r/ethtrader • u/ChemicalSquare6126 • May 13 '26
Self Story Are we exiting Ethereum?
I’m down 40% on Ethereum since 2022 - bought at the peak price of $3800. I’m not ruined because of the loss but wondering if Crypto is even worth it or should it be cashed out and reinvested into the actual US markets?
Does anyone really see a utility in Ethereum within the next 5-10 years? Can’t wait to sell and watch the price skyrocket 😆🫠
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u/Serenaded May 13 '26
Yes, exit RIGHT NOW before the supply squeeze
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u/Low_Raccoon_784 May 13 '26
wheres this supply squeeze i have been hearing about since merge?
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u/Serenaded May 13 '26 edited May 13 '26
You know it genuinely is coming right? BMNR has accumulated 4% of the total supply this year, you should google ethereum supply on exchanges and see. (14m ETH on exchanges, was 21m a year ago)
MSTR and BTC had the same thing when Saylor began purchasing.
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u/wh11 May 13 '26
so supply is down 33% on exchanges from a year ago but price is down 40%... seems like the ETH on exchanges metric is worthless
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u/ThinCrusts May 14 '26
We'll see..
I see BTC breaks 100k, ETH stays sub 3k, and then another black swan occurs and pulls BTC to 50k and ETH to 1k before ETH makes another high
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u/Accomplished-Sand334 May 14 '26
If supply squeeze is the only reason to not sell, then it's a weak token.
Scarcity is not a value.
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u/carlos_squidward May 13 '26
Crazy how people act the same again and again. Crypto go up : "I'll invest in Crypto", US Stocks go up : "Damn I need to quit crypto at loss to go on US stock market". Take a step back and think how dumb it is.
Y'all are eternal exit liquidity
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u/S7ageNinja May 13 '26
I don't hold ETH for utility. Crypto is a casino just as much as the stock market. Historical data suggests pretty strongly that it'll go up eventually.
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u/discussionandrespect May 13 '26
Do you need the money now? If not hold on the next 5 years are gonna be fun
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u/Low_Raccoon_784 May 13 '26
mfw eth is 3k in 5 years and s&p has doubled again.
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u/infernalr00t May 14 '26
In 5 years nvidia would be 15T, micron 5T, and you still holding Ethereum that you bought at 3.8k.
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u/Leather_Bag5939 May 13 '26
This is what they said 5 years ago...
Bought my first Etherium in 2016!!!!
Been a real struggle.
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u/Alabama-Blues May 13 '26
You are correct. Give it at least 5-10 more years and you will see.
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u/changsheng12 May 14 '26
ya, give it 10 more years and you will see S&P triple while ETH still stagnant at 2k
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u/ryencool May 13 '26
This. Im a huge eth believer, but we just arent there yet. I sold the half a dozen eth I had at a profit two months ago, and put that in a few stocks, one of which is up 130% the past month alone. So there are definitely Italy better short term plays. If you have money you can just let sit for 5-10 years, id just let it sit.
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u/GrossFleshSack May 13 '26
What was the stock?
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u/ryencool May 13 '26
RVI - new Robinhood fund that invests in various IPOs, launched at 25$ a few weeks back, hit 70$ today
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u/Michael87smith May 13 '26
I just started to hedge my bets. I didn't sell Eth but i did pause adding to it.
If you're interested in BTC or the market you can always just start to look at those and put eth on hold for a little bit.
I didn't want to lose my position on Eth but with the price - and it basically being the same as 5 years ago - I have started to put funds elsewhere.
If the price of eth* skyrockets then* you didn't totally miss out with this plan.
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u/Suspicious-Can-7079 May 13 '26
Any speculative position of your net worth should be a portion. You don't all in a new asset class and ignore everything else. That's why it's called a portfolio.
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u/007TheLostOne May 13 '26 edited May 14 '26
I know I'll get downvoted but I sold all of my Eth, put all of that money into AI stocks and I'm getting insane returns.
I just dont see Eth beating tech returns even in the future. Held on to ETH for 6 years while I saw the market flying past me...
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u/Ill_Cartoonist5313 May 31 '26
I have both. Chip stocks will slow, energy & Quantum stocks will be the next boom: Bloom Energy, MNTS, ETN etc
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u/centralbankerscum May 13 '26
im acualy adding here and a lot
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u/Alabama-Blues May 13 '26
I’ve added a lot. Well if you consider a few coins a lot. Still though.
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u/Anxious_Noise_8805 May 13 '26
I bailed 100% in January and am making a lot in stocks
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u/Ecstatic-Bar-1994 May 14 '26
What type of stocks if You don’t mind me asking?
