And to those of you in the old school who believe this is a bubble, you simply have not understood the new mathematics of the blockchain (or you did not care enough to try). Bubbles are mathematically impossible in this new paradigm
The ETHBTC ratio did not go down because of ”The Merge”
The ETHBTC ratio collapsed because: - societal value rotation out of "feminized wef soyboys in unicorn t-shirts" into "bronze age mindset" broadly - ethereum always occupied a vertical more prone to competition - l2s confused the ETH asset value capture narrative and caused network fragmentation - eth does not have a saylor buyer - bitcoin and gold are maturing into wartime assets whereas the peacetime asset ETH struggles - ETH also struggles to even look nerdy/smart/futuristic compared to AI which is the new hot ball of money for that investor type - ethereum also stagnated into a depressingly small number of defi primitives relative to what past expectations were