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Still same opinion? Total market is looking horrible atm. No one is talking about ADA anymore and treat it like it’s finished

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There was euphoria all over 2024. It's just that for some reason, it avoided all the coins that are commonly held by CC redditors like ETH, ADA, ALGO, LRC, NANO, MATIC, DOT

It’s vapourware anyone with a brain and that isn’t one of his paid shills knows this. ADA is a gross scam cult.

The deathblow to ADA was not onboarding USDC or Tether. I mean where were the users going to come from?.

Let me guess, you have ADA.

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Well you have to believe in the project somewhat but never marry a token.
I’d say XRP is a good buy ADA has its place and Eth is a way better bet than Bitcoin. I believe it’s going to 50k.

ADA fanboys would never do that..

Yeah, at least SOL was able to reach a new ATH this past cycle. ADA didn't even reach half of its previous ATH.

it's sad that people waste their energy hating or otherwise spending time and energy thinking about ADA, but here we inexplicably are

Are we forgetting he was able to allocate as much ADA as he wanted to himself?

Here comes the quarterly ADA hate train 🚂

I would not say that these 3 particular examples have " failed". XRP hit a new ATH in the last 12 months, ADA is still in the top 15 and Chainlink is still important as an oracle. Examples that I believe better support your point, which I completely agree with, are Polkadot and Cosmos Hub. They seemed to have great use cases and great technology but high inflation, poor real world demand and poor marketing worked against them.

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I am similar spot to you. Last cycle I scooped ADA after reading about it for 10 minutes. Made a bunch on it then switched it to a bunch of other altcoins at the peak. Those plummeted but when Trump got elected all my bags went up like crazy again. I think Jan 2025 I was at 125k in crypto and was riding high. At the time I had ADA, SNEK, HOSKY, DOT, VET, and MATIC.
Well you know how the year went. DOT, VET, and MATIC didn't move up at all. They all decreased. I ended up dumping all 3 for PENGU. PENGU dropped. ADA never picked up after the peak in Jan. I scooped a bunch of ETH and SOL as well and those kept plummeting too.
Then Oct 2025 came, and I was feeling hyped. Alt season right around the corner. My portfolio was down to ETH, SOL, ADA, PENGU, and NIGHT (airdropped). In 3 months I was convinced I was gonna become a millionaire.
10/10 comes- I remember looking at my portfolio and it had dropped 50% in an hour before recovering half. Every month since, market dropped. Didn't matter what news there was, tariffs, interest rates, policy proposals, etc, we dropped every single day. All the influencers and traders I follow kept scrambling desperate for answers.
"Q4 gonna be great"
"M2 supply coming in soon don't worry"
"PMI needs to be over 50"
"Clarity Act needs to pass"
This past week was brutal. My portfolio dropped to 25k before bouncing a little bit to 28k where I'm at now. Down $100k from the peak, with no sign of slowing down.
I had multiple friends who don't invest in crypto ask me what's going on in crypto and if I'm okay. I hope that might be a bottom indicator the way it would be if these people asked if they should buy bitcoin at the top.
I'm still holding as what's the point in selling now? I really hope this tech ends up being life changing. For ADA and PENGU, ETF approval may come in March so that may raise the price. Tokenization and RWA should raise ETH and SOL. Clarity Act should raise all.
But man, it is a tough road. The other part of me is starting to wonder whether this was worth it. I'd be so much better mentally if I had just bought an index fund or dividend stocks.
Stuff I'm doing to help mentally:
\-I'm trying to check my portfolio less often, maybe once or twice a day.
\-Temporarily focus on saving my money instead of investing more into crypto. I do plan to add more to ETH and SOL ETF's I have in my ROTH IRA once I get more money.
\-Picked up a side hustle donating plasma
\-Filed my tax refund quickly so I can get some more capital into my account

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|USDC|10|
|CRO|7|
|IP|7|
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Crypto has been seeing a year long winter ❄️ 🥶 with the 🐻 bears controlling the market, pushing and testing every support level and eventually breaking it, just by looking at the chart it looks like there’s gravy to be made in the next run. There’s 3 major pumps with each getting bigger, any crypto sell off is a healthy one, it gives the coin a chance to consolidate, I don’t know about you but I’ve gotten more coins with an upside of 3x if you wanna play it safe and 5x if you wanna let it ride. Of course this coin only makes 30% of my crypto portfolio I would recommend getting ETH, ADA, SOL as well, but yet again crypto should only be 20% of your total portfolio, I would recommend VOO, VUG, VXUS, VTV just as a general investment in your brokerage account to store your cash and beat inflation so in times like this you have liquidity to invest 5%-10% more in crypto as short term gains.