Picked up ETH back in 2022, dreaming of that financial freedom everyone talks about. Grinded through the entire bear market like a champ. Meanwhile? Solana rockets 30x. Memecoins go absolutely insane with 1000x pumps.
Fast forward to 2025—I finally check my ETH portfolio. The result? Barely breaking even.
Guess I'm not running an investment fund here. More like operating a charity at this point.
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ser_aped.eth
· 12-05 04:02
Haha, it's true. Holding onto ETH feels like guarding air in a wallet.
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LiquidityOracle
· 12-04 15:15
That's why I went all in on Sol a long time ago. Eth really isn't that great.
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notSatoshi1971
· 12-02 20:10
I totally understand this "charity organization" you mentioned... Three years sharpening the sword just to break even? I can't hold back.
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GateUser-c799715c
· 12-02 13:18
Holding ETH for three years is like holding a lottery ticket, haha.
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Layer2Observer
· 12-02 05:48
The data speaks for itself—choosing the wrong track is more fatal than choosing the wrong timing. The fact that SOL could 30x indicates that 2022 was not a complete Bear Market, but rather structural. The issue with ETH does not lie in holding it itself, but in the lack of a dynamic adjustment strategy, which from an engineering perspective is called "over-optimizing a single parameter."
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BlockchainNewbie
· 12-02 05:46
This is why I don't touch ETH; being too stable actually leads to losses.
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RooftopVIP
· 12-02 05:44
Haha, I'm dying of laughter. After three years of sharpening my sword, I can only break even... This is the cost of buying the dip, brother.
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gas_guzzler
· 12-02 05:43
This is a multiple-choice question. When you're thinking about SOL, you're looking at ETH, and when ETH rises, you're looking at something else. You'll never be in sync.
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AirdropSweaterFan
· 12-02 05:36
Holding ETH for three years without making a profit, that's the price of "faith", man.
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DefiEngineerJack
· 12-02 05:32
ngl this is what happens when you treat ETH like a store of value instead of actually understanding the protocol economics... *technically speaking* if you'd been running liquidity pools or staking derivatives you wouldn't be bagholding rn
Here's how my ETH play unfolded over three years:
Picked up ETH back in 2022, dreaming of that financial freedom everyone talks about. Grinded through the entire bear market like a champ. Meanwhile? Solana rockets 30x. Memecoins go absolutely insane with 1000x pumps.
Fast forward to 2025—I finally check my ETH portfolio. The result? Barely breaking even.
Guess I'm not running an investment fund here. More like operating a charity at this point.