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