ETHEUR
Ethereum / Euro
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Where most projects do die tomorrow. That said, ETH has been an awful investment for me. 
I'm hoping all of this positivity and institutional interest means it will pay off.

I’m 36, recently laid off, living in Asia. I have about **$1,000** and a lot of time to learn.
A few hours ago, a friend turned **$450 into \~$36k on a Polymarket Bitcoin bet**.
I know this is survivorship bias and basically gambling — I’m not posting this as proof of anything.
But it forced a real question I can’t ignore:
**If you truly believe crypto will matter long-term, how should someone with very limited capital but serious time enter today?**
I’m torn between:
1. BTC/ETH long-term only
2. Learning markets with very small size
3. Building skills *around* crypto instead of trading
4. Or staying out until I have more capital
If you were starting now with **$1k and a multi-year horizon**, what would you focus on — and what would you avoid?

Kudos for this guide!
The good side is that ETH gas fees are cheap now too.
🍩 !tip 10
💚 !pow

Yeah so bad how he's selling ETH to pay for Ethereum development like.

ETH above 2k, nature is healing

In case you didn't know, you can bridge Donuts between Arbitrum One and Ethereum mainnet. This is possible thanks to Arbitrum's native bridge: [https://portal.arbitrum.io/bridge](https://portal.arbitrum.io/bridge)
The Arbitrum bridge is a tool that lets you move tokens between Ethereum and Arbitrum securely. The bridge's maintained by the Arbitrum team themselves.
It pretty much supports most ERC-20 tokens, since DONUT is an ERC-20 token, it's supported too.
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# Guide
**Step 1 - Head over to** [**https://portal.arbitrum.io/bridge**](https://portal.arbitrum.io/bridge) **and connect your wallet.**
https://preview.redd.it/yv5bvg4xnfmg1.png?width=766&format=png&auto=webp&s=8e40e33f0be461408eb9a413ea2880333179b0ec
**Step 2 - Select the source network.**
[Select Arbitrum One \(if your Donuts are on Arbitrum\).](https://preview.redd.it/5gqrqk42ofmg1.png?width=608&format=png&auto=webp&s=bb9b1629b72ef2ef35414b17382e31b9a5492874)
**Step 3 - Select the destination network.**
[In this example we'll choose Ethereum.](https://preview.redd.it/l3o8uzz6ofmg1.png?width=605&format=png&auto=webp&s=a5f0f812afe5f29025e1142c8877d618c46f6827)
**Step 4 - Select DONUT as the token (to be bridged).**
[The bridge supports most ERC-20 tokens, so DONUT's included.](https://preview.redd.it/2ymfdi8bofmg1.png?width=600&format=png&auto=webp&s=24800d1c87aa2c19d059aa222ea8d2cf9684c902)
**Step 5 - Enter the amount of Donuts you'd like to bridge and click "Move funds to \[Network\]". Then simply accept the terms and confirm the transaction in your wallet.**
https://preview.redd.it/9g3apc1xofmg1.png?width=658&format=png&auto=webp&s=c20ccef2c878e892083565675541dc3348ef874b
https://preview.redd.it/v54hxay4pfmg1.png?width=805&format=png&auto=webp&s=099cc05aceb0f76d322a5e5c8aef53e71da6ecbd
[Txns menu.](https://preview.redd.it/e5yrhtxrqfmg1.png?width=1232&format=png&auto=webp&s=1aab483e52f7ed661655d49ffe5e143730491cd9)
You'll get your Donuts on a 1:1 ratio. There are no hidden fees, you'll only pay network gas fees.
In many cases, the total cost can be as low as like $0.10-$0.20 (depending on network conditions, of course).
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# Pros
* The bridge's maintained by Arbitrum directly.
* Secure infrastructure.
* Very simple and user-friendly UI.
* 1:1 transfers and no platform fees.
* No need for 3rd party bridges.
* The UI shows full transparency on transaction status (and gives you a transaction hash).
# Cons
* Bridging takes \~6 days because of the challenge period.
* Requires ETH on the source network, to claim your Donuts.
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*This guide is for informational purposes only, always verify everything before connecting your wallet or confirming any transactions.*

