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It used to be the only way you could buy any crypto- this is one reason why it was like gold. It was also inverse to the stock market. To your point, it keeps getting bought AND SOLD- so there’s always some to be bought.
Now, it’s aligned with stock market, and institutions are buying in, and it’s honestly not as technically useful as ETH or XRP.

ETH is up double digits since this article was posted, crypto moves fast. a lot faster than dinosaurs

Over the last \~4 years, a lot of people followed the same idea.
Fill a portfolio with altcoins, HODL, wait for the bull run.
Apart from a few exceptions like BTC, ETH or SOL, many altcoins are still down heavily. Some never recovered, others are just stuck. A lot of capital and time stayed locked.
Some people stuck to HODLing.
Others switched to trading and often not very successfully.
Many learned a lot but did not necessarily make money.
In my case, for every altcoin investment I invested the same amount into BTC as well. Because of that, the overall result was okay, even though many altcoins underperformed.
I am not here to bash altcoins or promote any strategy.
I am genuinely curious about real experiences, not influencer narratives.
Be honest:
What did HODLing altcoins actually bring you
Did you outperform just holding BTC or ETH
Did you use a similar approach
Did you switch to trading and how did that go
What would you do differently today
Looking forward to honest replies and lessons learned.

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50% in BTC, 25% in ETH, 10% in SOL and 5% XRP

Just hope this isn’t a dead cat bounce . Just bought more ETH

Nice rebuttal snowflake. Crypto bro's like you love to throw shade to make themselves feel better about their own shit bags. I won't even ask what you own LOL.
It's really not even a debate anymore that ETH is one of the only chains providing actual value while seeing rapid real world adoption. Not to mention it's the largest, most secure, and credibly neutral smart contract platform on the planet. It's blowing competition out of water on almost every meaningful metric and continues to grow regardless of what the market is doing.
I cannot wait until ETH is finally understood by the broader market and adoption is so high that price can no longer be suppressed. I hate that people treat crypto like PVP, but for people like you, I can't wait to see yall eat your words. I know it will come eventually.

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It’s ETH vs the rest. Not worth mentioning

It's not quite clear to me if you are looking at working on/for Ethereum, or if you are looking to invest?
If you want to work, I believe there are very few paid positions, and I would expect the skill requirements to be very high.
If you want to invest, there is basically two things to do. Learn how to safely create a wallet, and safely store your seed phrase. Then it's just buying ETH, and have a 5-10 year perspective on it. Trying to time the market and guess where the top and bottom is, is incredibly hard.

I’ve been there. Not exactly the same numbers, but the same feeling — the pit in your stomach, the replaying of every bad decision. You’re not broken, and you’re definitely not alone.
The hardest part isn’t the money, it’s the regret. What helped me was accepting one simple thing: you made the best decision you could with the info and emotions you had at the time. Everyone looks smart in hindsight.
At ~80% down, panic selling is usually the worst move — but “hold everything forever” isn’t automatically right either. I kept BTC/ETH as core, then did a brutal, honest review of alts. No real usage, no traction, no future? I trimmed and treated the loss as tuition.
Cycles do turn, but not all alts come back. Time helps, quality helps more.
If it’s affecting your sleep, that’s a real signal — about position sizing, not your intelligence. Take care of your head first. You can recover financially, but burning yourself out helps no one.
Hang in there. This market humbles almost everyone once. The people who come back stronger are the ones who actually learn from it.

ETH has utility and the blockchain is a proven way of validating exchange. It’s the only crypto that I believe is not FOMO.

And how much was ETH when you bought it? I'm accumulating crypto too.

"since day 1" 🤣😂🤣
So you bought after ATH hitting nearing 4 years of up and are wondering why you're having trouble. Zoom out.
The most relevant L1s: BTC, HYPE, SOL, ETH.
Stay focused on what people in web3 actually use. Don't stack L1s no one uses unless they are new. Hold mostly BTC. Learn patience on a multi-year time horizon. You'll do fine, but you need to stay involved.

Bottom? Not a chance. Bitcoin, XRP, ETH....for example...over the past year formed a inverted "cup and handle" pattern. That is a long term bearish indicator....and very accurate. We have another year of downward trends.
It will be under a dollar. At $1 (physiological number) will have a bounce back. Then fall under.
DCA

>**Best out of shape,**
>**An asset in you can ape,**
>**TradFi can't escape.**
~Daily haiku until we’re at least at 0.178 on the ETH/BTC ratio or highest market cap

L1 Zkproving + based rollups means atomic ETH L1 and based rollup L2 transactions, aka massive scaling using blob space while maintaining L1 to L2 and based L2 to based L2 composability.
I can see Robinhood chain, Base chain, other centralized corporate L2s surviving because they need control, as well as privacy L2s because they offer something different. But Arbitrum or Optimism are probably in trouble if all they offer is generic scaling space since they are competing with based rollups' composable access to ETH L1 liquidity and state. Their token price reflects this. Alt L1s are also in trouble because they will have to inflate their tokens away in light of low transaction revenues in order to pay for expensive chain security.

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|ADA|40|
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|DOGE|15|
|USDT|15|
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|USDC|10|
|HBAR|9|
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Noting like that, ETH was gonna “flip bitcoin” but instead it was hacked and never lived up to its name. XRP was gonna “flip ETH and BTC” but all they do is ripple keeps unlocking and dumping coins. And so on.
Only BTC has max uptime, price growth and zero hacks, exploits or controversies other than random FUD he said she said mainly from max BCH shills.

Same. 50% is for sure a scary drop, but I recall when my ETH went from 1200 to 90 in 2018 😂