really start to buy in with conviction. Hold for a long time and stay responsible with your finances. Never go all in. When Bitcoin gets back into the 90s and people stop bearposting constantly, sell 20% of your bag. Take profits in tranches as price goes up. Don’t take it for granted that we will breach the previous ATH of $126k. Don’t touch any alts except ETH, and even then with great care. Congrats, you’ve now got a deposit for a house.

biba8163

Big Mistake. Huge Mistake. /r/cryptocurrency has been fertile shilling grounds for ETH Maxis to bamboozle noobs with Triple Halving, Supply Crunch, Ultra Sound Money, DeFi, RWA bullshit narratives that have resulted in nothing but losses. > The Ethereum triple halving and why **ETH will easily overtake BTC in marketcap** https://np.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/p5m9eq/the_ethereum_triple_halving_and_why_eth_will/ > You've probably seen many E**TH price predictions usually ranging from $10,000 to $20,000...but it would thus be erroneous** to use BTC price predictions and apply them to ETH as it is almost always done with ETH price predictions. EIP-1559 and PoS will account for a reduction in ~90% in sell pressure due to the deflationary tokenomics and huge monetary incentive to stake ETH which in turn gives more illiquidity, implies the price of **ETH could reach up to $150,000** in a best case scenario. https://np.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/pen9od/the_ethereum_triple_halving_part_2/ > Let's clear up the facts around EIP-1559, the **merge/triple halving and ЕТН becoming a deflationary asset**...For over a decade now the crypto market cycles have revolved around the Bitcoin halvings when the supply of new coins going to miners halves. This is important because miners are majority sellers. They have electricity bills to pay https://np.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/ofcxrn/lets_clear_up_the_facts_around_eip1559_the/ > Here are some simple calculations implications of POS' triple halving. ...ETH issuance goes down from 4% to 0.5% IMMEDIATELY. **What took BTC 12 years to achieve, ETH is gonna do it in 1 block length!** https://np.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/oz5hkm/eth_has_managed_to_burn_4600_eth_24_hours_after/

Previous_Valuable873

XMR will be 5k sooner than ETH

BanjoMochi

Mainly ETH and still losing 90%. I think gaming just gone this cycle. Maybe gaming is just another 1 cycle narrative.

Previous_Valuable873

No wonder, XMR will be 5000 sooner than ETH.

sirdopa

Okay, whatever you say. But if you think, that stocks are like bingo, while thinking that BTC or ETH aren't, then you sir are a degenerate gambler. And very uninformed one.

StretcherEctum

2x ETH etf

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> Except massive whales selling BTC moving into ETH. These are banking insiders that know what’s coming up. https://np.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/1ngvi7g/dont_go_babe_rates_cut_next_week/ne910ve/ Looks like another shitcoiner who lost his pants and became a Buttcoiner and now is hiding his comment history You have no idea whats coming up. Funny that Buttccoiner. Funny that.

shitcanfly

Yeah hi AI and gaming coins are cooked. ETH will tug along.

Jad8484

Swap the Alts to BTC or ETH and hopefully stop the bleed. Most likely you will get your money back and some in the future.

ADHD-Developer

I see no other road for ADA than total failure unfortunately.. just like polkadot, both are great projects. Problem is real world doesn’t care because its not bringing any benefit to capitalists. They are committed to centralizing ETH and BTC through accumulation the biggest size they can.. whats next ? If you control 10 - 20 % of an asset its already over

Letsmovethemarket

It is a dog that will not hunt. Buy BTC and ETH.

StretcherEctum

This drop is amazing. I bought ETH at 1500 and sold at 4k last time. I'm buying ETHU this time if it gets that low.

Long_Tackle_6931

Think I last sold my ETH at $3.2k (bought $1.5k this cycle) on way up and BTC maybe at 86k (bought at $24k this cycle). Watched it run nuts but I just ignored it, diverted my money into US tech and silver stocks. This month I’m down like -0.2%. Lesson: always take profits

DankShibe

Wait for about about a year. ETH will climb back by then. The rest probably not .

DryMyBottom

well, ETH has accustomed us to everything, hasn’t it?

