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Ethereum nowhere to be found, yet ETH sits at over $300B market cap. Borrowing ETH to supply HYPE has been a craazy profitable trade

Kevin O’Leary is an equity shareholder in Circle which just aggressively launched a competing corpo L1. They invested a lot, pay aave etc millions every year to stay there, currently market it with cringe stunts, embarasing light shows and comments like the above.
>*"Wait a sec. We’re wrong about ETH being standard... maybe it’s too slow. Who’s next? What other chain is gonna get adopted?’”*
This is just repeating the same strategy you heard nearly a decade ago when EOS etc launched.
>O’Leary’s comments reinforce the reality that Ethereum has not won
How naive do you want to get? Attempts to get free money launching VC alt L1s like Arc, Tempo, EOS, Harmony, Celo, Canto, Sui, Aptos, Sei will never stop and they'll never not be incentivised to make comments like these.

Agreed. ZEC is running just as hard as ETH today, with both up about 7%. The difference is that ZEC is already up 180% over the past 30 days, while ETH is up only 16% - even BTC is up 17%.
Zoom out to three months and the contrast is even more striking: ZEC is up 245.65%, compared with ETH’s 53%. David is laughing all the way to the bank. From a financial standpoint, he made the right switch.
I honestly wouldn’t be shocked if ZEC reached $5,000 before ETH. I own a little ZEC, but the overwhelming majority of my portfolio is in ETH. Given my luck, I’m not about to convert any ETH to ZEC now. It just stings that my conviction in Ethereum has not been rewarded over the past five years.

Call it Ethereum FUD if you want, but O’Leary’s comments reinforce the reality that Ethereum has not won over enough people - and has lost some supporters along the way.
The recent price action is encouraging, but ETH still isn’t running nearly hard enough. It’s up about 7%, compared with BTC’s 6.2% and SOL’s 11.48%.
ETH has lost so much ground against BTC that it now needs to run twice as hard as the market reprices higher. Otherwise, we would have been better off simply holding BTC.
Now is when I need to see ETH strengthen toward a BTC-to-ETH ratio of 15:1, then 12:1. Eventually, I want to see 6:1 - the flippening moment we’ve all been waiting for.
[https://x.com/scottmelker/status/2100706363638710739?s=20](https://x.com/scottmelker/status/2100706363638710739?s=20)
>***Kevin*** *O’Leary says he was wrong about Ethereum becoming the standard chain*

*“You only needed two positions. You needed BTC and ETH, because they captured 97% of the entire volatility”*

*“That was under the assumption that everybody would standardize on Ethereum. Every sector. That has not happened”*

*“Now investors like me and many others are saying, ‘Wait a sec. We’re wrong about ETH being standard... maybe it’s too slow. Who’s next? What other chain is gonna get adopted?’”*

Today BTC has gone to 81K, and I am furious because I didn't invest in it. I thought I was smart with my investment. Doing double flips (investing in the strategy vaults) only to find myself standing in the same place. And have realised that sometimes smart actions are the simplest ones. I fell into the too-smart-to-just-hold-the-bag trap. So it pushed me to create something so I don't fall into the trap again later on.
[https://youvsbtc.com/](https://youvsbtc.com/).
The product is simple: no AI, no trading training needed. Just answer a simple question
How your vault investment performed against BTC, ETH, and SOL.
Currently, it's in beta;
I am aiming to make the product free for life because it's my first product. I am adding more protocol, investment funds one by one. And I have plans to add a feature where you can compare your wallet with BTC and see how it performed (which many of use wont like seeing). So tune it and let me know your feedback

ETH monthly: I posted this important chart about ethereum several times before. We finally broke above green resistance. Let's see if the advances are as fast as the last 3 times this happened!

I'm guessing you're in the states. Install Strike and set DCA. Carry on with it for a few years.
Watch this to understand the problem. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtFOxNbmD38
Now, I don't like influencers and would say stay away from anyone talking about shitcoins, yes even ETH is a premined and centralized shitcoin. Also, don't listen anyone predicting the tops and bottoms. Nobody knows where bitcoin will be next week, month or year. There's one guy that is worth watching: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJWCJCWOxBYSi5DhCieLOLQ Watch every single video from that channel.

