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I love crypto because I have a ton of shady clients in my business and they always pay me in USDT. I simply convert it to ETH, send it to Robinhood, and cash them out to fund more 0dte’s

NDQ is the NASDAQ 100 so it is equivalent to QQQ or QQQM. That's fine. I don't invest in crypto but if you are going to I would reverse the amounts you have designated for ETH and BTC. Or you can buy the Bitcoin ETF VBTC.

Many like which ones? When did BTC or ETH node owners/miners had to do something like this? Any times this year?
Also even if it's the principle of the network and you have good reasons for why it's done, why not just be honest and not say it was fixed automatically when clearly manual intervention was needed?

>the best would be ethereum,
Altcoins are offtopic here but I would avoid ethereum
Not every altcoin is a scam but if I were you I would just focus on education and Bitcoin until you learn more because that one is indeed a scam. no point to ethereum , its on a slow decline because its primary use case was launching pump and dump scam tokens and now solana can do that cheaper than ethereum because of higher gas prices. If solana ever becomes more popular than their fees will rise like eth and another altcoins will overtake solana
1) Vitalik and many others in the Ethereum space are known scammers. Vitalik is not an idiot thus he should have known better than pitch something as ridiculous as quantum mining to potential investors. This is a snake oil salesman pitching technical nonsense to the credulous.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkUpZkeqhF4
https://medium.com/bitcoinerrorlog/vitaliks-quantum-quest-9e6af6570f23
2) ETH is an illegal security according to the Howey test with a premine of 72 million eths. They purposely misled investors by suggesting merely 12 million gifted premine ignoring the 60 million they sold. Misleading total supply graphs in their prospectus.
3) Vitalik and many other have been falsely representing Ethereum and misleading others over and over again. example - pitching turing completeness as the valuable aspect of ETh , now pivoting away from that and saying it was never about turing completeness but "rich statefulness"
4) Ethereum is a pointless project that will lead to no efficiency because there is no censorship risk in code execution. If a project has no hope of ever creating an efficiency(like bitcoin has found with regulatory arbitrage) than every company and project will ultimately fail in its ecosystem. Are you trying to suggest that someday in the future there will be censorship risk in code execution? If not than what purpose does Ethereum solve if it comes with a horrible tradeoff of an extremely large attack surface and huge scaling problems?
5) Advertising immutability and unstoppable contracts that were than immediately reversed with multiple hard forks.
6) For goodness sake the inflation distribution rate or final algo is not even defined and people are investing in this. This is insane and basically amounts to faith in vitalik and his team, while at the same time newbs are misled into believing eth is decentralized.
7) Ethereum has already failed to scale as expected and so they created a whole new blockchain instead of upgrading and following the difficulty bomb/ice age as they promised and lied about many times.
8) the fact that ethereum is switching over to staking rewards has serious tax implication in many countries where merely holding your eth unlike bitcoin being staked will expose you to taxes. Coinbase for example files 1099MISC for any staking over 600 usd a year to the IRS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUUVlatCvp0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCiHTJRbIf4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgFXqVpGDNg
https://medium.com/startup-grind/i-was-wrong-about-ethereum-804c9a906d36
https://np.reddit.com/r/EthereumScam/
Proof of stake as a whole is pointless, insecure, and will always trend to centralization
Proof of stake game theory insures that those with the most coins will continue to collect the most fees , thus creating a vicious cycle of centralization where they continue to accrue more coins with 0 effort unlike with Proof of work where a meritocracy exists of those trying to be more efficient and miners are forced to sell most of their coins
Ask yourself why metamask which is open source wallet was forced to ban certain people in certain countries recently while no open source bitcoin wallet needs to do that
Its because ethereum is so centralized only a few companies can afford to run a full archival node(infura) which is necessary for metamask functionality and governments can target these single companies unlike bitcoin full nodes.

ETH has an infinity maximum supply and its primary use case is for building other tokens on top of.
BTC has a fixed maximum supply and its primary purpose is to be digital gold for the world with transactions that can’t be rejected or reversed.
A lot of tokens on the ethereum blockchain can be censored and reversed by their founders. Ethereum is essentially a vending machine for pump and dump digital assets. It’s low energy consumption does not make more secure, it’s actually a lot easier to attack than Becoin because of this.
Attacking bitcoin requires controlling 51% or more of the blockchain energy in order to change any of the rules or reverse transactions.

The way I see it, ETH is transactional, shooting for lots of transactions at small fees. And there is staking which is basically the source of new ETH. Both will have their place.

I’ve been long BTC since 2021, started my DCA adventure at $100 a week, and have been HODLing ever since although I have branched out a bit, bought a few shit coins as a lark, and I’m basically 50/50 BTC/ETH (I believe both have their merits)
But, I’m now seeing a lot of YouTube videos and have seen the recent (last 12 months) influx of major capital into gold.
The “hypothesis” is that the now 38 trillion US debt and the now 600 trillion derivatives market are at serious bubbles, along with the stock and bond markets, and real estate.
If this is true, my belief is that gold (and BTC) will likely be good places to hedge.
Like, if this all collapses it’s going to make 2008 look like a spring picnic.
So, I’m a small fry, but decided to sell $1500 each of BTC and ETH and swap it for GLD shares. Ya, I know, I’m literally buying the tippy, tippy, top for gold, but if the US debases like they did in 1933, $20,000 gold and $1,000,000 BTC isn’t impossible. I probably should have bought options but I don’t like the time value decay of those.
Thoughts?