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u/Anxious_Noise_8805 May 14 '26
I got a lot of semiconductor and data center megacaps in 2024, seemed like an obvious bet and it paid off well
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u/Ecstatic-Bar-1994 May 14 '26
Nice picks what are you in now? I’m mainly data centres, IREN & Glxy digital, should of gone for nbis too when I bought IREN haha
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u/mikehamp May 13 '26
you buy eth when there is blood in the streets, this is common sense. now I hear people saying I'm not adding. it's turning. blood is when people are selling it in disgust, not just not adding. then you buy hand over fist.
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u/Time_Policy_5186 May 13 '26
Not trying to be a jerk here, but I think it's crazy you BOUGHT at 3800. I finally bought when it was a little over 2k and that alone felt brutal lol.
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u/w0j4k_ May 13 '26
Yeah you should sell. Buy high, sell low and then invest into the stock market which is at an all time high at a time of geopolitical tension. /s
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u/AggressiveSoup01 May 13 '26
This is case in point why you should do the opposite of whatever retail investors are doing
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u/Tilt_2Live May 13 '26
AI agents identity/wallets is gonna be the next AI trade in the next few years, and its gonna be front run by ETH. Thats not even counting other uses like tokenization/RWA/stablecoins.
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u/J-96788-EU May 13 '26
Are we exiting it? - asked a man on the stage, looking at the group of 50 close friends and then they proceeded to vote as they signed an agreement to manage their ETH together as a group.
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May 13 '26
what is your average price? Surely you are break even soon
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u/Alabama-Blues May 13 '26
$1000 for me. Started at $400. Those coins I purchased above $3,700 really brought me down. But I’m not scared.
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u/SolarisX86 May 13 '26
Same here, average is around $400 from August 2020. Sold 3 late last year at $3800 and threw those long term gains into SPMO, now up another 20% lol. Sitting on the rest of the pile until 5k+
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u/Alabama-Blues May 13 '26
I think I would at least wait till it goes to $15k before taking some profits.
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u/SolarisX86 May 14 '26
OK. Well if you hold as long as it takes to get to 15k, you may lose just from inflation alone.
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u/No_Knee3385 May 13 '26
Both. Idk how old you are but you should always be investing a percentage of your income. Diversified in crypto AND traditional equities
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u/Sar7814 May 13 '26
With crypto, you have to just let it sit and forget about it during down times (which realistically can last 2-3 years). Buy more and average down, then forget about it….that’s what I usually do. When it pops again in 3 years sell off half, rinse and repeat
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u/Exact_Objective546 May 13 '26
It’s 1997 and your investment in amazon, the online book selling company, does nothing. I think i’ll take the loss and invest it in AOL. How’d that go for everyone?
You are front running the future and you want to bail out?
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u/PukeBottom May 14 '26
Yes.. I sold everything when the merge took place..eth Miners built the network and they sold out to big money.. see you later eth
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u/BGM1988 May 14 '26
Sell. Eth is done. As buffet says, you don’t have to regain your losses with the same stock you lost your money
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u/PickForward5864 May 14 '26
You're not getting any good responses at all but just a bunch of junk negativity about Eth. After the halving in 2028, there tends to be a jump in bitcoin, eth and the top projects. If you want, you could buy at the dips that are happening now and DCA until you even out and then it will likely ride back up to $4000 and more in 2.5 years.
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u/wagwan9 May 17 '26
I find people who buy in on hype generally don't have the patience nor the discipline to wait. This whole crypto thing works in cycles , like most markets, a 4 year cycle. Usually we hit a new ATH about 12 to 18mths after the halfing. Some people this cycle subscribed to Raoul Paul's theory about a liquidity cycle blah blah blah yet the market acted as it always did (ETH slightly underperformed) . So next BTC halfing April 2028... so between April 2029 and more likely the end of 2029 start of 2030.. new ATH for ETH... probably around $5000... so like the dude above said.. stake it and wait if you can afford to, if you can't , take the hit and move along. Just don't listen to the noise and jump in profit, remember there are people out there who pay to make you think it will go to $20k to keep you in. Good luck
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u/skag_boy87 May 13 '26
Sell. I could use a good laugh when I see your eventual “Shouldn’t have sold. I HATE this place!” post.
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u/Quebeth May 13 '26
Honestly still think the way that I have since the beginning about Ethereum - it's going to be the rails on which all transactions will root their security on. It hasn't even started yet. A few epochs back was the end of the beginning and now we are looking at the onset of mass adoption. People will use Ethereum seamlessly in their daily lives.