ETH Daily - 18th September 2026 📰
Price of ETH is up 7.5% in last 24hrs, trading at $2,634.
\-Lido begins CMv2 consolidation.
\-Morpho supports stock-backed loans.
\-Base to ship validity transactions.
\-EEZ test atomic transaction.
\-Across launches its ACX token buyout portal.
Read more: [https://ethdaily.io/lido-begins-validator-consolidation](https://ethdaily.io/lido-begins-validator-consolidation)

Hey what’s up, I’m glad you commented because I can share some information and knowledge that hopefully you’ll find informative. I’ll try my best to explain all of your questions and doubts to the best of my ability.
1.) No bitcoin is not a Ponzi
A lot of people think of Bitcoin as a Ponzi or a pyramid scheme. And I see why people can think that because there are a lot of cryptos that’s ARE scams. Bitcoin however does not fall under that category. Ponzi by definition is a fraudulent investment where the person in charge pays the returns to older investors using money from new investors. Ponzis also guarantees profits. Bitcoin doesn’t have either of these things. Bitcoin doesn’t have any leader matter fact. It’s decentralized meaning there is no CEO, no leader or no government. No one is in charge of Bitcoin as a whole. Bitcoin also doesn’t offer ANY type of guaranteed profits. The creator, Satoshi Nakamoto, said in his own words “ if you don’t understand it, I don’t have time to explain it to you I’m sorry”. He doesn’t care if you invest in it or not. And yes he is the creator but he doesn’t run or control Bitcoin whatsoever since it’s decentralized. Also Ponzi schemes fail. Bitcoin has been running for about 17 years 24/7 perfectly despite the numerous amounts of attacks and people attempting to break it. It can’t be hacked or broken because of the SHA-264 Bit security. The same security the governments and your banks use.
2.) Utilization
Bitcoins adoption sits around 5% globally as of right now. There isn’t many places or people seen using bitcoin… atleast near you. If you try to tell countries like El Salvador, India, Nigeria, Vietnam, Philippines, etc ( the list goes on ) that Bitcoin is useless, you are going to be heavily mistaken. Bitcoin isn’t just in the US, it’s world wide. Available to anyone, anywhere. Even in the us, there are multiple places accepting bitcoin as a form of currency. All the countries I mentioned use it as a form of digital payment daily. Even 5 years ago. There was no treasury reserve or ETFS. Now there is a specific treasury reserve for bitcoin, Bitcoin etfs, more businesses accepting bitcoin as a form of payment, etc. So yes Bitcoin isn’t just this digital coin. It was created to be MONEY because our money is broken, and it’s being used as MONEY everyday. Just not right in your sight.
3.) It’s used by criminals
Okay, so is cash. Matter fact did you know crypto made up 1% of use for criminal activities and cash being 99%? Cash is completely anonymous, Bitcoin isn’t. Every bitcoin transaction is on a public ledger where anyone can access it for free whenever they want as long as they have internet. All transactions with bitcoin is available to the public, it just hides your identity. That’s actually how people using it in the black market got caught, because they thought it was anonymous. Until the government realized every transaction was documented on the public ledger. Leading them to find out where bitcoin went and tracking down criminals. Just because someone uses a knife to hurt someone, does that mean the knife is a tool specifically used to harm others? No, it’s a tool widely used to cook and be able to cut items more efficiently. It’s not bitcoin itself that’s bad, it’s the people who decide how they want to use it is. Anyone has the free will to use and do things with anything, that doesn’t make the product or service bad just because a person decided to use it for bad.
4.) Early Investors
Ofc if you are early to something, you get rewarded bigger. If you bought Amazon, Apple or Nvidia when they were worth $1, are they a pyramid/ponzi? No, these are investors who saw and believed in the company and took that risk to invest. They accepted the high risk and got high rewards for their choices. Same thing with bitcoin. The people that got rich simply saw what it was before anyone else did and they took and accepted that risk when it was in the early stages. Higher risk, higher reward.
5.) Hope
