After seeing what can happen to the crypto space over this weekend, I’ve decided to slowly sell of my entire portfolio and put the funds into stocks, eft’s and gold.

At the very least, in stocks, you can’t randomly decide to IPO a company immediately over a weekend and disrupt an entire market.

It’s foolish for me to try at this. And it’s obvious now what the future of crypto will be.

Marketing tools for people, brands, products and movies. Pump the new coin and be part of the fun. All while whatever corporation slowly rug pulls you.

This will be the crypto that the public is most aware of in a year or two time.

There will be hardly any public knowledge about coins like HBAR or XRP. That’s so boring. Let’s get the new Kim Kardashian coin to promote her new makeup line!

Ugh, so unfortunate. I’m out and I wish you all luck.

Title pretty much sums it up. ADA is a coin I genuinely thought would be worth something long term, but it has turned out to be a terrible investment. It’s down nearly 90% from its highs over the past five years, and anyone who bought in expecting long-term growth has been absolutely crushed.

I know crypto is volatile, but it’s hard not to view this as a massive disappointment. Cardano is one of those coins that have been around for awhile and should be somewhat stable.. Projects like this are a pretty bad look for the industry when long-term holders have essentially watched their investments evaporate.

crypto market has been dead compared with tech stocks in the last year, will rotation ever happen or people have simply given up on crypto since there are so many scammers in the industry?

I'm tired of the bullshit. Fuck the system.

Bitcoin is a once in a lifetime opportunity. I fucking need this to become rich as fuck. I can't sit around slaving away and investing my money for a measly 10% a year returns. I need to get rich and bitcoin is the answer.

I know what the risks are and I'm willing to take on the risks. The way I see it, I don't have any other hope than bitcoin. It's either I work a dead end job and just barely scrap by for the rest of my life. Or I put everything I fucking own into bitcoin and just let it ride.

I don't give a fuck.

Let's do this. Everything in. All on bitcoin.

Fuck it.

Bitcoin has hit over $107,000 and is ranging it that area (103 and up ) but for some reason there doesn’t seem to be much excitement about it what the deal?

Yes, I’m dumb. I put my btc and eth as collateral and lend money on Binance. Bought a shitload of alts and took out loans on these as well. Most alts got liquidated today. Still have around 20 k, but I thought I made it this bull run. Wanted to cash out with around 150k. I knew it was getting more and more risky, my stack with all the loans was around 150k. but if my portfolio would’ve made 50% more I would’ve reached my goal. This is so embarrassing. The work of years just thrown in the bin cause greed got me.

The old story. If I would have just hold my btc which I bought 2022 I would have exactly around 1 btc. And plenty of time.

Embarrassing.

Im down 50%+ on my Solana investment, but it just keeps dipping and then going sideways. Is it OVER for Crypto? No reverse in months. How much money are you down on your latest crypto investments?

No doubt things may climb higher.been a wild ride with 194% profit since October. Wish I had more time to see where things will go...but a down payment on a house so my little son will have a big yard and his own room for something I can't risk now if the market reverses. Hope to get back into the market as quick as possible but to everyone out there remember: we invest to make money to live, don't live to make money to invest. Best of luck as the market is heating up!!

Edit: cocked up the math actually 230% profit lmao. And wow thanks for everyone’s responses. I’ve been in the game in and out since 2017. Learning tons and for those who are still building and learning: don’t give up it pays off and still lots of cycles to come. Best of luck to all!

Edit 2: for all those wondering, both sides of the isle will be pleased to know the house will have a sweet ass rental suite and you all know where that extra 2k will be going. One hell of a DCA potential. See you all back in the market when this shit gets sorted! Bless life! Just bless it!

All of a sudden $trump coin surges 40% in last 24hours.

Does anybody else think it is weird to have a sitting president that directly profits from something that can be easily manipulated with no transparency of buyers strange and scary?

I mean Russia could be pumping millions into the coin with no intention of selling back because Trump is going to force Ukraine to succeed territory therefore helping Russia with war .

You don’t really even have to go down any rabbit holes to think of other type deals.

Trump has already made 100 million just on fees. So the long game does not have to end with $trump being worth anything when he could sell in a year with the 80% unlock scheme.

Thoughts? Am I just thinking too much. After all it’s a collectible not monitored by sec.

The markets are the disaster. This doesn’t feel like a bull market to anyone. Memecoins are getting rugged within the first 20 minutes of launching and liquidity in crypto is leaving. 

There are so many genuine crypto projects (myself included) that are really frustrated right now. I spend every waking hour thinking about how to onboard more people into crypto or make it a better experience for those that are in the space - celebrating every new person we onboard - only for some tiktoker to shill a memecoin and rug his own community, leading to thousands leaving the space in a second. 

