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Vitalik starting to become very active on twitter, specifically expressing clear goals of decentralisation and privacy addresses a lot of these concerns.
This game is incredibly mentally taxing, imo just keep DCAing ETH/BTC and tune out for the most part, within 5 years you will be laughing. Thank you for sharing your experiences with us all and I wish you the best.

Been invested since 2020 but involved since 2018 or so.

I am still bullish on Ethereum but have almost zero optimism or hope for ETH or crypto anymore. I've been talking to normies about it for seven years and the only noticeable change I've seen is that optics have gotten considerably worse - it's outright derision now. And if I say something like: "Ethereum is a smart contract platform for digital financial instruments" there is absolutely no more understanding of what that means now than it did in 2018 when I was talking to normies.

Meanwhile, with AI, I've seen it make inroads into our everyday lives. We're exploring it at work, talking about it social circles, people know what LLMs and AGI mean. You feel the changes at ground level existence, ecen if only theoretically. That's after about 2 or 3 years.

Crypto and Ethereum haven't moved the needle a fraction of that in almost seven years. All people know is that it's scammy and stale.

I have bought BTC,ETH,SOL,ADA and XRP.
All bullish as of today, but gearing BTC will go down to 70 or 60K. so should I sell or not.
I have just bought btc for 200 usd. that's it.. it's noting actually but yet I don't want it to that low and loose my money.
also may I know why BTC will go down
and why such a price in gold..

You should use an aggregator for all your swaps. For EVM chains, I'd recommend cowswap or metamatcha.
"does it actually beat just swapping directly on the biggest DEX"
It depends.
If you're swapping 100 USDC for ETH on Ethereum, your order will likely get routed through one DEX only (let's say Uniswap).
But if you're buying a lower cap asset, or you're buying $1M worth of Ethereum, it's possible that, maybe 60% will be routed through Uniswap, 30% through Curve and 10% through Balancer.

50% Index Funds (DCA), 10% Bitcoin, 10% Gold, 5% ETH, 25% HYSA

VCs fund projects, the Foundation grants Algo. It's part of every single blockchain's launch strategy.
SOL, ETH, and many others do it.
Was TravelX funded this way? I had never heard of a partnership or grant there.
You people get upset that the price doesn't move, but are also upset when there's investment into getting a project to use the chain.

What makes you think its a scam ?
I have looked into, the token and the tech is pretty impressive.
Its is or will be 100% decentralised, relying on L1 to sequence the transactions.
Then they have preconfirmation, cheap fast transaction as well as being fully 100% compatible with ETH.
They don't have control of Taiko, nor do they hold more than 20% of the funds.
I don't think they set out to scam, its was probably a technological problem is the reason why they left.
I'm guessing Daniel moving to Taiko was about pursuing a 'Based Rollup' architecture which is arguably the most decentralized way to scale Ethereum by letting L1 handle the sequencing. It was a pivot toward more decentralization, not less.
It just may not of been technically possible with loopring, to have that feature so he left to create a true decentralised token.

Class of 2021. Still here. Haven’t sold. But haven’t bought in over a year.
Conviction has been shaken but not lost due to the last several years of PA. I’ve gone from
Full-port ETH to ETH being a more modest 40% of my total portfolio- and I feel pretty good about that. My monthly buys are now for index funds, so if the crab continues ETH will become an ever decreasing part of my portfolio.
I still believe in the upside. I believe in upside this year, even. This is because despite the PA I feel as though the tech is better than ever. The exposure is better than ever. And because at this point I know I’d feel worse if I missed the ceiling than if I held to the floor.

$3000 ETH! I never thought I'd see the day.

So I work at the Labs behind one of the top 50 on CoinMarketCap. Not gonna say which one.
The truth is a bit of both good and bad.
Institutions are coming board in huge numbers. Stablecoins are getting adopted as global payment solutions. Banks are trying to kill stablecoin yield because they know it’s an existential threat to them.
The downside is that none of that is gonna necessarily pump ETH or SOL or anything. Nobody unbanked is going to get banked because there’s just no money to be made from it.
The space is maturing, which is great but also means it’s getting more boring and more similar to traditional finance.
Insiders are still making money, but the opportunities for outsiders and normal people to get rich are mostly gone.
All the crazy speculative money is in AI now. Or gold and silver. Maybe it will flow back to crypto but who knows for sure.

