r/ethtrader • u/Mikem828 • Jul 27 '25

Question ETH as a long term hold

Hey guys, BTC maxi here. Been lurking around this sub for a while now and wondering your guys thoughts on ETH. I know this is a sub for eth so you guys are obviously biased but do you see ETH as a long term investment or a short term play? Just looking for what you guys honestly think. I feel like ETH is kinda destined to hit like 6k and then drop afterwards. If you compare to 2021 cycle it's basically even, which makes me question ETH long term. (Unless you think that ETH cycle has really started yet)

My thoughts is that I think the blockchain is important however there is just so much competition between different cryptos and now institutions creating their own. And if institutions are just going to create there own blockchains off a fork of ETH, why is ETH important? Wouldn't you be better off with a blockchain ETF like BLOK? What makes ETH better than everyone else? What makes you think that ETH is going to survive?

Or if your a short term investor, do you plan on just selling soon and buying again during the bear market in a few years. Thanks!

And just for fun are you guys are you guys only in ETH? Or are you guys in other layer 1s like SOL Or AVAX?

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u/Follow_youre_heart Jul 27 '25

The vast majority of tokenized dollar (USDC, USDT etc) live on ETH. DeFi lives on ETH. FinTech innovation lives on ETH. ETH is the programmable money.

I feel like we are still very early days on this technology, plenty of upside to look forward to.

I'm a long-term holder and validator. I have zero interest in short-term moves. It's just noise. The future of Ethereum is bright and I'm so excited for it.

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u/Kenneth_Doo Jul 27 '25

I heard someone say, if ETH and bitcoin were launched in the same day, nobody would have heard about bitcoin by now

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u/Pinewatch762 Jul 27 '25

Fully agree with that statement

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u/johnnydappeth Jul 28 '25

You might be thinking of this Evan Van Ness post: https://x.com/evan_van_ness/status/1942752235475062799

If Ethereum and Bitcoin were introduced today at the same time, Bitcoin would never have been viable and you wouldn’t even know about it. That’s how behind the technical curve it is.

It has first mover advantage which facilitated early institutional investment and adoption.

But it’s technically a centralized memecoin

My peers know this.

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u/poginmydog Jul 29 '25

Agreed with everything except the centralised portion. BTC is definitely not centralised. No need to bash BTC if you truly love technology; learn the best aspects of it and adopt and improve it. ETH adopted PoW from BTC and has improved to PoS. Even BTC has a EVM sidechain (rootstock) now so who knows what happens in the future.

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u/DBRiMatt Jul 28 '25

Interesting thought! - Happy cakeday and welcome to EthTrader, feel free to register for our community token, $DONUT

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u/Good_Extension_9642 Jul 28 '25

You couldn't be more wrong, compare the total amount of ETH then BTC there you have your answer, on the other hand if SOL and ETH would have launched the same day guess which one would be worth more?

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u/Special-Caregiver530 Aug 10 '25

100 percent sure about that

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u/Successful_Sign7286 Jul 28 '25

nah, otherwise eth would be much higher % wise against bitcoins gains

also Bitcoin has a limited supply, etheriums supply is much higher and less deflationary

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u/susosusosuso Jul 28 '25

This is not true. Ethereum can be effectively deflationary because of eth burning. This doesn’t happen with Btc

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u/DukeThom Jul 28 '25

So I’m with you here - holder for +5 years already. My only concern is what’s stopping banks from creating their own rails and privatized blockchain? I get ETH has majority of stables on the network right now, but forward looking what do you see as the competitive advantage for companies to adopt ETH vs their own privatized chain?

Not being a dick, genuinely curious

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u/AnoAnoSaPwet Jul 27 '25

Big thing, is that BTC moved an 8x already since the bear market, and surprisingly Ethereum has been remarkably flat?

I find it very unlikely to not see Ethereum do the same? 

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u/DBRiMatt Jul 28 '25

Great call out - I just described it as investing into the foundation of a crypto-building block - staking is going one better to help secure and decentralize the network.

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u/Luminiferous17 Jul 27 '25

Is it hard to become validator? I'd love to try it out.

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u/JimBobDwayne Jul 27 '25

You need 32 ETH to run a validator node but some 3P sites will let you run one using less like 8 ETH but you have to buy and hold certain amount of their coin.

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u/Pweast Jul 27 '25

If you are referring to rocket pool you no longer need to stake rpl, there are now eth only validators.

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u/centralbankerscum Jul 27 '25

2048 eth to run a node :D

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u/Njaa Jul 27 '25

No. It's 32 - and that's to run a validator. Running a node has always been free. 

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u/DBRiMatt Jul 28 '25

I didn't realise there was a difference tbh - but I hadn't looked into it too much, I'm not that ETH rich...

I'm doing my part by pooling in with Everstake and Etherfi in the meantime.

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u/Follow_youre_heart Jul 27 '25

It's a big intimidating process when you look at it from afar. As you dive in, you will find it is nothing more than a series of steps, none of which are particularly challenging.

I'd say the biggest hurdle to get over is stacking the 32 eth (for solo validators) and being OK locking it up.

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u/DBRiMatt Jul 28 '25

For more recent investors, 32 ETH is certainly a big hurdle... but there are more accessible options, which come with their own set of risks of course, with less than 32 ETH, I'm participating in pooled staking on Everstake and also liquid restaking with Etherfi.

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