S&P 500 $SPY rangebound since May, while:
- S&P 500 2027 EPS ⬆️ $15 per share
- AI capex visibility stronger
- massive deleveraging Korea $EWY and US tech $QQQ
- no Fed meeting until Sept
- Inflation cooling faster than consensus views
Stocks are set up for a good August
The tailwind for $ETH in the next few years is larger than those prior cycles of ICOs, NFTs
- expect this ratio $ETH/ $BTC to make a sizable move higher
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"This $ETH/ $BTC ratio has moved up during crypto bull cycles, driven by increasing use of Ethereum relative to bitcoin.
These prior cycles were fueled by
- ICOs (2017-2018),
- NFTs (2020-2021), and
- stablecoins (2025). In this upcoming crypto cycle,
we
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"We are encouraged to see the $ETH/ $BTC ratio at 0.02994 and rising. This ratio has moved above the long-term downtrend in place over the last few years and is a sign, in our view, that markets are beginning to see materialization of tokenization and agentic-AI
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BitMine provided its latest holdings update for August 17, 2026
$11.4 billion in total crypto + "moonshots": - 5,815,164 ETH at $1,893 per $ETH (per @coinbase) - 209 Bitcoin (BTC)
- $180 million stake in Beast Industries @MrBeast
- $73 million stake in Eightco