>and ETH
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.

ethereum has delivered on pretty much everything they said they were going to do. if it was “never ending promises and roadmaps” then the merge never would have happened and ETH 2.0 would still be a pipe dream. but the reality is ETH is now proof of stake and has delivered everything they said they would, and then continues to build further

Translation: "Are ETH buyers regarded?"
Good bottom signal for me.

as a long term holder and trader of ETH i can say i domt have adhd but im majorly retarded

Do ETH buyers have ADHD?

What metric are you using to calculate ETH's fair value though?

If you want to stay non custodial you’re basically looking at atomic swap services or cross chain swap platforms. Just keep in mind a lot of the smoother experiences still rely on some level of liquidity provider in the middle, even if you keep custody during the process.
Fees and spreads are usually the tradeoff. When you avoid a CEX you often pay a bit more in slippage or service fee. It helps to compare the total you’ll receive, not just the headline rate.
Personally, if I’m moving between BTC and ETH I think about whether the extra complexity is worth it versus just using a reputable exchange and withdrawing right away. Self custody is great, but sometimes simple and transparent beats chasing the perfect setup.

So I've been going down the rabbit hole on how to stop getting sandwiched on swaps. Just read about Flashbots Protect - basically a private RPC that hides your tx from the public mempool. You add it as a custom network in your wallet and swaps go through their private path instead.
Seems solid for ETH mainnet but its pretty Ethereum-specific from what I can tell.
What I'm curious about is how this compares to the intent-based approach some protocols are using. Like SODAX has solvers competing to fill your order instead of routing through AMMs directly. Different architecture - you're not hiding the tx, you're just not broadcasting what pool you'll hit.
Anyone tried both? Wondering if one actually results in better execution or if its all roughly the same in practice.

ETH is one of the best tech out there, it has purpose and goal.
🍩 !tip 1

In Crypto where literally any project could die tomorrow, it is of high vakue to have a stable project like ETH.

Yes read the following and exploit the market movements for your interest. With ETH, cbBTC of course not memes, shit, rugs etc
https://medium.com/@staker1971/the-p-f-p-m-technique-for-liquidity-providers-profit-from-price-movement-a4d19a12d1d4

I will rather stake BTC now than stake ETH, I moved entirely to BTC at this point. I'm staking on Babylon.

Hi everyone,
I’m posting because a yesterday I noticed an unauthorised transfer of Ethereum was made from my wallet and I’m trying to understand what I can do next.
I am the sole owner of the wallet and have never shared my recovery phrase or private keys with anyone. My Trust Wallet was protected with a password, two-factor authentication, and Face ID.
I don’t trade or use crypto actively. I bought the Ethereum during the COVID-19 pandemic as a long-term investment using part of my student loan, and since then I’ve just left it sitting in the wallet untouched. I don’t use exchanges and I don’t really know much about cryptocurrency in general. I tended to check my trust wallet every few months to check its there and it (until now) was safe and untouched for nearly 6 years..
I did not authorise or approve this transfer. A total of 1.45 ETH was moved directly from my wallet to the address below. As far as I can see, the funds are still sitting in that wallet and haven’t been moved further.
If anyone has advice on reporting this properly or possible next steps, I’d really appreciate the help. I’ve just been talking to ChatGPT about it because I genuinely have no clue. I’m surprised and shocked cause I really don’t engage with crypto except for my Trust wallet.. :(
Attacker address:
0xf1115813278587bA69D6A78B9dD316ce0CB06fB7
Transaction hash:
0x0e65a40c40d5b9d5056147d74acb3a3fe51334354a21ae46576b02c2bffd9bd3

ETH/BTC stubbornly knocking on the door of the 350 day like a Jehovah's Witness for a whole month now