Crypto shouldn’t be a journey and it should be less than 5% of your investment portfolio (and I’d argue less than 1%) which should basically just be between BTH and ETH.

Long-time lurker here who's been deep in the BTC trenches since the Ordinals hype kicked off. With the Runes protocol now live and actually delivering on efficient fungible tokens without all the bloat of BRC-20s, I've been geeking out over how this could finally make Bitcoin a real playground for DeFi experiments.
No more "Bitcoin can't do smart stuff" FUD.
Runes are proving that wrong by leaning hard into the UTXO model we all know and love.But here's the thing that's got me excited lately: interoperability. Runes are awesome for issuing and trading tokens natively on Bitcoin, but what if you could seamlessly move those assets (or even plain BTC) into other ecosystems for yield farming, lending, or just better liquidity without trusting centralized bridges?
Enter Rosen Bridge, this open-source protocol that's been quietly building out trustless cross-chain transfers. It's not some flashy new L2—it's more like the plumbing that lets BTC flow freely.From what I've seen, Rosen's already bridged BTC directly to Ergo's DeFi scene, turning it into rsnBTC for collateral in their dApps. Imagine etching a Rune token on Bitcoin, then zapping it over to Ergo for some high-yield staking while keeping everything auditable on-chain. Or hell, even looping in Cardano or ETH chains that Rosen supports. It's all guarded by decentralized watchers and no heavy smart contracts on the BTC side, so it feels super aligned with Bitcoin's ethos: secure, minimal, and scalable.
Anyone else playing around with Runes + bridges like this? Has it unlocked any wild strategies for you, or am I just dreaming too big? Would love to hear thoughts on where BTC's token economy heads next.TL;DR: Runes are killing it for BTC tokens; Rosen Bridge might be the key to making them actually useful across chains without the usual risks. Check it out if you're into that BTC-maximalist DeFi vibe.

Have you seen bitcoin mines? Does that look decentralized? Anybody can stake ETH.

I have ETH staking in cdc and sol

I have $25,000 to play around with and I talked to some friends and they agreed that putting 24k towards NDQ stocks and 1k ($700=ETH, $300=BTC would be a very smart choice if I have the patients to wait several years.
Seeking advice as a beginner, thanks!

Bhutan digital ID also on ETH

I have almost 1 BTC there earning me more while I hold. Im not selling for at least 4 years or pass it to my son. I rarely buy any crypto that I can not earn off it somewhere. My only one is XRP that I have sitting on my cold wallet. Check out CoolWallet Pro and Go. That is what I use for cold storage and staking ETH and SOL. I also have Tangem and dont like it. My CoolWallet Go i use as seedless and the pro displays the seed one at a time on the screen. They have never been hacked.

Damn, Tom Lee was right about ETH after all. ETH definitely going to 15k by end of year.
Oh, what's that? He says 7k now? Ok, well, ETH definitely going to 7k by end of year then!

> 60% of ETH was pre-mined
Anyone who wanted to buy ETH before it launched could do so. That 'pre-mine' resulted in a much fairer distribution than starting mining at genesis, because unlike with the start of Bitcoin, there were already GPU mining farms operating at the time Ethereum launched. They would have got almost all of the ETH... rather than anyone who wanted some being able to buy it.
> and it’s held by a tiny group of people.
Source... because we know that the biggest holder at inception (the EF) has sold over 95% of what they started with to pay developers and researchers... I would be very surprised if you had data to support this claim.
> proof of stake will always trend towards centralization
Proof of Work benefits from economies of scale, whereas Proof of Stake doesn't... so it is trivial to realize you have got this completely backwards.
This is observationally confirmed too, by just looking at how few people mine BTC at home anymore.
> Look up the cap on bitcoin, it’s 21M then lookup the cap on ETH, it’s infinite
This has nothing to do with decentralization... but also is unlikely to remain true in the long run. Bitcoin's security budget is shrinking each halvening, the 3 potential solutions are to increase block size to try and increase transaction numbers; switch to PoS (or another consensus mechanism... like becoming an Ethereum rollup); or get rid of the 21M limit and introduce tail emissions. My guess is that this last option will end up being the lesser of 3 evils.

I started my crypto adventure in ‘16ish. I’ve read 2 books, asked helpful ppl in community, and been on the forums since I started, I don’t really understand it ether🤣. I will say tho I’ve stuck with the boring ones BTC,ETH,CRO,USDC, and its really worked out. I use it as diversification and am more active in stocks. But in my opinion buy,stake,do nothing else, I have realized my initial investment and my “house money” has just grown. I can’t speak to actively trading and getting involved in alt coins but if you just want to dip your toe in buy,stake,hold, a couple YouTube vids and you’ll be knowledgeable enough to start

60% of ETH was pre-mined and it’s held by a tiny group of people. Bitcoin was not pre-mined. Also ETH uses proof of stake and proof of stake will always trend towards centralization.

Is that not norma? Haha
It's subject to price volatility in BTC and ETH, and there's always contract risk, but basically zero chance of being liquidated

Almost nobody thinks of ETH when considering methods of payment or value transactions. ETH has branded itself very well as a smart contract platform, but not as an exchange of value, and I'm okay with that.