I don't know how to transfer money from my wallet 😐
The total amount distributed for your shares was based on the closing price of ETH as reported by Yahoo Finance on the Record Date of September 26, 2025, which was $4,035.89

n=1 here. I've not sold anything other than small amounts in my play wallet / stupid NFTs. The only other sell I have was my ENS airdrop that I immediately sold into ETH. I've been DCAing since 2021, mostly stopped during 2024-2025, and still DCAing here and there now.
While I believe that ETH will *probably* (more than likely actually) be priced higher than today in a few years, I'm dubious of any outsized returns compared to just a basic-ass tradfi total market fund. I don't think ETH will get me rich. I don't think I will retire on ETH returns. Hell, I don't even think it's going to be "life changing" anymore (I had hopes to pay off my mortgage with ETH returns, that's likely not happening). It's just one non-trivial amount in a larger portfolio for me.
I have a way larger portfolio share allocated to tradfi investments, as well as 6-9 months worth of emergency fund in my savings account. I'm pretty well buffered against any crypto loss, which is why I'm not selling any time soon and don't really care what disappointing price it's at.
I've basically given up on crypto though. The culture and products are just not appealing to me whatsoever, and this is the consensus of basically everybody outside of the crypto echo chamber. I haven't even *used* crypto in probably 2-3 years. I had high hopes for a more leftist approach to crypto (mutual aid, organizing capabilities) but many of those projects have gone absolutely nowhere. Even farcaster and crypto/blockchain social media is a hot fucking dumpster shit fire.

I don't have bear targets, but I have prices I'd love to start sweeping the dips.
BTC <85K, ETH <2,765, SOL <119, & I think it's good time to buy AIOZ.

I've been in BTC since 2013. And ETH when it was $1.50. I had an entire trajectory which I guess isn't too dissimilar to OP. My net worth had ballooned to over $2m in crypto somewhere along the way trading bullshit coins that are pretty much failed projects. I've lost a lot of paper gains which is always a tough pill to swallow.
Long story short, I only hold BTC and ETH today. The rest is all noise. I'm sure I will miss gains but it's just not worth the stress.

Bought ETH and SOL as well. Basically I m leaving cash and gold and going full risk on retard on

Hi there,
Have you received staking rewards in the past and you’re now missing rewards for a specific period, or have you never received any staking rewards at all?
A couple of important specifics that might help clarify things. As a Platinum Club member, you’re entitled to 75% of the staking reward, but rewards only start counting after the minimum holding period for each asset:
* SOL, TRX, POL, DOT, ATOM, SUI, NEAR: 7 full holding days (rewards start from day 8)
* ADA: 9 full holding days (rewards start from day 10)
* ETH: 15 full holding days (rewards start from day 16)
Also worth noting that staking rewards aren’t paid daily. Rewards for a given month are distributed within 14 days into the following month, so there can be a delay even after you’ve met all requirements.
From here we can’t see account-specific details like exact holding dates or reward cycles, so if you can DM us your eToro username and country of residence, we can help check what’s going on or point you to the right next step with Support.
For reference, the full staking details and Q&A are here: [https://www.etoro.com/crypto/staking/](https://www.etoro.com/crypto/staking/)

I agree with your post. I mined ETH from 2017 til it ended, and in between that time I didn’t even dare enter my wallet in fear of it getting “hacked” somehow. Not to mention all the scams and scandals, bankrupt exchanges, rug-pulls, Celsius.. yeah I don’t really believe in crypto, but I believe in the rising prices which is why I am still here waiting for a good time to buy back in

ETH wiping 2026 gains shows how fast sentiments can flip. I stay cautious with broad swings and focus more on platforms with real utility like CoinDepo where the value is clear and I can withdraw anytime.

tbh it isn’t even the networks fault - the apps u are using general don’t have dynamic gas fees that guarantee a higher chance of success for your transaction.
When traffic increases, transaction with higher priority fees and better optimized gas budgeting are the ones that get picked up. In high traffic certain bots and apps that know how to up the gas (also ups the cost but not by much - still insanely cheap compared to ETH spikes), end up making up almost all the traffic - many average users using UI / apps to send transactions end up having their transactions dropped aka fail - cause the gas is too low compared to the rest of the traffic going on

Your learning curve was long. You learned a lot along the way. You discovered that all success stories breed enshitification due to greed and institutional capture. You have finally returned to your roots - DCAing BTC. That isn’t failure, that’s education. 
Thanks for sharing your experience. I also am sticking to DCA, BTC and ETH, the two protocols I still believe in.