ETHEUR
Ethereum / Euro
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Sounds like you are shit out of luck...
What made you borrow money to buy something as risky as ETH?
Better find the 2nd, 3rd and 4th job to make that money back.
ETH is only going down. I suspect back down to 900 before the year is out.

The missing piece is not just programmability, it is credible downside control. ETH users accepted smart contract risk because the whole culture grew around doing things onchain. BTC holders usually ask a different question: what new risk am I taking, and is the yield or utility big enough to justify putting my best collateral through a wrapper, bridge, custodian or sidechain? Most of the time the answer is still no.

This is called being biased to a single direction. It typically happens because your brain is trying to justify and make you less stressed about your over-investment decicion in a highly speculative asset.
You should be a lot more worried about how Eth hasnt broken up 2500 for 4 months almost. 
Crazy how our brains really congince us we are smart. I think my takeaway is that being in ETH for last 5 years was not a smart decicion. I hope the market proves me wrong but I will not let my brain ignore the clear huge red bear flag that is forming with lower volume. 

its okay maybe during the call tomorrow they'll drop some AI buzzwords lmaoo. I mean it was pretty clear they were gonna miss earnings with the state ETH is in

Zürich ist teurer, ist auch kein Tokyo oder New York und hat dank ETH eine extrem starke Start-Up-Szene.

I just don’t understand why would companies banks etc all get in. Invest time and money for this sector. Especially for ETH and all for zero price action. Nothing about this market makes sense.
So much hoopla for nothing it seems. Either they know something I don’t or things just don’t make much sense.

Buy what you can afford. Anytime you have to borrow to invest or trade is weak hands. However I do think ETH is at a possible bottom, at least is consolidating at this price range. But take that with a grain of salt.
You can also just take a L here and tax loss harvest.

Have you tried Peach Bitcoin? https://peachbitcoin.com/
Once you have bitcoin you can stake it an many decentralised protocols which give you a token which you can swap on-chain for practically anything if you willing to use enough bridges.
ai says: The LST layer on top wraps that staked position into a transferable, yield-bearing token.
Lombard – LBTC. The market leader, ~40%+ of the Bitcoin LST market, multi-chain (Ethereum, Base, BNB, Sui, Solana). Backed by a Security Consortium (Galaxy, Wintermute, OKX, etc.) rather than a single custodian.
Solv – SolvBTC / SolvBTC.BBN. Multi-chain "liquidity matrix" approach. SolvBTC is the base wrapper; SolvBTC.BBN is the Babylon-staked yield-bearing variant. They also issue chain-specific variants (SolvBTC.ENA with Ethena, SolvBTC.CORE on Core).
PumpBTC. Babylon LST with instant minting (no waiting period), big in BNB Chain DeFi.
Bedrock – uniBTC. Multi-asset restaking shop (also does ETH/IOTX) that added a BTC product.
pSTAKE – yBTC. Backed by Binance Labs/Galaxy. Dual-token model where PSTAKE stakers can earn BTC rewards.
Swell – swBTC. Different angle: uses Symbiotic plus EigenLayer/Karak for restaking, so the yield comes from securing Ethereum-side services, not Babylon.
Echo (alloBTC). Bridges Bitcoin liquid staking specifically into Aptos.
Stroom, Acorn, Kinza, Nubit also show up in the ecosystem with smaller TVL.
Separately, there are things often confused with staked BTC but aren't really staking:
cbBTC, WBTC, BTC.b, tBTC – wrapped BTC, no native yield.
rBTC (Rootstock) – sidechain BTC, earns yield via Rootstock's BABA/RIF rewards, not via Babylon.

List of 10 chains with fake decentralization - ETH, BASE, and others with Nakamoto score of 1 - literally a shared database with SPECTATORS, not Validators.

ETH is in the same boat as the rest of the top 10 or so alts. The price is being held down during the institutional adoption phase, and once the different ecosystem rails are in and ready to full serve their respective functions and the institutions have what they need to operate that is when coin prices will start to rise and other income options will hit.
Your ETH will have value and you will profit in due time. It will become a source of recurring passive income.
Blockchain, stablecoins, crypto ecosystems and the alt coins are being wired in as the new global financial system. This is how nearly every country on earth is going to tackle their insurmountable debt. This will also be used in conjunction with gold and silver as well, especially since the real asset can now be tokenized.
By 2030 things will look a lot different.

If you’re looking for the highest level of safety in crypto, I’d say BTC. If you’re willing to take a bit more risk, then ETH. If you want to take on more risk but also have the potential for strong gains like 10x–20x, then I’d mention Polkadot (DOT). It’s currently very low, which could make it a good buying opportunity, especially with the upcoming upgrades. They increased the max supply to around 2.1 billion, and I think the project could come back to life. The claims that DOT is “dead” are exaggerated, although it’s true that it disappointed many investors. If you’re looking for even higher risk with the potential for 30x or more, then I’d mention Bittensor (TAO) and Kaspa (KAS). But with those, only invest money you’re fully prepared to forget about for at least 5 years. Personally, I think Bittensor could see bigger growth, especially if decentralized AI starts integrating more with centralized AI systems. The subnets on Bittensor are currently limited to 128, but if I remember correctly, there are discussions about increasing that to 256.
At the end of the day, do your own research on every project before investing. We all have coins we like, follow, and invest in, but that doesn’t mean we’re right. In fact, the harsh reality is that probably 90% of us will end up at a loss, while only 10% will be in profit.
Crypto is risky and highly speculative. Again only invest money you are prepared to forget about for the next 5 years. One more important thing forget about meme coins and avoid them. That’s pure gambling. Just because you can buy hundreds of thousands of coins like Shiba Inu for $20 and then read comments saying “it will reach $1 someday” while the current price is $0.00000005 doesn’t mean it will ever happen. Realistically, it won’t.
People often don’t understand market cap and token supply. If you really want to gamble, then you might as well do it properly 😂 there’s a link in my profile to my website where I write blogs about gambling and casino games.