Bulky_Customer_4064

Wait and try to stay calm. You're already in the market, and regardless, markets are cyclical, so sooner or later they'll come back up. I personally have been buying BTC and ETH every day for two years, an amount I can afford (€10), and I try to do so consistently. The market will probably go down for some time now, and you've made the mistake of buying at a time when it didn't make sense to buy, since you never buy at the highs. So, now it's best to keep buying as it goes down and try to close at the purchase price (which will still make a profit if you bought even at lower prices) or higher, so you're guaranteed to be in profit. The decline will eventually end, and large investors start buying again after the market bottoms. The market recovers and goes back up. Calm and patience always pay off, so don't go crazy and get informed before making any moves.

Svv-Val

Yes. It will. By the end of this month ETH will be worth less than $2,000. Closer to $1,500.

harvested

Odds of flippening of ETH spiked on polymarket to 37%. I guess eth would be flipped by tether?

The-Happy-Mannequin

Yeah I’ve learned my lesson (again). Only buying BTC from now on and maybe 1 or 2 alts. (Already have ETH and SOL)

whataboutbenson

In the OP he said his holding is “mainly gaming, ETH and AI altcoins.” If he was just holding BTC and ETH he wouldn’t be 90% down. He got into the shitcoins.

PermissionPlusFour

FTX was 8 billion, and that money is mostly gone. BitMine is just sitting on unrealized losses, which will go down when ETH goes back up.

teheditor

Yeah, I had that with Bitcoin in 2018 when it collapsed from 18k to 3k. ETH collapsed too

biba8163

Are people still surprised that leveraged casino coin will empty your pockets? > *ETH is a casino coin whose value is a mirage derived from stacking on-chain leverage in places like Aave, Maker, etc where ETH is the dominant collateral asset for gambling for ETH and various shitcoin tokens people think are DeFi.* **When the shit hits the fan, you have cascading ETH liquidations to reveal the ugly shitcoinery lying underneath. (Feb. 2025)** https://np.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/1igeysk/the_eth_to_btc_ratio_just_flash_crashed_to_02337/mapylwj/ > **I think one day people will realize how insane a run ETH had in 2020/21 and fools were forever chasing that euphoria. (Feb. 2025)** > One of the things people seem to be missing is how much of a leveraged casino coin ETH was that drove this rise. Before the bullrun started in 2020, ETH was sitting at a relatively small ~$30 Billion marketcap. DAI was also sitting with $250 Million minted. > BTC started running in Q3 and by peak of the run, ETH was used locked as the native asset to mint $6.2 Billion in DAI. That $6.2 Billion is a massive injection of money into $30 Billion marketcap with an undertoe of a parabolic BTC bullrun and bullish sentiment. Compare that to the total of only ~$3 Billion inflow into ETFs today when ETH is ~$300 Billion marketcap and it's easy to see why the marketcap won't budge much. > Leveraging ETH to pump its markecap is not dissimilar to burning LUNA to mint UST which drove LUNA to a $40 Billion marketcap. Everyone calls that a scam mechanism but the same type of mechanism that pumped ETH is considered DeFI. > BTC parabolic moves, leveraged native ETH to mint DAI, DeFi casino narrative, NFTs, staking hype, triple halving memes, ultra-sound monies.......and Covid lockdown and money > It was a perfect storm. https://np.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/1indhrk/daily_crypto_discussion_february_12_2025_gmt0/mcdygp1/?context=3

edakaya240

If BTC revisits $35k, many large alts could realistically retrace 40–70% from current levels, with weaker narratives underperforming and strong L1s and infra coins holding up better. I’d selectively accumulate assets with real adoption and liquidity (like ETH, SOL, and quality infrastructure tokens) while reducing exposure to purely speculative names. For confirmation of a bottom, I’d look for declining selling volume, stabilization of BTC dominance, and a shift in macro risk sentiment alongside higher-timeframe market structure holding.

TimTheGrim55

So glad I got out of ETH at 4k

DBRiMatt

Been there! I was -80% at one point after buying the 2021 highs. But, averaging down, buying BTC and ETH, I was able to return to a profitable position, about +320% by the time to 2025 high's came around. Shaved some profit, and now I'm accumulating to do it all again!

