Any long-term investment should be avoided during a bull market. Bull markets are for short-term investments, while bear markets are for long-term ones.

Staking and mining machines both fall under long-term investments.

If the price of mining machines can drop to $40,000 per Bitcoin, there is significant risk involved because of subsequent GPU upgrades and increased computing power, which devalues older mining machines.

Bitmain profits this way.

It's not guaranteed to lose money; it's simply a matter of probability. I believe that Q3 2026 will be a good time to acquire mining machines and various staking mining options.

Actually, linear release nodes and IDO are both long-term, but if they are priced low, they can be acceptable. Currently, the prices of balance and rivalz are low, with FDVs around $70 million and $60 million respectively. This may change later, which is also a risk; the project party not being committed is a risk, and not delivering results is also a risk.

Sonic is priced above $150 million, which is not low, but Sonic seems to have a relatively good popularity.

Basically, brokers, intermediaries, and KOLs (Key Opinion Leaders) engaging in investment behavior to make money is unethical. This is an unsolvable issue for brokers and intermediaries; they are inevitably unethical. However, KOLs have a solution - I can choose to make different investment options at different time windows.

For example, at this time point, consider low FDV (market capitalization) products. Right now, one can acquire impressive VC IDOs or similar IDO nodes in the primary market, and in the secondary market, there are altcoins with good fundamentals that have recently seen significant declines.