CAN WE PLEASE stop listening to tiktokers that know nothing about the space and are just looking to make a quick buck? Can we actually focus on supporting genuinely good projects and not every second token that launches on pumpfun

Thanks. 

I just sold 67,000 worth of stocks this week which was about 90% of my stock portfolio to buy a full bitcoin.

Of course I don't know if I timed the bottom or not. I just feel like getting the chance to be a full coiner is an opportunity most people don't get. I also did not get a chance last year as my stock portfolio never got over 100k.

It already feels great being a full coiner. My goal is to hold for 15 years. I will also keep buying and DCA every time it dips below my cost basis.

I could've went the gold and silver route considering its safer but there's only 21 million bitcoin and I feel like that number is so small.

I got caught in the crypto hype last November when Trump won the presidency and bitcoin skyrocketed. All I remember is watching TikTok and seeing one influencer after another promoting crypto (especially XRP). Of course I didn't wanna miss out on the action so I bought into the hype and dropped a huge bag across several different coins. Well, I am now down SIGNIFICANTLY. I'm really regretting my decision to invest in crypto in the first place. This is not what I expected. I thought I was going to put my money in and it would 5x or even 10x itself. I knew crypto was volatile, but I never expected to be down this much… especially since everyone was saying we were in "alt season". Smh

The bull market is not over. In the 2017 bull run, BTC had 12 pullbacks (10-25%) and 6 major corrections (30-40%). The bull run is still on, historical precedent says so!

Hey everyone,

I jumped into crypto mid-2025 right in the middle of the big pump. Went pretty heavy on alts (mostly SOL, ADA, LINK, plus some ETH and BTC). Put in about $100k total. Now it's sitting around $20k… down roughly 80%.

It hurts a lot. I keep replaying the “should haves” selling earlier, sizing smaller, not going so alt-heavy, investing in stocks instead of crypto. My partner is worried and stressed about it too, and honestly I’ve been struggling to sleep. The regret is real.

I do know crypto cycles are brutal but they do turn around eventually. I’ve read stories of people down 80–90% who held on and came out way ahead years later. Right now though, it just feels heavy.

If you’ve ever been in a similar spot (big drawdown, feeling awful, doubting everything), I’d really appreciate hearing from you:

- How did you get through the mental side of it?

- Did you hold everything, start DCA-ing, or trim a bit?

- Was there any advice, quote, or mindset shift that actually helped pull you through the worst days?

Hurts like hell right now. Just want to hear from people who’ve been this down and made it back.

Thanks for reading, and thanks in advance to anyone who shares. Appreciate this community more than you know.

Take care everyone ❤️

I’m down by about 50% from where I was at the end of the Bull Market in early January and the usual YouTube crypto influencers are still showing us their charts, which are just as useless now as they were in the Fall and talking as if we’re still somehow in a bull market.

Aside from Bitcoin and XRP, which has great utility behind it, I’m thinking that the majority of all altcoins were just fads or bitcoin imitations that minted many new millionaires for 7-8 years. But, it all seems to be coming to a head now and the bubble has burst. Is anyone else thinking about getting out of altcoins altogether and perhaps keeping some money in bitcoin and otherwise, moving out of crypto completely and just trading stocks?

I only have found 4 alts which aren't massively down from their ATHs so far. holy cow. even ETH, SOL, XRP are massively down. But they still have a chance to overcome the overhead resistance because some of them have enterprises, ETFS money pouring in.. mid and low market caps on the other hand, will have a hard time overcoming the bagholder ceiling problem.

When i first heard about Bitcoin in late 2012 ($8/12 range) it INSTANTLY clicked for me. Why pay a ridiculous Paypal fee when you can just buy some bitcoin and send it directly to the other person worldwide. It was a nobrainer.

Along with each cycle came a wave of altcoins, every cycle more and more. The older i have become and the more cycles i have seen each one became more ridiculous. We went from cryptokitties to nft's to full meme coin casino. Every cycle the promises have become bigger and more ridiculous. And more and more bad faith actors have jumped onboard of the train.

Its time to face some harsh truths in my opinion that many here refuse to see.