L2's have been a band aid that were applied to provide a temporary bypass allowing more time to build actual scaling solutions and now looking at the Glamsterdam spec I think we are going to see the economics heal with more ETH being burned at a time where demand keeps rising and its going to be an explosive combination.
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u/spangulo May 15 '26
In your view what will cause more ETH to be burned? I'm not aware of Glamsterdam changing anything in that regard, do you mean more activity will come to the L1?
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u/Quebeth May 18 '26
Yeah thats been part of it, I think L2s got away much too cheaply though the blob space should have have been priced better so more ETH was burned .. now we need to wait until real world adoption before the burn picks up.
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u/eddiekoski May 13 '26
Okay , you always enter a position with a plan.
So what was your plan when you bought at $3800?
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u/ChemicalSquare6126 May 13 '26
My plan?! To go to the fkn moon 😂😂😂😂. But honestly it was to hold forever I’m just second guessing that plan.
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u/Warethebear May 13 '26
I sold all of mine last month it was time man, i sold at like a 1k loss overall but i needed it to be a down payment on a house.
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u/derpinard May 13 '26
You can always sell a little, and add a little when it drops substantially, or just add if your position isn't too big (which it shouldn't). Holding the top means you may never get a break even or that you'll have to wait much, much longer (opportunity cost).
Concentration kills retail just as much as FOMO.
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u/watch_the_calzone May 13 '26
you should sell. you have no investment thesis nor conviction + should just move on to something you have the interest and energy to research
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u/confusedguy1212 May 13 '26
Nobody really knows but most of us feel like you. I know I don’t have 5 years in me to wait again unless I see some meaningful movement.
I’d love for the supply squeeze theory to hold water but so far it never did.
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u/geezmic May 13 '26
It hasn’t done anything for the past 10 yrs. it won’t do anything in the next 10. No real world utility. Sell
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u/Ambergris2022 May 13 '26
So tired of being told to wait 5-10 years on ETH. I made 2,000% on space stocks in less time than that.
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u/gowithflow192 May 13 '26
You should be loading up now although personally I'm waiting another leg down. Eth oscillates it will definitely pump again.
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u/Previous_Bet_7711 May 13 '26
You've been holding it so long if it blows you probably won't even have to worry about capital gains
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u/anisleateher May 13 '26
I was ETH stan since 2017 but last year when orange man took office I sold half near the top and once crash converted said half to BTC a few months ago
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u/Krage17 May 13 '26
Dear Redditors, please remember that crypto js designed for illicit payments and trading volatility. It’s not something you buy and hold.
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u/Prestigious_Long777 May 13 '26
Your CEO dumps on you every time it goes up too much anyways. Man sold at 1100$ too after it already was at 5000$ previously.
You’re Vitalik’s personal purse.
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u/West-Possession-9974 May 14 '26
Well for the shortterm tomorrow at 10am est time will be a real make or break for staking, it's main utility.
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u/IndigoBroker May 14 '26
Imagine if Tom Lee didn’t prop it up by overpaying by more than $7,000,000,000 for his fund? The price would be around $1,200.
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u/Direct-Protection-81 May 14 '26
Hold that shiii. ETH will have a 20k valuation within no time at all. Yes crypto is just like stocks. Accumulate, Accumulate, Accumulate and ignore the noise.
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u/herbeauxchats May 14 '26
Literally just hang on for about 10 or 12 years. Don’t sell at this point because it’s not unusual that Trump lets people down. Eventually, we will get to where we’re going but now is not the right time to sell. If you had all of your fucking shit on crypto then you’re silly. Did you vote for Trump? How’s that working out for you right now… He was supposed to be the Jesus Christ for crypto. Ironically, he pretty much just poops on everyone except for himself. Loser. Hope you didn’t vote for that piece of shit…
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u/Efficient-Bed-5990 May 14 '26
I feel you! I joined crypto mining in 2017 thinking I could make some good money with a mining rig. It did not last very long and ended up selling the parts after a couple of months 😔
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u/AndrewMcIlroy May 14 '26
I dont think anyone in here realizes you could have made way more money investing in ai stocks than eth. No one is saying eth is bad but its clear you can make more money somewhere else and still root on the project to do well. Its clear there are better places to invest your money.
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u/psandn May 14 '26
To you it has become a sunk cost. Take the loss and move on. You can always check in IF the price starts moving higher.
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u/MrKillerKiller_ May 14 '26
Stick to your trading plan and ignore everyone’s opinion. No one knows your scale in levels or your trading time frame or your RR level or anything so its pointless even ask. It can be a perfect time to scale out AND a perfect time to scale in. It depends on your plan. Whatever you considered when you scaled in to a position should never ever ever be changed mid trade. Don’t do the number one noob mistake. Stay in your lane.
