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No, it was 5k next month and 10k next year! And if you said it was exaggerated, they were talking about nerdy metrics that indicate ETH is beautiful and that there would be a flippening 😂

if you want to keep things simple sticking with USDT or USDC alongside your ETH works well

I was in that exact position back when ETH was around $1 as a student that just got his maintenance grant, and was considering dropping 1k on ETH or going on vacation.
I chose going on vacation, but left by PC mining in that time so I got around 30ETH instead of 1000. Can't even remember much about that holiday 🥲

For your education, please just put TUM for your PhD if it is your hosting institution. A 3 month research exchange at EP doesn’t mean you receive your degree from there. You can keep the bulletpoint and even bold the university name there, but having 3 universities for one PhD entry is incredibly disingenuous unless you really have a co-tutoring agreement and receive your degree from 3 institutions. By your standards, I will write ETH, Oxbridge, NUS, CUHK for my PhD. You see how weird that is. I’m sure those who read your CV will not have a good impression from it, which will make them doubt how much you have exaggerated other aspects in your CV. You are a very remarkable and strong candidate already, so try to be honest and do not give anyone an excuse to doubt your other qualifications.

I only agree about the difficulty in managing them, as they easily deviate from the ranges, but even when bought at the bottom they still deliver good profitability with a certain degree of security; pools like Sol/USDT and ETH USDT offer this mix.

Stumbled across this ancient email buried in my junk folder today—dated around 2015. Back then, Ethereum was hovering at roughly $0.35, and the sender was absolutely hyped, pitching it as the 'next Bitcoin but way better.' They pointed out Bitcoin's sluggish hour-long waits for confirmations versus Ethereum's speedy \~20-second blocks. They dreamed big about a truly decentralized financial system with no counterparty risk, real-world apps running on smart contracts, and a future full of dApps.The email even dropped a laundry list of early ideas that sound eerily prophetic now: stablecoins pegged to the dollar, decentralized gambling and escrow via smart contracts, prediction markets (hello Augur and Gnosis), provably fair lotteries, crowdfunding platforms, decentralized storage (Swarm vibes), cross-chain BTC bridging, identity/credit systems, even decentralized ride-sharing and poker. They linked to an old dApp directory at [dapps.ethercasts.com](http://dapps.ethercasts.com) to back it up.Reading it now is wild—most of those concepts actually materialized in some form over the years. Makes me wonder how many people dismissed this as hype and missed out on life-changing gains. Maybe I should have listened and bought a stack at $0.35…Anyone else have old crypto emails or forum posts that aged like fine wine? Or were you one of the lucky early ETH buyers who actually acted on something like this?

[https://i.postimg.cc/1t7m2nqN/Screenshot-20260215-182611-Sync.jpg](https://i.postimg.cc/1t7m2nqN/Screenshot-20260215-182611-Sync.jpg)
I've got stacks of these from back in the day, maybe would have been worth a punt.

In the last month I’ve been playing around with this up/down style of trading on crypto, not with big amounts, more like 5–10 USDT per position, just to see how BTC/USDT and ETH/USDT move on short time frames.

In the evenings after work I usually do around 20–30 trades of 1–5 minutes, strictly based on the chart and two or three price levels, no weird indicators.

I tested a few platforms and at some point I ended up on Pocket Option, because I wanted something where I can set direction and time fast without digging through ten menus for every single order. I started on demo for about three nights in a row, then switched to real with a small deposit so it wouldn’t hurt too much if I burned it.

What I figured out is that the hard part isn’t really guessing the direction, it’s the discipline. After 3–4 winning positions in a row you automatically feel like doubling the stake, and two minutes later you realize you’ve wiped out everything you made in the last 40 minutes.

To keep it from getting out of hand, I set myself a fixed time limit (maximum 45 minutes a day) and a loss limit per evening. If I hit that limit, I close everything, no matter how good the chart looks. Right now I’m trying to stick to these rules as much as I can, I log the time, pair, and amount in Excel, and I’m just trying to see if at the end of the month this whole experiment was worth it or if I only managed to fry my nerves on the flashing lights on the screen.

ngl shorting BTC/ETH with fees that high you're already fighting uphill. Kraken futures is probably your best bet in Canada without going full offshore. Interactive Brokers also has crypto ETFs with way tighter spreads if you wanna stay regulated

Ummm no.
100% no.
You’re talking from SOL liquidity, you’re talking from fartcoin liquidity.
SOL is L1.
Look at ETH and how long is been stuck at same price range while L2s built on it soared.

They hold ETH. They hold more ETH than they did a year ago.
They hold more ETH in proportion to its market cap than they do BTC. so what?

Buy more ETH.

I should but more ETH then
🍩 !tip 1

ETH is a much better university

You should also consider staking stable coins and ETH, those are giving the best APY

They lost so much on BTC, they are going for broke with ETH... sort of a desperate attempt to redeem themselves after their massive BTC blunder.

What asset are you staking right now? I'm still finding what asset to add to my ETH

Technicals was the increase risk of SOL, which was based on monthly candle stick chart.
Sui has excellent technicals on the monthly candle stick chart. Potential profits excellent in two or or less years.
Basic workings of the token are good. Description is boring not very exciting.
Only Major risk is about 40% of coins have been produced. So long term inflation risk
Overall rating Excellent Buy right now.
Minority buy only 20% or less of what your ETH and or BTC investment is.

What are your current thoughts on ETH?

If the fees are eating 13 percent right out of the gate, that’s basically game over before the trade even starts. A lot of people who short BTC or ETH are usually using futures or perp contracts on crypto exchanges, not ETFs, because the spreads tend to be tighter.
That said, shorting crypto can get violent fast. I’ve seen squeezes wipe out decent setups in hours. If you’re swing trading, it might be worth double checking whether the fee structure fits that style at all.

ETH has never hit $5000.