I believe most of the bounty hunters have dead coins in their wallet especially in Ethereum wallet and even we can not hide or delete the coins in the Ethereum wallet so do not check the dead coins leave them as it is. Only a miracle can rise such coin's value otherwise I do not expect anything from such dead coins.
CZ has just shared his thoughts on El Salvador making BTC legal tender. We can say a new chapter started in the crypto market and it's a hugely positive step for the crypto space and I hope many other countries will follow the same in the coming years and it will help to gain some confidence in new investors or traders who are planning to enter into the crypto market.
You are very much right we generally all talk about greed when the market dumps. If we took the example of BTC, Ethereum, BNB and ADA and it's not wrong to hold them for long term because we know these coins have to go long way ahead and it depends on us at which point we will book the profit but target should be logical whether its BTC or BNB even market gives chance to buy back also. Generally, long-term holders are those who don't take stress whether the market drops or not or you can say they have full trust in their holdings so they don't sell in haste.
In my opinion, it's the only manipulation by the crypto whales it is nothing to do with El Salvador news. Making a legal tender is positive news for the BTC. We have seen such huge dumps several times so I am not astonished and will remain calm.
To keep 150$ worth of Ethereum is the best option for me but dinner with Vitalik would be more productive If one will have a chance to interact with him and gain some knowledge about creating the cryptocurrency that would be worth more than 150$. He can guide and advise much better than so-called crypto pundits.
In recent times many things happen that impact the market to some extent but this market recovers quickly as well from such negative news. I believe the hype will not over it will be increase year by year in the coming years as we can see the number of crypto users is increasing worldwide. Even you are an experienced person on this forum and I feel you saw many ups and downs of this market and this market has always overcome all the obstacles in their way. I feel nowadays most of the traders or investors not taking Elon seriously so it's a good thing.
If you are doubtful about the bullishness of VET and XRP you should take out your seed money and the rest you can hold. In that way, your risk remains zero. It's not easy for anyone to identify when the market turns bearish or make just corrections so it depends on you whether to sell or hold. If you have trust on your holdings then I would say hold it.
Now we are used to seeing such drops and it does not scare us. We know very well it's highly volatile so there is no point in getting scared by the drop. This is the normal behavior of the market. What kind of hope do you want to know? If you are scared of such drops certainly you should give time to this market to learn more about cryptocurrencies behavior. No doubt the future is bright.