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Exactly.. crypto is just a casino and a scam, BTC and ETH included.

Consolidation is the phrase you’re looking for.
Dollars are the dominate form of crypto, usually spent on Tron, Binance, or ETH.
Mass. Widespread crypto adoption is imminent, but looks incredibly boring.
Nobody needs a “cheaper; more efficient Bitcoin” when we have stable-coins.
& the wide-spread use of a blockchain software does not necessarily increase its token value.
EX) Tron being the dominate USD payrail in many countries.

Bridge BTC to ETH by minting tBTC. Swap the tBTC to ETH and you get to keep your ETH on ETH network. 1 swap process.
You can also bridge to AVAX by minting BTC.b. After swapping to WETH.e on AVAX, bridge that WETH back to ETH to hold the native asset on the native chain. 2 swap process.
There’s probably other decentralised protocols for this but these are 2 the larger protocols on EVM.

For retirement the only logical choice is bitcoin. And I say that as an ETH maxi. So far it’s the only crypto to have stood a considerable test of time.

Yes it us posible to swap BTC to ETH

You think BTC has no use and ETH is outdated? What in the world are you basing this on? Even btc and eth are highly speculative long term investments and have no place as a primary investment vehicle for retirement. Buy a total market index fund of equities and mix in some crypto (like 5%) if you like but total market index fund is the only correct answer for the base of retirement savings.

Even if you swap for BTC and ETH what would you do with those in retirement? 

Got into crypto recently and opened an IRA through iTrustCapital and started filling a cold wallet with XRP. I have probably 5,000 shares of XRP and $2000 split between SOL, LINK, HBAR, ETH, BTC, and flare.
The more I read this sub the more XRP sounds like a scam. My average cost is $1.62, should I hold and hope it reclaims ATH after a catalyst like the clarity act or dump it now? I'm holding for long term growth/retirement, and I don't understand this field enough to know what to invest in long term. XRP has lots of utility so I thought it'd be good, but BTC and ETH seem better despite btc having no real world use case and ETH being outdated. Any advice? Is there a real argument for btc and eth growing over the coming decades?

People spend a lot of time comparing bridge fees, but the BTC/ETH ratio moving 1–2% while you're deciding is often more meaningful than the fee difference. I'd optimize for security and simplicity over squeezing out the absolute cheapest route.

That's not true. The total amount of issuance is proportional to the square root of the total ETH staked. It doesn't scale linearly, it scales according to the needs of the network - a small number of validators are individually rewarded highly, a large number of validators are rewarded barely at all because they aren't adding much value to the network.
It's an elegant system, especially because people like grandparent post always have some magical notion of what the 'appropriate' amount of security is. Generally, just enough that they will always want slightly less and complain to that effect.
This way the market controls the security level - when there's a lot staked it becomes less attractive to stake, and that unattractiveness scales exponentially. It's not a problem.

when BTC is way above the recent ATH and ETH has ridden BTC's ascent also to new hghs within the next two years, you will have forgotten about this "irreparable" damage.

you know what Jane street did to options traders in stocks?
The same is regularly done to small leveraged traders of crypto by whales.
My advice is to stay away from leveraged trading and only pick up the alt coins you have long term conviction in. My non-BTC holdings are mainly ETH, SOL and SUI.

Trust wallet is ETH based they time drains when meme coin money goes red

No its not, AAVE surpass 275M in deposit in just 3.5months after its ETH mainnet launch, it also integrated with TBV. IMO Defi is very much alive.

Do NOT sell $ETH now unless you absolutely must. Within twelve months it will be at least double what it is today. We are at the bottom, not the top.

Coinbase. Never had any problems with them, ever. And support is good. Trading fees are slightly higher though. But I use it mainly for EUR > crypto. Then afterwards I use Uniswap to trade between ETH and ERC20 tokens

Swap BTC for ETH, is this possible?

I live in perpetual fear that if I stake then ETH will skyrocket and I won't be able to sell as I wait in the unstake queue :< I still check the charts multiple times a day. I also go about living my life every day :>

Swap BTC for ETH, is this possible

Most of the time, ETH longs pay 0.01% every 8 hours to shorts. This is around 10.2% annuallized. If you are going to be using leverage at 5x with this funding rate, you better be a good market timer.