Crypto Investors & Lost Faith
Individuals invested in cryptocurrency, specifically XRP, are experiencing financial losses and disillusionment. This stems from the asset's underperformance, perceived manipulation, and failure to fulfill its initial promise of revolutionizing finance. Many feel betrayed by the project's direction and the community surrounding it.
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“everything that had been expected to happen this cycle so far has been off by about a month or two or three so.. my guess now is that the bear market could end sooner than October.. maybe August or September..”
“They always ask that when BTC is cheap and they say "Hi, I'm new to crypto what should I buy" when prices are near ATHs.”
“Today completely collapsed. No conversions, spend slow What are you seeing? submitted by /u/Huge_Kaleidoscope_40 [link] [comments]”
“This is entirely hypothetical, but I'm trying to understand the scope of how shorts work when things go "well" for shorts. (Note: I hate options and have no plans to ever short anything, I'm an old-school Buffet-style investor, but I am very curious about shorts.) Let's say some very hot company XYZ has a current mkt cap of $4 trillion. It is a market darling but also has a growing cadre of shorts, some of them big-time hedge funds betting on the worst for the company down”
You still waiting for the XRPL/DTCC announcement thats never coming?
“Yes, but it’s a 180 degree change in their stated strategy. Fiat is ‘garbage’ is now changed into ‘holding fiat is a good strategy’”
“There likely will never be another crypto with BTC's performance, so it's best to get that out of your head. Maybe you can find ones that go up a great deal, like plays such as ETH, XRP, and SOL did. Even finding that is hard, let alone finding the next BTC.”
“Yea nah. Say 3% inflation on fiat is still a lot less than 30%+ drop on convertible value.”
“History? Look at price cycles. Only bitcoin reached its previous aths. And the difficulty adjusts based on how many miners there are. You have no idea what you are talking about.”
“I went up 16 948 152% and then dropped, i had 115k $ for a few minutes or seconds. Missed it tho.. Is it a glitch? Or did i miss out on my biggest cashout ever? submitted by /u/Tricky-Ad-9184 [link] [comments]”
“It was. Got in at 20 and thought I was good. Glad I traded it all a while ago. Still might buy some back eventually.”
“That’s basically the same chart as every meme coin fwiw. The only difference being most meme coins go to $0.”
All cryptos are rug pulls sooner or later. Unless they're RWA-backed.
“I’m shocked! Shocked I tell you! How could an investment backed by the greatest businessman of all time fail?”
“https://preview.redd.it/opx00z6zvudh1.jpeg?width=723&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4d0bf095a56ab6140778b3312e30ce9cc555c03a Don’t need luck, just determination. Persist forever 🪽”
“Am I the only one shocked it is still worth a buck fifty? I still think it has another 90% downside coming.”
[Robinhood] ★ 1/5 (v2026.28.0) — It never fails anytime I have a couple thousand dollars plus into a stock or a crypto that company goes bankrupt and I try and hold on…
“No one knows for sure, but based off of past cycles, it's usually toward the end of the year. It may play out differently this time, though, so it's probably best to buy some any chance it's down during the bear market.”
“Yeah, that's what the whales love to do, especially in crypto, since it's easier to get away with it. They can make it rough on investors by doing that, thus getting into a lot of positions much cheaper.”
They would have went on like: "Look! A pyramid scheme that is legal!"
“Ok, obviously this week has been "fun"/chaotic or even a bit of a bloodbath. Also, Im sure everyone sees those what's one stock that's... posts that are annoying. I wanted to ask, purely as a thought exercise, let's say hypothetically, you are told you have to put 100% of your portfolio into one stock. No options, leaps, bonds, funds, ETFs. Just a single stock. You have to own it for at least 366 days (consecutively), and the goal is for it to at least double from current p”
“Would be nice if altcoins could hold a range for a while and just go sideways to give some confidence in the market. The last 2 years was like, can't go up, needs to dump. That's exhausting. Can altcoins give us a some store of value by going sideways, please? submitted by /u/Timely-Fig2030 [link] [comments]”
“Honest answer? You mostly can't gauge future appreciation. And the people claiming they can are usually selling something. The standard proxies — job growth, net migration, wage trends — are real signals. But they're momentum indicators. By the time an out-of-state buyer is reading about a "growth market" in some listicle, that growth is largely priced in. You're not early. You're the exit liquidity for whoever bought before the articles ran. Here's the reframe I”
“Did we miss the bottom? Im salty bcuz I thought the july 14th fed announcement would tank crypto down a peg or two and give me a better buy price but that didnt happen. How long before we have a chance for it to drop again, the end of July announcement? I feel like the USA resuming the war should also have tanked it but the opposite happened. So why did the beginning of the war tank crypto but not the resuming of the war pumps crypto? Also the huge buy walls institutions have on btc or eth seems”
“Disagree! The billions and millions were made 10 years ago. You earn profit at the buy, rarely at the sell.”
“Based on what? It would take an asset about 30 years of 7% average growth each year to do a 10x. I don't think you've thought this one through.”
“Your assuming every sale is a profit. I got caught up in Celsius and net losses were 250K even after cashing out 80K.”
“If someone three years ago said "market is ATH, I should dollar cost average for a few years" they would have lost 30-40% growth. Being ATH itself isn't the trigger. The market is more often than not at the ATH.”
“Is it a currency, or is it a store of value? It was supposed to be a currency, but it never became one. You cannot pay for anything with BTC, close to nobody accepts it as payment. Even if you could pay with BTC, you'd have to buy that BTC with actual currency first. When it failed as a currency, it began to be marketed as a store of value.”