{"id":69940,"date":"2026-01-29T18:31:43","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T18:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=69940"},"modified":"2026-01-29T18:31:43","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T18:31:43","slug":"tom-lee-says-dont-abandon-ethereum-but-eth-plunges-6-as-gold-rallies-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=69940","title":{"rendered":"Tom Lee Says &#8216;Don&#8217;t Abandon&#8217; Ethereum, But ETH Plunges 6% As Gold Rallies 18%"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Fundstrat\u2019s <strong>Tom Lee<\/strong> urged investors not to abandon <strong>Ethereum<\/strong> <a class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"ETH\" data-exchange=\"CRYPTO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/ETH-USD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(CRYPTO: <\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/eth\/usd\">ETH<\/a>) out of FOMO, yet ETH plunged 6% on Thursday as gold and silver\u2019s explosive rally continues.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Gold Vortex Problem<\/h3>\n<p>Lee <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/fundstrat\/status\/2016536859405389986\">responded<\/a> to a post from <strong>BitMine <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/BMNR\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"BMNR\" data-exchange=\"NYSE\" rel=\"noopener\">(NYSE:<\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/BMNR\">BMNR<\/a>) highlighting that gold and silver surged 18% and 52% year-to-date.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The company called the moves \u201castounding and impressive\u201d but warned they\u2019re creating a \u201cvortex\u201d that\u2019s sucking investor attention away from structurally strong themes like AI and crypto.<\/p>\n<p>Lee\u2019s message was direct: \u201cOwn what works. But don\u2019t let FOMO make you abandon good ideas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The capital rotation issue ties back to Lee\u2019s earlier <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/26\/01\/50172353\/tom-lee-gold-and-silver-are-sucking-oxygen-out-of-bitcoin-ethereum\">analysis<\/a> this week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He explained that the metals rally is diverting capital from crypto because traders are tying up funds in &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/26\/01\/50242646\/tom-lee-says-dont-abandon-ethereum-but-eth-plunges-6-as-gold-rallies-18?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"Tom\" lee says abandon ethereum but eth plunges as gold rallies>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fundstrat\u2019s Tom Lee urged investors not to abandon Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) out of FOMO, yet ETH plunged 6% on Thursday as gold and silver\u2019s explosive rally continues. The Gold Vortex Problem Lee responded to a post from BitMine (NYSE:BMNR) highlighting that gold and silver surged 18% and 52% year-to-date.\u00a0 The company called the moves \u201castounding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-69940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}