Additional-Ad3482

I’m in a similar camp. the core bull case for me is ETH as settlement infrastructure, not a hype asset. The combination of PoS economics, staking yield, and L2s still anchoring to Ethereum makes it feel structurally resilient. What would really challenge my view is sustained value leakage away from ETH at the protocol level, not just short-term price weakness.

ssv84

Unfortunately it should be no altcoins in a wallet at all. Only the main assets can come back one day, like BTC, ETH and probably SOL. And we can built some strategies on top of them. But for other assets it’s just casino

DryMyBottom

he should focus on rewarding ETH hodlers… they’ve been living hell with ETH price action

Mariahausfrau

Ive hold Eth more than 5 years and it havent proved a s..t. Its just alt among others. Gladly i sold my eth while it wasover $ 4k. Next buy in for ETH will be $1k.

Stockzman

Apologies, you're right. I missed the part about AI Altcoins in his portfolio. I was referring to his ETH investment.

hodler1992

"follow the tech" - one more reason to avoid ETH lol

Prahasaurus

ETH is a great investment, follow the tech. The macro environment is bad, but Ethereum is going to be one of the greatest investments of a lifetime. But your time horizon needs to be 5 years minimum.

aminok

Investing in ETH is not for the faint of heart. It is trying to provide a new for humanity to coordinate, and much of its value is based on *speculation* about how successful it will be in that endeavor. The real question to ask yourself is whether you believe in its mission, whether you believe in its potential, and whether you are willing to wait long enough to see it play out.

oneden

Nope. Trading volume ≠ utility. Show me people buying groceries, paying rent, getting salaries in stablecoins at scale. You can't, because it's not happening. Just like you're entire piss-poor chain of argument. Stablecoins play close to no role for remittances. That's still happens on almost every other conceivable way. Western Union alone still runs circles around crypto. The remittances need to be cashed out somehow. You would be surprised how expensive that gets in many countries. Your apolitical fake-neutrality means utterly nothing. Because ETH itself might be running all the time, but the systems that interact with it can't and haven't been active all the time. You're not just a clown, you're the entire circus.

oneden

>neutrality and guaranteed uptime doesn't matter ETH has had downtime and issues. "Neutrality" means nothing when most nodes run on AWS and most access goes through Infura... So, what the fuck are you even on about? Traditional payment systems have 99.9% uptime. Banks - hate them as much as you want - work. This isn't a problem that needs solving. > huge progress in the technology's capabilities and in adoption doesn't matter You keep repeating words without providing an explanation, what those developments lead to without becoming circular in your reasoning. > no, as I mentioned, stablecoins are massively used for international remittance That's it? Remittance? That's the utility? Too bad that many services do that better as well. Without crypto. Crypto isn't even cheaper while doing so. M-Pesa only requires you to have a phone. No internet needed. Like, it gets sadder with every response of yours.

T_Peters

It all sounds right to me; Government and institutions have jumped in, I don't see any reason why it wouldn't continue to do what it's done and end up at a million in 10 years. ETH will probably limp along for the ride, but what Trump did crushed any trust that your average citizen had for alts. And they all think "I can't afford to invest 70,000 in BTC!" not understanding that it's all relative. What a fucking shame. The sector that had so much promise to get away from all the market manipulation got bought up by the government and manipulated. Who would've seen that coming? Not us, if we didn't elect a fucking known felon, con-man and pdf.

WiseSilverWolf

I was hoping to be able to sell all my crypto (BTC, ATOM, SOL, SUI, ETH, Kaspa) but im down at least 40% on each altcoin and down at least 20% on BTC. If things ever go back to Pre-October 2025 prices im selling everything and moving over to covered call stocks that pay me monthly and weekly dividends (BTCI, QQQI, SPYI, TSII, NVII).

T_Peters

This is so true, and it was actually the moment my cousin texted me and said "Bro should I buy TRUMP coin?!" I laughed out loud when I saw that text. It should've been the sign to take profits in 2024, and get back in when the tariff fear hit peak, with ETH down at 1.5K. We might be in for a redo of that same scenario, just with BTC at an insanely higher price.

T_Peters

I'm not actually shorting, but I was leveraged and had to close it. I had a gut feeling that I should've closed it during the relief rally at 3.3K, and I didn't have the energy to convince myself after staring at the chart until 6am. I woke up the next day and kicked myself endlessly as each week, the price depressed lower and lower, unable to convince myself to close it/sell. Now, I've hit my line in the sand, and while it seems ridiculous to sell now, I have the same gut feeling. I think it is going lower. I'll kick myself endlessly if it bounces, because I do not typically fail both ways. I bought the bottom perfectly when ETH was at 900, but I will never stop living in regret for buying that instead of BTC at 15K. Usually, I just don't sell enough at the top, which is what I did both previous cycles. Profits taken, but not nearly as much as I should've. I've made my bet. I hear what you're saying. I was hoping others had some reassurance on my theory, as it is not only mine but the technical analyst I've grown to trust the most. That if we closed the weekly candle below 80K that we are going lower. I can take the safer route and buy some of the BTC I plan to buy now, but either way, it would end up resulting in a huge blunder. But my liquidation price was too close and I had to make a play after weeks of sitting on my hands like a fool.

