{"id":684462,"date":"2026-11-08T23:53:32","date_gmt":"2026-11-08T23:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/11\/08\/vitalik-pivots-eth-to-store-of-value-crypto-suffers-after-us-midterms-hodlers-digest\/"},"modified":"2026-11-08T23:53:32","modified_gmt":"2026-11-08T23:53:32","slug":"vitalik-pivots-eth-to-store-of-value-crypto-suffers-after-us-midterms-hodlers-digest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/11\/08\/vitalik-pivots-eth-to-store-of-value-crypto-suffers-after-us-midterms-hodlers-digest\/","title":{"rendered":"Vitalik \u2018pivots\u2019 ETH to store of value, crypto suffers after US midterms: Hodler\u2019s Digest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-images.ctmedia.io\/media\/article-covers\/2026\/11\/01M6YMNVH88N4KSXQB6XWMMW2K\/screenshot-2026-11-09-093227.jpg\" alt=\"Vitalik \u2018pivots\u2019 ETH to store of value, crypto suffers after US midterms: Hodler\u2019s Digest\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Vitalik Buterin wants Ethereum to embrace a store of value narrative, upsetting Bitcoin maxis. The crypto industry faces an uncertain future following the US elections.<\/p>\n<p>Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin says the network should promote ETH as a store of value, rather than as an asset that derives value from burning fees.<\/p>\n<p>He argued in a thread that idea of \u201cETH as fee-burning token never was as strong as it seemed\u201d and that optimizing for that would negatively impact Ethereum\u2019s \u201cdecentralization and capture resistance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Instead, he argues that Ethereum\u2019s value should come from stability provided by its focus on \u201cdecentralization and CROPS\u201d \u2014 referring to censorship and capture resistance, open source, privacy and security \u2014 which he believes will be more highly valued in an \u201cera of AI disruption.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/magazine\/vitaliks-pivots-to-eth-as-a-store-of-value-us-election-weighs-on-crypto-hodlers-digest\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vitalik Buterin wants Ethereum to embrace a store of value narrative, upsetting Bitcoin maxis. The crypto industry faces an uncertain future following the US elections. Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin says the network should promote ETH as a store of value, rather than as an asset that derives value from burning fees. He argued in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":684463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-684462","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=684462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/684463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}