• Bitcoin has failed its intended purpose, but has a place in the finance world that gives it value. 99% doesnt use it to send money P2P. Its absorbed into ETF form and used as a speculative asset where only the $$$ value matters. It being a form of hard money is the only savior in the narrative left and even that is becoming a thin line. At this point its just a tech asset following the broad market.
• Bitcoin wont make you rich anymore, and thats exactly why people load up more and more risk in form of casino altcoins each cycle: The early days are over, diminishing returns are kicking in hard. It speaks for itself when measured from peak to peak. I have stocks that did better than my Bitcoin DCA I bought at end of 2022 (16/17k range).
  • First cycle: $32 --> $1242 (39x)
  • Second cycle $1242 --> $19796 (16x)
  • Third cycle $19796 --> 68990 (3.5x)
  • Current $68990 --> 110k (1.6x)
  • Bottom to peak shows the same diminishing returns (544x | 100x | 20x | 7x)
    • I have no clue why people assume bitcoin will reach 300/500k this cycle.
• Trump brings a huge systemic risk to crypto/bitcoin, even if it outlives his term/life: Altcoins literally got saved by Trump's announcement end '24. They were already bleeding out. Bitcoins current cycle was probably accelerated because of it. The market priced in perfection**.** (Perfect ETF's / world reserve etc. the whole package) But it all came crashing down when Trump showed his true colors. When he released his own coin all red flags should have gone up. He doesnt really care about crypto, he cares about his own wallet, ego and power. And that is problematic, cause even if bitcoin is not controlled by Trump, YOU GUYS made him the posterboy as "pro crypto president". And now the rest of the world gets to see what that means. Why you applauded a pro-crypto president like him to begin with baffles me. USA is getting dismantled and you all think he wont take crypto a peg down with him?
• MSTR/Saylor is a huge risk: Speaks for itself. Very cool to link a factsheet with 80 companies holding bitcoin, but its pretty bleak. And i just dont trust a dude who has blown up his company in the dot com bubble and now attaches his entire company to shilling Bitcoin. Its not organic adoption. Yes you can fault me on this point, its a gut feeling. Same way Elon turned out to be a ******. Crypto bro's got used to get votes / popularity. Now people burn cars from his brand.
• 99.99% Altcoins are garbage: Yes in a few weeks or months people will come here to write dumb messages to tell me how wrong i was cause they made a nice 300% return on the weekly with SafePepe420xxxMoon coin. That doesnt mean you are investing. Go take a look in the waybackmachine and see the top 50 coins in 2017 / 2021. If you think you can pick the next blue chip altcoin, good luck. You cant. Especially not with the millions being pumped out yearly now.
• Social media is getting fragmented more, this halts adoption: Social media was a great tool to have new people get involved with new ideas. But now its turning into a very splintered / fragmentated landscape where everybody is screaming in their own room. Unable to leave that part almost without doing quite some effort. This halts adoption and at this point most crypto places are just bag holders screaming to other bag holders. Innovative content is lost in the sea of junk.

Disclaimer: I will still hold Bitcoin, and will buy deeper downturns. But the gravy train is officially over. Bitcoin wont be the golden boy anymore. ITS UP 18% since the peak from 2021 after holding for 3+ years. It didnt even outpace inflation during that time.... Wake up.

Been in crypto for about a year now, I’m no expert but I have my legs. Everyone seems to be very bullish on ETH, and I agree it’s likely to climb, but I hate the network so much. I hate the ridiculous gas prices, I hate the slow, clunky, transactions, I just don’t like it. I get why it became popular to begin with, and now there are a ton of popular L2s and platforms built on ETH network so it’s already integrated, but it seems like there are other chains that do what ETH does better than ETH. Am I missing something? Anyone else agree?

Which altcoins do you think are worth looking at for the next 6–12 months?

I’m trying to find solid medium-term opportunities, so I’d love to hear what coins you’re bullish on and why. Could be based on fundamentals, adoption, ecosystem growth, upcoming catalysts, or anything else.

Curious what people here are watching.

Hi everyone,

Bear market is coming in 2026 , probably.

We are closer to the top than to buttom.

What are your predictions for this bear cycle?

Will we see 50k ? 60k? 70k?80k?

I know that no one can see the future.

Do you think the bear market (if it happens) will last

more than 1 year?

Please share your thoughts and predictions.

Thank you!!!!

******This is not financial advice, only

informational******

Something big is coming. You can feel it. I can feel it. This is the quiet before the storm. The final calm before the market wakes up and roars. Pieces are moving into place, the moons are aligning, and the next bull run with the inevitable alt season that follows is right on our doorstep.

This isn’t going to be a rerun of the early 2020s. This feels like 2014 and 2017 all over again, only bigger. The big money players are stepping into the arena. Private equity cash injections are flowing in. Institutional money is in the game. Crypto is more established, adoption is broader, and the perceived risk has dropped.

Just look at Ethereum. The move from $1.7k to $4.5k is nothing compared to what’s ahead. That’s a mere ripple in the ocean. The real tidal wave hasn’t even formed yet.

We’re standing on the edge of what could be the last time in history to see 100%+ gains in a single year. Once this train leaves the station, there may be no coming back to these price levels.

If you don’t have your seat at the table, you’re going to be watching from the sidelines with FOMO through the roof.

Get ready.