Small_Appearance2014

You’re not missing much — a lot of long-term ETH holders think the same way. **Strongest bull case:** ETH still acts like the settlement layer for crypto. PoS + staking give it a yield narrative, and most L2s, DeFi, NFTs, and tokenized assets still ultimately rely on Ethereum for security. It’s less about hype now and more about being core infrastructure.

oneden

>Ethereum is less than 11 years old, and is the world's first decentralized Turing Complete virtual machine. ETH has been in the works since 2013 and launched 2015. Sure, you can cope. But crypto has been around for longer. That's what I refer to. >A list of areas where Ethereum has made huge progress: None of them matter. It's fixing issues it introduced itself since its inception. >These are facts, and prove that many people care about Ethereum and smart contracts. **Nobody** does. The "Turing Completeness" you throw around doesn't mean anything. Programmable money? Code is law? That's literally the dumbest and most tone deaf anti-feat wrought by human hands. You keep repeating from a list of old arguments that get dragged along as time marches on. Crypto still hasn't found its problem to solve that current tech doesn't do better.

maximp2p

if it reaches 35k by the late 2026 i think many people will losing faith and will be too sacred to find where is the bottom. ETH will be so cheap you will buy and kept it for fun

aminok

Ethereum is less than 11 years old, and is the world's first decentralized Turing Complete virtual machine. Being an entirely new paradigm (like the internet was in the 1970s), it has had to work through fundamental limitations of the technology while building out the technological primitives that enable mass-consumer blockchain applications. A list of areas where Ethereum has made huge progress: * Building secure smart contracts: more sophisticated auditing programs, better developer tools, and improvements in programming languages and formal verification have reduced the prevalence of major blue-chip contract exploits compared to the early years. * Enabling privacy with public validation: zero-knowledge proof technology has gone from niche research to production infrastructure, powering private transactions and identity / verification systems, not just mixers. * Protocol fine-tuning, like the implementation of EIP-1559, to improve fee predictability: along with later upgrades that improved efficiency and tied network usage more directly to ETH supply through fee burning. * Proof of Stake consensus: Ethereum successfully transitioned from Proof of Work to Proof of Stake, maintaining decentralization while drastically reducing energy usage and continuing to secure the network through staking incentives. * Scalability technologies like Optimistic and ZK-Rollups: now widely used in production, providing much higher throughput and far lower transaction costs by processing activity off-chain and settling back to Ethereum. * Protocol upgrades expanding Rollup capacity: data-availability upgrades (such as blob transactions) increased the amount of affordable block space for Layer 2 networks. These all took time to build, and will take more time still to reach production quality, but are shaping up to provide a vastly more useful blockchain platform than what was launched in 2015.

T_Peters

I'm feeling like getting liquidated myself. After being a believer in ETH for nearly 9 years, I made so many mistakes, and I'm feeling like it's time to reallocate into Bitcoin. I shouldn't have been so greedy, and I'll keep some ETH, but probably less than 10% of my holdings. Now, I just gotta try and time the bottom on BTC, and with a weekly close below a major support, I feel like we drop lower. I'm just wondering if that happens tomorrow when markets wake up or if we get a bounce from how oversold it is on the RSI?

oneden

>Investing in ETH is not for the feint of heart. It is an incredibly novel technology in the midst of price discovery. Ah yes. "Novel" - Over 16 years old and counting. The cope is immense. >As for your claim that ETH is useless, that says more about your lack of research than about the technology. No. It's an observable reality. >Stablecoins are now the primary cross-border payment rail in dozens of countries. ETH secures billions in programmable contracts, used for everything from microloans to insurance to remittances. Even JPMorgan and BlackRock are tokenizing assets. Regurgitated nonsense that has been sold for years. Nobody cares about smart contracts. Nobody. Immutability is a concept that some delusional coders consider novel and the true way of developing, but it goes inherently against how the world works. Crypto can't do anything better than what we can do nowadays with far better tech. Crypto is the equivalent of a 56k Modem, but you people somehow see the future in it. Seems to me, you have no idea what you're pontificating about. >The base layer of the Ethereum ecosystem is a decentralized transaction protocol that allows anyone to send verifiable, uncensorable data, including payments, without relying on trusted intermediaries. That's a breakthrough, and is obviously going to be useful. And more items on my bullshit bingo crossed off.

