Forman: Ethereum Transaction Fee Burns Act Like Corporate Share Buybacks
“More and more people are contextualizing the valuation framework for Ethereum as a capital asset, and you can think about that burn almost like a company using its free cash flow to buy back stock. The units of ETH outstanding should decline as more and more s…”
Calacanis: Crypto trader opened $200M 50x leveraged long on BTC and ETH
“One whale went 50 times long on BTC and ETH. Two hundred million dollar position on just a four million dollar investment.”
McCormick: In five years much of finance will run on blockchains
“And I think it's like some point in five years, a lot of finance is going to run on Solana on ETH maybe on sweet or, you know, like a lot of, I think it's inevitable that, that more and more. Finance will move over to crypto stable coins and having Stripe behi…”
Hommels: Top European Universities Are Producing Genuine Tech Innovation, Not Copycats
“If you now look at ETH or the Technical University Munich or the KTH in Stockholm, the quality of The founders is very, very different. You barely have any copycats anymore. You really have general, genuine technological innovation and ideas.”
Sam Lessin: Solana is the most important crypto alternative; short Ethereum
“And I think is probably the most important cryptocurrency outside of Bitcoin. I'm a short on ETH long on Solana”
Rob Walling started buying Ethereum at $6 and Bitcoin at $600
“We started buying ETH around, I think it was somewhere between six and 10 dollars and Bitcoin was at 600 or so.”
Choi: All real-world assets will eventually be digitized and tokenized
“I think it's actually a store of value, but there's other assets, and I think the way to think about this is that the world is going to be tokenized, so we have more than 200 assets on our platform whether that's ETH or Solana or others, and It could be an NFT…”
Heitzmann: Crypto games compounded risk by stacking tokens onto gameplay mechanics
“Axie famously worked until it stopped working. Some of that was tied to people's inherent tie-in with crypto. So they were compounding their bets by saying, hey, I'm going to have crypto, and therefore you have to get in with ETH, and then we're going to have …”
Tomaino: Crypto fund managers must beat a 50/50 BTC/ETH benchmark
“I mean, as a venture manager, you get paid two and 20, maybe more, maybe a little more, maybe a little less, but those are meaningful fees. The reason that you get those fees is because you can outperform you know, an index and you know, every private equity F…”
Tomaino: Crypto VCs would succeed by secretly buying just BTC and ETH
“Like I think a strategy, you know, a dishonest, but probably successful strategy for one of these billion dollar fund managers would be to, you know, pitch to LPs that you're investing in, you know, bleeding edge crypto that's gonna, gonna push the space forwa…”
Sam Lessin: Market reaction to SEC crypto lawsuits is a 'nothing burger'
“Bitcoin's down. I'm looking right now in the last week, two percent. ETH is down a percent. Like, this is kind of a big nothing burger from how the crypto markets are digesting it, right?”
Pal: He does not trade Ethereum, he only buys and holds
“I don't even trade ETH. I just buy it.”
Bloom: Passive DCA into S&P and crypto dramatically beat his active bets
“I actually looked recently at my portfolio and like my five-year returns and the like smart investments I made like things where I thought I had edge or some sort of insight that was going to make it, you know, beat the market have underperformed the dumb doll…”
Rep. Gonzalez tested DeFi with personal funds before donating to charity
“So I took like a little margin, a couple hundred bucks or something, and started playing around in DeFi, and I quickly realized I couldn't do anything with my ETH because the gas fees would destroy it. Did that for like a couple of weeks. And then in my plan, …”
Gokul: Solana reached mainnet on under $10M after ETH crash
“The first seed was a little over three million, and that was more or less enough. The next round was like 13, but a ton of it got wiped out, because most of it came in in ETH. And before we found a custodian and were able to sell any of it, a lot of that value…”
Sacks: Solana could flip Ethereum even during a crypto bust
“So you could have a situation in which, for example, Solana flips ETH and yet still goes down in value because there's an overall bust cycle.”
480 artists earned over 5 ETH on Foundation in three months
“And in fact, 480 artists have already earned over five ETH, which in dollars terms is about over 15,000 dollars on the platform.”
Buterin: Cumulative Value of ETH and ETC Exceeded Pre-Fork Market Cap
“ETH plus ETC is above sort of ETC before the fork, which is actually interesting”
Pfeffer refuses to buy Ethereum at current valuation due to token velocity.
“I think it's going to be very successful. I'm just not sure I would buy ETH at the current value because of that math.”
Koppelman: Gnosis token sale Ether is now worth $60M-$70M
“Fortunately, right now, this ETH isn't worth much more, now it's in the range of 60, seventy million dollars.”