Bitcoin is really a mathematically and fundamentally sound version of money. Of what money should and wants to be. But for future outlooks, yes ofc you have to have hope. No one can guarantee the future. When you invest in a stock. You put money in a company that has a hopeful future with where they are going. For example, Google. Google is always going to be around and will always be. When you invest you are hoping they will grow as a company. Same thing with bitcoin. You are hoping because of the mathematical evidence and formula and where the fiat currency system is leading to. The USD is failing and we are in 40 trillion dollars in debt. A system designed to be printed whenever causing more inflation and debt. So when you look at Bitcoin, you aren’t just investing that the prices goes up and down. You are investing in a currency that you have 100% ownership and freedom with no centralization. You are hoping for a future when everything collapses ( which the fiat system is inevitable to collapse due to extreme hyper inflation ) you are protected. It’s a way to protect yourself from a depreciating currency. And for me, I would rather go down with the ship ( which it won’t and it’s mathematically impossible for it to reach $0 due to lost coins and the Bitcoin community conviction and thesis ) than living in a system where it was designed for people, especially the younger generation, to suffer. I would rather resist and fight back for my freedom and knowing my wealth will grow and be secure.
6.) Bitcoins history and Price fluctuations
I find it funny that people who invest into VOO, QQQ, and these index funds say zoom out and look at the charts look at bitcoins and still think it’s a scam. Bitcoin went from cents to thousands of dollars. That shows adoption and how much people think it holds value. Yes it’s down but if you zoom out, we are still WAYYY up. It’s also because it’s not globally adopted as of yet. Volatility is the price you pay because it’s not widely adopted yet. As time goes on and adoption grows, which it will and does every year, it becomes less and less volatile and will become more stable. Anytime there is a revolutionary change or tech, there’s always doubt at first until it becomes irresistible. Think of Bitcoin as a protocol, because it is. Just like how the internet is a protocol. Anyone can build a better internet but no one is going to just leave the internet we have now for a new one when people have spent time and energy on the one we have rn and embedded itself into society. It’s like trying to tell a life time apple phone user to switch to a Samsung. Bitcoin is a protocol because it was the first and is the most secure and also has been the longest one. Multiple people have tried to recreate a better and faster version of bitcoin but look, it all failed. Its competitor is ETH and the competitive difference between BTC and ETH is drastically not even close.
I know this was a lot but I wanted to help you somewhat understand why Bitcoin isn’t just a get rich scheme. But built for real world uses and hold real value and requires real time and energy, such as PoW ( proof of work ) to mine and isn’t just this number you get out of thin air. There are hundreds and thousands of nodes world wide keeping bitcoin alive and always improving. Bitcoin isn’t just a coin, it’s money that is fundamentally sound backed by real time and energy with rules that won’t ever break. Such as the strict 21 million supply and 100% decentralization.
There is a lot to learn about bitcoin. It requires a paradigm shift. Meaning you have to be open to look and understand and view things from a different lens. This requires you to change how you previously thought and do things and accepting to learn and understand how things might work differently than you thought. A lot of people view the world in the lens they were born with. Just like a camera, the lens is interchangeable. Once you change and have the open mindset, you’ll learn not just about bitcoin. But more about your life and yourself than you thought you knew. Money isn’t wealth, knowledge is. Grow your knowledge and the money will follow.
Hopefully this read was helpful in some sense and helped you understand a bit more about what Bitcoin is. I can’t type out nor do I want to because there is so much information that I can’t explain everything through texts. But there is a reason why a lot of the smartest people in the world accept and believe in Bitcoin. Because the end in inevitable for Fiat

One thing I'd push back on, calling LSTs "about as safe as it gets" alongside plain staking isn't quite right. stETH dropped to like 0.93 ETH during the Celsius mess in June 2022 and took months to get back to par. Plain staked ETH can't do that, there's no market price to break in the first place.
Not a hack or anything, just forced selling plus everyone panicking at once, the ETH itself was fine the whole time. But if you ever need to bail fast during a crash, that's exactly when the discount shows up. Anyone actually factor that into how much they hold in LSTs vs just staking directly, or is nobody thinking about it anymore?

put 75$ in ETH today

How to gague ETH's PPS on this breakout?