aminok

Investing in ETH is not for the feint of heart. It is an incredibly novel technology in the midst of price discovery. Over the last seven years, it is up 2,200%, so alongside the volatility, there has been huge opportunities for gains. As for your claim that ETH is useless, that says more about lack of research than about the technology. Stablecoins are now the primary cross-border payment rail in dozens of countries. ETH secures billions in programmable contracts, used for everything from microloans to insurance to remittances. Even JPMorgan and BlackRock are tokenizing assets. The base layer of the Ethereum ecosystem is a decentralized transaction protocol that allows anyone to send verifiable, uncensorable data, including payments, without relying on trusted intermediaries. That's a breakthrough, and is obviously going to be useful.

jenya_

> 1386*… unfortunately On April 9 last year BTC price was about $76K and ETH price was about $1400. Today BTC is about $76K and ETH is about $2200. That's quite an improvement.

jwz9904

are people trying to liquidate the ETH whale?

Apprehensive-View583

She just got wiped out about 2m by owning leveraged contracts on ETH, and she only has some Solana left which is prob also gonna be wiped out and Sun refuse to lend her money lol

RepulsiveDisaster671

I sold my ETH for a $6M gain. I am better than you.

oneden

God, you crypto people need to find all kinds of ways to gaslight yourselves, don't you? The gig is up. ETH can be whatever you think it is, but it's useless. All cytpto is useless. There isn't enough liquidity enough to fool people into buying into a highly speculative asset like this. BTC is like 40% down from ATH and ETH is even worse off. For some people it's the worst investment of their lifetime. When Saylor is eventually forced it sell BTC crypto will die with a whimper.

Sudden-Cat7170

Sold all my ETH (blackrock) on August 13 2025 at the eth price of $4600 for a short term gain (4-5 month hold) of $4.5M+. Was so hard to sell everything but as ETH dips below my buy in price right now I feel like the literal luckiest guy on the planet. I can’t believe I timed that so well. Here’s the best proof I can dig up for now: https://gofile.io/d/0s0ZQb

Sudden-Cat7170

Sorry the daily churns so may comments i didn’t think it was getting seen by the same people. Also I had a new point of interest since ETH broke below my $2200 buy in.

Sudden-Cat7170

I sold all my ETH Aug 13th for a short term gain of $4.5m

Sudden-Cat7170

I sold all my ETH on August 13 for a $4.5M+ gain an I’m happy to be off the ride. If I held I would be DOWN on my original investment rn.

confusedguy1212

I’m trying to make sense of ETH price decline during such runs. Who here is actually selling?

AlternativeTiger4302

Also, the only assets with buying at the bottom of a bear are BTC only. Then wait for a 4-5x, sell, then wait for a broad crypto pullback, then deploy to alts you like. For me, it'll be ETH, HYPE and TAO.

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Sudden-Cat7170

I bought ETH at $2200 last year, sold 4-5 months later at $4600 for a $4.5M+ profit and I’m so happy to be off that rollercoaster. 🎢

account009988

Alts will be dead and won’t recover. Maybe ETH would but the rest: dead af

Miss_Curie

If BTC is at 35k that late in the cycle, the important part isn’t *which alt survives* — it’s that liquidity is gone. In those conditions, alts almost always fall more than BTC and take longer to recover. Personally: * BTC first. ETH only after BTC starts to base. * I wouldn’t size alts aggressively — “good projects” still drop 70–90% in real bears. * Holding only makes sense if your position size lets you sit through more downside without forcing emotional decisions. The bottom usually isn’t a price number — it’s when BTC stabilizes, leverage is flushed, and everyone who said “I’ll buy lower” is suddenly quiet.

Aromatic-Ad7987

Yes-Link, Hbar does what ETH does but better...

Quant-Tools

You'll do anything but admit you were wrong about ETH won't you

Crafty_Surround6022

ETH taking every chance to crash

AttemptKitchen

Lmfao ETH speedrunning to 1.500 again.