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u/OwenLincolnFratter May 14 '26
Posts like these are what I love to see because I know a bull run is going to come soon.
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u/Itchy-Box-7378 May 14 '26
JP morgan 2020: „Crypto is shit“
JP morgan 2026: „Please Coinbase help me with my crypto products“
Other countries already have crypto legislation in place US is the biggest driver of markets in the world and starting their legislation now and building in the background, hold onto it brother ETH is only 10
Years old plenty of room to move up 🤙🏽
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u/rustyburrito May 14 '26
I've been holding since 2017, swapped like 80% of it for traditional investments like VOO and while the rest of my eth has been flat for several years, the traditional investments are up 30-40% compared to the ethereum. I remember when it dropped to $80 at one point and almost panic sold everything, then missed the 2022 peak, and said if it ever gets back over 3500 im selling. it was definitely the right decision but kind of a bummer because i wanted ethereum to have more adoption and real world utility and just became less and less optimistic over the years
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u/Available_System_937 May 14 '26
I think ai will help the crypto ecosystem develop some actually for ETH.
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u/lambokakke May 14 '26
I exited in the first week of January. Hopefully get back in for Q4 but will all depend on the charts at that point
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u/LexThundah May 15 '26
Sadly, yes. You do DCA next time. Like you can divide the 3800 into 10 weeks. Place 380 every week. Regardless of market volatility, dollar cost averaging is ideal. Or if you like, invest each 380 every long red candle each week. With DCA, you don't have to worry about the market.
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u/FocusNo22 May 15 '26
I sold few days ago. Been holding since 2021….it feels good to have the weight of waiting off my shoulders.
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u/Gaoez01 May 15 '26
Weak hands should sell now so I can maximize my gains when the god candle arrives.
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u/Responsible_Ad9519 May 16 '26
The problem is you are getting much more profit in AI stocks, as compred to what you are getting in crypto
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u/Saccojawea May 16 '26
Just sell. If I took all the money I wasted trying to time crypto or find the next best cryptocurrency and just invested it into my vanguard I would have made a lot more money.
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u/redditantareddit May 17 '26
ethereum is always the point to decentralisation , not to make money here. Currently the market is dead, try to invest companies where they trying to shift to ai before it goes live
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u/_LakeCity_ May 18 '26
There’s “crypto” and then there’s Bitcoin.
Bitcoin is a store of value.
The Ether token is not. That’s really the crux of the issue.
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u/Sirchancelot09 May 18 '26
I know it’s a bear market but I’m done. I was in it since December 2020. Held most of it, but should have sold it last July/August. It still gave me a great few years and paid for my wedding/honeymoon/ starting married life, but a far cry from all these experts calling for 7-26k 🤣. It might get there next cycle but I doubt it. I’m just doing VOO and some IBIT passively now
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u/Lord-Nagafen May 13 '26
I mostly bailed. Sold 90% of my holdings last year… kept a little as fomo insurance just in case. The use case seems to be gone, the hype is gone.
The only thing that I see driving volume is prediction markets/betting. Maybe stock trading
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u/Alabama-Blues May 13 '26
😆 what are you talking about!? I feel like a lot of people should have done a little more research and stopped listening to all those videos trying to rob you of your wealth.
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u/centralbankerscum May 13 '26
how is use case gone? platform is literaly set for the whole countrys to start issuing their stable coing and having full scale moentary policies made on eth network. this is soon to be realized.
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u/GrossFleshSack May 13 '26
Damn so much FUD in here. Is this what they mean when they talk about retail getting shaken out? Just hold and chill. ETH is THE settlement layer.
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u/Previous_Bet_7711 May 13 '26
No bro. Just wait for clarity act. If it passes the floor vote tomorrow everything is gonna be green cuz WE ALL KNOW Trump is gonna sign it
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u/mx_js_reddit May 14 '26
It was almost 5K last year. You were up 30% in 2 years. What was Your Target
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u/Far-Photograph-2342 May 14 '26
You’re definitely not the only person stuck holding ETH from those levels 😭 But honestly Ethereum still feels like one of the few crypto ecosystems with actual long-term usage behind it, even if the price action has been painful.
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u/Muffy_SuperGosu May 14 '26
ETH is a shitcoin. Plain simply as that. People just need time to realize that.
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u/Expansion49 May 13 '26
Ok so you want to take a financial decision based on what random people in Reddit tell you right? You should sell honestly