Hey - it’s hard to transact on ETH efficiently. Crypto is a work in progress

iska is relative. For every USDC the is one US dollar behind it which is audited. After the last short squeeze when BTC had that big runup ithe leveled out . then there was the upcoming cloture vote and pending FOMC intewar rate action. so I played it safe for a few weeks convert a majority of my crypto holdings to usdc and then they the usdc and earned a family steady 6.9%, which ain't bad really, while BTC was meandering around.
So right after the cloture vote and the FOMC meeting I convert from USDC back to Crypto in a certain plan Ed distribution(BTC , ETH and SOL). Plus I keep between 15 and 20% of My overall holdings in USDC and that USDC I still lend and and earn interest on.
just a strategy that seems to work to help mitigate downside risk. the bottom line for me ustc is a great place to be somewhat safe probably safe as you can earn a steady good interest rate as opposed to a bank which is less than 2% or money market which is also terrible interest rates and not even insured in some cases.
oh one more thing I do with USDC or my rationale behind it. as the portfolio grows I'm maintaining that 15 to 20% in there from gains or new money to help ensure I have money to pay any taxes later the year

Mostly kidding it’s more of a hedge. I’m long BTC from 60k and long ETH from 1700.

>**DeFi preemption,**
>**Innovation exemption,**
>**Ether redemption.**
~Daily haiku until we’re at least at 0.178 on the ETH/BTC ratio or highest market cap

There has been a significant amount of things that have changed.
IBIT is genuinely no speculative BTC ETF anymore. It’s got $100B+ in assets, and we have live data now that is showing us how much inflows/outflows is happening intraday.
And that’s a huge deal. And that doesn’t mean cycles don’t matter, they still do. But what it does mean is we don’t have any data on how cycles can/will run when this has only been happening since 2024.
ETHA (ETH ETF) is also attracting a significant amount more inflows lately, and they even have ZEC on there now too. This is a big deal for BTC specifically though because it exposes BTC to millions of more investors who otherwise don’t own a crypto exchange account and maybe don’t want to.
They simply just login to their brokerage platform, buy some IBIT and call it a day.
If you want to know how significant this genuinely is right now from live readings of the top 5 most actively traded stocks / ETF’s:
• IBIT (spot BTC)
• BITO (BTC futures)
• NVDA
• INTC
• SPCX

There are gas and bribe fees, what's where your profit went. They are especially high if it's and ETH/Robbin Hood coin

Start boring and level up as you get comfortable. Staking ETH or SOL directly is about as safe as it gets, or grab the liquid staking version like stETH or JitoSOL so it's not just sitting there. Aave lending's fine too, just low yields, that's the price of no drama.
Once you want more, LP stablecoin pairs, low impermanent loss since both sides barely move. If you go for pairs with real price movement, read up on IL first, it's a trap the first time you see it happen.
Past that is yield farming and leveraged stuff, where it usually goes wrong one of three ways, the reward token dumps, the protocol gets hacked, or the yield was just fake emissions. Anything promising a crazy fixed APY is a red flag on sight.
One more thing, once you're spread across staking and a couple farms across different chains, it gets hard to even see your whole position at a glance. And DeFi transactions turn into a nightmare for taxes, self transfers, staking rewards, LP moves, most tools just dump it all into "unknown" and you're left untangling it by hand.
Tools like Chain Glance, Zerion, Debank can help label all that correctly and spits out a CSV you can just upload straight into your tax software, like Koinly or Bitcoin.Tax instead of doing it manually.

ETH has been ranging for 5 years while fundamentals have constantly improved and now adoption is about to hockey stick.
I've dropped a bunch of money on the bet that this will reprice violently on the next 6 months.
I don't see how we get another bull market where ETH is the constant laggard.
There will always be alts outperforming it, when I say laggard I mean being under the worst 3-5 performers out of the top 10 or something like this.