Bleeding quietly at -0.56% BTC, -1.02% ETH, -2.06% SOL. $36B BTC volume. $3.4B SOL volume. Support levels holding. That’s the chart.

[CME launching Nasdaq Crypto Index futures](https://btcusa.com/cmes-nasdaq-crypto-index-futures-are-not-just-another-product-launch/) is pretty interesting.
Not because it’s another crypto headline, but because this is basically the TradFi version of “ok, we don’t want to pick individual coins, just give us the basket.”
That’s much easier for funds to understand. Same way a lot of people don’t buy individual tech stocks, they just trade QQQ/SPY-type exposure.
The weird part is what happens if crypto starts trading more like a macro basket than a bunch of separate networks. At that point BTC/ETH/etc may get pulled even more into the same flow as stocks, rates, gold, risk-on/risk-off trades.
Not saying that’s good or bad. Just feels like another step toward crypto becoming normal market plumbing instead of its own separate casino

Except that’s not how the network works, you need ETH to facilitate the movement of any ERC-20 token. While there is a tail emission for ETH, the burn rate (using ETH to facilitate a token transfer) will eclipse the amount being produced from staking. The price of ETH would increase in this scenario because they **need** to buy it to move tokens.

The Bitcoin obituaries are the most documented category. The website [99bitcoins.com](http://99bitcoins.com) tracked "Bitcoin is Dead" articles and at one point had over 400 documented obituaries from publications declaring Bitcoin finished. The 2014-2015 bear market after Mt. Gox generated dozens of these from mainstream outlets.
Specific examples worth digging up:
Peter Schiff has years of receipts on Twitter calling Bitcoin worthless, including posts from when BTC was under $10k that aged poorly. His timeline is a goldmine of bad takes that are easy to screenshot with current price context.
Jamie Dimon's "fraud" comment from September 2017 is well-documented in video interviews. Bitcoin was around $4k. His bank later launched crypto services.
Paul Krugman's various columns dismissing Bitcoin, including comparing it to fax machines, are archived in the NYT.
The "ETH killer" graveyard is extensive. EOS raised $4 billion in 2018 with claims it would replace Ethereum. Cardano "launching soon" memes span years. NEO was "Chinese Ethereum" with price predictions that look absurd now.
John McAfee's prediction that Bitcoin would hit $1 million by end of 2020 or he'd eat a body part on TV is documented in tweets that got deleted after his legal troubles.
The BitConnect promotion videos from various influencers are still on YouTube and are genuinely uncomfortable to watch knowing what happened.
For structure, the 99bitcoins obituary list gives you timestamps and sources. Twitter search with date ranges for specific accounts gives you the receipts.

if you feel late, chasing random alts usually ends badly, so sticking mostly to BTC/ETH and only taking smaller bets on projects you actually understand is probably the safer play.

For years, I used to roll my eyes at gold bugs. To me, they were the boomer hard money crowd, obsessed with a shiny rock while we were building the future. i was all in on crypto, and anything else felt like a distraction.
lately, though, my watchlist has started to look weird. next to BTC, ETH, and SOL, I've got XAUUSDT and XAGUSDT sitting there. And I'm checking them almost as much as the crypto majors.
its not because of some simplistic 'war is bad, so gold must go up' logic. The current market is way more complicated than that. Geopolitical risk is a factor for sure, but then you have hot inflation data and a strong dollar pushing back, making the Fed less likely to cut rates. Gold is caught in this weird push-and-pull between being a safe haven and getting hammered by 'higher for longer' interest rates.
The real reason it’s on my screen is HOW we can trade it now. These aren’t tokenized bars of gold. Crypto exchanges are packaging traditional market exposure into USDT-settled perps. Basically macro trades wearing a crypto perp UI. The same USDT margin, leverage, funding rates, all on an interface we already use 24/7.
i noticed it while checking XAUUSDT and XAGUSDT across a few venues. Binance has a whole TradFi tab for this now, and Bydfi’s futures side is also grouping pairs like XAU-USDT and XAG-USDT under TradFi futures. Seems like its becoming a standard thing.
But this is also where the danger is. Don't think for a second that just because they're old-world assets, they're low-risk. Silver (XAGUSDT) has been absolutely insane this year, going from over 120 down to nearly 60. It has that precious metal vibe but also gets tossed around by industrial demand for things like solar and AI (the industrial demand stuff is wild). It’s a completely diferent animal.
Gold is not 'safe' when you trade it like PEPE with leverage. it is just a different monster. a whole different set of variables: dollar, rates, oil, central banks, geopolitics, and positioning instead of unlocks, narratives, and CT hype.
Be careful out there.

I think ai will help the crypto ecosystem develop some actually for ETH.

PASSED! ETH has just gone to 21k

If you missed the first move, I’d still mostly stay in BTC/ETH.
Better that than forcing entries into random alts just because they haven’t pumped yet. SOL is probably the only major alt I’d add here, but I still wouldn’t go too heavy on it.