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It's not a KYC issue.
[Section 9(a)(2) of the 1934 Act](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-1999-title15-section78i&num=0&edition=1999) makes front running transactions illegal. There's one blockchain I can think of that is explicitly designed with compliance for these kinds of transactions in mind and it's not ETH.

Beyond the MEV issue, ETH's centralized contracts create single points of failure that undermine the benefits of using a decentralized blockchain in the first place.

Most of it in BTC or ETH. Buy slowly, not all at once. Self custody early. Hardware wallet beats exchanges. Avoid leverage, yield farms, Discord tips, and “hot narratives”.

First year is about not losing money, not making it.

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ETH was a gift from family back in 2018 when it was cheap. Have t invested anything into it.

Just dunk it in ETH, it's not rocket science. It goes up, you add more every paycheck, it goes down, you add more every paycheck.

Lol you sold ETH after years to top blast into stocks that are arguably just as sensitive and prone to manipulation by the same external forces that you’re claiming to be bearish over

Not GenZ and don't believe in SOL. I'm quite bearish on most of the current crypto offerings.
The ETH ecosystem has somehow become even more convoluted and hostile to users than it was during COVID, an impressive feat. It will never be more than a speculative, con-adjacent, pseudo asset. And as institutions, requiring predictability and accessibility, take control of crypto markets, ETH will get pushed out -- slowly, then all at once -- for some new and better tech.
I had ETH staking for years that I recently unstaked and swapped for equities. Despite the reasonable, albeit superficial, logic that a crypto-friendly administration will drive the prices of current players up, I think crypto drives more and more towards bespoke, purpose-built, and highly auditable technologies that institutions are comfortable working with. That's in direct opposition to whatever Vitalik is doing these days.

I did a loan to pay off my car note after a year of paying $750 a month. It's been fine so far, including the 10/10 mega dump. I just did a defi loan with my BTC and ETH and I had enough of both to borrow like 1/3 of what I could have, so my LTV was always safe. Not having a fixed monthly payment is wonderful.
Borrow is usually 3 to 6 %. Sometimes there's a liquidity incentive and I can knock the borrow down lower. Rare occasions get paid to borrow, but that's a more degen play that I wouldn't advise as your first loan. *I* would just use something like Aave, Morpho, Compound or Kamino on chain. Coinbase and I'm pretty sure CDC have defi lending built-in so you can access it in more of a walled garden way if you wanted to.
If it's the type of debt you can pay off in big chunks if you want, take a small loan and knock a chunk of it off. Let it sit for like 2-3 months and get used to crypto lending works and what it's like. Decide then if you want to go further.

ETH chain. The company who is tokenizing stocks, bonds and funds is called Securitize. They are currently a SPAC under CEPT. Securitize is backed by Blackrock. Check it out.

Last week over 40% of adresses were active on ETH mainnet

Institutions don't care if it's credibly neutral or permissionless, they want more money. 23/5 trading or whatever they want can utilize DLT without touching L2s or public chains, so why not use the one that shields them from both regulatory and civil liability after an oopsie, and complies with KYC. And it's faster. The only problem is getting liquidity, which is much easier to accomplish than all the other massive risks ETH has to overcome (smart contract risk, hackers, scammers, fees, etc.)

If you could just convert it to ETH, then anyone would create random NFTs and convert them to crypto.

Good thing ETH has a basically infinite supply of

> It has, or we would still be at 250 USD
One could easily argue that the current price (which has been violently crabbing for ~5 years) is entirely due to gambling. It would be much higher if ETH (or other cryptos) had real world relevance. There's always that promise, but it remains illusive. That's what stables are used for, gambling on the volatility, which results from gambling. Gambling^2 if you will!

How could you even think of putting 30k into shitcoins? I truly don't understand what goes through your heads to invest in something so absurd. My advice: BTC or ETH, there's nothing else...

I would keep it in USDC until btc touches the 200 W EMA then ill dump it all on a small top 100 trusted project/projects like NIGHT , Render, link .. capital is small so my appetite for risk is high at this situation, if it was 30 k then i would tell you ETH, SOL, XRP.. if it was 100k then it would be BTC.. the higher the capital the less risk i expose

I don't know but I can't seem to find any information about it, so I asked Leo and just want share it:
>The sharp drop in cryptocurrency prices this morning at 6 AM was primarily triggered by **U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat to impose escalating tariffs on eight European countries**, including Germany, France, and the UK, starting February 1.  This move, framed as a response to opposition to the annexation of Greenland, sparked immediate market anxiety, prompting investors to shift capital into safe-haven assets like gold and silver. 
>**Bitcoin (BTC)** fell from around $95,467 to $92,284 within hours — a **3.3% drop** — as traders reacted to the geopolitical uncertainty.  **Ethereum (ETH)** dropped 3.1%, and altcoins like **Solana (SOL)** and **Pepe (PEPE)** saw losses exceeding 6% and 10%, respectively. 
>Additional contributing factors included:
>**Stalled progress on the U.S. CLARITY Act**, a key crypto regulation bill, which created regulatory uncertainty after Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong voiced strong opposition. 
>**A breakdown in the $95,000 psychological support level**, which triggered stop-loss orders and accelerated the sell-off. 
>**Over $783 million in bullish futures positions liquidated** within 24 hours, amplifying downward pressure.
>Market sentiment worsened, with the **Crypto Fear and Greed Index dropping to 44**, entering “fear” territory.

Feel free to correct or add some info you like.

So I literally started with 200 turned to 600 Ina few days then got my brother to gimme a grand. And I knew nothing and it was Aug when everything was ATH. By Oct 10 I had 7400. Dood told me if I want to make the most and fastest returns trade small market cap and high volatility. Stay away from memes and the small caps look into the ones you might want to hold onto. But if you’re trying to make it faster. You gotta stay locked in. The news economy everything I have my few I hold but I wake up every morning and see what popping off. I choose a few to jump from town forth if one starts to slow down. Make what you an and pull out!!!! DO NOT TRY TO FOCE trade the market after you get hammered a few times just learn a lesson and go do whatever for a little lol. But BTC is king and country with 1000… honestly I’d just buy a bunch of SOL right now!!! And then DCA BTC and ETH

Is there a way to convert this to just straight ETH? I want to hold onto actual crypto I don’t want the NFT at all. How do I do it??

Sure but OP said he was down overall.
And if he actually made his ETH productive through staking or lending he’d be up even more, plus airdrops along the way