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If I had to pick just one to hold through the rest of 2026, it’s BTC. I keep a smaller ETH position too, but BTC is the one I’m most comfortable sleeping on.

Should be noted based on OP post history - the guy HATES ETH

Jane Street will begin dumping BTC here in an hour or so, which means the algos will dump ETH. Buy lower and then buy lower.

And has more outages in a year then ETH had since the day it was created 

How the order book sets the ETH price on an exchange

ETH haters will be cooked soon

Why you say ETH just curious

When the internet first started, most websites were basically digital posters.
You could look at them, read what was displayed, maybe click a few pages, but that was it. No real interaction. No real participation. You were just being fed whatever the website wanted to show you.
Then came the real shift.
Websites became interactive.
You could buy, watch, listen, comment, participate, exchange, build, share, argue, learn.
That is when the internet exploded.
And honestly, crypto promotion on X today still feels stuck in the first phase.
People drop tickers under posts like they are force-feeding readers.

THIS.
THAT.
Buy this.
Join that.
Most of the time, they do not even react to the original post. They do not engage with the person. They do not start a real conversation. They just paste the ticker and move on.
That is plain bs.
And if you translate that behavior into real life, it becomes obvious how absurd it is.
Imagine walking up to strangers in the street and shouting your ticker in their face.
Imagine writing it everywhere without context.
Would that make anyone care?
Of course not.
What would make sense is talking to people. Asking what they think. Sharing ideas. Explaining why crypto matters. Listening when they push back. Showing them that crypto is not just charts, tickers, and speculation.
Crypto is supposed to be about freedom.
It is supposed to be about exchange.
Not just financial exchange, but human exchange too.
Ideas being challenged.
Communities being formed.
People building trust without needing permission.
The same problem exists even in big projects like BTC and ETH.
The technology moves forward, yes. Developers build. Things improve. But for most normal people, crypto still feels distant, technical, and impossible to understand. They are shown things they cannot really interact with.
And with memecoins, it is even worse.
Most memecoins claim to be community-driven, but 99% of the “community work” is just ticker spam.
No thought.
No conversation.
No bond.
No culture.
That has to change.
Crypto should bring people closer together, not turn them into bots repeating tickers under every post.
And maybe there is one place where this can start moving in the right direction:
The Saiko Show.
A place where everyone is welcome to speak.
Where Saikos can discuss with other Saikos.
Where crypto becomes a conversation again.
Let’s make crypto social again.

[saikoinu.com](http://saikoinu.com)

ETH is in a death spiral. Too much competition. Just look at TRON’s performance. It’s no secret anymore.

Degate wallet or Near Intent are my go-to place for cross-chain swaps.
in DeGate wallet, you need to go through USDC. so BTC->USDC-> ETH. No need to care about bridge or having gas tokens, just deposit BTC into Degate and it goes! Degate is a wallet so if you use it as a wallet then no need to transfer tokens in and out.
in Near intent you need to deposit onto the protocol, and at the end withdraw.

The headlines focus on the carnage: $600M in liquidations in one session, BTC slipping below $77k, and BlackRock clients pulling $448.36M in BTC and $57.57M in ETH in a single day (May 18).
That's real. And it rattled people.
But here's the other half of the story: while retail was panicking, BitMine was accelerating.
Tom Lee's firm bought 71,672 ETH last week below $2,200 — a sharp jump from the prior week's pace. Their total ETH position now sits at 5.28M ETH — roughly 4.37% of total supply. They're 0.63% away from their stated 5% target and buying faster, not slower.
Lee's explanation: ETH's pullback is tied to rising oil prices, not crypto fundamentals. The correlation is macro, not systemic.
Worth noting: BlackRock IBIT still holds 811,290 BTC ($63B). Their clients de-risked — BlackRock itself didn't exit.
So the real question isn't whether crypto is broken. It's w...

People invest based on risk/reward. Historically, the S&P 500 has delivered an annual return of 10% with very low risk. If you have been investing in ETH for the past few years, you are probably at a loss or have very low profit, which is terrible for a high-risk asset. That is my whole point, ETH proved to be a bad investment regarding risk/reward.
Last 5 years:

\- S&P 500: 80% (low risk, low reward)
\- ETH: -3% (high risk, high reward)
Comparing ETFs and ETH isn't ideal, but my point is that ETH has underperformed in recent years, so people are shifting their appetite to other assets. You can also check Google Trends, where ETH overall is trending down, which means the price is not going up anytime soon.

Yeah this feels more like a liquidity and positioning issue stacking together rather than one isolated headline event.
Yields rising definitely changes the competition for capital, but the interesting part to me is crypto also still hasn’t repaired internally underneath that pressure. ETF flows have been weak, BTC dominance is still elevated, ETH/BTC still hasn’t really recovered, and open interest keeps falling with price instead of expanding aggressively.
That usually feels more like a market reducing exposure and trying to stabilise than a true panic breakdown. The part I’m watching now is whether liquidity that’s showing up in stablecoins actually starts translating into structure again. Right now it still kind of feels stuck underneath the surface.

Bitmine (BMNR) Buys 71,672 ETH as Total Holdings Reach 5.28 Million ETH

Funny fact, you can actually buy ETFs like SPY with your ETH

People keep looking in past to justify ETH's poor performance. Since 2018, people have been talking about the adoption of ETH by financial institutions. After 8 years, we have seen some adoption, but the narrative is not strong enough to drive prices up.

Investors prefer to invest in real assets and problems, such as AI and energy. In the meantime, the crypto market is drifting further from BTC, which is seen as a store of value rather than as tech to solve problems.
In 2024 pump, Trump was elected, and in 2025, Trump was manipulating the markets and took the profit. In 2026, Trump does not care about crypto, which is slowly dying and probably not turning back in the next 12-24 months (if ever).

If you look back in time, ETH is the worst performer (ignoring shitty altcoins). Why would investors put money in an asset that never performs, considering the risk? Risk/Reward ETH is really bad because even if we reach ATH, it would be like 150% profit, which is nothing in such a volatile, high-risk market. So, why would people put their money on that?

ETH and NEXO all the way this year

Would the arguments for ETH being dead have applied equally in the Sept 2023 and April 2025 cycles? Or is something legit different this time?

Bitmine now owns 5.27M ETH, more than the combined holdings of its biggest Ethereum competitors.

Are you really asking if it has met our expectations on an ETH sub?