Is Matt band?

No he`s banded.   

I for one welcome our new Chinese overlords!

It depends on your timeline. Go look at the charts and zoom out. You're calling doom and gloom and painting a rosy picture for the dollar which is doomed.

I made no play. I mined ETH for 4 years and bought some tokens 4 years ago. I made one trade when Elon was pumping Doge. I sold around 6 ETH and bought around 293,000 Doge with it. Then the price started going up to the point where, within a day, I could sell half of the Doge and buy back my original 6 ETH. If I had waited a few months longer I could have sold all that Doge for 45 ETH, or 3 BTC. All thanks to Elon - lol! Timing is the tricky part.

Here's the ETH chart. Just like Bitcoin and any other cryptocurrency it's seen ups and downs. But overall the trend is up relative to the dollar. I am not a day trader. I couldn't care less what it does from day to day. If it crashes 25%, or even 50%. Makes no difference to me. If it goes to $5000 I might sell 2-4 ETH but that's it.

Holding something is a "play" and I never said trading anything was the "play".

You hold ETH, transfer onto the L2 and leave it there. This is providing liquidity. The L2 airdrops you a bunch of their tokens. You sell their tokens and you remove your ETH/liquidty. You put your ETH to work for you, got it all back and made mucho bucks

You hold ETH which you stake. You then put your staked ETH in a restaking protocol. They give you crazy yield and/or points (thanks rehypothecation). You cash out your yeild/points and take back your staked ETH. You put your ETH to work for you, got it all back and made mucho bucks

This was the gravy train. It had nothing to do with Sol, Btc or trading and circling back to my original point, ETH ETF matters very little to those ETH HOLDERS who took the above steps.

USD is only strong because it has been the reserve currency. Those days are numbered. Russia is much more sensible with its debt. And they have politicians like Putin who's lightyears better than the pathetic swamp creatures we have here in DC.

You are thinking about the USD in linear terms. It's not about how strong the USD is, a weaker dollar is actually preferential. It's about control through USD on a global scale and in that regards USD/USA has never been stronger.

Fixating on politics and politicians is a waste of time as it doesn't change any of this.

Ironically some believe bitcoin saves you from this tyranny and that's why we have this thread with 10k posts